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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Franchesca Collins
In this irresistible debut novel that became a phenomenon in Italy, a freethinking young woman brings a gust of modernity to a traditional small town in Southern Italy, stirring forbidden passions and changing the life of everyone around her. Salento, Italy, June 1934: A coach stops in the main square of Lizzanello, a tight-knit village where everyone knows each other. A couple gets off: The man, Carlo, a child of the South, is happy to be back home after a long departure; the woman, Anna--his wife--is a stranger from the North. She is as beautiful as a Greek statue, but dubious. Salento is her husband's hometown, and while it's only logical to him that they move back after inheriting land and house in the wake of an uncle's passing, Anna is unsure of the role she'll have here. What kind of life awaits her? In a small, muggy town like Lizzanello, there aren't many options for a woman with Anna's sensibilities and ambitions, who doesn't attend church nor gossip. So when she learns that the post office is hiring, she leaps at the opportunity, eager to have a role outside of "mother" and "wife." Taking the postal service exam, and passing with flying colors, Anna proudly dons the navy blue cap and begins delivering letters. While she might not trade rumors, that doesn't stop her from being the subject of conversation. Her sister-in-law is shocked when Anna doesn't serve the men of the house as she's supposed to, her young niece admires her strange new aunt, and her brother-in-law finds himself beguiled by her beauty and intelligence. Anna worries that she'll never cease to be "the foreigner." But over the next twenty years, as she ferries letters between secret lovers, men at war, and families near and far, Anna will become the invisible thread connecting a community she never expected to fit into.
A Recipe For Every Day of the Year is a carefully curated collection of recipes to inspire you all year long. With menus that reflect the changing seasons and dishes to celebrate festivals and feast days, this is a book for generations to treasure.A Recipe for Every Day of the Year offers everything from showstoppers and crowd-pleasers to family favourites and simple one-bowl suppers. You'll find ideas for breakfasts and brunches, light bites and snacks, main meals and sweet treats. Whether you're looking for soups, salads, or sandwiches or cocktails, cakes and casseroles...they're all here.With some extra-special recipes for celebrations such as Diwali, Christmas, and Valentine's Day and with dishes from all over the world such as Basque Fish Soup, Spiced Chicken Tagine and Easy Pecan Pie, you can take your tastebuds on a culinary adventure all year long. This pretty, foiled hardback book with a ribbon marker is the perfect gift for the foodie in your life.
Recipes for Pickling, Curing & Fermenting
Francesca Huntingdon
Octopus Publishing Group
2026
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In this delightful children's book that celebrates and inspires playtime, your child will discover some of their favorite toys coming to life Share in the magical world of playtime with play scenes that feature teddy bears, cars, dinosaurs, and more. Young children will love the bright colors, real photographs, and rhyming verse.The story is a bright, colorful, entertaining look at different types of play. Children's learning through play can be found in imaginative play, constructive play, sensory play, and nature play. As a parent, caregiver, or early childhood educator you will be well aware that playtime is an important learning technique and an essential component of normal cognitive development. It's not just fun, it's necessary But in the busy hustle and bustle of everyday life sometimes reminders to join our children in their play are needed. And sometimes we need something more than just a reminder. The "Next Steps: Practical ideas to Support and Encourage Your Child's Playtime" page will provide you with some simple play ideas and some initial questions to ask in order to interact and bond with your child, even when you're feeling burnt out.But that's not all Included within the book is a homemade playdough recipe and an interactive Look and Find feature. Children will have lots of fun searching for the cute Tiny Teddies hidden in each play scene. There's Coco, Bluey, Blossom, and Rocky. Can you find them all? Join your child on a journey of imaginative play in this engaging story inspired by playtime. A great gift for any child, or as an addition to your home, childcare, school, or church library. Playtime at Home will be sure to delight.
Mother to three children, wife to three husbands, and in these reflective years of her life, sculptress, Black Activist and writer. Franny Emerson has done it all. Born into poverty, lost her mother when she was barely five, married her first husband when she was still at school just to get out of the stultifying home in which she was living, and grew up into one of black America's most beautiful sweethearts.Now, for the first time, in this tell-all book in which Francesca holds nothing back, you'll read of what happened in Hollywood when the lights went out, and stars like Michael Douglas, Warren Beatty, Jack Lemmon and many others really got up to.What an amazing life it really was like as a Playboy Bunny; and Francesca will tell you the inside stories of how a girl from Harlem grew up to be the lover of some of the most famous men in the world, a gangster's moll, and holding the Oscar at the Award Ceremony for one of the greatest movie directors of all time.The Chocolate Bunny is the funniest, sharpest and most revealing book ever written about what happens when the movie comes to an end, and real life begins.Read this autobiography, and Hollywood will never seem the same again.
Autism: An Introduction to Psychological Theory
Francesca Happé
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1998
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Autism is a fascinating yet perplexing disorder that continues to intrigue researchers and clinicians studying brain and behavior. In this lucid and elegant book, Francesca Happ provides a concise overview of current psychological theory and research that synthesizes the established work on the biological foundations, cognitive characteristics, and behavioral manifestations of this disorder. She focuses her discussion on the cognitive approaches that deal with both thought and feeling--those hypotheses that link brain to action, deepen our understanding of the autistic person's view of the world, and offer better approaches to effectively managing the behavior of people with autism struggling to live in our world. The book reviews the latest research into the communication, socialization, and imagination impairments in autism, and further distinguishes the levels of severity in the spectrum of autistic disorders. Happ also includes a discussion of the talented few--high-functioning autistic individuals with Asperger's syndrome--and of the many childhood behavioral disorders, unrelated to autism, that manifest autistic-like symptoms. Autism is an important and much-needed contribution to the literature. It will be valued by parents and teachers of autistic children as well as by students and researchers interested in disorders of language and communication.
The story of the improbable campaign that created America’s most enduring monument.The Statue of Liberty is an icon of freedom, a monument to America’s multiethnic democracy, and a memorial to Franco-American friendship. That much we know. But the lofty ideals we associate with the statue today can obscure its turbulent origins and layers of meaning. Francesca Lidia Viano reveals that history in the fullest account yet of the people and ideas that brought the lady of the harbor to life.Our protagonists are the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and his collaborator, the politician and intellectual Édouard de Laboulaye. Viano draws on an unprecedented range of sources to follow the pair as they chase their artistic and political ambitions across a global stage dominated by imperial rivalry and ideological ferment. The tale stretches from the cobblestones of northeastern France, through the hallways of international exhibitions in London and Paris, to the copper mines of Norway and Chile, the battlegrounds of the Franco-Prussian War, the deserts of Egypt, and the streets of New York. It features profound technical challenges, hot air balloon rides, secret “magnetic” séances, and grand visions of a Franco-American partnership in the coming world order. The irrepressible collaborators bring to their project the high ideals of liberalism and republicanism, but also crude calculations of national advantage and eccentric notions adopted from orientalism, freemasonry, and Saint-Simonianism.As entertaining as it is illuminating, Sentinel gives new flesh and spirit to a landmark we all recognize but only dimly understand.
By way of more than 2,000 years of architectural history, this richly illustrated book defines and shows all the major components of the art--from theory, plans, and models to structural elements such as columns, arches, and domes, to materials and decorative elements. With beautiful color photographs on virtually every page, and precise captions that point directly to important aspects of each photo, this book provides an easy-to-use visual grammar of the nearly infinite variety with which the elements of architecture have been used in buildings across the ages and around the world--from Western Europe and Greece to the Americas, the Middle East, China, Japan, India, and Africa. Each entry includes a definition, illustrated examples, and detailed analysis and explanation, all presented in the context of architecture's historical evolution. Architecture frequently juxtaposes famous and lesser-known buildings from widely different times and places, providing delightful surprises for the expert as well as a fresh, informative, and pleasurable introduction for general readers and students.
How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalismThe Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets.By the close of the Middle Ages, new and sophisticated credit instruments made it easier for European merchants to move funds across the globe. Bills of exchange were by far the most arcane of these financial innovations. Intangible and written in a cryptic language, they fueled world trade but also lured naive investors into risky businesses. Francesca Trivellato recounts how the invention of these abstruse credit contracts was falsely attributed to Jews, and how this story gave voice to deep-seated fears about the unseen perils of the new paper economy. She locates the legend’s earliest version in a seventeenth-century handbook on maritime law and traces its legacy all the way to the work of the founders of modern social theory—from Marx to Weber and Sombart.Deftly weaving together economic, legal, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Trivellato vividly describes how Christian writers drew on the story to define and redefine what constituted the proper boundaries of credit in a modern world increasingly dominated by finance.
How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalismThe Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets.By the close of the Middle Ages, new and sophisticated credit instruments made it easier for European merchants to move funds across the globe. Bills of exchange were by far the most arcane of these financial innovations. Intangible and written in a cryptic language, they fueled world trade but also lured naive investors into risky businesses. Francesca Trivellato recounts how the invention of these abstruse credit contracts was falsely attributed to Jews, and how this story gave voice to deep-seated fears about the unseen perils of the new paper economy. She locates the legend’s earliest version in a seventeenth-century handbook on maritime law and traces its legacy all the way to the work of the founders of modern social theory—from Marx to Weber and Sombart.Deftly weaving together economic, legal, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Trivellato vividly describes how Christian writers drew on the story to define and redefine what constituted the proper boundaries of credit in a modern world increasingly dominated by finance.