by Rick Steves  Publisher Comments Who but Rick Steves can tell travelers the best way to see Rome, Venice, Florence, the hill towns of central Italy, the Dolomites, and the Amalfi Coast? With Rick Steves’ Italy 2008, travelers can experience the best of everything Italy has to... (read more) Your Price $21.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies 
by Sarah Bradford Publisher Comments The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissanceincest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new world when she began restoring an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. There were unexpected treasures at every turn: faded frescos beneath the whitewash in her dining room, a vineyard under wildly... (read more) Your Price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Lawrence Venuti Publisher Comments Italy’s rising literary stars join some of its best-known writers — including Nobel-laureate Luigi Pirandello, Natalia Ginzburg, Alberto Moravia, and Antonio Tabucchi — to take the reader on a panoramic tour of both city and countryside,... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Bosworth Publisher Comments With Mussolini s Italy, R.J.B. Bosworththe foremost scholar on the subject writing in Englishvividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth centurys most notorious political experiments. Il Duces Fascists were... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Steven Brooke Publisher Comments Following the generations of view painters who recorded Rome for their time, Steven Brooke's collection of seductive and timeless images provides an extraordinary documentation of Rome in the late twentieth-century. Steven Brooke believes in the myth of... (read more) Your Price $5.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by John Berendt 
Powells.com Staff Pick Once again John Berendt proves he is a powerful magnet for eccentrics. With clever proficiency, Berendt depicts for readers a host of quirky characters, providing an exclusive glimpse into the Venice you won't see as a tourist. Gossipy yet wholly... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Phil Doran Publisher Comments A Book Sense Pick for May 2005, this is the humorous tale of how the author moveda against his will and his better judgmentato Italy with his wife, only to rediscover himself, his marriage, and the importance of getting in touch with his inner Italian... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Rick Steves Publisher Comments Buon giorno! From ordering calamari in Venice to making new friends in Tuscan hill towns, it helps to speak some of the native tongue. Rick Steves, bestselling author of travel guides to Europe, offers well-tested phrases and key words to cover every... (read more) Your Price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
|
|
|
|
Tuesday May 13, 2008
by Damien Simonis Publisher Comments Discover Italy Ski off-piste, trek the Dolomites or shoot the rapids on the river Lao Heed the command 'tutti a tavola ' and begin an epic journey around the Italian table Thumb the latest fumetti or debate Fellini's finer points after you've read our... (read more) Your Price $25.99 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Judith Martin Publisher Comments "Add No Vulgar Hotel to the list of books you must read before you come to Venice."—Donna Leon This is the definitive book for managing an incurable passion for a decaying, water-logged village. Whether you already have a raging case of Venetophilia... (read more) Your Price $15.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Paola (edt) Gho Publisher Comments A comprehensive region-by-region guide to the most interesting and typical small restaurants, inns and hotels of Italy.From the Alps to the Adriatic, from cheese fondue and white truffles to Neapolitan pizza and Sorrento lemons, the Italian peninsula... (read more) Your Price $29.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Raffaele La Capria Publisher Comments Raffaele La Capria creates a portrait of Capri that begins in the time of Ulysses and moves to our present complex and hectic reality, and composes an elegy for a Nature blasted by human negligence and error. Americans have now been visiting Capri for... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Ross King
Powells.com Staff Pick Of the many transformations that architecture has undergone throughout history, none is more important to the Renaissance than Filippo Brunelleschi's dome design for the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence. Few books have introduced... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Sergio Esposito Publisher Comments As a young child in Naples, Italy, Sergio Esposito sat at his kitchen table observing the daily ritual of his large, loud family bonding over fresh local dishes and simple country wines. While devouring the rich bufala mozzarella, still sopping with milk... (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
|
Read the INK Q&A with Victor Wooten and save 30% on The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth through Music.
|
|
