Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy is a country of endless paradox and seemingly unanswerable riddles. John Hooper's marvellously entertaining and perceptive new book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. Looking at the facts that lie behind - and often belie - the stereotypes, his revealing book sheds new light on many aspects of Italian life: football and Freemasonry, sex, symbolism and the reason why Italian has twelve words for a coat hanger, yet none for a hangover.

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Product Description: Subtitle: Comprising the Declaration of Christ and His Office. Answer to Biship Gardiner. Ten Commandments. Sermons on Jonas. Funeral Sermon General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1843 Original Publisher: Printed at the University press Subjects: Ten commandments Bible Theology Lord's Supper Lord's supper Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Biblical Criticis...read more

Product Description: Snake River is a novel based on the history of the changes that have shaped one of the major rivers of our country. Each chapter is an excerpt from time, leading to the present when the river is no longer free flowing. The novel starts with the geologic history of the Snake River country and progresses with stories of prehistoric man and how change was initiated...read more

Product Description: Dutchman Fire is a story of a conflagration fire and the people who fought it. The fire, started by a lightning storm, fueled by heavy stands of dry timber and driven by storm winds, spread repeatedly for seven days, consuming thousands of acres in the process...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Spain has become a land of extraordinary paradoxes in which traditional attitudes and contemporary preoccupations exist side by side. Focusing on issues which affect ordinary Spaniards, from housing to gambling, from changing sexual mores to rising crime rates, this study offers a portrayal of Spain of the twenty-first century.

Product Description: Known as the "cabinetmaker's bible," the new edition of this 100-year-old handbook contains more than 2,000 line drawings and hundreds of photographs that explain virtually every useful hand and machine technique and furniture design detail suitable for the small-shop woodworker...read more

Product Description: This book is designed to give the intermediate science and theory necessary for electrical installation work. It covers Magnetism; Electrostatics; D.C. Machines; A.C. Theory and Machines; Transformers; Illumination; Efficiency, Work, Energy and Power; and Instruments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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