Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
A History of Italian Cinema
A History of Italian Cinema is the only comprehensive and up-to-date book on the subject available anywhere, in any language >
The She-Wood
Thea Windsong, self-styled shaman, comes to affluent Wellesford, Connecticut, to buy a home, a middle-aged woman with long, black hair, a pickup truck, and no apparent connections to the town. The property that wins her heart is a rundown little house by the railroad tracks off Thornwood Road, across the pond from a Civil War cemetery, and saddled with the rumor that it is haunted by the spirit of an ancient witch. “This is a she-wood!” Thea says, sensing a “divine feminine energy” in the near-wilderness surrounding the old cottage and barn. When Thea vanishes shortly after becoming the property’s new owner, the only one who seems to care is Lydie Pretlove, the real estate agent who tried to talk her out of buying it. As the conventional Lydie probes into Thea’s bewildering world, she feels herself falling under the she-wood’s spell, until her newfound “feminine energy” recaptures the body and soul of her ex-husband John, still married to his beautiful, neurotic second wife, Isabel.But it will take a chain of horrific events before Lydie discovers the she-wood’s secret, and a struggle with her conscience over whether to reveal it.
Cineforum
None
I barbari facevano i vandali
“I barbari facevano i vandali” è l’espressione usata da un ragazzino di dodici anni, per rispondere a una domanda, posta dall’insegnante in un questionario di storia. L’Autrice l’ha scelta, tra le tante, come motto dimostrativo della capacità dei bambini di seguire indefinibili percorsi logici, plasmando con le parole realtà sorprendenti e decisamente “sovversive” rispetto alle concezioni comuni e correnti. Lo spirito del testo è proprio quello di evitare una facile ironia sulla “ignoranza” e impreparazione scolastica (peraltro in alcuni casi innegabile) degli adolescenti, per metterne piuttosto in luce la creatività, che si manifesta in forme e modi spesso imprevedibili, generalmente comici, sempre misteriosi per i criteri di giudizio degli adulti.
The Immortal Marilyn
From the late 1940s to the early '60s, Marilyn Monroe appeared in barely thirty movies, beginning with bit parts and moving on into supporting roles for such films as The Asphalt Jungle, All About Eve, and Clash by Night. She soon shot to international fame and gained prominent roles in a number of classics like The Seven Year Itch, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Some Like It Hot. By the time of her early death in 1962, she had already become established as one of the great icons of the silver screen. Even early in her career, Monroe had been a source of inspiration for playwrights, filmmakers, and others looking to cash in on her tremendous impact. In The Immortal Marilyn: The Depiction of a...
Panorama
None
Handbook of Physiology
Here is a thorough, up-to-date survey of the physiological processes through which salt, water, and nutrients are absorbed or secreted by the intestinal tract, and of how these myriad processes are regulated. In twenty-five chapters, written by a team of leading experts, the volume addresses four main topics: the methodologies and basic principles of structure and function; intestinal ion transport; nutrient absorption; and macromolecular transport. Throughout, the contributors emphasize recent developments in the field--for example, neuroendocrine-immune cell interactions in the intestinal mucosa, the regulation of intestinal sodium transport, the cloning of the intestinal glucose carrier, the intestinal cytoskeleton, and the regulation of intestinal epithelial transport function by protein kinases and calmodulin. This is not only the fourth and final volume in the series; it is also the broadest, most contemporary approach to this important topic. As such, this book will be warmly welcomed--and often consulted--by student, scholars, professionals, and anyone researching intestinal absorptive mechanisms and their regulation.
