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501 Essential Italian Verbs
Suitable for beginners and advanced students alike, each page of this compilation focuses on an individual verb, presenting full conjugations of simple and compound tenses. Samples illustrate the verb's use in sentences.
Practical Pursuits
The idea that personal cultivation leads to social and material well-being became widespread in late Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868). Practical Pursuits explores theories of personal development that were diffused in the early nineteenth century by a network of religious groups in the Edo (Tokyo) area, and explains how, after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the leading members of these communities went on to create ideological coalitions inspired by the pursuit of a modern form of cultivation. Variously engaged in divination, Shinto purification rituals, and Zen practice, these individuals ultimately used informal political associations to promote the Confucian-style assumption that personal imp...
Faith in Mount Fuji
Even a fleeting glimpse of Mount Fuji’s snow-capped peak emerging from the clouds in the distance evokes the reverence it has commanded in Japan from ancient times. Long considered sacred, during the medieval era the mountain evolved from a venue for solitary ascetics into a well-regulated pilgrimage site. With the onset of the Tokugawa period, the nature of devotion to Mount Fuji underwent a dramatic change. Working people from nearby Edo (now Tokyo) began climbing the mountain in increasing numbers and worshipping its deity on their own terms, leading to a widespread network of devotional associations known as Fujikō. In Faith in Mount Fuji Janine Sawada asserts that the rise of the Fuj...
Say It in Italian
Compact and comprehensive, this convenient, up-to-date reference contains 1,900 numbered entries of terms for every occasion plus a 2,500-word English-Italian dictionary, quick summaries for instant communication, and sidebars with facts, cultural information, slang, and trivia.
ACTFL Desk Book
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Humanities Index
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