Marriage Rituals Italian Style

Marriage Rituals Italian Style
Author: Roni Weinstein
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789004133044

The book describes the three major phases of the marriage ritual (matchmaking, betrothal, the wedding), and presents thematic issues, such as the youth sub-culture, gift exchanges, the honor ethos. It is based on a wealth of primary documents, mainly manuscripts, in various literary genres.

Love Italian Style

Love Italian Style
Author: Melissa Gorga
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1466837985

Real Housewives of New Jersey star Melissa Gorga shows you how to love your man and keep him happy, satisfied, faithful, and devoted to you. What you see is what you get with Melissa Gorga. On Real Housewives of New Jersey, she's that beautiful, ambitious woman with a successful career who puts her family first. In fact, her stable yet sexy marriage to lovable Joe is a welcome antidote to the constant fighting and backbiting on the show. Despite the pressure of life in the spotlight, she makes marriage look easy. How does she do it? Melissa's overriding principle: Treat your husband like a king! And in return, you'll be treated like a queen! In Love Italian Style, Melissa shares her (and his) secrets to relationship success—generations-tested old-fashioned values served up with a modern, sexy twist. To her, the four tenets to a happy marriage are respect, honesty, loyalty, and passion (underscore passion). By sharing her and Joe's life together—from the story of their first date to how they still keep it hot in the bedroom a decade later—Melissa admits that, yes, marriage has been a lot of work, but the rewards are ten-fold. With her time-tested strategies, you can "Gorganize" your own relationship, strengthen your bond, and amp up the passion for lifelong bliss. Some of Melissa's how-to's: · Dress to impress your man. · Flirt with your hubby. · Cook Italian style. · Fight right. · Keep the romance alive and the home fires burning. · Raise little princes and princesses. This playful guidebook promises to make any marriage better—the Gorga way!

Juvenile Sexuality, Kabbalah, and Catholic Reformation in Italy

Juvenile Sexuality, Kabbalah, and Catholic Reformation in Italy
Author: Roni Weinstein
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004167579

This detailed introduction to the text "Tiferet Bachurim" (The Glory of Youth), written in the mid-seventeenth century in Ferrara, Italy, discusses the profound changes in Jewish Italian communities regarding sexuality, control of the juvenile body, and the role of Kabbalah in The Jewish Counter Reformation.

Ritual in Early Modern Europe

Ritual in Early Modern Europe
Author: Edward Muir
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2005-08-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521841535

The comprehensive 2005 study of rituals in early modern Europe argues that between about 1400 and 1700 a revolution in ritual theory took place that utterly transformed concepts about time, the body, and the presence of spiritual forces in the world. Edward Muir draws on extensive historical research to emphasize the persistence of traditional Christian ritual practices even as educated elites attempted to privilege reason over passion, textual interpretation over ritual action, and moral rectitude over gaining access to supernatural powers. Edward Muir discusses wide ranging themes such as rites of passage, carnivalesque festivity, the rise of manners, Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the alleged anti-Christian rituals of Jews and witches. This edition examines the impact on the European understanding of ritual from the discoveries of new civilizations in the Americas and missionary efforts in China and adds more material about rituals peculiar to women.

The Italian Way

The Italian Way
Author: Douglas Harper
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2010-01-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226317269

Outside of Italy, the country’s culture and its food appear to be essentially synonymous. And indeed, as The Italian Way makes clear, preparing, cooking, and eating food play a central role in the daily activities of Italians from all walks of life. In this beautifully illustrated book, Douglas Harper and Patrizia Faccioli present a fascinating and colorful look at the Italian table. The Italian Way focuses on two dozen families in the city of Bologna, elegantly weaving together Harper’s outsider perspective with Faccioli’s intimate knowledge of the local customs. The authors interview and observe these families as they go shopping for ingredients, cook together, and argue over who has to wash the dishes. Throughout, the authors elucidate the guiding principle of the Italian table—a delicate balance between the structure of tradition and the joy of improvisation. With its bite-sized history of food in Italy, including the five-hundred-year-old story of the country’s cookbooks, and Harper’s mouth-watering photographs, The Italian Way is a rich repast—insightful, informative, and inviting.

Book Review Index

Book Review Index
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1080
Release: 2005
Genre: Books
ISBN:

Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.

Planet Wedding

Planet Wedding
Author: Sandra Choron
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2010-04-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0547488440

A meticulously researched bouquet of more than three hundred fascinating, informative, useful, and always entertaining lists on all things nuptial. Illustrated with over 150 photographs and line drawings, PlanetWedding is a oneof-a-kind compendium for anyone who is getting married, planning a wedding, or is participating in a wedding. Featuring: • Ten Things the Bridal Industry Doesn’tWant You to Know •Wedding Customs from Around theWorld • 231 Money-Saving Tips • How to Tell If You’re a Bridezilla • How to Have a GreenWedding • 12Ways to Preserve Your SanityWhen Planning aWedding • Kids on Dating and Marriage • The Origin of "Something Old, Something New"

Stay Hungry

Stay Hungry
Author: Sebastian Maniscalco
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2018-02-27
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1501115995

From comedian and actor Sebastian Maniscalco—star of the film About My Father with Robert DeNiro—an inspiring, honest, uproarious collection of essays tracing his career from playing boxing rings and bowling alleys to reaching the pinnacles of comedy success. At twenty-four, Sebastian Maniscalco arrived in LA with a suitcase and saved up minimum wages. He knew no one and nothing about standup comedy, but he was determined to go for it anyway. Two decades later, he’s on the Forbes’ list of highest earning comedians, selling out arenas, and starring in numerous hit comedy specials including Why Would You Do That? and Is It Me?. Stay Hungry tells the story of the twenty years in between. On the way from clueless rube to standup superstar, Seb was booed off stages; survived on tips and stolen food; got advice from mentors Andrew Dice Clay, Vince Vaughn, Tony Danza, and Jerry Seinfeld; fell in love; and stayed true to his Italian-immigrant roots. The one code that always kept him going: stay hungry, keep focused, never give up, and one day, you’ll make it.