Описание: Since 2008, Niall Allsop and his wife Kay have lived in a small Calabrian hilltop town, Santa Severina. In the town's square one summer he bumped into a man from New Jersey who was enjoying a vacation back in the town of his birth. Gino Sculco told him how his father had emigrated in 1920, returned to Calabria and emigrated again in 1960, the second time accompanied by one of his sons. In 1967 Gino and his wife Sina followed in their footsteps. Niall Allsop was so intrigued by the Sculco family's story that he decided to travel to America to find out more about what motivated them and other Calabrian families who emigrated and to what extent their American Dream had become a reality. Niall visited families in New Mexico, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Wisconsin and met and heard about people whose resolve and enterprise was as breathtaking as their stories were touching and unique. From the man who always thanked Uncle Sam when his monthly pension check arrived to the woman who emigrated alone, and from the man with three families to the man who emigrated three times, Thank you Uncle Sam is packed with real-life characters to make you laugh, cry and wonder at their capacity for survival. Some families went to America early in the twentieth century; others as recently as the 1960s. Some stories are intriguing and complex; others straightforward and predictable. Some of the people Niall met were in their, sixties, seventies or eighties; others mere youngsters in comparison. Sometimes he spent just a few hours with them; sometimes he stayed overnight or longer. Sometimes he knew quite a lot about the family before he met them; usually almost nothing. Some he had already met; most were total strangers. The stories and experiences of all are both unique and commonplace-they are no more than people's subjective memories, stories and occasional skeletons, shared with a stranger. Niall Allsop travelled to America early in November 2012-just after Hurricane Sandy devasted parts of New York and New Jersey and just before the Presidential election; he also spent Thanksgiving with a Calabrian-American family in Wisconsin. Not surprisingly therefore Thank you Uncle Sam is also a travelogue, the story of other people, places and cars that he encountered along the way.
Автор: Allsop, Carole Little, Mark Robinson, Anne Название: Cambridge english exam booster for advanced with answer key with audio ISBN: 1108349080 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108349086 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13026.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Essential exam task practice for class or home study for use alongside a coursebook or intensively before the exam.
Автор: Allsop, Richard Название: Geoffrey blainey ISBN: 1925835626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781925835625 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 5146.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's "greatest living historian." However, Blainey has also been a controversial figure. His 1984 comments about Asian immigration triggered a major political controversy. In turn, the reaction of his critics raised fundamental questions about freedom of speech and set the scene for the "history wars" fought out in Australia over the past three decades. Many academic historians were amongst Blainey's critics. After 1984, Blainey became stereotyped as a "conservative historian" and thus outside the bounds of academic history, yet much of Blainey's historical writing, both in method and outlook, has been far from conservative. Geoffrey Blainey: Writer, Historian, Controversialist challenges simplistic descriptions of Blainey's work. It sheds an important light not just on Blainey's career, but also on the past and present practice of history in Australia.
Автор: Allsop, Mike Название: High adventure ISBN: 1760633623 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781760633622 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What happens when an accomplished adventurer becomes a father? Does he continue his solo adventures? Is there a way of having it all, family time plus adventures?
Автор: Allsop Niall Название: Calabria: Travels in the Toe of Italy ISBN: 1533514003 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781533514004 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3361.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Calabria is not a guide to Calabria but rather a book about Calabria. Since 1777, when Henry Swinburne, first travelled in Calabria in search of Magna Gr cia (Calabria's Greek heritage), and then wrote about his experiences, there have been a further dozen travellers, including one woman, who have written travelogues in English (as opposed to travel guides) about Italy's remote toe. Some, like Edward Lear, George Gissing and Norman Douglas, became well-known literary figures in other fields but most were just educated people with time on their hands for whom travelling in the south of Italy was a huge adventure, perhaps fuelled by the adrenalin of the pioneer. What also made them different is that they shared their experiences: frequently with humour, usually with empathy, occasionally with arrogance but always with the curiosity and insight of the traveller, as opposed to the tourist. Until Italian unification (1860), Calabria was part of the Two Sicilies, the largest and wealthiest part of the Italian peninsula which included the regions south of Naples (the capital) and Sicily itself. Because of its remoteness and lack of an adequate transport infrastructure it was-and to some extent still is-viewed as an inhospitable and unappealing place, home to brigands and bandits and incoherent natives of doubtful ancestry. Post-unification, Calabria remained a place that few had heard of, still fewer visited; even the most recent such traveller, Henry Morton, was not unaware that, even in 1967, he was breaking new ground. Because such travelogues have never been viewed as historical sources in themselves, sometimes the writers' first-hand experiences throw new light on accepted, home-grown, myths about the region, such as the deaths of Alaric the Goth and Joachim Murat, the Fratelli Bandiera escapade and the brigand Musolino myth. While occasionally Calabria retells Calabrian history it is, above all else, a fusion of the experiences and impressions of thirteen travelling pioneers alongside those of the author, himself a traveller to Calabria, albeit one who stayed, made it his home and has immersed himself in its past and its present and its present and will be a part of its future. It is worth repeating that Calabria is not a guide to Calabria but rather a book about Calabria: written with empathy, insight and wit, Calabria unveils, through the eyes of the traveller, a part of Italy that, even today, few know well. Calabria's thematic format includes chapters on every facet of life, past and present, atop Italy's remote toe: from Magna Gr cia to amusing episodes; from spectacular mountains to devastating earthquakes; from remarkable people to the scourge of the mafia. Without doubt Calabria is the definitive book on Calabria in English.
Описание: The ICE Coasts, Maritime Structures and Breakwaters conference series, sponsored by the ICE for over thirty years, is the leading international forum for the presentation of the latest developments in coastal and maritime engineering.
Автор: TERRY ALLSOP & COLIN BROCK Название: Key Issues in Educational Development ISBN: 187392707X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781873927076 Издательство: Symposium books Рейтинг: Цена: 2564.00 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Essential exam task practice for class or home study for use alongside a coursebook or intensively before the exam.
Автор: Smuts-allsop, Nicola Название: Fertility astrology: a modern medieval textbook ISBN: 1910531251 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910531259 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2930.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Despite incredible and previously undreamed-of advances in modern medicine, for many women the issue of infertility remains a heart-breaking reality. Using a combination of traditional and modern astrological techniques, the author has delved deeply into the charts of hundreds of infertile women to unravel what might be at the root of the problem.
Автор: Allsop Scott Название: 366 Days: Compelling Stories from World History ISBN: 0995680914 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780995680913 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2941.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Allsop, J Et El Название: BEC Preliminary Tesbuilder +CD Pack ISBN: 140501833X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405018333 Издательство: Macmillan ELT Рейтинг: Цена: 780.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: BEC Preliminary Testbuilder is designed to improve exam performance and increase language competence for success in the Cambridge Business English Certificate (BEC) exam. There are four complete practice tests that reflect the content and level of the actual exam. They are accompanied by an answer key and further practice and guidance sections.
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