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For the ancient Greeks, there were few divine beings more important, and more generous, to humanity than the goddess Athena. She was also called "Pallas", "Pallas Athena", and (to the Romans) "Minerva". The daughter of Zeus, Athena was famous as a virgin warrior woman who was born from her father's skull bearing a helmet, shield, and spear. Yet she was far more than simply a warrior goddess.

Reading short stories is an effective and fun way to learn Italian! It’s as simple as it sounds. Read a story, learn new vocabulary, discover a country from within … and enjoy! This short novel is created and imagined for beginners and learners taking their first steps into Italian. It is much more than a study book … because it isn’t one! It is a story based on a real experience, the true story of an Italian young woman named Sara. She lives an average life, fights her battles, dreams, works, and shapes her future with her own hands.

Italian students regularly have to go through the toughest experiences to find proper material that isn’t too tough or too tedious for them - as language teachers, we know this. This is why we’ve created Italian Short Stories for Beginners: Volume 2 to ensure that young and old students at the entry level of learning can have yet another chance to polish their Italian tongue and survive to tell the tale!

The mysterious deaths of an international expedition of ice climbers on the remote face of the Spitsbergen glacier triggers what may be the first pre-emptive U.S. nuclear strike against the Soviet Union. The chain of events that follow moves swiftly and brilliantly from cosmopolitan, placid Oslo to the war-game rooms of the Pentagon and reaches a terrifying climax on the icy wastes of Spitsbergen, above the northern coast of Norway-and the Svalbard Passage.

At its peak, the wealthy Carthaginian Empire dominated the Mediterranean against the likes of Greece and Rome. Through clever use of force projection, by paying allies with gold, and by recruiting mercenary armies to fight for them, Carthage was able to go from a minor Phoenician settlement to one of the most powerful trading empires of antiquity. However, the Carthaginians' foreign policy had a fatal flaw; they had a knack for picking the worst enemies they could possibly enter into conflict with.

Something terrible is stirring in the wreckage of Chernobyl. The Chernobyl Sarcophagus is crumbling, and the Carapace project to contain the infamous reactor has stalled. Dr. Victoria Cox must return to Pripyat, in the heart of the exclusion zone, to find out why. Confronted by corporate irresponsibility and greed, she soon finds herself in a race against time, fighting to prevent a disaster of catastrophic proportions.

Dall'autrice best-seller Morgan Rice giunge il primo capitolo di una nuova serie fantasy. UN'IMPRESA DA EROI (LIBRO 1 nell'ANELLO DELLO STREGONE) ruota attorno all'epica crescita di un ragazzo speciale, un quattordicenne proveniente da un piccolo villaggio ai confini del Regno dell'Anello. Il più giovane di quattro fratelli, il meno favorito del padre, odiato dai suoi fratelli, Thorgrin, sente di essere diverso dagli altri. Sogna di diventare un grande guerriero, di entrare tra gli uomini del Re e proteggere l'Anello dalle orde di creature che popolano l'altra parte del Canyon.

As an educator for more than 20 years, I'm a fan of teaching others. And there is no greater challenge than to learn a language and to use that tool when traveling abroad! I created this Italian phrasebook as a way to increase your enjoyment when traveling to such amazing places as Rome, Venice, and Florence. Imagine what the ability to communicate with the locals will do for your travel experience, allowing you to connect with new and interesting people, or even live or study in places like Naples or Siena!

When I wrote the original version of PILOTS DAWN in the last decade of the previous century, the world was a different place. Three manufacturers of passenger aircraft existed in the United States. Boeing dominated the global market for airliners without serious competition. Airbus, whose share of sales fell short of 20%, was considered by many experts a challenger doomed to failure—if not an outright joke. Politically, the Soviet Union had ceased to exist. The Cold War was over; the KGB had receded into history and expectations of a peaceful democratic Russia were the norm.

France's most famous king, and Europe's longest serving, Louis XIV (1638-1715) is often viewed today as a symbol of royal extravagance and splendor. Reigning for over 72 years, the legacy of the "Sun King" is remembered for the magnificent Palace of Versailles, the patronizing of arts and theater, and the apocryphal quote "l'Etat c'est moi" (I am the State).

Monte Sole--Mountain of the Sun--had the bad luck to lie on the main route of withdrawal of the retreating German armies in autumn 1944. As the Allied advance stormed up Italy to the very shadow of Monte Sole, Axis frustration over their retreat and the harassing Italian partisans reached its peak. With full authorization of Field Marshall Albert Kesselring, and with an infusion of dread SS reinforcements, the Germans determined to neutralize Monte Sole.

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known around the world as the "Father of Psychoanalysis", and for good reason. If anything, Freud's first patient was himself. A sufferer of psychosomatic symptoms, Freud diagnosed himself as having a repressed antagonism against his father. From there, Freud began to build on his now famous concepts of the unconscious, infantile sexuality and repression.

On the brink of the Roman Invasion of Greece, the city of Corinth, well established as a mighty seat of power in the Achaean League, is threatened with impending destruction. Widespread colonization of the mainland has severed crucial supply chains and the need to establish a fruitful colony of their own has emerged. Aineias and his steersman, Pyrrhus, are the only sailors willing to take on the voyage.The men soon realize that the only hope they have of saving Corinth is to seek...the Kraken.

In 1897 the young Italian peasant Giuseppe Musolino was falsely convicted of a crime and sentenced to 21 years at hard labor. He soon escaped, and began hunting those who had played a role in his false conviction, extracting an ominous and lethal revenge, killing as many as 25 people. For three years he eluded a massive manhunt conducted by hundreds of police and even a full regiment of the Italian army. He soon became a hero to the common people of southern Italy, who risked imprisonment themselves to hide, protect, and sustain him.

LA MARCIA DEI RE ci porta avanti lungo il viaggio epico di Thor nell'umanità, mentre inizia a capire di più su se stesso e sui suoi poteri, intraprendendo la sua carriera da guerriero. Dopo essere fuggito dalle segrete, Thor è sconvolto dal sentire di un altro tentativo di assassinio contro Re MacGil. Quando MacGil muore, il regno è in pieno subbuglio. Mentre tutti competono per ottenere il trono, la Corte del Re è più occupata che mai con i suoi drammi familiari, lotte di potere, ambizioni, gelosia, violenza e tradimento.

Nicholas rose to power from the gritty backstreets of Buenos Aires. He controlled everything around him. But the universe had something completely different in mind for Nicholas. Something shattering. Where the Green Star Falls is a visceral tale of survival with the soul of a love story. From the Parisian mecca of South America, Buenos Aires, you'll be transported to the mysterious river-lands of Argentina amid the towering Andes Mountains and emerald green waters, where Nicholas will meet his fate head on. He must become the man he was born to be.

If you want to learn Italian in less time while also having fun, then pay attention...The experience of listening to a story allows us to escape our lives for a moment, and so this is a perfect way to start learning a language. Listening to a story activates your brain and imagination, thus increasing the chance to learn easily and not quit.

When a member of the European Union is assassinated, former CIA Special Agent Jack Bishop uncovers a global conspiracy. Tensions are rising as world leaders prepare to meet in Moscow for an important economic summit that could change the face of the global economic structure. As Jack Bishop gets closer to the truth, he finds himself in a race against time to stop this global network from achieving the next step in its armageddon initiative.

The Thirteenth Disciple: America After the Deal is a must-listen, a gripping thriller rooted not only in fantasy but in contemporary American and international events. The audiobook's fast-paced action and bold conspiracies span the globe, but unlike most military and political suspense novels, its epicenter is not Washington, Moscow, or London. Rather, it is a small town in middle America, a town with a long, colorful history that has become a refuge of the rich and famous: Aspen, Colorado.

DESTINO DI DRAGHI (LIBRO #3 in L'ANELLO DELLO STREGONE) ci porta più a fondo lungo il viaggio epico che Thor compie per diventare un guerriero, attraverso il Mare di Fuoco fino all'Isola della Nebbia nella terra dei draghi. Un luogo impietoso, abitato dai migliori guerrieri del mondo, in cui Thor si allena affinando sempre di più i suoi poteri e le sue abilità. Anche le sue amicizie si fanno più salde: lui e i compagni affrontano insieme avversità lontane da ogni immaginazione.