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Explores the notion of the bystander in the Nuclear Age by focusing on the Italian situation as a paradigmatic case. It re-frames Italy''s mix of implication and powerlessness not only as a geopolitical question, but as a way to re-think the role of the side-lined intellectual in the face of mass extinction.

A fearless, darkly playful debut exploring the many impossible choices that accompany 21st century femaleness. What is the right way to handle an abusive partner? An unexpected pregnancy? A toxic friendship? Chronic unemployment? Gender dysphoria? A family member going to war? A disability? Anger? Loneliness? Finding themselves in disempowering, frightening, or otherwise unendurable circumstances, the girls, women, and non-binary characters in Maria Adelmann''s stories look for ways to free themselves into new lives or, at the very least, new states of feeling. Sometimes they do this by hurting someone else or getting hurt; sometimes by submitting, other times by mounting a rebellion. With a special talent for pressing the sharp up against the tender, Adelmann explores the many pathways through the titular condition. Ranging in style from the magical to the terrifying to the calm tones of a self-help manual, Girls of a Certain Age captures the spectrum of strategies we apply to the pain of life, strategies that we persist in pretending might actually work.

意大利人有種習慣，就是打電話給人，一接通就立刻掛線？ 日本拍貼紙相的攤位，男士不得隨意內進？ 在外地旅遊時，不小心病了，但……水土不服、灼痛、周身骨痛、頭痛等，英文該怎麼說啊？ 去外地旅行，有兩種東西最叫旅行者束手無策，一是當地風俗，二是英文不好，溝通有困難，兩者都是普通旅遊天書不會教你的。當然，你大可以在旅遊書之外，再帶一本語言天書及一本講解當地文化的書，但背包的重量就變得比較可觀了。 如果有一本書，既能教你旅行時的常用英語，又能教你不同國家的文化及趣聞，更附贈各種旅行貼士，不就能讓你輕鬆地一書走天涯？ 本書作者曾留居多國又熱愛旅遊，以自身經驗教你出門必學的英語短句：問路、購物、訂枱、點餐、買車票、飛機票、看醫生、以至在Bed & Breakfast向當地人問禁、閒聊等；除英文之外，更會告訴你各種旅行、國家、文化相關的趣聞，以及在外地購物、乘的士、住酒店、租車、租房子等各種情況的貼士，是每個旅遊、留學、打工假期者必讀的實用手冊。 本書特色 收錄大量實用英文句子，按照不同情況與環境如機場、酒店、問路、結識朋友等分類，易於按照你身處的情況查閱相關條目。 常用句子、對話情景、Q&A對答、詞彙等，中英對照，適用於不同情況！ 收錄各種旅行趣聞、國家文化、旅遊貼士，以及作者自身經驗分享，令你看得津津有味。 作者親製免費教學程式「Ria talk talk」，由作者親自發聲錄音，效果更生動有趣，且更具親切感；當中包括英語、廣東話、普通話、日語和法語，可於旅遊期間開心運用，令旅程加倍順利

The masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time—with an Oscar–winning film adaptation now streaming on Netflix. “[Erich Maria Remarque] is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank.”—The New York Times Book Review I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . . This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another . . . if only he can come out of the war alive.

In a sequel to "All quiet on the Western Front," Ernst and the few survivors of his company return home after the war to find food in short supply and their families changed.

The classic book that has inspired generations of teachers to foster each child''s drive to learn. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The story of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI. In this work of historical fiction, all of the characters were actual people The incidents, situations and conversations are based on reality. It is the story of the martyred King Louis XVI and his Queen, Antoinette. The fruit of years of research, the book corrects many of the popular misconceptions of the royal couple, which secular and modernist historians have tried so hard to promote. Louis and Antoinette can only be truly understood in view of the Catholic teachings to which they adhered and within the context of the sacrament of matrimony. It was the graces of this sacramental life that gave them the strength to remain loyal to the Church, and to each other, in the face of crushing disappointments, innumerable humiliations, personal and national tragedy, and death itself. Theirs is not a conventional love story; indeed it is more than a love story. The fortitude they each displayed at the very gates of hell is a source of inspiration for all Christians who live in troubled times. Hardcover, smythe-sewn, cream paper, 205 pages.