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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.

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!

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.

There are many reasons behind the decision to learn Italian: from having Italian relatives to wanting to travel to one of the most beautiful countries in the world. However, there is no need to make hypotheses — if you are listening to this description, you have been led here by your desire to learn this language.

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.

Una strana processione di luci appare in mare aperto e finisce nella Grotta dei Morti, dove è sepolta la "madre più antica del mondo". Tre ragazzi partono all'avventura: un'aspirante archeologa, un inventore pasticcione e un ristoratore innamorato della propria terra e dell'archeologa. Riusciranno a dimostrare che i fantasmi esistono? Un'avventura stile Goonies ambientata nell'Alto Salento, per nostalgici anni '80 e '90. Libro pubblicato in cartaceo ed ebook con editore tradizionale.

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.

Il virus che trasforma gli uomini in morti viventi ha avuto il sopravvento. Una setta di fanatici religiosi, gli Opliti di Cristo, ha preso il potere e tiene in pugno le istituzioni facendo rivivere una sorta di Medioevo. Nelle campagne del Distretto Sud, Brian Crane, un vecchio bonificatore sulla via del tramonto, deve vedersela con un ennesimo focolaio, e, come se non bastasse, deve istruire un novellino, Jedediah Braddock, fresco di caserma ma totalmente inesperto.

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.

Three well-off young men - former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno - brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat. It is this environment, the halls of San Leone Magno in the late 1960s and the 1970s, that Edoardo Albinati takes as his subject.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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).

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.

A husband obsessed with his wife's psychological unfaithfulness craves honesty and disclosure. Their confrontations broil without resolution as external stately events intervene to worsen their long-lasting, irrepressible wrangles. Conspiracy, crime, and corruption that penetrate the highest levels of the Mafia, the military police, Roman Catholicism, and Stregheria, a secret society, intrude to thrust the couple's previous mundane life into a vortex of murderous, self-interested forces seeking control of the Papacy and the Vatican bank.

Alfio si è cacciato in un brutto guaio: è in crisi da astinenza da eroina e Jessica, la sua ex, insieme al fratello ritardato Maicol lo hanno trascinato in un brutto affare. Per ottenere i soldi per una dose, nella notte di Halloween, hanno deciso di entrare in una casa di campagna dove si dice che il vecchio che ci abita possegga una fortuna, lasciatagli dalla celebre cantante lirica Agnese Cipriani, ormai morta da anni. Quello che i tre balordi non sanno è che non ci sarà solo un povero vecchio a fare gli onori di casa. Quale oscuro segreto nasconde quell'isolata villetta di campagna?

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.