Authors:Italo Calvino,  William Weaver,
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: traveler, night, winter
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1982-10-20
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0156439611
ISBN-13: 9780156439619

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration--"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino’s novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exh

Authors:Giorgio Bassani,  William Weaver, Tim Park,
Publisher: Everyman’s Library
Keywords: classics, contemporary, library, everyman, finzi, continis, garden
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2005-07-19
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 1400044227
ISBN-13: 9781400044221

Giorgio Bassani’s masterwork has Vittorio de Sica’s 1971 film adaptation to thank for its dual success and obscurity. Not enough people know that this tale of a middle-class Jewish youth’s obsession with the far more aristocratic Micol Finzi-Contini stems from a novel, not a novelization. Bassani’s doom- and tomb-ridden examination of one-sided love is far more complex--about individuals’ inability to contend with personal and political annihilation. Events call for heroism, yet it seems "downright absurd that now, all of a sudden, exceptional behavior was demande

Authors:Weaver William, William Weaver, Simonetta Puccini,
Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
Keywords: companion, puccini
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2000-08
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0393320529
ISBN-13: 9780393320527

In this book, William Weaver, writer on musical subjects and translator from the Italian, joins forces with Simonetta Puccini, granddaughter of the great composer, to bring together a selection of articles and photographs concerning Puccini’s life and works. Subjects covered include the intimate details of Puccini’s family life, the racist politics behind the creation of "Madam Butterfly", Puccini’s fascination with American culture and the changes that early recording technology sparked in turn-of-the-century operatic performance style.

Author: William Weaver
Publisher: AATCC
Keywords: laboratory, textile, methods, analytical
Number of Pages: 403
Published: 1984-05-01
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 0961335009
ISBN-13: 9780961335007

Author: William Woys Weaver
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Keywords: vegetables
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-10-20
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1565122380
ISBN-13: 9781565122383

A perfect leek from France. Flavorful zucchini from Italy. An infamous potato from Ireland, and a humble lentil from Ethiopia. 100 VEGETABLES offers a veritable cornucopia of vegetables and stories from around the world--from Argentina to Zimbabwe, from Australia to the United States. William Woys Weaver--veggie connoisseur, gardener, and historian--guides us through a range of peppers, potatoes, peas, gourds, onions, tomatoes, greens, and a whole lot more. Not every carrot is the same. All beans aren’t equal. Take the Petaluma Gold Rush bean, a rugged legume, grown for over 150 years

Author: William Woys Weaver
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: cures, herbal, sauer
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2000-12-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415923603
ISBN-13: 9780415923606

Colonial Americans who needed to relieve a bellyache, concoct an insect repellent, brew a batch of hair dye, or mix a soothing nerve tonic knew just where to turn: Johann Christoph Sauer’s Compendius Herbal. The most popular concordance of herbal remedies of the time, it remains today one of the most magnificent collections of botanical wisdom available anywhere.Originally written in German by a Philadelphian apothecary and printer (who along with his father were rivals of Ben Franklin), the secrets of this long-lost classic have now been recovered through the loving translation of inte

Author: Frederic William Weaver
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: wills, medieval, somerset
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $28.75
ISBN-10: 0559327943
ISBN-13: 9780559327940

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.