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In the Footsteps of Galileo   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $67, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXITL597)		  
Eyewitness Guide Venice & the Veneto  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2012 •  PAPER  • 312 PAGES • COMING IN FEBRUARY
Another in the long line of superb Eyewitness Guides, this one features color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a neighborhood-by-neighborhood synopsis of the region's attractions. It includes numerous cutaways and floor plans of local buildings as well. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (ITL200, $20.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Venice & the Veneto
Eyewitness Guide Florence & Tuscany  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 336 PAGES
This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a neighborhood-by-neighborhood synopsis of the region's attractions. (ITL46, $25.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Florence & Tuscany
Galileo's New Universe, The Revolution in Our Understanding of the Cosmos  •  Laurence A. Marschall  •  Stephen P. Maran
SCIENCE •  2009 •  PAPER  • 174 PAGES
Written in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the invention of Galileo's telescope, this insightful analysis combines Galileo's personal story with the latest developments in modern astronomy, documenting important astronomical advances and the effects they have had over the years. (SCI263, $14.95)		   Galileo's New Universe, The Revolution in Our Understanding of the Cosmos
Italy Map  •  Borch Maps
2011 •  MAP
A convenient laminated map of Italy at a scale of 1:800,000 with excellent topographic detail, an index, and large individual maps of Sicily and Sardinia. Two Sides. 27x39 inches. (ITL19, $11.95)		   Italy Map



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Florence Map  •  Borch Maps    •  A detailed, plastic-covered city map of Florence at a scale of 1:7,000. (ITL59, $8.95)
 		  
Venice Map  •  Borch Maps    •  A colorful, detailed city map of Venice, perfect for finding your way around the famously labyrinthine streets and canals. (ITL26, $8.95)
 		  
Fodor's Florence's 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map and essential information on the city's highlights, including sightseeing, restaurants and shopping. (ITL140, $11.99)
 		  
Fodor's Venice's 25 Best  •  Citypack   • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN MARCH  •  This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map of the city center and essential information. (ITL106, $12.99)
 		  
Made in Italy, A Shopper's Guide  •  Laura Morelli   • GUIDEBOOK  •  The second edition of Morelli's expert survey of handcrafted Italian shops and products from Murano glass to ceramics, jewelry and leather. (ITL473, $24.95)
 		  
Biba's Italy  •  Biba Caggiano   • FOOD  •  Caggiano focuses on regional, seasonal food in this omnibus cookbook (featuring 100 recipes), menu planner and travel guide to Rome, Florence, Bologna, Milan and Venice. Nicely produced, this handsome sepia-toned book includes recommended restaurants, cafes and markets in each city. (ITL777, $29.95)
 		  
A Traveller's History of Italy  •  Valerio Lintner   • HISTORY  •  A brief history of Italy through the 1990s -- wide-ranging, accessible and necessarily condensed. With a useful chronology and historical gazetteer, this book marches confidently through the centuries. (ITL86, $14.95)
 		  
La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind  •  Beppe Severgnini   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Italians themselves love this guide to the Italian character, which addresses the apparently never-ending passion for beauty, disorder and high emotion. Severgnini opens the book with a snapshot of the hubbub at Malpensa Airport, then moves on to Tuscany, Rome, Naples and Sardinia. (ITL718, $14.00)
 		  
Art and Life in Renaissance Venice  •  Patricia Brown   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This compact volume evokes the spirit of Renaissance Venice with authoritative essays and 120 full-color illustrations. (ITL57, $40.80)
 		  
Florence, The City and its Architecture  •  Richard Goy   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An authoritative and handsomely illustrated overview of the city. Richard Goy, who has also written a book on the architecture of Venice, pays particular attention to the topography and character of the city. (ITL697, $39.95)
 		  
Renaissance Florence, The Invention of a New Art  •  A. Richard Turner   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A cultural and social history of the city focusing on the great art and famous monuments, featuring vivid color pictures and illustrations. (ITL50, $40.80)
 		  
The Stones of Florence  •  Mary McCarthy   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  The classic history of the art, architecture and culture of Florence. Novelist McCarthy takes us on a quick and vivid tour of the history of the Medicis and the city of Florence, focusing on Renaissance art. (ITL15, $14.00)
 		  
Galileo's Daughter, A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love  •  Dava Sobel   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Sobel evokes the daily life of 17th-century Italy in this engaging tale, drawing on letters to Galileo from his illegitimate daughter, a nun in a Franciscan convent in San Matteo. (ITL176, $17.00)
 		  
Life of Galileo  •  Bertolt Brecht   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Galileo ranks as one of Brecht's most intensely alive, human, and complex characters. In this play, the great Renaissance scientist is locked in a brutal struggle for freedom from authoritarian dogma. (ITA70, $13.00)
 		  
The World of Venice  •  Jan Morris   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  Morris displays her talent for research, anecdote and well-wrought prose in this spirited history of a beloved city. (ITL12, $18.95)
 		  
Watermark  •  Joseph Brodsky   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A metaphysical, metaphorical meditation on Venice by poet Joseph Brodsky. His ruminations take the form of 48 short chapters, each prompted by an idea, memory or scene associated with his much loved city. (ITL105, $13.00)
 		  
A Traveller's Companion to Florence  •  Edward Chaney  •  Harold Acton   • ANTHOLOGY  •  This illuminating guide brings Florence to life through the letters, diaries and memoirs of travelers and Florentines from past centuries. The selections, from Boccaccio to D.H. Lawrence, are as rich as the city itself. (ITL485, $16.95)
 		  
Dead Lagoon, An Aurelio Zen Mystery  •  Michael Dibdin   • MYSTERY  •  Dibdin -- a master of ambiguous settings, shady dealings and fast-paced prose -- returns to Venice in this sixth book in the thoroughly enjoyable Aurelio Zen series. (ITL577, $14.95)
 		  
Death in Springtime  •  Magdalen Nabb   • MYSTERY  •  Two women are kidnapped in Florence, sending Marshal Guarnaccia to the Tuscan foothills, in this third mystery in the series. (ITL635, $12.00)
 		  
In the Company of the Courtesan  •  Sarah Dunant   • LITERATURE  •  Dunant paints a vivid, earthy portrait of Renaissance Venice in this absorbing novel of intrigue, ambition and love -- cleverly narrated by the wily dwarf Bucino Teodoldo, loyal companion of the courtesan. (ITL650, $13.95)
 		  
The Birth of Venus, A Novel  •  Sarah Dunant   • LITERATURE  •  A rich novel of art, passion and patronage, memorably set in late 15th-century Florence and prominently featuring the famously pious reformer Savonarola. (ITL532, $15.00)
 		  
The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales  •  Elizabeth Spencer   • LITERATURE  •  The touching tale of young (and not so young) love, now a Broadway musical. Spencer, a southerner like her characters Margaret and Clara, writes eloquently of the transformation of a mother and daughter by Florence. (ITL628, $22.00)
 		  
Travelers' Tales Tuscany  •  Tara Austen Weaver  •  James O'Reilly   • ANTHOLOGY • COMING IN  •  An anthology of great excerpts from travel essays about Tuscany, with pieces from Saul Bellow, Frances Mayes and Ferenc Mate, among others. (ITL315, $16.95)
 		  
Blind Watchers of the Sky, The People and Ideas That Shaped Our View of the Universe  •  Rocky Kolb   • SCIENCE  •  A popular history of astronomy, focusing on ideas and personalities of Tycho Brache, Kepler, Galileo and other great scientists in the field. (SCI10, $18.00)
 		  
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences  •  Hawking Stephen  •  Galileo Galilei   • SCIENCE  •  This text contains the provocative essay by Galileo Galilei, famed for its proving Copernicus' theory that the earth revolves around the sun. It is edited and accompanied by an illuminating biography of the father of modern physics, written by Stephen Hawking. (SCI264, $12.95)
 		  
Galileo, A Very Short Introduction  •  Stillman Drake   • SCIENCE  •  In a startling reinterpretation of Galileo's trial, Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's prosecution and condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his defiance of the Church but by the hostility of contemporary philosophers. (SCI265, $11.95)
 		  
The Earth Moves, Galileo and the Roman Inquisition  •  Dan Hofstadter   • SCIENCE  •  Hofstader traces the beginnings of modern science to the historic clash between Galileo and the Roman Inquisition, explaining the apparent paradoxes and placing the moment in the widest cultural context. (SCI262, $23.95)
 		  
 
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