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Told in two voices, fifteen-year-old Copper struggles to confront inevitable and enormous change after his father's death and his uncle writes to him in a journal, sharing knowledge and advice in 1937 Japan.
Love of Venice can strike anyone, not just romantic wusses. Among the toughies with serious cases were Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway. Symptoms include: Wishing that the movie stars in films set in Venice would...
How did a small, isolated city--with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday--come to transform western civilization? Anthropologist Meredith Small examines the unique Venetian social structure that was key to their explosion...