MARC details
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03301pam a22003374a 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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62755668 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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DLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20200626093156.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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051220s2006 nyum a000 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2005058243 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0767914392 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
BAKER |
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C#P |
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NhCcYBP |
| 041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text |
ita |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
e-it--- |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
DG 451 |
| Item number |
.Se83 2006 |
| 240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Language of a work |
English. |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Severgnini, Beppe. |
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31463 |
| 240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
<a href="Testa degli italiani.">Testa degli italiani.</a> |
| 245 13 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
La bella figura : |
| Remainder of title |
a field guide to the Italian mind |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Beppe Severgnini ; translated by Giles Watson. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Broadway Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
c2006. |
| 264 ## - PUBLISHER--PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Broadway Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
c2006. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiv, 217 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Day 1: Malpensa -> Milan: The airport, where we discover that Italians prefer exceptions to rules -- The highway, or the psychopathology of the stoplight -- The hotel, where singular people are not content with a double room -- Day 2 & 3: Milan: The restaurant, one way of sitting in judgment -- The store, the field of lost battles -- The nightspot, where foxes turn into peacocks -- The condominium, a vertical space for oblique obsessions -- The eat-in kitchen, the nerve center of domestic counterespionage -- The bedroom, the bathroom, and how hard it is to find space of your own -- Day 4: -> Tuscany: The train, where many talk, few listen, and everyone understands -- The museum, beautiful women on the walls -- Television, where the semi-undressed signorina acquires a cloak of significance -- Day 5: Tuscany: The countryside, where we show that Italians are the world's leading manufacturers of emotions -- The Italian piazza, a tool with more cutting edges than a Swiss-army knife -- The window, framing fantasies that are sometimes cut short by a shutter -- Day 6: Rome: The bank, a confrontation of confidence and cold feet -- The office, the opera house of orderly anarchy -- The shopping mall, a taste of America delivered to your door -- Day 7: Naples: The sidewalk, or on collective individualism -- The automobile, and fumbling on the fold-down seats -- The travel agency, where the nation flexes its flippancy and pampers its patriotism -- Day 8: Sardinia: The waterfront, the convoluted charm of a liquid frontier -- The beach, a bare outline -- The garden, seclusion in bloom -- Day 9: Crema: The barber, the newsstand, and the town as a lifebelt -- The monument. And yet it moves -- School, the workshop where shared memories are made -- Day 10: Crema -> Malpensa, via San Siro: The church, where we will ruminate on the moral menu -- The stadium, notes on social gastroenterology -- The horizon. In other words, give us back Columbus -- Epilogue: A letter from America. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
An offbeat odyssey into the heart of Italy and the Italian people captures the colorful character of the nation in a ten-day journey to thirty destinations that reveal Italy's best, worst, and most authentic aspects. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
National characteristics, Italian. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
31464 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Italy |
| General subdivision |
Description and travel. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
31465 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Italy |
| General subdivision |
Social life and customs |
| Chronological subdivision |
1945- |
| 9 (RLIN) |
31466 |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Contributor biographical information |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0633/2005058243-b.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0633/2005058243-b.html</a> |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Item type |
Circulation |
