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Tuscany's Casentino and Valtiberina Valleys

"An Area Steeped in History and Religious Significance"

This guidebook takes you to some of the least visited, yet most beautiful, sites in Central Tuscany in the valleys of the Casentino and Valtiberina. The Casentino is a heavily forested area in the mountains with great historical and religious. The area was the site of several battles between Guelfs, including Florence, and Ghibillines, including Arezzo. The Camaldoli monastery and hermitage were founded by St. Romualdo. St. Francis of Assisi founded the Sanctuary of La Verna, where he...

Tuscany. What's it "really" like?

The author of the "Inside Tuscany: A Second Time Around" guide book series offers a new book of essays and stories about living and traveling in Tuscany and Italy.

"Book Sections " The Aretine: including life in the major hill town of Arezzo and its Saturday and Antique markets, watching the Giostra del Saracino, and revisiting the WW II atrocity at Civitella in Chiana. Culture: examining the role of the Catholic church in society, understanding and using proper customs and courtesies including when to use "ciao" and the "kiss-kiss," shopping in tiny...

2016 to 2017 Guide to the Best of Cortona

The latest guidebook on Cortona invites you to spend a couple of days in Cortona to view its excellent churches and museums and to experience the rhythm of daily life. Founded by Noah after the ark sailed up the Tiber - if you believe the legends - it sits high on a steep hill that overlooks much of Tuscany's Valdichiana from Lake Trasimeno in Umbria in the south to Civitella in the north.

This guidebook helps you to: learn about the art and sites of Cortona, get an idea of mobility accessibility, use GPS coordinates for navigating, decide if...

New and Expanded 2016 to 2017 Edition

Visit the Valdichiana towns of Civitella, Arezzo, Monte San Savino, Castiglion Fiorentino, Foiano, Lucignano, Cortona, and Chiusi.

My books are for the repeat visitor to Tuscany. After you have seen Pisa, Siena, Florence, and San Gimignano where do you go? What do you do? My bet is that you want to see the smaller, less crowded sites and travel slower to enjoy the culture and some gelato.

This volume of the "Inside Tuscany: A Second Time Around" series describes eight of the most beautiful hill towns in...

Central Tuscany: Le Crete and the Val d'Orcia

Latest 2016 to 2017 Edition

The latest version of this guidebook on the Le Crete and Val d'Orcia regions in central Tuscany is the fifth book in Scott Tiezzi Grabinger's "Inside Tuscany: A Second Time Around" series.

Here he takes you to the area of Tuscany that provides many of the pictures in calendars, coffee table books, movies, and postcards - the cedar lined drives and roads going over hills with small towns and solitary farms. Val d'Orcia towns stand high on hills with their Roccas and forts visible for miles. Different areas...

This is the most comprehensive Arezzo guidebook in English, perhaps any language. I write my guidebooks for the repeat visitor to Tuscany, the one who wants to focus on enjoying the culture rather than "collecting" sites. My books help you to decide if a site interests you, learn about culture and festivals, find a place to stay, eat at good restaurants, use GPS coordinates to find your way around, get an idea on the mobile accessibility of sites cook with 15 authentic recipes, many from my Italian family. Advantages of Arezzo...

This volume presents a process for developing expert systems. As the field of instructional technology matures it is becoming clear that technological process, not technological devices, is the single most important factor in designing effective instruction. Computers as devices are helpful, but their primary advantage may be the discipline placed on thinking and design processes by using them. The process used when examining a problem determines the quality of information entered into a program and the ultimate effectiveness of the solution. The process in this volume is intended for...

Hypermedia and multimedia have penetrated the world of computer games, Internet, and CD-ROM based reference manuals. However, the fields of education, schooling, and training ask more specific benefits from them. This book provides practical approaches to transform these media into learning tools. Crucial helping steps include the migration from expository to exploratory learning strategies, the integration of collaborative learning practices in plenary and individualistic teaching styles, and the evolution from test-driven to experience-oriented training.

This...