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Villa Rivolta

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Villa RivoltaEin Mailnder Garten. Zwei Kindheitsfreunde, ein Familiengeheimnis und eine unmgliche Liebe im Italien der goldenen sechziger Jahre. Zwei Kinder im Garten einer Mailnder Villa: Piero, der strahlende Sohn des grobrgerlichen Automobilunternehmers Renzo Rivolta. Und Valeria, die eigensinnige Tochter des Dienstmdchens. Sie versprechen sich, Freunde frs Leben zu werden. Verbunden durch ein altes Familiengeheimnis erleben sie eine Jugend in den goldenen

Ein Mailänder Garten. Zwei Kindheitsfreunde, ein Familiengeheimnis und eine unmögliche Liebe im Italien der goldenen sechziger Jahre.

Zwei Kinder im Garten einer Mailänder Villa: Piero, der strahlende Sohn des großbürgerlichen Automobilunternehmers Renzo Rivolta. Und Valeria, die eigensinnige Tochter des Dienstmädchens. Sie versprechen sich, Freunde fürs Leben zu werden.

Verbunden durch ein altes Familiengeheimnis erleben sie eine Jugend in den goldenen Jahren Italiens: Mailands mondäne Eleganz zwischen Dolce Vita und kultureller Revolution. Doch als Piero die Nachfolge seines Vaters antreten muss, verliebt sich Valeria in den Arbeitersohn Flavio, der Pieros Welt den Kampf ansagt.

Bestseller-Autor Daniel Speck (»Bella Germania«) erzählt uns eine epische Geschichte über Leidenschaft, Verlust und den Preis dafür, zu werden, wer wir wirklich sind.

10 Jahre nach seinem großen Erfolg mit „Bella Germania“

kehrt Bestsellerautor und Weltenerzähler Daniel Speck in Villa Rivolta zurück nach Italien: Mit einer auf wahren Begebenheiten beruhenden Saga über Herkunft, Verlust, Schicksal und den Weg zur Selbstbestimmung im Mailand der 1950er und 60er Jahre.

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Geschickt verwebt Speck persönliche Schicksale mit historischen Entwicklungen und schafft so eine fesselnde Erzählung voller Emotion und Spannung. ― Dresdner Morgenpost 

[...] fühlt sich an wie ein Italien-UrlaubHarpers Bazaar 

Mit lebendigen Dialogen, starken Szenen und stimmungsvollen Bildern erzählt Speck von Klassenunterschieden und Frauenrollen, von Freundschaft, Liebe und - Autos.  ― Kleine Zeitung 

Wie immer gelingt es [...] Speck großartig, eine ganz persönliche Geschichte [...] in ein großes Panorama aus Historie, Zeitgeschehen und Politik einzubetten. ― BR - Wir in Bayern 

Über den Autor

Daniel Speck, 1969 in München geboren, führt uns mit seinen Romanen durch Epochen und Mentalitäten zu uns selbst. Auf Reisen findet er Geschichten, Orte und Menschen, deren Schicksale ihn zu Geschichten inspirieren. Der Autor studierte Filmgeschichte in München und verfasste Drehbücher, für die er mit dem Grimme-Preis und dem Bayerischen Fernsehpreis ausgezeichnet wurde. Seine Romane sind allesamt Bestseller und finden höchste Anerkennung bei Kritik und Leserschaft. ›Bella Germania‹ wurde als Dreiteiler prominent verfilmt. Mit den Bestsellern ›Piccola Sicilia‹, ›Jaffa Road‹ und ›Yoga Town‹ zeichnet Daniel Speck ein vielstimmiges Panorama und baut Brücken zwischen den Kulturen. 

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★★★★★ 4
Worthwhile book
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This is a good book on a promising game engine.
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David Taylor
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★★★★★ 5
If you're developing games with Godot, you need this book
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Godot is a fantastic game engine, and it has lots of aids to learning -- written tutorials, video tutorials, sample projects, one of the best manuals I've ever encountered. Still, it's nice to have a physical book you can hold in your lap, make notes in, and use as an overall guide to developing competence in Godot development. This is that book. It's has a logical flow, has genuinely useful sample projects, and is written in a clear, highly accessible style. If you are learning Godot, you can't do better than this book.
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L. Hall
Carnegie, US
★★★★★ 5
I didn’t really get a full grasp until reading the philosophy behind Godot.
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Well paced and very readable. I worked through the online tutorials before buying this book but didn’t really get a full grasp until reading the philosophy behind Godot. Though I have been a C programmer for 34 years, and a Java developer for 22 years, and a Python developer for 18 years, I have never been seriously interested in a game engine until my son introduced me to Godot a couple of months ago. Godot is tremendous! I have even used Godot’s UI controls to produce wireframes for business apps.
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W. Vincent
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★★★★★ 3
Solid, albeit abbreviated, coverage of Godot Game Engine 3.0
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Solid introduction to Godot. Lightly touches on most topics, enough to get you up to speed an moving with it, though I personally would prefer a book that included much more depth on each area covered. Granted that wouldn't be a Sams "in 24 hours" book, but rather more of a "definitive guide" or "bible" which this is not. There's definitely enough meat to sink your teeth into, and being the first (and presently only) available book, it's worth the price. Aside from content, docking one star for difficult to read glossy pages and light weight fonts in code samples... It's difficult to find a good angle to read the book without glare across the page from a light and my middle-aged eyes struggle a bit with the code samples. UPDATE -- I've decided I have to dock another star. While the book is written in English, its authors are not native english speakers. It seems a better job could have been done with editing and review. There are a lot of clunky sentences, and several instances where the instruction is unclear. A small example: "A trick to add a simple outline is to add a new material to the Next Pass property. In this new material, set it to Unshaded, add a Grow of 0.01, change the Cull mode to front, and set its color to black." For someone familiar with all the various groupings of properties in a spatial material node, that might be all the information needed, but this book is (I thought) aimed at people with less experience with the framework. Those handful of properties are scattered throughout several groups of properties, and in the case of grow, there's only a field to enter a value when you've clicked a checkbox first. This may be a minor thing, and one could probably make the argument that materials were covered a couple chapters prior -- though that section doesn't really mention all of these properties... Lots of little assumptions and oversights like that make the learning process a little more frustrating that it could be. The information that's there is still great, but if you have little or no experience with Godot, expect to have to do some extra legwork to fill in some gaps on your own.
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Catboy
Natrona Heights, US
★★★★★ 5
Great for newcomers to Godot
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Excellent book for beginners with Godot. It will however require some previous programing knowledge this book isn't so much a teaching you to code book instead its an explanation of the Godot software.
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