Betrayed by his club but beloved by the fans, former Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri was a constant headline-maker in 2004. Occasionally puzzling, often eccentric, but always fascinating and refreshing, the Italian describes the highs and lows of an extraordinary season at Stamford Bridge – and the dramatic end to his English journey.‘Hello, my sharks. Welcome to the funeral.’‘People have said I am a dead man walking – but I am still moving!’‘Tonight I am a crazy ma...

In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the river's source in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. Along the way he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments - from Ovid and Marcus Aurelius to Kafka and Canetti - and in so doing sets his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the vital crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West...

Traditional approaches to leadership development focus on a small number of individuals at the top. However, in today's world of constant change and decentralized decision-making, organizations need effective leaders at all levels of their organizations. That requires a much broader and deeper pool of leadership talent, and most organizations fall far short of what they need.Leadership at Scale defines a new approach. In it, top experts at McKinsey, the world's number one leadershi...

This compact visual guide explores the landscapes, flora, and fauna of Southern Patagonia through original field photography. It features iconic species such as lenga and ñirre forests, calafate, coirón grasslands, flamingos, raptors, and rural Patagonian wildlife. Each page combines a clean fixed‑layout design with brief bilingual descriptions, highlighting key traits, habitat, and distribution. A minimal and accessible introduction to the unique ecosystems of the southernmost region of C...

I decided to write this cookbook after I have noted, for a week, what I ate, all the food that my mother prepared and cooked for me and my sister.I hope to be able to give some advice to all these people who, they’ve been hearing of Italian cooking, they were curious to know what Italians usually eat everyday.

How to delineate a rectangular plot of land? Why heated bars bend and spinning balls follow curved trajectories? How to seek the foundations of time conventions that regulates our lives by looking at the sky. These and other issues are explored using as much colloquial language as possible, but without shying away from some mathematics (in attachments) for those who want more depth.

**Winner of the 2021 Bancroft Prize and the 2021 Ridenhour Book PrizeFinalist for the 2020 National Book Award for NonfictionNamed a Top Ten Best Book of 2020 by the Washington Post and Publishers Weekly and a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2020A masterful and unsettling history of “Indian Removal,” the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands.**I...

The evolution of veterinary cardiology in the recent years has been extraordinary due to the new diagnostic methods available, which, in addition to making diagnostic processes more efficient, have made it possible to identify pathologies that were previously unknown. Meanwhile, the rapid reproduction rate of purebred dogs and cats and the changes in the environment in which they live have changed the epidemiology of diseases very quickly and have sometimes led to the onset of new patholog...

A massive bestseller in its native Italy, and a book that can justly be compared with Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah, Blood Ties is a terrifying account of the 'ndrangheta's criminal activities over the last four decades. Originally from Calabria, this sinister organization has - like the Mafia in Sicily and the Camorra in Naples - a vicious hold over northern Italy and much of the rest of the country, too, a stranglehold that is growing every day.Told to the authors by an ins...

The English translation of this bestselling graphic novel tells the story of Nok, an old blind man who sells lottery tickets in Bangkok, as he decides to leave the city and return to his native village.Through reflections on contemporary Bangkok and flashbacks to his past, Nok reconstructs a journey through the slums of migrant workers, the rice fields of Isaan, the tourist villages of Ko Pha Ngan, and the Red Shirt protests of 2010.Based on a decade of anthropological research,

Amid wars, failed revolutions and the shifting of frontiers, the bit-part players often have the best tales to tell - an astonishing, genre-blurring travelogue from Italian master Claudio Magris.In the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy, from the forests of Monte Nevoso, to the hidden valleys of the Tyrol, to a Trieste café, Microcosms pieces together a mosaic of stories - comic, tragic, picaresque, nostalgic - from life's minor characters. Their worlds ...

A man is found dead inside his art gallery. Vincent Germano will be expected to wade through thousands of possible hypotheses in order to solve the crime. In the course of his investigation, the Commissioner will have to deal with a case shadowed by melancholy.