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...

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...

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...

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...

Artificial intelligence is driving the next revolution in banking, with disruptive forces presenting profound challenges to traditional business models. As the adoption of new technologies, and innovation of even newer ones, accelerates, are we fast approaching a future in which banks no longer have a need for assets or, indeed, for humans? Is there a future in which bankers themselves, if not banks, disappear altogether? Are we approaching a “singularity moment,” in which advances in arti...

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...

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.

This book presents a collection of essays by Claudio Mazzucco, Imperator of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, covering a variety of subjects related to the Rosicrucian Order’s teachings which will inspire any student of mysticism along their path.

You cannot hide from radioactivity. Even the book you are holding is slightly radioactive, but there are more serious risks. Radioactivity - the breakdown of unstable atomic nuclei, releasing radiation - is a fundamental process in nature. It is a process that has been harnessed to provide wide and important applications in science, medicine, industry, and energy production. But it remains much misunderstood - and feared, perhaps because nuclear radiation cannot be detected by humansenses,...

"The Cosmic Matryoshka: A New Vision for a Living Universe" presents a novel philosophical framework for understanding the cosmos, diverging significantly from traditional creation narratives centered on a conscious, interventionist God. The essay undertakes a critical re-evaluation of these established perspectives, questioning the assumption of divine agency in light of scientific advancements that reveal a universe seemingly governed by natural laws. Rather than dismissing the concept o...

The Willing Well transports Claudio and Chase to Paris: Earth as they continue their search for Coheed and Cambria. A powerful vision awaits them at their destination, one that will reveal secrets paramount to their journey... Meanwhile, betrayed by his own general, Ryan sends the Archmaker on a mission to retrieve Mayo... dead or alive...