Emilio Comici, il più grande talento alpinistico nel periodo tra le guerre mondiali, con le sue duecento nuove vie aperte in Dolomiti, ha rappresentato, insieme a Riccardo Cassin e altri, la risposta italiana ai sestogradisti tedeschi. Capacità tecniche, purezza di stile e ricerca della linea esteticamente più pulita sono i caratteri distintivi di Comici, non a caso «inventore» della direttissima, un approccio alla scalata che «riconfigurò l’etica dell’avventura per gli alpinisti del XX se...

"Royal Robbins had an outsized impact on climbing history. This great new biography by David Smart brings the man behind the famous climbs to life in a way that’s both relatable and inspiring."--Alex HonnoldRobbins’s passing in 2017 was covered from the BBC News to NPR to the New York Times, which deemed him the "conscience of rock climbers"Includes never-before-published information drawn from Robbins’s family archives and personal papers

Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition: Climbing Literature AwardThe first English-language biography of one of the most renowned Italian climbers, Emilio Comici, who bagged over 200 first ascents in the Eastern Alps prior to his death at 39 years of age in 1940.Between 1925 and his death in 1940, Emilio Comici was the pre-eminent climber in the Eastern Alps, the hotbed of global rock climbing at that time. He made first ascents on s...

L'alpinista che ha anticipato di un secolo il free soloNei mesi antecedenti alla sua morte, avvenuta nel 1913 durante la prima salita assoluta in free solo dello spigolo nord dell'austriaco Mandlkogel, le conferenze di Paul Preuss facevano il sold out in tutte le sale da concerto di Austria, Italia e Germania. George Mallory, uno dei più grandi alpinisti di tutti i tempi, sosteneva che «nessuno mai potrà uguagliare Preuss». E Reinhold Messner, al quale si deve la «...

Shortlisted for the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Award for Mountain LiteratureShortlisted for the 2019 Boardman Tasker AwardAn intriguing biography of the renowned Austrian alpinist Paul Preuss, who achieved international recognition both for his remarkable solo ascents and for his advocacy of an ethically "pure" alpinism (meaning without any artificial aids).In the months before his death in 1913, from falling more than 300 metres during an attempt to ...

"But this is absurd. You keep brining me in here then throwing me out again."It's a Tuesday afternoon in an office building like any other.A burnt-out job applicant, an embittered Personal Assistant, a neurotic mail room clerk and a scheming executive are all about to cross paths, setting in motion an escalating chain of events that will leave more than one body on the boardroom floor by 5pm."It takes downsizing out of the hands of the executive class, and gives it b...

This book explores how Kleinian psychoanalysis has developed over the past 75 years and how it illuminates human experience and relationships inside and outside the consulting room.The text will help the reader gain a deeper understanding of processes of splitting, projection, and identification in clinical work; a broader conception of how internal and external worlds interact and affect each other; greater clarity on key theoretical and ethical issues; and an overview of what the...

It's Monday morning in a quiet suburb. Shots ring out just after dawn. Five people are found dead in a small two-room apartment on Martindale Street. Among the dead is a uniformed Police Detective and half-a-kilo of pure heroin.This is the story of The Martindale Street Massacre. A story of violence, revenge, sex and corruption, of secrets someone would kill to protect.This is the Inspired-By-True-Events telling of the long night that led to a deadly dawn...

Acclaimed writer David Smart illuminates the fascinating life of Royal Robbins—in all its soulful ambition, rivalry, and romance. Royal Robbins chronicles his early years growing up as a latchkey kid in Southern California, the push and pull between being an aspiring banker or one of the original Camp 4 dirtbags, and his later decades as a father, husband, kayaker, and the trailblazing founder of the outdoor apparel company that bears his name. This intimate, colorful tour of clim...

We encounter the idea of intelligence everywhere in our modern lives. Parents are told that their children will grow up smart if they are made to listen to Mozart, play with the right toys, and eat the healthiest foods. Schools and universities plunge everyone into the ruthless world of testing and academic competition. We are told repeatedly that some of the richest and most successful people in society - the tech pioneers, CEOs or financial wizards - are rich and successful precisely bec...

THE MILLION-COPY NEW YORK TIMES, BUSINESS WEEK, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERIS BACK - COMPLETELY UPDATED!With over ONE MILLION copies sold - Smart Women Finish Rich is one of the most popular financial books for women ever written. A perennial bestseller for over two decades, now Bach returns with a completely updated, expanded and revised edition, Smart Women Finish Rich, to address the n...

An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise, based on the popular blog of the same name.Whether you’re deciding which smartphone to purchase or which politician to believe, you think you are a rational being whose every decision is based on cool, detached logic. But here’s the truth: You are not so smart. You’re just as deluded as the rest of us—but that’s okay, because being deluded is part of being human.Growing out of David ...