In the beginning, God woke up.Not groggy. Not with an alarm. Completely, instantly awake in the nothing before everything existed.What followed was the most extraordinary story ever told — creation, temptation, the first murder, a flood that swallowed the world, a tower built to reach heaven, and a family chosen to carry a promise across generations.You think you know this story.You don't know it like this.The Bi...

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...

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...

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...

“Walang basagan ng trip,” is one of the vilest phrases in colloquial Tagalog, reflecting a long anti-critic tradition in Philippine arts. When artists use the term, they are asking critical voices to shut up and smile: Don’t criticize my work (my “trip”); we’re all just trying to be happy here. Shouldn’t art, after all, be fun?Being a critic and essayist was, one could say, my only means of self-expression. Indeed, I cannot create, so I just complain. I’ve made some complaints that have of...

"BRICS: Architects of a New Global Order" is an in-depth and holistic examination of the emerging economic block comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which together are redefining power dynamics and influencing the structure of global governance in the 21st century. This book explores in detail the genesis of the BRICS bloc, analyzing the shared motivations, aspirations, and challenges that led these diverse but ambitious countries to unite in a joint effort to refor...

The Karen are one of the major ethnic minority groups in the Himalayan highlands, living predominantly in the border area between Thailand and Burma. As the largest ethnic minority in Thailand, they have often been in conflict with the Thai majority. This book is the first major ethnographic and anthropological study of the Karen for over a decade and looks at such key issues as history, ethnic identity, religious change, the impact of government intervention, education land management and...

Ralf Brandenburg, international musician, is found dead on his loved piano. The man who will be in charge for the investigation, Vincent Germano, will have nothing but the words and hearsay evidences from the people who had the luck to know him.

Wolves: Monk Anselmo First InvestigationMedieval Historical MysteryA snowstorm traps Monk Anselmo and his young companion Gregorio in a remote mountain village.Then the killings begin.Wolves come down from the forest at night—yet they don’t hunt like beasts driven by hunger. They strike with a precision that feels deliberate. The bodies left on the snow are torn beyond recognition, and fear spreads faster than the storm.Anse...

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.