95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to deliver measurable financial returns. The technology is not the problem. The decisions are.This paper provides European SME founders, CEOs, and CTOs with the frameworks, numbers, and implementation steps to be in the 5% that succeed.What you will find inside:Market data from MIT, IBM, GlobalData, and S&P Global on what is actually working in AI deployment and what is failing — with specific failure rates, cost benchmarks, and the ...

Fabio Vighi's "Emergency Capitalism" begins with this observation:The age of crisis capitalism is characterized by two major socioeconomic trends:the addiction to credit creation, whose main purpose is to inflate and prop up the financial markets; 2) the controlled demolition of the real economy and the modern model of society organized around wage labor.From there, Vighi shows that the last half-decade of capitalist politics has been shaped by efforts ...

"Zanily inventive . . . This deeply eccentric comedy belongs in the company of the best novels about wildly precocious kids" ( The Seattle Times).Al Santamaria is a child prodigy, maybe a genius. It is not out of the realm of possibility that he, alone, will save the human race. But first, he has to solve a far more urgent problem: finding a home for his family.He exists, like many kids, in a realm located somewhere between reality and fantasy, enj...

Bleiki is the Viking white mouse with real horns that, left behind by his family, is raised by Trolls. He left his adoptive parents to go to find friends, he is being ostracized, and he begins his adventure with Vikings until colonize Scottish Highlands. It's a fairy tale with Viking original names, and invented names for Trolls. The book is full of images, all of it blazes with actions, and it has historical and geographic references. It's a perfect combination and co-ordination between f...

The “father” of Selmo is called on to answer a question no algorithm can solve alone: what ought to be done. From the Ortica neighborhood to the corridors of financial power, from underground theaters to humanitarian camps, Arx takes shape—a project aiming to intervene without dominating. But every choice carries consequences, and not all are reversible.The Washing Machine Diaogues is a clear-eyed, humane solarpunk novel, tracing power when it drops the hero act and technology forced to fa...

Fiorenzo’s life is full of fishing, biking, and rock n’ roll—until tragedy turns his small Italian town upside down—in this tender, funny, and cinematic novel for fans of Elena Ferrante.Muglione. Nothing grows in this Tuscan backwater except the wild imagination of Fiorenzo, a nineteen-year-old metalhead. He lives for his garage band, horror movies, and fishing in the murky irrigation ditches outside of town. But when his path crosses with Mirko, the teenage cyclin...

A consumer's guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices.Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer may be farmed and frozen in Vietnam, the grapes in our fruit bowl shipped from Chile, and the coffee in our coffee maker grown in Nicaragua, roast...

Winner of the Strega Prize: A young girl in Tuscany finds hope amid heartbreak in "a story about the lonely daydreams of outsiders" ( Kirkus Reviews).Smart, funny thirteen-year-old Luna lives in a small town on the coast of Tuscany. When her beloved brother, Luca, drowns in a surfing accident, Luna's mother retreats into herself, while Luna believes that Luca still speaks to her through a whalebone washed up on the nearby shore. At school, stricken by her l...

When ten-year-old Enaiatollah Akbari’s small village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule in early 2000, his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself. Thus begins Enaiat’s remarkable and often punishing five-year ordeal, which takes him through Iran, Turkey, and Greece before he seeks political asylum in Italy at the age of fifteen.Along the way, Enaiat endures the crippling physical and emotional agony o...

The essay shows a scenario where it appears that medieval society, starting with the monasticism of St. Benedict and continuing with the analysis of the Franciscan School, embraces the heart of the relationship between ethics, market and economy, despite the fact that Max Weber attributes to the influence of Calvinist ethics the origin of the spirit of capitalism. Therefore, from the books of the thinkers of the Franciscan School, whose conceptual elaborations are presented here, combined ...

This book examines the lifestyles, expectations and plans of Millennials and Generation Z and how they are redefining tourism. It demonstrates that if the tourism industry is to enjoy future growth, it must understand and meet the particular needs of these two generations. The volume explores the present and future challenges faced by the tourism industry as a result of the generational turnover, and seeks to answer the following questions: What contribution can the new generations make to...

Die Krise der Moderne und der auf sie antwortende Modernismus markieren den Übergang vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert. Im Ersten Weltkrieg und den sich an ihn anschließenden Revolutionen manifestierten sie sich auf dramatische Weise. Dieses Buch geht den Beziehungen zwischen den neuen sozialen und politischen Entwürfen dieser Zeit - Planungsdenken, Neuer Mensch, totaler Staat - und den künstlerisch-intellektuellen Avantgarden nach, vom italienischen Futurismus über das Bauhaus bis hin zu deren ...