Home-style Italian American cuisine from the Everyday Food cohost, Mad Hungry author, and Martha Stewart Living executive editorial director.Even the writing has an irresistibly Italian flavor in this cookbook by Lucinda Scala Quinn. She presents fifty-two delicious, easy-to-prepare Italian recipes from her childhood and her extensive travels throughout Italy. Included are drinks such as the Aranciata Cocktail and Handmade Cappuccino; Bruschetta P...

This book is simply meant as a thought-provoking impulse and as a reminder. It’s well arranged and classified like a diary that reminds you of miracles for your health on a daily basis. We actually know it but we keep forgetting it in our everyday lives. We also need a constant reminder of what is good for us. Point after point is deliberately kept as short as possible and to be understood as „checkpoint“ for what is relevant for you and what may provide impulses. Browsing through this boo...

Would you stop sleeping to avoid your fate of nightmares and the creatures that feed upon them?Safina, your average eighteen year old college student finds herself having frequent lucid dreams and nightmares. With sleep put on the back burner of college life, Safina finds her consciousness ebbing while in class and is forced to find the root of her problem.With the help of her best friend Jason, Safina checks into a sleep study to better understand her possible diagnosis. B...

"Inspired by the story of Secundus the Silent Philospher and the twenty vital questions posed to him my Emperor Hadrian, J. Gabriel Scala’s Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle moves swiftly and deftly into the essence of human existence/memory. Imbued with that ancient consideration, Robbie Dunkle emerges as a chance metaphor for the poet’s own past, the dead past, which becomes our past, with all of its wonders and wastes, which only brilliant poetry can revive this powerfully." —Larissa S...

London, 1950s. Mr Tobias, the Fulham tailor, makes young Emilio Scala a fingertip drape and he fills it, a Teddy boy extraordinaire. By day he still serves cornets and wafers on the North End Road at Scala's Ice Cream Parlour, but at night he's in Chelsea getting bloodstains on the suit, tearing out cinema seats while 'Rock Around the Clock' plays on. His two worlds collide when Diana Dors and Dandy Kim visit for a Knickerbocker Glory. Soon he's out in 1960s Soho taking Purple Hearts with ...

The 20th century was a rich and influential period of beautiful, innovative design and many classics from that era have influenced and inspired modern designers. "Collectables: 20th-Century Classics" features more than 90 of the most desirable and iconic pieces from the last century. Beautifully illustrated and organized by category (furniture, household, lighting, glass and ceramics) each entry has: a double-page spread, featuring a short essay on the classic under discussion with an acco...

The 20th century was a rich period of beautiful, innovative design and many classics from that era have influenced and inspired modern designers. "Lighting: 20th-Century Classics" includes more than 90 of the most desirable and iconic pendant lights, table lamps, floor and wall and ceiling designs from the last century. Organized by decade each entry comprises: a double-page spread, featuring a short essay on the classic under discussion and a photograph of that object; top tips on what to...

"Chairs: 20th-Century Classics" features more than 95 of the most desirable, influential and iconic designs from the last century. Part of a series featuring Collectables and Lighting, this book is beautifully illustrated and provides key information to the reader, whether he or she be a collector or just someone with an interest in design and interiors. Organized by decade each entry comprises: a double-page spread, featuring a short essay on the classic under discussion and a photograph ...

Winner of the Angouleme 2021 Fauve Polar SNCF prize for “Best Thriller”A dizzying dive into the world of police informants.A model father but unemployed, Goran Stankovic accepts a shady job, gets arrest-ed and has no other choice but to collaborate by becoming an informant. Stuck between thugs and the police, in a world of manipulation, Goran will have to play a perilous double game to get out of it. GoSt111 is as much a perilous thriller as a vertiginous dive into the unknown world of pol...

It's been 150 years since Alice first entered Wonderland in Lewis Carroll's beloved classic book. My, how times have changed! Now, from the multi-award-winning poet and scholar Steve McCaffery comes Alice in Plunderland, a reimagining of Lewis Carroll's Alice books that will forever change the way readers negotiate Wonderland and its menagerie of characters.Written as part of a larger project called Chiasmus, in which McCaffery will "queer the classics," Plunderland's Alice...

An eye-opening collection from contemporary artists and authors about how art and technology can reimagine humanity’s relationship with nature and society.Shimmer—the apt name of both the highly-illustrated book and the exhibition it accompanies—offers a timely collection of essays by today’s key thinkers about art and technology. In this vital showcase that takes on some of the most salient questions of our time, authors and artists consider how a “posthu...

In her autobiography, Dana J. Scala recounts the story of her family, which was plagued by fear and violence. Dana grows up with her mother, father, and sister. Her father's mother—her grandmother—is also always around. The two sisters witness their mother living in constant fear of doing something wrong, and they do too. The father is unpredictable. Periods when he is kind to his wife and children are spontaneously and unpredictably replaced by periods of aggression, mostly directed at th...