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This book is directed to professionals (legal, medical, and so on) and it’s full of examples and advices on how to get the best results in every job.

This book comes from the author’s direct experience as a chief executive in Human Resources. Tha aim of “Leadership” is to highlight the importance of the role of a manager expecially in the relationship with the staff.
The book is full of real examples of problems and their solutions.

An introduction to interactive epistemology

With this book you will discover that behind the awkward researches  that won Ig Nobel prize there  is  real  science,  the  same  that  makes  science  it  is  possible  to  reach great achievements.

This book contains a complete history of electromagnetism, and the biographies of the scientist who discovered it: Ørsted, Ampère, Farady and Maxwell.

Past, present and future according to the yellow family

What is an untouchable number? Does the Earth have only one moon? Is it possible to go fasten as light in the real world? Who is HeLa? If you want to know the answers to these questions, and many more, this book is what you need.

The set theory and the concept of infinity. Let’s explore one of the most studied idea in mathematics, logic, and also in philosophy.

Starting from their own experience, the two scientists guide us on a wonderful journey to discover the egg across biology, art, literature, sociology, and – of course – gastronomy.

This books tells the birth of relativity from a new point of view.

This project sparks from the predmetnyj mir (the world of things) of the Soviet era. Every “object” comes with a synthetic “cultural history”.

How do we give value to things? How do we decide about money, spending and investing? How much are emotions involved? Is there any real difference between men and women as to economic issues or spending?

The author of successful Physics on a Sunday still stimulates the curiosity of readers with his easy and comprehensible dealing with scientific topics – physiology, chemistry, neuroscience and human studies.

Giorgio Ambrosoli today in his son’s words. With a Foreword by former President of the Italian Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

Two opposed generations experience the same void, and two ages become one. On the one hand those who slow down ageing, and on the other those who emulate the adults and grow up too fast.

The first gardening book ever written from the plants’ point of view to learn about their needs and look after them respectfully.

Two years after the Fukushima accident, an exhaustive essay and objective book about nuclear energy and related issues: studies, arms and weapons, nuclear power plants, waste disposal, medical applications, further developments.

Emma Darwin was much more than an English well-educated, rich, sensible, and engaged woman of the XIX century. And she certainly was not only Darwin’s wife...

Fear has always been the object of studies and research. However, no book has ever explained why we like it. So far. At last a book about the charm of risk, the way it lures into danger and turns into absolute pleasure.

This project sparks from the predmetnyj mir (the world of things) of the Soviet era. Every “object” comes with a synthetic “cultural history”.

Lead in toys, mercury and pesticides in water, dioxin: what are the dangers in the environment and their effects on the development of your baby’s brain? This book will help recognize the effects of pollutants and learn to live more consciously.

The story of Pinocchio is taken as an excuse to explain the best known and
interesting logical paradoxes in an amusing way.

This is not a collection of data, names, capitals, and rivers: it is a gathering of curiosities, anecdotes, real and imaginary places, where geography is often used as an excuse to tell a story.

From Neanderthal to Metallica, from Pythagoras to neuroscience, this book tells the state of the art in research about our relationship with music, and ends up depicting the birth of a new science.

This book analyses the typical moral claims by prohibitionists and demonstrates their inconsistence in the context of a genuinely liberal society: paradoxically, what is immoral is the prohibition of drug use.

Simple and often common sense approaches to finding best sources, identifying mis- and disinformation, media time management, etc.

Carlo Alberto Redi is the Italian most influential development biologist. He addresses the public for the first time by dealing with some of the hottest issues debated today such as cloning, the beginning of life, stems cells, GMOs and research financing. In a few pages Redi also confronts those Italian decision-makers who often know nothing about the issues they make decisions on. He even attacks those scientists who sometimes make misleading declarations.

Brief field trips in the four elements

A brief history of chemistry

The story of a woman, her stubborn quest for a redemption from a solitude that cannot be filled
A novel on the distorted, removed memory of the dark years of terrorism

30 mathematical objects to create with your hands

A scientific guide to the solution of inexplicable phenomena

The third volume of the successful popular maths a la carte series. The book is dedicated to more everyday phenomena, focusing on art, architecture and design.

«There are 96 balls in a box, all weighing the same but one, which is lighter. By means of platform scales, how many weighings are needed to identify the lighter ball without mistake?»

On the wave of Latin American magical realism, a mix of science, history and magic blending algid genetics studies with the folly of reincarnation, and clonation with the ideal of eternity. Across the most tragic events of the XX century, from Italy to Argentina a dream of love persists intact until its fulfilment. A great battle against mortality told with delicate, fairy cruelty.

This book does the trick: it is aimed at players, to amuse those who don’t know the fascinating world of golf. Protagonists, rules, anecdotes, old time secrets and a long history

Recipee for a Milanese detective story
Ingredients: 1 disenchanted city, with no fog anymore
1 difficult detective, unknowingly fascinating
1 shooting on the Ortica Bridge
1 dead body in the Naviglio River
2 dangerous women
A handful of trusted collaborators
Plenty of Grappa Nardini and sigars
Reading time: 1 night

This book reveals how Tartaglia and Cardano contended the resolutive formula for 3^rd and 4^th grade equations (pupils study that in school), becoming the vivid protagonists of the fiercest polemics in the history of mathematics

Crimes, mysteries and legal battles, the DNA test was used to questionthe identity of the supposed princess Anastasia Romanov and other famous people, it was crucial in notorious case like that of O.J. Simpson, it made the quest for desaparecidos deterministic in Argentina...

This book takes the reader on a journey through beauty remedies, to discover what scientific mechanism actually makes them effective. It’s a collection of scientific curiosities, for every beauty and “natural way” fans, who will finally find the rigorous justification to their passion (and will see a few myths unveiled).

Made to entertain those who appreciate good movies on a couch rather than the fewer cinéphiles.

The modern technologies change our bodies day by day as never happened before in the mankind's story. Which is the future of the human race after the effects of this becoming?

This is the best tourist guide around: don’t leave without it! In its two parts – Inner System (from Mercury to Mars) and Outer System (from Jupiter to Neptune) – there are tips on accomodation, eating, natural and cultural itineraries, entertainment, souvenirs.

Anecdotes, curiosities, statistics – and gossip – of more than a century of history of bicycle races.

The book shows that the bearded naturalist is good or bad according to whom is observing, and to what is observed through the lenses of his theory. Is this a crime against science, like many scientists claim?

This book is a tribute to a programme that is already a myth.

Have you ever noticed how deeply interwoven myth is with our everyday life? We find it in art, literature, movies, songs, comics, ads... but most of all in our language and imagery.

This eccentric guide to kittens displays more than 200 questions, commented with information, curiosities, anectdotes and funny illustrations.

Are winning technologies always the best ones? Do new technologies always replace the old ones? And is every possible innovation really bound to happen, after all? We can find the answers while reading the tales of “technosaurs”.

Transgressions, perversions, revelations, and a rich section devoted to urban legends on sex, to unmask widespread myths or confirm their real basis.

A unique work, a close historical inquiry based on fresh KGB’s documents and interviews with the last living witnesses. The only updated biography available.

Eleven chapters, more than one hundred questions (and answers!) to discover and re-discover everything you always wanted to know about aliens, space travels, artificial intelligence and so on.

This book does not help the reader with maths and physics: its point is to make the reader more critical, sceptical, independent minded. And, of course, it is an affectionate tribute to the most loved TV series of the XX century.

You never forgot the first TV series of your life, right? Here are more than 300 Q&A about those jewels from the 70s and the 80s.

Seven more menus to stimulate your appetite for numbers.

Harry Potter means millions of fans all over the world, millions of readers starving for news, gossip and rarities; and this book is the perfect gift for the perfect fan, who is left with nothing much to read.

An original book to discover how good you are at “good manners”.

The history of soccer, the experts’s theories, soccer’s influence on the arts and literature...

A journey through science imagery on screen; a complete dictionary to understand how cinema and TV reflect or determine the public perception of science and how science itself influences and inspires great directors.

This books retells the events that shaped the relationship between science and society, and that still dominate the collective imagery (Bikini, Chernobyl, AIDS, mad cow...).

One of the most mysterious books of XXth century. First published in 1929, it gained an instant and formidable success, and it was brought back from oblivion by Sironi in 2006.

This books tells the birth of relativity from a new point of view.

This book is devoted to those who could not stand mathematics at school and to those who still find it irresistible but disappointing.

On the 8th of September 1943 the Nazis occupation causes radical, life-changing choices, and begins the tale of the partisan movement, permeated by a strong “poetics of the land”.