Catalogue

Here is the world of coffee from A to Z for professionals and demanding consumers, with every phase of the production and roasting process up to technical tasting and cupping detailed by a stand-out figure in the industry.

The book is divided into sections packed with photos, illustrations, infographics and focus call-outs, providing plenty of information on the product and the figures involved in the coffee supply chain: producers, traders, roasters, baristas and specialty baristas.

The first part of the book draws on the author’s real-life plantation experiences to detail the journey from the coffee plant seed to the harvest, the coffee’s classification, the journey to the countries where the coffee is consumed and the lesser-known aspects of cultivation. This is the culture of Specialty, or high-traceability coffee.

The second part of the book looks at the more technical aspects of coffee: defect analysis, roasting, tasting techniques and elements of sensory analysis, standard and alternative extraction techniques. Subjects such as latte art and vegetable drinks are also touched upon.

How many times has the climate changed in the past five thousand years? The book tells the complex and changing story of climatology, a science of nature as old as human civilisation.

Ever since the Ice Age, the effects of climate change have affected the development of cultures and civilisations. Our journey begins in Mesopotamia, where special climatic conditions led to the first flourishing civilisations, and goes all the way to the latest research on the climate of planets far from Earth.

Today, climatology is at the centre of the political and economic debate on global warming: while the climate triggered human development (rising temperatures are what made agriculture possible), now mankind is determining the climate.

This is an atlas of geographically sorted geo-political anomalies of past and present. The charts are just ambiguous enough to make you second-guess them – it is up to you to figure out what’s right and what’s wrong. You can even just go with the flow – after all, we know that when it comes to outdoing fiction, nothing beats fact.

The atlas consists of one hundred double-page charts. The left-hand page features the chart’s title, its geographical coordinates, its location on the map and its story; the right-hand page features the chart’s cartographic details created by the author himself by borrowing from a variety of sources. Rounding out the book is a guide on how to get to the places described in the book itself, a bibliography and an index of geographical names.

This atlas was created out of a sincere desire for revenge against all the architects, surveyors, astronauts, programmers, despots and tyrants who insist on favouring the concept of space – or, even worse, cyberspace – over that of place. The author’s incurable illness is, in fact, recognised by science under the name “topophilia”, i.e. love of place.

The book lays out the techniques, secrets and curiosities of forensic science, explaining them in a reader-friendly manner; it investigates famous cases so that we can better understand what we read in newspapers and see in films and TV series.

Have you ever wondered how a murder case can be solved thanks to a single drop of blood? And how, on the other hand, a whole investigation can get screwed up in spite of seemingly seamless evidence such as DNA testing? The book shows how a fleck of skin, a hair or a leaf can lead to a name and surname. The most fascinating aspects include the main techniques used in forensic science, i.e. all the notions that come into play when evidence is found at a crime scene and needs to be analysed to solve the case.

The book takes a rigorously scientific dive into numerous cases that have laid the foundations of current forensic techniques; even if you have no scientific experience, you will be able to follow along as the book explains the procedures and analyses, linking them to famous news cases and little-known historical curiosities.

The Creative Restaurant Branding® method is a journey into creating the personality of your restaurant – a winning strategic and positioning element to identify your target audience.

Nicoletta Polliotto and Ilaria Legato, who have years of hands-on experience with professional solutions for the development of the Italian restaurant industry, have written this manual for all the entrepreneurs, restaurateurs and chefs who have opened or want to open a business, but also for young professionals who are approaching the catering world for the first time.

The book takes a practical approach, providing guidelines, templates and exercises for creating a restaurant business from scratch. It includes a valuable work grid to help you develop your own branding strategy, from conception to development. You will learn how to identify the personality of your restaurant and recognise the power of customer relationship; you will also learn to create empathy in your communication with existing and future customers (brand communication). Rounding out the course is a series of case studies from national and international companies; these inspirational experiences can help you identify your very own winning modus operandi.

The authors will lead you and support you as you open your business and make it grow, following a well thought-out path and forging it into something memorable and unique. After all, in today’s world a good idea is no longer enough to be successful – vision, strategy and planning are just as important.

A book that accompanies readers through the world of certificates, going from the basics to investigating the most advanced themes and aspects, known only by industry professionals.

After a first introductory section, where the types of certificates are described, the book, with a matter-of-fact and operating approach, describes the selection criteria and how to build and manage an efficient portfolio.

The authors then deal with leverage certificates, showing how to correctly use them both to speculate and as a portfolio hedging instrument.

The last section investigates the tax aspect and the behaviour of certificates when extraordinary events occur, such as in the case of a capital increase, takeover bid or extraordinary dividend.

The book aims to make savers aware and autonomous in selecting, building and managing a certificate portfolio that is efficient in achieving their financial objectives with a limited degree of risk.

This is a workbook that allows you to independently practice Italian grammar topics, selectedon the basis of usefulness and adapted to the needs of foreign students.

Perfect for self-study and as a complement to classroom and home study, the book provides a wide and diverse range of exercises and short reading texts, divided by tiered grammar topics.

The book includes recap A1 and A2 level tests with keys, as well as a section where students can take words and expressions from the exercise book and translate them into their own language, thus creating their own personal dictionary.

After the revolution in the way products and services are churned out, Lean Thinking has become Lean Lifestyle – a lifestyle on and off the job to boost results, agility and well-being.

From the author of the best-sellers Innovazione Lean and Toyota Way, this is the first book for all readers who want to make their companies grow and increase their own and others’ well-being.

The book provides a practical explanation of a new way of working and doing business, delivering high impact, simplicity and agility in an increasingly fast-paced and complex world. Lean working becomes a strategy for achieving a true work-life balance and bringing out the very best of people in the company, with greater individual and organisational effectiveness.

Lean Lifestyle Strategy brings together over ten years of hands-on experience and features numerous testimonials from entrepreneurs and managers who reveal the behind-the-scenes of success stories, including Orogel, Sammontana, Siemens Italia, Marcegaglia, Campari, Ferretti Yachts, Poste Italiane, Labomar, Lucchini RS, Cromology, Stanley Black & Decker.

As well as being the cornerstone of Italian mixing, the Americano is also the most popular drink of all times. Here, its mysterious origins are explored, as well as the legends and anecdotes that have made it an icon, along with the twists of famous bartenders.

So many stories and recipes go into one glass of this iconic cocktail. The Americano wins over the most diverse palates thanks to its bittersweet taste coming from a blend of two Italian giants, namely Vermouth and Campari. The Americano has a long and exciting history that the authors have retraced thanks to historical documents and recipes, in order to share it with the world of bartending. When did the Americano really arrive in Italy? De Roberto mentioned it in his 1895 book on love, talking about “a kind of vermouth-bitters-soda water that whets the appetite and sets up digestion.”

This book is the story of the first mixed drink in Italy, which later gave rise to other cocktails such as the Negroni and the Negroni Sbagliato. After an absorbing historical journey, the focus shifts to the basic recipe of this iconic cocktail and then goes into detail with variations by national and international bartenders, making the book a must for cocktail amateurs and professionals alike. Learn everything about this traditional Italian drink – the symbol of the Italian aperitif.

This is a guide to Milan’s Monumental Cemetery, Italy’s largest open-air museum, with over 100,000 visitors every year.

In its over 150 years of existence it has become the “city of the dead” for Milan’s most prominent figures, who summoned the most famous sculptors and architects of their time to eternalise themselves and their descendants.

Today, many of these great families have been forgotten; nevertheless, the sculptures of artists such as Vincenzo Vela, Medardo Rosso, Adolfo Wildt, Lucio Fontana, Giacomo Manzù and Giò Pomodoro, as well as the funerary chapels of architects such as Piero Portaluppi, Mario Labò, Giulio Cesare Arata and other lesser-known architects still stand proud. The range of architectural styles is quite remarkable.

The guide is organised into thematic itineraries. It is indispensable for finding your way around and reaching monuments of great artistic and civic importance, as well as for spending a few pleasant hours in the open air, away from the chaos of the big city.