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A bicycle kick by Gigi Riva, a throw by Platini, a dribble by Messi and so on. There are technical gestures that are worth an entire match: a mixture of technique, instinct and personality that have become the calling card of the world’s greatest football stars. What everyone remembers.

Roberto Beccantini, in half a century of profession, has seen them all, often from the stands of a stadium around the world. In this book, he recounts them and vivisects them, also through the art of Luca Laurenti’s illustrated stories, widening his gaze to the personalities of the champions that the journalist often met in person and whose behind-the-scenes stories he could not write in an article.

The book is, at the same time, a history of world football told through the protagonists and a manual of technique, from ball control to shooting, from free kicks to backhands and heels. Gestures that continue to feed the legend of the most beautiful game in the world.

With orbits increasingly crowded with satellites, debris and space junk, the use of circum-terrestrial space is in danger of becoming the Wild West of the new millennium.

The overbearing entry of private entrepreneurs into the world of space has multiplied the number of services provided by in-orbit instruments, causing the space economy to grow tumultuously. Orbits are filling up alarmingly, and we are only at the beginning of the proliferation of mega constellations created to provide planet-wide Internet connections. There are no laws to manage the number of satellites in orbit, which are growing at such a dizzying rate that there are fears of real orbital bottlenecks that could cause catastrophic collisions.

We need to extend the concept of sustainable use to the space around us, but also to the other bodies in the solar system, so as not to repeat the same mistakes we have made on the Earth’s surface. Looking further afield, to the Moon and Mars, human settlements will have to respect the ecosystem of celestial bodies. Particular attention must be paid to the risks of biological pollution. Explorers (both human and robotic) risk transporting terrestrial material. Likewise, our handling of extraterrestrial samples requires well-equipped laboratories and continuous surveillance.

Ecological consciousness was also born thanks to images of the Earth from space. Thus we have discovered the beauty and fragility of our planet; now it is time to think about a new space ecology.

The book provides a 360-degree overview of the various political, economic and financial events that have marked world history. A useful work for anyone who wants to understand the interests behind the crises and geopolitical tensions that periodically occur.

The text describes the main hotbeds of crisis in the contemporary world, providing a key to understanding some of the international events of recent years. Verga starts from the assumption that by studying the past and observing the present, certain reference models can be defined that can also be valid for the future.

In particular, the author delves into the various transformations that have affected the main economic sectors, from raw materials to the media, from technology to logistics, describing the reasons that have caused epochal changes and what the inevitable economic and financial consequences are.

A traitorous translation, a capital work in the history of thought and two great scientists: these are the ingredients of Mazzarello’s new book.

The work in question is Darwin’s Origin of Species. The translation is the French one, published in 1862, by Clémence Royer, a liberal and progressive philosopher, which came into the hands of a young Lombroso, a military doctor about to join the expedition to repress banditry in Calabria.

In contact with a harsh and savage world, the scientist was among the first - if not the first - to concretely apply Darwin’s theory to the study of nature in Italy. Having become a professor in Pavia and then in Turin, Lombroso never stopped using evolution as a cognitive tool. From a distant source sprang racial hierarchies, populations, abnormal and criminal behaviour, and the mental inferiority of women.

It is on this basis that Paolo Mazzarello re-reads Lombroso’s anthropological vision, offering an evocative and original interpretation, which also allows him to shed new light on the early spread of Darwinian theories in Europe.

Questions about the Earth and the sky, the stars and the Universe, seemingly trivial, but the answer is not at all.

We all had a head full of questions and curiosity as children. As we grow up, many are answered, but some are simply forgotten. For example, how many really know why the sky is blue during the day and black at night? Or why the Earth spins, or why it is colder in the mountains than by the sea?

Each question is a pretext to make us reflect on what we have always taken for granted but which is not, to look at everyday phenomena with a different, more attentive and aware eye. The answers are designed for an adult audience that has retained the curiosity of children and wants to satisfy it in a serious and mature way.

The book is structured in a series of self-contained chapters, progressively zooming out from the more human and terrestrial questions to the larger ones about the Universe and the highest systems of reality.

‘Stop thinking about what to write and start writing to think!’ Matteo Bortolotti reveals the practical side of writing: a super-power with which to realise ourselves and our goals.

Artificial intelligence can write anything, but it can never write what you think, feel and really want. After more than twenty years of writing and coaching, the author invites us to rediscover the irreplaceable power of writing ‘for humans’ by demonstrating why we should continue - or begin - to practice it. Writing, in fact, is not just for telling stories: writing is an extension of the mind, a tool with which to imagine and plan one’s life.

By following the principles of cardiowriting® (mental training with weekly targeted writing exercises) and the five phases of the S.P.A.C.E. method (Save, Plan, Act, Keep and Extract - an innovative organisational structure to manage the creative and informative process) you will learn to organise your projects, improve your mental wellbeing, reconnect with creativity and develop a true mental operating system: an inexhaustible machine of ideas.

Genius writing is an indispensable resource for professionals and startuppers, students and creatives who want to take back control of their lives.

A handbook explaining how to exploit the features of generative artificial intelligence for real professional upskilling and reskilling and thus turn it into a valuable ally for enhancing one’s skills.

ChatGPT inaugurated the race for generative AI, which has developed and evolved into a series of models and platforms capable of producing often professional-grade text and graphics content. Today, many of these tools have reached a stage of development where they can become true ’assistants’ to be relied upon on a daily basis.

The text allows one to explore the infinite possibilities offered by artificial intelligence especially in digital skills and communication, learning how to interrogate different AI models to obtain content and ideas, saving time and improving the quality of work.

In a new, revised and updated edition, the breathtaking history of the craziest team in Italy (never relegated to Serie B), narrated and coloured in black and in blue.

From the original Inter to Ambrosiana that used to play at the Arena, from Angelo to Massimo Moratti, going through the eras of Fraizzoli and Pellegrini, up to the Chinese Inter.

The story of over a century of events for a team that has reserved, and still reserves, the height of excitement and depths of despair, racing hearts and passions (with no comparison with its historic rivals).

Introduced by Massimo Moratti, this book has been written by five “obsessed” Inter fans (esteemed professionals and academics) and is enriched with illustrations by Osvaldo Casanova, a cult illustrator in the world of football.

A book to take in your hands and read in the (many) moments of celebration and despair. Because this is Inter.

From blues to jazz, from soul to funky, from R&B to rap, the history of Afro-American music and song described through the social and political aspects that have influenced its extraordinary adventure.

In the history of Black music, blues and gospel represent the origin of everything, they emerged as a way to process the existence of the individual but also as a collective reaction to the drama of slavery. Over time, these music genres have evolved into others and others more. But what were the social situations that determined their origin and diffusion? What is the common trait that describes the journey towards awareness of Afro-Americans and their rebellion?

This book intends to investigate among the folds of these historical moments and explore the ethical, social and religious reasons that gave rise to all the kinds of music that developed from seminal blues and gospel to reach, through jazz, soul, funky, reggae and rap, and trap music, the most recent important form of musical expression invented by the Black community.

This is the first book, in Italy, to address Black music from a historical, musical and socio-political viewpoint, without neglecting society.

A scientific and ethical approach to the preservation of some completely virgin patches of nature, to safeguard the future of humankind.

The book addresses the problem of the extinction of wildlife and plants by proposing solutions to mitigate the collapse in Anthropocene. For example, a deal to ensure the natural processes that guarantee the survival of biodiversity on just a small fraction (10%) of our planet.

From Linnaeus to Alexander von Humboldt and Darwin, the history of nature and of evolution is described, also passing through the disappearance of species or the replacement of some species with others, in a constant adaptation process to keep life on Earth.