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Think Like an Artist by BBC Arts editor Will Gompertz - wisdom and smart thinking from Da Vinci to Ai Weiwei Why do some people seem to find it easy to come up with fresh, brilliant ideas? And how do they turn them into something worthwhile? After spending years getting up close and personal with some of the world's greatest creative thinkers, the BBC's Arts Editor Will Gompertz has discovered a handful of traits that are common to them all. Basic practices and processes that allow their talents to flourish, and which we can adopt - no matter what we do - to help us achieve extraordinary things too. It's time to Think Like An Artist and ... Become Seriously Curious (Caravaggio's discovery of optical lenses changed art for ever.) Think Big Picture and Fine Detail (Turner transformed a masterpiece with a tiny dab of red paint.) And realize ... It's Nearly Always Plan B (Mondrian spent years painting trees before becoming a master of abstraction.) 'Will Gompertz is the best teacher you never had' Guardian

Suitable for sceptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year - and are confused, this book is a history of Modern Art, from Impressionism to the present day.

Matt Hunter è uscito di galera dopo nove anni di reclusione, colpevole unicamente di essersi intromesso in una rissa in cui una persona aveva perso la vita. Fuori dal carcere Matt è solo un ex detenuto con una strada tutta in salita. Lo aiutano a rialzarsi la moglie Olivia e il figlio che lei porta in grembo. Ma il passato in qualche modo sembra tornare a perseguitare Matt quando una serie di omicidi sembrano indicare in lui il principale sospetto. Uscire dalla legalità per cercare di trovare la propria innocenza per Matt e Olivia diventerà un percorso obbligato.

Herinneringen van een Amerikaanse pyschotherapeute aan haar ervaringen als half-joods meisje in Berlijn tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Sembrano appartenere a un'altra vita i giorni in cui Eragon era solo un ragazzo nella fattoria dello zio, e Saphira una pietra azzurra in una radura della foresta. Da allora, Cavaliere e dragonessa hanno festeggiato insperate vittorie nel Farthen Dûr, assistito ad antiche cerimonie a Ellesméra, pianto terribili perdite a Feinster. Una sola cosa è rimasta identica: il legame indissolubile che li unisce, e la speranza di deporre Galbatorix. Non sono gli unici a essere cambiati: Roran ha perso il villaggio in cui è cresciuto, ma in battaglia si è guadagnato rispetto e un soprannome, Fortemartello; Nasuada ha assunto il ruolo di un padre morto troppo presto; il destino ha donato a Murtagh un drago, ma gli ha strappato la libertà. E ora, per la prima volta nella storia, umani, elfi, nani e Urgali marciano uniti verso Urû'baen, la fortezza del traditore Galbatorix. Nell'ultima, terribile battaglia che li attende rischiano di perdere ciò che hanno di più caro, ma poco importa: in gioco c'è una nuova Alagaèsia, e l'occasione di lasciare in eredità al suo popolo un futuro in cui la tirannia del re nero sembrerà soltanto un orribile sogno. Tutto è iniziato con "Eragon", tutto finisce con "Inheritance".

La coinvolgente storia di sopravvivenza di Aron Ralston racconta i suoi sei giorni angoscianti intrappolato in un remoto canyon dello Utah. Quella che era iniziata come una semplice escursione per il ventisettenne alpinista si è rapidamente trasformata in una lotta per la vita quando un masso cadente ha schiacciato la sua mano destra contro la parete del canyon. A otto miglia dal suo camion e con acqua e cibo limitati, Aron ha dovuto affrontare la cruda realtà di essere intrappolato a 30 metri di profondità, senza che nessuno fosse a conoscenza della sua posizione. Con il passare dei giorni, ha eliminato le opzioni di fuga e ha affrontato la terribile possibilità di morire per disidratazione o a causa di un'alluvione. Nel tentativo disperato di documentare i suoi pensieri finali, ha usato la sua videocamera per registrare addii a familiari e amici, riflettendo su una vita piena di avventure. La sua famiglia ha avviato una ricerca, ignara delle sue drammatiche condizioni. L'amore e il supporto dei suoi cari lo hanno mantenuto in vita fino a quando un momento di ispirazione lo ha portato a ideare un piano drastico per la fuga. Questo straordinario racconto unisce umorismo, onestà e ispirazione, catturando l'essenza della resilienza di fronte a difficoltà inimmaginabili.

New York vista da un punto di osservazione assai particolare: le cucine dei grandi ristoranti, raccontata da una voce irriverente e sincera, quella di un cuoco per vocazione che, dopo venticinque anni di “sesso, droga e alta cucina”, decide di vuotare il sacco. Anthony Bourdain, chef e romanziere, ci accompagna in un viaggio indimenticabile che ha come punto di partenza la sua prima ostrica alla Gironde e, passando da Tokyo e Parigi, ritorna a New York, sempre “via cucina”. Graffiante, trasgressivo, disincantato, Kitchen Confidential è il racconto di un’avventura culinaria sempre al limite, è uno sguardo dietro le quinte che rivela gli orrori della ristorazione, facendo l’appello degli ideali traditi e di quelli realizzati. Un'esplosione di energia e di passionale divertimento.

Two tours of Iraq under his belt, Sergeant Dave Henley has seen something of how modern battles are fought. But nothing can prepare him for the posting to Forward Operating Base Senzhiri, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. This is a warzone like even he's never seen before.

Washington, 2010. Il presidente degli Stati Uniti è più che mai deciso a riuscire dove tutti finora hanno fallito: sconfiggere i narcotrafficanti che riversano ogni anno tonnellate di cocaina nel mondo occidentale, causando povertà e morte. Ma per affrontare uomini così spietati occorre qualcuno come loro, forse peggiore di loro: il Cobra, Paul Devereaux, una delle menti più brillanti del controspionaggio mondiale. All'ex agente della CIA, sprezzante e privo di scrupoli, viene affidata l'operazione volta ad annientare l'impero economico creato dal capo del cartello colombiano, il potentissimo Don Diego Esteban. Devereaux ha carta bianca e piena fiducia da parte del presidente. Sceglie come suo stretto collaboratore una vecchia conoscenza, Calvin Dexter, l'unico dimostratosi in grado di batterlo sul suo terreno preferito: l'astuzia. I due orchestrano così la più micidiale offensiva mai tentata contro i narcos colombiani, scatenando una lotta senza precedenti. Con Il cobra Frederick Forsyth si riconferma maestro del thriller attingendo all'attualità più scottante e dando vita a un romanzo coinvolgente ed estremamente documentato dove, seguendo le rotte della droga dagli Stati Uniti al Sudamerica, passando per l'Africa fino all'Europa, fiction e realtà si intrecciano con un impatto formidabile sul lettore.

Marco Sandano is een jonge, succesvolle bankier bij een Zwitserse investeringsbank. Wanneer hij zonder autorisatie aandelen koopt in Astorian, een autofabriek uit München, en het aandeel vervolgens hard onderuit gaat, verandert Sandano's leven in een hel. Als rogue trader slaat hij op de vlucht, zijn werkgever op de rand van een bankroet achterlatend. Maar hoe heeft dit kunnen gebeuren? Astorian was een zekere investering. Samen met de mooie Alexandra Seiler reist Sandano af naar Zuid - Amerika, op zoek naar de waarheid. In 1943 vlucht een groep nazi's naar Zuid - Amerika met een grote hoeveelheid goud en gestolen kunstschatten. Via geheime offshorekeningen bouwen zij na de oorlog een legitiem zakenimperium op. De winst wordt met behulp van een netwerk van vertrouwelingen in de Duitse economie geïnvesteerd. Politici worden onder druk gezet, ambtenaren omgekocht, en langzaam maar zeker komen verscheidene West - en Oost Duitse bedrijven in de macht van het nazinetwerk. Een daarvan is Astorian...

When an accident takes the life of his daughter, Emma, ATF agent Jack McClure blames himself, numbing the pain by submerging himself in work. Then he receives a call from an old friend whose daughter has been kidnapped.

March 1930: Silent movie actress Betty Winter is killed on set after a lighting system falls on her. Talkies are destroying the careers of producers, cinema owners and stars in a world that is already bubbling with studio wars and sexual politics. Inspector Gereon Rath suspects sabotage, possibly worse. Meanwhile, the murder of a Nazi named Horst Wessel leads to street riots and Rath's relationship with Charlotte Ritter is on the rocks. Then another actress is found dead, this time with her vocal cords removed

For centuries, a secret splinter sect of the Franciscans, the Gnostic Observatines, has guarded secrets that could transform the world. Now the safety of those secrets depends on one man--and a woman he barely knows. Braverman "Bravo" Shaw always knew his father had secrets. But not until Dexter Shaw dies mysteriously does Bravo discover the enormity of his father's hidden life as a high-ranking member of the Order of Gnostic Observatines. For more than eight hundred years, the Order has preserved an ancient cache of documents that could shake Christianity to its foundations. Another secret society, the Knights of St. Clement, will stop at nothing to obtain the treasure, and now Bravo must follow his father's esoteric clues to find the hidden documents before the Knights. Bravo is now a target and a pawn in an ongoing war far larger and more deadly than any he could have imagined. His companion in this quest is Jenny Logan, a Guardian assigned to Bravo by the Order. But Bravo soon learns that he can trust no one where the Testament is concerned, perhaps not even Jenny. . . . From New York City to Washington, D.C., to Paris, to Venice, and beyond, the race is on for the quintessential prize . . . the Testament.

ruim 700 Slow Food-gerechten uit de Italiaanse keuken

A kitchen classic for nearly 35 years, this book has been hailed as "a minor masterpiece" by Time magazine since its 1984 debut. It serves as the essential resource for food lovers and professional chefs seeking to understand the origins, compositions, and transformative processes of food. For its twentieth anniversary, Harold McGee released a fully revised edition, rewriting the text almost entirely, expanding it by two-thirds, and adding over 100 new illustrations. This new edition remains engaging and readable, offering countless insights into food preparation and enjoyment. It pioneered the translation of technical food science into accessible kitchen science and played a key role in the rise of "molecular gastronomy." While other kitchen science books exist, this one stands out for its unmatched accuracy, clarity, and thoroughness, blending scientific explanations with the historical evolution of foods and cooking techniques. Key themes include traditional and modern food production methods, diverse preparation techniques across cultures, tips for selecting and preparing ingredients, the substances that contribute to flavor, and evolving knowledge about food health benefits and risks. This monumental compendium is invaluable for anyone who has ever cooked, savored, or been curious about food.

Rosa, reprinted with a revised cover, is the author's third novel after The Overseer and The Book of Q and is the first in the Berlin Trilogy. Shadow and Light was the second and The Second Son the third.

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN 9781569472422 Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. A young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe around his superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, and risk his career—perhaps even his life—to see justice done.

Part memoir and part education, this book chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. To address the gaps in his Ivy League education, Jacobs embarks on the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes. His wife, Julie, thinks it's a waste of time, friends question his sanity, and his father, who once attempted the same feat, is supportive yet skeptical. With self-deprecating humor and candor, Jacobs details the unexpected and comical disruptions this project brings to his life, affecting his new marriage, his relationship with his father, and his job as an editor at Esquire. This endeavor tests his stamina and prompts him to explore the true meaning of intelligence as he aims to join Mensa, compete on Jeopardy!, and absorb 33,000 pages of knowledge. Along the way, he discovers strange, funny, and profound facts about various topics while grappling with fatigue, ridicule, and the anxiety of impending fatherhood. This memoir is a captivating exploration of one man's intellectual journey, neuroses, and obsessions, highlighting the tension between the pursuit of knowledge and the value of hard-won wisdom.

Tra gli studenti dell'Università di Princeton, Paul Harris è senza dubbio il più brillante. Eppure, da tre anni e mezzo, Paul si sforza inutilmente di concludere la sua tesi: una nuova interpretazione della "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili", antico testo tra i più enigmatici di tutti i tempi. Molti prima di lui si sono cimentati nell'impresa, non ultimo Patrick Sullivan, noto storico del Rinascimento morto in un tragico e misterioso incidente. Quando Paul si imbatte in un indizio utile a svelare il mistero che l'ossessiona, l'amico Tom Sullivan, figlio di Patrick, accetta di aiutarlo. Solo decifrando l'enigma nascosto tra le pagine, Paul e Tom potranno sventare i piani di chi è disposto a tutto, anche a uccidere, pur di batterli sul tempo...

The year is 1311, in the highest tower of Cloud of Sparrows Castle, a beautiful woman watches from the window as the city is set alight and a mob runs riot destroying everything they can lay their hands on. She begins to write down the events unfolding around her and the secret history of the Okumichi Clan. Six centuries later the lost scrolls fall into the hands of American missionary Emily Gibson, a new arrival at Edo Harbour and racing from her tragic past. Emily quickly finds herself translating the text, caught up in the gripping tale of ancestry, heroism and forbidden love. At the same time Emily is desperately trying to unravel the complexities in her own life as two men fight for her love. As Emily sifts through the fragile scrolls, she begins to see threads of her own life woven into the ancient writings. As past and present collide, a hidden history comes to life, and with it a secret prophecy that has been shrouded for centuries and may now finally be revealed.

Paula Wolfert brengt het zuidwesten van Frankrijk, de inwoners en het voedsel in kaart in een verzameling van recepten, bestaande uit een inventarisatie van gerechten van (groot)- moeders en de kookkunst van regionale chef-koks. Door de jaren heen werden de traditionele gerechten verfijnd tot wat nu het hart is van een delicate streekkeuken. Ze proefde verschillende versies van een gerecht alvorens ze te omgeven door de literatuur en mondeling overgeleverde verhalen en er haar eigen methoden en technieken op toe te passen die ze van verschillende koks leerde. Dit is een boek voor iedereen die een regionaal maal prefereert boven de haute cuisine en zich wil laten verleiden door de volle smaken van het land.

De 12-jarige Vidamia Farrell, half Puerto-Ricaans, half Iers, gaat op zoek naar haar biologische vader, een jazzpianist die in Vietnam gewond is geraakt waardoor hij niet meer kan spelen.

Een Engelsman koopt een afgelegen boerderij op een idyllisch plekje in Andalusië en probeert daar samen met zijn vrouw een bestaan op te bouwen.

Autobiografisch verhaal over de man die van 1977 tot aan de val van de Muur in 1989 leiding gaf aan het West-Duitse Elitecommando Ost die de opdracht had overlopers uit Oost-Duitsland naar het Westen te brengen.

The thirteenth mystery for Richard Jury finds the detective investigating the murder of two women in the Lincolnshire fens. Both victims are connected to the wealthy owner of the Fengate estate: one a kitchen maid, and the other, the owner's ex-wife. But Jury has more at stake than just catching a killer, as the prime suspect is a woman who's presence in his life is becoming meaningful in a way he can't explain....

The author of "Olives" takes readers on a tour of the French countryside and Paris, where he looks at the way the French live through how they cook, eat, and market their cuisine.

In una ridente e sonnolenta cittadina americana, un gruppo di ragazzini, esplorando per gioco le fogne, risveglia da un sonno primordiale una creatura informe e mostruosa: It. E quando, molti anni dopo, It ricomincia a chiedere il suo tributo di sangue, gli stessi ragazzini, ormai adulti, abbandonano famiglia e lavoro per tornare a combatterla. E l'incubo ricomincia...

Slim ha solo diciassette anni ma non è un adolescente qualunque. Con i suoi "Occhi di Crepuscolo" sa vedere i dèmoni che si nascondono tra la gente comune, macchiandosi di orrendi delitti. Dopo aver ucciso a colpi di scure suo zio Denton, sotto le cui bonarie sembianze si nascondeva il Male, Slim trova rifugio nel luna-park dei Sombra Brothers. Qui incontra i suoi preziosi alleati nella lotta contro i dèmoni: Rya, la donna che saprà ricambiare il suo amore, Joel Tuck, il "mostro" con tre occhi, e Horton Bluett, arzillo vecchietto capace di fiutare i dèmoni, che come lui sanno - o intuiscono - cosa si cela là fuori nel buio...

Het jaar is 4368 v. Chr. Marrah trekt met haar vriend Stavan ten strijde tegen het kwaad dat de sterke en oorlogszuchtige krijgers van de nomadische stam der Hansi belichamen. Haar hechte vriendschap met Stavan, zelf een Hansi, wordt door vriend en vijand met argwaan bekeken, maar wanneer Marrah moeder wordt van een tweeling is hun band door niets en niemand meer te verbreken. In het onherbergzame oosten van Europa, aan de oevers van een onbekende zee, worden Marrah en Stavan opnieuw geconfronteerd met de agressieve stam die zich woest en wild te paard verplaatst. Stavan wordt zelfs gevangen genomen. Marrah blijft achter, bedroefd maar niet bang, want haar geestkracht en haar energie, geërfd van vele vrouwelijke voorouders, geven haar moed.....

Harry Lyon was a cop who believed in order and reason, until the fateful day he was forced to shoot a man. Now he is haunted by the words that were uttered by a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes..".Ticktock, ticktock. You'll be dead in sixteen hours...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn..".

L'errore di un computer, l'incoscienza di pochi uomini e si scatena la fine del mondo. Il morbo sfuggito a un segretissimo laboratorio semina morte e terrore. Il novantanove per cento della popolazione della terra non sopravvive all'apocalittica epidemia e per i pochi scampati c'è una guerra ancora tutta da combattere, una lotta eterna e fatale tra chi ha deciso di seguire il Bene e appoggiarsi alle fragili spalle di Mother Abagail, la veggente ultracentenaria, e chi invece ha scelto di calcare le orme di Randall, il Senza Volto, il Male, il Signore delle Tenebre. Nel 1978 Stephen King ha pubblicato una prima versione di questo romanzo; dopo oltre dieci anni, l'autore lo presenta per la prima volta restituito alle forme e alla lunghezza originali, riscrivendo di fatto il romanzo per una nuova generazione di lettori e sviluppando a ruota libera la sua titanica impresa narrativa.

“Phantoms is gruesome and unrelenting…It’s well realized, intelligent, and humane.”—Stephen King They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California. At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease. But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...

To his mother, Joey seems an ordinary six-year-old boy - special to her, but to no one else. To the Servants of Twilight, however, he is an evil presence who must be destroyed - an Anti-Christ who must die. The terrifying ordeal for Joey and his mother begins in the supermarket car park where an old woman accosts them and pursues them with her terrible threats. Christine's world is turned into a nightmare of terror. Only her love for her child, and the support of the one man who believes her, gives her the chance to survive the Servants of Twilight... This book was originally published under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols.

Tijdens de roerige jaren aan het inde van de zestiende eeuw wankelt het Japanse imperium. Rivaliserende heersers vechten op leven en dood om de alleenheerschappij. Een gruwelijke machtsstrijd die zijn tol eist: geplunderde dorpen, verwoeste steden en platgebrande akkers. Te midden van alle verschrikkingen dromen drie mannen van hereniging van het Japanse rijk. Zo is er de brutale maar charismatische Noboenaga wiens hoop op een beter Japan bij zijn eerste pogingen ijdel blijkt . Anderzijds is er de koele, berekenende Iëjasoe, een wijs en moedig man. Maar de imposantste van de drie is Hidejosji die uiteindelijk Taiko zal worden, heerser in naam van de keizer, met absolute macht. Taiko is een meeslepend epos vol strijd, actie, intrige en hartstocht waarin vele historische gebeurtenissen en personages zijn verweven. Het biedt een caleidoscopische blik op het feodale Japan van de zestiende eeuw. Taiko is een magistrale roman waarin Japan, zijn bloedige geschiedenis en zijn ondefinieerbare mysteriën op onovertroffen wijze worden geportretteerd.