I decided to write this cookbook after I have noted, for a week, what I ate, all the food that my mother prepared and cooked for me and my sister.I hope to be able to give some advice to all these people who, they’ve been hearing of Italian cooking, they were curious to know what Italians usually eat everyday.

An artist whose canvas signifies death. A Deputy Inspector desperate for a child who’s caught in the middle. An Inspector who prefers to work alone. These are the essential elements of ‘A Portrait of Death’.Deputy Inspector Lola Gúzman and her husband are on holiday innocently wandering around Barcelona, enjoying the sights and experiencing the culture, when all hell breaks loose as blood and death seem to occur all around her. However, the killing spree isn’t just confined to the ...

Claudio Naranjo shares stories from his lifelong journey, and the teachers who molded his mind and his spirit. He explains the origins of the patriarchal attitudes that led to the violence, oppression, and greed that plague the world today, and identifies the consequences of our dependence on reason at the expense of instinct.

"The Cosmic Matryoshka: A New Vision for a Living Universe" presents a novel philosophical framework for understanding the cosmos, diverging significantly from traditional creation narratives centered on a conscious, interventionist God. The essay undertakes a critical re-evaluation of these established perspectives, questioning the assumption of divine agency in light of scientific advancements that reveal a universe seemingly governed by natural laws. Rather than dismissing the concept o...

An exploration of the provocative and spiritually expansive world of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1870-1949), with three persons actively engaged in understanding his teachings.

Title: God’s Little SecretsA bloodthirsty killer on the loose, the perverse antics of Catholic priests exposed to the world, and a Vatican City in fear and turmoil. These are the essential ingredients of God’s Little Secrets.Inspector Chad Chamberlain of EUROPOL, the European Union’s division of INTERPOL, has been called in to investigate a mysterious find in Notre Dame. But the dismembered bodies found behind a false wall in the old Parisian cathedral are just the start, a...

Messy Room is a hilarious picture book focusing on the joys and frustrations of cleaning up. Chase does a great job organizing his space and can't wait to show off his clean room. He quickly learns what it takes to keep things organized and what happens when he doesn't. Messy Room is a beautifully illustrated story both children and adults will love!

Mysterious financial transactions involving international conspirators and the Islamic State have roused the secret society, Petrossian, from its supposedly final rest. Matured and retired agents are thrown into the dark waters of their revitalized careers. Back in the fray, they must now destroy a dangerous conglomerate of evil, greed, and power.Their investigation exposes a global conspiracy instigated by a long dormant, American-based black-ops contractor with the ambition to ch...

The global history of liberalism has paid too much attention to the West, neglecting the contributions of liberals from colonial nations. This book mines the thought of Filipino propagandist and novelist, Jose Rizal, to present a vision of liberalism for the colonized. It is both an introduction to Rizal and a treatise on rights, freedom, and tyranny in colonial contexts. Though a work on history, it responds to the illiberal present of rising authoritarianism and populism.

A massive bestseller in its native Italy, and a book that can justly be compared with Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah, Blood Ties is a terrifying account of the 'ndrangheta's criminal activities over the last four decades. Originally from Calabria, this sinister organization has - like the Mafia in Sicily and the Camorra in Naples - a vicious hold over northern Italy and much of the rest of the country, too, a stranglehold that is growing every day.Told to the authors by an ins...

The body of a young woman is found in the woods, from the first clues both motive and the name of the murderer seems clear to everyone, except to Vincent Germano, the commissioner decides to investigate further.

Portugal is a terrain particularly propitious for salutary re-evaluations in order that some highly damaging clichés may be challenged. In the Iberian Peninsula, for instance, the first major rupture of civilisation took place, not in the eighth century a period which is traditionally spoken about as one of major Arab ‘invasions’ but definitely during the Christian Reconquest in the southern lands, with the introduction of the first foreign garrisons and a new social order. Indeed, contrar...