As of March 2025, no country in the world has more UNESCO World Heritage sites than Italy, closely followed by China. Among Italy's regions, Lombardy leads the way with ten sites, half of which are located in the provinces of Bergamo and Brescia.To visit these sites is to delve into thousands of years of history. This journey through an extraordinary part of Italy is an opportunity to discover local treasures and the people who saf...

How do we change the world? How do we break free from social arrangements that shape our everyday lives yet leave many of us exhausted, stressed, and diminished? These are systems that deepen inequality, fuel armed conflict, damage the environment, and increasingly threaten the conditions of life itself.In this book, Massimo De Angelis explores the system of social cooperation we live in and reproduce every day, capitalism. Rather than analysing it from a distance, De Angelis examin...

“The Apocrypha” (Unknown) is a collection aimed at those passionate about religious history, comparative theology, or simply curious to discover those texts that tradition has placed on the margins of the official canon: an unmissable opportunity to explore a fascinating and often misunderstood literary heritage. The volume brings together the deuterocanonical books—a term that, as explained in the introduction, derives from the Greek deuteros (second) and kanon (rule, standard), indicatin...

#NOT a real book (Just a screed)Is native advertising something new, or just a new name?Is it the same as content marketing? How does it relate to social media marketing?Does native advertising work? Does it have negative consequences for society?Should native advertisement be deregulated, or should it be more seriously regulated?The 15 Questions:What Is Native Advertising?Is It a New Practice?Is Native Advertising Leg...

The Invisible Thread - Recognising emotional dependency, escaping emotional abuse and rediscovering oneself by Valerio Massimo De Angelis.There comes a moment when you ask yourself: ‘Is it normal to feel this way?’. Those in a relationship marked by emotional dependency or abuse often take years to find the words to name that pain — because their perception of what is normal shifts, slowly, until the unacceptable becomes acceptable.The Invisible Thread is a comprehensive gu...

#NOT a real book (Just a screed)Does all the hype surrounding social media make sense?Isn't it time that somebody tried to deconstruct all this bullshit?What are social media? Are they the same websites we used to call social networks? Why did we start calling them social media?What is social media marketing? Are companies doing it right? Does it make sense to send your website visitors to Twitter and Facebook?Do people really want t...

#NOT a real book (Just a screed)The real question of course is: Does online advertising work?Unfortunately, it's impossible to give a simple answer to this apparently straightforward question.For starters, this is not a single question, but at least three different ones.The right question to ask would be: for whom does online advertising work?Do banner ads, what we once called interactive advertising and now call display adsbec...

This book examines the governance of Luxembourg investment vehicles, asset managers and asset owners from both legal-regulatory and financial-organizational perspectives. It explores the evolution, objectives and functions of corporate governance, considering both soft law principles and binding legal provisions. The analysis covers Luxembourg company law, corporate structures, governance models, the role of boards, shareholder-director relations, and the specific features of listed compan...

Connected but Alone is a clear and accessible guide to one of the most pressing issues in contemporary parenting and education: smartphone addiction among teenagers. Valerio Massimo De Angelis takes the reader on a comprehensive journey that begins with the origins of mobile technology and explores its concrete effects on sleep, mental health, academic performance, and family relationships. Written in simple yet rigorous language, the book analyzes phenomena such as FOMO, nomophobia, and c...

Every year, millions of scientific articles are published across thousands of journals. How can researchers navigate this ever-expanding ocean of knowledge, identify the most influential works, and uncover the hidden structures that shape a scientific field? Science Mapping Analysis: A Primer with Biblioshiny provides a comprehensive, hands-on guide to bibliometric analysis and science mapping, the quantitative study of scientific literature through citation patterns, keyword co-occurrence...

Finally, a guide that goes beyond the basics: this manual is designed for those who truly want to improve, climb the Ranked ladder, and dominate in both Classic and Zero Build modes.Complete Guide to Fortnite: Gameplay Techniques and Strategies succeeds in the no small feat of speaking to players of all skill levels without feeling superficial. The book covers the game’s entire competitive ecosystem: from managing the storm and looting in the early stages, to advanced positioning m...

The Author interviews Alexander von Humboldt on the slopes of the Teide, the volcano ascended by the young scientist on June 21, 1797 during his stopover in Tenerife on his way to America [photo by Pietro Melucci, October 8, 2024]