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Financial Times Business Books of the Month\n\nWith a foreword by Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn\n\n'A handbook for disruptors' - Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google\n\nWe’re living in a time of amazing innovation, but we’re not paying enough attention to one of the most important of all: the innovation to the company itself. Now, bestselling author of The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee, explains how engineers and geeks are changing the world of business – with extraordinary results.\n\nA new model is being pioneered by geeks; a radical new mindset that has shifted the paradigm entirely on what a business can – and should – be. They do not follow the rules of the Industrial era, with their hierarchies and bureaucratic ways of thinking. They do not follow the principles preached in business schools since the dawn of time. They have all dedicated themselves to approaching business as a geek would: through trial and error, egalitarianism, evidence and stress-testing ideas in a group setting – rather than relying on the boss’s instincts.\n\nBy investigating and surveying the contemporary research in psychology, economics and the behavioural sciences, as well as first-hand accounts from the ‘geek’ leaders of today, McAfee's groundbreaking exploration of this emerging phenomenon gets to the heart of the tectonic shifts taking place all over the business world. We have entered a new age. And this age will transform how we achieve great things, now and into the future. The future is geek.\n\n'The most compelling analysis I've seen of what Silicon Valley has learned about building more effective organisations' - Adam Grant, host of TED podcast Re: Thinking and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again

Da giovane Eve è stata la musa di un famoso pittore. A distanza di quarant'anni molti la ricordano solo in quel ruolo. Eppure Eve è un'artista geniale: lavora con fiori e piante, e la sua opera vibra di una forza creativa unica. Adesso, nel pieno della maturità artistica, Eve si dedica al progetto piú importante, perché non intende sacrificare ancora la sua luminosa carriera, troppo spesso soffocata da incombenze famigliari, critici mediocri e rivali spietati. Ma assecondare un'ambizione accecante, come Eve scoprirà, può rivelarsi molto pericoloso.«McAfee sa infondere di vita vera l'opera di un artista, catturando il lettore nella sua creazione. L'arte non funge da mero espediente narrativo nel romanzo, ma ne è il cuore pulsante. \"Belladonna\" è un libro originale e seducente» – Polly Clark«\"Belladonna\" è un romanzo magnifico, denso di arte, potere e contorta sensualità, che esplora le implicazioni di una vita completamente dedicata alla creazione artistica» – The ObserverLondra, una notte d'inverno. I passi di Eve risuonano nelle strade, ora buie e deserte, ora gremite di voci festose e luci natalizie. Ma dove sta andando Eve? Il percorso di quell'insolito vagabondare sembra snodarsi tra i ricordi. È la sua memoria, insieme alla città, che Eve scandaglia, seguendo una traiettoria casuale che passa per i momenti cruciali della sua vita privata e professionale. La squallida periferia dell'infanzia, la magnolia sotto cui si consumava la prima goffa storia d'amore, gli anni alternativi dell'accademia. Piú di tutto, prepotente, torna New York. Eve ci si era trasferita dopo la laurea, insieme a due compagne di corso, Wanda e Mara, con l'obiettivo spericolato di sfondare sulla fervente scena artistica degli anni Settanta. Quel periodo le ha lasciato un segno indelebile, quasi al pari di Ragazza con fiore, il famigerato dipinto in cui l'ha immortalata l'anziano amante Florian Kiš, monstre sacré dell'arte novecentesca. Dal soggetto fragile e scomposto di quel ritratto Eve non è mai riuscita a separare la sua immagine. Anche dopo l'osannato Florilegio underground – una mappa della metro di Londra in cui tavole botaniche sostituiscono i nomi delle stazioni –, i numerosi successi, le mostre prestigiose. A New York Eve ha incontrato il futuro marito, il brillante architetto Kristof, con cui è tornata a Londra, portandosi dietro le vecchie cicatrici della relazione tossica con Florian e una rinnovata, accanita rivalità con Wanda. Il matrimonio, la nascita della figlia, le rinunce che la società impone alle donne: Eve ha tradito i suoi sogni, sacrificando la carriera in cambio di una soffocante stabilità. Nella notte londinese, Eve ripensa anche agli eventi impetuosi del recente passato. Nel pieno della maturità ha scelto di assecondare le sue ambizioni e dedicarsi alla realizzazione di un'opera grandiosa, la piú importante, che sancirà il suo riscatto artistico agli occhi di tutti, inclusi quelli di Wanda. A infiammare il genio e la passione di Eve, poi,...

'Everyone knows we're doomed by runaway overpopulation, pollution, or resource depletion, whichever comes first. Not only is this view paralysing and fatalistic, but, as Andrew McAfee shows in this exhilarating book, it's wrong... More from Less is fascinating, enjoyable to read, and tremendously empowering' Steven Pinker\nBestselling author and co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy Andrew McAfee says there's a new reason for optimism: we're past the point of 'peak stuff' - from here on out, it'll take fewer resources to make things, and cost less to lead a comfortable life.\n\n This turn of events invalidates the predictions of overpopulation alarmists and those who argue we need to drastically reduce our conception of how much is enough. What has made this turnabout possible? One thing primarily: the collaboration between technology and capitalism.\n\n Capitalism's quest for higher profits is a quest for lower costs; materials and resources are expensive, and technological progress allows companies to use fewer of them even as they grow their markets. Modern smartphones take the place of cameras, GPS units, landline telephones, answering machines, tape recorders and alarm clocks. Precision agriculture lets farmers harvest larger crops while using less water and fertiliser. Passenger cars get lighter, which makes them cheaper to produce and more fuel-efficient. This means that, even though there'll be more people in the future, and they'll be wealthier and consume more, they'll do so while using fewer natural resources. For the first time ever, and for all time to come, humans will live more prosperous lives while treading more lightly on the Earth.\n\n The future is not all bright, cautions McAfee. He warns of issues that still haven't been fully solved. (For example, our oceans are still vulnerable to overfishing; global warming is still running largely unchecked; and even as 'dematerialisation' - the reduced need for raw materials - improves our global situation, power and resources are getting more concentrated. That creates an even larger division between the haves and the have nots.)\n\nMore From Less is a revelatory, paradigm-shifting account of how we've stumbled into an unexpected balance with nature, and the possibility that our most abundant centuries are ahead of us.

Financial Times Business Books of the Month\n\nWith a foreword by Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn\n\n'A handbook for disruptors' - Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google\n\nWe’re living in a time of amazing innovation, but we’re not paying enough attention to one of the most important of all: the innovation to the company itself. Now, bestselling author of The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee, explains how engineers and geeks are changing the world of business – with extraordinary results.\n\nA new model is being pioneered by geeks; a radical new mindset that has shifted the paradigm entirely on what a business can – and should – be. They do not follow the rules of the Industrial era, with their hierarchies and bureaucratic ways of thinking. They do not follow the principles preached in business schools since the dawn of time. They have all dedicated themselves to approaching business as a geek would: through trial and error, egalitarianism, evidence and stress-testing ideas in a group setting – rather than relying on the boss’s instincts.\n\nBy investigating and surveying the contemporary research in psychology, economics and the behavioural sciences, as well as first-hand accounts from the ‘geek’ leaders of today, McAfee's groundbreaking exploration of this emerging phenomenon gets to the heart of the tectonic shifts taking place all over the business world. We have entered a new age. And this age will transform how we achieve great things, now and into the future. The future is geek.\n\n'The most compelling analysis I've seen of what Silicon Valley has learned about building more effective organisations' - Adam Grant, host of TED podcast Re: Thinking and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again

We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the crowd are repeatedly more innovative than those from corporate research laboratories.\n\n Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson know what it takes to master this digital-powered shift: we must rethink the integration of minds and machines, of products and platforms, and of the core and the crowd. The balance now favours the second element of the pair, with massive implications for how we run our companies and live our lives. McAfee and Brynjolfsson deliver a penetrating analysis of a new world and a toolkit for thriving in it. For start-ups and established businesses or for anyone interested in the future, Machine, Platform, Crowd is essential reading.

With a foreword by Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn\n\n'A handbook for disruptors' - Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google\n\nWe're living in a time of amazing innovation, but we're not paying enough attention to one of the most important of all: the innovation to the company itself. Now, bestselling author of The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee, explains how engineers and geeks are changing the world of business - with extraordinary results.\n\nA new model is being pioneered by geeks; a radical new mindset that has shifted the paradigm entirely on what a business can - and should - be. They do not follow the rules of the Industrial era, with their hierarchies and bureaucratic ways of thinking. They do not follow the principles preached in business schools since the dawn of time. They have all dedicated themselves to approaching business as a geek would: through trial and error, egalitarianism, evidence and stress-testing ideas in a group setting - rather than relying on the boss's instincts.\n\nBy investigating and surveying the contemporary research in psychology, economics and the behavioural sciences, as well as first-hand accounts from the 'geek' leaders of today, McAfee's groundbreaking exploration of this emerging phenomenon gets to the heart of the tectonic shifts taking place all over the business world. We have entered a new age. And this age will transform how we achieve great things, now and into the future. The future is geek.\n\n'The most compelling analysis I've seen of what Silicon Valley has learned about building more effective organisations' - Adam Grant, host of TED podcast Re: Thinking and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again

We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the crowd are repeatedly more innovative than those from corporate research laboratories.\n\n Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson know what it takes to master this digital-powered shift: we must rethink the integration of minds and machines, of products and platforms, and of the core and the crowd. The balance now favours the second element of the pair, with massive implications for how we run our companies and live our lives. McAfee and Brynjolfsson deliver a penetrating analysis of a new world and a toolkit for thriving in it. For start-ups and established businesses or for anyone interested in the future, Machine, Platform, Crowd is essential reading.

Da giovane Eve è stata la musa di un famoso pittore. A distanza di quarant'anni molti la ricordano solo in quel ruolo. Eppure Eve è un'artista geniale: lavora con fiori e piante, e la sua opera vibra di una forza creativa unica. Adesso, nel pieno della maturità artistica, Eve si dedica al progetto piú importante, perché non intende sacrificare ancora la sua luminosa carriera, troppo spesso soffocata da incombenze famigliari, critici mediocri e rivali spietati. Ma assecondare un'ambizione accecante, come Eve scoprirà, può rivelarsi molto pericoloso.«McAfee sa infondere di vita vera l'opera di un artista, catturando il lettore nella sua creazione. L'arte non funge da mero espediente narrativo nel romanzo, ma ne è il cuore pulsante. \"Belladonna\" è un libro originale e seducente» – Polly Clark«\"Belladonna\" è un romanzo magnifico, denso di arte, potere e contorta sensualità, che esplora le implicazioni di una vita completamente dedicata alla creazione artistica» – The ObserverLondra, una notte d'inverno. I passi di Eve risuonano nelle strade, ora buie e deserte, ora gremite di voci festose e luci natalizie. Ma dove sta andando Eve? Il percorso di quell'insolito vagabondare sembra snodarsi tra i ricordi. È la sua memoria, insieme alla città, che Eve scandaglia, seguendo una traiettoria casuale che passa per i momenti cruciali della sua vita privata e professionale. La squallida periferia dell'infanzia, la magnolia sotto cui si consumava la prima goffa storia d'amore, gli anni alternativi dell'accademia. Piú di tutto, prepotente, torna New York. Eve ci si era trasferita dopo la laurea, insieme a due compagne di corso, Wanda e Mara, con l'obiettivo spericolato di sfondare sulla fervente scena artistica degli anni Settanta. Quel periodo le ha lasciato un segno indelebile, quasi al pari di Ragazza con fiore, il famigerato dipinto in cui l'ha immortalata l'anziano amante Florian Kiš, monstre sacré dell'arte novecentesca. Dal soggetto fragile e scomposto di quel ritratto Eve non è mai riuscita a separare la sua immagine. Anche dopo l'osannato Florilegio underground – una mappa della metro di Londra in cui tavole botaniche sostituiscono i nomi delle stazioni –, i numerosi successi, le mostre prestigiose. A New York Eve ha incontrato il futuro marito, il brillante architetto Kristof, con cui è tornata a Londra, portandosi dietro le vecchie cicatrici della relazione tossica con Florian e una rinnovata, accanita rivalità con Wanda. Il matrimonio, la nascita della figlia, le rinunce che la società impone alle donne: Eve ha tradito i suoi sogni, sacrificando la carriera in cambio di una soffocante stabilità. Nella notte londinese, Eve ripensa anche agli eventi impetuosi del recente passato. Nel pieno della maturità ha scelto di assecondare le sue ambizioni e dedicarsi alla realizzazione di un'opera grandiosa, la piú importante, che sancirà il suo riscatto artistico agli occhi di tutti, inclusi quelli di Wanda. A infiammare il genio e la passione di Eve, poi,...

One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an accessible, introductory guide to the main themes of Kristeva's work, including her ideas on:\n*semiotics and symbolism\n*abjection\n*melancholia\n*feminism\n*revolt.\nMcAfee provides clear explanations of the more difficult aspects of Kristeva's theories, helpfully placing her ideas in the relevant theoretical context, be it literary theory, psychoanalysis, linguistics, gender studies or philosophy, and demonstrates the impact of her critical interventions in these areas.\nJulia Kristeva is the essential guide for readers who are approaching the work of this challenging thinker for the first time, and provides the ideal opportunity for those with more knowledge to re-familiarise themselves with Kristeva's key terms.

Nel corso della storia, per l'umanità l'unico modo di crescere è stato quello di depredare la Terra: abbattere le foreste, inquinare aria e acqua, estrarre risorse all'infinito. Fin dalla prima Giornata della Terra nel 1970, la convinzione dominante è stata che, per prendersi cura del pianeta, occorresse cambiare radicalmente rotta: ridurre i consumi, stringere la cinghia, imparare a condividere e riutilizzare, limitare la crescita. Ragionamento corretto? Assolutamente no! McAfee sostiene che per risolvere i problemi dell'ambiente non servono cambiamenti radicali. Al contrario, dobbiamo fare di più di quello che stiamo già facendo: far crescere economie di mercato tecnologicamente sofisticate in tutto il mondo. L'America, per esempio, grande paese ad alta tecnologia che rappresenta circa il 25% dell'economia globale, anno dopo anno utilizza progressivamente meno risorse, anche se la sua economia e la sua popolazione continuano a crescere; sta inoltre inquinando di meno l'aria e l'acqua, emettendo meno gas serra e ricostituendo le popolazioni animali in via di estinzione. E - come dimostra McAfee - l'America non è sola. Anche altri paesi stanno andando incontro a una trasformazione profonda. Che cosa ha reso possibile questa svolta? In primo luogo la collaborazione fra tecnologia e capitalismo. Ma anche governi capaci di rispondere in maniera reattiva e un'opinione pubblica consapevole sono stati fondamentali. Senza ignorare questioni irrisolte, come il riscaldamento globale, la pesca eccessiva e le comunità lasciate indietro mentre il capitalismo e il progresso tecnologico vanno avanti, il libro è un resoconto rivelatore e paradigmatico di come siamo incappati in un equilibrio con la natura inaspettatamente migliore. Un equilibrio che porta con sé la promessa di secoli più abbondanti e di un futuro più verde.

Number One Bestseller\n\n\n\nA unique history and 'how to' book on one of Ireland's most distinctive landscape features - the stone wall.\n\n\n\nThe Irish countryside is a patchwork of over 250,000 miles of stone wall. Built from local stone according to the style of each region - dry stone in the West and the Mourne mountains or mortar elsewhere - these walls are an intrinsic part of the landscape. This unique guide by expert stone mason Pat McAfee covers the history of this ancient tradition, giving illustrated examples and step-by-step instructions on constructing, conserving and repairing stone walls of all types - whether dry stone or mortar. It includes:\n\n\n\n\n\nHistory of stone in Ireland\nHow to build dry stone and mortar walls\nBasic and more advanced techniques\nDos and don'ts of repair work\nAppropriate conservation methods

'Engrossing...I loved each and every brushstroke' Ian Rankin\n\n'Nightshade is a glorious novel... full of twisted sexuality, art and power' Observer\n\nCould the creative urge be the most destructive - even the deadliest - impulse of all? Could it end in death?\n\nEve Laing, once the muse of an infamous painter, is now - forty years later - an artist herself. But she has sacrificed her career for her family. She resents the global success of her old college roommate. She is slowly unravelling.\n\nWhen Eve embarks on her most ambitious work yet, she takes a wrecking ball to her comfortable life, jettisoning her marriage for a beautiful young lover who seems to share her single-minded creative vision. \n\n This timely novel explores sexual politics, asking if the true artist must relinquish the ordinary human need for love and connection to pave the way for desire and ambition, leading to a fatal awakening...

Nel corso della storia, per l'umanità l'unico modo di crescere è stato quello di depredare la Terra: abbattere le foreste, inquinare aria e acqua, estrarre risorse all'infinito. Fin dalla prima Giornata della Terra nel 1970, la convinzione dominante è stata che, per prendersi cura del pianeta, occorresse cambiare radicalmente rotta: ridurre i consumi, stringere la cinghia, imparare a condividere e riutilizzare, limitare la crescita. Ragionamento corretto? Assolutamente no! McAfee sostiene che per risolvere i problemi dell'ambiente non servono cambiamenti radicali. Al contrario, dobbiamo fare di più di quello che stiamo già facendo: far crescere economie di mercato tecnologicamente sofisticate in tutto il mondo. L'America, per esempio, grande paese ad alta tecnologia che rappresenta circa il 25% dell'economia globale, anno dopo anno utilizza progressivamente meno risorse, anche se la sua economia e la sua popolazione continuano a crescere; sta inoltre inquinando di meno l'aria e l'acqua, emettendo meno gas serra e ricostituendo le popolazioni animali in via di estinzione. E - come dimostra McAfee - l'America non è sola. Anche altri paesi stanno andando incontro a una trasformazione profonda. Che cosa ha reso possibile questa svolta? In primo luogo la collaborazione fra tecnologia e capitalismo. Ma anche governi capaci di rispondere in maniera reattiva e un'opinione pubblica consapevole sono stati fondamentali. Senza ignorare questioni irrisolte, come il riscaldamento globale, la pesca eccessiva e le comunità lasciate indietro mentre il capitalismo e il progresso tecnologico vanno avanti, il libro è un resoconto rivelatore e paradigmatico di come siamo incappati in un equilibrio con la natura inaspettatamente migliore. Un equilibrio che porta con sé la promessa di secoli più abbondanti e di un futuro più verde.

'Nightshade is a glorious novel... full of twisted sexuality, art and power' Observer\n\nFamily life. Reputation. They took a lifetime to build and a second to wreck.\n\nEve Laing, once the muse of an infamous painter, is now - forty years later - an artist herself. But she has sacrificed her career for her family and she resents the global success of her old college roommate. When Eve embarks on her most ambitious work yet, she takes a wrecking ball to her comfortable life, jettisoning her marriage for a beautiful young lover, a drifter half her age, who seems to share her single-minded creative vision.\n\nThis brilliant and timely novel explores sexual politics and asks if the true artist must relinquish the ordinary human need for love and connection. Can the creative urge be the most destructive - even deadliest - impulse of all?\n\n'Brilliant and biting' Financial Times

We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the crowd are repeatedly more innovative than those from corporate research laboratories.\n\n Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson know what it takes to master this digital-powered shift: we must rethink the integration of minds and machines, of products and platforms, and of the core and the crowd. The balance now favours the second element of the pair, with massive implications for how we run our companies and live our lives. McAfee and Brynjolfsson deliver a penetrating analysis of a new world and a toolkit for thriving in it. For start-ups and established businesses or for anyone interested in the future, Machine, Platform, Crowd is essential reading.

Alla soglia degli ottant'anni la più riverita penna del giornalismo britannico, Honor Tait, famosa tanto per un cinquantennio di reportage scottanti dai più importanti scenari internazionali, quanto per le rutilanti frequentazioni culturali e mondane, si appresta a dare alle stampe la sua ultima fatica. Per un infelice qui pro quo, a intervistarla per conto del prestigioso supplemento culturale \"Sunday\" viene spedita la ventisettenne Tamara Sim, contrattista precaria per il settimanale di costume \"Pssst!\" e reginetta delle classifiche dell'in e dell'out fra i vip della tv. L'incontro fra due donne tanto diverse diventa anche scontro fra antitetici approcci al giornalismo: quello impegnato, di prima linea di Honor, sicura di sé sui principali teatri bellici dal secondo dopoguerra in avanti; e il gossip selvaggio in cui sguazza Tamara, ochetta sbadata e un po' ignorante che, anziché fra le pieghe della Storia, per mestiere fruga fra le lenzuola e negli armadietti dei medicinali delle celebrità pop. Insomma, Martha Gellhorn incontra Bridget Jones, e l'esito sarebbe scontato. Non fosse che a legare l'improbabile duo c'è la comune determinazione a raggiungere il proprio obiettivo: per Honor, riscrivere l'articolo sulla liberazione di Buchenwald; e per Tamara, trovare lo scoop che la sottrarrà al sottobosco dei tabloid per trasformarla in una firma. Un impietoso ritratto del mondo dell'informazione e dei meccanismi che regolano \"il mercato delle news\".

Step up to table tennis success! Table Tennis: Steps to Success combines the knowledge and experience of master instructor Richard McAfee with essential table tennis techniques and strategies for today's player. \n\nWith a unique 11-step approach designed to maximize table tennis instruction, you'll learn the proper grip for your style of play, execution of the basic strokes, and the correct way to apply spin to the ball. Then, build on these core techniques with masterful footwork, serves, returns, and stroke combinations. \n\nBest of all, learn how and when to apply those skills in match play. With competitive strategies-adapted for both you and your opponent's playing style-you'll raise your game to a new level. And with clear instruction, comprehensive coverage, detailed photo sequences, and drills to ensure mastery of every technique, you'll be playing-and winning-in no time.\n\nAs part of the Steps to Success Sports Series-with more than 1.5 million copies sold-rest assured that Table Tennis: Steps to Success is the #1 resource for learning, and loving, the game.

We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the crowd are repeatedly more innovative than those from corporate research laboratories.\n\n Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson know what it takes to master this digital-powered shift: we must rethink the integration of minds and machines, of products and platforms, and of the core and the crowd. The balance now favours the second element of the pair, with massive implications for how we run our companies and live our lives. McAfee and Brynjolfsson deliver a penetrating analysis of a new world and a toolkit for thriving in it. For start-ups and established businesses or for anyone interested in the future, Machine, Platform, Crowd is essential reading.

Ritorno a Fascaray è un romanzo magmatico, ambizioso, proteiforme. Sorretto da una scrittura di straordinaria intelligenza e di sorprendente ricchezza, il racconto parallelo di Mhairi McPhail e di Grigor McWatt riesce a rendere vero un mondo che vero non è, perché profondamente autentico è il sentimento che anima i suoi protagonisti.\r\n\r\n«Brulicante di vita, e di passione, e di intelligenza» – The Herald\r\n\r\n«La complessità emotiva della scrittura di McAfee si rivela all'altezza del paesaggio dell'isola e del mare che la circonda» – Literary Review\r\n\r\n«La conferma dell'idea che ogni identità è un sistema creativo, il frutto di un buon accordo tra geografia e immaginazione» – Daily Mail\r\n\r\nSu una tela geografica di minuscole proporzioni – cinque miglia per tre di erica e roccia a picco su acque turbolente – Mhairi McPhail va in cerca di ogni documento, ogni testo, ogni lettera di Grigor McWatt, il grande bardo recentemente scomparso dell'isola immaginaria di Fascaray. Di lui la ricercatrice canadese appena sbarcata da New York nella remota Scozia delle proprie origini ha in mente di scrivere la biografia; alla sua memoria gli isolani intendono allestire un museo. L'opera e la sconfinata passione con cui il Poeta ha tramandato ogni aspetto dell'amata Fascaray, dalla fauna alla flora, dalla resistenza politica alla lingua, trovano spazio tra le pagine della vita di Mhairi e innervano il percorso della sua scoperta di sé. Ad accompagnarla nelle sue ricerche, la vigile e fresca curiosità della figlia Agnes di nove anni, assai piú pronta di lei a scoprire bellezze nelle persone e le cose, a riconoscere ciò che rimane e che conta dei foschi segreti di un tempo, delle meraviglie naturali di una terra scabra e bellissima, nonché delle imposture che il mare e il vento dell'isola a poco a poco cancellano. Come la grande letteratura da sempre ci insegna, tornare a casa significa dare inizio a un lungo viaggio pericoloso dentro un inesausto desiderio di appartenenza, affrontare ostacoli e inconvenienti, arrendersi a perdere e ritrovare altro da quello che credevamo di andare cercando. Navigare le acque della propria odissea in compagnia di qualcuno, se si è fortunati.

Hame, n. Scottish form of 'home': a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin\n\nAfter her relationship breaks down, Mhairi McPhail dismantles her life in New York and moves with her nine-year-old daughter, Agnes, to the remote Scottish island of Fascaray to write the biography of Grigor McWatt, the late Bard of Fascaray. \n\nBut who was the cantankerous Grigor McWatt? Despite his international reputation, details of his past are elusive. As Mhairi struggles to adapt to her new life she begins to unearth the astonishing secret history of the poet regarded by many as the custodian of Fascaray's - and Scotland's - soul.

Step up to table tennis success! Table Tennis: Steps to Success combines the knowledge and experience of master instructor Richard McAfee with essential table tennis techniques and strategies for today's player. \n\nWith a unique 11-step approach designed to maximize table tennis instruction, you'll learn the proper grip for your style of play, execution of the basic strokes, and the correct way to apply spin to the ball. Then, build on these core techniques with masterful footwork, serves, returns, and stroke combinations. \n\nBest of all, learn how and when to apply those skills in match play. With competitive strategies-adapted for both you and your opponent's playing style-you'll raise your game to a new level. And with clear instruction, comprehensive coverage, detailed photo sequences, and drills to ensure mastery of every technique, you'll be playing-and winning-in no time.\n\nAs part of the Steps to Success Sports Series-with more than 1.5 million copies sold-rest assured that Table Tennis: Steps to Success is the #1 resource for learning, and loving, the game.

One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an accessible, introductory guide to the main themes of Kristeva's work, including her ideas on:\n*semiotics and symbolism\n*abjection\n*melancholia\n*feminism\n*revolt.\nMcAfee provides clear explanations of the more difficult aspects of Kristeva's theories, helpfully placing her ideas in the relevant theoretical context, be it literary theory, psychoanalysis, linguistics, gender studies or philosophy, and demonstrates the impact of her critical interventions in these areas.\nJulia Kristeva is the essential guide for readers who are approaching the work of this challenging thinker for the first time, and provides the ideal opportunity for those with more knowledge to re-familiarise themselves with Kristeva's key terms.

Number One Bestseller\n\n\n\nA unique history and 'how to' book on one of Ireland's most distinctive landscape features - the stone wall.\n\n\n\nThe Irish countryside is a patchwork of over 250,000 miles of stone wall. Built from local stone according to the style of each region - dry stone in the West and the Mourne mountains or mortar elsewhere - these walls are an intrinsic part of the landscape. This unique guide by expert stone mason Pat McAfee covers the history of this ancient tradition, giving illustrated examples and step-by-step instructions on constructing, conserving and repairing stone walls of all types - whether dry stone or mortar. It includes:\n\n\n\n\n\nHistory of stone in Ireland\nHow to build dry stone and mortar walls\nBasic and more advanced techniques\nDos and don'ts of repair work\nAppropriate conservation methods

Realizing how little control we have over our lives can make us fearful and anxious--or it can lead to greater intimacy with God, a richer prayer life, and a joyful eternal perspective. \n\nSeasons of grief, pain, and loss of control are inevitable. Despite our best efforts and steadfast faith, reality rarely matches our expectations. In an unpredictable and broken world, how do we cling to a foundation that provides purpose for today and hope for the future? \n\nIn their new book, Beyond Our Control, Michael and Lauren McAfee show us how trusting God brings greater contentment than the illusion of control. With deep and abiding faith, the McAfees draw on their experiences with adoption, infertility, illness, and loss to help readers navigate unexpected circumstances. Offering biblical insights and their powerful story of pain and providence, Michael and Lauren know that no matter what happens--to their family, work, or ministry--everything is as it should be because God is in control, and he is good.  \n\nThe McAfees help us:\n\n\n\nrecognize the illusion of control and how it leads to greater anxiety;\nunderstand why glorifying God is the richest expectation we can have for our lives;\nrealize that Jesus' pain on the cross brings hope and healing to the pain we experience now;\npractice the profoundly comforting spiritual discipline of lament, which makes room for us to process grief; and\nuse times of loss to make more room for God's work of growing and sanctifying us.\n\n \n\nIf you struggle to embrace the life you have rather than the life you wanted, this book invites you to find a deeper peace in God than you could have imagined.

With a foreword by Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn\n\n'A handbook for disruptors' - Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google\n\nWe're living in a time of amazing innovation, but we're not paying enough attention to one of the most important of all: the innovation to the company itself. Now, bestselling author of The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee, explains how engineers and geeks are changing the world of business - with extraordinary results.\n\nA new model is being pioneered by geeks; a radical new mindset that has shifted the paradigm entirely on what a business can - and should - be. They do not follow the rules of the Industrial era, with their hierarchies and bureaucratic ways of thinking. They do not follow the principles preached in business schools since the dawn of time. They have all dedicated themselves to approaching business as a geek would: through trial and error, egalitarianism, evidence and stress-testing ideas in a group setting - rather than relying on the boss's instincts.\n\nBy investigating and surveying the contemporary research in psychology, economics and the behavioural sciences, as well as first-hand accounts from the 'geek' leaders of today, McAfee's groundbreaking exploration of this emerging phenomenon gets to the heart of the tectonic shifts taking place all over the business world. We have entered a new age. And this age will transform how we achieve great things, now and into the future. The future is geek.\n\n'The most compelling analysis I've seen of what Silicon Valley has learned about building more effective organisations' - Adam Grant, host of TED podcast Re: Thinking and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again

Hame, n. Scottish form of 'home': a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin\n\nAfter her relationship breaks down, Mhairi McPhail dismantles her life in New York and moves with her nine-year-old daughter, Agnes, to the remote Scottish island of Fascaray to write the biography of Grigor McWatt, the late Bard of Fascaray. \n\nBut who was the cantankerous Grigor McWatt? Despite his international reputation, details of his past are elusive. As Mhairi struggles to adapt to her new life she begins to unearth the astonishing secret history of the poet regarded by many as the custodian of Fascaray's - and Scotland's - soul.

'Nightshade is a glorious novel... full of twisted sexuality, art and power' Observer\n\nFamily life. Reputation. They took a lifetime to build and a second to wreck.\n\nEve Laing, once the muse of an infamous painter, is now - forty years later - an artist herself. But she has sacrificed her career for her family and she resents the global success of her old college roommate. When Eve embarks on her most ambitious work yet, she takes a wrecking ball to her comfortable life, jettisoning her marriage for a beautiful young lover, a drifter half her age, who seems to share her single-minded creative vision.\n\nThis brilliant and timely novel explores sexual politics and asks if the true artist must relinquish the ordinary human need for love and connection. Can the creative urge be the most destructive - even deadliest - impulse of all?\n\n'Brilliant and biting' Financial Times

'Engrossing...I loved each and every brushstroke' Ian Rankin\n\n'Nightshade is a glorious novel... full of twisted sexuality, art and power' Observer\n\nCould the creative urge be the most destructive - even the deadliest - impulse of all? Could it end in death?\n\nEve Laing, once the muse of an infamous painter, is now - forty years later - an artist herself. But she has sacrificed her career for her family. She resents the global success of her old college roommate. She is slowly unravelling.\n\nWhen Eve embarks on her most ambitious work yet, she takes a wrecking ball to her comfortable life, jettisoning her marriage for a beautiful young lover who seems to share her single-minded creative vision. \n\n This timely novel explores sexual politics, asking if the true artist must relinquish the ordinary human need for love and connection to pave the way for desire and ambition, leading to a fatal awakening...