Cesare: 255 books

How to close the gap between strategy and execution Two-thirds of executives say their organizations don’t have the capabilities to support their strategy. In Strategy That Works, Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why. They identify conventional business practices that unintentionally...

Conventional wisdom on strategy is no longer a reliable guide. In Essential Advantage, Booz & Company's Cesare Mainardi and Paul Leinwand maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with coherence: a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Achieving...

"Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, the 19 stories in this new best-of annual anthology feature episodes of graphic gore and violence--including torture, dismemberment, self-mutilation, and home abortion--that are designed to push buttons as well as boundaries...strictly for hardcore...

On Crimes and Punishments, is a treatise written by Cesare Beccaria in 1764. It condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology.

What if a serial killer won the lotto? Booker has been playing the Powerball for years, randomly picking victims off the street and using their ages as his lucky numbers, carving the digits into their heads. He has come up empty time and time again. But tonight? He feels lucky. And when the ping pong...

Published in 1764, On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794) courted both success and controversy in Europe and North America. Enlightenment luminaries and enlightened monarchs alike lauded the text and looked to it for ideas that might help guide the various reform projects of the...

28 June – 28 July 2013 Gaspar van Wittel succeeded above all other artists in capturing the lights, mysteries and poetry of Rome, skilfully bringing together the painting technique of the Dutch School he had learnt during his apprenticeship with the intense emotional character of Roman 17th Century...

Heidegger scholars consider the philosopher's recently published notebooks, including the issues of Heidegger's Nazism and anti-Semitism. For more than forty years, the philosopher Martin Heidegger logged ideas and opinions in a series of notebooks, known as the “Black Notebooks” after...

Nell’ultimo decennio della sua vita Tolstoj si dedicò a raccogliere testi tratti da ogni cultura e da ogni letteratura, dalla religione indù, ebraica, araba e cristiana, da pensatori antichi e moderni, dai grandi saggi d’Oriente e d’Occidente. In questo vero e proprio calendario di saggezza...

Paintings by Nostradamus discovered in 1994 in the Italian National Library provide the key to decoding his prophecies • Reveals the chronology of Nostradamus's quatrains that have been hidden for 400 years • Shows how Nostradamus correctly predicted the Nazi Blitzkrieg, the assassination...

Collana Architettura e Complessità diretta da Antonio Piva Per il terzo anno consecutivo, dopo Franca Helg e Marco Zanuso, il Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione della Facoltà di Architettura e Società del Politecnico di Milano - insieme al Dipartimento INDACO della Facoltà del Design,...

Cesare Brandi non è stato soltanto un grande storico e teorico dell'arte, ma anche un finissimo conoscitore delle arti dello spettacolo. Questo volume raccoglie recensioni, interventi, polemiche su argomenti come la musica, la danza e il teatro, scritti da Brandi dagli anni Trenta agli anni Ottanta...

editoriale / editorial La maschera verde The green mask Paolo Portoghesi Maria Beatrice Andreucci Boeri Studio Bosco verticale Vertical forest Lucia Galli Elio Fiore Anna Magnani Danilo Iervolino Next. La società 4.0 Next. society 4.0 Corrado Di Domenico Architettura di / Architecture by Renato Rizzi...

Lo studio della chiesa di San Nicolò l'Arena a Catania, presentato in questo volume, si inserisce nel dibattito culturale sulla sicurezza sismica del patrimonio monumentale che data dagli anni ottanta del secolo scorso e si impone, tuttora, per la sua grandissima attualità non solo a causa della...