Luca: 1276 books

I wrote this short essay with a twofold aim: the first is to nail down the key ideas about the origin of power and the behavior of human crowds as explained by Elias Canetti in his monumental work “Crowds and Power” that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. The second is to try to connect...

What has given the West its supremacy over other civilizations in the last few centuries? And why the main cultures that compose it are undergoing a seemingly endless process of calling to responsibility and self-blaming for all the inequalities and problems that plague the world? At the same time...

This essay connects the dots between “The Righteous Mind”, the recent success of Jonathan Haidt about the evolutionary foundations of morality and mimetic theory developed by Rene Girard around the key concepts of imitative desire and scapegoating. The two authors come from very different backgrounds...

Mi sono sempre piaciuti i dipinti di Salvador Dalì. Un quadro non è una mera rappresentazione, ma un dinamico viaggio emozionale di cui nulla si può programmare. Pensa, ad esempio, alla Tentazione di S. Antonio! Viaggio per l’artista che lo crea, viaggio per l’osservatore che lo contempla....

Napoli è, semplicemente, la città italiana più ricca di esoterismo, leggende, misteri, e queste storie e segreti si rimandano l’un l’altro in una ragnatela di citazioni e riferimenti che avviluppa la città in una rete sottile, ma visibile a chi ha occhi per vedere, e cuore per credere. Chi...

Mario Balotelli has a reputation like no other in football. Since exploding on to the scene at Inter Milan in 2007, he has won league titles in both Italy and England, moving between Europe’s elite clubs. Yet for all his undoubted talent, he is better known for his off-field antics – not least...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RONALDO AND NEYMAR Prolific, cool-headed and unerringly consistent, Lionel Messi is one of the most revered footballers in history. But did you know that his transfer to Barcelona was first agreed on a paper napkin? Or that an x-ray of his hand was...

Having risen to the top of the game more than a decade ago, Lionel Messi has matured into the perfect team player, as likely to provide a superlative assist as a masterful match-winner.  As the star of an exceptional Barcelona team, he has won more silverware than most football clubs.  Messi...

The youngest player to score in the World Cup final since Pelé, for the tournament-winning team, in his brief career to date Kylian Mbappé is breaking records at a rate matched by only the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, and is fast becoming one of the biggest names in football. But...

**Mohamed Salah needed little time to settle in to life at Liverpool.  ** Since signing for the Anfield club in 2017 for a then-club record fee, he has broken the club’s scoring record for a debut season, as well as becoming the leading goalscorer in Europe’s top five leagues, overtaking...

Within the European Union, direct taxation is an area which often provokes controversy due to tensions between the tax sovereignty of the individual Member States and the desire for an integrated internal market. This book offers a critical review of the legislative and case-law developments in this...

SELF-CONFIDENCE: A Training Course in Success, to transform your insecurity into CONFIDENCE in Yourself! Self-Confidence is a journey in stages to liberate us from our sense of lack of personal potency, and to govern the emotional wounds that have influenced us. Carefully follow Luca Stanchieri's...

Completely updated third edition-insights into the lucrative foreign exchange markets for both beginner and expert traders. A renowned authority on international investing brings the complex machinations of the foreign currency markets vibrantly to life. Cornelius Luca clearly and concisely...

Quick, incisive and versatile, Antoine Griezmann is the ultimate modern forward. Arriving in 2014 to join an Atlético Madrid side persistently challenging for the biggest trophies in Spanish and European football, he quickly established himself as the team’s key player and main goal threat. A Super...