Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera's place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed the Franco-Czech author as a maker of "period pieces" that lost currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Merrill refutes this view, revealing a previously unexplore[...]

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Milan and the Italian lakes district.In this compact guide, Rick Steves covers the essentials of Milan and the Italian lakes district, including Lake Como and Lake Maggiore. Relax in the sleepy village of Varenna[...]

Get Straight to the Heart of the place
Top ExperiencesThe top things to see and do plus expert advice to make your trip even better
Local Life Discover how to unlock the city with guides to areas that the locals really love.
Best of Milan We ve found the best walks, food, art, shopping, n[...]

Milan has been Italy's leading fashion centre for years, not to mention its economic powerhouse, but today it's much more - for style and contemporary buzz, no other city comes close. This title offers a selection of ways to spend your spare time, from the buzzing nightlife and inimitable shopping t[...]

"Flexi Map Milan" is a laminated, tear-resistant map which includes 3 maps, each accompanied by its own index. The main map depicts Milan at a scale of 1:14 000 and the index has been categorized for ease of use. Streets are named along with public buildings, selected hotels and numerous places of i[...]

This edited book contains a hitherto unpublished seminar held by John Bowlby in Milan, Italy in 1985. The seminar is preceded by a foreword by Kate White, of the Bowlby Centre, and by an introduction by the editor, Marco Bacciagaluppi. The introduction contains excerpts from unpublished corresponden[...]

Insight Guides: Inspiring your next adventure
Milan is a city steeped in cultural and historical riches, offering some of the world's finest dining, sport, shopping, architecture and opera. Be inspired to visit by the brand new Insight Pocket Guide Milan, a concise, full-colour guide to this icon[...]

Rossana Rossanda is one of the most important and influential intellectuals on the European Left, and was one of its key figures in the second half of the twentieth century. Born in 1924, by 1943 she was immersed in the Italian Resistance movement. After the war she rose quickly through the ranks of[...]

Food, fashion and finance - those are the three raisons d'etre of Italy's northern jewel. Milan may be the country's economic powerhouse but it's also a prime tourist destination, with world-class restaurants, beautiful boutique hotels, a newly resurgent music scene and stunning lake and mountain sc[...]

An ancient evil manifests. A darkness consumes the sky. A saviour will rise from the East. The world will listen. Amidst the chaos, Jayesh Shastri meets a gifted young child in the middle of India's busiest highway. Then everything changes. In contrast to his previous behaviour, Jay decides to tackl[...]

This book is the first comprehensive post-war history of one of Europe's most vibrant cities throughout an extraordinary period of social, cultural and economic change. The capital of Italy's economic miracle of the 1950s and 60s, Milan was a magnet for immigrants, as industry, design and culture cr[...]

Milan has it all: as the capital of fashion and the heart of the Italian economy, shopping for anything from couture to cutlery is remarkable. However, whilst Milan is modern and effortlessly cool, the past is always treated with the respect it deserves and the spectacular museums, monuments, and th[...]