Handy, pocket-size pop up map of Milan! Ideal to pop in a pocket or handbag for quick reference while exploring the city. Explore Milan with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized, pop-up map. Small in size, yet big on detail, this compact, dependable Milan city map will ensure you don't miss a thi[...]
Tiepolo in Milan: The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto brings together preparatory drawings and paintings, as well as documentary photographs, to commemorate an extraordinary fresco cycle by the Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Painted for Palazzo Archinto in Milan, the frescoes w[...]
Miss Jane Fairfield has made a career of social disaster. She wears outrageous gowns and says even more outrageous things. The only reason she's invited anywhere is because of her immense dowry--which is all part of her plan to avoid marriage and keep the fortune-hunters at bay. Mr. Oliver Marshall [...]
The updated Michelin Must Sees Milan & Italian Lakes hits the area's highlights for a 24-hour visit, a weekend or longer. Window-shop at world-renowned Italian fashion designer storefronts, as you stroll along Via Monte Napoleone. Admire the Duomo s architecture; and finish the day with Brera s live[...]
Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absen[...]
Discover a canal lock designed by Leonardo da Vinci as well as the secrets of his Last Supper, find out where Mussolini s hidden bunker lies, marry beneath frescoes by Tiepolo, visit artists houses usually closed to the public, see exceptional private collections, admire the sculpture of a young gir[...]
This book celebrates Milan's hosting of the World Exposition (Expo) in 2015 by providing fascinating insights into the city and its history that will appeal to all those visitors to Expo 2015 who wish to understand fully what Milan has to offer and what they are to see there. Combining straightforwa[...]
This volume describes a uniform international approach for classifying and reporting salivary gland FNA samples. The new reporting system is evidence-based using data from the literature as well as upon the experience of a multi-disciplinary group of leading experts involved in the field of salivary[...]
The Time for Mass Customization Has Arrived Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison There s an allegory that many inventors have used to define their moment of inspiration when diligence, a strong work ethic and imagination met at the[...]
In einem Pariser Fitness-Club beobachtet der Autor, wie eine etwa sechzigjährige Dame Schwimmunterricht nimmt. Am Ende der Lektion winkt sie dem Schwimmlehrer zum Abschied noch einmal zu und macht dabei eine so graziöse Handbewegung, daß der Betrachter beschließt, diese Geste, die die ganze Leic[...]
?Die Männer drehen sich nicht mehr nach mir um.? Mit diesen Worten empfängt Chantal ihren Lebensgefährten nach seiner Rückkehr vom Sterbebett eines Freundes. Sie hat eine Nacht und einen Vormittag allein im Hotel verbracht. Er hat sie gesucht, am Strand in der Ferne erspäht und seine Liebeserkl[...]
Sie kam ihm vor wie ein Kind, das jemand in ein pechbestrichenes Körbchen gelegt und auf dem Fluà ausgesetzt hatte, damit er es am Ufer seines Bettes barg. Der Prager Chirurg Tomas, der die Frauen begehrt und zugleich fürchtet, ein Erotomane, der seine Scheidung wie eine Hochzeit feierte un[...]