Come una tappa di montagna, ogni percorso di vita è un alternarsi di salite e discese, momenti durissimi e poi sollievo, castigo e misericordia. Il ciclismo è del resto un poderoso esercizio del corpo che, oltre alla forza muscolare, necessita di formidabili energie mentali. In questo libro Davide Cassani parte dal punto più amaro della propria lunga carriera - quando, appena esautorato dal ruolo di ct della Nazionale, si trovò da solo sul divano di casa a gioire per la conquista dell'oro nella gara su pista a Tokyo 2021 - per scandagliare, a una a una, tutte le risorse interiori che la bicicletta, sempre fortemente 'voluta', gli ha permesso di sviluppare negli anni. L'ingrediente di base è la passione, sbocciata già nel '68, quando il babbo lo portò a vedere Gimondi al Mondiale. Ma non basta. Poi occorre decidere chi sei («gregario, lo avevo capito quasi subito»), saper scegliere gli obiettivi (vedi Nibali nel 2016: Giro, Tour o Olimpiade?) e soprattutto imparare a rialzarsi anche dopo le peggiori cadute, come quella di Bettiol a Tokyo. Per farlo servono sia fiducia all'interno della squadra (Martini ne aveva in Cassani, come Cassani in Trentin), sia tante altre doti individuali: lucidità, senso della sfida, studio. E poi la spinta (forse) maggiore viene dall'attitudine a sorprendere tutti come Colbrelli alla Roubaix, ad azzerare per cominciare una nuova vita. Cassani, di vite, ne ha già vissute almeno tre: corridore, commentatore, ct. E non stupisce che si stia profilando la quarta...

Extreme horror for desperate survivors in a world overrun by psychopaths (think The Walking Dead meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre), as written by best-selling authors David Lapham and David Hine!

Journey back to the earliest days of the Crossed outbreak, when an outbreak of viral insanity first plunged an unsuspecting world into darkness, in two tales scribed by the masters of modern horror, David Lapham and David Hine! In high school, Edmund earned his nickname “Yellow Belly” by running away and hiding whenever confronted by conflicts or fears. But when the Crossed infection ignites at a local circus, when a world of color and delight turns to anguish and misery, perhaps it’s that very same cowardice that will save him in the end! Meanwhile, a group of self-centered and hedonistic college kids head to a writer's retreat to explore their inner selves... but end up surrounded by berserk killers. What depths will they sink to in order to survive the grinning, gruesome hordes hunting them through the wilderness?

When Shelly Trotter, the daughter of the state governor and a children's rights advocate, comes to the aid of a seventeen-year-old former client accused of killing a police officer, only to discover that the boy had become caught up in an undercover sting to trap corrupt cops and that he claims to be the son she had given up for private adoption years before. Simultaneous.

Stimulus plans: good or bad? Free markets: How free are they? Jobs: Can we afford them? Occupy Wall Street . . . worldwide!

Everybody's talking about the economy, but how can we, the people, understand what Wall Street or Washington knows—or say they know? Read Economix.

With clear, witty writing and quirky, accessible art, this important and timely graphic novel transforms “the dismal science” of economics into a fun, fact-filled story about human nature and our attempts to make the most of what we've got . . . and sometimes what our neighbors have got. Economix explains it all, from the beginning of Western economic thought, to markets free and otherwise, to economic failures, successes, limitations, and future possibilities. It's the essential, accessible guide to understanding the economy and economic practices. A must-read for every citizen and every voter.

PRAISE FOR ECONOMIX

“It's simply phenomenal. You could read ten books on the subject and not glean as much information.”

— David Bach founder of FinishRich Media; author of nine New York Times bestsellers, including Debt Free for Life and The Automatic Millionaire

“Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible—he has made economics comprehensible and funny.”

— Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

“An amazing lesson in true-world economics! Delightfully presented, powerful, insightful, and important information! What a fun way to fathom a deep and often dark subject!”

— John Perkins, author of Hoodwinked and the New York Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

“Smart, insightful, clear, and as close to the truth as economics can get. The bonus: Who would have guessed that economics could be fun, and—here's the joy—really accessible? Goodwin roots us in history and fills us with common sense understanding. As he puts it early on, economics seems horribly complicated mostly because we're looking at it all at once. Broken down into its component pieces, it's relatively easy to understand. And a good understanding of economics is critical to maneuvering in the world today. If I were compiling a list of the 100 most important books you can read in a lifetime, this would be on it.”

—Stephen Petranek, editor-in-chief, Weider History magazines, former editor-in-chief of Discover magazine

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Collects three novels about family and relationships.

Today we all face more impossible challenges than ever before. But Flash Foresight lets you transform the impossible into the possible, revealing hidden opportunities and allowing you to solve your biggest problems—before they happen.

Daniel Burrus is one of the world's leading forecasters, corporate strategists, and visionaries. Over the past quarter-century, he has established a worldwide reputation for his exceptional record of accurately predicting the future of technological change and its direct impact on the business world.

'Wouldn't it be amazing if you could predict the future—and be right?' writes Burrus. 'You can: all you have to do is leave out the parts you could be wrong about! And the amazing thing is, when you know where to look, there's more than enough you can be right about to make all the difference.'

From small businesses to multinationals, individual careers to entire industries, Flash Foresight looks at how Burrus's seven radical Flash Foresight 'triggers' have transformed dozens of careers, fortunes, and lives. Both engaging and enlightening, Flash Foresight provides an easy-to-implement blueprint for applying the same strategies to your own business, enabling you to see the invisible and do the impossible.

In the past, Flash Foresight was useful. Today, as the pace of technological change accelerates almost beyond the point of comprehension, it's an imperative.

'Creatio ex nihilo is a foundational doctrine in the Abrahamic faiths. It states that God created the world freely out of nothing - from no pre-existent matter, space or time. This teaching is central to classical accounts of divine action, free will, grace, theodicy, religious language, intercessory prayer and questions of divine temporality and as such, the foundation of a scriptural God but also the transcendent Creator of all that is'--Provided by publisher.

This exciting collection of poetry reveals the true nature of pirates, who were really a bunch of misfits, thugs, and ne'er-do-wells whose craving for excitement and treasure led to danger--and even death.

An ancient commentator called Job a 'strange and wonderful book.' For many readers, 'strange' might do. Though Job has been characterized as an answer to the problem of suffering, for many the book fails to satisfy the longing for answers it supposedly contains. Perhaps that, in fact, is the point of Job--there are no satisfactory arguments for why people suffer. In this compact yet substantial volume, David B. Burrell argues that this is the message of Job. Burrell engages major movements of the book in theological and philosophical reflection. The book also contains an interfaith perspective with the inclusion of a chapter by Islamic scholar A. H. Johns on the reading of the Job figure in the Koran. Burrell finally concludes that Job's contribution to the problem of suffering is as an affirmation that God hears and heeds our cries of anguish.EXCERPTWhile an initial reading of the story which frames the book of Job suggests a classical theodicy of divine testing and of reward and punishment, we shall later see (with the help of real friends) just how misguided a reading that is. For now, it will suffice to note how the drama's unfolding belies such a reading, notably in the counterpoint between each of Job's friends and Job himself. For while they each address arguments to Job, his riposte to their arguments is addressed not to them but to the overwhelming presence of the God of Israel, to inaugurate an implicit dialogue vindicated by that same God who ends by announcing his preference for Job above all of them. Indeed, they incur the wrath of that God for attempting vigorously to take God's side! Yet since this is the very One who has taken such care to reveal his ways to a particular people (to whom Job does not belong), one cannot escape concluding that the entire dramatic exchange--between Job and his interlocutors and even more between Job and the God of Israel--must be directed against a recurrent misappropriation of that revelation on the part of the people entrusted with it. So it must be that the book's primary role in the Hebrew canon will be to correct that characteristic misapprehension of the revelation displayed by Job's friends, as their 'explanation' of his plight turns on reading the covenant as a set of simple transactions.