È stato uno dei più temuti padrini nordamericani, un uomo d'affari capace di conquistare il rispetto dei clan mafiosi rivali. Vito Rizzuto, originario di Cattolica Eraclea, ha governato per anni il porto di Montréal, snodo cruciale per il mercato della droga in America, e arricchito la famiglia creando una holding del crimine ramificata in mezzo mondo, capace di infiltrarsi anche in Italia, secondo la DIA, nella gara per il ponte sullo Stretto di Messina, e di riciclare centinaia di milioni di dollari attraverso una società con sede di fronte a Palazzo Chigi. Tutto questo prima dell'arresto che divide la famiglia e ne mette a rischio il futuro: da un carcere del Colorado, don Vito assiste impotente all'assassinio del figlio e del padre, agli agguati ai colonnelli e agli amici e alla crescita inarrestabile della 'ndrangheta. Quando,- a sessantasei anni, esce di prigione, è pronto a ricostruire il suo impero criminale e a cercare una vendetta terribile... Un'inchiesta che, attraverso l'avventura nera di Rizzuto, della sua famiglia e dei suoi sodali, ci permette di capire nuovi aspetti delle dinamiche secondo cui si sviluppa e prospera la criminalità internazionale, e squarcia il velo sui nuovi equilibri di potere mafiosi in America.

Bestselling crime writers Peter Edwards and Antonio Nicaso reveal the final years of Canada's top mafia boss, Vito Rizzuto, and his bloody war to avenge his family and control the North American drug trade. 
     Until Vito Rizzuto went to prison in 2006 for his role in a decades-old Brooklyn triple murder, he ruled the Port of Montreal, the northern gateway to the major American drug markets. A master diplomat, he won the respect of rival mafia clans, bikers and street gangs, and criminal business thrived on his turf. His family prospered and his empire grew--until one of North America's true Teflon dons finally lost his veneer. As he watched helplessly from his Colorado prison, the murders of his son and father made international headlines; the killings of his lieutenants and friends filled the pages of Canadian news; and the influence of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian Mafia, spread across Montreal faster than the blood of Rizzuto's crime family. In 2012, Vito Rizzuto emerged from prison, a 66-year-old man who could carefully rebuild his criminal empire or seek bloody revenge and damn the consequences. From the events leading to his imprisonment to his shocking death in December 2013,Business or Blood is the final chapter of Vito's story.


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Le fotografie di Julius Shulman (1910-2009) hanno portato il sogno della West Coast in tutto il mondo. Le sue immagini architettoniche della California del Sud di metà Novecento sono state in grado di catturare non solo gli elementi distintivi degli edifici dal punto di vista strutturale, funzionale e progettuale, ma anche il più ampio contesto della zona e dei suoi abitanti, riproducendo un intero stile di vita. Con gli oltre 400 tesori dell'architettura scovati negli archivi di Shulman, questa nuova edizione ci regala un enorme serbatoio di cultura a un prezzo decisamente accessibile. Ogni singolo progetto e ogni singolo scatto è stato selezionato personalmente tra oltre 26.000 fotografie dall'editore Benedikt Taschen, che ha avuto l'occasione di conoscere da vicino Shulman e la sua opera fin dai tempi della pubblicazione di Julius Shulman: Architecture and Its Photography (1998). Le immagini sono affiancate da un'introduzione del critico della fotografia Owen Edwards, un'esaustiva biografia a cura dello storico Philip J. Ethington, della University of Southern California, didascalie sugli elementi decorativi realizzate da Peter Loughrey, e biografie dei principali architetti. Il volume include inoltre riflessioni personali di Shulman stesso, e testimonianze orali e un ritratto dell'epoca ricostruiti grazie a mesi di interviste con la scrittrice Hunter Drohojowska-Philp.

This inspirational guidebook describes 50 varied hiking and backpacking routes on the Scottish Hebrides islands, set out in a large guidebook format, and illustrated with a range of stunning photographs to be savoured.

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The routes highlight all the very best landscapes and scenery to be found on the spectacular islands of the Hebrides, a wonderland for adventurous walkers to return to time and time again.

Real life crimes, famous and forgotten, re-examined by leading crime writers

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All the practical advice you need for starting a business

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Bestselling crime writers Peter Edwards and Antonio Nicaso reveal the final years of Canada's top mafia boss, Vito Rizzuto, and his bloody war to avenge his family and control the North American drug trade.
Until Vito Rizzuto went to prison in 2006 for his role in a decades-old Brooklyn triple murder, he ruled the Port of Montreal, the northern gateway to the major American drug markets. A master diplomat, he won the respect of rival mafia clans, bikers and street gangs, and criminal business thrived on his turf. His family prospered and his empire grew--until one of North America's true Teflon dons finally lost his veneer. As he watched helplessly from his Colorado prison, the murders of his son and father made international headlines; the killings of his lieutenants and friends filled the pages of Canadian news; and the influence of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian Mafia, spread across Montreal faster than the blood of Rizzuto's crime family. In 2012, Vito Rizzuto emerged from prison, a 66-year-old man who could carefully rebuild his criminal empire or seek bloody revenge and damn the consequences. From the events leading to his imprisonment to his shocking death in December 2013, Business or Blood is the final chapter of Vito's story.

In this explicit first-hand account, a biker who spent 46 years as a member of the Hells Angels and Satan's Choice invites bestselling author Peter Edwards into the story of life lived as we've only imagined it.
A kid raised by his father's fists on the wrong side of a blue-collar town, Lorne Campbell grew up watching the local bikers ride past, making him wonder what that kind of freedom and power would feel like. He soon found out. At the age of 17, he became the youngest-ever member of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club and spent the next 5 decades living a life for which he does not ask forgiveness, only that his story finally be told, and that his family finally understand what drove him to live the way he did. With moments of terror and humour, great sadness and the simple pleasures of camaraderie and the open road, Unrepentant is a book like none other.

After the Hell on Earth war, the secret about Longshot and Shatterstar is revealed, sibling rivalry erupts between Polaris and Quicksilver, and Jamie Madrox's detective agency closes its doors.