'Mi piace fotografare le persone che ridono, perché ogni risata racconta una storia diversa', comincia così questo divertente catalogo delle risate dove troviamo qualcuno che ride a denti stretti, a bocca spalancata, fino alle lacrime, sotto i baffi e così via... come si sa però la risata è contagiosa e allora ecco che nel catalogo c'è posto ancora per un'ultima risata, la tua, caro lettore! Età di lettura: da 3 anni.

Una storia su come affrontare insieme il cambiamento. Una raffica di vento cambia per sempre la vita di un paio di calzini, compagni di viaggio inseparabili da tutta la vita. In un momento si ritrovano spaiati, non si riconoscono più. Riusciranno a superare insieme il cambiamento e a ricucire questa ferita? Età di lettura: da 6 anni.

Una moglie inappuntabile, una bella casa, un'ottima posizione da dirigente di banca, ma all'improvviso arriva l'occasione della vita: quella di cambiare tutto. C'è un misterioso istituto, con cui Wilson entra clandestinamente in contatto, che mette in scena la morte o la scomparsa dei suoi clienti e costruisce per loro una nuova identità, un nuovo posto nel mondo più affine all'indole e ai desideri profondi del rinato. Il prezzo da pagare è che non si può tornare indietro; e Wilson, come molti altri, dovrà fare i conti con un istituto che non perdona chi prova a venire meno al contratto stipulato, ma ancora di più con un passato impossibile da cancellare con un colpo di spugna. 'Istituto di bella morte', pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1964, è un romanzo dai toni del thriller psicologico, dove gli ingredienti fondamentali sono l'intrattenimento, la suspense e, non ultima, una profonda riflessione su temi di importanza sempre più attuale come l'insoddisfazione strisciante nelle nostre vite e il senso della società moderna e del posto che ne occupiamo. Prefazione di Vanni Santoni.

'Papà guarda, una nuvola abbraccia la montagna! Laggiù un fiore abbraccia la sua spiga! Sembra tutto incollato col miele!' 'Piccolo Orso, tutto si abbraccia nell'universo. I gas e le polveri per formare le stelle. L'aria, il fuoco, l'acqua e la terra per dare la vita al pianeta.' I piccoli si sa sono pieni di domande, ma si può far capire loro il mondo con un concetto semplice, come un abbraccio. Età di lettura: da 3 anni.

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely Planet Pocket Beijing is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Sample the city's most famous dish, Peking Duck; wander the ancient alleys known ashutong; and explore the world's largest palace complex at the Forbidden City; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of the best of Beijing and begin your journey now!

Inside Lonely Planet Pocket Beijing:

• Full-colour maps and images throughout
• Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
• Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
• Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices
• Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
• Free, convenient pull-out Beijing map (included in print version), plus more than 15 colour neighbourhood maps
• User-friendly layout with helpful icons, and organised by neighbourhood to help you pick the best spots to spend your time
• Covers the Forbidden City & Dongcheng North, the Summer Palace& Haidian, Beihai Park & Xicheng, South Chaoyang, and the Temple of Heaven Park & Dongcheng South.

The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Pocket Beijing, a colorful, easy-to-use, and handy guide that literally fits in your pocket, provides on-the-go assistance for those seeking only the can't-miss experiences to maximize a quick trip experience.

• Looking for a comprehensive guide that recommends both popular and offbeat experiences, and extensively covers all of Beijing's neighbourhoods? Check out ourLonely Planet Beijing guide.
• Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet China or Discover China guide for a comprehensive look at all China has to offer.

Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet.

About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.

This book presents one of the most outstanding private collections of 20th-century American art in the world and tells the story of how the collection evolved and eventually found a new home at Stanford University. Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Frank Stella--these are just some of the artists represented in the renowned Anderson Collection, a large portion of which was recently gifted to Stanford University, and for which a new museum building is being constructed. Featuring 121 artworks, the book includes scholarly essays on the collectors, the collection, and the individual artists and artworks represented in this significant postwar and contemporary collection. The book offers a fascinating insight into the world of art collecting, curating, research, and philanthropy, as well as a magnificent sampling of works from some of America's greatest artists.

Piano And Keyboard All-In-One For Dummies encompasses everything you need to get started on the piano, or even build upon the current skills you have. This all-in-one includes content from:

• Piano For Dummies
• Piano Exercises For Dummies
• Keyboard For Dummies
• Music Theory For Dummies
• Music Composition For Dummies
• Songwriting For Dummies
• Classical Music For Dummies
• Jazz For Dummies
• Blues For Dummies

The multimedia component for this title is hosted at Dummies.com and includes companion audio tracks that will demonstrate techniques and sounds found in the book, helping readers to better understand concepts and examples in the text.

Internationally renowned artist and illustrator Barbara Nessim's images of female figures, originating in the counterculture of the 1960s, place her in a tradition of American iconography that extends from Norman Rockwell to Keith Haring. A constant innovator, Nessim incorporates fashion, computers, and photography into her popular art. This book captures not only the work—ranging from the sketchbooks that are the wellspring of her art to prominent magazine assignments, such as a Rolling Stone cover of John Lennon, to elaborate large-scale projects—but also the life that carried her from New York’s high bohemia as a young artist to the world of cutting-edge visual journalism.

Enjoy a healthy, balanced diet with authentic Chinese cuisine!

The artistry of Chinese cooking lies in the attention to every detail of a dish’s preparation. Empowered by a deep culture of harmony and balance, making the most of the health benefits of each ingredient, and presenting each meal in an attractive, appetizing way are the three hallmarks of true Chinese cuisine. With Cooking Well: Healthy Chinese, you and your family can enjoy the wonderful tastes, colors, and aromas of Chinese cooking.

Whether you’re looking for well-known dishes such as Chicken Chow Mein and Kung Pao Chicken, or are interested in trying traditional Chinese recipes, Cooking Well: Healthy Chinese has something for everyone. Each recipe has been designed to incorporate healthy and convenient cooking methods and ingredients, making it easier than ever to bring nutritious, authentic Chinese cooking into your home.

Cooking Well: Healthy Chinese also includes:
• An overview of authentic Chinese ingredients—like tofu, winter melon, and bamboo shoots—and their nutritional benefits
• Healthy alternatives to traditional Chinese ingredients, as well as low-oil preparations and healthy stir-fries to suit any diet
• Step-by-step instructions and helpful tips on Chinese cooking techniques and ingredients for beginner chefs and those new to Chinese cooking
• A guide to authentic Chinese ingredients and where to find them

Cooking Well: Healthy Chinese contains over 125 traditional and popularized recipes including Spicy Szechuan-Style Noodles, Pork and Shrimp Wontons, Chicken with Enoki Mushroom Soup, Stir-Fried Chicken with Sweet Flour Sauce, Sweet and Sour Chicken with Vegetables, Chicken with Goji Berries and Chinese Yam, Red Bean Cake, and many more!

What would you give up for a second chance?

Antiochus Wilson is completely and utterly bored with his life, until he receives the call that changes everything. When the voice on the other end of the line promises him excitement, wealth, and happiness, he is more than a little intrigued.

Arriving at a hastily scrawled address, Wilson discovers a mysterious and exclusive organization that offers its clients whole new lives . . . for a price. The organization arranges for a client's demise or disappearance and outfits each with a new body in which to begin again. But there's no turning back, and no room for second-guessing. When Wilson begins to question his new circumstances and pushes some very well-established boundaries a bit too far for the organization's comfort, his second chance may just be his last.

Functional lateralization in the human brain was first identified in the classic observations by Broca in the 19th century. Only one hundred years later, however, research on this topic began anew, discovering that humans share brain lateralization not only with other mammals, but with other vertebrates and even invertebrates. Studies on lateralization have also received considerable attention in recent years due to their important evolutionary implications, becoming an important and flourishing field of investigation worldwide among ethnologists and psychologists.The chapters of this book concern the emergence and adaptive function of lateralization in several aspects of behavior for a wide range of vertebrate taxa. These studies span from how lateralization affects some aspects of fitness in fishes, or how it affects the predatory and the exploratory behavior of lizards, to navigation in the homing flights of pigeons, social learning in chicks, the influence of lateralization on the ontogeny process of chicks, and the similarity of manual lateralization (handedness) between humans and apes, our closest relatives.