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STORIA CURIOSA DELLA SCIENZALE RADICI PAGANE DELL’EUROPA

FLAVIO

OREGLIO

Science, philosophy and religion: an up-to-date accountof the way the world works suitable for today’s readers

A curious history of science: a traditionally heavy subject is presentedusing the most authentic and stimulating approach.This volume, the first in a series covering the history of science andthought from the origins to the present day, presents the greatthinkers of the past and the history of ideas: from the mythical inter-pretation of reality to the observation of the natural world; the in-vention of writing, medicine and philosophy; the extraordinary ideasthat marked European history, from Pythagoras and Socrates to Pla-to and Aristotle.An enjoyable, entertaining, provocative but also rigorous essay – be-cause humour is the best way to show you’re serious about some-thing.

Flavio Oreglio has a degree in Biology

and Environmental Sciences. A former

Maths teacher with a strong interest in

History and Philosophy, he is involved in

theatre, music and literature.

Among his published titles: Scritti giova-

nili, Ridendo e Sferzando, Il momento e

catartico, and Siamo una massa di ignor-

anti. Parliamone. He is a follower of the

‘teatro canzone’ and has set up a project

called Musicomedians, which he himself

directs: Musicomedians includes a Re-

search Center where the traditions of ca-

baret and quality songwriting are studied

for their historical, cultural and technical

values.

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MATEMATICATERAPIA ENNIO

PERES

How math can make your life easier

A book that shows you how maths, despite being considered an im-possibly hard subject by many, is not a source of problems: rather,maths is able to provide valid solutions and make your life easier.

‘‘Peres is an expert in ‘entertaining and intriguing maths’’’.Il Sole 24 Ore

Ennio Peres is widely acclaimed as one

of the most authoritative math populari-

sers in Italy. A former Professor of

Mathematics and Computer Science, he

is the author of many recreational books

and he has invented several board

games, radio and TV games. He has

been, and still is, a regular contributor

to newspapers and magazines. Peres’s

earlier book L’elmo della mente is also

published by Salani.

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COME NON FARSIBOCCIARE A SCUOLA

MATTEO RAMPIN

FARIDA MONDUZZI

Strategies, techniques, tips, tricks, mistakes and traps toavoid: a survival guide for students and their parents

A practical guide to choose the right school, to behave properly inclass and to manage the relationships with the teachers; but also tipsand advice on how to study, how to handle oral and written exams,how to get back on track when things go wrong, how to overcomeperformance anxiety and to enhance your potential...

Matteo Rampin is a doctor, psychiatrist

and psychotherapist with over twenty

books to his credit, all published in Italy

and abroad.

Farida Monduzzi is a former Economics

and Law secondary school teacher. Mon-

duzzi currently works as a journalist,

writing about art and cinema in weekly

magazines and online.

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C’E DEL MARCIO IN INGHILTERRA GAIA

SERVADIO

Good Luck England! The merciless picture of a country inthe words of someone who loves it

No other country managed to erode its institutions with so much di-ligence and zeal as England has done. In a lively, harsh and ironicstyle Gaia Servadio collects data, events, and real stories to revealthe weaknesses of a wounded society afflicted by the same flawsthat are affecting the whole of Europe: hypertrophic bureaucracy, in-creasing unemployment, a waste of public money and the collapseof the national health service and state schools (which used to bethe pride of Great Britain). There is only one way out: English citizenshave to turn things around and to start reconstructing all that, fromMargaret Thatcher to Tony Blair, has been destroyed under their veryeyes – tradition, culture, dignity and the sense of the State.

Gaia Servadio is a journalist and writer

who lives between London and Italy. She

used to write in La Stampa, Corriere della

Sera, The Times, and Observer. President

Pertini awarded Servadio the rank of

Knight of the Italian Republic for the

prestigious roles she covered internation-

ally, such as General Secretary of Claudio

Abbado’s Mahler Festival and Executive

at the London Symphony Orchestra.

She has realised several documentaries

for RAI and BBC and she writes about ci-

nema and theatre. She has written se-

venteen books encompassing poetry,

biographies, essays and novels. Il Rinasci-

mento allo specchio and Incoronata paz-

za are also published by Salani.

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IMBECILLILE ULTIME PAROLE FAMOSE

UN FISICO IN SALOTTO

An unputdownable handbook of the worst,most inappropriate phrases in history.

This book is a compendium of ‘Famous Last Words’, thephrases no one should ever have said or even thought,and which proven wrong the instant they are uttered.The worst, most irrational things a person could eversay. The kind of thing you regret the most when atnight you think over the day’s events. The kind of thingidiots love to proclaim at the top of their voices.

Alfredo Accantino is one of the most renowned andcelebrated creatives in Italy, the creator of some of thegreatest shows and events in recent years, such as theCelebrations of the Olympics and Paralympics in Turinin 2006. He is a writer and polemicist and has publisheda number of books of humor and non-fiction.

Physics as a witty parlour pastime, accompaniedby a glass of wine.

Learn the basic principles of physics in this book; you’lleven find out why the sky is blue. A pleasant chat aboutphysics among friends.Full of easy-to-grasp examples.

Guido Corbo is a professor of General Physics at the LaSapienza University in Rome and is the author of one ofthe most-prescribed manuals for high-school physicsteachers, Fisica Classica e Fisica Moderna. This is his firstbook for the general public.

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CHI LAVORA NON FA SESSO STAINOTERAPIADELL’AMORE

The (im)possible balance between work and private life

«The past few years in Italy have seen a remarkable shift in theconcept of work/life balance, i.e. the balance between privatelife and working life. The author analyzes people whose familyand/or sex life is flattened out or indeed wiped out by work. Thebook provides useful information on how we behave and onhow far we’re willing to sacrifice ourselves and our personalhappiness for our careers—even though it might not be neces-sary to sacrifice anything at all.Work and love are two fundamental aspects of our lives. Wemust reconcile the two for our psychological and physicalwell-being and in order to achieve a successful working life.The two must coexist, and we must find the time and spaceto have both. If there is one at the expense of the other, every-thing is out of whack, leading to dissatisfaction, stress and a de-sire to get away from it all. We owe it to ourselves to stop andthink about what makes us really happy or at least what helps usachieve serenity.Chi non lavora non fa sesso (No Sex, We’re Working) puts for-ward suggestions on how to improve your daily life in your joband at home—a balance between the two is indeed possibleand something everyone can achieve, you just have to knowhow. I believe this wholeheartedly and I hope I can convinceyou, too.» Roberto d’Incau

«Advice and experience from people who have been braveenough to step outside their ‘comfort zone’.» L’Espresso

Roberto D’incau, Milanese, is a renowned headhunter. He alsohas had a great deal of experience in Europe coordinating ex-ecutive coaching projects. He is part of the Fashion Master’s pro-gram of the SDA Bocconi School of Management, and workswith the Domus Academy and the IED Moda Lab.Salani published another book of his co-authored with Rosa Tes-sa: Quasi quasi mi licenzio. Non e mai troppo tardi per cambiarevita.

Love according to Bobo & family in fifty previously un-published stories. Couples, responsibility, children, lifeunder the same roof are some of the issues Staino coverswith gentle irony. Since the 70s Italians have loved SergioStaino.

Bobo and his family are ‘militants’ and militantly modern in theirhabits, vices, virtues and passions. The family is a mirror of so-ciety and its changes over the course of the past 30 years.

« These are good stories: because they are true, life-like and be-cause we need to share them. »

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« Stainoterapia dell’amore. The best couples therapy starts witha good laugh, with a selection of Bobo’s strips dedicated to sex,love, marriage and family. »

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Sergio Staino is one of the most beloved satiric comic bookauthors in Italy. Besides his comic strip, he pens screenplays,theatrical plays and TV scripts. He has won numerous prizesfor his comic strips and political satire.

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GIOVANNA D’ARCO,LA RAGAZZA VESTITA DI ROSSO

TERESA

BUONGIORNO

The new historical novel by Teresa Buongiorno, one ofthe most celebrated voices in children’s literature.

Joan of Arc is a legendary character. There are rumours that she es-caped the stake and was replaced at the last moment by someoneelse. According to this version, Joan was sent to Rome to meet thePope and obtain his forgiveness. What if this rumour is true? What ifJoan survived, only to be forced to confront the myth she left be-hind? In the 600th anniversary of her birth, The Maid of Orleans isalive and kicking in this novel, busy with her daily life, her pettychores, her friendships, revenges and resentments: the portrait ofa visionary and extraordinary nineteen year old girl comes to life.

Teresa Buongiorno was born in Rome

and has a degree in Medieval History.

She is a journalist and a successful author

of historical novels that are regularly

translated into French, Polish, Portu-

guese, Romanian, Spanish and German.

The following titles are all published by

Salani: Olympos, il diario di una dea ado-

lescente; La stella di tramontana. La sto-

ria dell’ultimo viaggio di Marco Polo; Il

mio cuore e una piuma di struzzo. Sui

misteri dell’antico Egitto; Camelot. L’in-

venzione della Tavola Rotonda; Il ragazzo

che fu Carlomagno; Il vento soffia nella

foresta.

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LA TEORIA DEL CAOS LE MADRI CATTIVE

A love affair between a young man and a young womanwho can never have enough love. A novel for a genera-tion hungering for happiness.

Miriam and Evan are in love. Evan is a sociopath. At times, Evantreats Miriam with insolence and arrogance. At other times, theintensity of his love is what Miriam wants more than anythingelse in the world. Evan shuts himself up in his apartment,whereas Miriam has her own life, her own job, is smart andpleasant and faces life with her own brand of bittersweet irony.Evan closes himself off to reality because he has no defenses.Miriam protects herself because she has way too many. Twolives that never mesh, two incompatible natures, united by adarkness so complete only one will ever see the light of day.

« La teoria del caos is a genuine and direct story imbued withemotions. »

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« A skilful and confident style shapes an authentic, original andhonest novel. »

La Voce

« Sara Boero shows a masterly and confident writing, a lighttone and a constant penchant for irony; her funny, witty re-marks are the perfect way to ease the uncertain, dramatic devel-opments of the story. »

Walter Fochesato – Andersen

Sara Boero was born in Genoa in 1985, where she lives and isworking toward a university degree. She started writing storieswhen she was six years old and has never looked back since.

A very dark story about a hot-button issue. Targets adultsand mystery-lovers.

A noir, a dark story where tabloid-worthy events – children killedby their mothers – are illuminated by the flash of the camera ofa photographer. The protagonist, Annie, can’t let go of thesecases which seem almost interconnected, something even dar-ker than the tragic and irreparable rejection of their childrenby the murdering mothers. Annie is helped in her research bya childhood friend, a psychologist, and by a young policemanwho seems to take her and her investigation to heart. Annie dis-covers that some of these killer moms were treated by her friendand suspects that the killings mask a terrifying yet carefullyplanned pattern.

« Only Nicoletta Vallorani’s beautifully delicate and tender prosecould approach one the most disturbing themes of our timewith the right sensitivity. »

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« A psychoanalytical thriller of great strength. »l’Unita

« Without ever indulging in truculent details and thanks to aprecise, terse and intense style, Le madri cattive reveals, almostnaturally, its terrible secret. The novel confirms that there aregood books and bad books. Nicoletta Vallorani is definitely awriter of good books. »

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Nicoletta Vallorani was born in San Benedetto del Tronto in1959. She lives in Milan where she teaches English literature.She has written science fiction (she was the first and only wo-man to ever win the Urania Prize), noir and children’s books. Sal-ani has published Come una balena, La fatona, Il nome segretodella guerra.

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OLTRELA PELLE

ROSITA

CELENTANO

What book it is:

An eagerly awaited literary debut, a deeply moving novel with

a feminine touch.

What it is about:A love story that lasted one year, between a man and a woman whodo not know each other, they have never met and they live theirpassion in a dark room, getting to know one another by touching,tasting, listening. Never looking at each other, both in search ofthe other’s soul, beyond the looks, the surface, the skin.

An original and captivating story that caresses the themes of love,faith and passion.

Rosita Celentano, born in 1965, starts

as an actress in 1974, playing a role in

Yuppi Du next to her father Adriano.

Since then she alternates script writing

for programs and her activities in the ci-

nema and television, presenting the San-

remo Music Festival in 1989. From 2000

to 2001 she’s part of the cast of Dome-

nica In and starts her first talk-show on

La7, Tema. She published for Salani in

2009 Grazie a Dio ho le corna.

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I GIORNI DELL’ACETO E DEL MIELE GIUSI

QUARENGHI

An amazing and intense novel that uncovers one of themost disturbing aspects of being a teenage girl.

This is Gaspara’s story: an unsettled teenager with a serious problemof anorexia.

Giusi Quarenghi lives in Bergamo.

After obtaining her degree in Philosophy,

she worked on animated cartoons, co-

mics and illustrations. She is a journalist

and her articles have regularly appeared

in newspapers and specialized maga-

zines. She published her first short story

in Il Corriere dei Piccoli in 1979. Her first

novel was published in 1982. Since then

Quarenghi has published game books, il-

lustrated books, stories, novels, nursery

rhymes, poems, popularisation books,

screen-plays for short films and docu-

mentaries and has re-written traditional

myths and fables. Her books have been

published by Italian prestigious publish-

ers. In 2006 she was awarded the Premio

Andersen-Italia. E sulle case il cielo, her

collection of poems has been included

in the IBBY Honour List 2010, a biennial

selection of the most outstanding chil-

dren’s books from all over the world.

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L’OMBRA DELCOMMISSARIO SENSI

SUSANNA

RAULE

A police procedural meets the fantastical in a freshironical thriller featuring an antihero hero.

A series of crimes and a psychopath serial killer. Commissario Sensihas a secret weapon, albeit an alarming one, a weapon more dan-gerous than any serial killer could possibly be. The weapon has beeninside him ever since he infiltrated a satanic sect during an investiga-tion, and recent bloody events have woken it up and made it moredifficult than ever to control.

Comments from jury members of the 2010 Io Scrittore Literary Tour-nament:

«She has a compelling style and the dialogue just flows. The novel’sstrengths include a sense of irony pervading the initial set-up, whichis almost that of a horror novel.»

«This book has something really extra going for it... sharp, uncon-ventional dialogue, a sure and fresh tone in the narrative.»

«A sense of irony permeates every page offering a pleasant contrastto the darkness in every scene. The reader is offered a smoky, gothiccity, full of mysteries lying in wait around every corner. This is an in-vestigator who thinks outside the box, appealing though slightly alie-nated, yet with an sure hand for dealing with mysteries.»

«What an intriguing story, what appealing writing, the characterscome alive, and leap right off the page.»

Susanna Raule, 30 years old, is a psy-

chologist. She has written storyboards

for comic strips since 2005 for a number

of publishing houses. L’ombra del com-

missario Sensi is her debut novel.

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UN PITONE NEL PALLONE FABRIZIO

SILEI

A story of sport and friendship that has a lot to sayabout the transition from childhood to adolescence.

Federico is in his last year of primary school. One morning his peace-ful routine are upset by the arrival of a new classmate. While Feder-ico becomes increasingly angry and isolated, a python appears by hisside, murmuring defensive strategies in Federico’s ear and growingbigger and bigger. Federico is convinced no one else can see the py-thon, but luckily there is a special granddad who has dedicated hislife to building ships in bottles and who has that special ability: hecan see pythons and the feelings generating them.

Together with Bianca Pitzorno, Roberto Piumini, Silvana Gandolfi,Fabrizio Silei is one of the most renowned Italian authors for childrenand young adults:Premio Mariele Ventre 2009Shortlisted for Unicef Award 2010Premio ‘‘Il Gigante delle Langhe’’ 2010Premio Scelte di classe 2010

Fabrizio Silei is a writer, an artist, an ex-

pert in social communication and one of

the new voices in Italian literature. He is

able to tackle important historical and

social topics with a simultaneously light

and effective touch, always expressing

a very personal point of view. His first

novel Alice e i Nibelunghi (Alice and the

Nibelungs) was acclaimed by critics and

readers alike. In 2008 Silei was the only

Italian author to make it to the final se-

lection for the Unicef Award for human

and children’s rights literature. Alice e i

Nibelunghi and Bernardo e l’angelo nero

are both published by Salani.

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