Dickie: 38 books

Buon appetito! Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well? The answer lies amid the vibrant beauty of Italy's historic cities. For a thousand years, they have been magnets for everything that makes for great eating: ingredients, talent, money, and power. Italian...

Explains the relevance of ancient myths to the awakening to higher states of consciousness and enlivened experience of the world • Shows how higher consciousness can arise within each of us by following the guidance found in ancient myths • Reveals how myths influence our personal...

A story of dissemblance. The title derives from a Biblical quote, which beautifully expresses the perplexity of our condition: namely that we have to live, even though none of the reference points we get our bearings from really makes complete sense. I have used those images and ideas...

Refined sugars in your diet is the primary cause for your obesity and your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other diseases. How Refined Sugar Is Killing Us will give you the knowledge to cut the bad sugar from your diet, outline a simple methodology to determine the amount of sugar you consume, and provide a real solution to losing weight .

Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular terms we use to express them. Extant discussions of this topic tread a weary path through descriptivist proposals, causalist alternatives, and attempts to combine the...

This study is the first to assemble the evidence for the existence of sorcerors in the ancient world; it also addresses the question of their identity and social origins. The resulting investigation takes us to the underside of Greek and Roman society, into a world of wandering holy men and women,...

John Dickie erzählt in seinem internationalen Bestseller die spannende Geschichte der Mafia von ihren Anfängen in den Olivenhainen Siziliens, über ihre Erfolgsgeschichte in den USA bis hin zu ihrem Ausbau zur global operierenden Holding. Von den Regeln, die die Organisation der "Ehrenmänner" im...

Quando ho finito di leggere questa storia di Cosa Nostra non ho saputo se privilegiare l'accuratezza, la precisione, l'intelligenza dello storico o la leggerezza, la scorrevolezza, la fluidità del narratore. Andrea Camilleri Nessun altro libro sulla mafia è insieme così persuasivo, comprensivo...

When Skylar Wyndham’s girl-friend breaks up with him for something completely stupid, he decides to take himself off the dating market, but his resolution is soon foiled when he meets a girl under embarrassing circumstances who turns his world upside-down. Battling deeply-rooted and new-found feelings...

In 1946 werd Italië een democratie. Het land beleefde een economisch wonder en de Italiaanse industrie, de eetcultuur en de mode werden in heel Europa een lichtend voorbeeld. Maar tegelijk met de economie groeide de macht van de maffia. Waar Italië na de Tweede Wereldoorlog rijk werd met de productie...

Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big inter-related challenges over the next generation. It will double its population to two billion by 2045. By then more than half of Africans will be living in cities. And this group of mostly young people will be connected with each other and the world through mobile...

This book is a collection of fond and treasured remembrances over the past nearly forty years, while spending the summers on my cherished Little Brackens Island on the Muskoka Lakes. As we get older, our recollections grow a bit dimmer. The descriptions blossom and become more delusional. The memories...

Ship management has constantly had to evolve to take into account the advancements in technology as well as the demands of the shipping industry. Having internet access and email on board ship has meant that the ship manager has to possess certain sets of skills to function effectively in the post,...

This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from...