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The bible for every aspiring sommelier and for enthusiasts of Italy’s most iconic beverage: wine.

A comprehensive manual that covers every aspect, from viticulture to oenology, from national and international wine geography to tasting. It serves as an indispensable resource for studying the sommelier profession in Italy and around the world.

Vaccarini’s volume allows readers to acquire a well-rounded technical and cultural knowledge not only about the world of wine, but also about other beverages that accompany meals. The new sommelier, as interpreted by modern dining, must also be able to understand and pair food with spirits, liqueurs, infusions, or mineral waters.

With forewords by William Wouters, President of ASI – Association de la Sommellerie Internationale, and Marco Gatti, food and wine journalist and critic.

Guido Rubino, one of the most authoritative voices in the cycling world through the renowned website Cyclinside, guides the reader in discovering the frame, materials, components, setups, and geometries that are fundamental to a proper and thorough understanding of the racing bicycle.

Even though riding a bicycle is almost instinctive, the technological evolution of the racing bicycle in recent decades requires specific skills that must be learned. In recent years, the racing bicycle has increasingly become an object of desire, both due to the diversification of models (from road bikes to gravel bikes, including time trial and cyclocross bikes) and the introduction of E-Road and E-Gravel bikes, which have expanded the number of riders and routes.

Once in the saddle, it is necessary to learn not only about oneself but also about gear ratios, how to ride on different routes, and how to manage the bike’s behavior under various stresses, in order to ride safely and enjoyably.

The book is complemented by technical illustrations and over 200 photographs.

A decade after the detection of the first gravitational wave, the story of one of the main protagonists of the scientific adventure that has forever changed astronomy.

In September 2015, the American instrument LIGO detected a gravitational wave for the first time–a perturbation in space-time predicted by Einstein a century earlier. The wave was produced by the merger of two black holes over a billion light-years away. In 2017, the European experiment Virgo joined LIGO, enabling the precise localization of sources, in particular the historic neutron star merger of August 17, 2017.

In addition to confirming Einstein’s theory of general relativity, this signal marks the beginning of a new era in astronomy, where a completely different cosmic messenger is used to try to answer questions in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics–an ongoing quest that never ceases to amaze.

This volume is aimed at students of Italian LS/L2 who intend to take the Certit B1 language certification exam, provided by the University of Roma Tre. Specifically, the B1 level is a necessary requirement for foreign citizens to obtain Italian citizenship.

The book is structured in three sections, one of a theoretical nature and two of a practical nature. The first part presents the structure of the exam and also explains the correction criteria applied by the revisers, useful for students to fully understand the nature of the test. Parts 2 and 3, which are applied, prepare the candidate for passing the exam. In particular, section 3 constitutes a true simulation of the entire test and is in fact composed of: listening, reading, written production and oral production.

The volume is accompanied by Mp3 audio files, transcripts of the listening tests, exercise keys and a facsimile of the answer sheet, available on the web page at www.hoeplieditore.it.

Writing with AI is an invitation to develop a more fulfilling and productive relationship with technology, stimulate inventiveness, improve technical skills and offer new perspectives on writing.

Aimed at those who use writing for work - copywriters, content creators, social media managers, marketing strategists - the book covers the stages of the creative process using applications such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and others. Starting from the customisation of the operating context, with brand identity guidelines, the book moves on to the organisation of ideas and then to the planning and drafting of the text. The last part of the work deals with the dissemination and adaptation of the product: visibility in search engines with SEO and reworking the original content for further formats, such as reels and carousels, for social.

Through this book, it will be possible to find inspiration, learn procedures and adopt strategies to convey value through words.

An essential handbook that reveals how to harness the potential of generative artificial intelligence in the professional sphere, a practical guide to boosting productivity and creativity.

Generative AI is revolutionising the way we work and live. But how can we understand and use this technology effectively? Generative AI answers this and other questions, starting with the basics and moving on to the more advanced aspects. The work covers AI fundamentals, practical applications, prompt engineering techniques and the optimal use of AI generation tools. Packed with use cases and proven strategies, the handbook illustrates how to automate processes and integrate AI into daily routines.

An indispensable resource for anyone wishing to fully exploit the potential of AI, the book offers the keys to turning the challenges of a new technological era into opportunities.

A concise volume that explores the history of chemistry and particles (Li-Be-Re and Ge-Ni-Al-I, from the combination of the symbols of certain chemical elements) in an original way and addresses some of the most curious aspects of this discipline, from the discovery of matter starting with fire in prehistoric times up to the radioactivity of the last century.

The book, divided into ten sections presented in chronological order, guides readers through the discovery of chemical elements via some more or less well-known scientific personalities who, with tenacity and passion–and sometimes by chance–managed to make significant contributions not only to the history of chemistry but also to culture in general.

The result is a picture that highlights the importance of collective work, both among contemporary scientists and those who lived in very different eras, in a synergy capable of transcending space and time. In particular, the book brings to light several important female scientists whose fame remained for a long time overshadowed by that of their spouses.

Twelve cycling rivalries told four-handedly by Gregorio and Pisaneschi, two journalists and sports commentators who know the champions and their stories up close, and who are able to reveal both the humanity and the harshness of their characters.

Rivalries have been the spice of cycling since the very beginning of its history. Without invoking Coppi and Bartali too much, in this book the two authors revisit the last sixty years of great competitions (the Tour, the Giro, the Classics) through the clashes between the greatest champions. Thus, the Cannibal Merckx bites–and is sometimes bitten by–Gimondi and Ocaña; Moser and Saronni never stop teasing each other, even after they’ve stopped racing. Then there’s the Pirate, Pantani, who was above all a rival to himself, up to the recent years’ rivalries between Pogacar and Vingegaard, Van Aert and Van Der Poel, which have reignited fans’ enthusiasm for a sport where the contact with the riders is incredibly close.

A breathtaking photo finish at the end of the book lets the reader relive all the rivalries just recounted.

With a foreword by Riccardo Magrini, cycling commentator of the legendary duo "Greg & Magro" and author of Close to the Clouds. The Great Climbers of Modern Cycling (Hoepli, 2023).

Nice to Rock You is a book that recounts the fortunate (and often fortuitous) meeting of great protagonists of rock history without whom the music world would have experienced different events.

Would Elvis Presley have become the King of rock’n’roll without Colonel Parker? Who would John and Paul have been without George Martin? Would Joni Mitchell have been a painter if David Crosby had not discovered her? And what would the music of the Red Hot Chili Peppers have been like without Rick Rubin’s insights?

"Life, man, is the art of encounter," said Vinicius de Moraes. And the history of twentieth-century music has offered us a wide range of propitious moments in which the destiny of two or more characters has intertwined, giving rise to new, unexpected scenarios that have helped to give a precise direction to the unstoppable and changing flow of history.

The book, divided into 5 sections, recounts 6 special encounters in different fields, covering curious and often little-known moments, places and circumstances. It is a unique volume in the national and international panorama, embellished by a rich iconographic apparatus and tracks that can be listened to via QR code, almost a soundtrack to the stories themselves.

How do colours affect the creation of a cocktail and how should they be balanced in a glass? In this book, the “spice master bar-lady” explains the secret colour combinations in contemporary mixology.

Describing a watermelon magenta, a basil green, a lemon yellow, a liquorice black, a strawberry red or a chocolate brown is easy because their names describe the expectations you’ll have when tasting them. However, everyone has their own imagery of a sky blue, therefore the author tries to make it objective by creating a sky-blue cocktail that anyone can recognize.

Here cocktails are conceived between stills, mortars, scales, stoves, ampoules, decorated vases filled with cardamom, nutmeg, ginger and many other elements of unconventional concoctions. In this manual, the author explains how to make a cocktail starting from the colour taken from natural ingredients and food colourings to create a new drink that can stimulate discerning consumers.

99 well-known cocktails are present, which have been reinterpreted by the author, complete with photographs and a technical preparation sheet.