UA trip to the bookshop even at the last moment can save Christmas. Here are 8 books perfect for a gift: from cooking recipes to coffee table books to browse all year round. Some last minute proposals to avoid mistakes.
Born as a catalog of the exhibition held at the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza, the volume proposes a multi-speed itinerary for various disciplines, between art and science. With interventions by artists and researchers, which accompany images by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giovanni Caccamo, Duccio Forzano and many others, we are invited to reflect on how the golden proportion is a gaze of harmony that acts as a bridge between the tangible and intangible world. A journey of beauty and inner discovery.
Chandra Candiani’s Celestial Visitors
Chandra Candiani returns with a small, giant jewel and, personally experiencing the Theravada Buddhist teaching, poetically presents us, among the
its woods, three apparently uncomfortable visitors – old age, illness, death – making them intimate and a source of awareness. The fourth visitor is in fact the path of growth, which includes and welcomes every circumstance of life. Unmissable.
The celestial visitors by Chandra Candiani, Einaudi, pages. 125, €13.00
Carlotta Perego’s vegetable school
From the famous influencer known as “botanical cuisine”, comes an innovative guide for those who follow the vegan diet but don’t want to give up imagination and flavour. With effective explanations, illustrated step by step, the book has the advantage of explaining a life choice in a simple and practicable way.
Vegetable school. The basic recipes, step by step by Carlotta Perego, Gribaudo, pages. 288, €31.50
The silver spoon. The harmony of flavors
Culinary flavors and colors become letters of an alphabet of taste, on which we are instructed, to create an infinite number of new combinations. The volume also includes a range of aromas and practical proposals, with recipes to immediately test yourself with, to surprise holiday tables.
The Christmas Book
A Christmas feast for the eyes, which traces the traditions and celebrations of the most beloved anniversary in the world. From religious origins to modern secular decorations, the volume is an anthology of images that ranges from sacred to pop, up to covers of unforgettable musical hits, such as Last Christmas by Wham!. The pages are accompanied by three short essays on Christmas.
The Christmas BookPhaidon – Marsilio arte, pages. 240, €40
Jazz musicians and their three wishes by Pannonica De Koenigswarter
Pannonica de Koenigswarter, aka Nica, also known as “the baroness of jazz”, was a friend and muse of the major musicians of the New York scene between the 1950s and 1970s, from Charlie Parker to Miles Davis. The volume traces his curious research, in which he asked great jazz musicians for their three wishes, which he wrote down and collected together with spontaneous photos. A fun and eclectic piece of history, for enthusiasts.
Jazz musicians and their three wishes by Pannonica De Koenigswarter, EDT, pages. 344, €32
The Moon. Myths, science and maps
Everything we wanted to know about the Earth’s satellite, including myths, legends and scientific research; moon landings and influences in our lives. A journey that starts from the first stories, in the times of the Egyptians, and arrives at the latest scientific discoveries, crossing art, literature and cinema, with original maps documenting the expeditions of the last sixty years, starting from the Apollo mission of 1969.
The Moon influences the tides, moods and, since ancient times, has led to fantasies about mythological creatures and magical influences. The book collects all these different declinations of the star closest to our planet, with language that has the uncommon gift of combining precision, suggestion and simplicity.
The Moon. Myths, science and maps edited by Matthew Shindell, Einaudi, pages 256, €56
A prodigious multitude. by Jason Roberts
Today it is accepted by scientists that it is not possible to count the living forms on Earth. In the 18th century, the issue brought into parallel two different but converging personalities, namely the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus and the garden keeper of the King of France Buffon. It doesn’t matter if they mistakenly stopped at a few thousand species, the volume traces their amazements and discoveries as a journey that is still enthralling today.