Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blonde, stylish, married to a successful merchant banker and having raised two daughters, Faith has a life many would envy. But Faith has overcome a childhood marred by tragedy, and has carried within herself a secret she could divulge to no-one. The sudden death of her stepfather sets off a journey of change and revelation. At the funeral, painful memories flood back - and an old friend re-enters Faith's life. Brad, a long lanky boy from her childhood days who had teased, tormented and protected her. Now a busy lawyer in California, Brad re-enters Faith's life just as she makes a decision that plunges her marriage into crisis. As these two childhood friends rediscover each other, Faith is finally ready to face the most painful step of all: of sharing a secret that has long been haunting her, and opening up her heart for the first time in her life.

* AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * INDIE BESTSELLER * JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION * KIDS' INDIE NEXT LIST PICK * NPR BEST PICK * KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America’s history and legacy of racism in this suspenseful YA novel following a biracial teenager as her Georgia high school hosts its first integrated prom. When Springville residents—at least the ones still alive—are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington. After a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life. But some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret . . . one that will cost them all their lives.

Essential lessons in hospitality for every business, from the former co-owner of legendary restaurant Eleven Madison Park. Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling New York City two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven years later, EMP was named the best restaurant in the world. How did Guidara pull off this unprecedented transformation? Radical reinvention, a true partnership between the kitchen and the dining room—and memorable, over-the-top, bespoke hospitality. Guidara’s team surprised a family who had never seen snow with a magical sledding trip to Central Park after their dinner; they filled a private dining room with sand, complete with mai-tais and beach chairs, to console a couple with a cancelled vacation. And his hospitality extended beyond those dining at the restaurant to his own team, who learned to deliver praise and criticism with intention; why the answer to some of the most pernicious business dilemmas is to give more—not less; and the magic that can happen when a busser starts thinking like an owner. Today, every business can choose to be a hospitality business—and we can all transform ordinary transactions into extraordinary experiences. Featuring sparkling stories of his journey through restaurants, with the industry’s most famous players like Daniel Boulud and Danny Meyer, Guidara urges us all to find the magic in what we do—for ourselves, the people we work with, and the people we serve.

The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure in the New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships. For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defence and trade. Now, the Spires hover on the brink of open war. Everyone knows it's coming. The guns of the great airship fleets that control the skies between the last bastions of humanity will soon speak in anger, and Spire Albion stands alone against the overwhelming might of Spire Aurora's Armada and its new secret weapon--one capable of destroying the populations of entire Spires. A trading summit at Spire Olympia provides an opportunity for the Spirearch, Lord Albion, to secure alliances that will shape the outcomes of the war, and to that end he dispatches privateer Captain Francis Madison Grimm and the crew of the AMS Predator to bolster the Spirearch's diplomatic agents. It will take daring, skill, and no small amount of showmanship to convince the world to stand with Spire Albion--assuming that it is not already too late.

Von einer großen Kultgemeinde heiß erwartet: der fünfte der spannenden Kriminalfälle um den smarten Gentleman-Ermittler Paul Temple im DAV. Temple lernt auf der Überfahrt von New York den Millionär Sam Portland kennen, doch das zweifelhafte Vergnügen währt nur kurz: Portland taucht als Leiche wieder auf - im Swimmingpool des Ozean-Dampfers. Für Paul Temple und seine bezaubernde Frau Steve beginnen unruhige Tage. Wer ist der ominöse Privatdetektiv Madison und was hat es mit dem verschwundenen Penny an Portlands Uhrkette auf sich? Die Ermittlungen rund um Erpressung, immer neue Morde und den Fall einer rätselhaften Falschmünzerbande spannen den Hörer bis zum letzten Moment auf die Folter. Mit der Figur des Paul Temple feierte der Brite Francis Durbridge einen dreißig Jahre andauernden Erfolg. Vor über 50 Jahren eroberte sein Gentleman-Detektiv mit der charakteristischen Stimme von René Deltgen auch die Herzen der deutschen Rundfunkhörer. Die Wiederentdeckung der spannenden Kriminalfälle führte zu einem wahren Retro-Kult, der Paul Temple zum Hörbuch-Bestseller machte. Francis Durbridge, geboren am 25. November 1912 in Hull/Yorkshire. Studierte Altenglisch und Volkswirtschaft. Schrieb Krimis, Hörspiele und Drehbücher für Fernsehfilme. Als das Erste Deutsche Fernsehen 1962 den Durbridge-Krimi "Das Halstuch" ausstrahlte, hatte es mit einer Einschaltquote von 90 % den ersten "Straßenfeger" der deutschen Fernsehgeschichte. Viele erfolgreiche Fernsehproduktionen aus der Hand des Briten folgten. Durbridge schrieb neben zahlreichen Hörspielen und 35 Romanen auch erfolgreiche Theaterstücke wie "Plötzlich und unerwartet" (1985). Sein siebentes Theaterstück "Tief in der Nacht" wurde 1991 in London uraufgeführt. Francis Durbridge starb nach langer Krankheit am 11. April 1998 in London. Kurt Lieck, Vater des Schauspielers Peter Lieck.

From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world. In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen years old, had recently moved to the city. White was forty-seven and a principal in the prominent architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. As the foremost architect of his day, he was a celebrity, responsible for designing countless landmark buildings in Manhattan. That evening, after drinking champagne, Nesbit lost consciousness and awoke to find herself naked in bed with White. Telltale spots of blood on the bed sheets told her that White had raped her. She told no one about the rape until, several years later, she confided in Harry Thaw, the millionaire playboy who would later become her husband. Thaw, thirsting for revenge, shot and killed White in 1906 before hundreds of theatergoers during a performance in Madison Square Garden, a building that White had designed. The trial was a sensation that gripped the nation. Most Americans agreed with Thaw that he had been justified in killing White, but the district attorney expected to send him to the electric chair. Evelyn Nesbit's testimony was so explicit and shocking that Theodore Roosevelt himself called on the newspapers not to print it verbatim. The murder of White cast a long shadow: Harry Thaw later attempted suicide, and Evelyn Nesbit struggled for many years to escape an addiction to cocaine. The Girl on the Velvet Swing, a tale of glamour, excess, and danger, is an immersive, fascinating look at an America dominated by men of outsize fortunes and by the women who were their victims.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A landmark work of history explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals—Hamilton; Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison—confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the course for our nation. “A splendid book—humane; learned, written with flair and radiant with a calm intelligence and wit.” —The New York Times Book Review The United States was more a fragile hope than a reality in 1790. During the decade that followed, the Founding Fathers—re-examined here as Founding Brothers—combined the ideals of the Declaration of Independence with the content of the Constitution to create the practical workings of our government. Through an analysis of six fascinating episodes—Hamilton and Burr’s deadly duel, Washington’s precedent-setting Farewell Address, Adams’ administration and political partnership with his wife, the debate about where to place the capital, Franklin’s attempt to force Congress to confront the issue of slavery and Madison’s attempts to block him, and Jefferson and Adams’ famous correspondence— Founding Brothers brings to life the vital issues and personalities from the most important decade in our nation’s history.

The bestselling, idiosyncratic curriculum from a 2019 MacArthur Fellow will teach you how to draw and write your story "The self-help book of the year."-The New York Times Hello students, meet Professor Skeletor. Be on time, don't miss class, and turn off your phones. No time for introductions, we start drawing right away. The goal is more rock, less talk, and we communicate only through images. For more than five years the cartoonist Lynda Barry has been an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching students from all majors, both graduate and undergraduate, how to make comics, how to be creative, how to not think. There is no academic lecture in this classroom. Doodling is enthusiastically encouraged. Making Comics is the follow-up to Barry's bestselling Syllabus, and this time she shares all her comics-making exercises. In a new hand-drawn syllabus detailing her creative curriculum, Barry has students drawing themselves as monsters and superheroes, convincing students who think they can't draw that they can, and, most important, encouraging them to understand that a daily journal can be anything so long as it is hand drawn. Barry teaches all students and believes everyone and anyone can be creative. At the core of Making Comics is her certainty that creativity is vital to processing the world around us.

New York. Nel cuore del quartiere di SoHo, c'è un elegante negozio di abiti vintage. La proprietaria, Kate Madison, grazie al suo innato senso della moda e un occhio infallibile, è riuscita a farne un punto di riferimento per l'intera città. Un sogno, per lei, avveratosi soltanto dopo parecchi anni di duro lavoro e molti sacrifici. E mentre la popolarità del negozio cresceva, lo stesso accadeva per i quattro figli: la vera gioia della vita di Kate, che ha dovuto occuparsene da sola, dopo la morte del marito. Ormai adulti, con un'ottima istruzione e promettenti carriere, sono pronti a trovare la propria strada nel mondo, non senza commettere qualche sbaglio. Come Isabelle, brillante avvocato, che s'innamora di un cliente e si convince di poter costruire una vita con lui. O Julie, che ha ereditato il talento artistico della madre ed è pronta a lasciare il lavoro dei suoi sogni pur di seguire il cuore. Oppure Justin, scrittore, alle prese con il suo primo romanzo, che insiste per avere un bambino prima di essere finanziariamente o emotivamente pronto. E poi Willie, «il piccolo» di casa, che, con la spensieratezza della sua giovane età, prende una decisione che sconvolge tutti. Kate vorrebbe tanto poter risparmiare loro errori e delusioni, ma imparerà presto che non si possono proteggere i figli dalle loro scelte, ma solo continuare ad amarli mentre le fanno. Una storia intensa e avvolgente, per settimane nella classifica dei libri più venduti negli Stati Uniti, che conferma ancora una volta Danielle Steel come una delle scrittrici più amate d'America e del mondo. DANIELLE STEEL vive tra gli Stati Uniti e la Francia. È la scrittrice più popolare del mondo, con oltre 650 milioni di copie vendute in 69 Paesi. I suoi romanzi - pubblicati in Italia da Sperling & Kupfer - sono tutti bestseller internazionali e dal 1981 l'autrice è sempre presente nella classifica del New York Times.

Kehr zurück in die Welt von Neil Gaimans wegweisendem Epos Der Sandmann in einer neuen Serie mit dem beliebten Charakter des Korinther, geschrieben von dem Horror-Comic-Superstar James Tynion IV. Manchmal wandeln Albträume auf der Erde. Dream of the Endless ist der unbestrittene Herrscher über alles, was geschieht, während wir schlafen, einschliesslich seiner ernsthaftesten Pflicht, die Schaffung von Albträumen. Es war seine Hand, die den Korinther formte, den Schutzpatron des Serienmordes, dessen gierige Münder seit Jahrhunderten das Blut der Schlafenden gekostet haben. Einst, vor vielen Jahren, entkam der Korinther dem Traumland und betrat die wache Welt, und die Zahl der Toten war gewaltig. Dream stellte schliesslich dieses Unrecht wieder gut und ungeschaffte den Korinther, indem er ihn als einen formbareren Albtraum neu gestaltete und ihn zu seiner bestimmten Aufgabe zurückbrachte. Doch nun ist ein neuer Albtraum in die reale Welt entkommen. Die Kunststudentin Madison Flynn sieht diesen "Lächelnden Mann" in ihren wachen Stunden, und sie ist nicht allein. Darüber hinaus ist dieses Monster irgendwie, unglaublich, unmöglich, ein Albtraum, den Dream of the Endless nicht erschaffen hat. Als ihm diese Tatsache bewusst wird, wird der Korinther erneut auf unsere Ebene schlüpfen und eine Jagd nach dieser Verspottung beginnen, aber der Himmel helfe uns allen, wenn seine Erinnerungen an seine vergangenen Jagden zu ihm zurückkehren. Der Megahit-New-York-Times-Bestseller-Autor James Tynion IV (Batman, Something Is Killing the Children, The Department of Truth) vereint sich mit dem Künstler Lisandro Estherren (Redneck, Strange Skies Over East Berlin) und einer Reihe von Superstar-Gästen, um die legendäre Welt von Der Sandmann zu erweitern und einen erschreckenden Abstieg in das unkontrollierte Ich Amerikas zu dokumentieren, wo Aussenseiter-Künstler, grausame Sammler, milliardenschwere Propheten und einheimische Engel ihre Gedanken vereinen, um einen völlig neuen – und völlig schrecklichen – amerikanischen Traum zu gebären. Enthält Die Sandmann-Universum: Nightmare Country #1-6.

'An absolute blast' Spectator In this characteristically trenchant memoir, the indomitable Jean Trumpington looks back on her long and remarkable life. The daughter of an officer in the Bengal Lancers and an American heiress, Jean Campbell-Harris was born into a world of considerable privilege, but the Wall Street Crash entirely wiped out her mother's fortune. With the outbreak of the Second World War she became a land girl and later worked in naval intelligence at Bletchley Park. After the war Jean moved to New York, working on Madison Avenue with advertising's 'mad men'. It was here that she met the historian Alan Barker, and their marriage, in 1954, ushered in the happiest period of her life. The Seventies saw Jean Barker, as she then was, begin a distinguished political career, becoming a Cambridge City councillor, Mayor of Cambridge and then, in 1980, a life peer. Forthright, witty and deliciously opinionated, Coming Up Trumps is a wonderfully readable account of a life very well lived. 'Shut your eyes - this is one of the acid tests of a good memoir - and you can almost hear the baroness in full flow, holding forth over a whisky in a bar in the House of Lords . . . Splendidly self-deprecatory' Sunday Telegraph 'A dazzling romp . . . Like Nancy Mitford but with a heart' Charlotte Heathcote, Sunday Express

Een prachtig familieverhaal dat zich afspeelt in het Amerika van de jaren zestig en het Ierland van eind 19e eeuw – het vierde, ook los te lezen deel van de Deverill-serie Kasteel Deverill, 1892. De zeventienjarige Arethusa Deverill is een ongetemde schoonheid. Ze weigert zich erbij neer te leggen dat vrouwen alleen maar geschikt zijn om te trouwen en kinderen te krijgen. Om te ontsnappen aan een huwelijksaanzoek, overtuigt ze een nicht van haar vader ervan haar uit te nodigen voor het balseizoen in Londen. Ze geeft niets om de aristocratische mannen die haar daar het hof proberen te maken, maar als de Madison Brothers uit New York komen optreden op het bal, verandert haar leven ingrijpend. Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1962. Als na de dood van Arethusa Clayton blijkt dat zij haar as wilde laten uitstrooien op een heuvel bij het Ierse kasteel Deverill, zijn haar kinderen stomverbaasd. Zij hebben nog nooit van het kasteel gehoord, hoewel ze weten dat hun moeders meisjesnaam Deverill was en dat ze als jonge vrouw de armoede in Ierland ontvluchtte. Nog groter, en onaangenamer, is de verrassing als blijkt dat Arethusa een derde van haar erfenis nalaat aan een onbekende. Als er op de uitvaart geen enkel familielid van hun moeder aanwezig blijkt te zijn, realiseert dochter Faye zich dat ze eigenlijk niets over haar weet. Waarom wilde Arethusa na haar dood terugkeren naar het land waaraan ze bij leven een hekel leek te hebben?

“A high-octane, electric look at Madison Avenue craziness from a pair who’ve been there and done that.”—Publishers Weekly One woman attempts to beat the boys club at their own game in this wickedly funny novel that is both a takedown of the advertising industry and an inspiring story about breaking through the glass ceiling. Twenty-something copywriter Kay Carlson has landed her dream job at the top ad agency in New York City, but it turns out life at the edgiest shop in town is less “Lean in” and more #MeToo. Talent and hard work don’t count as much as winning the approval of her hotshot creative director, Elliott, whose idea of team-building is bullying his boy tribe to tag along to the strip club. Meanwhile, Kay is stuck at the office penning puns for the cat food account none of the cool kids will touch. When the agency's biggest client threatens to fire them, Kay realizes her job will be first on the chopping block if she doesn't find a way to outshine the old regime. Winning another account will require all her creativity and strength, but can Kay find the confidence to risk it all so she can rewrite the rules from the corner office? Or will she be on the first bus back to Jersey, too washed up to write copy for the phone book?

Die sehnsüchtig erwartete Autobiografie von Ronnie James Dio, einer der größten Ikonen des Heavy Metal, Stimmwunder und Frontmann dreier legendärer Bands: Rainbow, Black Sabbath und Dio. Vor seinem tragischen Tod im Jahre 2010 hatte Ronnie James Dio mit seiner Autobiografie begonnen, dem Rückblick auf eine außergewöhnliche Laufbahn, die ihn aus einer Kleinstadt im Staat New York auf die größten Bühnen der Welt führen würde, darunter auch in die Arena, die für ihn den Gipfel des Erfolgs symbolisierte: Madison Square Garden, wo dieses Buch anfängt und aufhört. Ronnie hält Rückschau auf die Schlüsselmomente, die zur Erfüllung dieses Traumes führten ‒ wie er mit Jugendfreunden erste Bands gründete und auf Studentenpartys sowie in kleinen Clubs auftrat; wie das Schicksal ihn zum Sänger machte; wie sich aus einem Glücksfall heraus die Gründung von Rainbow und die ebenso produktive wie problematische Kollaboration mit Ritchie Blackmore ergab; wie er durch eine zufällige Begegnung zum zweiten Sänger von Black Sabbath wurde und die Band zu neuem Erfolg führte. Darüber hinaus erzählt dieses Buch auch die überraschend rührende Entstehungsgeschichte der „Teufelshörner“; des weltweit bekannten Erkennungssymbols aller Metal-Fans, sowie die Geschichte seiner Ehe mit Wendy. Zusammen sollten sie alles auf eine Karte setzen, um das erfolgreichste Unterfangen seiner Karriere zu starten ‒ seine eigene Band Dio. Schonungslos offen beschreibt Dio die Wendepunkte seines Lebens: die Entzweiung von Blackmore, die Drogen, die die Wiederauferstehung von Black Sabbath gegen die Wand fuhren, die Persönlichkeitskonflikte, die jede seiner Bands heimsuchten. »Rainbow In The Dark« entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit Ronnies langjährigem Freund, dem angesehenen Musikjournalisten Mick Wall, und mit seiner Frau Wendy und bietet einen so freimütigen wie verblüffenden, oft komischen und manchmal tieftraurigen Einblick in ein Leben voller Leidenschaft zur Musik. Der Bogen spannt sich von bewegenden Jugendgeschichten über Anekdoten von Ausschweifungen auf Tour bis hin zu aufrichtigen Erinnerungen daran, was sich wirklich abspielte: hinter der Bühne und hinter verschlossenen Türen, im Hotel, im Studio und zuhause.

#1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark R. Levin delivers a bracing meditation” (National Review) on the ways our government has failed the next generation. In modern America, the civil society is being steadily devoured by a ubiquitous federal government. But as the government grows into an increasingly authoritarian and centralized federal Leviathan, many parents continue to tolerate, if not enthusiastically champion, grievous public policies that threaten their children and successive generations with a grim future at the hands of a brazenly expanding and imploding entitlement state poised to burden them with massive debt, mediocre education, waves of immigration, and a deteriorating national defense. Yet tyranny is not inevitable. In Federalist 51, James Madison explained with cautionary insight the essential balance between the civil society and governmental restraint: In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” This essential new book is, against all odds, a likeminded appeal to reason and audacity—one intended for all Americans but particularly the rising generation. Younger people must find the personal strength and will to break through the cycle of statist manipulation, unrelenting emotional overtures, and the pressure of groupthink, which are humbling, dispiriting, and absorbing them; to stand up against the heavy hand of centralized government, which if left unabated will assuredly condemn them to economic and societal calamity. Levin calls for a new civil rights movement, one that will foster liberty and prosperity and cease the exploitation of young people by statist masterminds. He challenges the rising generation of younger Americans to awaken to the cause of their own salvation, asking: will you acquiesce to a government that overwhelmingly acts without constitutional foundation—or will you stand in your own defense so that yours and future generations can live in freedom?

The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century "Grand-scale biography at its best—thorough; insightful, consistently fair, and superbly written . . . A genuinely great book." —David McCullough “A robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." —Joseph Ellis Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. “To repudiate his legacy;” Chernow writes, “is; in many ways, to repudiate the modern world.” Chernow here recounts Hamilton’s turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington’s aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we’ve encountered before—from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton’s famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804. Chernow’s biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America’s birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, Alexander Hamilton will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans.

The must-read New York Times bestseller that's redefining hospitality and inspiring readers in every industry. - Featured in FX's The Bear and Showtime's Billions - JP Morgan NextList Pick Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven years later, EMP was named the best restaurant in the world. How did Guidara pull off this unprecedented transformation? Radical reinvention, a true partnership between the kitchen and the dining room—and memorable, over-the-top, bespoke hospitality. Guidara’s team surprised a family who had never seen snow with a magical sledding trip to Central Park after their dinner; they filled a private dining room with sand, complete with mai-tais and beach chairs, to console a couple with a cancelled vacation. And his hospitality extended beyond those dining at the restaurant to his own team, who learned to deliver praise and criticism with intention; why the answer to some of the most pernicious business dilemmas is to give more—not less; and the magic that can happen when a busser starts thinking like an owner. Today, every business can choose to be a hospitality business—and we can all transform ordinary transactions into extraordinary experiences. Featuring sparkling stories of his journey through restaurants, with the industry’s most famous players like Daniel Boulud and Danny Meyer, Guidara urges us all to find the magic in what we do—for ourselves, the people we work with, and the people we serve.

Put the ideas of the New York Times bestseller Unreasonable Hospitality into action with this beautifully illustrated, interactive companion guide from Will Guidara, former co-owner of the legendary restaurant Eleven Madison Park. With his book Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara issued a compelling invitation: "No matter what business you're in, you can make the choice to be in the hospitality industry." His lessons about service and leadership celebrated the one principle that never goes out of season: the human desire to be taken care of. If Unreasonable Hospitality is the why, then The Field Guide is the how. This practical, step-by-step journal offers a clear roadmap for applying Guidara's lessons in real life, helping you turn generous thinking into consistent action. Inside, you'll learn how to: Build and lead your team with consistency, integrity--and yes, hospitality Develop a culture of hospitality with five essential components--excellence, communication, collaboration, feedback, and repair--and the systems that will keep those values front and centre Create bespoke gestures with the power to transform ordinary transactions into extraordinary experiences--as well as how to create a ready-made toolkit of simple, repeatable actions that still feel personal Featuring deeply personal stories, his own as well as those of readers he's encountered, the book is packed with practical exercises that are as relevant to the CEO of a Fortune 500 as they are to the ambitious intern at the front desk. Each can be done on your own, with your team, or company-wide at the annual retreat. Beautifully designed and illustrated in full colour, this delightful, participatory guide-meant to be marked up and discussed-will have you feeling like a kid about to crack open a new colouring book. You'll walk away inspired, with a power pack of specific, immediately actionable ideas to help you elevate the magic in what you do-for yourself, the people you work with, and the people you serve.

The must-read New York Times bestseller that's redefining hospitality and inspiring readers in every industry. - Featured in FX's The Bear and Showtime's Billions - JP Morgan NextList Pick Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven years later, EMP was named the best restaurant in the world. How did Guidara pull off this unprecedented transformation? Radical reinvention, a true partnership between the kitchen and the dining room—and memorable, over-the-top, bespoke hospitality. Guidara’s team surprised a family who had never seen snow with a magical sledding trip to Central Park after their dinner; they filled a private dining room with sand, complete with mai-tais and beach chairs, to console a couple with a cancelled vacation. And his hospitality extended beyond those dining at the restaurant to his own team, who learned to deliver praise and criticism with intention; why the answer to some of the most pernicious business dilemmas is to give more—not less; and the magic that can happen when a busser starts thinking like an owner. Today, every business can choose to be a hospitality business—and we can all transform ordinary transactions into extraordinary experiences. Featuring sparkling stories of his journey through restaurants, with the industry’s most famous players like Daniel Boulud and Danny Meyer, Guidara urges us all to find the magic in what we do—for ourselves, the people we work with, and the people we serve.

Die 14 Beiträge in Band 22 (2015) behandeln verschiedene Aspekte süd-, südost- und zentralasiatischer Kultur. Mikhael D. BUKHARIN (Moskau) präsentiert 27 bisher unveröffentlichte Briefe von Albert Grünwedel an W.W. Radloff aus den Jahren 1901 bis 1914, die in den Archiven der russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in St.-Petersburg aufbewahrt werden und Einblicke in bisher unbekannte Aspekte des damaligen Museums für Völkerkunde in Berlin geben sowie die Hintergründe der zu dieser Zeit durchgeführten preußischen und russischen Expeditionen an die Seidenstraße in Ostturkistan offenbaren. Der leider vor kurzem verstorbene Andrew HUXLEY (London) befasst sich mit der in England zwischen 1884 und 1914 geführten Debatte, wie die Erforschung der indischen Altertümer zu finanzieren sei. Johannes SCHNEIDER (München) präsentiert eine buddhistische Sicht auf den hinduistischen Buddhavatara, die auf zwei Sanskrittexten aus dem 8./9. Jahrhundert basiert, von denen nur die tibetische Übersetzung erhalten ist. Ulf JÄGER (Gronau-Epe/Westfalen) bespricht ausführlich ein Steinrelief aus Gandhara, das sich in einer Schweizer Privatsammlung befindet und dionysische Szenen zeigt. Jürgen NEUSS (Berlin) dokumentiert bisher unveröffentlichte Inschriften im Amaresvara-Tempel in Mandhata, Zentralindien. Gautama V. VAJRACHARYA (New York) korrigiert in seinem Beitrag die frühere Lesung einer Inschrift auf einer nepalesischen Kupferfigur des Gottes Indra. Gouriswar BHATTACHARYA (Berlin) stellt in seinem ersten Beitrag die Frage, ob es eine Gottheit namens "Madhusrenika" gab, und kommt zu dem Schluss, dass dies nicht der Fall ist, sondern auf der fehlerhaften Interpretation einer Inschrift basiert. In seinem zweiten Beitrag zeigt G. BHATTACHARYA, wie sich die im östlichen Indien verbreitete Darstellung der beiden Frauen des hinduistischen Gottes Vi?nu, Sri/Laksmi und Pusti/Sarasvati, ikonographisch aus Gadadevi bzw. Cakrapurusa entwickelt haben. Bijan MONDAL (Kolkata) & Gerd J.R. MEVISSEN (Berlin) dokumentieren die seltene Form der hinduistischen Göttin Sarasvati mit einem Widder als Reittier (Mesavahini Sarasvati) in der Sculpturenkunst Bengalens. Ibrahim SHAH (Peshawar) beleuchtet die ikonographischen Aspekte einer Steinfigur von Visnu-Trivikrama aus Bengalen, die sich jetzt im Nationalmuseum Pakistans in Karachi befindet. Swati RAY, Rupendra Kumar CHATTOPADHYAY & Shubha MAJUMDER (Kolkata) präsentieren insgesamt 39 bisher unbekannte jinistische Skulpturen aus der alten Region Manbhum im heutigen Westbengalen. Gudrun BÜHNEMANN (Madison) befasst sich mit einer eigenartigen Gruppe von "Sakti-" oder "Devili?gas" aus Bengalen und Nepal, die Darstellungen von Göttinnen aufweisen. Béla KELÉNYI (Budapest) stellt eine Gruppe von dreibeinigen buddhistischen Bronzefiguren vor, deren Ursprung er im Dali-Königreich (937-1253) in Chinas Yunnan-Provinz lokalisiert. Doris Meth SRINIVASAN (Stony Brook) bespricht das kürzlich erschienene Buch von Devangana Desai, Art and Icon. Essays on Early Indian Art, New Delhi 2013. Aus Anlass des 30-jährigen Bestehens der Berliner Indologischen Studien beinhaltet der Band noch einen Autorenindex der bisher erschienenen Bände 1 (1985) bis 22 (2015).