The war in Ukraine, the death of Queen Elizabeth, the popular uprising in Iran, climate change.
For what will we remember the year that has just ended?
To get into the most important facts and deepen what happened in 2022, the Libraccio has drawn up a list of ten books and advice, even from alternative points of view.
Among these we find "Why Ukraine" (Ponte alle Grazie) in which Noam Chomsky outlines the causes of the Russian invasion, also referring to confidential documents and giving the reader a different point of view than that of newspapers and TV.
In "Putin, The Last Tsar. From St. Petersburg to Ukraine" (Piemme) Nicolai Lilin reconstructs the life and political rise of Putin who, from a miserable council house in the criminal district of Leningrad, arrived at the presidential seat of the Kremlin.
Among the recommendations of the Libraccio also "Elisabetta II 1926-2022.
The last great queen" (Mondadori) in which Enrico Franceschini explains why three kings will come after her and why no British monarch has reigned longer. 2022 will also be remembered as the year in which the number of inhabitants of the Earth exceeded 8 billion. For those wishing to understand a little more about the role played by demographic behaviour, the perfect book is "World population and sustainable development.
Growth, stagnation and decline" (Il Mulino) by Aurora Angeli and Silvana Salvini.
The record heat, the absence of rainfall, the retreat of the glaciers and dry rivers are images that have characterized the year that has just ended.
The steps needed to avoid an environmental disaster on our planet are described in "Climate: How to Avoid a Disaster. Today's Solutions, Tomorrow's Challenges" (The Ship of Theseus) by Bill Gates.
To understand the situation in Iran where protests against an extremely conservative regime began in mid-September, due to the death of Mahsa Amini, arrested and killed for wearing the hijab incorrectly, "Reading Lolita in Tehran" is always topical (Adelphi) by Azar Nafisi, world best seller released in 2003.
In the annus horribilis for the technology giants Francesco Costa in "California" (Strade Blu Mondadori) explains the reasons for a unique crisis in the world, highlighting how these are not exclusively Californian.
In the year in which the first woman, Giorgia Meloni, was elected to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in Italy, the book by Lucia Annunziata "The tenant. From Monti to Meloni: investigation into the crisis of the political system" (Feltrinelli) explores the last 10 years of Italian politics with unpublished documents and interviews.
2022 was a year full of significant events also from a scientific point of view with the publication of the first photo of a black hole in the center of the Milky Way among the events.
Among the suggested titles "Einstein's shadow. A black hole, a group of astronomers and the challenge to see the invisible" (Bollati Boringhieri) by Seth Fletcher which tells the story of that first image shown to the world on April 10, 2019 by Shepherd S.
Doeleman.
In the year in which Argentina became world soccer champion, among the readings stands out "The hand of God. Mexico '86, the story of my greatest victory" (Strade Blu Mondadori) by Diego Armando Maradona.
