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by David Sloma
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This is a non-fiction collection containing essays and observations.
Contents:
Happy 50th Anniversary Twilight Zone!, My Co-Dependent Apple Relationship, Iggy And The Stooges, Toronto, June 2010, Turning Forty, Ratdog @ Massey Hall, Toronto, October 29, 2003 - and more.
With a sample...
by Jessye Norman
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Het leven van sopraan Jessye Norman is net zo bewogen en aangrijpend als die van de vele operarollen die ze vertolkte. Norman groeide op in het zuiden van Amerika, waar ze te maken kreeg met racisme en de civil rights movement. Al op jonge leeftijd ontdekte ze haar liefde voor muziek en opera, die...
Pour Saluer Jean Velliot
Fantaisies à la manière d’Anouilh, Céline et Cioran
Language: French
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Jean Velliot (1920-1999), parisien puis dieppois d’adoption, a construit une œuvre picturale d’une richesse et d’une singularité étonnantes par ses thèmes, son style et sa portée. Elle se caractérise par une mise à distance qui génère toutes les formes du comique : facétieux, parodique,...
by Dan Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
After losing my temper and throwing a brick through my mother’s sliding glass door, I was arrested and charged with one felony count of making my momma mad at me! In the Orange County Jail, I was to regroup and rededicate my life to God as so many do. This humorous loosely illustrated jailhouse journal and joke book tells my testimony.
by Marlayna Glynn
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 2, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 2, 2016
Ambientada en la glamorosa ciudad de Las Vegas de 1970, Suerte a Favor es la historia de lucha para alcanzar la madurez de una niña fuerte nacida en un continuo ciclo de alcoholismo y abandono. Marlayna desarrolla un poderoso sentido de autopreservación en contraste con los derrotados adultos encargados...
New Order, Joy Division und ich
Die Autobiografie
Language: German
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Über Joy Division, Bernard Sumners erste Band, wurden schon unzählige Bücher geschrieben und mehrere Filme gedreht. Über New Order - jene Gruppe, die 1980 aus der legendären Vorgängerinformation entstand, nachdem sich Sänger Ian Curtis das Leben genommen hatte - weiß man hingegen viel weniger....
Metal Men
Marc Rich and the $10 Billion Scam
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This true story of the multibillionaire who fled to Switzerland “reads like a mystery novel” (USA Today).
How did Marc Rich make over ten billion dollars while paying hardly any taxes? Journalist A. Craig Copetas infiltrated the inner circle of the commodities market and Rich’s associates...
Grandissimo: The First Emperor of Las Vegas
How Jay Sarno Won a Casino Empire, Lost It, and Inspired Modern Las Vegas
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Jay Sarno built two path-breaking Las Vegas casinos, Caesars Palace (1966) and Circus Circus (1968), and planned but did not build a third, the Grandissimo, which would have started the mega-resort era a decade before Steve Wynn built The Mirage. As mobsters and accountants battled for the soul of...
Creativity, Inc.
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
**From a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios—the Academy Award–winning studio behind *Coco, Inside Out, *and Toy Story—comes an incisive book about creativity in business and leadership for readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED...
Worldly Philosopher
The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote...
Banker To The Poor
Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2007
The inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world.
Muhammad Yunus was a professor of economics in Bangladesh, who realized that the most impoverished members...
by Walter Isaacson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS.
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries,...
by Michael Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.
Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose...
Shoe Dog
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this instantand tenacious bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up...