David Rensin: 9 books
The Mailroom
Hollywood History from the Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It’s like a plot from a Hollywood potboiler: start out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. But for many, it happens to be true. Some of the biggest names in entertainment—including David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Michael Ovitz— started their dazzling careers in the lowly mailroom. Based on more...
Devil at My Heels
A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, hero of the blockbuster Unbroken.
A modern classic by an American legend,* Devil at My Heels* is the riveting and deeply personal memoir by U.S. Olympian, World War II bombardier, and POW survivor Louis Zamperini. His inspiring...
All for a Few Perfect Waves
The Audacious Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dora
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
For twenty years, Miki "Da Cat" Dora was the king of Malibu surfers—a dashing, enigmatic rebel who dominated the waves, ruled his peers' imaginations, and who still inspires the fantasies of wannabes to this day. And yet, Dora railed against surfing's sudden post-Gidget popularity and...
It's All Lies and That's the Truth
and 49 More Rules from 50 Years of Trying to Make a Living in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
Legendary Hollywood supermanager and producer Bernie Brillstein reveals his collection of wisdom gleaned from his fifty years of insight, instinct, and experience in both business and life.
An uncommon collection of common sense, The Little Stuff Matters Most delivers the hard and fast lessons...
The Men on My Couch
True Stories of Sex, Love and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
WHAT MEN WANT. WHAT MEN FEEL. WHAT WOMEN NEED TO KNOW.
When Dr. Brandy Engler opened her sex therapy practice for women in Manhattan, she got a big surprise. Most of the calls were from men. They wanted to talk about womanizing, porn addiction, impotence, prostitutes—and most of all, love.
Her...
Don't Give Up, Don't Give In
Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
New York Times bestseller
More than 100,000 copies in print
Completed just two days before Louis Zamperini’s death at age ninety-seven, Don’t Give Up, Don’t Give In shares a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and humor from “one of the most incredible American lives of the past century”...
by Sam Haskell, David Rensin
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
What would my mother say? How would she want me to handle this situation? How can I make this tough decision and stay true to myself?
What would my mother say?
Sam Haskell still asks himself these questions every day.
When Haskell was young, his devoted mother, Mary, instilled...
The Site Reliability Workbook
Practical Ways to Implement SRE
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
In 2016, Google’s Site Reliability Engineering book ignited an industry discussion on what it means to run production services today—and why reliability considerations are fundamental to service design. Now, Google engineers who worked on that bestseller introduce The Site Reliability Workbook,...
Building a Windows IT Infrastructure in the Cloud
Distributed Hosted Environments with AWS
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Run your entire corporate IT infrastructure in a cloud environment that you control completely—and do it inexpensively and securely with help from this hands-on book. All you need to get started is basic IT experience.
You’ll learn how to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a private...