Resultados para "Control" en Biografías y memorias

MÁS ALLÁ DE LA SONRISA. MÁS ALLÁ DE LA SONRISA. Este libro no va de fútbol. No habla de la carrera de un niño prodigio. Un talento tan singular como precoz. Ni tampoco de sus éxitos en uno de los clubs más grandes del mundo. No se analiza únicamente a aquel adolescente, con cara angelical y juego celestial, que puso en pie al Camp Nou cuando no alcanzaba ni la mayoría de edad. Miles de personas vibraron con su fútbol profundo, ágil y preciso, que conectaba al instante con el aficionado culé.

The designer of Unreal and Gears of War offers an eye-opening personal account of the video game industry as it grew from niche hobby to hundred-billion-dollar enterprise. Video games are dominating the planet. In 2020, they brought in $180 billion dollars globally—nearly $34 billion in the...

Tom LeNoble’s life has been anything but ordinary, rising from the “Shack” with no hot water to the heights of Silicon Valley, and helping build some of the world’s most influential companies. He’s been a crowd-favorite performer, a bold leader, and a survivor of two life-threatening illnesses after being told three times he had six months to live. He’s navigated the AIDS epidemic’s heartbreak, personal loss, and the high-stakes world of Facebook, Walmart.com, Palm (HP), and MCI (Verizon), guiding startups and leaders through change.

Oncologist and cancer gene hunter Theo Ross delivers the first authoritative go-to for people facing a genetic predisposition for cancer. This book empowers listeners to face their genetic heritage without fear and to make decisions that will keep them and their families healthy.

Carolyn Sherrow’s early life was marred by the darkness of ritual abuse and mind control. Yet, through the power of God’s relentless love, she found the strength to rise above her past. In My Personal Holocaust, Sherrow describes her profound journey of faith, healing, and redemption. In this deeply personal account, she shares how a dissociative disorder once bound her in fear but ultimately led her closer to God. With the support of compassionate counselors and divine guidance, she embarked on a path of spiritual and emotional restoration.

This is the story of one man’s wrestling with God over control. It’s the story of his discovery that being a control freak could mean the destruction of his family and of his ability to contribute, or even survive in this life.

Este es el libro que revela los grandes secretos de la manipulación psicológica, basado en el análisis de uno de los personajes más oscuros de la historia: Ted Bundy. Además de presentarte algunas técnicas de manipulación y cómo enfrentarlas, y evitar caer en las redes de manipuladores, también conocerás detalles de la vida de Ted Bundy, y cómo funciona la menta de un psicópata para comportarse como lo hace.

Do you ever feel like the world is spinning out of control? Do you ever wonder why there is so much violence, terror, and chaos in the news? Do you ever question the official narratives of history and politics? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this audio-book is for you.

In this inspirational cross between self-help and memoir, Chad Michael Hardy chronicles his journey from a strict Mormon upbringing to self-acceptance and true authenticity. Facing discrimination and a crisis of faith due to living inauthentically, Hardy embraced the transformative law of Zero to get unstuck, find balance, and unlock infinite potential.

New evidence in Dynamite Nashville uncovers the origin of an organized group of racist terrorists committing nationwide acts of violence against integration efforts in the late 1950's and early 1960s. Award winning historian Betsy Phillips not only paints a detailed picture of the social dynamic of the times, but details how a violent fringe of racists came to national prominence. In Dynamite Nashville, Phillips unmasks the KKK, reveals a racist terrorist network, names its principle leader, and shines a much needed historical spotlight on unsung civil rights hero Z. Alexander Looby.

Lydia Slaby was thirty-three years old and had everything she believed would make her happy: three fancy private school degrees; a successful husband who was in the inner circles of Barack Obama's presidential campaign; a high-paying job as an attorney—even an enviable yoga practice. But under the surface Lydia's life was in free-fall. Her new marriage was one argument after another, she had a job she never wanted, and for some reason she had begun to rapidly lose weight and turn a strange shade of yellowish-green.

In this entertaining and intimate memoir, the woman known by fans as "The Notorious P. A. B." reveals why she walked away from her TV news career after three decades. Patti Ann Browne also shares funny and poignant stories of her life off camera—from how she met her husband four years after turning down a blind date with him, to her son's near-death shortly after his premature birth and how it changed her perspective on life. Patti Ann's uplifting story is one of following your heart, owning your mistakes, living with integrity, and leaving the rest to God.

Revolution's End fully explains the most famous kidnapping in US history, detailing Patty Hearst's relationship with Donald DeFreeze, known as Cinque, the head of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Not only did the heiress have a sexual relationship with DeFreeze while he was imprisoned, she didn't know he was an informant and a victim of prison behavior modification.

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race.

The remarkable story of Sumner Redstone, his family legacy, and the battles for all he controls. Sumner Murray Redstone, once feared as the “mad genius” of media who would dump his CEOs for mere wobbles in his companies’ stock price, had built one of the world’s greatest media empires...

If David Sedaris, Chelsea Handler, Larry David, and Caitlin Moran had the unlikeliest orgy in history, the resulting love child might one day write a book like this rollicking collection of true tales from Roy Sekoff, the founding editor of The Huffington Post. Whether he's describing a teenage pilgrimage to a Times Square porn superstore, life-changing experiences with high colonics and psychic readings, or that time Chevy Chase grabbed his balls at a funeral, Sekoff is a lively raconteur whose sharp observations wring laughs out of a ludicrous-yet-relatable life.

Obwohl ihr eigenes Leben nicht immer nur märchenhaft verlief, ist die gebürtige St. Gallerin zufrieden alt geworden...

Carla Del Ponte wurde als Chefanklägerin des Uno-Kriegsverbrechertribunals in Den Haag das Gesicht der internationalen Justiz...

Jonathan Cresswell was a dangerous and violent man, particularly to women. He manipulated his many girlfriends using coercive control and physically assaulted them if they didn't do as he wished. In August 2020 he raped and murdered showjumper Katie Simpson, the sister of his partner and the aunt of his two children. He attempted to cover up the murder and pretended he had found her hanging from the landing in their shared home, and he very nearly got away with it.

Hidden deep in Russia’s borderlands, Black Dolphin is not just a prison—it’s a place designed to erase. Housing the country’s most dangerous murderers, terrorists, and cannibals, this maximum-security facility operates under a regime of total control and absolute silence. Black Dolphin: Russia’s Most Notorious Prison takes listeners inside a world of 23-hour confinement, psychological erosion, and a justice system that offers no second chances. Through chilling detail and unsparing truth, this book reveals the machinery of punishment at its most extreme.