Resultados para "Dark" en Biografías y memorias

Paul LeRoux nació en Zimbabue y se crio en Sudáfrica. Tras sus primeros trabajos como empresario pionero en la seguridad informática, se lanzó de cabeza al lado oscuro, utilizando su extraordinario talento para desarrollar un nuevo modelo de negocio en el crimen organizado. Por el camino, creó un grupo de mercenarios compuesto por antiguos francotiradores de EE.UU. y de la OTAN para llevar a cabo asesinatos por su propio placer y beneficio. El imperio criminal que construyó fue el Cártel 4.0, utilizando la economía digital y las herramientas de la nueva era.

An exposé on the depths of the internet. From sex trafficking and fraud to government secrets and anonymous hacking groups.

This heartfelt collection of essays begins were David Haldane's award-winning 2023 book, A Tooth in My Popsicle, left off. After making the difficult decision to settle in the Philippines where his wife, Ivy, had been born and raised, David and his family spent two years building their dream house overlooking the sea, getting their kids settled in local schools, and falling in love with a vibrant culture that, for him anyway, was like something out of a fantasy novel. Then disaster struck.

One of the most original and unsettling filmmakers of all time—the creator of the horror classics Dracula and Freaks, among others—Tod Browning is also one of the most enigmatic directors who ever worked in Hollywood. A complicated, troubled, and fiercely private man, he confounded would-be biographers hoping to penetrate his secret, obsessive world—both during his lifetime and afterward. Now, film historians David J. Skal and Elias Savada join forces for the first full-length biography of the man who earned a reputation as "the Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema."

A vivid double biography of two fearless Early Medieval queens, and an enthralling journey of discovery across the unfamiliar and blood-soaked historical landscape of sixth-century Merovingian France. 'Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life' Helen Castor...

In A Darker Shade of Blue, Merith shares both his gut-wrenching and heart-warming experiences and advocates for immediate police reform in a balanced and level-headed manner. He praises the people in blue, but he also knows on a visceral level that there are deep issues that need to be rectified—starting with recruitment.

In late summer of 2012, millionaire landowner Göran Lundblad went missing from his farm in Sweden. When a search yielded nothing, and all physical evidence had seemingly disappeared, authorities had little to go on - except a disturbing phone call five weeks later from Göran’s daughter Maria. She was sure that her sister, Sara, was somehow involved. At the heart of the alleged crime: Sara’s greed, her father’s land holdings, and his bitter feud with Sara’s idler boyfriend. With no body, there was no crime - and the case went as cold and dark as the forests of southern Sweden.

Dark Horse tells the intensely personal tale of a man who referred to his tour of duty with the Beatles as "a nightmare". Included are exclusive interviews with George Harrison, John Lennon, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Tiny Tim, and many others, as well as rare archival material.

This program is the first installation in the "Say It With A Song" series. A perfect accompaniment to Scott’s acclaimed books, records, films and speeches, this singular special edition of his body of work is more than an audiobook. It’s a multimedia experience that invites you to explore the intersection of art and autobiography. Kick The Dark provides an intimate and transparent glimpse into one man’s view of the most important thing that will ever happen to anyone.

A young teacher buys a one-way ticket to Shishmaref, Alaska. Within minutes of landing, she finds herself dealing with unexpected, rustic accommodations, and the culture shock of living in a remote Iñuit community. She relies on her courage, resilience, and wit while enduring freezing temperatures, power outages, loneliness, and first-year teacher anxieties and missteps, but eventually realizes that those challenges pale in comparison to the life lessons she learns about the heart of teaching.

Three young women snatched from the streets. From their lives, friends, and family. Two of them - Jane Louise Rimmer and Ciara Eilish Glennon - brutally slain. The third, the youngest - Sarah Ellen Spiers - still missing but presumed dead. Assumed murdered by the same man. The hunt for their killer had already spanned two decades and three continents, confounding detectives who had never given up, but had nothing to show for their endless years of searching.

In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another unlocked door and murdered again. Then, he turned the knob to my bedroom and found it was open. I remember the attack vividly. But Bundy wasn’t my first brush with death, and he wasn’t my last.

Dive deep into the mind of award-winning special effects makeup legend Steve Johnson - the Hunter S. Thompson of Horror who's designed special effects for Ghostbusters, The Abyss, and An American Werewolf in London.

On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises with a tactical shotgun, a high-capacity assault rifle, and a sidearm. Soon twelve were dead and fifty-eight were wounded. A Dark Night in Aurora uses the twenty-three hours of unredacted interview transcripts never seen by the public and Reid’s research to bring the listener inside the mind of a mass murderer. The result is chilling, gripping study of abnormal psychology and how a lovely boy named Jimmy became a killer.

We now know that the universe is mostly dark, made up of particles and forces undetectable by our most powerful telescopes. The discovery signaled a Copernican-like revolution in astronomy: not only are we not the center of the universe, neither is the stuff of which we're made. Vera Rubin played a pivotal role in this discovery. By showing that some astronomical objects seem to defy gravity, Rubin helped convince the scientific community of the possibility of dark matter. In Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond, Ashley Jean Yeager tells the story of Rubin's life and work.

"Gli uomini si innamorano di Gilda, ma la mattina dopo si svegliano con me accanto". (Rita Hayworth) Margherita Cansino, Rita Cansino, Rita Hayworth, Gilda, tanti nomi, per una sola donna, bellissima, per una donna, sola, drammaticamente sola.

The Four Trials of Henry Ford chronicles Henry Ford’s forays into landmark litigation during the early years of the 20th century. Ford was a man of extraordinary genius in the intricacies and workings of mechanical objects and in the identification and hiring of talented engineers and administrative managers. But he was constitutionally unable to permit a light to shine on anyone other than himself and often employed humiliating tactics to terminate any employee who rose to prominence.

Since as early as the 1700s, New Orleans has been a city filled with sin and vice. Those first pioneering citizens of the Big Easy were thieves, vagabonds, and criminals of all kinds. By the time Louisiana fell under American control, New Orleans had become a city of debauchery and corruption camouflaged by decadence. Tales in this volume include that of the notorious axman who plagued the streets of the Crescent City in the early 1900s and Kate Townsend, a prostitute who was murdered by her own lover, a man who later was awarded her inheritance. 

To their coworkers, neighbors, and others who knew them, they led unremarkable lives. They had careers as military pilots, police officers, landscapers, small business owners, farmers, realtors, reporters, authors, veterinary technicians, nurses, doctors, handymen, painters, and chefs, while they simultaneously stalked city suburbs, college campuses, trailer parks, and red-light districts. This chilling book looks at the horrifying stories of nearly thirty malevolent killers who were mistakenly trusted.

He was handsome, articulate, and politically ambitious. He volunteered at a suicide prevention hotline, studied law, and had a girlfriend who adored him. He also murdered at least thirty women across seven states and kept returning to their remains long after they were dead. Ted Bundy wasn't a mystery. He was a warning. In Bundy Decoded, bestselling author and persuasion expert Craig Beck dismantles the most famous serial killer in American history, piece by piece.