Resultados para "Hagen" en Biografías y memorias

La historia del doctor Jesús Martín-Fernández, el «neurocirujano de las emociones» que ha revolucionado la medicina con sus descubrimientos. En febrero de 2023, el doctor Jesús Martín-Fernández llevó a cabo, con éxito, la primera cirugía cerebral despierta en la que se utilizó un...

"Hágase tu voluntad" es el dramático testimonio de Patricia Aguilar, una joven española de dieciocho años que fue esclavizada en la selva de Perú por el gurú Feliz Steven Manrique. Lo que empezó con una inocente búsqueda en internet, acabó convirtiéndose en la mayor pesadilla de Patricia y su familia, que lucharon incansablemente para encontrar el paradero de su hija desaparecida.

In his lively, unprecedented close-up portrait of Ferran Adrià, award-winning food writer Colman Andrews traces this groundbreaking chef’s rise from resort hotel dishwasher to culinary deity, and the evolution of El Bulli from a German-owned beach bar into the establishment voted annually by an international jury to be “the world’s best restaurant”.

A los mandos de un microscopio ultrapotente y un catéter de alta precisión, el doctor Marsh se abre camino por los intersticios del cerebro. Con frecuencia, de su pericia y de su pulso dependen que un paciente recupere la visión o acabe en una silla de ruedas. Hay días en los que salva vidas, pero también hay jornadas nefastas en las que un pequeño error o una cadena de infortunios lo hacen sentirse el ser más desdichado sobre la faz de la Tierra.

En un ventoso día de febrero, la autora de Nunca te hagas librero, editora y escritora, negoció la compra de una librería en el ensanche coruñés creyendo que con su nueva adquisición completaba una trilogía de deseos. El asunto es sencillo: se equivocó. Y una vida de relativa tranquilidad se convirtió de la noche a la mañana en una estancia de larga duración en celda compartida con el conde de Montecristo.

When she was a young girl, Jadie (and her missionary family) experienced a brutal attack while on the island of Palau in the South Pacific. That one hellish night left her physically, emotionally, and spiritually damaged. Jadie had the choice to live the life of a victim or to walk the hard road of healing that leads to wholeness in Christ. Though she faced physical injury, emotional scarring (including avoidance, memory loss, and regression), and spiritual attacks, Echoes of Darkness is a story of hope.

Historian Mark Hager builds on hundreds of hours of interviews with Harold Frank, sharing the intimate and heart-pounding account of Frank’s journey as a child of the Great Depression to the bloody shores of the D-Day invasion, into the bowels of Nazi Germany, and back to the U.S. where as a young man Harold would spend years resolutely dealing with the lingering effects of starvation rations while determinedly building a new life—a life always mindful of the legacy of his POW experience and his faithful service in America’s hard-fought war against Nazi aggression.

The definitive biography of country legend Merle Haggard by the New York Times bestselling biographer of Clint Eastwood, Cary Grant, The Eagles, and more. Merle Haggard was one of the most important country music musicians who ever lived. His astonishing musical career stretched across the...

Uta Hagen, one of the great ladies of the American theatre wrote a deeply personal memoir of her life, from her childhood in Germany to the present. Sources is Miss Hagen’s lyrical account of the special ways love of nature is intertwined with love of art in her life, providing a rare glimpse of the off-stage life of an actress.

Peter Buffett, autor de este libro, podría haber seguido los pasos de su padre, el multimillonario estadunidense Warren Buffett. De hecho, tenía todo para conquistar el éxito en el mismo terreno que su progenitor: educación, carácter, iniciativa y apoyo financiero. Sin embargo, él prefirió escuchar el llamado de su vocación y triunfar en sus propios términos y mediante sus recursos interiores. El autor revela aquí la verdad fundamental que ha guiado su extraordinaria trayectoria vital y que puede transformar la existencia del lector.

Former Ethiopian refugee Yonas Hagos shares his amazing story about his plight in Ethiopia, his emigration to the US, and the business journey he took to become the owner of dozens of restaurant franchises. From Scrappy to Self-Made describes how Hagos beat all the odds to become the owner of more than four dozen restaurant franchises that have earned him $10 million, and counting.

Zwei Jahrzehnte Motorsport-Geschichte: Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen von Red Bull Racing "No Risk, No Fun" lautet einer der Leitsätze von Teamchef Christian Horner für das Red Bull Racing Team. Das beschreibt sehr gut die Motivation und den Weg zum Erfolg der Rennfahrer aus diesem Stall.

Activists and change agents, restorative justice practitioners, faith leaders, and anybody engaged in social progress and shifting society will find this mindful approach to nonviolent action indispensable. 

Becoming a father can be one of the most profoundly terrifying, exhilarating, life-changing occasions in a man’s life. Now 22 of today’s masterful writers get straight to the heart of modern fatherhood in this incomparable collection of thought-provoking essays.

As the Nazi war machine caused death and destruction throughout Europe, one man in the Fatherland began his own reign of terror. This is the true story of the pursuit and capture of a serial killer in the heart of the Third Reich. For all appearances, Paul Ogorzow was a model German. An employed family man, party member, and sergeant in the infamous Brownshirts, he had worked his way up in the Berlin railroad from a manual laborer laying track to assistant signalman. But he also had a secret need to harass and frighten women.

For astronaut Ron Garan, living on the International Space Station was a powerful, transformative experience - one that he believes holds the key to solving our problems here on Earth. On space walks and through windows, Garan was struck by the stunning beauty of the Earth from space but sobered by knowing how much needed to be done to help this troubled planet.

Sex, drugs, rock and roll, absinthe, splatter, death, internet dating, and much more. The story of an innocent Sydney boy's journey from slum to splendor along the explosive rock and roll highways of the '70s, through heartbreak and happiness.

For all the literature about Adolf Hitler, there have been just four seminal biographies; this is the fifth, a landmark work that sheds important new light on Hitler himself. Drawing on previously unseen papers and a wealth of recent scholarly research, Volker Ullrich reveals the man behind the public persona, from Hitler's childhood, to his failures as a young man in Vienna, to his experiences during the First World War, to his rise as a far-right party leader.

Mit Herzschmerz und einer sich anbahnenden Sinnkrise schmeißt sich Sebastian in ein Abenteuer. 12 Rollen in 12 Monaten. Er lebt unter anderem anonym, frutarisch, nackt, pilgernd und autark. In den unterhaltsamen Selbstversuchen ermutigt Sebastian, festgefahrene Gewohnheiten zu hinterfragen, den Autopiloten auszuschalten und sich großzügig am unendlichen Buffet des Lebens zu bedienen. Ein Jahr lang sucht er in 12 verrückten Selbstversuchen Ablenkung und neue Perspektiven. Was er findet, ist viel wichtiger: sich Selbst. Aus kleinen Veränderungen wurden Lawinen.

Billionaire entrepreneur, distinguished public servant, and father of a former governor and presidential candidate, Jon M. Huntsman, Sr., has been very fortunate in life. The company he founded in 1970, the Huntsman Corporation, is now one of the largest petrochemical manufacturers in the world, employing more than 12,000 people and generating over $10 billion in revenue each year. Success in business, though, has always been a means to an end - never an end in itself.