Resultados para "Job" en Biografías y memorias

Whether you’re a well-established industry figure or just starting off in your career, this guidebook to professionalism in the modern workplace will set you up for success. Leave Your Mark isn't an advice book -- it's a mentorship in 288 pages. Aliza Licht-global fashion communications...

MAKING OF AN INDUSTRY: Every pond has a story. This one starts with a hobbyist who fell in love with water, made nearly every mistake imaginable, and turned those failures into the foundation of a global company. In 2026, the author marks 56 years around the sun, 44 years as a pond hobbyist, and 35 years as the founder of Aquascape Inc.—now the world's largest manufacturer of professional-grade pond equipment. But long before the accolades and the industry recognition, there was just a young dreamer with a shovel, a hose, and a stubborn refusal to quit.

The first instalment of a warts-and-all confessional by Jimmy O-'The Wigan Joker'. The town's most notorious performer, since the days of Frank Randall. Documenting his misspent life from early years right up to his accidental dalliance with minor reality TV stardom and beyond...

Policing today is not what the public imagines. Beneath the uniform lies a profession suffocating under bureaucracy, political interference, and a leadership structure more concerned with optics than justice. Officers are stretched to breaking point, forced to navigate a world where insane decisions fail the most vulnerable, where criminals slip through the cracks, and where those on the front lines are left to absorb the trauma—alone.

“I am just an ordinary mum, yet I would go to the ends of the earth to get justice for my daughter. If I can change the way people are treated, then Jodey will not have died in vain. I now feel that this was her destiny; to change the lives of millions of others.“ While Jodey Whiting was...

La muerte de Steve Jobs ha conmocionado al mundo. Tras entrevistarlo en más de cuarenta ocasiones en los últimos dos años, además de a un centenar de personas de su entorno, familiares, amigos, adversarios y colegas, Walter Isaacson nos presenta la única biografía escrita con la colaboración de Jobs, el retrato definitivo de uno de los iconos indiscutibles de nuestro tiempo, la crónica de la agitada vida y abrasiva personalidad del genio cuya creatividad, energía y afán de perfeccionismo revolucionaron seis industrias.

From his earliest memories of watching Rhoda with his parents in their tiny Hell’s Kitchen apartment, John knew that he wanted to be an actor. The strange, alternate world of television—where people always cracked the perfect joke, lived in glamorous Upper East Side buildings, and made up immediately after fighting—seemed far better than his own home life, with a mother and father on the brink of divorce and a neighborhood full of crumbling pre-war architecture and not-so-occasional muggings. And yet that other world also seems unattainable.

"Finding Dad" is an inspirational story that relates the power of faith, love, and perseverance in the face of loss. It will give hope to anyone who has experienced the pain of losing a loved one.

Over Easter weekend 2015, a motley crew of six English thieves, several in their sixties and seventies, couldn't resist coming out of retirement for one last career-topping heist. Their target: the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit, in the heart of London's medieval diamond district. "The Firm"...

Like so many others who learned to cope with their traumas through alcohol, drugs, or sex—and doing whatever else it took to forget and fit in—Steve Moffe was no different. At the age of 21 he began a career in the New York State Department of Corrections. After 19 years of working as an officer he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and PTSD. The details of his experiences from those years include being admitted to substance abuse rehabs and mental health facilities.

"How ya doin?" With these four syllables, delivered in an unmistakably authentic New York accent, Steve Osborne has riveted thousands of people through the legendary storytelling outfit The Moth (and over a million times on their website) with his hilarious, profane, and touching tales from his...

The justice system is not what the public imagines. A police force that is crumbling, suffocating under the bureaucracy and perverse incentives of those at the top. Domestic abusers walking free whilst victims are being failed. Broken homes leaving children to be groomed into a world of crime. A court system that is corrupted by politics, holding on by a thread. A prison system hollowed out for profit. Is justice working, and is it truly blind and fair for all?

The unforgettable account of Del Seymour, who overcame 18 years of homelessness and addiction to become one of the most respected advocates in San Francisco In Mayor of the Tenderloin, journalist Alison Owings slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism surrounding San Francisco’s...

As careers go, it doesn’t get more exciting or glamorous than ‘London-based advertising executive.’ The money is excellent, the job scope is interesting, and come on, for chrissake, it’s London. But for Bjorn Low, who held that enviable position of London Ad Man, success had become...

In August 2005, thieves dug nearly 80 meters beneath a Brazilian city and emptied a Central Bank vault without triggering a single alarm. No explosions. No gunfire. No security breach detected. Just a tunnel carved through earth and concrete and 160 million reais gone by morning. The Banco Central Burglary: Brazil's Billion-Dollar Tunnel Job tells the full true crime story behind one of the most audacious cash heists in history.

Highlighted by the ESPN basketball documentary Black Magic, Ben Jobe's life and philosophy are captured in Staying Ahead of the Posse. This is history in the flesh, the history of basketball and the Civil Rights Movement, of desegregation and economic exploitation, of African independence and the modern-day plantation that is the American sports industry in general and the NCAA in particular. Ben's 40-plus years of coaching, teaching, nurturing, and mentoring intersected with and was influenced by all those factors.

Sanjay Burman has had an accomplished life - he produced two feature films and two TV shows by the age of 24, and sold his high school to Pepsi for $1.2 million. This book showcases personal anecdotes and honest lessons he has learned through his failures and successes that can inspire others to persevere. People who want to go further in life but lack the confidence can be motivated to take risks, despite class, education, or lack of money.

For Christmas 2018, my brother, a pilot with American Airlines, gave me a gift that became the experience of a lifetime: 12 months of free travel anywhere American Airlines flies. Thus began a year long journey that took me from the rocky coasts of Portugal, to the hot sands of Morocco, to the mangrove swamps of Panama, with many places beyond and between. In cheap hostels and the backwaters of the nomadic milieu, I discovered a treasure chest of colorful and fascinating people. I tell their stories and mine.

Booed by crowds. Sworn at by players. Spat on from the stands. Threatened, accused, hated. Welcome to the world of football refereeing. We watch referees every week. But almost none of us understand what the job really demands. In this meticulously reported book, William Ralston goes deep inside...

Former CEO Jack Welch surveys the landscape of his career running General Electric, revealing his philosophy and management style. Nearly twenty years ago, former General Electric CEO Reg Jones walked into Jack Welch's office and wrapped him in a bear hug. "Congratulations, Mr. Chairman," said...