Resultados para "Play" en Biografías y memorias

Forget polished playbooks and sanitized lessons—this is a business memoir and career journey rooted in lived experience, not theory. It’s the raw, unfiltered story of a woman who began as a casino dealer and went on to sell her startup in one of the fastest exits in the industry. What if the...

Ed is the grandson of footballing legend Gordon Banks. He was a national icon, the only goalkeeper ever to win the soccer World Cup for England. But Ed’s heard a rumour: that in 1970, while defending the title, his granddad, his hero, was poisoned… by the CIA. All part of a Cold War plot to bolster a military dictatorship in Latin America, supposedly. Could this possibly be true? Banks did get ill in Mexico in 1970 with food poisoning. And England crashed out, marking the start of decades of hurt. Ed enlists the help of investigative journalist Gabriel Gatehouse.

Novela periodística basada en un hecho verídico. Relata la vida de Eduardo González Arenas, alias Eddie. Y la de su asesino, Juanito. Eddie fue muy conocido porque desde 1970 a 1998 lideró la secta destructiva Edelweiss. Juanito es un auténtico desconocido porque era uno de los muchos jóvenes desarraigados socialmente a los que el extraterrestre Eddie había vejado durante el año en que vivió en Ibiza, igual que años antes lo hiciera con niños pijos de Madrid.

La temprana muerte del escritor chileno Roberto Bolaño fue el puñado de pólvora que encendió, de forma definitiva, la llama de su leyenda. Armada de un sutil instinto periodístico y con el compromiso solidario de los amigos, Mónica Maristain se dio a la tarea de buscar a las personas que pudieron disfrutar largas charlas con Bolaño, aquéllos que compartieron su juventud, niñez y madurez, para tejer un retrato más allá del personaje literario, descripción de cuerpo entero que toca las fibras de la persona, el padre, el hijo, el compañero.

All around the world, the words "Wall Street" conjure up a powerful image. For some, it is the center of America's capitalist system and the engine of its economic growth. For others, it is the home of rapacious bankers and reckless traders whose greed would lead to a global financial crisis. For an Indian-born blackjack player, Wall Street represented something else entirely—a chance for him to play in the largest casino in the world.

The 1971 Allman Brothers Band album At Fillmore East was a musical manifesto years in the making. Bob Beatty dives deep into the motivations of band founder Duane Allman to tell the story of what made this album one of the most important live rock albums in history.

Ensconced in keyboard martyrdom since the age of 7, after reluctantly beginning organ lessons to appease his father, keyboardist Dan Kenney would later go on to become the music director for Britney Spears at age 25 and tour worldwide from 1999-2002.

Original comedy material from some of the best comedy writers around! These audio programs feature highlights of the onling monthly reading series "Say the Word".

Television and TV viewing are not what they once were - and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columnist for the London Observer from 1972 to 1982, James has witnessed a radical change in content, format, and programming, and in the very manner in which television is watched. Here he examines this unique cultural revolution, providing a brilliant, eminently entertaining analysis of many of the medium's most notable 21st-century accomplishments.

Neste livro, Vida e Legado, convidamos você a mergulhar na trajetória de três dos maiores mestres da literatura mundial: Arthur Conan Doyle, Julio Verne e H. G. Wells. Cada um deles, em seu tempo e espaço, transcendeu os limites da imaginação e transformou a forma como vemos o mundo, a ciência, a sociedade e o próprio ser humano.

Existem crimes que nunca conseguem ser solucionados, seja porque a identidade dos criminosos nunca é desvendada, seja porque as motivações não conseguem ser encontradas.

In 1969, Sam Massell was elected the first Jewish mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. Since leaving office, he has been inducted into numerous "Halls of Fame" for service in fields of business, government, civil rights, hospitality, and influence. While a young boy and self-described "dead-end kid", Massell searched for identity between the mischief of his only two friends (one who ended up in juvenile detention) and operating his own oversized Coca-Cola stand. Later, he pioneered professionally as a specialist in building medical offices.

Bobby Richardson played alongside Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, Moose Skowron, and Yogi Berra during one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, and he remains to this day the only player from a losing team ever to be named World Series MVP. Impact Player chronicles Bobby’s life story - from his early days playing American Legion ball in South Carolina through his storied career with the Yankee’s and his decision to walk away from the game in his prime.

As a columnist for Time magazine, among many other publications, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining moments in American sport across four decades. He takes us from Roberto Clemente clinching his 3,000th, and final, regular-season hit in Pittsburgh; to ringside for the Muhammad Ali - George Foreman fight in Zaire; and to Arthur Ashe announcing, at a news conference, that he'd tested positive for HIV.

Gary Player's Black Book contains 50 questions and detailed responses from 18-time major winner Gary Player. The book, divided into three parts, focuses on specific scenarios and problems that arise in golf, life, and business.

Men's hockey in Canada may hog the limelight, but interest in women's hockey has never been higher. The Role I Played is a memoir of Sami Jo Small's 10 years with Canada's National Women's Hockey Team. Beginning with her experience as a rookie at the first-ever women's Olympic hockey tournament in Nagano in 1998 and culminating with Canada's third straight Olympic gold medal in Vancouver in 2010, the veteran goaltender gives the listener behind-the-scenes insight into one of the most successful teams in sports history.

Seeing every challenge as an opportunity for growth, Dr. Ichak Adizes moved beyond a childhood marked by imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp and immigration to an unfamiliar country to discover the benefits of opening his heart. Rejecting isolation and fear, he became a renowned thought leader who advises companies and governments worldwide on structuring thriving organizations around a culture of trust and respect. Dr. Adizes’s personal story is more than a string of external events that propelled him through adversity after adversity to become the compassionate person he is today.

A beleza incomum e a inteligência aguda de Helena eram contrastes com sua determinação implacável de se tornar a primeira mulher cirurgiã da Inglaterra vitoriana. Ela não mediria esforços para superar as barreiras e provar sua habilidade, mesmo que isso significasse realizar cirurgias em segredo em sua própria casa.

A Série "Grandes Personalidades" apresente biografia de cantores, politicos, artistas e pessoas que marcaram a história, seja por sua vida ou obras. Glória Maria Matta da Silva, foi uma jornalista, repórter e apresentadora de televisão brasileira, considerada um dos maiores símbolos do jornalismo brasileiro, foi a primeira repórter negra da televisão no Brasil.

Making music and playing drums does not start at the tip of your drumstick, not even with the motion before you strike a drum. It really starts with the desire, actually with the compulsion, to make music and to play. Play as You Are is an open invitation to explore a different approach to playing music and a sharing of the author's experiences.