Resultados para "true" en Profesionales y académicos

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One ordinary man pursuing happiness and freedom as the 2nd choice son, reluctantly steps up and assists his father in family funeral business. As he takes control and business is booming, his father succumbs to the pressures of a national death care...

Australien steht für Weite, Freiheit und Abenteuer. Doch auch dieses Land hat eine dunkle Seite. Adrian Langenscheid erzählt wahre Kriminalfälle aus Australien: von kaltblütigen Morden, rätselhaften Vermisstenfällen, zerstörten Familien, grausamen Entführungen und menschlichen Abgründen, die fassungslos machen. Sachlich, präzise und ohne Sensationsgier führt dieses Hörbuch in echte Fälle, echte Ermittlungen und echte Schicksale. Gerade die nüchterne Erzählweise macht die Geschichten so erschütternd – denn nichts daran ist erfunden.

Richard Garwin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama Called a "true genius" by Enrico Fermi, Richard Garwin has influenced modern life in far-reaching ways, yet he is hardly known outside the physics community. This is the first biography of one of America's...

Known as one of America's most dangerous cities, New Orleans plays host to incidents ranging from the tragic and disturbing to the completely bizarre - and during his career as an emergency medic, Jon McCarthy saw it all. He chronicles some of the most formative calls of his career in this autobiography that sounds like crime fiction. McCarthy demonstrates with detail and clarity that the difficult choice is often the right choice. While not for the faint of heart, each entry in this collection provides poignant insight into the bonds between medics and the people and city they serve.

An inspiring true story of one man’s journey of finding his purpose as he overcomes overwhelming obstacles to bring clean water to millions of the world’s neediest people―inviting us all to discover the amazing way that God has designed each one of us to impact this world in a unique way...

René Descartes spent much of his life in solitude. Fortunately, these countless lonely hours helped Descartes produce the declaration that changed all philosophy: “I think, therefore I am.” Convincing himself to doubt and disregard sensory knowledge, Descartes found he could prove his...

ही कथा आहे, एका विख्यात मानसोपचार तज्ज्ञाची आणि त्याच्या पेशंटची! कॅथरीन या रुग्णावर अठरा महिने उपचार करणार्‍या मानसोपचारतज्ज्ञ डॉ. ब्रायन वीज़ यांना म्हणावं तसं यश येत नव्हतं. कॅथरीनला सतत भयानक स्वप्नं पडत, अतिचिंतेचे अ‍ॅटॅक्स येत. जेव्हा पारंपरिक उपचारपद्धती तिच्याबाबतीत अयशस्वी ठरल्या, तेव्हा डॉ. वीज़ यांनी संमोहन उपचार पद्धती वापरायची ठरवली आणि त्या उपचारपद्धतीने कॅथरीनला तिचे पूर्वजन्म दिसू लागले. डॉ. वीज़ थक्क झाले, कॅथरीनच्या सद्य जन्मातल्या सर्व आजारांची, प्रश्‍नांची उत्तरं तिच्या पूर्वजन्मात दडली आहेत, हे समजल्यावर! त्यांना आश्‍चर्य वाटलंच, पण मनात साशंकताही होती.

Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. Norris offers new insights into the complex and controversial questions surrounding the decision to drop the bomb in Japan and Groves' actions during World War II, which had a lasting imprint on the nuclear age and the Cold War that followed.

For two and a half centuries a small confession by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing has sat quietly at the edge of Western thought. He looked across the gap between the accidents of history and the necessities of reason, and admitted he could not leap it, however earnestly he tried. He called it a broad, ugly ditch, and he asked for help crossing it. No one came. This book takes the ditch seriously and then does something Lessing did not dare. It refuses the two easy answers our age keeps offering —that the far bank is solid and knowable, or that nothing is real and everything is permitted.

Phineas Taylor Barnum came from humble means to revolutionize the entertainment industry of his time and lay the foundation of the entertainment industry we know today. His visionary ability to create and market new and innovative acts transformed the world and moved society forward towards a new era of understanding and inclusiveness. His marketing skill and shrewd business skills transformed common and mundane acts into "must see" cultural events.

Beneath the wide skies of Orkney, Linda Gask recalls her career as a consultant psychiatrist an her lifelong struggle with her own mental health. After the favelas of Brazil, the glittering cities of the Middle East, and the forests of Haida Gwaii. Will she find perspective, spiritual relief...

Mother of Courage is the inspiring true story of a young woman who loses both arms in a boating accident, yet valiantly finishes dental school, marries, raises two boys, teaches at an historically Black medical college, and becomes a nationally known advocate for people with disabilities. With grace, humor, faith, and a large dose of determination, Margaret Chanin transforms her tragic physical loss into a triumph of the human spirit—and shares her light with everyone she meets.

"A sheriff-elect was murdered. I was next on the hit list." —J.Tom Morgan In December 2000, Derwin Brown, the newly elected sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia, was ambushed and murdered in his own driveway just days before taking office. He had run on reform—promising to clean up corruption...

He was the last person we'd ever have thought to check. For twenty-five years, Dale was more than a business partner — he was a friend we trusted the way you trust family. So when my husband and I poured the savings from two long careers into a business and handed him the keys, it never occurred to us to build a single safeguard underneath that trust.

In 1984, a respected Boston environmental engineering firm took on the industry’s biggest engineer-constructors to win the first municipal water treatment plant privatization project in the country. The city of Scottsdale, Arizona, had embarked on the "untested" financing approach to take advantage of tax incentives that arrived with the presidency of Ronald Reagan.

A history about the invention of the motion picture and the mysterious man behind it--detailing his life, work, disappearance, and legacy. The year is 1888 and Louis Le Prince is finally testing his "taker" or "receiver" device for his family on their front lawn. The device is meant to capture...

Luke 'Milky' Moore is a fun-loving Australian country boy who transforms into a high-rolling playboy, a prison inmate, and a successful criminal lawyer - all because of a bank error. Milky's story starts in a dark place. After the 2008 stock market crash, Milky loses his job, life savings, suffers serious injury in a massive car accident, and struggles to make his house payments. And of course, his girlfriend leaves him. But at this lowest point, his bank accidentally throws him a lifeline.

Atop the Ozark Mountains and in the buckle of the Bible Belt, the murder of an eccentric lawyer reveals a tragic family drama and an examination of a community that would rather see some crimes left unsolved. Rolland Comstock lived in what was described as "a Grimm Fairy tale." With his pet...

Curro: The Art of Creating True Wealth is part memoir, part play book. As it outlines the group’s early challenges and bold solutions, it also shares the habits, decisions, and frameworks that turned a teacher with a daring idea into the founder of two multi-billion-rand companies. No trust fund. No shortcuts.

The wild isn’t always deep in the mountains. Sometimes—it’s standing right outside your door. In The Coyote at the Door, real people share their terrifying, unforgettable encounters with one of North America’s most adaptable predators. Set in quiet suburbs, rural backyards, neighborhood parks, and wooded walking trails, these are true stories of sudden wildlife attacks that shattered the illusion of safety and brought the wilderness crashing into everyday life.