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BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with Robert Kurson and Michael May In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure–the stunning true story of one man’s...

Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford prize and the 2021 Costa Biography Award. Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost...

María Zambrano, allieva di José Ortega y Gasset e di Xavier Zubiri all'Universidad Central di Madrid, fu esiliata dopo la guerra civile e viaggiò, peregrinando e nascondendosi, dal Messico a Cuba, da Roma alla Svizzera. Con uno sguardo profondo e delicato, Luigina Mortari compone il ritratto di una vita in fuga e di un pensiero libero: "La filosofia di Zambrano spazia sui paesaggi dell'anima, apre all'immensità del cosmo, addolcisce il discorso con parole di poesia, e per queste sue qualità può sembrare una filosofia dell'intimo.

Narrated by the author, Diane Wilson shares her journey through random and sometimes humorous events of having an invisible illness, how her brain kept this injury even from herself, the loss of focus and sense of self, an obsession with day trading retirement funds, and the alternative therapies that helped heal her brain—a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh, acupuncture, learning to sing, and, most centrally, neurofeedback.

When André de Ruyter took over as Eskom CEO in January 2020, he quickly realised why it was considered the toughest job in South Africa. Aside from neglected equipment, ageing power stations and an eroded skills base, he discovered that Eskom was crippled by corruption on a staggering scale. De Ruyter takes the listener inside the boardrooms and government meetings where South Africa’s future is shaped, with ministers often pulling in conflicting directions, and candidly reflects on his three years at the power utility.

René Descartes is one of the formative figures in Western philosophy, logic and mathematics. His famous statement: "I think, therefore I am," has become perhaps the most famous phrase in all of philosophy. Descartes’s ground-breaking writings attempted to establish unshakeable foundations of knowledge, and set a trend for subsequent Western philosophy, which has endlessly critiqued and expanded upon his ideas.

Even after Greek power waned, the Romans borrowed Greek culture, so it should come as little surprise that various Greeks continued to be influential in antiquity. In fact, if people in the third century CE were asked which religious or philosophical figure from the first century CE was most likely to found or inspire a global religion that would attract millions of followers and last for centuries, they would not have answered Jesus of Nazareth.

Es difícil explicar cómo la palabra cáncer puede cambiarnos la vida de una manera tan drástica. En el momento en que me diagnosticaron cáncer de seno, me sentía llena de vida; pero, sin saberlo, dentro de mi cuerpo se multiplicaba y crecía ese mal que me acercaba a la muerte.Mi lucha contra el cáncer me ha hecho una mujer más fuerte, más segura, más serena y en paz conmigo misma y con la vida.

“Ram Dass lived a full life and then some. His final statement is thorough and, yes, enlightening.” —Kirkus Reviews Perhaps no other teacher has sparked the fires of as many spiritual seekers in the West as Ram Dass. If you’ve ever embraced the phrase “be here now,” practiced...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from the TikTok superstar about her journey from living paycheck to paycheck to creating a multi-million-dollar business that offers a compassionate alternative to capitalism Includes no-nonsense life and money advice, from...

"À trente ans je me suis retrouvé sur le pavé. Viré avec perte et fracas. La raison d'être de ma vie n'existait plus. J'étais en miettes. Je ne m'en suis pas rendu compte tout de suite, mais mon départ forcé d'Apple fut salutaire..." Telle est la confession de Steve Jobs en ce matin de juin 2005 aux étudiants de l'université de Stanford. Elle résume la maturation qui s'est lentement opérée en lui. Chassé d'Apple comme un malpropre en 1985, Jobs a réussi un come-back retentissant dix ans plus tard.

Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists. Madison Smartt Bell’s enthralling narrative comes across like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation as the father of modern chemistry—a considerable fortune and social connections with the likes of Benjamin Franklin—also caused his glory to be cut short by the French Revolution. 

This fascinating biography follows the life of one of the most extraordinary psychologists of modern times, Carl Jung, and the incredible impact he made on our understanding of the human mind. Author Lily Yuan takes us on a journey through Jung's life, beginning with the formative years of his childhood through his tumultuous relationship with fellow psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud to his travels across the world in his later years.

Ray Dalio does not want you to listen to this audiobook. Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down from the company he started out of his apartment nearly 50 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio cultivated an aura of international admiration and fame thanks to his company’s eye-popping success, coupled with a mystique he encouraged with frequent media appearances, celebrity hobnobbing, and his bestselling book, Principles.

You don't have to get beaten up to get beaten down. Andrew Regal spent decades working his way up in the high-stakes landscape of television news. He was often deflated, downtrodden, and defeated during the time of his most acute workplace trauma, which left him anxiety-ridden, alone, ashamed, sleepless, and contemplating suicide. Despite this, readers will find Regal humorous, sympathetic, resilient, and relatable. He is uniquely qualified to aid those who, like him, have suffered while trying to be the best possible employees.

Thinkers and Dreamers invites listeners to relive the lives of remarkable individuals, tracing their journeys from childhood and everyday experiences to the heights of genius. At the heart of the book lies a fundamental question: How does an individual become a catalyst for social progress? The answer unfolds through the stories of these thinkers and dreamers. It is found not only in their discoveries, but in their sacrifices: the courage to devote one’s life to an ideal. Beyond compelling narratives, the book reveals the pivotal decisions that reshaped history.

A debut memoirist reflects on his career as a high school teacher and coach in this essay collection... The topics include the author’s experiences coaching multiple sports and the differences between teaching at private versus public schools... Burke eschews a standard chronological narrative for a more reflective approach that positions autobiographical vignettes as metaphors for the themes and lessons that undergirded his career...

The missteps, the abysmal timing, the pitiful, stumbling overreach, none were recent developments. All were part of an early onset failure, all wired into my DNA from the start. The symptom that was my fledgling frack company, but the cause, the reason, that was all me. I’ll make a hurried, overly zealous decision to do something, then just do it. I’ll assume that if I do, I’ll land on my feet. The bedrock of all my assumptions has always been Why shouldn’t I land on my feet? Why though? Why so damned cavalier? It is because I am an entrepreneur.

In this graphic and yet surprisingly funny account of her and others’ extraordinary careers, Lankford unveils a world in which park rangers struggle to maintain their idealism in the face of death, disillusionment, and the loss of a comrade killed while holding that thin green line between protecting the park from the people, the people from the park, and the people from each other. Ranger Confidential is the story behind the scenery of the nation’s crown jewels—Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Great Smokies, Denali.

Dieses Hörbuch erzählt die leise, berührende Geschichte einer Frau, die gelernt hat, stark zu sein, zu funktionieren und sich anzupassen, um geliebt zu werden. Doch hinter dem Lächeln wächst die Erschöpfung. Hinter dem „Ja" verbirgt sich ein „Nein". Und irgendwo auf diesem Weg geht sie selbst verloren. Bis ein Moment der Stille alles verändert. Mit einer warmen, ruhigen Erzählweise lädt dieses Hörbuch dazu ein, innezuhalten, zuzuhören und sich selbst wieder zu begegnen.