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Entre las mentes maestras de la segunda mitad del siglo XX que lograron cambiar nuestra visión del mundo se encuentra, indiscutiblemente, Steve Jobs. Steven Paul Jobs fue cofundador y presidente ejecutivo de Apple y máximo accionista individual de The Walt Disney Company. Gracias a sus conocimientos y a un emprendimiento visionario excepcional supo captar las necesidades del sector informático y adaptar sus productos al usuario. Sus orígenes humildes y su iniciativa en el mundo de los negocios han inspirado a millones de personas.

Viktor E. Frankl, cuya primera crisis existencial le sobreviene a una edad tan temprana como la que tenía Mozart cuando compuso su primer minué, fue incapaz de no dejar su impronta en el siglo XX: el siglo del replanteamiento de todos los valores, de la vertiginosa aceleración de todos los...

Manuel Sacristán realizó en esta 'Antología' una selección de los más destacados e importantes textos que conforman el corpus gramsciano desde los primeros años formativos de Antonio Gramsci hasta su propia muerte en 1937. Para la construcción de esta obra, Sacristán, posiblemente el...

De todas las ciencias, una interesaba especialmente al erudito profesor Von Baumgarten. Era la que se conecta con la psicología y las relaciones entre mente y materia.

Cuando el médico le coge las manos para anunciarle que tiene cáncer de mama, lo primero que teme Raquel, guionista y madre soltera de un niño de cuatro años, no es perder la teta, sino su pelazo, y encima justo ahora que acaba de hacerse el alisado de queratina. A medida que asimila la noticia y arranca el tratamiento, el miedo se asienta como un fiel compañero de viaje, al que ella pone a raya a golpe de un humor descarado y sin complejos.

Dr. Wayne Z. Burkhead Jr. is an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in shoulder disorders, and being special, in Dallas, Texas. He has lectured on an international level designed medical devices, and authored book chapters, scientific papers, and a Textbook, Rotator Cuff Disorders. As a youth, he fancied himself an artist but, ended up sculpting bones. He also fancied himself a musician but lacked talent. He never fancied himself as a doctor, especially a surgeon.

In 2008 Peter F. Bowers bought the WACO Aircraft Company—the only modern maker of FAA-certified open-cockpit biplanes—and discovered how expensive ignorance can be. He had manufacturing in his bones and almost no experience selling airplanes. The first year’s statements showed a loss of more than a million dollars. The accountant’s job was to report the number. His job was to face it. What followed was not a romance about flying.

She risked her life to protect the natural world, only to discover that nature was not her greatest danger. In this powerful memoir, Michelle Schuman takes listeners from the savanna of Zimbabwe to the bamboo forests of the Virunga Mountains and the oil-soaked shores of Prince William Sound. Along the way, she witnesses unforgettable scenes of beauty, violence, and survival: a grieving baby elephant beside its slaughtered mother, the touch of a mountain gorilla deep in the wild, and seals struggling through the toxic devastation of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

In Tainted Love: A Bipolar Memoir, one impulsive decision sets in motion the compounding chaos and allure of four love stories—igniting in seduction and collapsing in disillusionment.

A potent and practical guide for personal happiness from Steven Bartlett, creator and host of the highly popular podcast The Diary of a CEO We are losing ourselves. We’re chasing the wrong things, asking the wrong questions, and polluting our minds. It’s time to stop, it’s time to resist...

Georgine had built a life of careful control. As a wife, mother, and college professor, she minimized risk and played by the rules. Her attorney husband was successful, her four grown daughters were thriving, and her students knew that hard work and deadlines mattered. Having survived a...

"Extraordinary . . . [this] series of true stories about the authentic nature of bears reveals them as the sensitive and intelligent beings they are." ―Carl Safina, New York Times– bestselling author of Becoming Wild and Beyond Words Grizzly bears have long been feared as unpredictable and...

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...

‘Shoe Dog meets Goodfellas with a dash of The Little Prince’ ARIANNA HUFFINGTON ‘Here in Technicolor is another of Hollywood’s greatest characters’ RICK RUBIN ‘A rare peek at how Hollywood really works’ WALTER ISAACSON One of Hollywood’s most accomplished, feared – and funny...

From the award-winning author of A Ghost in the Throat comes a time-traversing, form-defying, genre-morphing story of a reader unraveling the legacies of a fabled asylum and the women who haunt its halls. This program is read by the author. In Cork, Ireland, a derelict Victorian mental hospital...

Fabrizio Recchia, pescarese dal carattere mite, riservato e dalla grande sensibilità sociale, crede profondamente nell'amicizia e nella collaborazione. Amante dello sport, ha ideato e costruito con pochi amici macchinari innovativi per potenziare gli allenamenti e coadiuvare la riabilitazione degli arti. Tratta da una storia vera, la vicenda si snoda a Pescara in un'epoca in cui i giovani sognavano il riscatto.

Si El valor de la atención, nos sumergía en las causas y consecuencias de vivir pegados al teléfono móvil, este nuevo libro aborda otra de las mayores obsesiones de la vida moderna: perder peso. Cuando Johann Hari vio su foto como cliente del mes en el Kentucky Fried Chicken que había a la...

Günümüzün en tartışmalı yenilikçisinin anlatılmamış hikayesi, sınırsız erişim izni verilen tek biyografi yazarı tarafından kaleme alındı.

"Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up," Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlie’s Almanack. Originally published in 2005, this compendium of 11 talks, delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman between 1986 and 2007, has become a touchstone for a generation of investors and entrepreneurs seeking to absorb the enduring wit and wisdom of one of the great minds of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Includes a new introduction written and read by Irvine Welsh When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously...