Títulos em Biografias e Memórias

When planning for the future we often ask, “What will the economy be doing this time next year?” Or, “What will be different ten years from now?” But forecasting is hard. The important events that will shape the future are inherently unpredictable. Instead, we should be asking a different question: What will be the same ten years from now? What will be the same one hundred years from now? Knowledge of the things that never change is more useful, and more important, than an uncertain prediction of an unknowable future.

Rita pode ter tido de tudo, menos uma “vidinha besta”. E os últimos anos foram, sim, desafiadores. Ao mesmo tempo que o mundo passava por uma pandemia, ela foi diagnosticada com câncer no pulmão. Em um texto franco, ora cru e chocante, ora cheio de ironias, ora sutil e amoroso, Rita Lee não poupa detalhes de seu tratamento. Fala também da rotina, dos avisos do Universo, de seres de luz e dos caminhos que a vida tomou.

Living Better is Alastair Campbell's honest, moving and life-affirming account of his lifelong struggle with depression. It is an autobiographical, psychological and psychiatric study, which explores his own childhood, family and other relationships and examines the impact of his professional and political life on himself and those around him. But it also lays bare his relentless quest to understand depression not just through his own life but through different treatments.

Muhammad (peace be upon him) is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him, are severe against the disbelievers, and merciful among themselves. You see them bowing and falling down prostrate (in prayer), seeking bounty from Allah and (His) Good Pleasure. The mark of them (i.e. of their Faith) is on their faces (fore heads) from the traces of prostration (during prayers). This is their description in the Taurah (Torah).

Esta foi uma das imagens mais tocantes do século XX: dois jovens, dois príncipes, caminhando atrás do caixão da mãe, enquanto o mundo acompanhava os eventos com tristeza – e horror. Conforme Diana, a Princesa de Gales, era sepultada, bilhões de pessoas se perguntavam como se sentiam, e o que pensavam, os príncipes – e como a vida deles iria se desenrolar a partir daquele momento. Para Harry, esta é enfim a sua história.

Você nunca diz sim para nada". Foram essas seis palavras, ditas pela irmã de Shonda durante uma ceia de Ação de Graças, que levaram a autora a repensar a maneira como estava levando sua vida. Apesar da timidez e introversão, Shonda decidiu encarar o desafio de passar um ano dizendo "sim" para as oportunidades que surgiam. Os "sins" iam desde cuidar melhor de sua saúde, até aceitar convites para participar de programas de televisão e discursos em público.

Alexander Hamilton was an illegitimate self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Few figures in American history are more controversial than Alexander Hamilton. In this masterful work, Chernow shows how the political and economic power of America today is the result of Hamilton's willingness to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time.

In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.

Louise Hay inspirou milhões em todo o mundo e sempre conduziu você para se lembrar sobre a verdade de quem é: poderoso, amoroso e amado. Em homenagem à vida de Louise, você agora tem em mãos esta compilação de seus ensinamentos mais inspiradores de suas maiores obras. Nossa esperança é que as 365 frases permitam que você carregue a sabedoria de Louise todos os dias, e o inspire a confiar no processo da Vida.

Winner of the Audible Best of the Year Award for Celebrity Memoirs Including the never-before-heard tape recordings of Lisa Marie Presley, this audiobook is movingly read by her daughter, Riley Keough, and multi award-winning actress Julia Roberts. Born to an American myth and raised in the...

Repleto de caricaturas divertidas, este livro tem como objetivo mostrar que os 1.645 bilionários presentes na lista da revista Forbes de 2014 possuem mais características em comum do que os zeros antes da vírgula em suas contas bancárias.

Você que ama as histórias do grupo Walt Disney, tem curiosidade em saber mais! Agora o segredo será revelado! Ouça as histórias que nunca foram divulgadas!

Depois de conquistar o coração dos brasileiros com sua Poesia que transforma e passar mais de um ano entre os autores mais vendidos do país, Bráulio Bessa volta a nos brindar com poemas que, como de hábito, nos fazem pensar e nos fazem sentir.

"Möchtest du wissen, was wahre Magie ist?" Als der 12-jährige James Doty den kuriosen Laden für Zauberbedarf betritt, ahnt er nicht, welche Wendung sein Leben nehmen wird. Was die liebenswürdige Ruth den schüchternen Jungen aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen lehrt, ermöglicht ihm, seine kühnsten Träume zu verwirklichen: Durch vier einfache Übungen befreit er sich von dem Gefühl, Opfer seiner Lebensumstände zu sein. Er wird Chirurg, dringt in die Tiefen der Gehirnforschung vor und hat als Unternehmer immensen Erfolg.

Wer war sie wirklich? Alice Schwarzers hervorragendes Porträt bringt uns den Weltstar und vor allem den Menschen Romy Schneider nahe und zeigt, warum ausgerechnet sie zum Idol für Millionen Menschen werden konnte. Die authentische und sehr ergreifende Lebensbeschreibung, gelesen von hervorragenden Schauspielern.

Roger Lowenstein, the bestselling author of Buffett, captures Long-Term's roller-coaster ride in gripping detail. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein crafts a story that reads like a first-rate thriller from beginning to end. He explains not just how the fund made and lost its money, but what it was about the personalities of Long-Term's partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the late-nineties culture of Wall Street that made it all possible.

Entitled is the first joint biography of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson by renowned royal biographer and literary agent, Andrew Lownie. Packed full of extraordinary revelations, Entitled reveals the extent to which Andrew and Fergie’s lives are still deeply entwined. Drawing on four years of research, numerous FOI requests and interviews with over a hundred people who have never spoken before, Andrew Lownie traces the lives of the late Queen’s second son and his ex-wife through their childhoods, courtship, marriage, divorce, careers and royal and charitable activities.

A coleção A Mensagem Espiritual dedica-se a explorar o legado de grandes personalidades que transformaram vidas e expandiram a consciência humana sob uma perspectiva espiritual. Cada volume propõe uma jornada pelos ensinamentos daqueles que deixaram marcas indeléveis na história da humanidade. Neste volume, olharemos para a história de Divaldo Franco, uma das mais expressivas vozes do espiritismo contemporâneo.

Malik Al Nasir was born in Liverpool, a mixed race kid formerly known as Mark Watson – he changed his name when he converted to Islam in early adulthood. Bemused by memories of racist chants baying for him to ‘go back to where you came from’ – he came from Liverpool after all – he began to look in detail into his ancestry. This book is the result and charts the twists and turns of his journey into the past, exploring an untold chapter in both Black and British history.

This audiobook narrated by Juliet Stevenson shares the story of a world-renowned physicist who seeks gravity’s true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life.