Títulos em Biografias e Memórias

When 24-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: At the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?

Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry.

When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York.

Uma análise comovente e delicada sobre como viver melhor, amar melhor e se sentir mais vivo, Razões para continuar vivo é mais do que um relato de memórias. É um audiolivro sobre como aproveitar seu tempo no planeta Terra.

Na Inglaterra do século XIX, o envenenamento criminoso era uma prática assustadoramente fácil e, no entanto, quase impossível de ser comprovada—situação que resultou em males incontáveis. Uma onda de envenenamentos varria o país e, enquanto o pânico se alastrava, iniciou-se uma corrida para encontrar um teste definitivo para determinar a causa dos óbitos.

The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In this book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable.

Thirty years since the death of Fred West and the conviction of his wife Rose, in 1995, the West murder case exerts a magnetic fascination for true crime listeners. The Wests claimed twelve victims, young women and girls including members of their own family. Nine mutilated bodies were found buried under their home at 25 Cromwell St, Gloucester, the so-called House of Horrors. The Fred West Tapes incorporates remarkable new evidence and primary source testimony, including the experiences of the West children and victim families.

"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.

Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger e Albert Einstein não só revolucionaram a física, mas redefiniram nosso mundo e a realidade em que vivemos. Em A era da incerteza, Tobias Hürter reconstrói a época de ouro desse campo do saber através da história de seus heróis e heroínas deslumbrantes, imperfeitos e inesquecíveis.

Faltava escrever apenas um capítulo de suas memórias quando Graciliano Ramos faleceu, em 1953. Apesar de inacabado, o livro foi publicado de forma póstuma, originalmente em quatro volumes, com uma “Explicação final” de Ricardo Ramos fazendo as vezes de conclusão, e logo tornou-se o maior sucesso do autor—já renomado, mas pouco lido pelo público em geral.

Ao fazer uma análise do estilo de liderança de Abraham Lincoln, da maneira como ele entendia o comportamento humano e das alianças que construiu em seu governo, a premiada historiadora Doris Kearns Goodwin escreveu uma detalhada biografia política de um dos mais importantes presidentes norte-americanos. Uma obra fundamental para o entendimento da Guerra Civil americana e seus principais personagens.

De jovem arrogante e sem limites a um dos líderes mais eficientes e emblemáticos de nosso tempo. Como Steve Jobs virou Steve Jobs lança luz sobre uma das maiores realizações do cofundador e CEO da Apple: reinventar-se como o gestor que não só salvaria a Apple do fracasso, mas a elevaria a patamares jamais pensados.

This book presents the life, thought, and work of Marcion in its historical, theological, ethical, and liturgical contexts. It distinguishes itself from its competitors by employing a new method: rigorously critiquing heresy reports by means of the testimony of Marcion's own scriptures. It devotes attention to the reliable reconstruction of those scriptures, arguing for the chronological priority of Marcion's Gospel over what is now known as canonical Luke.

Christine Brown Woolley had always dreamed of having a picture-perfect family—beautiful children, an adoring husband, and of course, a sisterhood of wives to share him with. Raised in Utah by practicing polygamists, Christine knew her life was less than normal, but that didn’t stop her from loving the full house of her childhood any less. Becoming Kody Brown’s third wife in 1994, Christine finally found the big, happy family she had hoped for.

Confessions of an English Teacher: A Memoir of My Teaching Years was written to share some of my extraordinary experiences teaching English at six high schools and seven community colleges in Orange County, California, from 1973 to 2018. I share these memories because they were so disappointing in their discovery.

Tina Knowles, the mother of icons Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland, is known the world over as a Matriarch with a capital M: the woman who raised and inspired some of the great artists of our time. But this story is about so much more than that. For the first time ever, Tina Knowles shares her remarkable story in Matriarch. A life of grief and tragedy, love and heartbreak, the nurturing of her superstar daughters - and the perseverance and audacity it takes for a girl from Galveston, Texas to change the world.

Eu quero a árvore que existe é uma coletânea de seis ensaios que representam diferentes facetas da nossa ânsia de descobrir e desfrutar a realidade que nos cerca. Em textos repletos de delicadeza e lucidez, larinha divide conosco sua visão única da existência, numa conversa franca e aberta que passeia pelo que há de mais profundo e de mais banal na jornada de todos nós.

A mala de Hana é um retrato singelo, mas mostra como era cruel a vida das crianças submetidas ao Holocausto. A história se desenrola em três continentes durante um período de quase setenta anos. Envolve a experiência da garotinha Hana e de sua família na Tchecoslováquia (atual República Tcheca), nas décadas de 1930 e 1940, uma jovem e um grupo de crianças em Tóquio, no Japão, e um homem em Toronto, no Canadá, nos dias de hoje. Um relato que vai sensibilizar a todos para que horrores semelhantes aos que atingiram Hana e outros inocentes nunca voltem a acontecer.

Discovered at twelve years old, Madison Beer was one of the first artists to have her entire life documented online. Over the past decade, she has navigated the spotlight as a child, through her teenage years, and now as a young woman in her twenties. In The Half of It, Madison pulls back the curtain to show the behind-the-scenes of her journey, from reckoning with mass hate online and the time her private pictures were leaked, to battling suicidal thoughts while making her highly acclaimed debut album, Life Support, and her recovery since then.

Da infância e juventude à idade adulta e seus últimos dias, o ouvinte conhecerá a trajetória de vida do psiquiatra suíço, que desde jovem se interessou por filosofia, literatura e foi amigo de Freud. Além disso, são relatados pontos importantes sobre a escola analítica da Psicologia fundada por Jung, incluindo os conceitos do inconsciente individual e coletivo, os arquétipos, anima e animus, o self, a teoria dos tipos psicológicos e a dinâmica da personalidade.