Títulos em Profissionais e Acadêmicos

To his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation.

When Derek Yu released Spelunky for free in 2008, his roguelike-inspired platformer took the indie game community by storm with its combination of classic platform mechanics, extreme difficulty, and random level generation. Four years later, Spelunky's HD remake went on to become PC Gamer's Game of the Year and earn perfect scores from Polygon and Eurogamer. But how is a "perfect" game made?

" Je n'étais pas fait pour réussir. Né d'une mère immigrée d'origine bulgare et d'un père inconnu, j'ai grandi sans histoires dans le quartier de Beaugrenelle à Paris. Jusqu'au jour où ma mère se fait escroquer, tombe dans la dépression, l'alcoolisme, et perd tout ce qu'elle a. Y compris moi, son seul et unique fils. Pris en charge par l'Aide sociale à l'enfance, ballotté de familles d'accueil en foyers, mon monde bascule.

Paranormal begins with a harrowing account of Moody’s suicide attempt—due to an undiagnosed illness that led him into depression—and proceeds to explore his lifelong fascination with life beyond our bodies. Moody traces the roots of his obsession with the point of death and how, at age twenty-three, he launched the entirely new medical field of near-death studies. He went on to explore the world of past lives and possible reincarnation before stumbling into the fascinating realm of facilitated visions.

In 1831, Charles Darwin set out on an expedition to South America, brought along as a gentleman companion for Captain Robert FitzRoy. Initially conceived as a Christian mission, the voyage would change drastically as the Beagle sailed through the Pacific, with Darwin’s observations becoming the building blocks of his revolutionary theory of evolution. This theory put the rational, scientific Darwin at odds with the deeply religious FitzRoy, who would go on to publicly denigrate Darwin and his heretic ideas.

QUEL EST VOTRE PRINCIPAL ATOUT. POUR VOUS ENRICHIR… SANS VOUS FAIRE AVOIR ? VOTRE CONNAISSANCE DES RÈGLES. DE L’INVESTISSEMENT . « Que vous soyez novice en matière d’investissement ou que vous souhaitiez faire passer votre portefeuille à un niveau supérieur, vous apprendrez tout ce que je sais sur l’investissement boursier. » Jordan Belfort.

In June of 1952, German publishing tycoon Axel Springer was sending a new paper to print: a four-page broadsheet that almost ready, save for a narrow blank on the second page. With minutes to spare, Springer commissioned a one-block cartoon of a petite blonde with a predilection for rich men. That blonde was named “Lilli.” But in a span of seven short years, she would be reborn in plastic, across an ocean, and under a different name: Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Since the invention of the iPhone and App Store, Apple has built a near unassailable market power, controlling not only commerce, but also culture, and—increasingly—the flow of ideas. In response, a loose rebel alliance of tech entrepreneurs has formed to lay siege to Apple, bringing together X's Elon Musk, WeChat's Pony Ma, Spotify's Daniel Ek and Epic Games' Tim Sweeney. In the trenches of popular opinion and now in the courtrooms of Europe and the United States, this rebellion aims to tear down Apple's walls and dismantle its monopoly.

Ieri visionario altruista, salvatore dell'umanità impegnato in imprese ambiziose come liberarci dalla dipendenza dai combustibili fossili o colonizzare Marte, oggi Elon Musk si è spinto oltre l'industria automobilistica e quella aerospaziale per sfidare direttamente le politiche che plasmano gli Stati Uniti e non solo. Questo lo ha portato al centro di alcuni dei settori più complessi - dalla produzione industriale alla politica, dalla difesa alla tecnologia - mentre il suo comportamento sempre più imprevedibile solleva dubbi sulla sua stabilità e sulla sua capacità di giudizio.

In Paralegals Should Be Millionaires, legal entrepreneur and paralegal powerhouse Jaclyn Foster delivers a bold and practical roadmap for paralegals ready to ditch traditional limits and step into entrepreneurial success. Whether you're a freelance paralegal, in-house paralegal, legal assistant, or law student exploring your options—this book will shake up how you think about your role in the legal industry and what’s possible for your future.

Few people have had the privilege of living on an isolated nature reserve of international importance, their every move judged by countless critics. Young ranger Ajay Tegala, embarking on his placement at Blakeney Point aged just nineteen, would have to stand firm in the face of many challenges to protect the wildlife of one of Britain's prime nature sites. In over 120 years, only a select few rangers have devoted their heart and soul to the wildlife of Norfolk's Blakeney Point.

Sie wurden ausgesetzt oder von Lkw überfahren – und heißen nun »Pizza Man«, »Fire Chief« oder »Snowball«. Zu Hunderten haben sie Zuflucht gefunden in einem Haus in Massachusetts. In diesem Refugium für Schildkröten tritt Sy Montgomery einen Freiwilligendienst an – und lässt uns an einer lebensverändernden Erfahrung teilhaben: Wenn wir unsere Existenz mit den Augen dieser uralten, gemächlichen und langlebigen Wesen betrachten, bekommen wir eine Ahnung von dem, was uns überdauern wird.

In No Woman Left Behind, Grant recounts her decision to abandon a promising advertising career, and the ups and downs of building Silicon Valley–based Fistula Foundation from a modest start-up into the global leader in fistula treatment. Through vivid firsthand accounts of surgeons toiling in remote corners of Africa and Asia, we see inside the fight to restore hope to some of the world’s most vulnerable women.

Découvrez l'histoire fascinante de Steve Jobs, le génie visionnaire qui a transformé le monde en fondant Apple Inc. et en révolutionnant des industries telles que la technologie, la musique, le cinéma et les télécommunications. Cette biographie est une immersion profonde dans son parcours, explorant son enfance, sa formation, son ascension fulgurante et les impacts durables qui ont façonné la société moderne.

Long before creating Covet by Christos, the world's leading livestreamer of all things luxury, future founder and CEO Christos Garkinos grew up in Detroit as the gay son of Greek immigrants and started working in his parents' diner at the age of four. Seeking a bigger life post-college, Garkinos took a job under Richard Branson in the mid-90's heyday of Virgin Megastores. Beginning to rub shoulders with A-list celebrities, he embarked on a 25-year fashion and media career with many highs and lows.

The journey of an entrepreneurial Orthodox Jewish American-Israeli woman who founded an educational organization and ran an inner-city charter school. Nicki Salfer built a business working with special-needs children while overcoming personal struggle, and explains her amazing story in a fresh and relatable memoir.

Nur sechs Tage nach der Geburt ihrer Tochter Leni merken Vanessa und Markus, dass etwas nicht stimmt. Sie alarmieren den Notarzt. Es folgt eine beunruhigende Odyssee aus Krankenhausaufenthalten, Untersuchungen und schlaflosen Nächten - und dem Ausblick auf Operationen, die schwerwiegende Konsequenzen für Leni haben. Durch Höhen und Tiefen halten die Eltern zusammen, stützen sich auf Ärzt*innen und den Fortschritt der Medizin. Ein Mutmacher-Hörbuch über Hoffnung, Resilienz und den Wert der Familie.

An estimated tens of millions of Americans live with conditions that elude diagnosis, often navigating a healthcare system that fails to recognize or effectively address their suffering. Journalist Alexandra Sifferlin has spent years investigating the diagnosis crisis in America—what it means to live without a diagnosis and how both medical and patient communities are working to improve the diagnostic process.

Our laws and justice system are vast and ancient: they might touch our lives when we have an accident, a wrong is done to us, or we have a family difficulty. And they cover everything from the personal to the regulation of our government. But to most of us they are a web of intimidating institutions and practices. Lady Hale – former President of the Supreme Court and an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed – shows us how the law is on our side.

A book for psychotherapists and their clients — and for anyone who wants to make the journey from shame to unshame. Carolyn Spring, author of ‘Recovery is my best revenge: my experience of trauma, abuse and dissociative identity disorder’, documents in this, her second book, her journey through psychotherapy to heal and resolve trauma-based shame, which had resulted in a catastrophic mental breakdown in her early thirties and an eventual diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder (DID).