Títulos em Profissionais e Acadêmicos

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867–1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide acclaim and was, indeed, one of the great scientists of the twentieth century. Written by Curie’s daughter, the renowned international activist Eve Curie, this biography chronicles Curie’s legendary achievements in science, including her pioneering efforts in the study of radioactivity and her two Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry.

التقني ورائد الأعمال العبقـري مؤسس شركة "أبل" الذي استطـاع أن يغيّـر سوق التقنيـة العالميـة والذي شكّـل الثورة الكبـرى في عالم الهواتف الذكيـة والأجهزة اللوحيـة والحواسيب ذات الخصائص المميزة، لا أحد يستطيع أن يُنكـر عليه عبقـريته وإنجازاته للعالم...ومع ذلك، لا يعتبر ستيف جوبز أفضل مثال ممكن للاقتداء به من الناحيـة الإنسـانية والعائلية والشخصية، وقد ظهر ذلك باعترافاته الشخصية في الكتب التي أرخت لسيرته!

لطالما وقف الإنسان حائرًا أمام طبيعة الزمن منذ بدء الخليقة، فشغل تعريفه العلماء حتى عصرنا الحالي، إلا أن القرن العشرين، شهد ظهور عالمٍ استثنائيٍّ اختار تعريف الزمن بطريقته الخاصة، على الرغم من صعوبة الظروف التي مرّ بها، ذلك هو العالم البريطاني الشهير: ستيفن هوكينغ (Stephen Hawking).

Wie ich zu Europas erfolgreichstem Verkaufstrainer wurde. Es gibt Menschen, die hören gerne Märchen. Meine Biografie ist keines, sondern das Ergebnis harter, intensiver und täglicher Arbeit. In diesem Hörbuch kommt keine gute Fee, die mir drei Wünsche gewährt hat und zack, war ich erfolgreich. Nein. Dieses Hörbuch ist voller Höhen und Tiefen, Siegen und Niederlagen und erzählt dir Geschichten und Geheimnisse über mich und mein Leben, die bisher nicht einmal langjährige Mitarbeiter und ganz enge Freunde von mir kannten.

Montiamo in sella con Margherita Hack per ripercorrere con un’ironia garbata tutta toscana la sua vita al ritmo di dolci o sfrenate pedalate. La celebre astrofisica ci racconta come è passata dal triciclo alla bici da corsa. In mezzo ci sono le salite fiorentine, l’università, il secondo conflitto mondiale e il rifiuto di aderire al fascismo, l’amore per Aldo che, prima di diventare suo marito, fu grande amico d’infanzia e di giochi al Bobolino, la passione per il ciclismo e l’atletica, la carriera, l’affetto per gli animali, i viaggi all’estero, Trieste e le gite a due ruote a respirare libera nella natura.

The Leadership Alchemist is your ultimate guide to mastering emotional intelligence (EQ) and turning uncertainty into opportunity. Whether you’re navigating workplace challenges, leading diverse teams, or striving for personal growth, this book equips you with the tools to thrive in today’s dynamic world.

Reeling from the pain of devastating miscarriages and suffering from PTSD after military adventures in Afghanistan, Merlin and his wife Lizzie decide to leave the bustle of London and return to Merlin’s childhood home, a Cornish hill farm called Cabilla in the heart of Bodmin Moor. There, they are met by unexpected challenges: a farm slipping ever further into debt, the discovery that the overgrazed and damaged woods running throughout the valley are in fact one of the UK’s last remaining fragments of Atlantic temperate rainforest, and the sudden and near catastrophic strickening by Covid.

The Success Pledge is a powerful instrument and a transformative tool that can guide you toward your goals and dreams. Are you prepared to embark on your journey to success? Judge Elijah Smiley shares his personal narrative as a testament to how adhering to the Success Pledge can lead to success. Listeners are presented with the Success Pledge as a potent roadmap to success and are guided through its practical application, instilling hope and optimism for a successful future.

Confessions of an English Teacher: How High School and Community College English Departments Can Improve Instruction is designed to help English departments improve the instruction they deliver to students. It is a follow-up to the book Confessions of an English Teacher: A Memoir of My Teaching Years. In the memoir book, I discovered several vital things English departments can do to radically alter their approach to teaching English. Teaching English has fallen into patterns that research has indicated need to be revised.

Join Dr. Nesheiwat on an extraordinary journey of compassion and faith in Beyond the Stethoscope: Miracles in Medicine where gripping stories of miraculous recoveries, experiences in the ER, and global medical missions illuminate the transformative power of prayer and unwavering dedication to healing and service. Dr. Janette is among the frontline workers helping to get people through these dark moments—her greatest lifeline being her family and the power of God’s love.

As soon as I slid the contents from the envelope, I knew it was a bomb. So opens Justice Never Rests, the story of U.S. Attorney William Kolibash’s relentless fight against organized crime in the foothills of West Virginia and beyond. Not content with only the investigative and prosecutorial tools at his disposal, Kolibash sought new and different means to put away kingpins who’d successfully skirted the law.

Lydia Slaby was thirty-three years old and had everything she believed would make her happy: three fancy private school degrees; a successful husband who was in the inner circles of Barack Obama's presidential campaign; a high-paying job as an attorney—even an enviable yoga practice. But under the surface Lydia's life was in free-fall. Her new marriage was one argument after another, she had a job she never wanted, and for some reason she had begun to rapidly lose weight and turn a strange shade of yellowish-green.

Wolf Messing: The True Story of Russia’s Greatest Psychic by Tatiana Lungin is the first comprehensive biography of the renowned psychic Wolf Messing. This fascinating memoir recounts Messing’s rise to fame in Europe, his escape from Nazi persecution, and his incredible career in the USSR, where he became a psychic sensation even under Stalin’s scrutiny. In this, the first biography and personal memoir of Wolf Messing to appear in the West, Tatiana Lungin limns a revealing portrait of one of the greatest psychic performers of the twentieth century.

This captivating biography delves into J. Robert Oppenheimer's groundbreaking work, from his early scientific achievements to leading the Manhattan Project and his complex legacy as the mind behind the atom bomb. The brilliant theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer is now known primarily for his work on the development of the atomic bomb from 1942-45 at Los Alamos in New Mexico. Though fascinated by the processes that created the bomb, he was horrified by its impact and the devastation wrought on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

From prosecuting murderers in Chicago, to arguing before the Supreme Court, to authoring more than a dozen books, Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett has played an integral role in the rise of originalism—the movement to identify, restore, and defend the original meaning of the Constitution. Thanks in part to his efforts, by 2018 a majority of sitting Supreme Court justices self-identified as "originalists."

In this biography, Dave Werklund tells how he grew up on a farm, left school in Grade 9, and then built a multi-billion-dollar business in Alberta to clean up oil waste and pollution. As an environmentalist working in the oil business, he argues that Alberta has among the most stringent environmental standards anywhere in the oil world. Yet like everyone in the Alberta oil business, Werklund has faced disaster and had to find a way out.

The small-town veterinary clinic is abuzz again! As if the beat-down by the angry monkey wasn’t enough in the first book, Dr. Skaggs narrowly escapes death when El Diablo, the 2200-pound bull, uses him as a speed bump and punching bag this time around. That’s just the beginning. Meet Magnus, the small statured gymnastic stallion, who overcomes all odds to become a father, and Festus, the bow-legged ostrich, who needs cosmetic surgery.

For fifteen years, Joanna Sokol filled private notebooks with her confusion, humor, and anger about the strange world of American street medicine. As her career progressed, she found herself taking notes on scraps of paper, backs of gloves, and margins of EKG printouts. She read about the history that brought ambulances into their current role as the caretakers of society’s forgotten, and spoke to her colleagues about their own experiences and perspectives. Those reflections are collected here, in a series of raw, powerful essays about the state of American medicine.

In his memoir of an improbable start-up in public health, Ashok Alaxander writes about an organization with the audacious goal of ending needless deaths and sickness at scale, amongst India's poorest mothers and children. It is a great leap emboldened by an unshakable faith in the 'idea that cannot be denied'. It is a tale of adventure filled with twists and turns, told with a disarming honesty.

From a young paperboy in Southern California to a visionary leader in education and business, David R. Jackson’s story is a testament to adventure, ambition, and perseverance.