Títulos em Profissionais e Acadêmicos

Em 19 de novembro de 2018, Carlos Ghosn foi detido pelas autoridades japonesas assim que desembarcou no aeroporto de Tóquio. Executivo de reconhecimento internacional pelo seu trabalho como CEO da Renault e da Nissan, foi imediatamente isolado em um presídio, sem saber ao certo sob que acusação. Carlos vinha de Beirute, onde passara o fim de semana com sua esposa Carole, que só soube o que havia acontecido com o marido quando estava prestes a desembarcar em Nova York.

Protagonizada pelo brasileiro Eduardo Saverin, estudante de economia, e pelo norte-americano Mark Zuckerberg, gênio da informática–amigos que sobreviviam num ambiente repleto de alunos brilhantes de famílias supertradicionais–este audiolivro mostra a trajetória da criação da rede social que se tornou uma das mais poderosas empresas do mundo e que revolucionou a maneira como milhões de pessoas se relacionam.

O sobrenome Guinle parece estar eternamente associado ao hotel Copacabana Palace, no Rio de Janeiro, e permanece no imaginário popular como uma espécie de sinônimo para luxo, glamour e opulência. As lendas em torno do comportamento extravagante de alguns de seus integrantes, porém, obscureceram a atuação da família como empreendedores pioneiros no século XX, no momento em que o Brasil dava seus primeiros passos rumo à industrialização.

O Instagram, aplicativo de compartilhamento de fotos e vídeos, é uma febre mundial desde seu lançamento em 2010, ainda em versão exclusiva para iPhone. Comprado pelo Facebook em 2012 pela estonteante quantia de 1 bilhão de dólares, hoje em dia mobiliza milhões de usuários. O que poucos sabem é que Mike Krieger, um de seus idealizadores, é brasileiro, nascido em São Paulo. Ele se tornou milionário aos 26 anos, depois de oito nos Estados Unidos.

Warren Buffett is one of the most respected men in the world. But the legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir or offered a glimpse into his intensely private life. Here, at last, he gives unprecedented access to his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. This complete biography of the man known everywhere as “the Oracle of Omaha” was written by highly respected former financial analyst and business writer Alice Schroeder with the cooperation of Buffett himself.

Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the kitchen table. He shared the magic of those meals with us in The Tucci Cookbook and The Tucci Table, and now he takes us beyond the savory recipes and into the compelling stories behind them.​ Taste is a reflection on the intersection of food and life, filled with anecdotes about his growing up in Westchester, New York.

A gripping history of banking and the booms and busts that shaped the world on both sides of the Atlantic, The House of Morgan traces the trajectory of the J. P.Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the private saga of the Morgans and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved. Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece.

Bedside captures the essence of nursing, emphasizing the urgent need for renewed passion and purpose in the field. Through firsthand insights, the book explores nurses' unique role in supporting medical miracles while forming profound connections with colleagues and patients. Anecdotes about innovations she witnessed firsthand, paired with resourceful practices, show these medical miracles in action.

As one of Marriott’s first franchisees, Bruce White built a highly successful and widely respected hospitality company. From roadside hotels to some of the largest and most experiential urban hotels in the United States, White’s visionary leadership led to the development of over 200 hotels and 60 independently branded restaurants across the country. For four decades, he inspired hospitality entrepreneurs, introducing groundbreaking concepts such as the first dual- and tri-brand hotels.

In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Twenty-three years later they won the Nobel Prize for Peace for their work in eradicating poverty. This is an inspiring story of one man’s realization that access to even a small amount of credit can transform the lives of the poorest citizens of the world.

Of the three physicians at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Doctor George Edwin Lord (1846–76) was the lone commissioned medical officer, an assistant surgeon with the United States Army’s 7th Cavalry. A Life Cut Short at the Little Big Horn tells Lord’s story for the first time. Notable for its unique angle on Custer’s last stand and for its depiction of frontier-era medicine, the book is above all a compelling portrait of the making of an army medical professional in mid-nineteenth-century America.

Part memoir, part emotional gut-check, this fast, raw, and unexpectedly funny audiobook traces the chaos, doubt, and quiet belief behind the idea that the financial industry needs to completely rethink how it addresses people’s money challenges—and that change should start with the emotional side of money.

Conservation Confidential recounts the wild path Mitch Friedman took from radical Earth First! activist engaging in controversial protests to the founder and longtime director of Conservation Northwest. The book documents challenges, success stories, and key lessons along the way to helping preserve Northwest ancient forests, peaceably recover wolves in the region, and much more. ​Part memoir, part guide on strategy for activists and liberal citizens, Conservation Confidential offers the distilled wisdom of experience that Friedman searched for as a young activist but couldn’t find.

Step into the wildly entertaining world of David Bruce OBE, an unconventional entrepreneur, and legendary founder of Bruce’s Brewery and the Firkin pubs brand, who took the brewing industry by storm. In The Firkin Saga, he shares nearly 60 years of beer, business and bold decisions. In 1979, David defied the odds, opening London’s first pub in a century to brew its own beer–The Goose & Firkin–and proving his doubters wrong. What followed was a whirlwind of international ventures, charitable endeavours and a fair share of triumphs and setbacks.

McLaren Racing hadn't won a championship in twenty-six years - until Zak Brown joined the team. A professional racer for ten years, Zak Brown is a CEO who knows how to bring the competitive mindset of a life in motorsport to building successful businesses and teams. In Seven Tenths of a Second, Zak shows us how it's done: overcoming early adversity, managing competitive team-mates, fostering the drive for victory and building the best team in the world.

Everything you want to achieve in life requires you to take risks, push beyond your comfort zone and build trust with others. Our first instinct is often to avoid risk altogether, but that only creates a chasm between what we want to achieve and what we're willing to do to get there. To bridge that divide, we need a way to make those risks feel smaller, less dangerous, more worthwhile, and, frankly, more fun. Safe Danger offers groundbreaking insights that will allow listeners to overcome and control the risks in their lives, based upon five core principles.

Conservationists are embroiled in a high-stakes clash with a drug cartel to save a porpoise. Scientists are fighting to save a flightless bird that romances rocks. Unconventional animals are upending 21st century beauty standards, and financiers are betting on whale poo to make its debut on Wall Street.

I started a blog. I borrowed USD 16,000. And now, I’ve built a multimillion dollar fashion company, garnered 1.8 million followers on Instagram and managed to squeeze in time to get married and give birth to not one, but four children. Perfect for young entrepreneurs, this book shares the secrets of my entrepreneurial journey so far—from starting a business with my boyfriend (telling my dad sure was fun), to fundraising, to managing a team of 400 people, to dealing with the good and bad of social media, and to pretending to nod when my tech team talks about cookies.

When Lloyd Blankfein was attacked as a Wall Street fat cat, he had to smile, thinking of his precarious childhood in the notorious public housing projects of East New York, Brooklyn, and a high school so chaotic he didn’t feel safe enough to use the bathroom once in his time there. Harvard was a total moon shot, and his outsider status never wore off, there or at Harvard Law. Street Wise is a delightfully honest, sharp and often very funny reckoning with the author’s education—in finance, human nature, and the workings of the world.

Filled with captivating facts about color words and colors themselves—did you know that the word “puke” used to be a highly fashionable color before it was associated with vomit?—and fueled by Stamper’s inexhaustible curiosity, A Trick of Light will transform the way you see the world, from black-and-white to Technicolor.