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A golf prodigy. A charismatic businessman. A man of brilliance, ambition, and contradiction. A daughter determined to understand him. Mississippi Junior traces the life of Jerry Benjamin Owens — from segregated Mississippi to national acclaim, from Detroit’s promise to Jackson’s Black entrepreneurial rise. Through archives, interviews, and oral histories, his daughter uncovers the man behind the legend: flawed, resilient, generous, unforgettable.

From lugging gear backstage to hustling through dead-end gigs, entertainer and author Charlie Chizona takes listeners on a laugh-out-loud, blue-collar road trip through America’s working world. A Chizona Resume is equal parts memoir, comedy, and unfiltered life lesson—proof that wisdom sometimes wears a hard hat.

Instant New York Times Bestseller! Teachers are the heroes we too often forget to thank. And we need heroes more than ever. From across the country, from kindergarten to high school, from public to private, religious, and military schools, teachers tell us: what it takes to teach kids daily what...

Surviving Life: The Art of Resilience is not "based on a true story." It is a true story. More precisely, it is a memoir of dozens of Dr. Tom Schneider's true stories: from devilish schoolboy hijinks and death-defying heroics during his time in the military to medical miracles and a heated disagreement with his boss, the US surgeon general.

La historia del hombre que llevó la física a sus límites... y a los suyos propios. Una vida de descubrimiento, genialidad y aislamiento. Roger Penrose, uno de los grandes genios que nos ha dado el siglo XX, revolucionó nuestra comprensión del espacio, el tiempo y los agujeros negros. Premio...

La historia del doctor Jesús Martín-Fernández, el «neurocirujano de las emociones» que ha revolucionado la medicina con sus descubrimientos. En febrero de 2023, el doctor Jesús Martín-Fernández llevó a cabo, con éxito, la primera cirugía cerebral despierta en la que se utilizó un...

Mitten im Leben wird die Autorin mit einer tödlichen Diagnose und der ihr noch kurzen verbleibenden Lebenszeit konfrontiert. Sie blickt zurück auf ihr Leben, ihre große Liebe und ihre Familie und versucht, unsere aller Welt im neuen Licht zu sehen, um Sterben zu lernen. Dabei erkennt sie, dass wahre Schönheit nur im Lichte der Vergänglichkeit sichtbar und das Leben in all seiner Tiefe nur angesichts des Todes erfahrbar wird.

Der Schöne und das Biest - Der Blick hinter die Kulissen des Power-Paars David Beckham und Victoria Adams trafen sich Ende der 1990er-Jahre, als er ein aufstrebender Fußballer und sie noch ein Spice Girl war. Ein Vierteljahrhundert später ist das Ehepaar Beckham längst auf anderen Gebieten tätig: ihre Tätigkeiten als globale Stilikonen, Fashiondesigner und Marken-Testimonials lassen sie sich fürstlich bezahlen.

Inside Rich Chef Poor Chef, you'll discover THE EXACT METHODS Yusuf used to go from a small Istanbul kitchen to running 500+ room luxury hotels and create your own economy.

Machiavelli's very name is synonymous with strategy and cunning. This is no hyperbole—the term "Machiavellian" has long been part of our vocabulary. And it all traces back to one man: Niccolo Machiavelli. Yet for all the associations his name conjures—cunning strategy, swift reversals of fate, ruthless political calculation—most of us know surprisingly little about Machiavelli himself. Who was the man behind the legend?

Judge Gilbert Merritt and his circle of young lawyers and journalists in Nashville were among the South’s earliest Kennedy Democrats in the late 1950s. Their brash political strivings, though not always victorious at the polls, affected the shape of many things, including the rise of modern Nashville. As a young legal scholar in his twenties, Merritt was one of the nation’s youngest U.S.

He was a cardiologist at the top of his game-until his own body turned on him. On an ordinary Monday, a sudden cramp in Dr. Deepak Thekkoott's leg sent him on a harrowing journey from healer to patient. Diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, he was thrown into the chaos of hospitals, chemo, and confronting death-all while trying to hold his family, his faith, and his sense of self together.

Homeless, running from a violent partner, and battling suicidal depression, she found herself sitting by a river holding a bottle of pills in one hand and a bottle of red wine to wash them down in the other. Out of the twilight sky a majestic blue heron circled and landed just a few feet away. Something in the heron's piercing eyes caused her to stop swallowing the pills. In that moment, she realized that there was just too much beauty and magic in the world to give up. Thus began a decades-long quest to understand how wondrous encounters can spark healing from trauma and grief.

Blending science and lived experience, this book offers a compassionate, stigma-busting exploration of body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs) - revealing why they happen, why they bother us, and how understanding them may be the key to healing. Keep Your Hair On combines personal experience...

In Property Management Excellence, Anthony A. Luna shares his journey from growing up in the Harbor Area of Los Angeles to becoming CEO of Coastline Equity in his thirties. More than a guide to managing real estate, this book is a blueprint for building a business rooted in integrity and values-driven management.

A life-altering revolution has happened right before your eyes. Yet for a generation, it has been largely invisible. Unblinded is the never-before-heard origin story of intravitreal, anti-VEGF therapies for macular degeneration, and other retinal diseases, and the start-up company that changed the future of eyecare.

WINGS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE is the jaw-dropping true story of Barry Clare and Igor Dmitrowsky—two unlikely visionaries who set out to do what no one had accomplished in more than a generation: launch a brand-new U.S.-flagged international airline. With no Wall Street backing, no billion-dollar safety net, and no guarantee of success, they dared to build an aviation empire from scratch—one investor at a time.

Neste livro, Cleber Santiago compartilha uma jornada real de queda, consciência e reconstrução. Unindo fé, neurociência, inteligência emocional e experiências vividas, o autor revela como pensamentos, sentimentos e escolhas moldam não apenas a mente, mas também o corpo, os relacionamentos e o destino. Um chamado para quem sente que nasceu para algo maior, mas ainda não sabe como acessar isso.

Born into love but then thrust into violence, and shaped by struggle, Timoti Te Moke was never destined to be a leader. After an early start as a bright boy in the eastern Bay of Plenty in New Zealand, nurtured by his reo Māori-speaking grandparents, Timoti's life changed sharply when his mother took custody of him when he was six. He survived abuse, state care, gangs and prison, his life marked by trauma and pain.

An Instant New York Times Bestseller From one of our leading chroniclers of the intersection of innovation and capitalism, a landmark reckoning—based on unprecedented access—with one of the world’s most brilliant and driven tech visionaries, and his game-changing company Even by the...