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In this riveting true-life thriller, a doctor flying out to frontline medical emergencies in Africa shares the daring adventures, victories, and heartbreak of trying to heal. As a physician, Dr. Marc-David Munk never knew when his team's small plane landed in a remote spot in East Africa what he...

The New York Times bestselling author of The In-Between presents a vulnerable, moving memoir about the unraveling of her marriage and her evolving journey to find beauty in life's endings and beginnings. “Hadley Vlahos knows something most of us spend our lives trying not to learn: There are...

A delicious and moving memoir, tracing a family’s journey through Chinese food. As a teen growing up in San Francisco, Miranda Brown noticed her outspoken immigrant mother didn’t act—or cook—like other Chinese mothers. Butter invaded coffee. Stinky fruits found their way into ice cream...

An intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to science, humanism, and the hidden arts, Terence McKenna (1946–2000) was the twentieth century's...

Die selbst verfasste Biografie des größten Frauenhelden und Herzensbrechers der alten Zeit erstaunt durch deren Natürlichkeit und Lebendigkeit im Schreibstil. Als Sohn einer Schauspielerin, deren sterbliche Überreste damals noch auf den Kadaver-Sammelplätzen vor den Toren der Städte entsorgt wurden, legt dieser Künstlersohn eine Lebens-Karriere hin, die einem den Atem stocken lässt.

Silver Linings is a powerful journey from $10 million in inherited debt to global financial leadership—offering timeless lessons in resilience, integrity, and hope for anyone facing life’s hardest challenges. Silver Linings: Finding Wealth, Wisdom, and Redemption on the Hardest Road of All...

Le témoignage coup de poing d'un ministre hors norme : premier avocat pénaliste à devenir garde des Sceaux, Éric Dupond-Moretti se livre sans concession sur ses quatre années passées place Vendôme. 4 ans, 2 mois et 17 jours : c'est le temps qu'a passé Éric Dupond-Moretti place Vendôme...

Inside the Madhouse is one woman’s story of what happened when she was sectioned under the 1983 Mental Health Act and taken forcibly to an NHS Psychiatric Hospital after an attempted suicide...

Revealing the people behind the Rothschild name, The Rothschilds explores the lives and legacy of one of the best-known and most impactful families in modern history. The Rothschild name has long been synonymous with wealth and privilege, but as Jews the family has also been dogged by prejudice...

Revealing the people behind the Rothschild name, The Rothschilds explores the lives and legacy of one of the best-known and most impactful families in modern history. The Rothschild name has long been synonymous with wealth and privilege, but as Jews the family has also been dogged by prejudice...

'Lord Sugar is a self-made man and one of Britain's finest business brains. His story so far is inspirational to the end' The Sun 'Sugar is unusual among celebrity memoirists in that he's a clever man who has done a lot with his life, and the tale of his rise from nothing, and nowhere is...

What happens when you throw out the sheet music and learn to wing your way through life's biggest stages? In Improvising Life, Chris Gootherts takes readers on a wildly entertaining and deeply reflective journey from the smoky jazz lounges of San Franciscowhere his father played with Ella...

Veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Robbie Whelan takes us inside Bob Iger’s reign over the Walt Disney Company, replete with palace intrigue, shareholder revolts, out-of-control egos, and wild boardroom dramas. The last decade represents the most consequential period in the history of the...

Most people are afraid to admit the role of luck in their lives. It feels better to be “self-made” - the kind of person who boldly declares that if you drop them in the middle of New York, penniless and naked, they’ll emerge a millionaire thirty days later. Nothing could be further from...

The authorized, “definitive and deeply researched” (The Times UK) biography of a brilliant theoretical physicist and science communicator, featuring revelations from never-before-seen personal records, by an award-winning writer and biographer “An incisive picture of the audacious...

Als die Mauer fiel, war Joachim Sauer vierzig, er verbrachte also sein halbes Leben in der DDR. Hier erzählt er erstmals von seinem Aufwachsen in der SED-Diktatur, dem Beginn seiner Forscherkarriere als Quantenchemiker, dem Anpassungsdruck und der Abgrenzung sowie seinem Erleben der deutschen Einheit und dem Glück der Freiheit.

Sie sind von urwüchsiger, wilder Schönheit: Raubvögel beherrschen die Lüfte. Bussarde, Falken und Habichte sind Meister der Jagd. Um ihr Wesen zu verstehen, nähert Sy Montgomery sich der Kunst der Falknerei. Vom Bussardweibchen »Jazz« lernt sie: Auch in der Jagdpartnerschaft mit dem...

A charming, lightly illustrated exploration of the history of green tea and matcha, Japanese tea culture, and daily life in Kyoto by the owner of the 300-year-old Ippodo Tea shop. At the family-owned Ippodo tea store in Kyoto, time passes at the gentle pace of green tea leaves brewing in a kyusu...

The autobiography of the godfather of urban streetwear, American fashion designer and hip-hop cultural icon, Karl Kani whose clothes were worn by everyone from Michael Jackson to Tupac, Aaliyah to Biggie, and Nas to Jay-Z. Karl Kani tells the story of how Karl Kani created the first...

Greatness is not a state you reach, nor a title you are given. It's a lifestyle-excellence translated into action. Greatness is a verb. As much parable as memoir, this is the story of Keith Sodan in his own words: from a working-class corner of the Rust Belt to an eminent HR executive and...