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In The Optimist, the Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey presents the most detailed account yet of Altman’s rise, his time as legendary entrepreneur Paul Graham’s protégé and successor as head of Y Combinator, the start-up accelerator where Altman became the premier power broker in Silicon Valley; the founding of OpenAI and his recruitment of a small yet superior team.

Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all—and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks. In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a mansion in the suburbs...

2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family...

In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its...

テレビでも話題の「パステルなめらかプリン」の生みの親が30年間一つの道をひたむきに歩み続けてたどり着いた「仕事と人生で、本当に大切なこと」

■シリコンバレーの奇跡　1999年、若き異端児マスクが始めた会社X.comと天才ティール＆レヴチンが始めたコンフィニティは数奇にも、シリコンバレーのとある建物で隣り合って入居していた。

Robin Singh had everything he wanted and more—well-settled in the US, financial freedom, married to the love of his life—except he was not happy. It was in his pursuit of happiness that he stumbled across purpose. It eventually took giving up on happiness and pursuing purpose before he...

This book offers a journey through the life and thought of Thomas Aquinas, one of the most influential figures in the intellectual history of the West. From his noble origins in the 13th century, his inner struggle over vocation and his years of study in Paris, to the construction of his great works and the impact of his legacy, the listener discovers not only the theologian and philosopher, but also the man.

In Maid in America, Rosemary Everton shares an extraordinary tale of resilience, determination, and the true meaning of the American Dream. Born into a working-class family on Delaware's Eastern Shore, Rosemary's life took an unexpected turn when she became pregnant at fifteen, married young, and seemed destined for a challenging path. But destiny had other plans.

For expecting and new parents, too often the care is so focused on a healthy baby that the mother’s physical and mental needs are overlooked. Mothers face intense pressure to have the perfect birth plan, breastfeed with ease, and immediately bond with their baby. Unfortunately, these expectations can lead to anxiety, depression, and overwhelm. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Vom Ende der Meinungsfreiheit in den USA! Das Buch, das Mark Zuckerberg verbieten will Der sehr unterhaltsame und zugleich hochexplosive Bericht einer jungen Frau aus dem Inneren von Facebook. Nach der Veröffentlichung hat Mark Zuckerberg sofort versucht, das Buch zu verbieten – bislang ohne Erfolg. Es schoss auf Platz eins der Bestsellerliste und wurde von der New York Times zu einem der besten Bücher des Jahres erkoren. Nun darf es endlich auf Deutsch erscheinen. Sarah Wynn-Williams beginnt als junge Frau, bei Facebook zu arbeiten, und macht schnell Karriere.

What if the life you’re seeking is already seeking you? Cosmic Breadcrumbs is a spiritual memoir and founder’s journey by Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur Joshua Church. After years of chronic pain that culminated in a life-altering health crisis, Joshua set out to heal his body and discover his purpose. What followed was not a straight line, but a quiet trail of signs, setbacks, and synchronicities—breadcrumbs that slowly revealed themselves as he learned how to listen. That same path would guide him to build a $20 million company in under three years.

Galileo Galilei è il simbolo della scienza moderna, ma quanto sappiamo davvero della sua vita? Matematico, inventore, imprenditore e persino autore di oroscopi: Galileo è stato molte cose, spesso tutte insieme. Siamo del resto in un'epoca in bilico: da una parte le superstizioni medievali; dall'altra la nascita faticosa del metodo scientifico. Con la sua voce inconfondibile, ironica, colta, teatrale, Roberto Mercadini ci regala un viaggio affascinante nella vita e nel tempo di Galileo.

من فضلك خمس دقائق.. فأصبحت الدقائق الخمس ستة وعشرين شهرًا!، الشرق شرق والغرب غرب ولن يلتقيا، هذا الكلام ليس تحاملًا على الغرب أو غير الغرب ؛ لأن الواقع والحال وما يجري وما يقال وسمعه كل من كان له قلب أو ألقى السمع وهو شهيد ينبئ عما يقال.

In this entertaining memoir, Rick McIntyre recounts his life spent amongst wild nature while working in the National Parks Service as a park ranger and shares the wisdom he has gained from spending nearly every day of his adult life in the presence of wolves.

In 2002, twenty-one-year-old Taekwondo champion Kim Dalton was living her dream of becoming an Australian champion and running a Taekwondo school with Rob. But by early 2003, a persistent pain in her side turned out to be a rare and aggressive cancer called adrenocortical carcinoma. Kim called the tumor “Fred the Freak.” Life changed forever, and the real fight had just begun. In this very personal Australian story, Kim takes you on her journey through the maze of doctors, specialists, scans, and operations.

「まっとうに会社で働く人が日本を支えている。それは本当にそうだと思う。しかし、会社で働いていない人だって日本を支えている。自営業の人たち、フリーランスで働く人たちは言うまでもない。

Inspired by his experience co-founding Solar Punk Farms and studying the resilience of living systems, environmentalist Spencer R. Scott helps us connect to a more hopeful way of life. In an age of social fragmentation and ecological emergency, many of us feel a profound disconnect—from the...

En octubre de 1927, veintinueve de los científicos más brillantes del mundo se reunieron en el Quinto Congreso Solvay. Diecisiete de ellos acabarían recibiendo el premio Nobel. Aquel encuentro, inmortalizado en una célebre fotografía, marcó el comienzo de una revolución intelectual sin precedentes. Allí, figuras como Marie Curie, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger o Albert Einstein debatieron los fundamentos de la recién nacida teoría cuántica, una forma radicalmente nueva de entender la naturaleza.

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.