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The extraordinary story of Atlassian - how two university friends with a billion-dollar idea created a global tech company. In a cramped share house in inner-city Sydney, university classmates Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar started working together to create a $160 billion company from...

William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments.

This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read. William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English...

A mere 18 years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for power—Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony—young Octavius must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor. Sprung from meticulous research and the pen of a true poet, Augustus tells the story of one man’s dream to liberate a corrupt Rome.

In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of the immense buffalo herds hidden away in the Colorado Rockies and convinces him to join an expedition to track them down.

NOW ON AUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! Ted Williams was arguably the greatest pure hitter who ever lived. A lifelong student of hitting, he sought advice from every great hitter—and pitcher—he met. Drawing on that advice, as well as his own legendary life in baseball, Williams produced the...

Brought to you by Penguin. By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestseller After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, Octavian, a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen, suddenly finds himself heir to the vast power of Rome. He is destined, despite vicious power...

The Undeniable Podcast explores the mindset, leadership principles, and performance habits that separate high achievers from everyone else. Through candid conversations and elaborate dissection of concepts with elite performers, coaches, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders, each episode equips listeners with practical strategies to build clarity, raise their standards, and become undeniable in every area of life.

An enthralling anthology of 20 CWA Dagger Award-shortlisted gripping and thrilling stories for the most hardened crime fan. Featuring bestselling authors such as Neil Gaiman, Ann Cleeves, Christopher Fowler and Val McDermid. OVER TWENTY CWA DAGGER AWARD-WINNING SHORT STORIES FROM THE BEST OF THE...

"Stoner" - pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1965 - è stato per parecchio tempo uno dei grandi romanzi dimenticati della letteratura americana. John Williams racconta la vita di un uomo, Stoner appunto, che, nato in una famiglia di contadini poveri, finisce per scoprire dentro di sé una passione struggente per la letteratura e diventa professore. È la storia di un uomo che conduce una vita semplice al limite della frugalità. Una vita che lascia poche tracce.

Amazon recently launched the Fire Stick 4K, and it's by far Amazon's best streaming device in years. The 4K stick is an excellent upgrade from the previous model. It's faster than previous fire sticks and has no more menu lag and even makes Netflix experience much more enjoyable. If you've got a new Fire TV Stick 4K, this guide is here to help you get the best experience from fire stick device. Even if you've the new Fire TV stick with all-new Alexa Voice Remote, streaming media player, this guide also holds relevant features, tips, and tricks to make the most of them.

Broken Bow Tapes is a storytelling podcast about Missouri fiddling. Each episode explores the people, tunes, recordings, and traditions that shaped the music, from legendary fiddlers to forgotten cassettes, old LPs, and kitchen jams. If you enjoy old-time music and the stories that bring it to life.

Parece imposible sostenerse como un héroe mítico que camina al mismo tiempo entre los mortales. Pero Messi lo ha logrado, transita entre nosotros y toca nuestras vidas. Desde sus comienzos en los campos de tierra de Rosario, su ciudad natal, su consagración en el FC Barcelona, su paso por el...

Parece imposible sostenerse como un héroe mítico que camina al mismo tiempo entre los mortales. Pero Messi lo ha logrado, transita entre nosotros y toca nuestras vidas. Desde sus comienzos en los campos de tierra de Rosario, su ciudad natal, su consagración en el FC Barcelona, su paso por el...

It is hardly needful to observe, that it is the incumbent duty of every faithful abridger, as well as a faithful translator, to adhere scrupulously to the sense of his author, except the reason to the contrary be universally obvious, nor even then without apprizing the reader of it. This is what I have endeavored throughout to pay the strictest regard to. The reader of the ensuing pages will find in them the genuine thoughts and sentiments of Dr. Owen, to the best of my knowledge, and no other. Sometimes, indeed, the abridger thought it absolutely necessary, in discharging his duty to his ...

A short biography (1902) of a famous writer (Carlyle) by another famous writer (Chesterton). The first half exhibits Chesterton’s sly wit as he ruminates upon Carlyle’s work; the second half is straightforward biography. There are a great many pictures and portraits in the physical text. - Summary by David Wales

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In The Bushwhackers: Blood, Sweat & Cheers, professional wrestling's Bushwhacker Luke Williams and Bushwhacker Butch Miller, along with writer John Crowther, lead you around the globe, through over 50 years of fun-filled and sometimes brutal adventures, both in and out of the "squared circle." Listen to never-before-told stories of escapades they experienced and battles they fought in the world of professional wrestling, both individually and in all of their renowned personas—The New Zealand Kiwis, The Sheepherders, and The Bushwhackers.

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