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Investigative journalist Richard Byrne Reilly has published the first biography of Peter Thiel, the controversial billionaire and contrarian behind some of the world's most powerful and disruptive t……続きを見る

". . . rarely have inventor and invention been better served than in this book." New York Times Book Review. Here, Edwin Grosvenor, American Heritage's publisher and Bell's great-grandson, tells the……続きを見る

This Born from Kidney Transplant Mother book is written from the author's experience as kidney transplant. She was in the end stage kidney failure and received a live kidney transplant from her sist……続きを見る

Sophie Germain taught herself mathematics by candlelight, huddled in her bedclothes. Ada Byron Lovelace anticipated aspects of general-purpose digital computing by more than a century. Cora Ratto de……続きを見る

You can’t be a Miles Davis completist without owning this book; it is a collector’s item in and of itself! Miles: The Companion Guide to the Autobiography is an annotated guide to Miles' own book pr……続きを見る

The essays in United States District Courts and Judges of Arkansas, 1836–1960ーone each for a judge and his decisionsーcome together to form a chronological history of the Arkansas judicial system a……続きを見る

L’enfer du milieu infirmier décortiqué au scalpel ! Ces chroniques agitées décrivent, avec un humour révolté et parfois empreint de dérision, l’univers d’une catégorie particulière de soignants indé……続きを見る

O que sentira um neurocirurgi?o ao tomar a consciencia de que esta a manipular, a cortar a propria materia de que s?o feitas as emoc?es, memorias e pensamentos? N?o lhe tremera a m?o, sabendo que um……続きを見る

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, V……続きを見る

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1908 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'My Life a Record of Events and Opinions' is an auto……続きを見る

Dem Autor ist am 15. Oktober 1951, in einem kleinen Labor in Mexico City der entscheidende Schritt zur synthetischen Herstellung des Hormons Gestagen gelungen, was die "Antibabypille" ermöglicht hat……続きを見る

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, V……続きを見る

In the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne's memoir, The Devil's Defender , recounts his tortuous educati……続きを見る

When the anthropologist Grenville Goodwin died in 1940 at the age of 32, he had published several papers and one book, Myths and Tales of the White Mountain Apache, and had already achieved a statur……続きを見る

Norfolk is a very distinctive county, the most easterly in the British Isles. With the North Sea and The Wash to the east and north it is relatively close to the Netherlands, but Norwich is only a c……続きを見る

When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir. With incisive and evocative language, Sherman ……続きを見る

Halfway up Parnassus is a personal account of the University of Toronto with particular emphasis on the period when Dr. Bissell was its president, from 1958 to 1971. The first half of that period wa……続きを見る

Robert Barr has been almost completely overlooked by critics and anthologists of Canadian literature, in part because, although he was educated in Canada, he spent most of his life in the United Sta……続きを見る

Quarante ans d'une vie trépidante, jusqu’au jour où tout bascule. L’accident, qui oblige Emmanuel, pilote-moto professionnel, et motard de la police nationale, à quitter le monde des valides pour re……続きを見る

Shrubs and vines, often literally overshadowed by trees, also receive much less attention than their taller neighbors, and yet they are very important elements of the region’s natural landscape. A g……続きを見る

Une histoire d'amitié improbable commencée dans une salle d'attente... de chimiothérapie. Françoise Letailleur et Christine Baraston partagent avec nous leur expérience commune et personnelle du can……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Erinnerungen einer Überflüssigen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Lena Christ (1881-1920) war eine bayer……続きを見る

“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncertainty and the limits of human reason.” ーWilliam Easterly, Wall Street Journal Forty years ago, Isra……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Albert Einstein en moins d’une heure ! Albert Einstein est une figure emblématique du XXe siècle connue de tous, bien au-delà du monde scientifique. S’i……続きを見る

L’arte di Paolo Uccello ha una profondità prospettica. Si può affermare ciò pensando non solo alla sua passione per quella tecnica rappresentativa che negli anni fiorentini in cui visse conobbe una ……続きを見る

A memoir both bittersweet and inspiring by an American pediatric oncologist who spent seven years in Jerusalem treating childrenーIsraeli Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and Palestinian Arabs from th……続きを見る

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves’ The Economist #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava S……続きを見る

Le nom de d’Alembert rappelle aux géomètres l’émule de Clairaut et d’Euler, le prédécesseur de Lagrange et de Laplace, le successeur d’Huygens et de Newton ; d’Alembert est, pour les lettrés, l’orat……続きを見る

Years ago, Burt Rutan told a reporter for Popular Mechanics, “If we make a courageous decision like the goal and program we kicked off for Apollo in 1961, we will see our children or grandchildren i……続きを見る

Le bonheur, qui jadis inspirait mes accents, A fait place aux sombres alarmes ; C’est une Muse en deuil qui me dicte ces chants, Aujourd’hui trempés de mes larmes. Oui, les Muses, du moins, m’ont e……続きを見る