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Biografías de 6 Hombres de Negocios: Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Richard Branson, and Jack Ma
by Patrick EvansEn el interior del libro Biografías de 6 Hombres de Negocios, usted aprenderá los secretos de los principales hombres de negocios y cómo alcanzaron el éxito. ¿Alguna vez se ha preguntado qué separa a un emprendedor exitoso de uno no exitoso? Muchas personas se han preguntado exactamente la misma pregunta una y otra vez. A diferencia de la explicación absurda de “se siente bien”, compilamos la información de aplicación para que usted la pueda implementar de inmediato. Al aplicar las lecciones en este libro, su negocio y vida personal serán mejores. Mejor aún, cada empresario estudiado en este libro está en actividad al presente. Podemos ver alrededor y ver el impacto de estos empresarios en nuestras vidas diarias. La magnitud combinada de Jeff Bezos,Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Richard Branson y Jack Ma no puede ser subestimada. Han moldeado mucho del mundo en el que vivimos hoy. Las biografías son una de las mejores formas de entrar en la piel de una persona altamente funcional y entender cómo opera. ¿Por qué pasar años forjando su propio camino cuando puede seguir un mapa garantizado? Estos 6 libros vienen en un paquete especial que los incluye en un solo libro. Con la variedad de empresarios estudiados, usted puede volver a revisar este libro para lecciones críticas. Mejor aún, puede aprender las lecciones y hábitos traslapados que estos 6 empresarios tienen en común. Descubra cómo puede aplicar las lecciones de los mejores empresarios del mundo, hoy.
Biografías de grandes cristianos
by Orlando BoyerEllos debían realizar algo que desafiaba todo su coraje. Debían ganar una batalla que habría de minar las fuerzas de los más osados. Sin embargo, ellos aceptaron el desafío.. Editorial Vida, presenta en esta edición de "Biografías de Grandes Cristianos" en forma breve, las biografías simplificadas de algunos de los más destacados personajes de la Iglesia de Cristo, del siglo pasado y principios del presente. Muchos se preguntan a qué se puede atribuir el increíble éxito de siervos de Dios como Lutero, Bunyan, Wesley, Whitefield, Finney, Carey, Judson, y tantos otros. Ciertamente ni a sus talentos ni a su fuerza de voluntad. El verdadero misterio de la grandeza de los grandes cristianos ha sido, y es, la oración. Para aquellos que andan con Dios en oración, como anduvieron ellos, no hay en esto ningún misterio. Y para todos, la vida de esos hombres tiene mucho de atrayente; sus biografías nos inspiran y nos demuestran que la victoria del cristiano depende de la oración.
Biographical Dictionary of Congressional Women
by Karen FoerstelThis comprehensive reference guide to women who have served in Congress provides detailed biographies of each of the 200 women who have held office on Capitol Hill over the past 80 years.
Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes (Studies in Atlantic Canada History)
by Harvey WhitfieldThis important book sheds light on more than 1,400 brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people, with the goal of recovering their individual lives. Harvey Amani Whitfield unearths the stories of men, women, and children who would not otherwise have found their way into written history. The individuals mentioned come from various points of origin, including Africa, the West Indies, the Carolinas, the Chesapeake, and the northern states, showcasing the remarkable range of the Black experience in the Atlantic world. Whitfield makes it clear that these enslaved Black people had likes, dislikes, distinct personality traits, and different levels of physical, spiritual, and intellectual talent. Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes affirms the notion that they were all unique individuals, despite the efforts of their owners and the wider Atlantic world to dehumanize and erase them.
Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers
by Diane Collinson Stuart BrownA hefty dictionary of over 1,000 entries featuring brief biographies of the lives and work of influential philosophers during the 20th century. The editors have also included thinkers who perhaps would not be strictly considered "philosopher," but have nonetheless made important intellectual contributions (Hannah Arendt, Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, C.G. Jung, Julia Kristeva, Max Weber). Besides the comprehensive and consistent scope of the dictionary, the volume also features a bibliography for each entry, a glossary containing short accounts of the origins, development and features of the major schools, movements and traditions in philosophy, and cross referenced indices. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Biographical Memoirs: Volume 74
by National Academy of Sciences StaffMemoirs of histories more distinguished figures
Biographical Memoirs: Volume 91
by National Academy of Science the National AcademiesBiographical Memoirs is a series of essays containing the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences. The series provides a record of the life and work of some of the most distinguished leaders in the sciences, as witnessed and interpreted by their colleagues and peers. They form a biographical history of science in America--an important part of our nation's contribution to the intellectual heritage of the world.
Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers: A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing)
by Brenda AyresThis book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars analyze the agenda, problems, and strengths of biographical material, highlighting the flaws, deficiencies, and influences that have distorted the portraits of women such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Sydney Owenson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bront#65533;, Lady Florence Dixie, George Eliot, and Edith Simcox. Through exposing distortions, this fascinating study demonstrates that biographies are often more about the biographer than they are about the biographee and that they are products of the time in which they are written.
Biographies Of The American Revolution: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Paul Jones, and More (Impact On America: Collective Biographies)
by Michael AndersonA captivating series that surveys the lives of the political figures and social revolutionaries who shaped early U.S. history includes vibrant images depicting memorable events and individuals, a glossary, explanations of key terms and ideas, and relevant websites and organizations to consult for further reference.
Biography Of Peter Cook
by Harry ThompsonThere are those who say - and Peter Cook himself was among them - that most of his humour was autobiographical. Others - and Peter Cook himself was among them -contend that this simply isn't the case. The truth, of course, lies somewhere in the middle. Peter Cook made President Kennedy wait in line to see him and visited Elizabeth Taylor in her dressing room. He befriended tramps and fundraised for CND. He was capable of extraordinary kindnesses and occasional cruelties. He helped define comedy and satire for a generation, but ended his life a recluse. Harry Thompson has produced the first ever comprehensive biography of this influential and fascinating subject who came up with some of the funniest sketches and greatest jokes of all time.
Biography Of Peter Cook
by Harry ThompsonThere are those who say - and Peter Cook himself was among them - that most of his humour was autobiographical. Others - and Peter Cook himself was among them -contend that this simply isn't the case. The truth, of course, lies somewhere in the middle. Peter Cook made President Kennedy wait in line to see him and visited Elizabeth Taylor in her dressing room. He befriended tramps and fundraised for CND. He was capable of extraordinary kindnesses and occasional cruelties. He helped define comedy and satire for a generation, but ended his life a recluse. Harry Thompson has produced the first ever comprehensive biography of this influential and fascinating subject who came up with some of the funniest sketches and greatest jokes of all time.
Biography of a Bird Dog: A Labrador Retriever in Wyoming
by Garry WallaceAs you might expect, Biography of a Bird Dog is the story of a man and his dog. But it is more than that, it’s a memoir of not only a puppy’s first year of life, but of a middle-aged man’s appraisal of his own life and career in a small town in Wyoming. <P><P> As Ebenezer, his bird dog, is nearing the end of his hunting career, the author decides to add a new puppy to the family, with the intention of using all he has learned to train her to achieve the full potential of her breed, a process that turns out to be filled with both joy and frustration. When tragedy strikes, he must re-evaluate his own plans along with his dog’s future.
Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
by Robert Mack McCormickThe drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript from musicologist Robert &“Mack&” McCormick, whose research on blues icon Robert Johnson's mysterious life and death became as much of a myth as the musician himselfWhen blues master Robert Johnson&’s little-known recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise to legends that he gained success by selling his soul to the devil. Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey is musicologist Mack McCormick's all-consuming search, from the late 1960s until McCormick&’s death in 2015, to uncover Johnson's life story. McCormick spent decades reconstructing Johnson's mysterious life and developing theories about his untimely death at the age of 27, but never made public his discoveries. Biography of a Phantom publishes his compelling work for the first time, including 40 unseen black-and-white photographs documenting his search.While knocking on doors and sleuthing for Johnson's loved ones and friends, McCormick documents a Mississippi landscape ravaged by the racism of paternalistic white landowners and county sheriffs. An editor's preface and afterword from Smithsonian curator John W. Troutman provides context as well as troubling details about McCormick&’s own impact on Johnson&’s family and illuminates through McCormick&’s archive the complex legacy of white male enthusiasts assuming authority over Black people&’s stories and the history of the blues.While Johnson died before achieving widespread recognition, his music took on a life of its own and inspired future generations. Biography of a Phantom, filled with lush descriptive fieldwork and photographs, is an important historical object that deepens the understanding of a stellar musician.
Biography of a Runaway Slave: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
by Miguel BarnetFiftieth Anniversary Edition Originally published in 1966, Miguel Barnet's Biography of a Runaway Slave provides the written history of the life of Esteban Montejo, who lived as a slave, as a fugitive in the wilderness, and as a soldier fighting against Spain in the Cuban War of Independence. A new introduction by one of the most preeminent Afro-Hispanic scholars, William Luis, situates Barnet's ethnographic strategy and lyrical narrative style as foundational for the tradition of testimonial fiction in Latin American literature. Barnet recorded his interviews with the 103-year-old Montejo at the onset of the Cuban Revolution. This insurgent's history allows the reader into the folklore and cultural history of Afro-Cubans before and after the abolition of slavery. The book serves as an important contribution to the archive of the black experience in Cuba and as a reminder of the many ways that the present continues to echo the past.
Biography: A Brief History
by Nigel HamiltonFor thousands of years we have recorded real lives--the lives of others, and of ourselves. For what purpose and for whom has this universal and timeless pursuit endured? What obstacles have lain in the path of biographers in the past, and what continues to confound biographers today? Above all, how is it that biographies and autobiographies play such a contested, popular role in contemporary Western culture, from biopics to blogs, from memoir to docudrama? Award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton addresses these questions in an incisive and vivid narrative that will appeal to students of human nature and self-representation across the arts and sciences. Tracing the remarkable and often ignored historical evolution of biography from the ancient world to the present, this brief and fascinating tour of the genre conveys the passionate quest to capture the lives of individuals and the many difficulties it has entailed through the centuries. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to American Splendor, from cuneiform to the Internet, from commemoration to deconstruction, from fiction to fact--by way of famous biographical artists such as Plutarch, Saint Augustine, Sir Walter Raleigh, Samuel Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Lord Byron, Sigmund Freud, Lytton Strachey, Abel Gance, Virginia Woolf, Leni Riefenstahl, Orson Welles, Julian Barnes, Ted Hughes, Frank McCourt, and many others--Nigel Hamilton's Biography: A Brief History will change the way you think about biography and real lives.
Biography: An Annotated Bibliography
by Carl RollysonThis is the only comprehensive, annotated bibliography of writing about biography. Rollyson, a biographer and scholar of biography, includes chapters on the history of biography (beginning in the Greco-Roman period and concluding with biographers such as Leon Edel and Richard Ellmann). Ample sections on psychobiography, the new feminist biography, and on biographers who appear in works of fiction, are also included. Cited in many recent books on the genre of biography, Biography: An Annotated Bibliography, is an essential research tool as well as a clearly written work for those wishing to browse through the commentary on this important genre.
Biography: An Historiography
by Melanie NolanBiography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present – considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically. This volume analyses the strategies and methods that historians have used in response to seven major issues identified over time to do with evidence, including but not limited to the problem of causation, the problem of fact and fiction, the problem of other minds, the problem of significance or representativeness, the problems of perspective, both macro and micro, and the problem of subjectivity and relative truth. This volume will be essential for both postgraduates and historians studying biography.
Biomythography Bayou (The Griot Project Book Series)
by Mel Michelle LewisWhen your stories flow from the brackish waters of the Gulf South, where the land and water merge, your narratives cannot be contained or constrained by the Eurocentric conventions of autobiography. When your story is rooted in the histories of your West African, Creek, and Creole ancestors, as well as your Black, feminist, and queer communities, you must create a biomythography that transcends linear time and extends beyond the pages of a book. Biomythography Bayou is more than just a book of memoir; it is a ritual for conjuring queer embodied knowledges and decolonial perspectives. Blending a rich gumbo of genres—from ingredients such as praise songs, folk tales, recipes, incantations, and invocations—it also includes a multimedia component, with “bayou tableau” images and audio recording links. Inspired by such writers as Audre Lorde, Zora Neale Hurston, and Octavia Butler, Mel Michelle Lewis draws from the well of her ancestors in order to chart a course toward healing Afrofutures. Showcasing the nature, folklore, dialect, foodways, music, and art of the Gulf’s coastal communities, Lewis finds poetic ways to celebrate their power and wisdom.
Biplane
by Richard BachTo discover that time is not a straight line aimed toward infinity, Richard Bach undertook a magnificent journey. Biplane is the story of that solo flight into the American skies -- a flight that became a personal quest to discover everything that lies beyond the ordinary.
Bipolar. Memorias de un estado de ánimo: Growing Up Bipolar
by Cheney, TerriUna memoir que profundiza de manera sincera y abierta en el trastorno bipolar. Terri Cheney, una antigua abogada de espectáculos de Los Ángeles, disipa expectativas deliberadamente con un paseo seguro a través del turbulento relato sobre el trastorno bipolar. Con una imaginería muy evocadora -recuerdos desordenados en el tiempo en los que se reflejan sus desorientados y extremos estados de ánimo- Cheney deja su vida al servicio de la piedad de la química cerebral, que la arranca de la desesperación más desalmada para llevarla a la exuberancia más estridente, de persecuciones impetuosas al letargo paralizador. Apresada en las aguas revueltas del impulso febril, fluctúa de la seducción al intento de suicidio cuando flirtea imprudentemente con los hombres, el peligro y la muerte, sólo para encontrarse ante más desafíos en los dos lados del drástico efecto que le produce el tratamiento. En Bipolar, Terri Cheney cuenta con honestidad y delicadeza la dura historia de su vida, donde pasa de cenar en restaurantes de lujo y conducir su Porsche deportivo a encerrarse en su casa durante semanas, incapaz de salir de la cama, sin vislumbrar ningún futuro. Bipolar es el impresionante relato de una mujer con trastorno maniaco-depresivo con la que van a sentirse identificadas miles de personas que p esta enfermedad o que han padecido amigos o familiares.
Birch Bayh: Making a Difference
by Robert BlaemireA biography of the US senator from Indiana who was behind such monumental legislation as the 25th Amendment and Title IX. A remarkable history of one of the most legendary US senators of our time, Birch Bayh: Making a Difference reveals a life and career dedicated to the important issues facing Indiana and the nation, including civil rights and equal rights for women. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, right before the Great Depression, Birch Bayh served more than 25 years in the Indiana General Assembly (1954–1962) and the United States Senate (1963–1981). His influence was seen in landmark legislation over his tenure, including Title IX, the 25th Amendment, the 26th Amendment, Civil Rights of the Institutionalized, Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Act, and the Bayh-Dole Act. Bayh was also the author, chief Senate sponsor, and floor leader of the Equal Rights Amendment and successfully led the opposition to two Nixon nominees to the Supreme Court. Robert Blaemire profiles not only the prolific career of this remarkable senator but also an era when compromise and bipartisanship were common in Congress.&“Bayh has long needed a comprehensive biography, and Robert Blaemire has provided an insider&’s account of Bayh&’s life and career and places him among Indiana&’s leading political figures.&” —Ray E. Boomhower, author of Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary&“The story of Birch Bay&’s political career is completely inspiring, especially in an era that has lost touch with bipartisanship and civility. A must read for Hoosiers and for anyone interested in how democracy worked, when it really worked.&” —Ted Widmer, historian and former presidential speechwriter
Birch Hollow Schoolmarm (Dora's Diary #1)
by Carrie BenderPopular author Carrie Bender begins a new series about Dora, the adopted daughter of Miriam and Nate (in Miriam's Journal). Join Dora as she runs around with the Amish youth, then makes peace with her parents and church.
Bird Cloud
by Annie Proulx"Bird Cloud" is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy, and she knew what she wanted to build on it--a house in harmony with her work, her appetites and her character, a library surrounded by bedrooms and a kitchen. Proulx's first work of nonfiction in more than twenty years, Bird Cloud is the story of designing and constructing that house--with its solar panels, Japanese soak tub, concrete floor and elk horn handles on kitchen cabinets. It is also an enthralling natural history and archaeology of the region--inhabited for millennia by Ute, Arapaho and Shoshone Indians-- and a family history, going back to nineteenth-century Mississippi riverboat captains and Canadian settlers. Proulx, a writer with extraordinary powers of observation and compassion, here turns her lens on herself. We understand how she came to be living in a house surrounded by wilderness, with shelves for thousands of books and long worktables on which to heap manuscripts, research materials and maps, and how she came to be one of the great American writers of her time. Bird Cloud is magnificent.
Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place
by Annie ProulxPart autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx's piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there."Bird Cloud" is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy, and she knew what she wanted to build on it--a house in harmony with her work, her appetites and her character, a library surrounded by bedrooms and a kitchen. Bird Cloud is the story of designing and constructing that house--with its solar panels, Japanese soak tub, concrete floor, and elk horn handles on kitchen cabinets. It is also an enthralling natural history and archaeology of the region--inhabited for millennia by Ute, Arapaho, and Shoshone Indians--and a family history, going back to nineteenth-century Mississippi riverboat captains and Canadian settlers. Proulx, a writer with extraordinary powers of observation and compassion, here turns her lens on herself. We understand how she came to be living in a house surrounded by wilderness, with shelves for thousands of books and long worktables on which to heap manuscripts, research materials and maps, and how she came to be one of the great American writers of her time.