Titoli in Professionisti e accademici

Surviving Wall Street portrays the dramatic transformation of the investment banking business in recent decades through the tumultuous saga of one firm (Greenhill & Co., a specialist in mergers and acquisitions) and one man (Scott Bok, the longtime CEO of that firm). Written in the style of an adventure tale, this book is also a "coming of age" story for a naive young man who came to Wall Street and managed to grab a front-row seat for a period of epic change.

Este audiolibro está pensado para las personas que trabajan en el mundo de los negocios y que desean maximizar su potencial para obtener resultados óptimos. Cada una de estas leyes es indispensable para que puedas realizar tu potencial. La transgresión de cualquiera de estas leyes puede costarte meses de frustración y poco rendimiento. Mientras escuchas, tómate unos momentos con cada ley y evalúa honestamente tu conducta y comportamiento. Sólo necesitas una idea nueva para cambiar la dirección de tu vida.

Questa è la storia vera di Marco, che ha trentotto anni, vive a Milano e si è da poco sposato con la ragazza che ama. Ha pochi pensieri e tutti rivolti a un futuro solare. La vita, però, accelera e cambia colore, quando gli diagnosticano il mieloma: un cancro del sangue inguaribile. Ospedali, dottori, chemio e trattamenti scandiscono le sue giornate. Prima di iniziare le terapie più faticose fa una scommessa con il destino: avere un figlio senza sapere se ce la farà a conoscerlo. La scommessa viene vinta e prende il nome di Lorenzo.

In ADHD and Me, he tells about the next 12 years as he learns to live with both the good and bad sides of life with ADHD. Blake's memoir offers, for the first time, a young person's account of what it's like to live and grow up with this common condition. Join Blake as he foils bullies, confronts unfair teachers, struggles with distraction and disorganization on exams, and goes sailing out-of-bounds and ends up with a boatload of spiders.

"Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony.... Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg", writes Edward O. Wilson in his most finely observed work in decades. In a myrmecological tour to such far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea, the Gulf of Mexico's Dauphin Island and even his parents' overgrown yard back in Alabama, Wilson thrillingly evokes his nine-decade-long scientific obsession with more than 15,000 ant species.

Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed "Skunk Works" cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.

The Scottish-born son of a failed weaver and a mother who supported the family by binding shoes, Andrew Carnegie was the embodiment of the American dream. In his rise from a job as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory to being the richest man in the world, he was single-minded, relentless and a major player in some of the most violent and notorious labor strikes of the time. The prototype of today's billionaire, he was a visionary in the way he earned his money and in the way he gave it away.

« Ce que j'affectionne par-dessus tout, c'est d'aller à la découverte des traces et des indices, de tous ces éléments qui permettent de donner une dernière fois la parole aux morts et de les écouter dans ce qu'ils ont à dire. » C'est par ces mots que le docteur Philippe Boxho, médecin légiste depuis plus de trente ans, introduit son nouvel ouvrage, dans lequel, une fois encore, assassinats et meurtres se succèdent sans relâche.

A warm and poignant narrative about finding one’s self amidst the grind of restaurant life, the cross-generational immigrant experience, and a daughter’s attempts to connect with parents who have always been just out of reach.

An odyssey into life’s challenging questions during an unforgettable summer motorcycle trip Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance became an instant bestseller upon its publication in 1974...

The original title of this text was Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character. This memoir was intended for Darwin’s family and was written between May and August 1876.

¿Sabías que Da Vinci, famoso por su sueño de volar, sentía una especial atracción por el cabello humano? En este breve ensayo sobre Da Vinci, la conocida escritora Beatriz Espejo nos regala un retrato del Leonardo humano, sensible, de carne y hueso, a quien, dice la autora, le interesaba...

La filosofía se puso realmente difícil con Hegel. Su método dialéctico produjo el más grandioso sistema metafísico que ha conocido el hombre. El propio Hegel admitió que «sólo existe un hombre que me entiende, y, en realidad, tampoco él». El sistema de Hegel abarca absolutamente todo...

Arquímedes es uno de los tres matemáticos más grandes de todos los tiempos. Revolucionó lo mecánica con su descubrimiento del punto de apoyo y lo palanca y también inventó, entre otros, lo bomba de agua y la polea. Lo exclamación "Eureka" es de todos conocido pero, ¿por qué dijo que...

From launchpad explosions to a pernicious cricket infestation to the demanding management style of Musk himself, the rise of SpaceX was beset with challenges and far from inevitable. Find out how the startup beat the odds and flew high enough to outpace their rivals... and where they're going next.

One of the world's most respected leaders, former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty overcame childhood and financial struggles to embark on a groundbreaking career that took her from entry-level engineer to eight years as the first woman CEO of an iconic global company. Forty years in business and public advocacy taught Rometty the transformative power of leadership that blends authenticity, relationships, and curiosity with vision, rigor, and conviction. In her personable yet direct voice, Rometty reveals experiences that taught her how to orchestrate change for clients, companies, and communities.

Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world's most popular video games, including Sid Meier's Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier's Memoir! is the story of an obsessive young computer enthusiast who helped launch a multibillion-dollar industry.

Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms - that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome, a fundamental discovery that both advances our knowledge of all life and could lead to the development of better antibiotics against life-threatening diseases.

Few entrepreneurs can claim to have radically changed the way we live, and Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food-service automation, franchising, shared national training, and advertising have earned him a place beside the men and women who have founded not only businesses, but entire empires. But even more interesting than Ray Kroc the business man is Ray Kroc the man. Not your typical self-made tycoon, Kroc was 52 years old when he opened his first franchise.

When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination never to take no for an answer, they created a wildly successful fifth-grade experience that would grow into the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), which today includes 66 schools in 19 states and the District of Columbia.