Academic Life

"Life Lived Well" is Jeremy Zoch's heartfelt gift, an invitation to embrace a life that is intentional, active, and treasured. With each minute, you'll find stories from Jeremy's life along with exercises challenging you to reflect, celebrate, forgive, and move forward to your best life. Zoch embraces the fact that our stories shape us, probing you to ask yourself: What stories do I want to shape me?

For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his interpretation of Christian doctrine. Saint Augustine explores Augustine's thought as well as the everyday man who set pen to parchment. It challenges many misconceptions.

Ginsburg and Amanda Tyler, Berkeley Law professor and former Ginsburg law clerk, bring together RBG's most penetrating opinions - many previously unpublished - sharing details from Justice Ginsburg's family life and long career.

Henry Ford, né le 30 juillet 1863 à Dearborn (Michigan, États-Unis) et mort le 7 avril 1947 dans la même ville, est un industriel américain et le fondateur de l'automobile qui porte son nom. Comment ce fils d'agriculteur parti de rien a fait pour en arriver là ? Quelles sont les étapes qui l'ont conduit à devenir le premier milliardaire des États-Unis ? Qu'est-ce qu'un entrepreneur moderne peut apprendre de lui aujourd'hui pour démarrer et développer un business ? Découvrez les réponses au travers de ce savoureux audiobook !

GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double review of the restaurant: first she ate there as Molly; and then as she was coddled and pampered on her visit there as Ruth, New York Times food critic.

President Nixon called him the most dangerous man in America, while Terence McKenna believed he made more people happy than anyone else in history. Few people have divided opinion as strongly as Dr. Timothy Leary.

The Swedish firm Hästens enjoys an outstanding international reputation for creating the finest beds in the world, as evidenced by a client list that includes everyone from Hollywood royalty to actual crowned heads of state. Its luxurious, handcrafted, top-of-the-line Grand Vividus sells for as much as $750,000. Now the family business lovingly run by fifth generation and CEO Jan Ryde sells its beautiful beds in fifty countries around the world. In When Business Is Love, Jan shares his leadership philosophy and explains how any business, in any field, can operate on the basis of love.

This powerful collection of stories reveals how the world's leading women in business have overcome some of life's biggest challenges to reach the top of their professions. This is an audiobook written for every current and aspiring leader, revealing the things that leaders rarely talk about; the behind-the-scenes struggles. The women in these stories are powerful, internationally diverse and have impressive leadership accomplishments.

If you think having a bad day at the office is spilling a hot cup of coffee on your lap, try starting your day by losing a black bear cub. Like literally..."Oh crap, I just lost a black bear cub!" That's what life was like for Daryl Ratajczak, an aspiring wildlife biologist who was thrown into the world of rescuing orphaned or injured wild black bear cubs.

The ‘Billionaire Businessmen Biographies’ is two books in one: ‘Warren Buffett, The Life, Lessons and Rules for Success’ and ‘Jeff Bezos, The Life, Lessons and Rules for Success’. Drawing from the secrets from these world-class businessmen, it reflects on their lives, lessons, and ventures to identify their key success strategies so you can apply them too.

As the sole legitimate child of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was the progeny of literary royalty. Many might have naturally expected her to go into the field of her father, but instead of delving into poetry, she delved into the hard sciences of mathematics and analytic thinking. Even so, Ada still had the imagination of a lyricist when writing scientific treatises, at times referring to her own work as nothing short of “poetical science”.

The Billionaire Businessmen Biographies draws from the successes and failures of two of the world’s most influential businessmen. It combines the lessons learned from the books Bill Gates The Life, Lessons and Rules for Success and Steve Jobs The Life, Lessons and Rules for Success to give you a comprehensive overview of the best business and life strategies to amass fortune and success.

Nikola Tesla was a major figure in the world in which he lived. As the 19th century gave way to the 20th, it was Tesla who would contribute to some of the world's most amazing inventions. It was Tesla's theories, patents, and experiments that would pave the way for the digital, wireless world we are so familiar with today. Tesla didn't enjoy the high honors bestowed on so many of his contemporaries, yet he enjoyed the power of knowing that it was his inventions that were powering the world, literally.

Through his work in plastic and reconstructive surgery, Dr. Donald Laub changed the lives of thousands of people who had been shunned by society. His influence fostered the development of three key areas in the surgical profession: pioneering and influencing international humanitarian medical missions in the developing world, being at the forefront of gender affirmation surgery for transgender people since 1968, and the education and training of more than 50 plastic and reconstructive surgeons.

In Life After Medical School, Dr. Bill Truels presents a compilation of both humorous and serious short stories and poems depicting his 50 years of experience as a practicing physician. Written initially for medical students and health care workers, these accounts have become popular with the general public, and anyone with a career that threatens to overtake their family life.

After knowing friends with anorexia and being baffled by their behavior, Laura Moisin suddenly found herself prone to the same disease - not eating at all and going weeks at a time consuming nothing but water and the occasional black coffee. Deceiving therapists by misleading them with symptoms of depression, her anorexia is prolonged, and her health deteriorates rapidly.

In Taking the Stand, Dershowitz describes his evolution as a lawyer—from a C-minus student in Yeshiva High School to the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard Law School. In his #1 New York Times bestselling book Chutzpah, Alan described his Jewish life.

Sasha Martin set herself a rather ambitious goal: to cook - and eat - her way around the world, with 196 recipes from196 countries in 196 weeks. Enter Global Table Adventure, a project that proves to be more than just a culinary challenge as Sasha attempts to navigate the vicissitudes of marriage, motherhood, and life's failures and successes, all inextricably linked to her troubled past.

ही कथा आहे, एका विख्यात मानसोपचार तज्ज्ञाची आणि त्याच्या पेशंटची! कॅथरीन या रुग्णावर अठरा महिने उपचार करणार्‍या मानसोपचारतज्ज्ञ डॉ. ब्रायन वीज़ यांना म्हणावं तसं यश येत नव्हतं. कॅथरीनला सतत भयानक स्वप्नं पडत, अतिचिंतेचे अ‍ॅटॅक्स येत. जेव्हा पारंपरिक उपचारपद्धती तिच्याबाबतीत अयशस्वी ठरल्या, तेव्हा डॉ. वीज़ यांनी संमोहन उपचार पद्धती वापरायची ठरवली आणि त्या उपचारपद्धतीने कॅथरीनला तिचे पूर्वजन्म दिसू लागले. डॉ. वीज़ थक्क झाले, कॅथरीनच्या सद्य जन्मातल्या सर्व आजारांची, प्रश्‍नांची उत्तरं तिच्या पूर्वजन्मात दडली आहेत, हे समजल्यावर! त्यांना आश्‍चर्य वाटलंच, पण मनात साशंकताही होती.

An incisive biography of the Supreme Court's enigmatic chief justice, taking us inside the momentous legal decisions of his tenure so far.