Biography Work

Life is like a patchwork quilt with each square telling a different story, but the entirety making a compilation of one's life. I have randomly selected different periods of my life that I found noteworthy and attempted to accumulate them into a fragment of my imagination. I have included stories from my childhood through adult, and by no means exhausted the well that supplied them. The quilt will be complete when the stories end and that will be at my demise. We all have a quilt we're working on, whether we know it or not.

The stories in the chapters that follow aren't chronological. They're not a history of how I found myself living on the side of a mountain in Mexico, and I'm not sure that would interest anyone but my mother and her friends anyway. Instead, I've mined my journals for those moments when God used the very people I thought I was in Mexico to lead, to lead me instead. Time and again I've been led to trust God, with my little mustard seed of faith, to see how he not only shows up in our circumstance - but he shows off!

In diesem Hörbuch geht es um zehn Menschen, die Gott mit Treue und Hingabe als Missionare gedient haben. Sie hinterließen auf der Erde eine breite Spur des Segens und sind bis heute ein Ansporn, sich für Gottes Sache engagiert und unbeirrt einzusetzen. Um diese Personen handelt es sich: Hans Egede (1686-1758), David Brainerd (1718-1747), William Carey (1761-1834), Henry Martyn (1781-1812), Adoniram Judson (1788-1850), Robert Moffat (1795-1883), Johannes Meyer (1814-1847).

他上承中国文学传统，横涉西洋文学艺术，在绵长四十余年的创作生涯中，笔耕不辍，成为当代文学的重镇……他上承中國文學傳統，橫涉西洋文學藝術，在綿長四十餘年的創作生涯中，筆耕不輟，成為當代文學的重鎮……

Not just another transgender person's "transition" story. Mandy Goodhandy aka Amanda Taylor considers this a story of her completion as a human being. She was a little girl born in Scotland. Mainstream society's rude awakening forced her to live as a boy for survival. This is a journey of discovery and survival told with sometimes shocking honesty while including humour during some disturbingly touching life events.

Over a three-decade period that began in 1919, Oscar Micheaux wrote, directed, edited, produced, and distributed over 40 films nationally and internationally. These films usually featured all-Black casts. They spanned a silent film period and a talkie period (sound films). Given such a background and the period in American history into which he was born, Micheaux's achievements were extraordinary and his legacy is a study of survival, persistence, and bold determination to develop a new era in Black films.

The Herbert Fuller, a three-masted sailing ship loaded with New England lumber, left Boston bound for Buenos Aires on July 8, 1896 with 12 people on board. Just before 2 a.m. on the sixth day at sea, the captain, his wife, and the second mate were slaughtered in their individual bunkrooms with the ship's axe, seven or eight blows apiece. Laura Nash was found with her thin nightgown pushed above her hips, her head and upper body smashed and deformed. Incredibly, no one saw or heard the killings...except the killer.

On a snowy November day in 1997, in Flint, Michigan, police found the body of 45-year-old waitress Nancy Billiter. Her corpse had survived a botched attempt to burn it. An autopsy revealed that she'd been bound, beaten, sexually violated, and then injected with a lethal mixture of battery acid and heroin. Police suspected Nancy's friend, Carol Giles, 26, and Giles' boyfriend, Tim Collier, who had often boasted of a murderous gangland past.

In this never-before-published memoir from the files of The Walt Disney Archives, Disney Legend Jimmy Johnson (1917-1976) takes you from his beginnings as a studio gofer during the days of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the opening of Walt Disney World Resort. Johnson relates dozens of personal anecdotes with famous celebrities, beloved artists, and, of course, Walt and Roy Disney.

In the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique—primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body—that upended traditional vocabulary and shaped generations of dancers and choreographers across the globe. Over her sweeping career, she founded what is now the oldest dance company in the country and produced nearly two hundred ballets, many of them masterpieces.

Descubre los principios radicales que han contribuido al éxito de Netflix. Reed Hastings, el cofundador, presidente y CEO de Netflix, desvela por primera vez la sorprendente y poco ortodoxa cultura de una de las compañías más creativas y de mayor éxito en la historia de Silicon Valley. Nunca antes ha existido una empresa como Netflix. Esta es la fascinante historia de una compañía singular y de su extraordinaria expansión por el mundo entero.

With Her Fist Raised is the necessary biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pivotal figure in women’s history and Black feminism whose story will finally be told. Historian Laura Lovett weaves together a biography of an activist who was intersectional to the core revealing a remarkable legacy that few have known until now.

Moses never wanted to be a leader. Jonah ran away from his mission's call. And when Marcia Moston's husband came home with a call to foreign missions, she was sure God had the wrong number. His call conflicted with her own dreams, demanded credentials she didn't have, and required courage she couldn't seem to find. She promised to follow where God led, but she never thought the road would lead to a Mayan village on a Guatemalan mountainside.

Books are one of humankind's greatest forms of expression, and now Book, in a witty, idiosyncratic voice, tells us the inside story. A wonderfully eccentric character with strong opinions and a poetic turn of phrase, Book tells of a journey from papyrus scrolls to medieval manuscripts to printed paper and beyond - pondering, along the way, many bookish things, including the evolution of the alphabet, the library (known to Egyptians as "the healing place of the soul"), and even book burning.

The Work of Human Hands is a timeless medical journey through pioneering surgeon Dr. Hardy Hendren's legendary operating room that the Los Angeles Times called "impossible to forget". Set at Boston Children's Hospital, which U.S. News & World Report consistently rates as America's best children's hospital, The Work of Human Hands is available now for the first time in audio. The new edition includes a fresh introduction and a greatly expanded epilogue updating readers on Hendren and patient Lucy Moore today.

亨利・福特，美国福特汽车公司创始人，世界著名的“汽车大王”。他白手起家，凭借卓越的人格魅力、独特的商业理念和经营方式，创造了人类工业史上的奇迹……亨利・福特，美國福特汽車公司創始人，世界著名的「汽車大王」。他白手起家，憑藉卓越的人格魅力、獨特的商業理念和經營方式，創造了人類工業史上的奇蹟……

他加盟微软，仅用10年时间，就从一名普通员工晋升为微软中国公司总裁：他，就是唐骏。从普通员工到打工皇帝，这个职场传奇时刻在激励着无数的职场人士去奋斗。……他加盟微軟，僅用10年時間，就從一名普通員工晉升為微軟中國公司總裁：他，就是唐駿。從普通員工到打工皇帝，這個職場傳奇時刻在激勵著無數的職場人士去奮鬥。

Nikola Tesla is one of the most fascinating figures in modern history. His groundbreaking work in the field of electrical engineering, coupled with his innovative ideas and visionary outlook, have made him an icon of innovation and creativity.

I was on vacation with my wife, Maleka, celebrating our 15th anniversary. On the 3rd day of the trip, we went on a boating excursion, and the boat suddenly exploded. As a result of the explosion, Maleka died, I lost my left leg, and had to find the resilience and strength to bounce back from this tragic loss. This book covers the story of me finding resilience earlier in my life, the story of the event that changed my life, and my journey to choose resilience and bounce back from this traumatic situation.

Director of the cult 1980s film Chashme Baddoor and critically acclaimed movies such as Sparsh and Saaz; seasoned Marathi theatre personality; winner of three National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards; recipient of the Padma Bhushan - Sai Paranjpye has many feathers in the patchwork quilt of her creative life. Sai started her career at All India Radio, later graduating from the National School of Drama and making her way into theatre, television, documentaries, and movies, working with some of the most highly regarded names of the Hindi film world.