Résultats pour "A" dans Professionnels et universitaires

Face à l'État profond : 10 ans aux Renseignements Généraux de Mitterrand à Sarkozy d'Hubert Marty, est un témoignage autobiographique détaillé sur l'expérience d'un commissaire des Renseignements Généraux (RG) français entre les années 1980 et 2000, abordant des sujets sensibles liés au fonctionnement de l'État, à la police, et à l'influence des réseaux politiques. La narration met l'accent sur des affaires internes, des luttes de pouvoir, et l'impact de l'État profond sur les carrières et la justice en France.

Wenn nichts mehr geht Was passiert mit einem Menschen, wenn das Leben aus dem Gleichgewicht gerät? Wie fühlt es sich an, in einer Klinik zu sein, eine Therapie zu beginnen und sich mit Themen auseinanderzusetzen, denen man vielleicht lange ausgewichen ist? Und was bedeutet es für die...

La biografía no autorizada del creador de Mercado Libre y Mercado Pago. Una investigación exhaustiva a cargo de uno de los mejores periodistas de la actualidad. El relato del ascenso de uno de los más exitosos emprendedores de América Latina, a la vez que el de una nueva clase política y, a través de su historia, el retrato de una época.

The rise, the fall, and the battle for the bestselling Black American-founded whiskey empire in history. In 2017, Fawn Weaver founded the billion-dollar company Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey to honor Nearest Green, the world's first known African American master distiller and the unheralded...

Four years ago, Jordie Poncy was excited to start his new job as a psychologist serving patients at one of the country's most prestigious cancer centers. A week before his start date, he got his own diagnosis—Stage IV neuroendocrine carcinoma, with an estimated two years left to live. When he...

In Ma Vie en Rose (My Sweet Life), Rose Levy Beranbaum shares her deeply personal journey from a sensitive, food-averse child in postwar New York to the pioneering author of The Cake Bible—the groundbreaking work that introduced standardized weights, ingredient science, and techniques like reverse creaming to generations of home bakers. Along the way, she also designed innovative precision equipment, further advancing accuracy and confidence in the kitchen.

Richard K. Caputo, an under-the-radar social work scholar, shares lessons about finding his voice as a scholar, overcoming obstacles, and navigating the rigors and expectations of academia in this memoir.From his days as an undergraduate to a graduate student; from being a paraprofessional at...

Part autobiography, part manifesto: Timnit Gebru is one of the fiercest critics of silicon valley's current dominance of Artificial Intelligence. As a true insider who has worked for some of the major players in the field, as co-lead on the Ethics in AI team at Google, she exposed the racism...

This book aims to make the everyday life of a particle physicist working on one small part of one of the biggest experiments in the world—CERN's Large Hadron Collider—accessible to the general public: how does it work, why is it so difficult, and how do they manage to make it work anyway?...

One More Light takes you on a journey with veteran firefighter and paramedic James Geering. As each chapter unfolds, the heart-wrenching stories are coupled with a unique physical and mental health perspective about preventing tragedy and unnecessary suffering. It’s about maximizing the wellness and fulfillment of one another. But most of all, this is a book that ultimately leaves you with the hope that, with us at our best, we have a fighting chance to thrive in an uncertain world. 

February 29th is a date that comes into existence just once every four years. It is also the birthday of Thais - author Anne-Dauphine Julliand's darling daughter - who died of a genetic disease. Thais lived just shy of her fourth birthday. She had a short life but good one. As this special day is about to reappear on her calendar for the first time since her daughter passed away, Anne-Dauphine struggles with how to mark this momentous occasion. She wants to live fully on this special day: Thais would have been eight years old.

At the center of Okrent's riveting story are four remarkable individuals: tycoon John D. Rockefeller, his ambitious son Nelson Rockefeller, real estate genius John R. Todd, and visionary skyscraper architect Raymond Hood. In the tradition of David McCullough's The Great Bridge, Ron Chernow's Titan, and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, Great Fortune is a stunning tribute to an American landmark that captures the heart and spirit of New York at its apotheosis. 

When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by unhinged parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer Louise's home, neglected, malnourished...

Cowboys and Indian: A Doctor’s First Year in Texas is an exciting and entertaining account of a doctor’s first year of practice in an underserved Texas hospital. Besides the challenges of being an immigrant and a husband and father, the doctor manages medical emergencies like cardiac arrests, collapsed lungs, industrial accidents, lacerations, and other traumas—all with minimal resources. In the course of that fateful first year, the heart-warming and often hilarious events show medical science at its best.

Long before the world began seeking STEM - science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - education for girls, American Maria Mitchell proved that women were capable of achieving worldwide acclaim for brilliant reasoning and discoveries. Born to a Quaker family in 1818 Nantucket, Mitchell had opportunities unavailable to other girls of the time. The Quakers believed boys and girls should be educated, so Maria attended public schools. She also had the benefit of her father's tutelage. At an early age, she loved to perform the complex navigational computations requested by sailors.

In gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from death When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way...

Lillian Lincoln Lambert rose from humble beginnings as a poor farm girl in the segregated South to become the first Black woman to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School and, later, the founder of a $20 million maintenance company with 1,200 employees. In The Road to Someplace Better, she shares an inspiring personal journey that took her from dead-end jobs in New York City and Washington, D.C., to the ivory tower and the world of entrepreneurship.

ALS is a deadly disease that didn't want to let go of me. I went from hope to planning my own death as a way of escaping this demon. My journey is a view into the life of a person who needs 24-hour care, never any privacy. I was given 18 months to get my affairs in order. That lead me to seeking a higher power than the doctors. I have never witnessed an energy healing until it happened to me. This book is my call to each of you and your family who are challenged by ALS. My frame of mind was my only power.