Résultats pour "Bora Bora" dans Biographies et mémoires

The man they call the father of chemistry discovered no element, named no compound, and went to his grave convinced that lead could be coaxed into gold. The law that carries his name was first proposed by someone else, and Robert Boyle credited it, in print, to the wrong man. His famous vacuum...

He is the only English novelist with an adjective. Not a school, not a movement, not a period — an adjective, sitting in the dictionary, available to any journalist describing a slum, a courtroom, or a Christmas. And yet the same writer sits half-read on more shelves than any author alive or...

In the spring of 1898 a young woman with no laboratory of her own placed a pinch of uranium ore between two metal plates and read a number off a quartz electrometer built by her husband and his brother. The number was too large. It was larger than the uranium in the sample could account for, and...

Heredity is the one branch of science everybody thinks they already understand. Tall pea, short pea, three to one, a monk, a garden, a tragic silence, and on to the next chapter. This book takes the story apart and asks the questions the textbook skips.Why one quarter, and not one fifth or one...

He solved the problem of the missing planet in a few weeks, and told almost no one how. He worked out the geometry of curved space decades before anyone published it, and locked the pages in a drawer. He wrote his most explosive result about an asteroid as a coded cipher, so that he could claim...

In 1889 the King of Sweden gave a prize to a young Frenchman for settling the oldest open question in astronomy: whether the solar system will hold together forever. He had not settled it. Worse, he found the error himself, after the memoir was printed and bound, and paid out of his own pocket...

Kafkaesk. Jeder kennt das Wort. Fast niemand kennt den Mann.Franz Kafka las seinen Freunden einmal das erste Kapitel von „Der Prozess“ vor und lachte so laut, dass er aufhören musste. Fast nichts an dem gängigen Bild von ihm hat diese Tatsache überstanden. Der düstere Heilige der...

In the spring of 1794 the French Republic cut off the head of a tax collector. It happened to be the same head that had worked out what burning is, what breathing is, what water is made of, and what an element could honestly be said to be. This is usually told as an irony. It is not an irony. It...

For sixty years Barbara McClintock grew corn and read it the way other people read a page. What she found in it should have rearranged biology in 1951. Genes are not beads fixed on a string. They move. They switch one another on and off. A genome is not an instruction manual handed down intact from one generation to the next but a text that revises itself while it is being read.

Durante medio siglo, se ha dicho a los lectores que Jorge Luis Borges fue el gran disolvente, el escritor que demostró que la realidad no es más que lenguaje y que tras cada palabra solo hay otra. Este libro argumenta lo contrario. Borges no fue quien borró el mundo. Fue su bibliotecario. A lo largo de toda una vida de relatos y ensayos, Borges reunió un pequeño conjunto de ideas obstinadas que se negaban a comportarse como literatura. Que un todo puede ser finito y, sin embargo, carecer de límites. Que una cosa puede desempeñar un papel sin poseer una existencia separada.

The Fall of Boris Johnson is the explosive inside account of how a prime minister lost his hold on power. Written and read by Sebastian Payne, Director of Onward and former Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times. Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book Awards A New Statesman, The Times, Daily...

Vencedor de seis torneios de Grand Slam – três deles em Wimbledon –, medalha de ouro na Olimpíada de Barcelona e ex-treinador de Novak Djokovic, Boris Becker construiu uma carreira de imenso sucesso no tênis. Em abril de 2022, tudo mudou de maneira dramática quando ele foi condenado a 30 meses de prisão por lavagem de dinheiro e evasão de bens. Este é um relato cru e brutal da vida de Becker atrás das grades. Despojado da fama, do prestígio e da fortuna, ele se tornou o prisioneiro A2923EV e cumpriu pena em dois dos presídios mais rigorosos do Reino Unido.

For nearly eighty years George Orwell has been read as a prophet, which is a comfortable way of reading him, because prophecies are always about somebody else. This book reads him instead as an experiment that has now run its full course. The results are in, and they are worse than the prophecy.

In 1889 a broke ex-actor sat down to write a serious history of the River Thames. He meant to cover the abbeys, the charters, the battles, and the kings. His editor cut all of it. What survived was a book about three incompetent men, a fictional dog, a tin of pineapple that could not be opened, and a cheese so powerful it emptied a railway carriage. It has never once been out of print.

I valori più semplici e umani della Resistenza restano per sempre impressi in un grande classico della memorialistica storica italiana, "I miei sette figli", un audiolibro che, attraverso l'emozionante voce narrante del papà Alcide, ripercorre la tragica vicenda dei sette fratelli Cervi, fucilati per la loro attività antifascista al Poligono di Reggio Emilia il 28 dicembre 1943.

In this life-changing audiobook, Dr. Bhaskar Bora—doctor, author, and survivor of profound adversity—invites you on a deeply personal and practical journey of transformation. Blending moving storytelling, neuroscience, psychology, and timeless spiritual wisdom, The Best Is Within You reveals how to awaken the strength, resilience, and purpose that already live inside you.

Wimbledon-Sieger mit 17, sechsfacher Gewinner bei Grand-Slam-Turnieren, Weltranglistenerster: Boris Becker hat in seiner Tenniskarriere fast alles erreicht. Doch im April 2022 kam der Sturz ins Bodenlose: Wegen des Vorwurfs von Insolvenzstraftaten wurde er zu 30 Monaten Haft verurteilt. Jenseits...

This is a fictionalized biography of the wife of the reformer Dr. Martin Luther. In the author's words, he hopes that "people may learn to know the wife of its greatest man—not by name only, but as her husband's 'helpmeet,' in the truest sense of the word, as a pattern of domestic virtue, and as a pearl among women."

You can do anything! For Boris Cherniak, those four words are not just a positive mantra, they are a way of life. In this audiobook, the renowned comedian, hypnotist, and television personality shares the story of his life. He tells how he began as a small child in Moscow with a gift for making others laugh, and made it all the way to stages and studios around the world. He gives a close-up look at the world of comedy, including some of the big names he met and worked with along the way.

Voltaire n’a pas été l’homme d’un système. Il a été le trouble-fête d’un siècle brillant et faux. Ce qu’il reste de lui n’est pas un modèle à imiter, mais une tension à reprendre : penser sans plaire, contredire sans cesse, et surtout ne jamais devenir ce que l’on dénonce.