Résultats pour "Bora Bora" dans Biographies et mémoires

What if one life is simply not enough?At thirty-five, Boris Kriger set out to live a thousand of them. He washed floors and wrapped the dead, escaped the claims of two armies, crossed countries and languages, built businesses, wrote books, studied medicine and cosmology, bought a house in a...

In 1948 a shy, unicycling engineer at Bell Laboratories published a paper that quietly rebuilt the twentieth century, and he did it by refusing to answer the most interesting question in his field. Claude Shannon wanted to know how much could be sent through a wire. He did not want to know what...

His family cut stone in Salzburg for three generations. Christian Doppler was too frail to lift it, so he was sent off to do arithmetic instead, which everyone agreed was a lesser calling. In May 1842, in a half-empty room in Prague, he stood up before a learned society and explained why the...

Nothing in this book can be seen.The forces that hold the world together announce themselves only through their effects: a needle that twitches, a filing that stands on end, a wire that jumps when nobody has touched it. For most of human history this was taken as evidence that such forces were...

Everyone knows the headline. Heisenberg proved there are things we can never know. It is the most quoted result in modern science and one of the most thoroughly misunderstood, and this book explains why the misunderstanding has survived so long and what the discovery actually was.In 1925 a...

NASA had a problem. It wanted to know whether there was life on Mars, and the only way to find out appeared to involve landing a very expensive machine on it and scraping the dirt. The consultant they hired suggested something cheaper. Do not look at the ground, he said. Look at the air. A...

A Greek poet left behind a single line about a fox and a hedgehog. Twenty-six centuries later, an Oxford professor who had watched a man torn apart by a crowd in Petrograd turned that line into the most famous classification in modern thought, then spent the rest of his life insisting he had...

A Quaker schoolmaster who could not tell a scarlet geranium from its leaves, and who believed until his dying day that the fluid in his own eyeball was tinted blue, gave chemistry the one thing it had been missing for two thousand years. It was not the atom. Atoms were free. Democritus had them...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

È la storia di Maria, giovane siciliana, orfana di madre che, suo malgrado, viene costretta a ritirarsi a vita monastica in un convento di clausura catanese. La monacazione forzata era, all'epoca del Verga, assai diffusa. Verga concentra il suo interesse sulla figura femminile della protagonista, indagando e dando largo spazio alle sue fragilità ed ai suoi sentimenti più intimi e alla ineluttabilità del suo destino.

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