Résultats pour "Rook" dans Biographies et mémoires

A love letter to the rookie in all of us: Singer-actor Joshua Bassett's fearless memoir in verse about surviving the darkest moments of fame, addiction, and mental health struggles—and finding hope on the other side. "We're all figuring it out as we go along. Even the 'pros.'" This brutally...

The meteoric rise of motorsports phenom Oscar Piastri has been the stuff of legends - so far. Three years and a record-breaking three straight titles across Formula Renault, Formula 3 and Formula 2 set up one of the most anticipated F1 rookie seasons ever when the 21-year-old Melburnian joined...

A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2025 A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author’s family to show how the implementation of integration decimated Black school systems and did much of the Black community a...

In 2005, after working for 10 years in a comfortable but mundane corporate job in San Antonio, Texas, Vincent Sellers successfully managed to leave behind a dreary cubicle landscape and begin the exciting challenges of a crime-fighting FBI agent. His journey is chronicled in Eyes Pried Open: Rookie FBI Agent. Listeners will experience both the highs and the lows of an FBI agent working bank robbery, kidnapping, murder-for-hire cases, and border-related crimes in San Diego, California.

The night Mark Leiren-Young drove into Williams Lake, British Columbia, in 1985 to work as a reporter for the venerable Williams Lake Tribune, he arrived on the scene of an armed robbery. And that was before things got weird. For a 22-year-old from Vancouver, a stint in the legendary Cariboo town was a trip to another world and another era.

Inside They Don't Call It the Submission Process for Nothing, you'll discover what it's really like to finally bash down the seemingly impenetrable walls of the publishing industry and see your book in bookstores. Then there’s the book tour, radio interviews, signing events, speaking engagements, your face on promotional posters.... Is it a dream come true? Or a hilarious nightmare? Now’s your chance to find out.

When Bob Boog finally escaped his family home and the constant chatter about real estate, it was to attend UCLA on a merit scholarship. Finally, he thought, he was free from a business he had no desire to be a part of. But on one of his frequent "laundry visits" to the family home, he was suddenly presented with a ticket for a real estate seminar and felt compelled to attend. It was something which changed his opinions, his plans for the future and his life.

Discussion Materials gives the listener an honest look at Wall Street from someone in the trenches. After graduating from Columbia Business School, Bill Keenan joined Deutsche Bank's investment banking division as an associate where despotic superiors (and the blinking red light of his BlackBerry) instilled low-level terror on an hourly basis. You'll join him in his cubicle on the 44th floor of 60 Wall Street as he scrambles to ensure floating bar charts are the correct shade of orange and all numbers are left-aligned, but whatever you do, don't ask him what any of it means.

The Rookie Experience is an entertaining podcast for college students and young professionals hosted by two first-generation college graduates, Will Ma and Marcus Fergus. Everyone starts off as rookies in the league, and we'll teach you how to become a superstar. We'll explore topics like career advice, productivity, and personal finance.

Every Hall of Famer has experienced it. Every MVP has gone through it. Every All-Star has endured it. It is a unifying experience amongst all professional athletes. The perennial superstars and the ones that never were. For some, it is a memory they hold dear and remember with great nostalgia. For others, it was a horror show they would love to forget. But for every single professional athlete, it is the one thing they all have in common...ROOKIE YEAR! The rookie year is the great equalizer in professional sports. The NBA lottery pick is still sitting in the worst seat on the plane and bus. ...

WINNER of the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (Non-Fiction) The “respectfully uncensored” story of how Mandy Rennehan’s savvy business skills and innovative thinking led her to the top of the male-dominated construction industry before the age of thirty Born in Yarmouth, Nova...

Honduras no es Irak, pero en algún momento, Alberto Arce - único corresponsal extranjero en Tegucigalpa de 2012 a 2014 - lo vivió así. Honduras no es Irak, pero cada año mueren asesinadas 85 personas por cada 100.000 habitantes, una cifra que supera a la de Irak. Honduras vive una de las guerras no declaradas menos contadas del mundo. Una guerra laberíntica de todos contra todos.

Welcome to Rookies in the Real World—NOT ANOTHER GENERIC PODCAST FOR 20 SOMETHING YEAR OLDS. Rookies in the Real World is an honest, entertaining, and real account of figuring out how to adult in your 20s. Follow the journey of fresh New Yorker Lauren Lapid as she navigates post-college life in a new city with a new job—and everything in between. She and her friends—rookies and veterans alike!—will cover the good, the bad, and the messy adventures of adulthood in hopes that you don't have to make those same rookie mistakes.

The story of Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, their journey and their transformation, is “as old as eternity and as new as now.” As individuals, Dedan and Belvie were already activists, mentors, and voices for justice, but in their union, they became an even greater force for compassion and love.

Ze ging in rook op. Eefke Wolf (25) uit Wezep liep bijna veertig jaar geleden de zijdeur van haar werk in Hattem uit, richting het donkere fietsenhok, om vervolgens in het niets op te lossen. Op een zandpaadje van een kleine 25 meter. Ze liet geen enkel spoor achter. Nog geen voetafdruk. De Stentor-journalisten Arjen ten Cate en Paulien Plat duiken in haar vermissingszaak, en schijnen nieuw licht op haar verdwijning. Wat is er met Eefke Wolf gebeurd, die zomerse donderdagavond in augustus 1983?