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According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was "the Jewish Jefferson", the greatest critic of what he called "the curse of bigness" in business and government since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his Supreme Court confirmation on June 1, 1916, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet argues that Brandeis was the most farseeing constitutional philosopher of the 20th century.

"This work offers wonderful wisdom for navigating the inflection points in our lives." - Mehmet Oz, MD An iconic teacher. A warm friend. A generous mentor. For more than 40 years, Howard Stevenson has been a towering figure at Harvard Business School: the man who literally defined...

This science classic by Paul de Kruif chronicles the pioneering bacteriological work of the first scientists to see and learn from the microscopic world. Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters is a timeless dramatization of the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who discovered microbes and invented the vaccines to counter them.

Living in the Belgian Congo with her husband in the 1960s, Fran’s mother became pregnant with a daughter. However, right after she gave birth in the hospital, she felt strange. Unbeknownst to anyone, another daughter was on the way, but before anybody responded, an hour had passed. Because of the delay, Fran was born with cerebral palsy. Growing up with her siblings in Africa, Fran always felt different. When everyone else was playing and having fun, she would watch and wish she could join in.

Beating the Odds is the improbable, inspiring autobiography of financial guru Eddie C. Brown, one of the nation's top stock pickers and money managers. It details how Brown skillfully kept Brown Capital Management afloat through the dot-com bust, 9/11, and the Great Recession. Born to a 13-year-old unwed mother in the rural South, this African-American investment whiz created a Baltimore-based financial firm that amassed more than $6 billion under management.

Part memoir, part homage to wilderness, Shearwater traces the author’s 50-year obsession with one of nature’s supreme travellers. In the finest tradition of nature writing, Roger Morgan-Grenville, author of Liquid Gold - described by Mary Colwell (Curlew Moon) as ‘a book that ignites joy and warmth’ - unpicks the science behind its incredible journey; and into the story of a year in the shearwater’s life, he threads the inspirational influence of his Hebridean grandmother who instilled in him a love of wild places and wild animals.

One of the most controversial philosophers of all time, Friedrich Nietzsche was an intellectual prodigy who dared to challenge conventional views. Confronting traditional ideas about religion, morality, and culture, Nietzsche created some of the most important philosophical works of all time.

Weathercaster “Nor’Easter" Nick Pittman tells his heartfelt story of learning to embrace the unpredictable and turn rainy days into opportunities.

すべての新しい達成には初めに熱狂が、それも人知れない孤独な熱狂が必ずある。「癒着に染まれ」「野心なんか豚に食われろ」「一撃必殺のキラーカードをつかめ」「人たらしになるな。『人さらい』になれ」「結果が出ない努力に意味はない」など

On an island off the coast of Massachusetts, six miles across the cobalt blue Waters of the Nantucket Sound, there is a place where hope flourishes. The island is Martha’s Vineyard. The place is Camp Jabberwocky, a sleepover summer camp for people with a variety of disabilities.

2024年 オリコン顧客満足度調査「ハウスウエディング ウェディングプランナー部門」第1位。直営型の結婚式場を展開する〈ブラス〉が贈る、仕事に夢を持つあなたへのメッセージ。

In this insider’s look into the world’s biggest tech company, former CEO and SVP of Google share how they helped engineer a new strategy and philosophy to help them thrive—a perfect book for seasoned business employees and the tech curious. Today, Google is a global icon that regularly...

Our climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future? Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures. Through clear-eyed...

A title ranking the great 26 entrepreneurs of all time.

Bogen fortæller en kritisk historie om transnational adoption og har været med til at ændre måden, vi tænker om adoption på i Danmark. Med vreden som omdrejningspunkt og en befriende, underspillet humor tegner Maja Lee Langvad et portræt af en adopteret – eller flere – og af et adoptionskritisk miljø i Sydkorea. Det er en dybt personlig og politisk bog om slægtskab, race, køn og global ulighed.

Eten is altijd een belangrijk onderdeel geweest van Stanley Tucci's leven: Italiaanse stracciatellasoep in de schaduw van het Pantheon, de beste tomatensaus bereid tussen repetities en kostuumpassessies, huisgemaakte pizza met zijn kinderen voor het slapengaan. In Wat ik at in een jaar blikt Tucci terug op twaalf maanden vol maaltijden. In restaurants, keukens, op filmsets, tijdens persmomenten, thuis en in het buitenland, met vrienden, familie, onbekenden – en soms gewoon in zijn eentje.

Horace Mann fut le fondateur du mouvement des écoles publiques gratuites au Massachusetts, puis en Amérique, et par conséquence dans le monde entier. Ce fut sa grande mission, il l'a bel et bien accomplie. Son discours L'Art d'Enseigner est son meilleur écrit. Comprend une introduction sur son œuvre, sa biographie, des citations clés, le texte intégral de L'Art d'Enseigner, ainsi qu'un résumé de son travail.

Gary Young lebte ein außergewöhnliches Leben, das ihn nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag den Weg zur Erschaffung der YOUNG LIVING-Essenzen einschlagen ließ. Ein Weg voller Abenteuer und faszinierender Erlebnisse und Begegnungen. Maria Schasteen, die große Expertin für Duftmedizin, beschreibt in dieser mit viel Empathie verfassten Biographie das Leben dieses besonderen Menschen, der die alternativen Heilweisen des 21. Jahrhunderts maßgeblich beeinflussen sollte.

William’s memoir, The Parts of Him I Kept, is an intimate account of a daughter’s coming of age in the face of her father’s schizophrenic unraveling. Williams investigates the limits of our medical and cultural understanding of schizophrenia while chronicling the shared burden and benefits of caring for a mentally ill family member.

Die ursprünglich als Aufsatzserie in der anthroposophischen Presse erschienene Autobiographie Steiners Mein Lebensgang aus den Jahren 1924 und 1925 stellt den Versuch des Anthroposophiebegründers dar, der Entwicklung seines Lebens und Werkes im biographischen Rückblick klare Gestalt, Richtung und Bedeutung zu geben. Sie ist damit eine zentrale Quelle für jeden, der sich mit Leben und Ideen Steiners beschäftigt.