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Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of 16, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.

In this collection of Jeff Bezos' writings - his unique and strikingly original annual shareholder letters, plus numerous speeches and interviews that provide insight into his background, his work, and the evolution of his ideas - you'll gain an insider's view of the why and how of his success. Spanning a range of topics across business and public policy, from innovation and customer obsession to climate change and outer space, this book provides a rare glimpse into how Bezos thinks about the world and where the future might take us.

From the author of Steve Jobs, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter. For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil.

Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Walter Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members and key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, this is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

Everly mochte Neuanfänge und sie mochte es, mutig zu sein. Vielleicht hatte New York auch genau deshalb immer schon so eine Faszination auf sie ausgeübt. Nur, dass von dieser Liebe für Neuanfänge nicht mehr viel übrig ist, als sie plötzlich allein in der Stadt ihrer Träume steht, die während ihres Studiums ihr Zuhause sein soll. Schnell merkt sie, wie leicht es ist, sich in den großen Menschenmengen hier verloren und allein zu fühlen, und wie schwer, ihren Platz in diesem Chaos zu finden.Das ändert sich erst, als sie dem Barkeeper Hunter begegnet.

Self-Mastery Through Discipline: Unlock a Healthier, Happier You is your essential guide to transforming your mindset, cultivating resilience, and achieving true success. Written by Jason Walters, a seasoned wellness expert and mindfulness practitioner, this book provides a step-by-step approach to mastering your life through discipline.

Gray und Brooks konnten sich noch nie ausstehen und diese Rivalität erreicht einen neuen Höhepunkt, als sie sich nach Jahren plötzlich in Grays Café wieder gegenüberstehen. Es scheint also alles wie immer zu sein … Doch als das Café zunehmend Probleme macht und Gray so die Energie für ihre Streitereien mit Brooks fehlt, bittet sie ihn um einen Waffenstillstand. Aber Brooks hat ein Geheimnis, das niemand–am allerwenigsten Gray–je erfahren soll. Und jedes Mal, wenn Gray einen Schritt auf ihn zumacht, macht er einen zurück.

Welcome to The Bigly Report, where news is so real... it’s unbelievable. Hosted by Walter Thistleton, this podcast delivers the truthiest take on America’s most pressing issues, with extra emphasis on patriotism, pride, and a touch of the absurd. Each week, Walter unpacks the biggest stories with a flair for facts that are as American as apple pie—just with a lot more eagle imagery and freedom-loving “extras.” If you’re tired of fake news and ready for the real truth, tune in for weekly headlines that are big, bold, and undeniably... unbelievable. Get ready, patriots. This is the ...

Je suis Stella, votre hôte, passionnée par les relations humaines et le leadership au sein de l’écosystème tech. Ce podcast se penche sur le parcours de celles et ceux qui ont dépassé les frontières de leur origine sociale grâce à leur gnac – ces outsiders qui ne le sont plus. Des fondateurs aux investisseurs, en passant par les leaders de ces entreprises, nous plongerons dans les parcours hors norme de ceux qui ont non seulement réussi, mais ont également transcendé leur héritage social. Et dans la tech, parce que c’est là que les inégalités sont les plus criantes. :) ...

Given Voice retells Bible stories from the perspectives of the people who actually lived them. Each imaginative, first-person narrative is based on Bible facts and meant to help you read the Bible with fresh eyes. In the first season of Given Voice, we’ll explore Advent through the stories of four women who were at the first Christmas: Anna, Elizabeth, a Shepherdess, and Mary.

In 2012, Nobel Prize winning scientist Jennifer Doudna hit upon an invention that will transform the future of the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. It has already been deployed to cure deadly diseases, fight the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 and make inheritable changes in the genes of babies. But what does that mean for humanity?

When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist.

Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry.

Political violence rips apart several towns in southwest Texas. A far-right militia plots to kidnap the governor of Michigan and try her for treason. An armed mob of Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists storms the U.S. Capitol. Are these isolated incidents? Or is this the start of something bigger? Barbara F. Walter has spent her career studying civil conflict in places like Iraq, Ukraine, and Sri Lanka, but now she has become increasingly worried about her own country.

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. In best-selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time and ours. The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.

By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to a Gallup poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world’s imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man's personality and the foreign policy he pursued.

Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy.

Why we think it’s a great listen: You thought he was a stodgy scientist with funny hair, but Isaacson and Hermann reveal an eloquent, intense, and selfless human being who not only shaped science with his theories, but politics and world events in the 20th century as well. Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos.