Home > Biographies & Memoirs
Biographies & Memoirs
Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! by Carlson Nicholas
epub |eng | 2014-12-18 | Author:Carlson, Nicholas

Almost from the start of the Universal Search project, Singhal and Mayer didn’t get along. The surface issue that the two disagreed over most was: Should Google allow only algorithms ...
( Category: Entrepreneurship January 4,2015 )
Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:John Garth

PART THREE The Lonely Isle ELEVEN Castles in the air The fever persisted. Tolkien wrote to Lieutenant-Colonel Bird, his commanding officer, explaining his whereabouts, but All Hallows went by and ...
( Category: World War I January 4,2015 )
How to Cook Like a Man by Daniel Duane
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-12-25 | Author:Daniel Duane

PART THREE What Is Cooking For? 8 The Meat Period in Every Man’s Life Anthony Lane, writing in the New Yorker, has wondered why so many of the best food ...
( Category: Culinary January 4,2015 )
Ted Bundy: Conversations With a Killer by Stephen G. Michaud & Hugh Aynesworth
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:Stephen G. Michaud & Hugh Aynesworth

Part Three June 21 Hugh takes over. This was the second part of a good-guy/bad-guy interview technique. Bundy recognized that. What he wasn’t prepared for was hostile questioning which would ...
( Category: Serial Killers January 1,2015 )
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Reichl Ruth
epub |eng | 2006-03-28 | Author:Reichl, Ruth [Reichl, Ruth]

Where’s your mom?” Gene asked Nicky when we got into the elevator. I had a sudden pang; Nicky had gone along with Miriam, and now I was asking him to ...
( Category: Women January 1,2015 )
Tree and Leaf by J. R. R. Tolkien
epub |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien [J.R.R. Tolkien]

NOTES A (see here) The very root (not only the use) of their ‘marvels’ is satiric, a mockery of unreason; and the ‘dream’ element is not a mere machinery of ...
( Category: Arts & Photography January 1,2015 )
Becoming Richard Pryor by Scott Saul
epub |eng | 2014-12-09 | Author:Scott Saul [Saul, Scott]

HAL [gently and matter-of-fact as ever]: Dave, don’t. I’m losing my mind, Dave. Hi, my name is Hal 9000. I was embedded in 1992. My teacher taught me a song. ...
( Category: Comedy January 1,2015 )
Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School by Philip Delves Broughton
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-06-29 | Author:Philip Delves Broughton [Broughton, Philip Delves]

Chapter Ten ETHICAL JIHADISTS Business is the activity of making things to sell at a profit—decently. —EDWIN GAY, SECOND DEAN OF HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL espite the onslaught of recruitment, there ...
( Category: Education & Reference January 1,2015 )
An Atheist in the FOXhole: A Liberal's Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media by Joe Muto
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Joe Muto

April 11, 2012—3:33 P.M. “Muto, get in here!” I jumped out of my chair and trotted the short distance to Bill’s office. Five years of working for him had put ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction December 31,2014 )
The Reason: How I Discovered a Life Worth Living by Sturm Lacey
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Sturm, Lacey [Sturm, Lacey]

God Speaks My mother always taught me to be suspicious of strange men. She warned me that most of them were perverts and I couldn’t trust any of them. It ...
( Category: Heavy Metal December 31,2014 )
O Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
mobi |por | 2014-12-29 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges

Menos me custa admitir um erro no douto Ibn Qutaiba, ou nos copistas, do que admitir que a terra dê rosas com profissão de fé. Assim é. Grandes e verdadeiras ...
( Category: Arts & Photography December 30,2014 )
The Filthy Truth by Andrew Dice Clay & David Ritz
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Andrew Dice Clay & David Ritz [Clay, Andrew Dice & Ritz, David]

EVERYTHING GOES RIGHT IT WAS 1988—A decade after my debut at Pips—and it was shaping up to be the biggest year of my life. Even though Crime Story wasn’t picked ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers December 30,2014 )
Jimmy White: Second Wind, My Autobiography by Jimmy White
mobi |eng | 2014-11-07 | Author:Jimmy White

8 Dark Days “Come here boy, come here,” I shout after Splinter as he races around Streatham Common. It’s Christmas Day and I’m at my lowest ebb. Me and Maureen ...
( Category: Billiards & Pool December 30,2014 )
Finding Ultra by Rich Roll
epub |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Rich Roll [Roll, Rich]

CHAPTER NINE THE ALOHA, KOKUA, AND OHANA OF ULTRAMAN Just finish. In 2008, this was my only goal for Ultraman. I’d pushed my body as far as it could go ...
( Category: Biographies December 30,2014 )
The Needs of the Many by Michael A. Martin
epub |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Michael A. Martin [Martin, Michael A.]

EXCERPTED FROM AN OFFICIAL KLINGON COMMUNIQUé, RECEIVED STARDATE 76429.4* FROM: J’mpok, son of Q’thoq, Chancellor of the Klingon Empire and leader of the High Council TO: The Federation Security Council ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 30,2014 )

First Prev [3566] [3567] [3568] [3569] 3570 [3571] [3572] [3573] [3574] [3575] [3576] Next Last