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The Real RFK Jr. is an intimate biographical portrait examining the controversial activist's journey from anguish and addiction to becoming the country's leading environmental champion fighting government corruption, corporate greed, and a captured media. Written by his longtime colleague Dick Russell, the biography also exposes the misconceptions and explains the rationale behind Kennedy's campaign to protect public health.

Nearly fifty years into IBM’s existence, Thomas Watson Jr. undertook the biggest gamble in business history when he “bet the farm” on the creation of the IBM System/360, the world’s first fully integrated and compatible mainframe computer. As CEO, Watson drove a revolution no other company—then or now—would dare, laying the foundation for the digital age that has transformed every society, corporation, and government. The story of Watson being “present at the creation” of the digital age is intertwined with near-Shakespearean personal drama

Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. But the breakdown that followed illuminated an incontrovertible truth—that love is necessarily imbued with loss, that the one doesn’t exist without the other. German physicist Werner Heisenberg was fighting with the scientific establishment on the meaning of the quantum realm’s absurdity when he had his own epiphany—that there is no such thing as a complete, perfect description of reality.

Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. He finally decided to go into politics, but became disillusioned, especially after the Athenians condemned his teacher, Socrates, to death. He began teaching in his twenties and later founded the Academy, the world's first higher-educational research and teaching establishment. Eventually, he returned to practical politics and spent a considerable amount of time and energy trying to create a constitution for Syracuse in Sicily.

Frustrated by the high costs and difficulty of accepting credit card payments, McKelvey joined his friend Jack Dorsey (the cofounder of Twitter) to launch Square, a startup that would enable small merchants to accept credit card payments on their mobile phones. The Innovation Stack is a thrilling business narrative that's much bigger than the story of Square. It is an irreverent first-person look inside the world of entrepreneurship, and a call to action for all of us to find the entrepreneur within ourselves and identify and fix unsolved problems - one crazy idea at a time.

In October 2008, someone going by the name Satoshi Nakamoto posted a white paper outlining “a peer-to-peer electronic cash system” called Bitcoin to an arcane listserv populated by Cypherpunks. No one in the community had heard of Nakamoto, and just as people were starting to wonder who he was, he vanished. As the years passed, and the scope of Nakamoto’s achievement became clear, the truth of his identity grew into the greatest unsolved mystery of our time. The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto traces Benjamin Wallace’s attempt to unmask the figure behind the currency and the world it wrought.

He was a genius who gave the world access to technology that is still changing the world. To this day, his greatest accomplishment is the iPhone and still is. Taken away too soon, his legacy still lives on. Countless entrepreneurs look up to him and use his advice to succeed in the business world. If it wasn't for him, we would have never been introduced to portable computers and mobile phones with touch screens.

For a dozen years as one of the world’s most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi redefined what it means to be an exceptional leader. The first woman of color and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company - and one of the foremost strategic thinkers of our time - she transformed PepsiCo with a unique vision, a vigorous pursuit of excellence, and a deep sense of purpose. Now, in a rich memoir brimming with grace, grit, and good humor, My Life in Full offers a firsthand view of Nooyi’s legendary career and the sacrifices it so often demanded.

The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and U.S. education.

A week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip to payslip who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic condition was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness.

Até hoje alvo de diversas críticas e controvérsias, acusado de charlatanismo, ocultista e até antissemita, Carl Gustav Jung é um dos maiores contribuintes para a psicologia como a conhecemos atualmente. O suíço, que chegou a nutrir uma íntima amizade com Freud, formulou conceitos amplamente utilizados até hoje, como os arquétipos e o processo de individuação. Além disso, contribuiu para o entendimento dos tipos de personalidades e métodos de interpretação de sonhos como um caminho para entender os níveis mais profundos da psique.

طلال أبوغزالة رجل أعمال أنموذج، بدأ حياته بالرحيل والمعاناة ثم تحول إلى رجل يصنع الكثير من الإنجازات التي تنطوي على إبداع، فهو من أبرز 100 شخصية محاسبية في العالم، وهو من أول من تحدثوا عن الملْكية الفكرية ودافعوا عن حقوقها في العالم العربي، وعبر العالم، وأيضاً من الذين انحازوا لفكرة النهوض في المجتمعات العربية، وهو من أوائل الشخصيات الذين انطبقت عليها فكرة "المواطن العالمي"، وله بصمات واضحة في إدخال أفكار تتعلق بالتعليم المهني والتقني والاستفادة من التكنولوجيا لإحداث الإبداع لدى الشباب.

With The Careful Surgeon, Dr Shehan Hettiaratchy - London's Major Trauma Director - gives us an insight on how to cope with and be our best selves during crisis. Drawing on his experiences leading crisis response teams for some of London's biggest tragedies, as well as his active service with the Parachute Regiment, Dr Hettiaratchy teaches us how to remain positive and look forward beyond the hardest moments that we face.

When the fate of millions rests on the decisions of a mentally compromised leader, what can one person do? Disillusioned by President Woodrow Wilson's destructive and irrational handling of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, a US diplomat named William C. Bullitt asked this very question. With the help of his friend Sigmund Freud, Bullitt set out to write a psychological analysis of the president.

يعد يو من هونغ أستاذا لأكثر من ٧۰% من الصينيين الذين يدرسون بالخارج، وخلال مسيرة إخفاقاته وإنجازاته حاز على العديد من الألقاب مثل "رجل الأعمال الذى يضئ كالمنارة"، "رجل الأعمال البطل"، "المبتدئ فى الحياة"،"أغنى مدرس فى الصين"، وغيرها من الألقاب العديدة، ولكن وراء كل هذه الأوسمة والتقديرات، ترى من يو الحقيقي؟

"الكتاب ده هو بداية لمغامرة جديدة فى مستشفى جديدة بعد ما خلصت مغامراتي فى الوحدة الصحية الى كنت فيها فى إحدى قرى محافظة الغربية، مغامراتي الى دونتها في كتابي الأول "بالطو وفانلة وتاب ".. لو قريته أكيد هتبقى عارف المرمطة الي أنا اتمرمطتها كويس، ولو مقرتهوش فخلي حد قراه يحكيلك عن المرمطة الي أنا اتمرمطتها أو ما يحكيش هو مش فارق عمتاً، لأن دي رحلة جديدة كليا ملهاش أي علاقة بالكتاب الأول.

قبل أقل من عشرين عاما لم يتخيل مدرس اللغة الإنجليزية بمعهد التكنولوجيا فى مدينة هانغتشو الصينية أنه بعد عشرين عاما سيكون أشهر شخص صينى فى العالم وأنه سيغير مفاهيم التجارة الدولية ويقلب كل الموازين، ما يون مؤسس موقع علي بابا الشهير الذي يعد أكبر موقع للتجارة فى العالم والذى أدرجت شركته فى البورصة نيويورك العام الماضي هو الآن أغنى شخص فى الصين وهو المحرك بروحه وفكره العديد من النجاحات التى حققها اقتصاد الصين، فى هذا الكتاب يحكى ما يون عن قصة صعوده. هو كتاب يحكي تجربة نجاح حية كان رأس مالها الوحيد هو الحلم والمثابرة.

On a cold and cozy December night in 2018, Jim Kaveney thinks he is dying. He is a husband, a father, a business owner, an athlete, and innovator. He is also an Afib patient facing massive cardiac trauma. In this breakout memoir, Jim Kaveney recounts his dance with death and the events of his life leading up to this fateful, health-defining moment and the shifts in business perspective and priorities that followed.

You were born to lead and create an impact in this world! Is fear and self-doubt stopping you from having your dream business and the life you really want? Breakthrough to Entrepreneurial Brilliance reveals the real reason powerful women in business feel like they are stopped, stuck, and struggling to take their brand or business to the next level.

Author Denis Leveille, Ph.D. has lived an amazing, often challenging, life: He came to the United States at age ten speaking only French. Later, as a therapist, he became a pioneer in researching and counseling those with some of the most challenging psychological conditions. Yet through it all, Leveille has held love as our most important resource and gift. If we maintain the positives of being human, including our generosity and our validation of others, we can survive life's difficulties.