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Fegato sano
Il segreto per una vita in ottima salute
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Le malattie del fegato, come la steatosi, l’epatite cronica e la cirrosi, sono purtroppo molto diffuse e comunque il nostro attuale stile di vita è potenzialmente all’origine di diversi altri problemi. È quindi importante che ciascuno impari a conoscere e a proteggere un organo tanto essenziale....
Prince of Darkness
The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingly, his one-time opponent. The day after Vanderbilt's death on January 4, 1877, an almost full-page obituary on the front...
Grinding It Out
The Making of McDonald's
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
"He either enchants or antagonizes everyone he meets. But even his enemies agree there are three things Ray Kroc does damned well: sell hamburgers, make money, and tell stories." --from Grinding It Out
Few entrepreneurs can claim to have radically changed the way we live, and Ray...
Taking Down the Lion
The Triumphant Rise and Tragic Fall of Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
As the widely-admired CEO of Tyco International, Dennis Kozlowski grew a little-known New Hampshire conglomerate into a global giant. In a stunning series of events, Kozlowski suddenly lost his job along with his favored public status when he was indicted by legendary Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau—it...
Beauty Queen
Inside the Reign of Avon's Andrea Jung
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Andrea Jung, the glamorous former head of Avon, was arguably the world's most charismatic and effective CEO, credited with the astonishing turnaround of the venerable brand.
Avon's board was filled with tough-minded, successful CEOs and other high achievers, but when Jung walked into a room...
My Side of the Street
Why Wolves, Flash Boys, Quants, and Masters of the Universe Don't Represent the Real Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
On a sticky summer morning at the end of the Eighties, 19-year-old Jason DeSena Trennert—a bright, unconnected Georgetown undergrad with big dreams and an even bigger power tie—set out for Wall Street. Mustering the perceived panache of the bigwigs, he burst through the doors of America's oldest...
Ozzy Knows Best
The Amazing Story of Ozzy Osbourne, from Heavy Metal Madness to Father of the Year on MTV's "The Osbournes"
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2002
Always outrageous but equally compelling, Ozzy Knows Best is THE book to have on Ozzy, MTV's The Osbournes, and everything in between.
Meet the Osbournes: children Kelly and Jack, mother Sharon, and the father, none other than Godfather of Metal Ozzy Osbourne. Starring in MTV's most popular...
War Child
A Child Soldier's Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer—with the Islamic government seizing tribal lands for water, oil, and other resources—Jal's family moved again and again,...
Lauryn Hill
She's Got That Thing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
Lauryn Hill: She's Got That Thing is an engaging look at the life of the musician who was originally raised in South Orange, N.J. Author Chris Nickson shares with fans how Hill created the Fugees with Prakazrel Michel and Wyclef Jean and developed a unique blend of styles, and then how Hill continued find new ground as a solo artist.
Stories from Candyland
Confections from One of Hollywood's Most Famous Wives and Mothers
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Carole Gene Marer spent her girlhood dreaming of meeting Rock Hudson, but when she finally had the chance—on her second date with her future husband, television mogul Aaron Spelling—she was so shy she hid all night in the powder room. How Candy morphed from that quiet girl into a seemingly-confident,...
Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe: The life and times of Georgia O'Keefe, in one convenient little book.
Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe: The life and times of Georgia O'Keefe, in one convenient little book.
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK
When she was 10 years old, Georgia O’Keeffe decided she was going to be an artist, and she sure did. She went on to become the most celebrated and prolific female artist of the 20th century.
Georgia O’Keeffe is known for her close up paintings of flowers as well as...
Orson Welles's Last Movie
The Making of The Other Side of the Wind
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Journalist Josh Karp shines a spotlight on the making of The Other Side of the Wind—the final unfinished film from the auteur of Citizen Kane in Orson Welles’s Last Movie, the basis of Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville’s Netflix Original Documentary, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead.
In...
Kardashian Konfidential
New! Inside Kim's Wedding with Never-Seen Pix, Plus a New Chapter!
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
New! Exclusive!
Inside Kim's wedding with never-seen pix
Plus!
An amazing new chapter on the secrets of our success!
You know a lot about us from watching our TV shows, but you don't know everything... yet! Come on in to our very first book and find out the real scoop about...
Alice's Piano
The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
How music provided hope in one of the world's darkest times—the inspirational life story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest living Holocaust survivor
Alice Herz-Sommer was born in Prague in 1903. A talented pianist from a very early age, she became famous throughout Europe; but, as the Nazis...