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Ben Mezrich's 2009 best seller The Accidental Billionaires is the definitive account of Facebook's founding - and the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network. Two of the story's iconic characters are Harvard students Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: identical twins, Olympic rowers, and legal foils to Mark Zuckerberg. Bitcoin Billionaires is the story of the brothers' redemption and revenge in the wake of their epic legal battle with Facebook - and the first great book from the world of bitcoin.

Stock market multimillionaire at 26, federal convict at 36, he partied like a rock star, lived like a king, and barely survived his rise and fall as an American entrepreneurial icon. By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting.

Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhand Land Rover, and drove deep into the Kalahari Desert. There they lived for seven years, in an unexplored area with no roads, no people, and no source of water for thousands of square miles. In this vast wilderness the Owenses began their zoology research, working along animals that had never before been exposed to humans.

Christened a potential saviour of Silicon Valley's start-up culture, Adam Neumann was set to take WeWork, his office-share company disrupting the commercial real estate market, public, cash out on the company's $47 billion valuation, and break the string of major start-ups unable to deliver to shareholders. But as employees knew, and investors soon found out, WeWork's capital was built on promises that the company was more than a real estate purveyor, that in fact it was a transformational technology company.

Riveting, character-driven, and filled with jaw-dropping revelations, Extremely Hardcore is the definitive, fly-on-the-wall story of how Elon Musk lit $44 billion on fire and burned down Twitter. It’s the next best thing to being there, and you won’t have to sleep in the Twitter office to get the scoop.

As a teenage orphan in England in 1791, Mary Reibey was sentenced to death for stealing a horse. When police cornered her, she was dressed as a boy, and she maintained that disguise until she was unmasked at her trial. Due to her 'tender age', Reibey was spared the hangman's noose and sentenced to seven years' transportation to the colony of New South Wales. With the odds stacked against her, Reibey went on to become Australia's first female business tycoon and the richest woman in the colony, founding the Bank of New South Wales, now one of the nation's biggest financial institutions.

Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world's most popular video games, including Sid Meier's Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier's Memoir! is the story of an obsessive young computer enthusiast who helped launch a multibillion-dollar industry.

This collection reveals the lives, lessons, and rules for success that have influenced Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, and Jeff Bezos, three billionaire businessmen who single-handedly disrupted and transformed the world in which we live. To become a billionaire from scratch is no easy feat. It can seem an impossible dream that’s exclusive only to the lucky few. However, this audiobook shows it is possible with the right know-how and that becoming a billionaire is less about luck and more about making the right decisions and working hard.

In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a surgical resident working in Baghdad when the military police marched into the operating theatre and ordered the team to mutilate army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed. Munjed's choices were stark - comply and breach the medical oath, refuse and face death or flee. That day, Munjed's life changed forever. He escaped to Indonesia and boarded a boat to Australia.

As a criminal defence lawyer, Jahan Kalantar has helped people in their most desperate hour, from hardened jailbirds to accidental offenders, disadvantaged delinquents to undeserving scapegoats.

விஜய் ராணிமைந்தனின் இரண்டாவது படைப்பு இந்நூல். சிறந்த மனிதர்களின் வாழ்க்கை அனுபவங்களை எழுத்தில் பதிவு செய்து சொல்வதில் ஆர்வம் கொண்டவர். ஒரு விஞ்ஞானியான பொறியியல் நிபுணர் "சிவா அய்யாதுரை" அவர்களின் வாழ்க்கை வரலாற்றை, சம்மந்தப்பட்டவர்களிடமிருந்து கேட்டுத் தெரிந்து, உள்வாங்கி அதை சுவையாக வெளிப்படுத்தியிருக்கிறார்.

Your hard work to live with English will pay off, and enrich your life.エイゴと共に生きるための辛い努力は報われる。そして、貴方の人生を豊かにする。

Based on a true story, Stern by Name, Stern by Nature offers an unflinching and intimate portrayal of one of the UK's most promising and eminent philosophers. This groundbreaking work delves deep into the psyche of the protagonist as he navigates the tumultuous landscape of mental health struggles.

وُلد ستيفن هوكنج في أوكسفورد بإنجلترا عام 1942 وتوفي عام 2018. من أبرز علماء الفيزياء النظرية وعلم الكون في العالم، درس في جامعة أوكسفورد وحصل منها على درجة الشرف الأولى في الفيزياء. أكمل دراسته في جامعة كامبريدج للحصول على الدكتوراه في علم الكون.

This is the never-before-told story of a unique time in San Francisco as well as in book industry history, when Bay Area small presses—armed with arrogance and personal computers—took the publishing field. At Foghorn Press, Vicki Morgan was an ambitious woman publisher, young and brash, coming-of-age while quixotically building a book publishing company from scratch with her eccentric brother to help.

Rising from a Missouri boyhood and meager prospecting success to owning the most productive copper, silver, and gold mines in the world and being elected a United States senator, George Hearst (1820–91) spent decades veering between the heights of prosperity and the depths of financial ruin.

A trajetória de sucesso profissional de Bill Gates já é bastante conhecida: o jovem de vinte anos que abandonou a universidade de Harvard para fundar uma empresa de software que se tornou uma gigante da indústria e mudou a maneira como trabalhamos e vivemos; o bilionário que com frequência dedicou sua atenção às atividades filantrópicas para enfrentar questões envolvendo mudanças climáticas, saúde global e educação nos Estados Unidos. Código-fonte não é sobre a Microsoft, a Fundação Gates ou o futuro da tecnologia.

Maya had always dreamed of something more, but her life felt trapped between a stifling corporate job and a toxic relationship. It wasn’t until she discovered her talent for crafting homemade pickles that her world began to transform. From late-night experiments in a tiny kitchen to dazzling international food expos, Maya’s journey is one of grit, creativity, and resilience. Along the way, she faced setbacks, self-doubt, and the weight of balancing her growing business with an unsupportive environment.

Гениальный ученый и загадочный изобретатель, с детства проявлявший интерес к инженерии и физике. Никола Тесла — человек, положивший начало веку открытий и пробивший путь к свету для множества интересных и порой безумных идей. Несмотря на мировую известность, его имя по сей день окутано тайной и окружено конспирологическими теориями. Но даже все это не смогло очернить его репутацию, подкрепленную более чем 300 патентами на изобретения.

This is an unconventional telling of a brand history, but then Breitling has never been one to follow the rules. In 1884, from a modest Swiss workshop, Leon Breitling began a legacy that would redefine the modern chronograph, champion the skies as the official timekeeper of civil aviation, launch a wristwatch into space, and put the first international emergency beacon in a timepiece. Delve into a collection of 140 stories, packed with intimate photos, first-person accounts, and a visual feast of more than 100 vintage and modern watches.