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Elon Musk
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Walter Isaacson
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Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk offers the most intimate,
complete and revelatory portrait of the most fascinating and
controversial innovator in the world.
For two years, Isaacson had unprecedented access to Musk, his
workplaces, his family, friends, coworkers and adversaries – nothing
was off-limits.
Musk’s journey from humble beginnings to one of the wealthiest people
on the planet is a thrilling, mind-bending story and nobody could tell
it better. Filled with amazing tales of triumph and turmoil, and
lessons about leadership and business, it ultimately addresses the
question everyone wants to ask: why is Elon Musk so successful?
This book includes over 100 integrated black and white images.
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The Tell
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Amy Griffin
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For decades, Amy ran. Through the dirt roads of Amarillo, Texas, where
she grew up; to the streets of New York, where she built her adult
life; through marriage, motherhood, and a thriving career. To
outsiders, it all looked, in many ways, perfect. But Amy was running
from something – a secret she was keeping not only from her family and
friends, but unconsciously from something terrible in her past.
When her ten-year-old daughter confronts her on the distance between
them, Amy is propelled to confront what she has spent a lifetime trying
to escape. So begins Amy’s journey through the world of MDMA-assisted
psychedelic therapy, to the limits of the judicial system, and
ultimately, home to Texas, where her story began.
In her relentless search for the truth, Griffin scrutinises the pursuit
of perfectionism, control, and maintaining appearances that drives so
many women. She asks the question: When, in our path from girlhood to
womanhood, did we learn to look outside ourselves for validation? And
what kind of freedom is possible if we better protect girls from being
taken advantage of on this journey.
Heartbreaking, powerful and raw, The Tell points a way forward for all
of us, shedding light on the courage and power of truth-telling that’s
required to move through trauma.
In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes ’zines and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn’t seem to have a place for either of them.
But despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken become friends, a friendship built on late-night conversations over cigarettes, long drives along the California coast, and the successes and humiliations of everyday college life. And then violently, senselessly, Ken is gone, killed in a carjacking, not even three years after the day they first meet.
Determined to hold on to all that was left of one of his closest friends—his memories—Hua turned to writing. Stay True is the book he’s been working on ever since. A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.
Patrick was a wayward child who could not speak until he was four
and ran away from boarding school. A disappointment to his parents
and the despair of his teachers, he lacked the normal abilities
that young people acquire as they grow up. After being sacked from
his job, Patrick decided to try his fortunes overseas. A timid
traveller and always obedient to authority, how did he come to the
attention of the FBI, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Los
Angeles Police Departments South Africa's Bureau of State Security
and Rhodesia's BSA Police? And why did he come to be in police
custody in Tanganyika and the first white man deported by newly
independent Kenya? Back in England, Patrick's CV was no conducive
to gainful employment of the kind enjoyed by his peers:
encyclopaedia salesman, nomadic field-hand, lavatory cleaner,
bear-chaser, baggage-smasher, waitress (yes!), factory labourer,
scullion. The BBC offered sanctuary as a clerk, with few prospects
of advancement. After five years of entertaining if ill-paid work
in an office full of colourful misfits, Patrick fell into the
embrace of the Civil Service. A trainee again at the age of 30,
could things improve? Things could, but not without a catalogue of
mishaps on the way. Patrick's propensity for bright ideas tended
towards disaster, including a national crisis when he set in train
the events that culminated in Black Wednesday.
From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and
disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mother’s encroaching
dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhood
Molly Jong-Fast is the only child of a famous woman, writer Erica Jong,
whose sensational book Fear of Flying launched her into second-wave
feminist stardom. She grew up yearning for a connection with her
dreamy, glamorous, just out of reach mother, who always seemed to be
heading somewhere that wasn’t with Molly. When, in 2023, Erica was
diagnosed with dementia just as Molly’s husband discovered he had a
rare cancer, Jong-Fast was catapulted into a transformative year.
How to Lose Your Mother is a compulsively readable memoir about an
intense mother–daughter relationship, a sometimes chaotic upbringing
with a fame-hungry parent, and the upheavals that challenge our
hard-won adulthood. A pitch-perfect balance of acceptance and rage,
humor and heart, How to Lose Your Mother tells a universal story of
loss alongside a singular story of a literary life. This is a memoir
that will stand alongside the classics of the genre.
Hier is dit nou! Riaan klim uit die TV-kas! Sy langverwagte outobiografie met die ware Riaan gaan elke mens laat regop sit.
Gou word die leser in hierdie kostelike, gemaklike en informatiewe biografie ingetrek, sodat jy later absoluut meegevoer word deur die welkome inligting. Dit voel eintlik asof jy vir ete by die Cruywagens genooi is en jy in 'n diep gemakstoel na daardie welluidende mooi stem sit en luister wat op 'n boertige en gesellige manier onthou. Hy bring al vir die afgelope 47 jaar vir ons die nuus in ons huis en lyk sowaar nog presies dieselfde. Vind uit hoekom hy die geloofwaardigste Suid-Afrikaner naas Nelson Mandela is. In hierdie boek wys ons jou wie Riaan werklik is. 'n Familieman wat ‘n passie het vir Afrikaans en wat mal is oor 'n goeie grap.
Hierdie boek gaan jou laat skater van die lag en jou hart laat warm klop na jy dit gelees het.
South African poet and political activist Dennis Brutus (1924-2009)
wrote poetry of the most exquisite lyrical beauty and intense
power. And through his various political activities, he played a
uniquely significant role in mobilising and intensifying opposition
to injustice and oppression - initially in South Africa, but later
throughout the rest of the world as well. This book focuses on the
life of Dennis Brutus in South Africa from his childhood until he
went into exile on an exit permit in 1966. It is also an attempt to
acknowledge Brutus' literary and political work and, in a sense, to
reintroduce Brutus to South Africa. This book places his own voice
at the centre of his life story. It is told primarily in his own
words - through newspaper and journal articles, tape recordings,
interviews, speeches, court records and correspondence. It draws
extensively on archival material not yet available in the public
domain, as well as on interviews with several people who interacted
with Brutus during his early years in South Africa. In particular,
it examines his participation in some of the most influential
organisations of his time, including the Teachers' League of South
Africa, the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department movement and the
Coloured National Convention, the Co-ordinating Committee for
International Recognition in Sport, the South African Sports
Association and the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee,
which all campaigned against racism in South African sport. Brutus
left behind an important legacy in literature involvement, in
community affairs and politics in as well.
The old, top-down approach to leadership doesn't work any more. What we
need is a more flexible, creative approach – one that empowers people
to do their best work, rather than tells them to do so.
In Creative Leadership, Rama Gheerawo applies the mind of a design
expert to the twenty-first-century organisation. In particular, his
book shows how success in the future will increasingly be dependent on
a mastery of three basic principles: creativity, clarity and empathy.
Drawing on his own experience in leading over 100 design projects with
government, business and the third sector, it sets out a blueprint for
engagement and success that applies to everything from small
enterprises, to large multinationals.
Harriet Backus writes about her life as an assayer's wife and true
pioneer of the West with heart-felt emotion and vivid detail.
Sharing her amusing and often challenging experiences as a new
bride in the high San Juan Mountains where the Tomboy Mine operated
above Telluride, Colorado, she paints a poignant picture of the
people, and the life centered around silver mining where most of
the book takes place. It is a skillfully written account from a
women's perspective in a rough and tumble mining town that has made
this book a classic for women's studies. Harriet's life followed
her husband George's career which took them many places beyond the
San Juan Mountains including the rugged coast of British Columbia,
and the mountainous mining town of Elk City, Idaho and back to
Colorado's Leadville. Although both Hattie and George were from the
San Francisco bay area where they eventually retired, her heart
never quite left the rugged mountain trails of the high San Juans
of Colorado.
From the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, struggles with illness, and of the enduring power of song.
Blessed with a singular voice and a fiery temperament, Sinéad O’Connor rose to massive fame in the late 1980s and 1990s with a string of gold records. By the time she was twenty, she was world-famous—living a rock-star life out loud. From her trademark shaved head to her 1992 appearance on Saturday Night Live when she tore up Pope John Paul II’s photograph, Sinéad has fascinated and outraged millions.
In Rememberings, O’Connor recounts her painful tale of growing up in Dublin in a dysfunctional, abusive household. Inspired by a brother’s Bob Dylan records, she escaped into music. She relates her early forays with local Irish bands; we see Sinéad completing her first album while eight months pregnant, hanging with Rastas in the East Village, and soaring to unimaginable popularity with her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U.”
Intimate, replete with candid anecdotes and told in a singular form true to her unconventional career, Sinéad’s memoir is a remarkable chronicle of an enduring and influential artist.
Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in
the Spanish Civil War.
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