Ergebnis für "Les Amazones" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Die einzigartige Geschichte von Amazon. Nahezu jeder kennt und nutzt Amazon. Amazon hat es geschafft, jeden Haushalt der Welt zu erreichen. Zunächst mit einem unschlagbaren Online-Shopping-Angebot, dann durch eine gnadenlose Expansion in sämtliche Bereiche unseres Lebens: Smart-Home-Angebote, Cloud-Computing-Lösungen, Logistikdienstleistungen, Lebensmittellieferungen - sogar unser Fernsehprogramm stellt der Online-Riese mit einem Lächeln bereit.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Most people assume that the world has been explored and true adventure is dead: This book is one man’s rebuttal. Explorer and conservationist Paul Rosolie shares his incredible life in the Amazon rainforest—and what we can learn from the people fighting to...

#1 New York Times Bestseller A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, AND MORE! “Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams]...

The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to...

For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon - a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land and presents an impassioned call to save it.

This New York Times bestseller is a “masterful” (The Washington Post), “juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built” (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important business story of our time by the bestselling author of The Everything Store. Almost ten years ago...

A smart, funny, and refreshingly candid memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182. Narrated in his own voice, the audiobook offers an intimate and immersive experience that fans won’t want to miss. This is the story of an angst-filled kid...

Die türkischstämmige Buket erzählt von ihrer arrangierten Ehe im Alter von 15 Jahren und den katastrophalen Folgen für ihren weiteren Lebensweg. Über viele Jahre hinweg erduldet sie Einschüchterung, Gewalt und extreme Einschränkungen in einer muslimischen Parallelgesellschaft mitten in Berlin. Erst als es für sie um Leben und Tod geht, gelingt es Buket, sich aus den Fesseln ihres Mannes und seiner Familie zu befreien.

Fifty-year-old canoe racer-turned-explorer West Hansen is planning to kayak the Amazon River when he learns that everyone - cartographers, adventurers, even his own sponsor, National Geographic Society - has misplaced the source of the world's greatest river. One of exploration's great prizes is suddenly back up for grabs, and to claim it all, Hansen has to shepherd a team of irascible Texans and international whitewater stars some 4,200 miles, from the crest of the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic Ocean.

Ed Stafford havde sat et år af til at gå hele vejen langs Amazonfloden fra dens udspring i Peru til Atlanterhavets kyst - som det første menneske nogensinde. Det kom til at tage meget længere - 860 dage, for at være helt præcis, ikke underligt med alle de vanvittige ting, han kom ud for undervejs: Han blev anklaget for mord, truet på livet, blev jagtet af stammefolk med macheter og var øjenvidne til den brutale skovrydning, der truer Amazonas.

Offen und ehrlich schrieb die bekannte italienische Schriftstellerin Francesca Del Rosso über ihren Brustkrebs und wurde damit ein Vorbild für viele Frauen. Ihr Mann Alessandro Milan erinnert sich an ihre ansteckende Fröhlichkeit, ihre Stärke, das Leben auch im Schmerz zu feiern, und ihre Kraft, selbst in der Krankheit anderen Menschen Mut zu machen. Er erzählt aus seiner Perspektive von ihrem Kennenlernen, ihrer großen Liebe und der Zeit des Abschieds. Und von ihrem Vermächtnis, nie das Gute und Schöne aus dem Blick zu verlieren.

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The refreshingly original and “startlingly hopeful” (Lisa Taddeo) debut memoir of an over-achieving young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to group therapy and gets psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete...

***An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!*** From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, found family, and self-acceptance. The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Now a 10-part docuseries on Apple TV+ From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tiger Woods comes the definitive inside story of the New England Patriots—the greatest sports dynasty of the 21st century. It’s easy to forget that the New England Patriots...

In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000-foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely completed their mission.

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NOMINEE FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Real men fought for our freedoms. It’s time we fought for theirs. Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was...

Wie so viele Mütter befürchtet auch Susanne Veit, dass ihre Kinder vor lauter Social Media und Online-Games irgendwann nicht mehr wissen, wie Schneeflocken schmecken und Lavendel duftet. Allen Unkenrufen zum Trotz wagt sie den Schritt aufs Land, kauft Hasen und Hühner und legt einen Gemüsegarten an. Eine Reise beginnt, die die fünfköpfige Familie grundlegend verändert. Der Bericht einer Mutter, deren Kinder heute Holz hacken, Weidenzäune spannen und für die Hühner Würmer suchen.

This 148-day journey began on Darcy Gaechter’s 35th birthday. She sold her successful outdoor adventure business, upsetting her partner and boyfriend of 12 years and getting them both fired in the process. The emotional waters that would fester and erupt on the ensuing journey were often more challenging to navigate than the mighty river itself. With blistering lips and irradiated fingernails, Darcy would tackle raging Class Five whitewater for 25 days straight, barely surviving a dynamite-filled canyon being prepared for a new hydroelectric plant.

Read by the author. New York Times Bestseller on disentangling faith but keep your belief in Jesus intact. Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, recounts how she began to question the unhealthy ideology of her youth and learned...

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. ""The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles...