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"Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world. ... Swisher has interviewed everyone who matters in tech over three decades, right when they presided over an explosion of world-changing innovation that has both helped and hurt our world. Steve Jobs, Jeff...
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Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife," a second-class citizen who was hired as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Switzerland. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to her apartment, and she performed menial duties for the CIA. Despite battling sexism at all levels of the agency, Mendez's talent for espionage was clear, and she soon took on bigger and more significant...
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Redwood Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's work as farmers caring for their land, to the involvement of her brother Iyad in armed resistance in the First and Second...
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2021
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Español
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"Llamamos hogar al lugar al que pertenece nuestro corazón, pero nuestro corazón puede echar raíc es en más de un sitio, por eso este segundo volumen rinde homenaje a personajes que han roto fronteras y han demostrado que no hay límites cuando se trata de seguir un sueño. Llamamos hogar al lugar al que pertenece nuestro corazón, pero nuestro corazón puede echar raíces en más de un sitio, por eso este segundo volumen rinde homenaje a personajes...
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Alfaguara, an imprint of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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La historia de un hombre que soñó un país unido por la música y enloqueció queriendo escribir un libro perfecto que lo contara Toño Azpilcueta pasa sus días entre su trabajo en un colegio, su familia y su gran pasión, la música criolla, sobre la que lleva investigando desde su juventud.
"Toño Azpilcueta, experto en música criolla, descubre a un guitarrista virtuoso, Lalo Molfino, cuyo talento parece confirmar todas sus intuiciones: el...
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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"Es 1913 y la mamá de Petra Luna, una niña de doce años, ha muerto mientras la Revolución hace estragos en México. Antes de que los soldados se llevaran a su papá, Petra le promete que cuidará de la familia que le queda: su abuelita, su hermana pequeña Amelia y su hermanito Luisito, hasta que puedan reunirse con él. Juntos huyen hacia el norte mientras arde la ciudad que dejaron atrás, y cruzan el desierto cruel e inhumano en busca de un...
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Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews. All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time. The material is comprised of intimate interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, their families, friends and business associates that were conducted by Beatles intimate Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines in 1980-1981 during the preparation of...
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