Simen Agdestein, "How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 9056914375 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 3.7 mb
At the age of 13 years, 4 months and 26 days, Magnus Carlsen became the youngest chess grandmaster in the world. The international press raved about the Norwegian prodigy. The Washington Post even called him 'the Mozart of chess'. Ten years on Magnus Carlsen is the number one in the world rankings and a household name far beyond chess circles. Time Magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013.

Instead We Became Evil: A True Story Of Survival & Perseverance by Sleiman, Dart Adams
English | August 9, 2022 | ISBN: 1954220421 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 0.3 MB
A powerful story of struggle, survival, and hope for the future is told by one of Denmark's most successful artists.

John Seddon, "The Whitehall Effect: How Whitehall Became the Enemy of Great Public Services - and What We Can Do About it"
English | ISBN: 1909470457 | 2014 | pages | EPUB | 538 KB
In The WHITEHALL Effect, John Seddon explains how and why it is that governments repeatedly fail to deliver what our public services need and exposes the devastation that three decades of political fads, fashions and bad theory have caused. Although his examples come from the UK, he and his colleagues at Vanguard consult with government and public sector bodies in 10 countries and the problems he identifies (outsourcing, incentives, targets, standards, inspection) can be found in all Western political systems. With specific examples and new evidence, he chronicles how the Whitehall ideas machine has failed on a monumental scale - and the impact that this has had on public sector workers and those of us who use public sector services. The WHITEHALL Effect provides fresh insights into some of the most challenging issues of our time (because of their impact on health, education, policing and all public services) and reveals the unprecedented opportunity we now have to create the public services we all deserve.

Dan Bouk, "How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual"
English | 2018 | pages: 325 | ISBN: 022656486X | PDF | 4,2 mb
Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers," American capitalism embraced "risk"-and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predicting their fates, and intervening in their futures. Emanating from the gilded boardrooms of Lower Manhattan and making their way into drawing rooms and tenement apartments across the nation, these practices soon came to change the futures they purported to divine.

César Aira, Chris Andrews, "How I Became a Nun"
English | 2007 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 0811216314 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
"A good story and first-rate social science."―New York Times Book Review. A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice cream.

Timothy Egan, "The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0544944836 | EPUB | pages: 384 | 13.9 mb
In the New York Times bestseller The Immortal Irishman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan illuminates the dawn of the great Irish American story, with all its twists and triumphs, through the life of one heroic man.

English | ASIN: B09TMHYZPS | 2022 | 8 hours and 6 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 446 MB
The Suez Crisis of 1956 was Britain's 20th-century nadir, the moment when the once superpower was bullied into retreat. In the immortal words of former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, 'Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role.' But the funny thing was, Britain had already found a role. It even had the costume. The leaders of the world just hadn't noticed it yet. Butler to the World reveals how the UK took up its position at the elbow of the worst people on Earth: the oligarchs, kleptocrats and gangsters. We pride ourselves on values of fair play and the rule of law, but few countries do more to frustrate global anticorruption efforts. We are now a nation of Jeeveses, snobbish enablers for rich halfwits of considerably less charm than Bertie Wooster. It doesn't have to be that way.

English | ASIN: B09CF3B8VH | 2022 | 14 hours and 42 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 404 MB
From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants—Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO—and how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul. Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his "spiritual partner at Apple." The London-born genius was the second-most powerful person at Apple and the creative force who most embodies Jobs's spirit, the man who designed the products adopted by hundreds of millions the world over: the iPod, iPad, MacBook Air, the iMac G3, and the iPhone.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 9381345775 | 373 pages | True PDF EPUB | 14.01 MB
'Writing was my truth, my god, my everything. I could not leave it for anything.'

To Hell I Ride - When a Life Examined Became Worth Living | 510.94 KB
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Title: To Hell I Ride: When a Life Examined Became Worth Living
Author: Jason Carter
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