Le livre explore la vie et les réalisations d'Elon Musk, entrepreneur, ingénieur et PDG de SpaceX, Tesla Motors, The Boring Company et SolarCity. Le livre se concentre sur les premières années de Musk, les défis rencontrés par ses entreprises et ses projets futurs. Il couvre l'histoire de SpaceX et de la vision de Musk pour l'exploration spatiale, l'innovation de Tesla dans les technologies de conduite autonome, la création de SolarCity, les...

¡Los antídotos! ¿Los necesitaste alguna vez? Supe que los antídotos eran momentáneos; sin embargo, me salvaban de la realidad. Cada antídoto es único e irrepetible, como lo son cada una de las personas. Algunos reaccionan de manera más rápida, más eficaz, más duradera; algunos son más nocivos que otros incluso. Los antídotos fueron necesarios en mi viaje hasta que armé mi propia crisálida y fue ahí que finalmente pude abandonarlos....

April 1913—Belle Newbold hasn’t seen mountains for seven years—since her father died in a mining accident and her mother married Indiana gas magnate, Shipley Newbold. But when her stepfather’s friend, Henry Ford, invites the family on one of his famous Vagabonds camping tours, she is forced to face the hills once again—primarily in order to reunite with her future fiancé, owner of the land the Vagabonds are using for their campsite,...

Enter an opulent world that no longer exists. Stretching from Europe to North Africa to the Hawaiian Islands, Bellosguardo: The Lives of Anna & Huguette Clark is based on a true story. It is a novel of a remarkable American family from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Enabled by one of the richest men of the Gilded Age, the mother-daughter duo lived according to the values and traditions of Old Money, pursuing luxurious privacy and...

John Isaac Jones's new biographical novel on Samuel Langhorne Clemens, A/K/A Mark Twain, brings the fascinating life of America's most famous humorist to you in vivid, captivating detail. His time – 1840s-1910 America. Wagon trains moving west; California gold rush; telegraph invented; War between the States; Lincoln assassinated; the golden spike; Custer massacred; the trail of tears; invention of electric light, the telephone and the automobile;...

"Lucrezia Borgia as a living, feeling woman rather than just another bodice waiting to be ripped . . . an evident tribute . . . to its much maligned heroine." -New York Times Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified figures in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice married-one husband was forced to declare himself impotent and thereby unfit and another was murdered by Lucrezia's...

The lives of four Americans born between the world wars are intertwined to devastating effect in this gripping novel from one of the twentieth century's most acclaimed authors.   Beautiful, sad Ellen Beniger; her younger brother, Tom, a scholar unhappily moonlighting as a TV writer; the athletic amorist Guy Cinturon; and tough little Eddie Bissle, ex-infantryman and Ellen's secret lover, struggle to come to grips with the limits of their futures...

The new ideas of the new era give some new feeling to the human being. If there is something missing in this Kali-yuga, it is trust. Do not understand who is right and who is wrong. If you look from the wrong side, everyone looks wrong and on the other hand, if you look at the right side, everyone looks right. Now the biggest thing is how to identify who is right and who is wrong. In this competition, a person sometimes argues with someone and sometimes...

As a young reporter in 1936, Muriel Rukeyser traveled to Barcelona to witness the first days of the Spanish Civil War. She turned this experience into an autobiographical novel so forward thinking for its time that it was never published. Recently discovered in her archive, this lyrical work charts her political and sexual awakening as she witnesses the popular front resistance to the fascist coup and falls in love with a German political exile who...

Narrated by the mysterious model who posed for Rokeby Venus, Diego Velázquez's only surviving female nude, I Am Venus is the riveting account of a great artist's rise to prominence, set against the backdrop of political turmoil and romantic scandal. A sweeping story of scandal and passion, and a vivid recreation of a corrupt kingdom on the brink of collapse, I Am Venus is a thrilling novel that brings to life the public and private worlds of Spain's...