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Warren Buffett zählt seit Jahrzehnten zu den reichsten Menschen der Welt. Alice Schroeder erzählt in dieser aktualisierten Ausgabe die Geschichte seines bewegten Lebens. Buffett verbrachte unzählige Stunden mit der Autorin bei der Beantwortung von Fragen zu seiner Frau, seinen Kindern, zu seinen Geschäftspartnern und Freunden, gab bereitwillig Auskunft zu seiner Kindheit, öffnete seine Fotoalben, gewährte tiefe Einblicke in seine Arbeit, seine Denkweise, seine Kämpfe und Triumphe, legte aber auch seine Torheiten offen.

Esse é o audiolivro definitivo sobre a vida de um dos homens mais respeitados e fascinantes do mundo: Warren Buffett. O lendário investidor pela primeira vez autorizou alguém a produzir sua biografia, concedendo a Alice Schroeder acesso irrestrito a seus familiares, amigos e parceiros–e, é claro, a ele mesmo.

Alice Feiring is a special sort of wine writer—the kind who dares to disagree with wine “experts”, and who believes wholeheartedly that the best wine writing is about life. To Fall in Love, Drink This is both her love letter to wine and a lifelong coming-of-age story. In a series of candid, wise, and humorous personal essays, Feiring tells the story of her parents’ divorce, her first big wine assignment, the end of an eleven-year relationship, the death of her father, a near-fatal brush with a serial killer, pandemic lockdown, and more—and suffuses each with love, romance, pain, joy, and wine.

On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, the small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a rocket and soared into space. The Last American Hero is a stunning examination of the layers that formed the man: a hero of the Cold War, a two-time astronaut, a veteran senator, a devoted husband and father, and much more.

His humble beginnings are found in Alloa and 18th-century Scotland, where a highwayman would be better off robbing himself. Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite rebellion is just around the corner, and so too is the Industrial Revolution. Volcanos, gin wars, and large-scale bankruptcies also play their part in the fortunes of a canny man. But John Jameson's marriage to Peggie Haig, an Alloa tobacconist's daughter, holds the key to his success.

During the 1970s, Alice Combs, undeterred by a former employer's snobbish pronouncement, "You're not corporate material", transformed herself from divorced mother on food stamps to successful entrepreneur. Resolute, Alice overcame her initial ignorance of the recycling trade and recovered from the many novice mistakes she inevitably made while teaching herself to operate Vulcan Wire, which would slowly become a thriving business despite an embezzling partner and cutthroat competitors....

Edward Jenner fa parte degli uomini straordinari che con le loro scoperte hanno cambiato il destino dell'umanità. Medico e chirurgo inglese di fine Settecento, riuscì a produrre la prima cura efficace contro il vaiolo, il "vaccino antivaioloso", una scoperta rivoluzionaria che salvò innumerevoli vite umane. Edward Jenner è senza dubbio "il padre dell'immunizzazione": fu il primo scienziato in grado di elaborare una cura risolutiva per la malattia più pericolosa del suo secolo, ma fu anche fonte di ispirazione per tutti i medici, biologi e ricercatori successivi.

C'è nulla di più affascinante di un genio incompreso? La vita di Nikola Tesla fu questo: un'altalena di avvenimenti, dalla povertà alla ricchezza, dalla fama all'oblio, fino a una gloria postuma e tardiva. Scienziato brillante e inventore geniale, Tesla veniva chiamato a New York il "poeta della scienza", anche perché l'inventore della corrente alternata si dilettava a mostrare in maniera spettacolare i suoi giochi di luce, per incantare la ricca borghesia americana.