Richard - Libros y biografía

A major New York Times bestseller by NBC’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel—this riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen close up “should be required...

In Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”—the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta.Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living...

There's nothing like exciting fantasy to escape boredom. The problem is to know whether it's actually a fantasy. Dipping low and weaving in and out among the glittering towers, one might see the moving...

February 2016 Indie Next List Pick This snappy, sassy redemption story set in small-town Montana is “a wild and crazy debut novel by a talented young writer” (Jackie Collins), filled with an uproarious...

Hilarious and hair-rising true tales of office debauchery from the lawyer who gets paid to clean up the mess.Try to imagine the following workplace scenarios: two employees having hot and heavy sex in...

Comment un souverain autoritaire et dont les agents avaient la poigne rude est-il devenu la figure la plus vénérée de l'histoire de France, le roi dont Voltaire disait qu'il n'était pas possible de pousser...

Il comprit très vite qua ça allait mal tourner.Que le mariage de son fils allait lui coûter cher, très cher.Beaucoup trop cher pour ses revenus, pourtant confortables.Alors, pour na pas déchoir, il dut...

Dans un vagabondage souvent personnel et parfois intime, Richard Millet nous rappelle que nous sommes tous les enfants de la Méditerranée. Dans un vagabondage souvent personnel et parfois intime, Richard...

L'auteur s'inspire d'épisodes réels pour imaginer une double intrigue destinée d'une part à déstabiliser Gorbatchev à travers son épouse, d'autre part à déconsidérer les chefs de l'armée pour permettre...

Un polar moqueur, gouailleur, persifleur où les mots explosent tels les gros calibres au bon temps de la pègre marseillaise, faisant détoner le langage odoriférant et flamber l’intrigue en un feu d’artifice...

Henrique Monroe, inspecteur de police à Lisbonne, n’est pas un flic comme les autres. Son comportement singulier sur les scènes de crime est même légendaire. Et si ses collègues comme sa hiérarchie s’en...

Supernatural fantasy has a new antihero in Sandman Slim, star of this gripping, gritty new series by Richard Kadrey Life sucks and then you die. Or, if you’re James Stark, you spend eleven years...

La négociation n'est pas une activité des acheteurs comme les autres. Dans ce livre, Richard Bourrelly décrit les méthodes et les outils qui visent à améliorer le pouvoir de négociation des acheteurs....

L'art de négocier en pratique Dans ce livre, Richard Bourrelly, professionnel et consultant expert en négociation, dévoile les méthodes, outils et astuces qu'utilisent les entreprises les plus performantes...

Alexander Hamilton is one of the least understood, most important, and most impassioned and inspiring of the founding fathers. At last Hamilton has found a modern biographer who can bring him to full-blooded...

A fascinating and authoritative narrative history of the V-22 Osprey, revealing the inside story of the most controversial piece of military hardware ever developed for the United States Marine Corps.When...

Canon Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover takes respite at the monastery where he was a novice. But the monastery doesn't allow the break he needs, for tensions are building...

'"Hello," says the wallpaper.'Spanning one torrential paragraph, Ten Storey Love Song follows Bobby the Artist's rise to stardom and decline into horrific drug psychosis, Johnnie's attempts to stop thieving...

For almost 30 years as label boss, producer, and talent conductor at XL Recordings, Richard Russell has discovered, shaped and nurtured the artists who have rewritten the musical dictionary of the 21st...

A mechanic who's been to prison and a highly skilled plastic surgeon are certainly an unlikely match. Richard Buchanan, wrongfully convicted, is now looking for a new start by taking a job in China. Dr....

Goodfellas meets Savages meets Catch Me If You Can in this true tale of high-stakes smuggling from pot’s outlaw years.Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut Wellesley boy who entered...

A profound exploration of the simple numerical ratios that underlie our solar system, its musical harmony, and our earliest religious beliefs • Reveals how the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus relate...

1941: Great Britain is fighting for its very existence. France has surrendered and installed Marshal Pétain, an ageing reactionary, as head of a hostile new government at Vichy. The Allied outpost in...

For Readers of Ray Kurzweil and Michio Kaku, a New Look at the Cutting Edge of Artificial Intelligence Imagine a robotic stuffed animal that can read and respond to a child’s emotional state, a commercial...

Connecting modern psychology to its Indigenous roots to enhance the healing process and psychology itself • Shares the healing wisdom of Indigenous people the author has worked with, including the Ju/’hoansi...

A “meticulously researched” (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming, a surging world population,...

Never before have our cities been as important as they are now. The drivers of innovation and growth, they are essential to the prosperity of nations. But they are also destructive, plunging us into housing...

Sandman Slim investigates Death’s death in this hip, propulsive urban fantasy through a phantasmagoric LA rife with murder, mayhem, and magic.James Stark has met his share of demons and angels, on earth...

Drawing on fifty years of experience caring for children and adults, Dr. Moskowitz examines vaccines and our current policy regarding them. Weaving together a tapestry of observed facts, clinical and...

SummaryThe Tao of Microservices guides you on the path to understanding how to apply microservice architectures to your own real-world projects. This high-level book offers a conceptual view of microservice...