Títulos en Profesionales y académicos

The MacArthur Foundation awards the "Genius Grant" every year to the most compelling scientists, educators and artists in the country. But who are these "geniuses," really? Host Bob Garfield sits down with fellows, including writer and producer David Simon, radio producer Jad Abumrad, and inventor Amy Smith, to learn what events shaped their life, how they became leaders in their fields, and what they imagine our shared future looks like.

«La biografía más completa de Carlos Slim hasta la fecha. Osorno narra también partes desconocidas de la historia familiar del magnate: el hambre de éxito del multimillonario no muestra signos de disminuir con la edad» The Guardian

Jack Welch is the legendary former CEO of General Electric. His many books include the best seller Winning, written with his wife, Suzy. Suzy Welch is the former editor of the Harvard Business Review. She attended Harvard University and Harvard Business School and has written numerous articles about leadership, creativity, change and organizational behavior.

Given her incredible tenure as a Supreme Court justice as well as her monumental impact on the modern women’s rights movement, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become one of the most prominent political leaders of today. To complement her judicial significance, she has also become one of the most culturally popular political figures in US history. Not only has her workout routine gone viral (and been detailed in a book by her trainer), but RBG’s story has been featured in multiple critically acclaimed films.

Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed "Skunk Works" cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.

In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day in a hospital's cancer ward. In the span of 12 hours, lives can be lost, life-altering medical treatment decisions made, and dreams fulfilled or irrevocably stolen.

"Los últimos días de Immanuel Kant" sigue siendo uno de los textos más singulares y elaborados de Thomas de Quincey. Gracias en buena medida a las memorias firmadas por Ehregott Wasianski, el ensayista inglés pudo prestar sus palabras al fiel amigo de Kant y relatar los últimos momentos del célebre filósofo ilustrado. Siguiendo antojadizamente el flujo de los acontecimientos, De Quincey nos da cuenta en sus páginas de las preocupaciones que invaden ahora a ese pobre espíritu en otro tiempo brillante.

La sua immagine è dappertutto. Su tazze, magliette, sui muri delle città, su spille e borse; e le sue frasi e i suoi aforismi sulla scienza e sulla vita sono citati ogni giorno. Albert Einstein è il vero scienziato iconico del secolo scorso; il suo nome - anche per chi fatichi a masticare le teorie fisiche - è sinonimo di genio eccentrico (famoso l'aneddoto che vuole il suo guardaroba pieno di completi identici così da non perdere tempo al mattino a pensare come vestirsi); saggezza bonaria; ma anche risolutezza.

Cuando Miguel Durán nació, a mediados de los cincuenta, en España se esperaba muy poco de los ciegos. En su pueblo natal de Badajoz, un niño como él, aunque feliz, tenía poco futuro. De modo que, a sus diez años, su familia se trasladó a Sant Boi de Llobregat y allí lo afiliaron a la ONCE. En el internado de Alicante de la entidad, Miguel Durán empezó a dar muestras de una vivísima inteligencia que, pocos años después, le tendría cursando la carrera de Derecho en Barcelona, al tiempo que trabajaba en una imprenta especializada en libros en braille.

"Economic hit men," John Perkins writes, "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder."

La letra de médico tiene fama de ser algo que no se entiende, pero este audiolibro es todo lo contrario. Carlos Presman escribió una memoria profesional amena, fascinante, que estaba faltando. Así lo demuestran más de veinte ediciones y veinte mil ejemplares vendidos. La edición completa de esta obra se divide en "Historias personales", "Cuentos clínicos" e "Historias a su salud". Con relatos breves y muy buena pluma, Presman nos pasea por los desafíos de la relación médico-paciente.

This is the true story behind Wall Street legend Richard Dennis, his disciples, the Turtles, and the trading techniques that made them millionaires. What happens when ordinary people are taught a system to make extraordinary money? Richard Dennis made a fortune on Wall Street by investing according to a few simple rules.

Carl Gustav Jung ha sido un gran seductor de mujeres de fama legendaria. Esta ficción dramática explora e ilustra las relaciones de C.J. Jung con sus cuatro mujeres más importantes: Emma Rauschenbach, su esposa, Sabina Spielrein, su primera paciente y amante, Toni Wolff. Paciente, asistente, amiga y amante durante 40 años y finalmente , durante sus años maduros, con la estudiante Marie-Louise von Franz.

In How to Build Wealth Like Warren Buffett: Principles and Practical Methods Used by the World's Greatest Investor, acclaimed author and Buffett expert Robert Miles brings to light Warren Buffett the man, along with his simple yet highly effective business and investing principles. You will be inspired and motivated as Robert recounts the story of how Warren Buffett single-handedly became a self-made billionaire solely by investing in stocks and businesses that he believed in.

Turing y el ordenador es un retrato brillante de la vida y obra de Turing, y ofrece una explicación clara y comprensible de la importancia y el significado del ordenador y la forma en que está cambiando y moldeando nuestras vidas desde entonces.

¿Cómo una chica de Mississippi se convierte en millonaria? A través de una combinación única de coaching, visión personal y anécdotas, Pat Fortenberry comparte las lecciones que aprendió: cómo experimentar el crecimiento, mejorar la fuerza personal y convertirse en una mejor líder, ofreciendo una mirada honesta a las experiencias y valores clave que ha absorbido en su negocio Mary Kay de treinta años.

"A los catorce años conseguí mi primer trabajo. Fui mensajero en un almacén de vestidos y como era tan inquieto, rápido, curioso y enérgico, me pusieron el apodo de "Pulga Arrecha". Desde entonces siempre he sido así, no veo obstáculos porque la vida solo nos ofrece oportunidades. Nunca he dejado nada para el día siguiente y mi clave ha sido insistir siempre.

A preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal genome to answer the biggest question of them all: what does it mean to be human? What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pbo’s mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009.

Listen to hilarious stories with serious lessons that Michael Lopp extracts from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences as a manager at Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Slack, and Borland. Many of the stories first appeared in primitive form in Lopp’s perennially popular blog, Rands in Repose. The third edition of Managing Humans contains a whole new season of episodes from the ongoing saga of Lopp's adventures in Silicon Valley, together with classic episodes remastered for high fidelity and freshness.

La voce di Gabriella Greison, fisica, scrittrice e attrice teatrale, racconta la vita di Marie Curie, tracciandone gli aspetti più umani e meno conosciuti, pensando di averla di fianco nella vita di tutti giorni, e parlando con lei come se fosse presente, come se fosse una sorta di amica immaginaria. Ogni episodio segue uno stato d'animo o un lascito indelebile che ci ha lasciato la grande scienziata polacca, e da questi Greison parte con dei voli verso altri luoghi. Le contaminazioni con arte, cinema, musica, attualità e quotidianità sono la base di questo curioso podcast.