In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed $8,000 his first year. Today, Nike s annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of startups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all startups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today. But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story, beginning with his crossroads moment. At 24, after bac

This book is both a revelatory biography and an accessiblestudy of Leonardo's life and multi-faceted work as a scientist andengineer. It covers all aspects of the man's life but is also are-interpretation of the voluminous evidence to paint an originalpicture of Leonardo da Vinci not only as the archetypal polymath,but as the first true scientist. Topics include: * A detailedinvestigation of how Leonardo's manu*s and notebooks were lostto the world and kept secret during his own lifetime and how thisaltered the progress of science. * A thorough analysis of his workas a scientist and how he predated many of the great figures of the16th and 17th centuries, including Galileo, Kepler, William Harvey,Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton. * Leonardo's legacy -- what didLeonardo leave in his notebooks and how may they be viewed in thelight of modern scientific understanding? What did he achieve inscience?

国际读书网站Goodreads评选的 2013年度*传记类作品. "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. I AM MALALAis the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed

The 50th-anniversary edition of the German general's legendarymemoir. When published in 1952, Panzer Leader quickly became a bestseller, but over the half-decade that followed, it also establisheditself as a classic, lauded by Stephen Ambrose as "a mesmerizingread." A dramatic first-person account by the father of modern tankwarfare, it is also a searing group portrait of the Third Reich'sleading personalities as they turned imminent victory intoagonizing defeat.

国际读书网站Goodreads评选的 2013年度*传记类作品. "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and e

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a loving husband and father,an enthusiastic teacher, a surprisingly accomplished bongo player,and a genius of the highest caliber---Richard P. Feynman was allthese and more. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the BeatenTrack--collecting over forty years' worth of Feynman'sletters--offers an unprecedented look at the writer and thinkerwhose scientific mind and lust for life made him a legend in hisown time. Containing missives to and from such scientificluminaries as Victor Weisskopf, Stephen Wolfram, James Watson, andEdward Teller, as well as a remarkable selection of letters to andfrom fans, students, family, and people from around the world eagerfor Feynman's advice and counsel, Perfectly Reasonable DeviationsFrom the Beaten Track not only illuminates the personalrelationships that underwrote the key developments in modernscience, but also forms the most intimate look at Feynman yetavailable. Feynman was a man many felt close to but few reallyknew, and this collecti

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanderscaptured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived workingon the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequentlytaken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed.Nearly everyone else on board died and Urquhart spent 5 days aloneon a raft in the South China Sea before being rescued by a whalingship. He was taken to Japan and then forced to work in a mine nearNagasaki. Two months later a nuclear bomb dropped just ten milesaway ...This is the extraordinary story of a young men, con*edat nineteen and whose father was a Somme Veteran, survived not justone, but three close encounters with death - encounters whichkilled nearly all his comrades.