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 is the definitive biography of music legend Johnny Cashby the leading authority on the star. This major new biography is afull and frank account of the late country legend Johnny Cash(1932-2003), an artist who ranks with Elvis Presley and FrankSinatra as one of the 20th century's major singers. Written byMichael Streissguth, a leading authority on the singer, and theauthor of "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison" and "Ring of Fire", it isthe first full-length biography of Johnny Cash since ChristopherWren's was published more than 30 years ago. This biography isunauthorized - though written with the full backing of Cathy Cash(Cash's daughter from his first marriage) - and provides a far morerounded view of the singer than previous books such "A Man CalledCash", which stops short at the final stage of his life, and Cash'sautobiography which has many gaps. Although a fan of Cash,Streissguth is not afraid to approach the less romantic side of hissubject. The book is propelled by Streissguth's unrivalledknow

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.

Marty Sklar was hired by The Walt Disney Company after hisjunior year at UCLA, and began his Disney career at Disneyland inJuly 1955, the month before the park opened. He spent his firstdecade at Disney as "the kid," the very youngest of the creativeteam Walt had assembled at WED Enterprises. But despite his youth,his talents propelled him forward into substantial responsibility:he became Walt's speech writer, penned Walt's and Roy's messages inthe company's annual report, composed most of the publicity andmarketing materials for Disneyland, conceived presentations for theU.S. government, devised initiatives to obtain sponsors to enablenew Disneyland developments, and wrote a twenty-four-minute filmexpressing Walt's philosophy for the Walt Disney World project andEpcot. He was Walt's literary right-hand man. Over the next forty years, Marty Sklar rose to become presidentand principal creative executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, andhe devoted his entire career to creating, enhancing, and expand

In this elegant collection of essays, one of modernliterature's most enchanting masters reminisces about Italy'santifascist resistance and the whirl of ideas that blossomed in thepost-war era. In America, Calvino follows Nixon's election hopeswhile marvelling at colour television and American cars, butdescribes with loathing his first experience of mass racism, whenhe is lucky enough to meet Martin Luther King in Alabama. He alsowrites brilliant short pieces on his Italian dialect, the final dayof the Second World War, and the rich joys of living inParis. A stylish assortment of memoir and wit, Hermit in Paris includesthe very finest of Calvino's superb work.

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.

Sometimes it seems as though I've waited my entirelife to bephotographed by Terry Richardson. With Terry,the relationshipextends beyond the photograph, andif you're really lucky he willteach you something trulyprofound about yourself. I have discoveredthrough himthat "shame" is an obsolete notion and "apology"is aninjustice to any performance. Perhaps it is hiskind eyes behindthose famous glasses, or the gigglingnoise he makes at 4:30 in themorning when he's caughtme in bed. Click, giggle, click, click,click, "beautiful." To sayhe is a free spirit is a tremendousunderstatement, andto say that he (or I) make people uncomfortable,is spot on.We share these things in common. However, it is uniquetoTerry and his subjects that there are no limitations.At all. Hisheart is too wide. He makes me wantto widen my own.