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As moving as his bestselling works of fiction, Nicholas Sparks's unique memoir, written with his brother, chronicles the life-affirming journey of two brothers bound by memories, both humorous and tragicIn January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother, Micah, set off on a three-week trip around the globe. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at thirty-seven and thirty-eight respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family. Against the backdrop of the wonders of the world and often overtaken by their feelings, daredevil Micah and the more serious, introspective...

Excerpt from Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie: And Memoir by His Sons, Rev. David K. Guthrie and Charles J. Guthrie Our first care was naturally with the Autobiography. Being unfinished and never revised, it became a question whether it should be published separately and as a frag ment, or incorporated with a completed memoir. The former was deemed the better course. For the sake of convenience, it has been broken up into chapters, and a few short notes appended but no alterations have been made in the text save such as seemed unavoidable from the circumstances, that Dr. Guthrie was prevented...

El matemático Manuel Sadosky (1914-2005) tiene ganado un merecido reconocimiento en la historia de la ciencia como “Padre de la computación en Argentina”. Su nombre suele aparecer asociado a Clementina, la descomunal computadora valvular que, junto a un pequeño grupo de científicos, fueron, en 1961, los primeros habitantes de la Ciudad Universitaria, entonces sólo un páramo bordeado por el río, en el extremo norte de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Sin embargo, Manuel Sadosky desborda los límites de la computación. En sus textos, en sus acciones públicas, indisolublemente entramadas...

Desde su participación en los productos que cambiaron las reglas del juego en las comunicaciones: el Apple II y la Macintosh; su terrible caída del pedestal y su regreso triunfal a la cima de Apple; hasta su relación con Pixar y el desarrollo del iPod, iPhone y iPad. El camino de Steve Jobs presenta las experiencias, los logros y los retos de este hombre que transformó al mundo de las comunicaciones, y ofrece al lector la oportunidad de aplicar esta gran experiencia en su vida personal y profesional.