Julian Guthrie

"Alpha Girls is reporter Julian Guthrie's powerful account of five women pioneers in the field of venture capital who bucked the system and found ways to survive and thrive in the cutthroat, high-stakes, male-dominated world of Silicon Valley"--Provided by publisher.

The Women Upstarts who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime

Alpha Girls

The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight Alone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world s first commercial astronaut. The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required small teams to do what only the world s largest governments had done before. Peter Diamandis was the son of hardworking immigrants who wanted their science prodigy to make the family proud and become a doctor. But from the age of eight, when he watched Apollo 11 land on the Moon, his singular goal was to get to space. When he realized NASA was winding down manned space flight, Diamandis set out on one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time.If the government wouldn t send him to space, he would create a private space flight industry himself. In the 1990s, this idea was the stuff of science fiction. Undaunted, Diamandis found inspiration in an unlikely place: the golden age of aviation. He discovered that Charles Lindbergh made his transatlantic flight to win a $25,000 prize. The flight made Lindbergh the most famous man on earth and galvanized the airline industry. Why, Diamandis thought, couldn t the same be done for space flight? The story of the bullet-shaped SpaceShipOne, and the other teams in the hunt, is an extraordinary taleof making the impossible possible. It is driven by outsized characters Burt Rutan, Richard Branson, John Carmack, Paul Allen and obsessive pursuits. In the end, as Diamandis dreamed, the result wasn t just a victory for one team; it was the foundation for a new industryand a new age."

A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight

How to Make a Spaceship

Details the partnership between Larry Ellison, billionaire CEO of Oracle Corrporation, and blue-collar mechanic Norbert Bajurin, offering a glimpse into their runs for the America's Cup and the design and building of these boats.

How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the America's Cup

The Billionaire and the Mechanic

Documents the mysterious 1993 archdiocese decision to close St. Brigid Church in San Francisco, tracing how the efforts of a ragtag group of faithful people to save their beloved landmark revealed how the Catholic Church was hiding a devastating secret.

How a Band of Believers Lost Their Church and Found Their Faith

The Grace of Everyday Saints

Der America's Cup, erstmals 1851 ausgelobt, ist die älteste internationale Sporttrophäe – und bis heute heiß begehrt. Bis auf einen Schweizer "Ausrutscher" waren es in den letzten Jahrzehnten vor allem die Neuseeländer, die eine Art Daueranspruch auf den Pokal des America's Cup anmeldeten. Bis ... ja, bis Larry Ellison, milliardenschwerer Mitbegründer und Geschäftsführer des Softwareimperiums Oracle, sich im Jahr 2000 entschloss, die Trophäe nach Amerika zurückzuholen – und sich der Hilfe von Norbert Bajurin, eines Automechanikers und Commodore des Golden Gate Yacht Clubs, versicherte. Was die beiden ungleichen Partner auf die Beine stellten, um im Jahr 2010 den America's Cup in die USA zurückzuholen und schließlich im nervenzerfetzenden Finale 2013 unter völlig neuen Regeln zu verteidigen, ist das, was man gemeinhin als "ganz großes Kino" bezeichnet. Julian Guthrie, Journalistin des "San Francisco Chronicle", hat Hintergründe, Rivalitäten, Leidenschaft und Wissen um den Segelsport, also all jene Dinge, die Larry Ellison und Norbert Bajurin antreiben, gekonnt und hochspannend zusammengetragen.

Wie Oracle-Chef Larry Ellison den America's Cup gewann - und warum er den Automechaniker Norbert Bajurin dazu brauchte

Der Milliardär und der Mechaniker

A remarkable, uplifting story about one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the 20th century In 1951 in Sydney, Australia, a fourteen-year-old boy named James Harrison was near death when he received a transfusion of blood that saved his life. A few years later, and half a world away, a shy young doctor at Columbia University realized he was more comfortable in the lab than in the examination room. Neither could have imagined how their paths would cross, or how they would change the world. In Good Blood, bestselling writer Julian Guthrie tells the gripping tale of the race to cure a horrible blood disease known as Rh disease that stalked families and caused a mother’s immune system to attack her own unborn child. The story is anchored by two very different men on two continents: Dr. John Gorman in New York, who would land on a brilliant yet contrarian idea, and an unassuming Australian whose almost magical blood—and his unyielding devotion to donating it—would save millions of lives. Good Blood takes us from Australia to America, from research laboratories to hospitals, and even into Sing Sing prison, where experimental blood trials were held. It is a tale of discovery and invention, the progress and pitfalls of medicine, and the everyday heroics that fundamentally changed the health of women and babies.

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