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Das Leben des «King of Rock'n'Roll» zum ersten Mal als lebendiges Feature! Vor 60 Jahren betrat ELVIS PRESLEY zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben ein Aufnahmestudio. Drei Jahre später lag ihm die Welt zu Füßen. DIE AUDIOSTORY beschreibt seine einzigartige Karriere – von Elvis' Anfängen, seiner Militärzeit in Deutschland und den Hollywood-Jahren bis hin zu seinem grandiosen Bühnen-Comeback. Viele O-Töne von Zeitzeugen (z.B. Elvis' Begleitmusiker) und aufschlussreiche Interviews ...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Including her survival of Japan’s Great Kanto Earthquake, this book is an enthralling account of Dorothy Britton’s life, loves and discoveries in an amazingly varied life and career. Bilingual from birth, she found the immense joy of blending in with peoples of different cultures simply by getting the sound right when speaking their languages to the extent that she herself sounds Japanese. While interviewing Talent Education’s Shinichi Suzuki, she realized his peerless ‘mother tongue method’ for...
| Автор | Dorothy Britton |
Max Blecher’s work of autobiographical fiction employs poetic prose to explore his ideas of self-identity and the body. An intimate and frank account, <em>Occurrence in the Immediate Unreality</em> is unsettling as it examines and lays bare what Blecher terms ‘the crisis of unreality’ in relation to the human condition and details the ‘bizarre adventure of being a man’ from the perspective of Blecher who never fully experienced manhood owing to his contraction of tuberculosis in...
| Автор | UNIV PLYMOUTH |
Sir John (Jack) Harold Plumb (1911 – 2001) was a great British historian. He led an extraordinary life of startling contrasts, much of it cloaked in secrecy. This memoir attempts to lift that cloak. / This is a very personal account written by Neil McKendrick, a fellow historian, a fellow Master of a Cambridge college and one his oldest and closest friends, who knew Plumb from his early days to his dying hours some fifty years after they first met. / This new memoir depicts a startlingly...
| Автор | Prof Neil McKendrick |
By any standards, Waldermar Lotnik's experience of the Second World War was remarkable. Fighting in the Polish Resistance, his unit was engaged in a bitter ethnic conflict with pro-Nazi Ukrainians. Unknown in the West, this struggle was, like that raging at the same time between Serbs and Croats, provoked by the Germans arming one ethnic group and unleashing it against a rival. Lotnik described with total and sometimes frightening candour his part in a war without rules that claimed at...
| Автор | Waldemar Lotnik |
Colin Dayan has one of the most original minds in America and also one of the fiercest. Here for the first time she turns her rigorous intellect toward her own life, onto her vexed relationship with her mother and subsequent suffering – and she does so with her usual uncompromising clarity. It’s rare for such a tormented work to be so masterful. In the Belly of her Ghost is not exactly an easy read, but it’s also very hard to put down. -Madison Smartt Bell <br> Colin Dayan’s searing...
| Автор | Colin Dayan |
In a world torn by hatred, injustice, and war, is there an answer to humanity’s quest for the good? Here is the true story of one man for whom this question was personal. Josef Ben-Eliezer was born in Germany to a Jewish family under the shadow of the Nazis. As a child he witnessed Hitler’s assault on Poland and then was forced into exile in Siberia, barely escaping with his life from starvation and disease as he made his way across southern Asia and finally arrived in the land of Israel. Faced...
| Автор | Josef Ben-Eliezer |
This is a beautiful translation by John Farndon (with Olga Nakston) of the late Ravil Bukharaev’s literary existential novel memoir in which he explains to his wife how his Muslim faith and ideals influenced both his love for her and his understanding of life and self, particularly his quest for truth and ‘authenticity’. Throughout their long marriage, the writers and poets Ravil Bukharaev and Lydia Grigorieva had written in separate rooms in their home. In this deeply-felt and poetic memoir,...
| Автор | Ravil Bukhraev |
My Korea: Forty Years Without a Horsehair Hat is a cultural introduction to Korea, part memoir and part miscellany, which introduces traditional and contemporary culture through a series of essays, stories, anecdotes and poems. The book seeks to tell the reader all that he or she needs to know for a full and rewarding life in Korea or as a visitor passing through. Confucianism, Buddhism, relationships, everyday living, language and literature are comprehensively covered. Newcomers to Korea are...
| Автор | Kevin O'Rourke |
A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of Rebirth In the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors. At the height of the genocide, as men with bloody machetes ransacked her home, Denise Uwimana gave birth to her third son. With the unlikely help of Hutu Good Samaritans, she and her children survived. Her husband and other family members were not as lucky. If this were only a memoir of those chilling days and the long, hard road to...
| Автор | Denise Uwimana |
How did a Catholic priest who died a failure become one of the world’s greatest poets? Discover in his own words the struggle for faith that gave birth to some of the best spiritual poetry of all time. Gerard Manley Hopkins deserves his place among the greatest poets in the English language. He ranks seventh among the most frequently reprinted English-language poets, surpassed only by Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Dickinson, Yeats, and Wordsworth.Yet when the English Jesuit priest died of typhoid...
| Автор | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Als James Bowen den verwahrlosten Kater vor seiner Wohnungstür fand, hätte man kaum sagen können, wem von beiden es schlechter ging. James schlug sich als Straßenmusiker durch, er hatte eine harte Zeit auf der Straße hinter sich. Aber dem abgemagerten, jämmerlich maunzenden Kater konnte er einfach nicht widerstehen, er nahm ihn auf, pflegte ihn gesund und ließ ihn wieder laufen. Doch Bob war anders als andere Katzen. Er liebte seinen neuen Freund mehr als die Freiheit und blieb. Heute sind sie...
| Автор | Джеймс Боуэн |
Prior to the real-estate boom of the 1980s, Francis J. Greenburger risked it all to buy three older loft buildings at 50 West Street near the current 9/11 Memorial. He ultimately dreamed of one day erecting a magnificent skyscraper in their place. But disaster struck in 2008, just as his plans were coming together, and development came to a screeching halt. The global financial crisis had made the land practically worthless and it would be years before he could get back on track, but he refused...
| Автор | Francis J. Greenburger |
“Inoki can use his bare fists. He can use karate. This is serious. There’s $10 million involved. I wouldn’t pull a fraud on the public. This is real. There’s no plan. The blood. The holds. The pain. Everything is going to be real. I’m not here in this time of my life to come out with some phony action. I want you to know this is real."—Muhammad Ali, June 14, 1976, The Tonight ShowOn June 26, 1976, Muhammad Ali fought in a mixed-rules...
| Автор | Josh Gross |
Meet the real Lorenzo Lamas.Lorenzo Lamas has played many roles over the course of his roller coaster career. Star of two major television shows, five-time husband, and reality show star, Lamas has been tabloid fodder for decades. Fans can easily believe they have seen every side of Lamas. But the truth is far more interesting-and surprising.Son of film stars Fernando Lamas and Arlene Dahl, and stepson of swimmer and actress Esther Williams, Lorenzo was born into Hollywood royalty. But his path...
| Автор | Lorenzo Lamas |
Heiner Lauterbach zählt zu Deutschlands beliebtesten und meistbeschäftigten Film- und Fernsehstars. In den letzten Jahren vollzog der einstige Macho vom Dienst eine rigorose Wandlung. Er hat sich im besten Sinne neu erfunden: Als Schauspieler, als Mann und Familienvater, als Mensch und Partner. Der Mann, der lange im Leben nichts ausgelassen und dafür manche Quittung verpasst bekommen hat, blickt zu seinem 60 Geburtstag gelassener und selbstkritischer auf die Dinge, die das Leben ausmachen:...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
At just a few months old, Zoe was gradually losing her hearing. Her adoptive parents loved her—yet agonized—feeling they couldn’t handle raising a Deaf child. Would Zoe go back into the welfare system and spend her childhood hoping to find parents willing to adopt her? Or, would she be the long-sought answer to a mother’s prayers?Brandi Rarus was just 6 when spinal meningitis took away her hearing. Because she spoke well and easily adjusted to lip reading,...
| Автор | Gail Harris |
“Hey, yo, Jim . . . This is Sylvester Stallone. Give me a call . . .”It was these words that would set Jim Peterik on the road to rock ’n’ roll immortality. After he and his Survivor bandmates recorded “Eye of the Tiger” for the Rocky III soundtrack, the song would go on to earn a Grammy, an Oscar nomination, reach triple platinum status—and become one of the most recognizable tunes in music history.But there’s much...
| Автор | Jim Peterik |
When actress Claudia Christian flees a troubled childhood and moves to Hollywood at age 17, she steps through the looking glass into another world.From the set of Dallas to her starring role on the sci-fi series Babylon 5, Claudia’s affairs with billionaires, supermodels, rock stars, and celebrities are mixed with shootings, stalking, heartbreak, and betrayal. Onset and off, drama follows Claudia—an alcohol-fueled coke run and makeout session with a bridesmaid on her wedding...
| Автор | Claudia Christian |
WHITNEY HOUSTON Ihr schillerndes Leben, ihr tragisches Ende Hören Sie die Biografie eines Weltstars, der im Chaos von Drogen und Skandalen versank, ein glänzendes Comeback feierte und im Februar 2012 auf tragische Weise ums Leben kam. Mit mehr als 200 Millionen verkauften Schallplatten und CDs gehörte Whitney Houston neben Madonna, Shakira und Mariah Carey zu den erfolgreichsten Pop-Sängerinnen der Welt. Nachdem sie bereits im Alter von 14 Jahren solo aufgetreten und 1979 in Chaka Khans Hit...
| Автор | Mark Bego |
This book is the true story of a simple uneducated kid from Georgia whose dreams all came true. From his lonely, angry childhood, he wrote and sang music as a way to express his deepest feelings. While he was still in the army at age 17, Elvis Presley recorded one of his songs, which opened doors around the world to castles, stadiums, arenas, movies, TV, etc. From then on his life was a whirlwind-ride of a rock and roll fantasy that he couldn't make up if he tried.This is Mylon's...
| Автор | Mylon Le Fevre |
This book is the first life history of a Northwest Coast Indian woman. Florence Davidson, daughter of noted Haida carver and chief Charles Edenshaw, was born in 1896. As one of the few living Haida elders knowledgeable bout the culture of a bygone era, she was a fragile link with the past. Living in Masset on the Queen Charlotte Islands, some fifty miles off the northwest coast of British Columbia, Florence Davidson grew up in an era of dramatic change for her people. On of the last Haida women...
| Автор | Margaret B. Blackman |
A shocking account of the lives of abused children born to addicted parents. You will read about the abuse, neglect, starvation and abandonment of three little ones while their parents concentrate on their next fix. The children, who are ages six and under, have no voice; they just try to survive. Hospital emergency visits, broken bones, bruises, and the children continue to suffer. Let the author, Rebecca McMahon, take you on a journey. See what she saw, know what she knows and then make your...
| Автор | Rebecca Andrea McMahon |
And Justice For All: Arthur Chaskalson and the Struggle for Equality in South Africa is a biography of a remarkable life lived in service both to law and to the struggle for social change and justice. The social change it describes is the victory over apartheid, which was won on several fronts and through the efforts of people in many nations, but an important one of those fronts lay in the courts of South Africa itself. Arthur Chaskalson enters the historical record in 1963, when he and a team...
| Автор | Stephen Ellmann |