Resultados para "Dämonen" en Biografías y memorias

If you want to not only make a change in your life, but discover how to maintain that change and become the best version of yourself, then you’ve come to the right place. The principles and stories in this book are the blueprint for how Damon rewrote his story and, if applied, how you can rewrite yours.

Vic Damone quit school as a teenager to work at the Paramount Theater to help support his family after his father was injured. During this time he was exposed to a host of accomplished singers, both on the stage and behind the scenes. While operating the backstage elevator for Perry Como, Damone asked if he could sing for him to see if he had any talent. He stopped the elevator between floors and after he finished, Como told him he should keep it up.

Sentenced to 65 years in a Texas prison, Damon West once had it all. He came from a great family, in a home full of God, love, support, and opportunities to reach any goal. A natural born leader, an athlete with good looks and charm, he appeared to be the all-American kid pursuing his dreams. Underneath this facade, however, was an addict in the early stages of disease. After suffering childhood sexual abuse by a babysitter at the age of nine, Damon began putting chemicals into his body to alter the way he felt.  

Some people amass artwork. For others, it's stamps. But why would you want to collect the possessions of a serial killer?

In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its...

Of all the heroic stories to come out of World War II, few are as extraordinary as that of Major Rocky Gause, who was captured by the Japanese, escaped from the infamous Bataan Death March, and, with a fellow soldier, endured a harrowing voyage across the enemy-held Pacific in a leaky, hand-crafted boat. In the battered notebook he kept throughout his journey, Gause traced his steps from the besieged city of Manila on New Year's Eve, 1941, to his safe landing on the Australian coast ten months later.

In this New York Times bestseller, Janice Kaplan spends a year living gratefully and transforms her marriage, family life, work, and health. On New Year’s Eve, journalist and former Parade editor in chief Janice Kaplan makes a promise to be grateful and look on the bright side of whatever...

People first. Mission always. It takes grit to rise above mediocrity and lead with conviction. Whether your fight is on the battlefield, in business, or at home, true victory is won through integrity and servant leadership. As a decorated special warfare officer and nonprofit founder, Dr. Damon Friedman has learned firsthand that before you can lead others, you must first conquer yourself. Special Warfare CEO blends elite military wisdom with real-world leadership insights for overcoming obstacles and transforming your mission —whatever it may be.

True Crime Murder Files takes listeners inside 12 shocking real-life cases of killers, cold blood, hidden motives, and crimes that horrified America. Behind every case is a question that refuses to go away: how could someone cross the line from ordinary life into violence, deception, and murder? This gripping true crime collection explores disturbing cases filled with obsession, betrayal, rage, greed, secrets, and the chilling decisions that changed lives forever.

In The Darkest Killer, Damon V. Keller takes listeners deep into the disturbing world of true crime—where ordinary lives are shattered, detectives chase impossible clues, and the darkest corners of the human mind are exposed. These are not just murder stories. These are chilling investigations into twisted motives, brutal decisions, hidden rage, obsession, manipulation, and the terrifying moments when evil steps out of the shadows and into real life.

Stefan Zweig war nicht nur meisterhafter Novellist, er schrieb auch ungeheuer lesenswerte biographische Miniaturen. Im Werk "Der Kampf mit dem Dämon" erzählt er von drei Autoren, deren Genialität sie an den Rand des Wahnsinns brachte – und darüber hinaus. In diesem Hörbuch geht es um den Philosophen Friedrich Nietzsche, dessen Innerstes Zweig freilegt, als sei die Feder ein Skalpell.

A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the Year From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and...

The acclaimed biography of James Packer. James Packer turns to Greek mythology in an attempt to explain the most exciting yet tumultuous period of his 50 years on earth. ""I was like Icarus,"" the billionaire tells his biographer, journalist Damon Kitney, of the heady days of 2016 when he broke...

The Jhenna is not a person but a journey. My journey. From giving up on wanting to be alive to being strong enough to share this with you. Jhenna told me to be open and honest," and I was with everyone in the unit, strangers in the stores I frequented, others in waiting rooms at the VA that I never met, and my care providers. The funny thing is, she only meant my care providers. It was six or eight months later that I figured that out. Take the journey from mental health issues to being happy and finding peace. I used to think I was the only one with mental issues.

2016 marks the twentieth anniversary of Damon Hill's coronation as Formula One World Champion. For the first time ever he tells the story of his journey through the last golden era of the sport when he took on the greats including Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher and emerged victorious as...

Drawing on a lifetime of sniffing petrol fumes, Lights Out, Full Throttle stands large over the landscape of Formula One and takes the temperature of the good, the bad and the ugly of the petrolhead’s paradise. Johnny Herbert and Damon Hill between them competed in 261 Grands Prix, amassing...

It's the 1920s. It's the beginning of the jazz age in Bridgeport Connecticut. A horrible and tragic murder has taken place. A murder that was front page news nationwide. As quickly as the murder of George Nott appeared in newspapers it vanished due to the privacy request of the families involved in the murder. This book tells the story of how Mrs. Nott escaped the gallows by sheer luck and having a somewhat feeble judge who was not interested in hanging a woman regardless of the facts.

“Hearing Dr. Tweedy speak was less of a lecture and more of an open invitation to engage in a meaningful conversation with a passionate caregiver. Dr. Tweedy’s personal stories prompted a ton of reflection on compassion, mental health, patient-centered care, and our own identity-related...

This program is read by the author. From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care into the mainstream of medicine As much as we all might wish that mental health problems, with their elusive...

Pollution is the single largest cause of death in the developing world. One in seven people in low- and middle-income countries die as a result of it. Simply put, pollution is now the world's most prevalent health risk. And yet, while most everyone has heard about "going green"; few are aware of the more dire and sinister brown pollution - places where man-made toxic pollutants have taken root and spread. Brown sites poison millions of people every year, causing needless suffering and death. After witnessing several brown sites firsthand and meeting families trapped by poverty in these toxic hot spots, environmentalist Richard Fuller founded the Blacksmith Institute, now renamed Pure Earth, a global nonprofit that initiates large-scale cleanups of some of the most polluted places on earth.