You think your life is nuts? Since I was sixteen, I've spent time on Death Row, tried to sell my baby sister on the black market, been stranded at the altar (repeatedly), lied about my son's paternity, and fought viciously with just about everybody in town. Well, okay, it wasn't really me–it was my character, Sami Brady on Days of Our Lives. But like Sami, I've had my share of struggles. I've been told I was fat, wat ...
Foreword by Earvin «Magic» Johnson "Absolutely one of the best players ever to play the game." –Bill Walton A three-time Olympic gold medalist, three-time MVP of the WNBA, and the first woman ever to dunk in a professional basketball game, Lisa Leslie is considered one of the greatest players in the history of women's basketball. But before the superstar was the child growing up too fast in South Central Los Angeles. Over six feet tal ...
Автор Е.А. Шмагин за почти пять десятилетий дипломатической службы прошел все ступени должностной лестницы от референта-переводчика до Чрезвычайного и Полномочного Посла.
Своим читателям он говорит: «Если вы немножко интересуетесь миролюбивой внешней политикой России, но не желаете ограничиваться строгими сообщениями пресс-службы МИД РФ, если вам невмоготу страстные эмоциональные дебаты политологов и депутатов, бурным потоком низвергающиеся с ...
Als Robert Enke am 10. November 2009 starb, beruhrte sein Schicksal Deutschland weit uber die Welt des Fu?balls hinaus. Denn an seinem Leben hatte die Offentlichkeit in ganz besonderer Weise Anteil genommen: Nur wenige Monate vor seinem Selbstmord war er nach dem Tod seiner ersten Tochter zum zweiten Mal Vater geworden. Acht Monate spater hatte er bei der Weltmeisterschaft in Sudafrika im Tor der deutschen Nationalmannschaft stehen sollen. Wie ...
On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks, they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive,these men and women not only had to keep their faith, they had to make an impossible de ...
"Bis zur Grenze gefordert konnen wir alle mehr, als wir wollen." Reinhold Messner hat seine Grenzen immer wieder gesucht: Von seiner ersten Besteigung eines 3000ers als Funfjahriger bis zur Durchquerung der Wuste Gobi mit 60 Jahren. Seine Fulle an Erfahrungen, sein Ausreizen menschlicher Leidens- und Leistungsfahigkeit, seine ehrliche Anteilnahme am Leben der Bergvolker und schlie?lich auch sein soziales und politisches Engagement zeichnen ...
From a three-week voyage of more than 7000 miles from New Orleans to Buenos Aires in 1964 through an eight-day, 3258-mile round-trip drive between Evanston, Illinois and Clovis, New Mexico in 2017, whether in their prime or in their nineties, the Bedfords have packed a lot into their life’s journey. Follow their inspiring story of faith and service, set in fascinating times and places in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. ...
