Ergebnis für "A Story of the Stone Age" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

"When I'm 33, I quit."– Mick Jagger. Unaufhaltsam rocken, tanzen und posieren die Rolling Stones – wirklich Siebzigjährige oder ewig Dreißigjährige? Ihr Sound und ihre Einstellung scheinen lauter und einflussreicher denn je zu sein. Doch wie wurden die ultimativen Anti-Establishment-Außenseiter zu der globalen Marke, die wir heute kennen? Lesley-Ann Jones verfolgt die Entwicklung dieser widersprüchlichen Band von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, wo die Stones mehr denn je mit den Werten, gegen die sie immer rebelliert haben, im Widerspruch zu stehen scheinen.

I do not pretend to have given an exhaustive picture of the Polish Underground, its organisation and its activities. Because of our methods, I believe that there is no one today who could give an all-embracing recital...This book is a purely personal story, my story. Jan Karski's Second World War memoir is a heroic act of witness: the courageous testimony of a man who risked everything for his country. First published in 1944, the book became an instant bestseller in the US while the war still raged in Europe.

It’s estimated that each year between eighty and ninety million children around the globe are given a box of LEGO, while up to ten million adults buy sets for themselves. Yet LEGO is much more than a dizzying number of plastic bricks that can be put together and combined in countless ways. LEGO is also a vision of the significance of what play can mean for humanity.

The Kray twins were Britain's most notorious gangsters. Ruling London's underworld for more than a decade, as gang lords they were among the most powerful and feared men in the city. Photographed by David Bailey and even interviewed for television, they became celebrities in their own right and are infamous to this day.