Ergebnis für "Desperation" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Bereits als Teenager machte sich Désirée Nosbusch einen Namen in der Radio- und Fernsehwelt und setzte sich mit ihrem jungen und frischen Stil in einer von Älteren dominierten Branche durch. Doch es folgten auch Jahre mit bitteren Erfahrungen, in denen sie sich immer wieder behaupten musste. Als erfahrene Frau gelingt ihr schließlich das, was nur wenige ihrer Kolleginnen vor ihr geschafft haben: der Durchbruch als beachtete, international anerkannte und gefeierte Schauspielerin.

There's a college affordability crisis happening in the US right now. Tuition rates have soared, while increases in blue collar wages have slowed to a crawl. This adds up to a painful realization for lower-income young people desperately hoping to go to college: there's no way to pay for it. Bobbi Dempsey shares her brutally honest first-person account of the struggle to pay for her children's and her own education on a working-class salary.

Wealth, poverty, and what it means to live a 'good life': this is the must-read story for fans of The Trading Game and The Psychology of Money. 'A fantastically compelling personal story that is also the story of a generation . . . Told with perfect timing.' - SIMON KUPER -------- AFTER THE RISE...

The true story of super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the documentary Cocaine Cowboys. American Desperado is Roberts’ no-holds-barred account of being born into Mafia royalty, witnessing his first murder at the age of seven, becoming a hunter-assassin in Vietnam, returning to New York to...

When Candice Curry was a little girl, she put her hand in her father's back pocket so that she wouldn't get lost in large crowds. Little did she know that as she followed him, he was plying his trade: conning people. Her family drove stolen cars, lived in stolen houses, and shopped with stolen credit cards. Drug use was regular, as were visits from strange people who were trying to track her father down. Though she eventually cut ties with her father, Candice could not ignore the scars that were left from her childhood.