Ergebnis für "Hand in Hand" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Seine Lieder, wie "Meine Zeit steht in deinen Händen", "Mag sein, du kannst es nicht verstehn" oder "Kommt, atmet auf" gehören zum festen Liedgut vieler Kirchengemeinden. Einige seiner Kompositionen sind sogar im Evangelischen und Katholischen Gesangbuch zu finden. Peter Strauch erzählt in seiner spannenden Biografie von seinen wichtigsten Lebensstationen, aber auch von schwierigen Wegstrecken und Erfahrungen.

The Dealmaker is a frank and honest account of how a severely dyslexic child who struggled at school went on to graduate from Oxford and become a serial entrepreneur. It describes Guy Hand's career in private equity, first at Nomura and then as head of his own company, Terra Firma. It looks in detail at the huge deals that Terra Firma has done over the years, involving everything from cinema chains and pubs to waste management, aircraft leasing and green energy.

In 1960 Argentina, a covert team of Israeli agents hunted down the most elusive war criminal alive: Adolf Eichmann, chief architect of the Holocaust. The young spy who tackled Eichmann on a Buenos Aires street - and fought every compulsion to strangle the Obersturmführer then and there - was Peter Z. Malkin. For decades Malkin's identity as Eichmann's captor was kept secret. Here he reveals the entire breathtaking story - from the genesis of the top-secret surveillance operation to the dramatic public capture and smuggling of Eichmann to Israel to stand trial.

These are the extraordinary realities of the NHS front line. From the historic junior doctor strikes to the 'humanitarian crisis' declared by the Red Cross, the overstretched health service is on the precipice. This is a powerful polemic on its systematic degradation and a letter of optimism to that same health service and those who support it. It captures with tenderness a new doctor's experiences of an NHS at breaking point.

In April 1982, Harry Benson was a 21-year-old Royal Navy commando helicopter pilot fresh out of training and one of the youngest helicopter pilots to serve in the Falklands War. These pilots, nicknamed "junglies", flew most of the land-based missions in the Falklands in their Sea King and Wessex helicopters. Much of what happened in the war is well-known and documented. But almost nothing is known of the young commando helicopter pilots and aircrewmen who made it all happen on land and sea. This is their "Boys Own" story, told for the very first time.

Born in Hamburg in the 1930s, Marione Ingram fled Nazi Germany only to find racism as pervasive in the American South as anti-Semitism was in Europe. As a white woman and a Holocaust refugee, Marione was the most unlikely of heroes in the fight for civil rights for African Americans. This is her empowering story - a tale of courage, strength, and determination.

A memoir of how a small number of British officers led Muslim soldiers in the hard-fought anti-insurgency war that has shaped today's Gulf. While the Americans were fighting in Vietnam, a struggle of even greater strategic significance was taking place in the Middle East: The Sultanate of Oman stood guard at the entrance to the Arabian Gulf, and thus controlled the movement of oil from that region.

Dallin H. Oaks may not have seemed the likeliest choice to become an Apostle. His life path had been anything but conventional. He was only seven when his mother became a widow. His young adulthood saw him joining the National Guard and marrying at nineteen. But all along that path, the Lord was preparing him for the call that would eventually come. This engaging biography by noted historian Richard E. Turley, Jr. takes the listener on a fascinating journey through the life of an extraordinary leader.

Over the 20 years that Arnold Arem has worked as a reconstructive hand surgeon, he has reflected on the impact of living with pain and questions of psychic wellbeing in the face of crippling injury and physical deformity. He has helped many patients through his mixture of technical skill and an all-too-rare ability to simply listen to them.

Born into a Christian family, author Bill Brack learned the importance of serving the Lord early on. He built his character even further by joining the Marines and serving his country during the Vietnam war years. But everything changed when he suffered a diving accident and found himself completely paralyzed. A long process of healing and restoration began, during which he drew upon his faith to rediscover the joy of living.

"Lee's narration of her brilliant memoir is penetrating with insight, raw with confessions, radiant with fury. Her meticulous writing is already stupendous, but the unguarded emotions that flow through her candid voice are a remarkable enhancement. Her tears of frustration and gratitude will...

In Good Hands has enough twists and turns to make you wonder what to believe. Is this a tale about SIDS, a medical mystery? Or is it about murder? And if murder, what could be the motive? In the town of Irmo, where the Cutros had plenty of support, parents continued to drop off their children. They couldn’t fathom that these people might be dangerous. The Cutros had three children of their own.

Maria Rose shares her deeply personal journey of overcoming adversity, discovering inner strength, and reshaping her destiny. Her memoir explores how resilience and determination can transform even the most daunting circumstances into powerful catalysts for personal growth and success.

In rural Ohio, a kidnapped woman risks her life by calling 911 with her captor's phone. After she is rescued, investigators turn their attention to her kidnapper: a man named Shawn Grate. As detectives interview Grate, they realize that he may be behind the disappearances of multiple missing women in the area. Could they be face to face with a serial killer?

I believe Heavenly Father has a plan for each of us, a syllabus of sorts. Part of his plan includes facing unimaginable trials, things we would exclaim we could never do, never endure. It is with and through these challenges that if we allow, God grows and strengthens us, giving us power to endure and making us more than we thought we could be. Each challenge acts as a springboard, which moves us to another level of ability in forgiveness, patience, faith, empathy, gratitude, humility, prayer, and so many more attributes and skills.

My Life in Your Hands is a deeply personal memoir of Susan Tesseneer-Pope's remarkable life - at once a story of child abuse, marital abuse, attempted suicide, three marriages and two divorces over a period of eight decades. She shares events that are both embarrassing and heartbreaking in hope that her story may help the reader become aware of the red flags that she, herself, ignored too many times.

In A Flawed Man’s Plans in God’s Hands, Dr. Harry Hobbs and his wife, Erica, demonstrate that God is real and available to help you overcome obstacles and be all you can be! They share stories from their childhoods, how they met and fell in love, life in the United States Army, and their challenges in raising children as they confronted racism and prejudice, found their faith in Christ, succeeded in corporate America, and overcame their human weaknesses and failures.

“Lyrical and down-to-earth, wry and heartbreaking, This Life Is in Your Hands is a fascinating and powerful memoir. Melissa Coleman doesn’t just tell the story of her family’s brave experiment and private tragedy; she brings to life an important and underappreciated chapter of our recent...

Averil Mansfield established herself as a pioneer in every sense of the word when she qualified as a surgeon in the early 1970s. At the time just two per cent of her colleagues were female, and she was often met with surprise, bordering on disbelief and amusement, when telling people what she did. But time and again, Averil proved herself more than capable of the role which had been her greatest dream since the age of eight. After a formidable operating career in Liverpool and London, she went on to became the UK's first ever female professor of surgery.

Lightning in His Hand is a complete biography of Tesla's life, from his birth in Croatia in 1856 to his death in New York in 1943, with a special focus on Tesla’s experiments in Colorado.