Ergebnis für "In a Jar" in Geschichte

During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredibly, after the war her heroism, like that of many others, was suppressed by communist Poland and remained virtually unknown for 60 years.

“Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on...

How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic", as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business? In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America's beauty culture.

Voormalig Nederlands kampioen hoogspringen Raymond de Vries neemt u mee in de bizarre wereld van de atletiek in de jaren 80 en 90. Na zijn carrière als hoogspringer werd hij atletenmanager en al snel had hij de beste ploeg van de wereld opgebouwd. Zo begeleidde hij wereld- en olympisch kampioenen als Merlene Ottey, Ben Johnson, Paul Ereng, Billy Konchellah en vele anderen. Hij begeleidde deze ploeg op de olympische spelen van 1988 (Seoul) en 1992 (Barcelona) en daarnaast op meerdere WK's. Raymond heeft gedurende deze periode de meest onwaarschijnlijke avonturen mee gemaakt en wil u daar graag...