Ergebnis für "Meier" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world's most popular video games, including Sid Meier's Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier's Memoir! is the story of an obsessive young computer enthusiast who helped launch a multibillion-dollar industry.

Désirée und Elias kündigen ihre gut bezahlten, sicheren Jobs und entscheiden sich für ein alternatives Leben außerhalb der durchorganisierten Zivilisation. Eine Segelyacht ist ab sofort ihr Zuhause. Als blutige Anfänger wagen sie sich ins Abenteuer "Meer". Schnell stellen sie fest, dass intensive, existentielle Naturerfahrungen und zutiefst berührende Begegnungen jetzt ihren Alltag bestimmen. Sie erleben eine Reise voller Überraschungen: Keine Weltumseglung, dafür Eintauchen in den ungleich größeren Mikrokosmos menschlichen Daseins.

The lives of many famous artists have been shrouded in mystery and conjecture, but none have been more controversial than the life of Vincent van Gogh. Remembered for his swirling brushstrokes and burning colors, Vincent van Gogh is today one of the best-known painters. Though his career as a painter spanned less than ten years, he produced a body of work that remains one of the most enduring in all of modern art. In his lifetime, however, he received little recognition. Today his paintings sell for countless millions, yet during his lifetime, van Gogh managed to sell just one painting.

Als Dorothee Röhrig auf ein altes Foto ihrer Mutter stößt, setzt sich ein Gedankenkarussell in Bewegung. Was weiß sie über diese Frau, die 18 war, als ihr Vater Hans von Dohnanyi hingerichtet wurde? Die nach dem Krieg versuchte, ihre traumatisierte Mutter Christine in das Familienleben einzubetten - so wie die Autorin später selbst für ihre von Verlusten gezeichnete Mutter da war.

Si chiama Inge, ha un padre di origini ebraiche, una madre ariana e non ha ancora tre anni quando nel 1933 Adolf Hitler presta giuramento come Cancelliere. Il carattere è quello forte di Trudel, la madre: testardo, esplosivo, a volte estremo (Inge dei vestiti buoni della domenica non ne vuole proprio sapere; meglio stivali da cavallerizza e pantaloni lunghi). Ingemaus – topolina, così la chiamano in famiglia – passa la sua infanzia a Gottinga, tra le mura amiche della caserma dove vive con il suo patrigno, dopo la fuga del padre in seguito alle persecuzioni razziali.

An “epic and intimate” (David M. Kennedy) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize—and previously unmapped—influence extending from daily life in New York City to the shaping of the American Century...

My name is Patrick Harrington, and they called me The Breeze. I trafficked drugs throughout the American southwest for fifteen years. I had the merchandise to take away people’s troubles, and then I was gone like a breeze. But no matter how many people I dealt oblivion to, I could never escape my demons. This is how a lifetime of trauma, dysfunction, bad choices, and addiction was healed and redeemed. With his characteristic wit, humor, and brutal honesty, Patrick brings you along for the roller coaster ride that was his life.

A Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist’s journey into a billon-dollar secret industry that is shaping our world – the booming business of private spying, operatives-for-hire retained by companies, political parties and the powerful to dig up dirt on their enemies and, if need be...

In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantánamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help from the United States.

Ma petite histoire a-t-elle un intérêt à être écoutée ? Je m'appelle Laurence et à cette question, je te réponds un grand “OUI”! J’ai toujours eu une curiosité pour l’autre et son histoire, petite ou grande soit elle. Pour moi, ce brin de vie raconté, partagé et écouté est une occasion en or pour se rencontrer, se connaître et se comprendre peut-être. A nos souvenirs! c’est donc un lieu pour se raconter les uns à côtés des autres en ne retenant qu’un souvenir, celui qui compte aujourd’hui ; ce jour joyeux de notre enfance, cette rencontre inattendue, ce ...

The War of 1812 is a conflict that history too often leaves in the margins—overshadowed by the American Revolution before it and the Civil War after. Yet, it was a war that redefined nations, betrayed allies, and laid the groundwork for modern North American identity. In Unfinished Business, former U.S. military strategist and war historian Korey Blathewick pulls this overlooked war from the shadows, exposing the complexities, contradictions, and consequences of a clash that shaped three nations and left a legacy still felt today.

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In this groundbreaking investigation into the unsolved Whitechapel Murders case of 1888, Tom Slemen uncovers a shocking possibility - that the Jack the Ripper murders were executed by a military-trained assassin hired by the British Intelligence Service.