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During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson won more championships than any coach in the history of professional sports. Even more important, he succeeded in never wavering from coaching his way, from a place of deep values. Jackson was tagged as the 'Zen master' half in jest by sportswriters, but the nickname speaks to an important truth: this is a coach who inspired, not goaded; who led by awakening and challenging the better angels of his players nature, not their egos, fear, or greed.This is the story of a preacher s kid from North Dakota who grew up to be one of the most innovative leaders of our time. In his quest to reinvent himself, Jackson explored everything from humanistic psychology and Native American philosophy to Zen meditation. In the process, he developed a new approach to leadership based on freedom, authenticity, and selfless teamwork that turned the hyper-competitive world of professional sports on its head.In Eleven Rings, Jackson candidly describes how he:- Learned the secrets of mindfulness and team chemistry while playing for the champion New York Knicks in the 1970s- Managed Michael Jordan, the greatest player in the world, and got him to embrace selflessness, even if it meant losing a scoring title- Forged successful teams out of players of varying abilities by getting them to trust one another and perform in sync- Inspired Dennis Rodman and other 'uncoachable' personalities to devote themselves to something larger than themselves- Transformed Kobe Bryant from a rebellious teenager into a mature leader of a championship team. Eleven times, Jackson led his teams to the ultimate goal: the NBA championship six times with the Chicago Bulls and five times with the Los Angeles Lakers. We all know the legendary stars on those teams, or think we do. What Eleven Rings shows us, however, is that when it comes to the most important lessons, we don t know very much at all. This book is full of revelations: about fascinating personalities and their drive to win; about the wellsprings of motivation and competition at the highest levels; and about what it takes to bring out the best in ourselves and others.

Self-Made Man is a captivating book written by the talented Norah Vincent. Published by Atlantic Books in 2006, this book offers a unique perspective that keeps readers engaged from start to finish. This book falls under the genre of non-fiction and gives an insightful look into the author's experience of living disguised as a man for 18 months. Vincent's daring social experiment explores gender identity, societal expectations, and the nuances of masculine privilege. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of gender roles in our society. Atlantic Books is proud to have this enlightening and thought-provoking piece in its collection.

Simon Nielsen smadrer sine fremtidsdrømme, da han en aften kommer i slagsmål og efterfølgende får en voldsdom. Han skulle have været af sted som dansk soldat til Afghanistan, men bliver i stedet smidt ud af Forsvaret. I fængslet rammer han bunden. Det liv, han drømte om, er væk – og det er hans egen skyld. Langsomt begynder en ny drøm dog at vokse. En drøm om Fremmedlegionen, der lover alle egnede soldater en ny chance. Stik imod alle gode råd tager Simon til Sydfrankrig til Fremmedlegionens hovedbase. Han har ikke penge nok til returbilletten, så der er kun én vej. Det bliver til fem år i Fremmedlegionen: en brutal rekruttid, vold og udfordringer, på mission mod islamister i Afrika og på guldjagt i Amazonas – men også broderskab og genrejsning. Simon Nielsen er i dag brandmand i Specialtjenesten ved Hovedstadens Beredskab. I sommers løb han et maraton for Børne-cancerfonden i brandmandsuniform. Sammen med sin makker har han desuden for nylig vundet en guldmedalje ved Danmarksmesterskabet i FireFit og skal i september 2024 til VM i Canada.

Benny Frederiksen var 24 år og politibetjent på prøve, da han en mørk aften i oktober 1980 blev første mand på gerningsstedet i den bestialske sag om drabet på en af Simon Spies’ tidligere morgenbolledamer, Michelle Anderson. Det blev begyndelsen på den røde tråd i et politiliv, som kom til at handle om kunsten at hverve hemmelige meddelere og opklare sager om alt fra skjulte hashtunneler på Christiania til Snapchatdrabet i Gentofte. Gennem 40 år perfektionerede Benny sit talent for at få den danske underverden i tale, og i sin erindringsbog tager han læseren med på en enestående rejse gennem nyere kriminalhistorie, fra Uropatruljen til Rejseholdet og afdelingen for organiseret kriminalitet.Mellem de grumme og alvorlige kriminalsager tegner Benny Frederiksens også et farverigt og fascinerende portræt af en tid i dansk politi, som ikke er mere. Han knappede sin første uniform i en tid, hvor cheferne var veteraner fra krigens tid, der havde siddet i koncentrationslejr og ordnede politiforretninger bevæbnet med porter og cigar. Han var ung betjent med moderigtigt overskæg, dengang uniformen var en livsstil, og en rigtig politimand ikke sjældent havde tre-fire forliste ægteskaber på samvittigheden. Og han ser tilbage på sin tid i Uropatruljen og Rejseholdet, hvor han fik venner for livet og opklarede ”sine” største sager sammen med de bedste efterforskere i faget; blandt andet mordet på 12-årige Mia, der rystede Danmark; Sonay-drabet, Danmarks første store sag om æresdrab; og det store våbenkup på Antvorskov Kaserne.

'LISTEN. The greatest feeling I ever had in my life -- with my clothes on -- was when I first heard Diz and Bird back in 1944. I've come close to matching the feeling of that night, but I've never quite got there. I'm always looking for it, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play ...'

Legendary money manager Peter Lynch explains his own strategies for investing and offers advice for how to pick stocks and mutual funds to assemble a successful investment portfolio.Develop a Winning Investment Strategywith Expert Advice from The Nations #1 Money Manager. Peter Lynchs invest in what you know strategy has made him a household name with investors both big and small. An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. Theres a company behind every stock and a reason companiesand their stocksperform the way they do. In this book, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insights and on straightforward do-it-yourself research. In Beating the Street, Lynch for the first time explains how to devise a mutual fund strategy, shows his step-by-step strategies for picking stock, and describes how the individual investor can improve his or her investment performance to rival that of the experts. Theres no reason the individual investor cant match wits with the experts, and this book will show you how.

I disse usentimentale og gribende erindringer fortæller præsident Barack Obama om sin opvækst og sit liv som barn af en sort far og en hvid mor – og om kampen for at finde sin egen identitet. Historien begynder i New York, hvor Barack Obama får at vide, at hans far – som forlod familien, da sønnen var to år – er blevet dræbt i en bilulykke. Dødsfaldet sender Obama ud på en følelsesmæssig rejse, først til en lille flække i Kansas, hvorfra hans mors familie emigrerer til Hawaii, og derefter til Kenya, hvor han møder den afrikanske side af familien. Barack Obama var 33 år, da han skrev Arven fra min far, som giver læseren et enestående indblik i en banebrydende politikers personlige historie."En fremragende – og ikke mindst fremragende skrevet – bog. Det er svært at komme i tanke om nulevende politikere med så levende en pen som Obama og politikere med så stor en sans for nuancer og glæde ved at observere, fundere og filosofere, sådan som det kommer til udtryk i hans bog." Tom Buk-Swienty, Weekendavisen"Det her er noget af det mest personlige, ærlige og skarpe, jeg længe har læst, skrevet af en nulevende, offentlig person – og samtidig er det alt andet end individuelt og privat (…) den mest overbevisende, intelligente og bevægende bog om identitet, jeg kan huske at have læst." Tøger Seidenfaden, Politiken Barack Obama (f. 1961) var senator for staten Illinois, før han blev valgt som Det Demokratiske Partis kandidat til præsidentvalget i 2008. I 2012 blev han valgt til sin anden præsidentperiode i USA. Han og hans hustru, Michelle, og deres to døtre, Malia og Sasha, kommer oprindeligt fra Chicago.

A celebration of the process and artwork created for the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac

"A dynamic group biography studded with design history and high-society dash . . . [This] elegantly wrought narrative bears the Cartier hallmark."-The EconomistThe "astounding" (André Leon Talley) story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather's humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon-as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives"Ms. Cartier Brickell has done her grandfather proud."-The Wall Street Journal The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty-four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s. At its heart are the three Cartier brothers whose motto was "Never copy, only create" and who made their family firm internationally famous in the early days of the twentieth century, thanks to their unique and complementary talents: Louis, the visionary designer who created the first men's wristwatch to help an aviator friend tell the time without taking his hands off the controls of his flying machine; Pierre, the master dealmaker who bought the New York headquarters on Fifth Avenue for a double-stranded natural pearl necklace; and Jacques, the globe-trotting gemstone expert whose travels to India gave Cartier access to the world's best rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, inspiring the celebrated Tutti Frutti jewelry. Francesca Cartier Brickell, whose great-grandfather was the youngest of the brothers, has traveled the world researching her family's history, tracking down those connected with her ancestors and discovering long-lost pieces of the puzzle along the way. Now she reveals never-before-told dramas, romances, intrigues, betrayals, and more. The Cartiers also offers a behind-the-scenes look at the firm's most iconic jewelry-the notoriously cursed Hope Diamond, the Romanov emeralds, the classic panther pieces-and the long line of stars from the worlds of fashion, film, and royalty who wore them, from Indian maharajas and Russian grand duchesses to Wallis Simpson, Coco Chanel, and Elizabeth Taylor. Published in the two-hundredth anniversary year of the birth of the dynasty's founder, Louis-François Cartier, this book is a magnificent, definitive, epic social history shown through the deeply personal lens of one legendary family.

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The authorised biography of cult hero Finnish Formula One world champion Kimi Raikkoenen - the closest thing we'll ever get to his autobiography.

The Gospel According To Luke is the outrageous and hilarious autobiography of Steve Lukather, leader of the multi-million selling band Toto.

Once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend - the No. 1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. 'A masterpiece' The Word 'Electrifying' New York Times

A chronicle of the career of Meotley Creue, one of rock music's most provocative and notorious bands, provides an insider's view of rock stardom.

10. juni 2020 døde Chimamanda Adichies far, James, pludseligt i Nigeria. I dette fintmærkende og stærke erindringsværk, mindes hans datter, en erklæret ’fars pige’, sin elskede far. Noter om sorg er en hyldest til et levet liv, en fortælling om en datters uforbeholdne kærlighed til en forælder og et studie i forskellige former for tab, og i sorgens natur.Bogen er en udvidet og bearbejdet version af en tekst bragt i The New Yorker. Lysende. The Times, UKSkarp, kærlig og rå. Los Angeles TimesDybt gribende … en enestående læseoplevelse. AftonbladetChimamanda Ngozi Adichie debuterede med romanen Lilla hibiscus. Opfølgeren En halv gul sol vandt the Orange Prize (nu the Women’s Prize for Fiction) og blev i 2020 udråbt som deres ”Winner of winners”, den bedste roman til at have modtaget prisen i de 25 år, den er blevet uddelt. Romanen Americanah vandt US National Book Critics Circle Award, og novellesamlingen Det du har om halsen samt de to essays Vi burde alle være feminister og Brev til en nybagt forælder: Et feministisk manifest i femten punkter har allerede status af moderne klassikere. Hun er modtager af et MacArthur Fellowship og deler sin tid mellem USA og Nigeria.

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Irina the Diva er i dag en af Danmarks største beauty-bloggere med eget make-up-brand, men vejen til at blive en succesfuld forretningskvinde har været snørklet og fyldt med modstand.I bogen IRINA – jeg rejser mig hver gang fortæller hun om at vokse op som skøjteprinsesse i Ukraine under et strengt olympisk træningsregime. Om at føle sig fremmed og uvelkommen, da familien flytter til Danmark. Om hvor stigmatiserende det er at være kendt fra reality-tv. Og om hvordan hun tacklede sin kærestes misbrug og kæmpede for sin familie.Det er fortællingen om, hvordan en opvækst med hundredvis af hårde fald på isen har gjort hende til en fighter, der aldrig bliver liggende – hun rejser sig hver gang.

An account of the last seven years of Freddie Mercury's life by his lover Jim Hutton. A former barber at the Savoy Hotel, Jim never fully assimilated into Mercury's jet-setting lifestyle, but was closer to him than anyone else, and knew all his friends, including Elton John and Phil Collins.

Hans talent for at knuse mordgåder er uomtvisteligt. Allerede fra han læste om Rigspolitiets Rejsehold første gang, vidste han, at det var den vej, han ville gå - på jagt efter forbryderne og de uopklarede kriminalsager. Som en af de yngste nogensinde blev han ansat i Rejseholdet og senere forfremmet til Rejseholdets chef.I Man jager et bæst, fortæller politiinspektør Bent Isager-Nielsen om sit liv i politiet - og i skyggen af den ultimative forbrydelse, hvor et menneske har måttet lade livet. Med udgangspunkt i virkelige mordgåder og deres opklaring fortæller han om politiets efterforskningsarbejde, om retsmedicin, afhøringsteknik og kriminalvidenskab, for slet ikke at nævne de mere moderne discipliner som DNA-registrering og gerningsmandsprofilering, som Bent Isager-Nielsen var med til at få indført her i landet.Med mere end 20 år med drab på første hånd er Bent Isager-Nielsen en af Danmarks mest garvede drabsefterforskere. Men også en af de mest forstående. Og er der én ting, erfaringen har lært ham, er det, at der selv bag de frygteligste forbrydelser altid gemmer sig et menneske - ofte et skræmt, kuet og ødelagt barn i en stor mands krop.Det er bare ingen undskyldning for drab.

An inspiring and radical celebration of 70 women, girls, and gender nonbinary people who have changed--and are still changing--the world, from the Civil Rights Movement and Stonewall riots through Black Lives Matter and beyond.With a radical and inclusive approach to history, Modern HERstory profiles and celebrates seventy women and nonbinary champions of progressive social change in a bold, colorful, illustrated format for all ages. Despite making huge contributions to the liberation movements of the last century and today, all of these trailblazers come from backgrounds and communities that are traditionally overlooked and under-celebrated: not just women, but people of color, queer people, trans people, disabled people, young people, and people of faith. Authored by rising star activist Blair Imani, Modern HERstory tells the important stories of the leaders and movements that are changing the world right here and right now--and will inspire you to do the same.

Joan Didion's savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution.

Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation.