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Anna Eckhoff is a mother of six and the grandmother of thirteen. At the age of fifty-six, she swapped her career as an IT project manager to work as the head of administration in the world’s hotspots, holding jobs at NGOs, the EU and the UN, where she worked within accounting, personnel, procurement, logistics and IT. She returned to Denmark at the age of seventy-one, but dreams of going out into the world again to work.From early childhood, Anna Eckhoff dreamed of excitement. She secretly ran around the local inner fjord to train for the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. But it was not until forty years later that she was able to live out her childhood dream of combining excitement with travel. Before then, she managed to fulfill another dream: Getting married and having a lot of children. At the age of fifty-six, Anna Eckhoff replaced her secure life in a Danish suburb with the demanding duties of war zones, where she was stationed for the first time. And despite the many challenges that come with new beginnings so late in life, Anna Eckhoff was never in doubt — she belonged in the world’s hotspots. Over the next fifteen years, Anna Eckhoff was on secondment ten times, including in Iraq, Sudan, Palestine, Afghanistan, Russia and Libya. Here she met a host of international employees and locals and led a life of both rewarding and exhausting relationships that sometimes made her feel like she was a participant on the TV show Survivor. Working under the auspices of NGOs, the EU and the UN enabled Anna Eckhoff to experience up close the vastly different interests that govern the course of the world.At the age of seventy-one, she returned home to her children and grandchildren in Denmark but discovered that she still wanted to work. And that part of her is still longing for more adventures.A New Beginning – Life on the frontlines is Anna Eckhoff’s personal account of daring to go after your dreams, despite those around you shaking their heads in disapproval, and about the inner development she experienced living and working on the frontlines.

Iraks grænseland suste forbi udenfor, mens jeg kørte bilen alene igennem det støvede landskab, hvor ørkenen bølgede i temperaturer tæt på 50 grader. Et stykke fra grænsen holdt jeg ind til siden, tog den store grå vinterjakke fra Danmark på og fyldte dollarsedler i lommerne. Jeg fordelte pengesedlerne, så godt jeg kunne, og satte bilen i bevægelse mod den irakiske grænse. Jeg var blevet 59 år, og selvom jeg nu ikke alene var mor til seks, men også bedstemor, var jeg atter taget ud på eventyr. For et par måneder siden svømmede jeg med pensionister. Nu smuglede jeg amerikanske dollars ind i Irak et par gange om måneden…Allerede som barn drømmer Anna Eckhoff om spænding. Da hun er 12 år, løber hun i al hemmelighed rundt i Nakskovs inderfjord for at træne til de olympiske lege i Tokyo. Først over 40 år senere udlever hun barndomsdrømmen om at kombinere spænding med rejser. Inden da har hun nået at opfylde en anden drøm – at blive gift og få mange børn.Som 56-årig skifter Anna Eckhoff den trygge tilværelse i Allerød ud med krævende opgaver i krigszoner, hvor hun bliver udstationeret første gang. Og selvom der er mange udfordringer ved at ændre livsstil så sent i livet, er Anna Eckhoff aldrig i tvivl – det er i verdens brændpunkter, hun hører til.I løbet af de næste 15 år arbejder Anna Eckhoff i 10 forskellige lande, blandt andet Irak, Sudan, Palæstina, Afghanistan og Libyen. Her møder hun et væld af internationale medarbejdere og lokale – et liv med både givende og opslidende relationer, der indimellem får hende til at føle, at hun er deltager i Robinson Ekspeditionen. Anna Eckhoff får arbejde i både NGO- og EU-regi og oplever, hvor vidt forskellige interesser der styrer verdens gang.Som 71-årig vender hun hjem til sine 6 børn og 12 børnebørn i Danmark, men opdager, at hun fortsat gerne vil arbejde. Og at en del af hende stadig længes ud…Sporskifte – et liv i verdens brændpunkter er Anna Eckhoffs personlige fortælling om at turde gå efter sine drømme, selvom omgivelserne ryster på hovedet ad en, og om den udvikling, hun gennemgår i verdens brændpunkter.

A memoir of struggle and perseverance offering new ways of envisioning economic equality for everyone, from a leading activist and fashion pioneer who founded the Fifteen Percent Pledge, which challenges retailers to commit 15% of their shelf space and spending power to Black businesses.

Approaching retirement and frustrated with her job, Siobhan Daniels made a BIG decision: to start living life on her own terms. Rather than hiding from life's challenges, she bought a motorhome and drove off to find them. Retirement Rebel is Siobhan's story about how she stepped off the merry-go-round of life and started enjoying the journey.

After moving to the Maine woods to build her dream home, thirty-nine-year-old feminist lesbian attorney Roberta Kuriloff confronts major life experiences and events from her childhood and her present—including a tragic loss that spurs an eight-year quest into Kabbalah, Buddhism, reincarnation, and psychic experiences—in pursuit of the true meaning of home.

A gripping wartime account from a little girl who lived in Coventry, one of the Britain's most bombed cities

Originally published in 2000 by Riverhead Books.

A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history—and present—of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the worldOff the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it’s nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific.Two thousand ships have been wrecked on the bar since the first European ship dared to try to cross it in the late 18thcentury. For decades ships continued to make the bar crossing with great peril, first with native guides and later with opportunistic newcomers, as Europeans settled in Washington and Oregon, displacing the natives and transforming the river into the hub of a booming region. Since then, the commercial importance of the Columbia River has only grown, and despite the construction of jetties on either side, the bar remains treacherous, even today a site of shipwrecks and dramatic rescues as well as power struggles between small fishermen, powerful shipowners, local communities in Washington and Oregon, the Coast Guard, and the Columbia River Bar Pilots – a small group of highly skilled navigators who help guide ships through the mouth of the Columbia.When Randall Sullivan and a friend set out to cross the bar in a two-man kayak, they’re met with skepticism and concern. But on a clear day in July 2021, when the tides and weather seem right, they embark. As they plunge through the currents that have taken so many lives, Randall commemorates the brave sailors that made the crossing before him – including his own abusive father, a sailor himself who also once dared to cross the bar – and reflects on toxic masculinity, fatherhood, and what drives men to extremes.Rich with exhaustive research and propulsive narrative, Graveyard of the Pacific follows historical shipwrecks through the moment-by-moment details that often determined whether sailors would live or die, exposing the ways in which boats, sailors, and navigation have changed over the decades. As he makes his way across the bar, floating above the wrecks and across the same currents that have taken so many lives, Randall Sullivan faces the past, both in his own life and on the Columbia River Bar.

In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense of what life is like in a region of the world that once formed the cradle of civilisation, but that in recent times has witnessed turmoil and appalling bloodshed. In the journal he kept during his trip he describes the war-ravaged city of Mosul and the children he encounters growing up amid its ruins. He contemplates the graffiti-strewn ruins of Saddam Hussein's former palaces, and he notes the constant presence of armed guards. But there are patches of light amid the dark: boisterous New Year celebrations in Akre, the friendliness of generals and colonels at 'Checkpoint Cheerful', and public poetry readings in Baghdad. People getting on with their lives.At the same time, Michael charts the course of one of the great rivers of the world, showing how the water that gave life to such ancient settlements as Babylon and Ur is now becoming a scarce and hotly contested resource. And he considers the role that Iraq's other great natural resource - oil - plays in both providing wealth and threatening political stability.Illustrated throughout with colour photographs taken on the trip, and permeated with his warmth and humour, this is a vivid and varied portrait of a complex country.

Dette er den redigerede udgave af bogen Bedrag på 1. klasse - om Storsvindleren Amanda Jacobsen, der i 2011 blev sigtet for at svindle sin arbejdsgiver for 120 millioner kroner.Bogen er redigeret, da Amanda Jacobsen sagsøgte forlaget og forfatterne - idet hun mente, at dele af bogen var usand. Forlaget og forfatterne indgik forlig og dette er den reviderede version.Bogen fortæller ikke blot lidt om Amandas skæbne, men også om hvorledes hendes sikkerhedschef og livvagt, Henrik Bramsborg, endte hos hende og familien.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl documents Jacobs' life as a slave and how she gained freedom for her family. She explores the struggles and sexual abuse that slaves faced on plantations and their efforts to protect their families.