Brian Johnson

The author shares how he endured acute panic attacks that caused him to spiral into darkness, until he found Christ there, ready to pull him out, and encourages readers living through their own periods of darkness to look for God there.

When God Becomes Real

A philosopher's notes on optimal living, creating an authentically awesome life and other such goodness.

A philosopher's notes

Brian Johnson's memoir from growing up in a small town to starting his own band to ultimately replacing Bon Scott, the lead singer of one of the world biggest rock acts, AC/DC. They would record their first album together, the iconic Back in Black, which would become the biggest selling rock album of all time. Brian Johnson was born to a steelworker and WWII veteran father and an Italian mother, growing up in New Castle Upon Tyne, England, a working-class town. He was musically inclined and sang with the church choir. By the early '70s he performed with the glam rock band Geordie, and they had a couple hits, but it was tough going. So tough that by 1976, they disbanded and Brian turned to a blue-collar life. Then 1980 changed everything. Bon Scott, the lead singer and lyricist of the Australian rock band AC/DC died at 33. The band auditioned singers, among them Johnson, whom Scott himself had seen perform and raved about. Within days, Johnson was in a studio with the band, working with founding members Angus and Malcolm Young, Cliff Williams, and Phil Rudd, along with producer Mutt Lange. When the album, Back in Black, was released in July--a mere three months after Johnson had joined the band--it exploded, going on to sell 50 million copies worldwide, and triggering a years-long worldwide tour. It has been declared "the biggest selling hard rock album ever made" and "the best-selling heavy-metal album in history." The band toured the world for a full year to support the album, changing the face of rock music--and Brian Johnson's life--forever.

The Lives of Brian

By night, Brian Johnson sings in the biggest rock 'n' roll band on the planet. But by day, AC/DC's frontman drives balls to the wall. When he was a young boy growing up in a working-class English town, Brian developed what would become a lifelong passion for cars, trolling junkyards and even pretending to drive the family car. From there, he steamed up the windows of his old Mini Cooper as a teenager, spent untold time in hygienically challenged tour buses, was chauffeured in leather-trimmed limos, and raced cars to a checkered flag. Featuring guest stars Cliff Williams, Malcolm and Angus Young, and many, many others—even Arnold Schwarzenegger—Rockers and Rollers is a tribute to Brian's obsession with four wheels. By turns surprising, poignant, funny, and maybe a little bit bawdy, these are the stories of a man who drives as hard as he rocks.

A Full-Throttle Memoir

Rockers and Rollers

Guidebook to the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), an epic 2650-mile hike from California's Mexican border to Canada's British Columbia. One of the world's best hikes, the route passes through California, Oregon and Washington State, taking in the Mojave desert, High Sierras, Cascades and countless more wild mountains.

From Mexico to Canada on Foot

The Pacific Crest Trail

James Carrott

Explores the steampunk movement, looking at the lessons its principles impart on how people consider their relationship to technology, and detailing how its vision of handtooled gadgets stands up in an age of disposable technology.

A Historian And A Futurist Journey Through Steampunk Into The Future of Technology

Vintage Tomorrows

Naomi Mitchison

John Ellis

Elizabeth Young

Deepak Lal

Richard William Johnson

Laurence Whitehead

Nicholas Falk

David Edward Charles Eversley

David Bleakley

Jim Skinner

Rupert Greer

Society of Labour Lawyers. Housing Group

Haris Martinos

An Anti-white Paper

Defence Review

Léon-Paul de Rouw

Digital Information Design (DID) Foundation Digital Information Design (DID) is primarily a business information management (BIM) model. As with any model it is used to help you to describe problems and test potential solutions. DID is not like any other method or framework model; it is independent of any other existing model or framework and does not claim to manage the entirety of the design of business information services. DID identifies useful and widely used best practices that are designed specifically for use in any phase of business information service development from idea, conception, specification, design, test, handover, service management and operation, or managing architectural issues or hardware and software installation. Primarily, DID was developed to manage the quality of information, and how to put it to good use. The DID model has been designed for you to identify what you need and when you need it when designing business information services and as a broad guide, identifies key points in existing frameworks that are particularly useful. The model is wholly independent of all other frameworks (including BiSL and BiSL Next in which the basic design is rooted). You can choose and use whatever you wish, the model will help you to assess the validity of your choice(s) and identify strengths and weaknesses in your approach. The DID model focuses on the common languages to describe key elements of design (need and value, mission and capability), key business information perspectives (business, information/data, services and technology) and the high-level domains (governance, strategy, improvement and operation) that must be managed in order to effectively run any business. DID helps you to identify only what you need to ensure that business information design reflects what is needed by your enterprise. The model can be used entirely separately from the framework level guidance discussed and it can be used at any level in the organization. The essentials of DID are explained in two books: this book, Foundation and the Practitioner book that will be published later.

Digital Information Design (DID) Foundation

« Ce n'était pas moi. Ce n’est pas moi qui l’ai fait. Et je ne le referai plus jamais ! » Brian Johnson, chanteur et légende d’AC/DC, nous raconte sa vie en forme de montagnes russes, une histoire très rock'n'roll au cours de laquelle Brian a tout fait pour garder les pieds sur terre. Fils d'un militaire anglais et d'une mère italienne, Brian a grandi dans la banlieue de Newcastle en Angleterre, juste après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le jour où il a vu Little Richard à la télévision cela a changé le cours de sa vie : l'enfant de chœur deviendrait chanteur. Après de nombreuses tentatives pour percer avec ses divers groupes, il se retrouve à passer une audition à Londres pour l'un des plus grands groupes de rock. À l’époque, AC/DC était en crise après la mort tragique de leur chanteur, Bon Scott. Brian relève alors le défi avec succès, ils enregistrent leur chef-d'œuvre : Back in Black, qui est devenu l'album rock le plus vendu de tous les temps. La tournée qui s’en suivra se déroule dans des stades bondés. Rapidement adopté par les fans du groupe, le petit nouveau avait fait ses preuves. Mais de nombreux rebondissements allaient survenir. CHALEUREUX, VIF ET SOUVENT DRÔLE, LES VIES DE BRIAN RACONTE L’HISTOIRE DE L’UN DES ARTISTES LES PLUS APPRÉCIÉS DE TOUS LES TEMPS, DE SA PROPRE VOIX INIMITABLE.

Brian Johnson : Les vies de Brian

The Universal Service Desk (USD) – Implementing, controlling and improving service delivery defines what a USD is, why it is valuable to an organisation and how to build and implement one. It also discusses the evolution of the USD as part of integrated workplace management.

Implementing, controlling and improving service delivery

The Universal Service Desk (USD)

25 Years of Festival Fever

Brave Films, Wild Nights

Paul Nunes

This is the first book to explain how the fundamentals of marketing strategy must change in response to this broad-based increase in wealth The authors specifically addresses how to fine tune a mass marketing approach that captures the value created from greater consumer affluence. After years of expensive and largely ineffective attempts at one-to-one marketing and other complex varieties of microsegmentation, the business environment is ripe for a switch back to the relative simplicity of a mass marketing mindset Flouts conventional wisdom: the authors in-depth research uncovered that today's moneyed masses are completely different than the mass market of decades past in terms of how much they have to spend and what they are willing to spend it on. Reveals the mass marketing strategies a range of companies have already successfully used to hit pay dirt with products ranging from oral care to laundry detergent to exotic automobiles.

Seven New Rules of Marketing to Today's Consumer

Mass Affluence

The Class We Never HadIsn't it a bit odd that we went from Science to Math to History but somehow missed the class on how to live? For some wacky reason "Optimal Living 101" didn't make the schedule... But imagine if that class did exist-and the teachers included everyone from the old school philosophers like Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Emerson, Nietzsche and the Buddha to modern gurus like Joseph Campbell, Dan Millman, Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle and Wayne Dyer plus the world's leading positive psychologists like Sonja Lyubomirsky, Tal Ben-Shahar and Martin Seligman who are *scientifically* establishing how we can live with more happiness, meaning and mojo. Think of this book as the nerd in the class a Philosopher's notes on that awesome class. From "Spiritual Farts" and "110-Year Old You"s to "The Tolle Trap" and "Blissipline," you'll have fun getting your wisdom on in this inspiring, playful, wise and practical little book as Brian Johnson shares one hundred of his favorite Big Ideas on how to create a life brimming with a radiant enthusiasm only discovered when we align with the fundamentals of Optimal Living.

On Optimal Living, Creating an Authentically Awesome Life and Other Such Goodness

A Philosopher's Note

Duncan Mackenzie

Provides information on the features and functions of the Xbox 360.

Xbox 360?For Dummies

Brian Johnson, sångaren i AC/DC, ger äntligen ut sina memoarer. När Brian för första gången ser Little Richard på BBC förändras hans liv och han bestämmer sig för att bli rocksångare. Många år senare blir han inbjuden till en audition för ett av världens största rockband, efter att i ett decennium försökt slå sig fram inom musikbranschen. AC/DC var i kris efter att sångaren i bandet, Bon Scott, tragiskt gått bort. Med Brian ombord spelar bandet in sitt mästerverk Back in Black, som sedan kom att bli det mest sålda rockalbumet genom tiderna. Brian blir snabbt omfamnad av bandets fans och resten är historia. Men år 2016 tvingas Brian sluta i bandet efter att ha fått diagnosen hörselnedsättning. Fyra år senare gör han en triumferande återkomst till bandet han älskar. Karriären har varit en berg-och dalbana men Brian har behållit båda fötterna jorden och aldrig tappat kontakten med sina rötter. Boken är en varm, levande, stämningsfull, livsbejakande och humoristisk berättelse om en älskad artist, med en helt unik röst.

Livet enligt Brian

Paul M. Anderson

Sakis Meliopoulos

Charles F. Henville

Rasheek Rifaat

A newly updated guide to the protection of power systems in the 21st century Power System Protection, 2nd Edition combines brand new information about the technological and business developments in the field of power system protection that have occurred since the last edition was published in 1998. The new edition includes updates on the effects of short circuits on: Power quality Multiple setting groups Quadrilateral distance relay characteristics Loadability It also includes comprehensive information about the impacts of business changes, including deregulation, disaggregation of power systems, dependability, and security issues. Power System Protection provides the analytical basis for design, application, and setting of power system protection equipment for today's engineer. Updates from protection engineers with distinct specializations contribute to a comprehensive work covering all aspects of the field. New regulations and new components included in modern power protection systems are discussed at length. Computer-based protection is covered in-depth, as is the impact of renewable energy systems connected to distribution and transmission systems.

Power System Protection

Seit über 40 Jahren ist Brian Johnson Sänger von AC/DC, der erfolgreichsten Hard-Rock-Band aller Zeiten. Erstmals erzählt er jetzt sein Leben – eine der unterhaltsamsten Geschichten der Rock’n‘Roll-Geschichte überhaupt. Brian wuchs in bescheidenen Verhältnissen im Norden Englands auf – und schon früh stand für ihn fest: Er will Rocksänger werden. Über ein Jahrzehnt lang versuchte sich Brian Johnson später mit verschiedenen Bands einen Namen zu machen, doch der große Erfolg schien unerreichbar. Erst mit 31 Jahren – nach scheinbar gescheiterter Karriere, gescheiterter Ehe und einigen Gelegenheitsjobs – kam seine große Chance: Er wurde von AC/DC, schon damals eine der größten Rockbands der Welt, zum Vorsingen nach London eingeladen. Die Band steckte nach dem überraschenden Tod ihres Frontmanns in einer tiefen Krise und war auf Anhieb begeistert von dem ungekünstelten Mann aus dem Norden. Er bekam den Job! Es folgte eine einmalige Erfolgsgeschichte: Das erste gemeinsame Album »Back in Black« wurde zum meistverkauften Rockalbum aller Zeiten, zahllose ausverkaufte Tourneen schlossen sich an und die Fangemeinde wuchs immens. AC/DC – und Brian Johnson – haben Kultstatus. Das abrupte Ende dieses Höhenfluges kam für Brian im Jahr 2016. Während einer Amerika-Tour verschlechterte sich sein Hörvermögen schlagartig, und er stand vor der Wahl: Entweder er hört sofort auf oder er riskiert einen kompletten Hörverlust. Das hätte für Brian Johnson beinah den Abschied aus der Welt der Musik bedeutet. Doch 2020 gelang ihm mit dem Erfolgsalbum »Power Up« die triumphale Rückkehr zur Band. Eine Achterbahnfahrt durch das außergewöhnliche Leben eines Mannes, der bei allem Welterfolg seinen Wurzeln immer treu geblieben ist.

Die Autobiografie

Die Leben des Brian

It was never Rolan's fault. Born into a world where role models seem not to exist. Going through so much at a young age made him grow up with his heart down. Too young to understand but too smart not to realize something Daddy was doing wasnt right. His mother's name was Stacy Johnson, and his father's name was Rodney Williams. The struggle and pain of Stacy and Rodney had growing up made it difficult to raise Rolan. The streets of Chicago are a beast, and the only beauty of it is surviving and staying strong.

Daddy Why You Do It?

On the tumultuous eve of the sixteenth century, as Girolamo Savonarola preached apocalypse in the cathedral of Florence and his protégé, the neoplatonic philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, breathed his last under mysterious circumstances, all while the army of a French king marched on the Italian peninsula, an anonymous Roman scrivener was putting the finishing touches on his masterwork. But it was neither an illuminated book of hours nor an encyclopedic chronicle of kingly deeds to which he set his pen, for this copyist was a magician, and his humble notebook contained a treasure trove of arcane knowledge - knowledge that might bring him wealth, power, even love...if he could bear the risks it entailed. Preserved in the Florentine Laurentian Library under the patronage of two Medici popes, published here for the first time are extensive excerpts from this Italian necromancer's handbook, detailing both general methods and particular rites of spirit conjuration, along with a veritable pantheon of the demonic personages upon whom one might call. Including the original Latin text in parallel with a new English translation, this edition is also furnished with a critical apparatus and introductory essay which illuminate this manuscript's place in a network of occult practitioners and texts that circulated all the way from the Papal States to the shores of England.

An Edition and Translation of Excerpts from Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Plut. 89 Sup. 38

Necromancy in the Medici Library

Darren Arcangel

This practical guide recognises that every organisation functions differently, has different goals, and faces different challenges. It will give you the tools you need to understand the factors influencing your organisation, to identify how your business must respond, and to implement the necessary changes.

Brian Johnson

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