Recommended reading for elite CEOs and top performers, Areté delivers fast, actionable wisdom in quick, accessible micro-chapters designed for busy professionals, athletes, and anyone seeking measurable personal growth.Join thousands of high achievers transforming their lives with Areté by Brian Johnson—a daily roadmap to living at your best. With 451 bite-sized insights inspired by ancient Stoic philosophers and backed by modern science, this boo...

Recommended reading for elite CEOs and top performers, Areté delivers fast, actionable wisdom in quick, accessible micro-chapters designed for busy professionals, athletes, and anyone seeking measurable personal growth.Join thousands of high achievers transforming their lives with Areté by Brian Johnson—a daily roadmap to living at your best. With 451 bite-sized insights inspired by ancient Stoic philosophers and backed by modern science, this boo...

A look at the scientists and technicians whose hard work off the battlefield assisted the Allied Forces in winning World War II.Based on the BBC television documentary series of the same name, this book offers a behind-the-scenes look at the fight by the "back room" scientists and technicians of the Second World War, including the battles against the Luftwaffe navigational beams, the V-1 and V-2 flying bombs, the development of radar, the battle against the U-boats,...

One of SPIN'S Best Music Memoirs of 2022!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 moth...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTouching, personal, indomitable, but always laugh-out-loud funny, The Lives of Brian is the legendary story of one of the rock world's best-loved performers - and the many lives he's led'Both a rollicking tale of rock's bygone glory days and a deeply human account of a working-class boy who never gave up' MAIL ON SUNDAY___________For over a decade rock leg...

De memoires van de zanger van AC/DC, een van de grootste rockbands aller tijdenBrian Johnson, zoon van een Italiaanse moeder en een Britse vader, groeide op in een klein Engels dorpje. Een tv-optreden van Little Richard werd het keerpunt in zijn leven. Vanaf dat moment wilde de koorknaap en padvinder maar één ding: zanger van een band worden.Jarenlang probeerde hij met verschillende bands naam te maken, maar een echte grote doorbraak bleef uit. Tot hij in 1980 uitgenodigd werd voor een aud...

Panic snuck up on Brian Johnson while he was out with his son, and it clung to him on his desperate drive home. Feeling almost outside of himself, his family called 911. He was spiraling into darkness. Waiting for the ambulance to arrive, unsure of what was happening, he gathered his family around him and asked them to pray for him. Then he said these pivotal words, "This is when God becomes real." In his first book, Brian shares how the panic and anxiety of his early life―panic he'd thoug...

"Surprisingly refreshing . . . You don't need to know anything about AC/DC to appreciate his funny and highly descriptive writing about [cars]." — Publishers WeeklyFrom "Pink Cadillac" to "Low Rider" to "Little Red Corvette," rock music has always had a racy love affair with cars. And AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson is not only a rock legend, second-to-none at infusing razor-sharp lyrics with the screaming metal energy of a true rock and roller, but also a ...

Las memorias del cantante de AC/DC, que, tras un periplo vital alucinante y accidentado, sustituyó al trágicamente desaparecido Bon Scott al frente de uno de los grupos clave del rock duro para firmar Back in Black: un hito del rock y el segundo disco más vendido de todos los tiempos.Brian Johnson nació en 1947 en Dunston, en la región de Newcastle, al nordeste de Inglaterra. Su padre fue militar y combatió en el norte de África durante la Segunda Guerra Mu...

One of SPIN'S Best Music Memoirs of 2022!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 moth...

« 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 Richar...

EL PÁNICO SE APODERÓ DE BRIAN JOHNSON cuando él estaba afuera con su hijo, y se aferró a él en su frenético camino a casa. Sintiéndose fuera de sí mismo, su familia llamó al 911. Brian estaba dando vueltas en la oscuridad. Él reunió a su familia a su alrededor, le pidió a sus hijos que oraran por él, y luego dijo: "Ahora es cuando Dios se vuelve real". En su primer libro, Brian comparte cómo en su vida temprana el pánico y la ansiedad venían a atormentarlo. Después de experimentar debilita...