Ergebnis für "Briefe" in Sozialwissenschaften

"Brief an meine Mutter" ist der berührende Erfahrungsbericht eines dramatischen Generationen-Konflikts und gleichzeitig Waris Diries persönlichstes Werk. Als Waris Dirie erfährt, dass ihre Mutter schwer erkrankt ist, zögert sie nicht, sie aus ihrem Heimatland Somalia für eine Operation in ihre Wahlheimat Wien zu holen. Die medizinische Versorgung in Somalia ist noch immer unzureichend, und in Europa kann geholfen werden.

In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: How do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history? The result takes the listener on an eye-opening journey through centuries, continents, and civilizations as it looks at both historical and contemporary attitudes to women.

With intelligence and wit, author Jonathan Clements blends documentary and storytelling styles to connect the past, present, and future of Japan, and in broad yet detailed strokes reveals a country of paradoxes: a modern nation steeped in ancient traditions; a democracy with an emperor as head of state; a famously safe society built on 108 volcanoes resting on the world's most active earthquake zone; a fast-paced urban and technologically advanced country whose land consists predominantly of mountains and forests. 

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century...

Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to be visited by Westerners, and its borders have remained largely unchanged since it was unified in the seventh century. Though it is one of the world's oldest and most ethnically homogeneous states, Korea was not born in a vacuum. Geographically isolated, the country was heavily influenced by powerful China and was often used as a bridge to the mainland by Japan. Calling themselves as "a shrimp among whales", Koreans borrowed elements of government, culture, and religion, all the while fiercely fighting to maintain independence.

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations?

The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of modern terrorism and car bombs—the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York's Wall Street...

Annette Frier und Kai Lüftner sind Freunde.Sie ist eine sehr bekannte deutsche Schauspielerin, er ist ein nicht ganz so bekannter Kinderbuchautor und Musiker.Beide mögen sich und haben sogar schonmal zusammen Theater gespielt.Annette war Gott und Kai ihr Engel. Seitdem sind sie sich auf eine noch andere Art näher. Auf eine spirituell-verherzte vielleicht.Sie reden gern. Vor allem miteinander. In echt, am Telefon und auf all den anderen vorstellbaren Kommunikationswegen.Als Kai nun mit seiner Familie auf eine Insel in der Ostsee zieht, müssen sie sich etwas einfallen lassen. Die Idee ist ...

Briefe aus der Helix ist der Achterbahn-Podcast in dem wir - gelegentlich auch mit Gäst:innen - über Historisches, Gegenwärtiges und Zukünftiges zu unser aller Lieblingsthema sprechen. Neue Folgen gibt es immer an zweiten und am vierten Freitag jeden Monats. Wir wünschen euch viel Spaß und freuen uns über Rückmeldung über Instagram (@briefeausderhelix.podcast) und über E-Mail (briefeausderhelix.podcast@gmail.com). Das Impressum ist im Linktree ( https://linktr.ee/briefeausderhelix.podcast ) abgelegt

What will planet Earth be like in 20 years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with dangers. In this powerful and sometimes terrifying work, Attali analyzes the past and pinpoints nine distinct periods of human history, each with its world center of power and prestige, and predicts what the tenth will bring by the end of this century.

This textbook offers the perfect introduction to the complex world of social work theory, giving a concise and engaging overview of how practice is influenced by each theoretical approach described. The book begins by outlining the origins and historical context of social work, which allows the listener to see show how theoretical fashions have changed and adapted to certain times, and concludes with advice on the best way forward for the modern-day social worker.

A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun—or more intoxicating. Guns, germs, and steel might...

How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Why does eugenics still loom large in the 21st century, despite its genocidal past? Did eugenics work? Could it work? Or was it always a pseudoscientific fantasy? Throughout history, people have sought to...

Almost everyone swears, or worries about not swearing, from the two year-old who has just discovered the power of potty mouth to the grandma who wonders why every other word she hears is obscene. Whether they express anger or exhilaration, are meant to insult or to commend, swear words perform a crucial role in language. But swearing is also a uniquely well-suited lens through which to look at history, offering a fascinating record of what people care about on the deepest levels of a culture - what's divine, what's terrifying, and what's taboo.

From UFOs to Dr. Strangelove, LSD experiments to Richard Nixon, author Brian Brown investigates the paranoid, panicked history of the Cold War. In Someone Is Out to Get Us, Brian T. Brown explores the delusions, absurdities, and best-kept secrets of the Cold War, during which the United States...

A lo largo del último siglo, la humanidad ha logrado lo imposible frenando la hambruna, la peste y la guerra. Por primera vez en la historia, más personas mueren por obesidad que por pasar hambre y hay más probabilidades de quitarse la vida que de morir en un conflicto bélico o un atentado terrorista.

All your family’s pressing concerns and questions, answered in one place. Mike Khader, Family & Matrimonial Lawyer and Founder of Khader Law, shares lessons and learnings from years in the courtroom representing parents and couples on custody battles, co-parenting, mental health, finances and more.

This audiobook provides legal briefs for the top 100 cases that have formed the foundation of civil procedure in the United States. Each case brief will cover the facts, procedural history, issue, holding, rule, reasoning, disposition, dissents, or concurrences. Civil procedure can be one of the most difficult areas to study in the law. This audiobook will go over some of the most important cases that have shaped civil procedure over the decades.

J.R.R. Tolkien, der Schöpfer Mittelerdes, war Zeit seines Lebens ein fleißiger Briefeschreiber. Aus seiner umfangreichen Korrespondenz lassen sich nicht nur Rückschlüsse auf seinen Charakter ziehen, sondern auch die Entstehung seiner bekanntesten Werke verfolgen. In diesem Podcast wollen wir Euch mitnehmen auf eine Reise zwischen die Zeilen des berühmten Oxford Professors. Sein Biograph Humphrey Carpenter veröffentlichte gemeinsam mit Tolkiens Sohn Christopher eine Auswahl von 354 Briefen. Diese nehmen wir in unserem Podcast unter die Lupe. In jeder Episode besprechen wir einen Brief. ...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Novacene written by James Lovelock, read by Roy McMillan. James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the...