Ergebnis für "Crisis" in Welt

In his earlier best sellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final audiobook in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change - a coping mechanism more commonly associated with personal trauma.

This text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the world history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Isett and Miller argue that people rather than markets have been the primary agents of agricultural change, exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time.

Financial crises happen time and again in post-industrial economies - and they are extraordinarily damaging. Building on insights gleaned from many years of work in the banking industry and drawing on a vast trove of data, Richard Vague argues that such crises follow a pattern that makes them both predictable and avoidable. A Brief History of Doom examines a series of major crises over the past 200 years in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan, and China - including the Great Depression and the economic meltdown of 2008.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the 20th century. Historian S. A. Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the 19th century, through the First World War and the revolutions of 1917 and the establishment of the Bolshevik regime, to the end of the 1920s.

Churchill's epic series begins in 1911, when Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty, and opens with a chilling description of the Agadir Crisis and an in-depth account of naval clashes in the Dardanelles - one of Churchill's major military failures. It takes listeners from the fierce bloodshed of the Gallipoli campaign to the tragic sinking of the Lusitania and the tide-turning battles of Jutland and Verdun - as well as the USA's entry into the combat theater. The World Crisis provides a perspective you won't find anywhere else.

The stories of Hostage and Crisis Negotiation have been collecting for decades. Join Crisis Negotiator Trainer Pat Doering as he shares the legends, details and information all of us should know about the valuable lesson inside The Crisis Cop Podcast.

A renowned political scientist’s searing explanation for the rightward turn of global politics since the end of the Cold War The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in an era of tremendous political optimism: communism was receding and democracy was on the march in Eastern Europe...

The diary and letters I wrote when I experienced the coup d'état that ousted Salvador Allende in Chile on Tuesday morning, 11 September 1973. This coup was carefully planned by the Chilean elite with the help of the CIA, and included propaganda, economic sabotage, torture, total press censorship, assassination, and a radical free market revolution leading to a gross gap between rich and poor.

"These are the times that try men's souls." With these words, Thomas Paine began a series of 13 extraordinary pamphlets reporting on the American Revolution. Part newsfeed, part op-ed, these pieces were widely circulated in the States and in Britain during the war. They reported on the progress of the war, argued for the reasons for the war, made recommendations on the conduct of the war, and taught citizens of a new country just what their obligations and duties were in support of their new country. A sobering series of lessons on beginning American civics 101.

Former Home Secretary Amber Rudd, renowned journalist Mark Urban, and decorated former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos team up to present The Crisis Room. "The Journalist, The Politician, and The Spy" might sound like the start of a John le Carré thriller - but what’s unfolding in today’s world is all too real. Step inside The Crisis Room where power, politics, and espionage collide. Each week, the team unpicks the biggest crises shaping the UK and the world. With insider perspectives drawn from the gritty underbelly of investigative reporting, the corridors of Westminster, and the ...

Herstory podcast traces 50 years of the Rape Crisis movement in England and Wales, as remembered by the women who built, shaped, and lived it. Founders, staff, volunteers, and survivors come together to share moments, memories, and reflections. What unfolds is not a complete history, but a deeply personal one, a window into the movement’s roots, its evolution, and the futures these women imagine.The series is part of Rape Crisis: Herstories and Futures of the Movement, an oral herstory project featuring interviews with workers, volunteers, and movement leaders from across the Rape Crisis ...

This podcast series is a companion to my book Station Blackout - Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Recovery. This series delves deeper into the extreme crisis lessons learned from my experience and research to provide you with rich insights on how you can lead through any crisis. I believe that you’ll find the stories enlightening and interesting. I intend to stretch your thinking about leadership in a crisis and tug at your emotions with these podcasts. You will gain insights into what it takes to respond to a nuclear event. One of the most significant human-made events possible. ...

The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in American history. In this dramatic narrative written especially for students and general listeners, Sheldon M. Stern, longtime historian at the John F. Kennedy Library, enables the listener to follow the often harrowing twists and turns of the crisis.

On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia and was ambushed by a band of armed revolutionaries. In The Miss Stone Affair, Teresa Carpenter re-creates an event that captured the attention of the world and posed a dilemma for incoming president Theodore Roosevelt. Should he send in the Navy or not? And, if so, send it where? Drawing upon a wealth of contemporary correspondence and documents, Carpenter constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. It is a story for our time.

Civilization may face no greater enemy than Saddam Hussein, and yet, as Richard Butler makes clear in his gripping and terrifying The Greatest Threat, the major powers allowed Saddam to face them down.

On February 1, 1979, amid great fanfare, exiled cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini landed in Tehran. The return of the leader of the revolution to his home country was one of the final markers of the Iranian Revolution, a national phenomenon that had global implications. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 has been described as an epochal event, called the peak of 20th century Islamic revivalism and revitalization.

An in-depth mini-series on the histories of the most catastrophic crises to shake civilization.

Creeper Crisis and Kane Had a good conversation with us about life and music. This one is a must listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Title: We started a new segment called Before the Crisis and In this episode it’s entitled Talk before you do. It’s center around making sure that you communicate with someone before you go into a crisis. We are living in dangerous times where suicidal rates are higher then it was pre Covid. Post Covid people are more likely to want to end it all instead of getting help. In this episode along with my special guest David the Speaker a motivational speaker we tackle this problem head on. Our objective is to provide you ways of communicating with someone with life throws you a curb and how to...

What compels us to create art during a crisis? How has art seen us through times of peril throughout history? How have we used our bodies to articulate our inner worlds and speak truth to power? This podcast delves into the social history of the performing arts in times of peril. Building from the Spanish flu to the current pandemic, it explores the power of the performing arts when we have needed them the most. Created by Farhad Mirza and Declan Mee. Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.