Ergebnis für "MIND" in Welt

Best-selling historian and philosopher Will Durant devoted his entire life to studying the most significant eras, individuals, and achievements of human history. Here is a summation of Durant's work, as he presents the best of world history. Filled with Durant's renowned wit, knowledge, and unique ability to explain events in simple and exciting terms, it is a concise liberal arts education.

What is our species' greatest invention? Medicine, computers, space travel? Not even close. The innovation that underlies each of our past achievements and those we still aspire to is language. Language is the ultimate invention of Homo sapiens - one that has allowed us to change the physical and social world around us in every conceivable way, and an invention that has fundamentally changed us, as well.

Der True Crime Podcast über die mächtigsten Menschen der Welt. Im Schatten der Macht ist ein True-Crime-Podcast über Macht, Abhängigkeit und die dunklen Seiten des Ruhms. Hosts Anne Luckmann und Ricardia Bramley erzählen wahre Geschichten von Prominenten, einflussreichen Persönlichkeiten und Menschen, die in toxische Beziehungen und Abhängigkeiten geraten sind – oft mit tödlichem Ausgang. Hier geht es nicht nur um klassische Mordfälle, sondern auch um das, was im Rampenlicht verborgen bleibt: Machtmissbrauch, zerstörerische Abhängigkeiten, Skandale und Geheimnisse. Manche Taten ...

In The Crowd - A Study of the Popular Mind, social theorist Gustave Le Bon gives historical insight into the political thinking of his era while offering timeless social commentary. Le Bon challenges the listener to contemplate how individual ideas change - often to a destructive end - when employed in a setting of groupthink. As technology and communications innovations make group formation easy and accessible for better or for worse, this book's message is certainly one that will not be lost in the crowd.

The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and pathbreaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the "neglected half-millennium" now known as late antiquity was crucial to the development of modern Europe and the Middle East. In Journeys of the Mind, Brown recounts his life and work, describing his efforts to recapture the spirit of an age.

Take an astonishing, amusing, and charmingly unconventional tour through the curious everyday lives of humans past. No need to spend the day at an archaeological dig when you can simply make a cup of tea, clamber into your comfiest chair, and settle in with The Encyclopedia of the Weird and...

To imagine – to see that which is not there – is the startling ability that has fuelled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the pictures in our minds. Traversing the realms of science...

A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought from the end of Antiquity to the beginning of the Enlightenment—500 to 1700 AD—tracing the arc of intellectual history as it evolved, setting the stage for the modern era. Charles Freeman, lauded historical scholar and author of The...

Ever heard of bathtub racing? Or a place where people live on floating islands made entirely of reeds? How about seeing the sun set twice in one day. It's possible, but where? Or that crows can actually bear grudges? All these fascinating fun facts and more are here to tickle your mind and keep you as well as the folks around you entertained: Packed nicely in this neat book Globe-Trotting Interesting Facts For Curious Minds, prepare to be amazed and have your trivia skills sharpened as you satisfy your thirst for knowledge.

To recant is to take back a belief in public, under pressure, in front of the people who demanded the reversal. The word carries an older sense underneath the modern one. It comes from the Latin for singing again, and the act it names is a song performed backward, on command, so that the saying can stand in for the truth. In My Mind I'm Standing Up is a history of that act, traced from the Inquisition and the Reformation through the Moscow show trials, the Hollywood blacklist, and the Maoist struggle session, and into the public apology of our own moment.

Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept - the mind - emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine but fully neither.

No hominid was ever built to rule an empire. The equipment we carry for reading a face, keeping a promise, fearing the disapproval of the people around us, and feeling another person's pain was forged for groups small enough that everyone knew everyone. Take that ancient apparatus, seat it above millions, and cut away every correction the group once supplied, and the mind does not rise to the occasion. It deforms — and it deforms in the same direction every time.

You are invited to join an intellectual adventure of the mind, a broad canvas review of the cognitive evolution of our civilization in politics, science, technology, and the arts. Humanity is on a path of rising cognition and complexity, the world becomes increasingly our idea. After two horrific world wars, it seems that the great powers are rejecting the sword in favor of the pen. Technology is giving us tools and challenging us to change and move forward. But the new and more cognitive world is also confusing, sometimes frustrating, and changing very fast.

The twenty-year CIA program that dosed unwitting Americans with LSD, ran brothels wired for one-way mirrors in San Francisco, funded electroshock experiments on Canadian psychiatric patients, and destroyed most of its files before Congress ever asked. Frank Olson's fall from a New York hotel window. Sidney Gottlieb, the chemist behind it all. Ewen Cameron at McGill. Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. The 1977 Church Committee revelations. The 2026 Congressional accountability hearings. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

Short Essays for Inquiring Minds invites listeners into a lively conversation about the forces shaping modern life. Composed of over fifty compelling essays, Ronald Gruner’s latest book ranges effortlessly across science, history, politics, economics, and popular culture, linking today’s headlines to the deeper currents of history. Complex subjects such as pandemics, artificial intelligence, trade wars, and presidential leadership are unpacked through human stories and memorable anecdotes.

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With an economy and population that dwarf most industrialized nations, China is emerging as a 21st century global superpower. Even though China is an international leader in modern business and technology, its ancient history exerts a powerful force on its foreign policy. Christopher A. Ford expertly traces China's self-image and its role in the world order - from the age of Confucius to today. Ford argues that despite its exposure to and experience of the modern world, China is still strongly influenced by a hierarchical view of political order.

More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts, and fears. Drawing on a vast array of untapped archives and...

Explore the epic rise and tragic fall of an ancient history powerhouse that birthed democracy and Western philosophy. Perfect for your morning commute or deep focus learning, this immersive historical narrative transforms a rocky Greek settlement into an intellectual empire. Experience the...

If you're fascinated by ancient civilizations, archaeology, cultural evolution, history, and the unanswered questions of our past, you've found your next obsession. New videos every week.