Ergebnis für "The Baron" in Politik & Sozialwissenschaften

Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running the Disneyland of agriculture. Mike benefited from deregulation of the American food industry, a phenomenon that has consolidated wealth in the hands of select tycoons, and along the way, hollowed out the nation's rural towns and local businesses.

In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed we had discovered intelligent life on Mars, as bestselling science writer David Baron chronicles in The Martians, his truly bizarre tale of a nation swept up in Mars mania. At the center of Baron's historical drama is Percival Lowell, the Boston Brahmin and Harvard scion, who observed "canals" etched into the surface of Mars. Lowell devised a grand theory that the red planet was home to a utopian society that had built gargantuan ditches to funnel precious meltwater from the polar icecaps to desert farms and oasis cities.

Estas son las memorias de Martin Baron como director del Washington Post, una mirada profunda y autorizada para comprender el deterioro de la democracia estadounidense en los últimos años, el papel de la prensa y los equilibrios de poder entre el mundo empresarial y político.

Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for 70,000 years, from the first tools to the digital revolution. How? Because the same genes that cause autism enable the pattern seeking that is essential to our species' inventiveness.

In this memorable biography, Mordechai Bar-On, Dayan's IDF bureau chief, offers an intimate view of Dayan's private life, public career, and political controversies, set against an original analysis of Israel's political environment from pre-Mandate Palestine through the early 1980s.

From the moment of its publication in 1748, The Spirit of the Laws proved to be a controversial work provoking widespread interest. Within three years it had been translated into various European languages - and was swiftly added to the List of Prohibited Books by the Roman Catholic Church. It is a remarkable book, a potpourri of observations and comments ranging far and wide over the social activities of mankind and it exerted a great influence on political leaders in the following decades.

Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, would buy the Post, marking a sudden end to control by the venerated family that had presided over the paper for 80 years. Just over two years later, Donald Trump won the presidency.

Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis, Asperger's: All of these syndromes have one thing in common---lack of empathy. In some cases, this absence can be dangerous, but in others it can simply mean a different way of seeing the world. In The Science of Evil, Simon Baron-Cohen, an award-winning British researcher who has investigated psychology and autism for decades, develops a new brain-based theory of human cruelty.

New York Times Book Review’s "100 Notable Books of 2023" "Absolutely gripping… a perfectly splendid read—I highly, highly recommend it” -- Douglas Preston, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news...

Leçon de sagesse des proverbes haytiens.

Du lundi au vendredi, de 6h30 à 7h30, Maître Baron de Poungoué et ses invités donnent le ton avec la matinale culturelle et musicale de Radio Baron International. Décryptage d’actu décalé, chroniques pop culture, musique… ! De quoi réveiller le corps et l’esprit.

Histoire de l'ethnologie en Hayti

« L'histoire de toute société jusqu'à nos jours n'a été que l'histoire de luttes de classes » (Karl Marx).

In the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game, an all-white University of Kentucky team was beaten by a team from Texas Western College (now UTEP) that fielded only black players. The game, played in the middle of the racially turbulent 1960s - part David and Goliath in short pants, part emancipation proclamation of college basketball - helped destroy stereotypes about black athletes.

Step into the tumultuous world of medieval England with Sir Philip Harclay, who returns to find his friend Lord Lovels castle and estate seized by treachery. As secrets unfold and dark betrayals come to light, the story builds to an intense showdown between good and evil, culminating in a gripping duel for the rightful claim to the prize.

L’horreur ne vient pas toujours des enfers… Dans ce podcast qui plaira aux passionné(e)s de TrueCrime, le Baron Sinistre explore les crimes qui ont marqué l’Histoire : tueurs en série, guerres, expériences scientifiques monstrueuses. D’Ed Gein à Dahmer, de Landru à Holmes, en passant par les atrocités des idéologies et des laboratoires, découvrez les ténèbres bien réelles qui ont inspiré la culture de l’horreur. Ici, pas de monstres imaginaires : seulement la cruauté humaine mise en lumière. Car oui… l’horreur est humaine.

As World War II approached, the six most powerful media moguls in America and Britain tried to pressure their countries to ignore the fascist threat. The media empires of Robert McCormick, Joseph and Eleanor Patterson, and William Randolph Hearst spanned the United States, reaching tens of millions of Americans in print and over the airwaves with their isolationist views.

🎩 Les Vérités interdites du Baron Sinistre vous plonge dans les histoires vraies que les manuels n’osent pas raconter. Poupées hantées, cercueils impies, anomalies historiques : tout est sourcé, tout est réel. Avec sa voix sinistre, le Baron explore les zones grises entre vérité et légende. Un podcast documentaire pour les curieux… et les téméraires.

Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who composed many of their workforces.

INSIDE THE WOONIVERSE is a weekly podcast series hosted by Colette Baron-Reid. Colette is an internationally acclaimed Oracle expert, best-selling author, intuitive strategist, medium and celebrated voice in the field of personal transformation. Featuring authentic and playful conversations with some of the world’s most interesting sages, scientists and celebrities, INSIDE THE WOONIVERSE uncovers personal stories of spiritual awakening and transformation.