Resultados para "A Society" en Biografías y memorias

It started with an anonymous post in 2017. They called themselves 'Q' and left a trail of cryptic messages for an increasing number of followers to obsess over. Over the years, the conspiracy theory became a movement, crashing into mainstream politics and breaking countless families along the way. Over this investigation, journalist Nicky Woolf dives into the online and offline world of QAnon in his search to find the shadowy figure behind it all and the legacy they've created.

The sons and daughters of slaves and slaveholders attempt racial reconciliation in York County, South Carolina – the onetime heart of the Klu Klux Klan. As they embark on their global journey, they find trauma – and heroes – through the generations...and a path to healing.

Dante Alighieri non ci ha dato solo quella che per molti è la più grande opera della letteratura universale. Dante ci ha dato una lingua, l'italiano. Una lingua che si è mantenuta fresca e viva, grazie a lui e ai suoi seguaci. Accade a volte che una lingua sia plasmata, salvata e mantenuta viva da un libro: per noi, la "Divina Commedia". Non a caso molte espressioni coniate o citate da Dante sono usate ancora oggi: "Stare fresco", "stare solo soletto", "non mi tange", "degno di nota", "senza infamia e senza lode", "lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate".

Wie wird man eigentlich, wer man ist? Mit dieser Frage kennt sich das Magazin BUNTE ganz besonders gut aus. Die Experten für Prominenz und blaues Blut kennen die Stars. Im Podcast "Das BUNTE Gespräch" entlockt Nina Ruge ihren Gästen die Geheimnisse einer erfolgreichen Karriere. Und findet auch die dunklen Stellen in den Lebensgeschichten der Prominenten. Freuen Sie sich auf eine Stunde beste Unterhaltung.

Ward McAllister lived in the mid-to-late nineteenth-century USA. This audiobook encompasses his commentary on the parties held by the elite in the USA and Europe during that time. Well-connected and well-traveled, McAllister describes the habits, trends, and wealth of the upper classes of society. As the author testifies, it was a time of transformative, unprecedented extravagance through the emergence of new technology and new prosperity.

World-renowned adventurer and broadcaster, Bear Grylls, presents some of the most incredible near-death experiences, told by those who lived to tell the tale. These extraordinary and diverse accounts of human bravery, mental and physical strength - and sometimes sheer luck - range from being stranded for more than 50 days at sea, to surviving world-changing acts of terrorism.

Some stories are too sensitive, painful or potentially damaging to share publicly - unless they can be shared anonymously. TED and Audible present, Sincerely, X, featuring speakers whose ideas deserve to be heard but whose identities must remain hidden.

The incredible true story of the US Post Office Inspector who took down the deadly Black Hand, a turn-of-the-century Italian-American secret society that preyed on immigrants across America’s industrial heartland - featuring fascinating and never-before-seen documents and photos from the Oldfield family’s private collection. Before the emergence of prohibition-era gangsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, there was the Black Hand: an early 20th-century Sicilian-American crime ring that preyed on immigrants from the old country.

Henry Gerber was the father of American gay liberation. Born in 1892 in Germany, Henry Gerber was expelled from school as a boy and lost several jobs as a young man because of his homosexual activities. He emigrated to the United States and enlisted in the army for employment. After his release, he explored Chicago’s gay subculture: cruising Bughouse Square, getting arrested for “disorderly conduct,” and falling in love.

Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, wrote this memoir in 1891. The first part of the book outlines her family’s history and her own youth and early adulthood in New England. She then explores her discovery of Christian Science and essential ideas of a scientific Christianity that brings healing. While giving insight into the life of this religious leader, the spiritual counsel in this book nurtures and guides listeners today.

Das bekannteste Interviewmagazin Deutschlands porträtiert Menschen aus Kunst, Kultur, Gesellschaft und Politik. Ganz egal, ob schon bekannt oder noch nicht, GALORE spricht mit jenen, die etwas Besonderes zu erzählen haben. Im "GALORE. Interviews"-Podcast kommen Künstler, Prominente, Experten und ganz normale Menschen zu Wort. "GALORE. Interviews" sind mehr als eine Momentaufnahme. Die Gastgeber verstehen die Kunst, eine Unterhaltung auch mal laufen zu lassen.

Diese Podcastshow hält, was sie verspricht, denn Katrin Bauerfeind hat Fragen. Die stellt sie ihren prominenten Gästen vorab in einem Fragebogen. Zum Beispiel: "Woran merkt man, dass du Humor hast?", "Unter welchen Umständen würdest du Gewalt anwenden?" oder "Was tun, wenn das Leben ein Arschloch ist?".

Kennen Sie jemanden, der sich nur von Pulver ernährt? Oder sich mal einfrieren lassen möchte? Haben Sie schon mal jemanden getroffen, der die Schule verweigert? Oder ohne Geld leben will? Macht nichts. Im Podcast Blaupause stellen Ihnen Katrin Rönicke und Merlin Münch diese Menschen vor. Persönlichkeiten, die an einer radikal anderen Zukunft basteln und ihre Utopien leben wollen. Was treibt sie an? Was macht ihnen Angst? Und was gibt diesen Utopisten Hoffnung? Es gibt immer mehr als eine Zukunft. Der Podcast "Blaupause" wirft einen Blick nach vorn. Oder zwei. Oder drei.

Der heterosexuelle Rasheed möchte mehr darüber erfahren, wie queere Menschen in Deutschland leben, was sie freut, was sie traurig macht. Die Travestiegröße Jacky-Oh Weinhaus nimmt ihn an die Hand und zeigt ihm immer neue Facetten der queeren Welt. Was, wenn eine Person erst im Rentenalter merkt, dass sie ein Leben lang im falschen Körper gelebt hat? Wie hält man das aus, wenn die Eltern den Kontakt abbrechen, bloß weil man jenseits der so genannten sozialen Norm lebt?

Jeden Montag eine neue Folge. Über den Podcast: Das Prinzip dieser Podcastshow ist eigentlich ganz einfach. Katrin Bauerfeind schickt ihren prominenten Gästen im Vorfeld einen Fragebogen mit der Bitte um ehrliche Antworten. Die 50 Fragen reichen von "Was ist das Illegalste, das du bislang gemacht hast?" bis zu "Was ist dein Tipp gegen Liebeskummer?" Diese Antworten bilden die Basis für den einzigen Audible Original Podcast, der live vor Publikum produziert wird. Keine Ausreden, kein zweiter Versuch, kein "Das schneiden wir aber raus!".

Diese Podcastshow hält, was sie verspricht, denn Katrin Bauerfeind hat Fragen. Die stellt sie ihren prominenten Gästen vorab in einem Fragebogen. Zum Beispiel: "Woran merkt man, dass du Humor hast?", "Unter welchen Umständen würdest du Gewalt anwenden?" oder "Was tun, wenn das Leben ein Arschloch ist?". Die Antworten bilden die Grundlage des Gesprächs, das live vor Publikum aufgezeichnet wird - ohne Netz und doppelten Boden. Es geht um Sinn und Unsinn des Lebens, um das, was war, und das, was noch kommt. Um Schrullen, Macken und natürlich um beste Unterhaltung.

“We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” These are the opening lines that radical thinker, environmentalist, and technologist Stewart Brand wrote for The Whole Earth Catalog. His thesis—that humans should use our god-like powers to build a better way to live—is at the core of his extraordinary life. At key historical moments in the 20th century, Stewart Brand was behind the scenes shaping things. As founding editor of Wired Magazine Kevin Kelly says, “Stewart has a Forest Gump-like superpower—he can sense where the future is and be there.”

Migrare significa volare via e scegliere, come fanno gli uccelli, un posto migliore, o che pensiamo tale. Francesca Paci, in ogni puntata, racconterà una storia di spostamento, di cambiamento di posizione, la storia di chi sceglie un altro luogo fisico, ma anche mentale. Buon viaggio.

Violenza domestica, chirurgia plastica, tradimenti, fecondazione assistita, maternità a rischio, segreti, deviazioni, malattia, onore. Sono queste quelle che in questa serie ho chiamato "ombre", ombre delle donne: argomenti scomodi, che di solito vengono relegati nelle pagine di cronaca nera o, nel migliore dei casi, nelle rubriche delle riviste femminili. Perché le ombre delle donne fanno paura, e tacerle o raccontarle con rassicurante indignazione sembra essere la pratica più diffusa, quasi un esercizio di esorcismo quotidiano.

Cosa hanno in comune Elisa, una studentessa di 22 anni di San Donato Milanese che dedica il suo tempo libero all'attivismo e al volontariato, e Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso, una principessa milanese vissuta nell'800 con una dote di ben 13 nomi? E Raja, una 18enne indiana che guida un tuk tuk, e Alfonsina Strada, la prima donna che corse il Giro d'Italia all'inizio del '900? Sono donne separate da migliaia di kilometri e da centinaia di anni, ma che in comune hanno una caratteristica specifica.