Resultados para "A Society" en Historia

On the surface, the Victorian age is one of propriety, industry, prudishness and piety. But scratch the surface and you'll find scandal, sadism, sex, madness, malice and murder.

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.

History is dramatic - and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling audiobook aimed at young listeners. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, this volume explores far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes, and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation.

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.

The Fight for China’s Future throws light on the quintessence of 21st century Chinese politics through the prism of the struggle between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and China’s vibrant intelligentsia and civil society. This book examines Xi Jinping’s 24-hour, multi-dimensional, AI-enabled police-state apparatus and explores the CCP’s policy towards civil society.

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.

Quanto sono interrelate la storia della Terra e la storia dell'umanità? L'uomo è davvero la specie in cima alla piramide della vita? Con quale diritto ha conquistato questa posizione? L'utilizzo smisurato delle risorse dove ci porterà? Queste solo alcune delle domande a cui il genetista Guido Barbujani e il geologo Mario Tozzi provano a dare una risposta, in un dialogo avvincente, fatto di punti di incontro e di scontro, di curiosi aneddoti e nuove scoperte scientifiche.

Questo podcast si chiama "Rivoluzione Culturale". Perché "Rivoluzione Culturale"? Per due motivi. Il primo è che in ciascuna puntata di questo podcast andremo a trattare degli eventi (la nascita del cubismo), delle scoperte (eliocentrismo), delle invenzioni (la ruota, i vaccini) che hanno cambiato il mondo. L'hanno preso, l'hanno capovolto, l'hanno reso diverso, proprio come fa una rivoluzione: c'era il mondo prima della rivoluzione, poi nel mezzo c'è stata la rivoluzione, e poi c'è il mondo dopo la rivoluzione, che è completamente cambiato, irriconoscibile.

"Perché" è una serie podcast pensata per tutte le età: dai ragazzi a tutti quegli adulti che non danno mai nulla per scontato e che non hanno mai smesso di porsi questa elementare, spiazzante, pervicace domanda. Grandi protagonisti del nostro tempo raccontano in circa 30 minuti, con un taglio di grande rigore scientifico, linguaggio semplice e tono leggero, il perché delle discipline che dall'infanzia all'età adulta ci accompagnano nella vita di tutti i giorni, di cui sono riconosciuti esperti: storia, matematica, biologia, legge, natura, economia, scienza, mito, tecnologia.

Il nostro destino è scritto nelle carte geografiche, e nella loro storia. Ogni crisi vicina e lontana ci costringe a capire la fisicità del mondo in cui viviamo. La geografia e la storia come le abbiamo studiate sui banchi di scuola non ci bastano più. Dobbiamo guardare "oltre", penetrare il significato nascosto delle carte geografiche, incrociare il paesaggio terrestre con la storia delle civiltà. Ci servono mappe intelligenti per orientarci a capire dove siamo ora, e dove andremo domani. La storia antica riappare negli atlanti, come una trama invisibile che si ripete.

The Minoans were an ancient civilization that built their settlements on islands in the Aegean Sea. They lived almost 5,000 years ago and left behind traces of their lives, but not enough for people to create a complete picture. Ever since the early 20th century, the Minoans have been a subject of interest, thanks to the discoveries and excavations by Sir Arthur Evans, a British archaeologist who found the first Minoan ruins and named them after the mythological King Minos and his Minotaur.

Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.

In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow - banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians to use against one another - to the nuclear missile, from the sociological consequences of drill in the 17th century to the emergence of the military-industrial complex in the 20th.

Elsie MacGill achieved many firsts in science and engineering. In 1923, at the age of 19, she became the first woman to attend engineering classes at the University of Toronto. She was the first woman in North America to hold a degree in aeronautical engineering and the first woman aircraft designer in the world.

Lawyer, activist, and former Chatelaine legal columnist Linda Silver Dranoff details her trailblazing journey from a traditional 1950s childhood to the battlegrounds of the courts of law where she and a generation of women lawyers, supporting a larger feminist movement, championed the rights of Canadian women and families.

Bertha Wilson and Claire L’Heureux-Dubé were the first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada. Their 1980s judicial appointments delighted feminists and shocked the legal establishment. Polar opposites in background and temperament, the two faced many identical challenges. Constance Backhouse’s compelling narrative explores the sexist roadblocks both women faced in education, law practice, and in the courts. She profiles their different ways of coping, their landmark decisions for women’s rights, and their less stellar records on race.

Discover the lives of the men that forever changed the course of history! This book contains the fundamental history, early influences, life-changing events, and lasting impact of historical figures such as Moses, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Gandhi, and many others! For each of these great men, you will learn who they were, where they came from, who influenced them, the fundamental turning points in their lives, and their lasting contributions to the world.

A heroine for our times, Etta Lemon campaigned for 50 years against the worldwide slaughter of birds for extravagantly feathered hats. Her legacy is the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (the RSPB), grown from an all-female pressure group of 1889 with the splendidly simple pledge: Wear No Feathers. Etta’s long battle against ‘murderous millinery’ triumphed with the Plumage Act of 1921 - but her legacy has been eclipsed by the more glamorous campaign for the vote, led by the elegantly plumed Emmeline Pankhurst. 

In The Republic, Plato tackles the big issues of the state and the individual: how the state should be ruled, and by whom; and the way the individual should lead his life - and why. The lively quality of the dialogue can be clearly appreciated in this new translation by Tom Griffith.