Learning War

In his thought-provoking audiobook, Loonshots, physicist, and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall explains how the world we see around us is the culmination of crazy ideas by individuals who refused to accept the status quo and boldly chased after a greater vision...Bahcall shows us how we can create the right environment for nurturing and launching the kind of loonshots that save lives and change the world.

During his years of reporting from the world's most savage and turbulent regions, Fergal Keane has witnessed the violence of the South African townships and the terror in Rwanda, the most extreme kinds of human behaviour, the horror of genocide, and the bravery of peacekeepers faced with overwhelming odds. As one of the BBC's leading correspondents, he recounts extraordinary encounters on the front lines.

Bill Gentile did more than just "cover" Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution and the Contra War. He lived them. First as correspondent for United Press International and later as photojournalist for Newsweek, Gentile experienced those historic events from the inside. His memoir takes listeners not only to the 1979 revolution, the Contra War in the merciless mountains of Nicaragua, and to the deadly streets of El Salvador, but also to the steel mills and backyards of Southwestern Pennsylvania. This book introduces the American public to the victims of US intervention abroad.

Best-selling author David Shields analyzed over a decade’s worth of front-page war photographs from The New York Times and came to a shocking conclusion: The photo-editing process of the “paper of record”, by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pulls the wool over the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well.

The title of Norwegian-born historian Odd Arne Westad's 2005 work - The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times - offers a window into his thesis. Between the end of World War II and the early 1990s, both the Soviet Union and the United States "intervened" (or "offered aid and support to") developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In Westad's view, these interventions were more important than events in Europe, where most studies of the Cold War focus.

Are you feeling reactive - rather than proactive - when running your email marketing campaigns? Did tactics that used to work miracles now fail publicly and miserably? Have your pivots to different strategies had a stupidly short shelf-life? When marketing wisdom fails us, we need to look at other disciplines, such as war. I don't believe it is an accident that marketing efforts are called "campaigns"; mirroring language used for millennia.

The armor of God is what we use to defend ourselves when Satan attacks. It is the warrior’s uniform given to every Christian. It is composed of supernatural tools God has given us to contend with the rulers of this dark and imperfect world. These Powerful Warrior Prayers in the War Room are great to take into your war room.

Schauen wir heute in den Spiegel, haben wir uns nicht nur jünger in Erinnerung - wir wünschen uns auch oftmals die Leichtigkeit der jungen Jahre zurück. Denn seltsamerweise vermehren sich mit dem Älterwerden nicht nur die Falten, sondern auch die Schrullen und heiklen Gemütszustände. Auch in Monika Bittls Umfeld treibt das Alter seltsame Blüten. Doch es gibt einen Ausweg: Humor! In ihren herrlich unterhaltsamen Alltagsgeschichten nimmt Monika Bittl die Tücken der Lebensmitte aufs Korn.

Addressing the ever-changing, overlapping trajectories of war and journalism, this introduction to the history and culture of modern American war correspondence considers a wealth of original archival material. In powerful analyses of letters, diaries, journals, television news archives, and secondary literature related to the US's major military conflicts of the twentieth century, Mary S. Mander highlights the intricate relationship of the postmodern nation state to the free press and to the public.

In his 1986 book War Without Mercy, American historian John Dower examines Japanese-American relations during World War II and investigates links between popular culture, stereotypes, and extreme violence. He argues that it was the concept of racism - used equally by both sides - that underpinned the military conflict and led to a particularly brutal war in the Pacific and East Asia.

On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms as men.

Accessory to War by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang is a meditation on the history of space research and its interdependence on military research and warfare. The narrative contextualizes discoveries such as the compass and adaptive optics in order to evaluate the present global state of space diplomacy. Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

Hier ist das Hörbuch für alle, die unversehens Stiefmütter oder Stiefväter werden: Wie fühlt es sich an, plötzlich eine Familie zu haben? Was entgegnet man als ungeübte Wochenend-Mutter auf den Killer-Satz "Meine Mutter macht das ganz anders"? Wie meistert man das erste gemeinsame Familienfest? Und was geschieht in dem fragilen Patchwork-Gefüge, wenn eigene Kinder hinzukommen?

Als Simona Meyer versehentlich auf die Selfie-Funktion ihrer Handy-Kamera kommt, meint sie erst, dem Grüffelo in die Augen zu blicken, bis sie bemerkt, "Oh Gott, das bin ja ich." In der zweiten Lebenshälfte angekommen, stellt sie fest, dass dieses "später" ganz anders ist, als sie es sich immer vorgestellt hat, und beginnt mit den großen Illusionen des Älterseins aufzuräumen. Denn natürlich hadert man immer noch mit der Größe seiner Oberschenkel und kriegt erst einmal einen Herzinfarkt, wenn man trotz jahrelangen Eincremens die Längsfalten auf dem Dekolleté entdeckt.

History of the Peloponnesian War was the first major work of political inquiry that did not relate events to divine influences. It introduced instead a critical method of looking to the facts of human actions as the basis of our understanding - a method that continues to be used today, more than two millennia later. Many of the most important political thinkers in the Western tradition cite Thucydides as an influence, and major figures including Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and Friedrich Nietzsche have praised his writing.

Es ist wissenschaftlich erwiesen, dass 99% deiner heutigen Probleme ihre Wurzel in deiner Kindheit haben. Wenn die Beschäftigung mit deinem Inneren Kind nicht erfolgt, werden deine Erwachsenenjahre weiter von negativen Verhaltensmustern geprägt sein und wertvolle Lebenszeit wird vergeudet....

What is the "FUTURE GENIUS Magazine For Adults"? Why a "FUTURE GENIUS" Short eBook for Grown-ups? The first word of the phrase - "FUTURE GENIUS Magazine For Adults" - makes sense, in the context of the book-series: "Codex Of The Eschaton" - COTE. However: Why the second word; and what does it really mean for us? Defining "GENIUS": The Amazon - Oxfordian Conundrum ... Between a Rock and a Hard Place! According to “lexico” - the online Oxford dictionary states: "… Exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability." Nope , that will not do ... "... person regarded as ...

24. Januar 2002. Ein einziger Anruf wirbelt das Leben von Christiane von Beuningen völlig durcheinander. Urplötzlich ist das scheinbar Festgefügte nicht mehr, wie es war. Der unerwartete Tod ihres geliebten Partners lässt die Träume der erfolgreichen Managerin zerplatzen. Kurz darauf verliert sie auch noch ihren Job. Das Begreifen, dass ihr Leben weitergeht und sich irgendwann sogar wieder gut anfühlen kann, ist für Christiane ein langer, schmerzhafter Weg.

Diesen Monat heißt das Spezialthema "Der menschliche Körper von Kopf bis Fuß": Sie hören zum Beispiel, wie einzelne Körperteile heißen, welche gesundheitlichen Probleme man damit haben kann, und Sie lernen Wortschatz rund um die Körperpflege.

Este es el relato de una reportera de guerra, Adriana Aristizábal, quien estuvo atrapada en la tormenta del conflicto y quien presenció a finales de los años noventa, el fuego cruzado entre guerrilleros de las Farc, paramilitares y las fuerzas armadas, época en la que se registró el punto más álgido del conflicto en Colombia.