Klassiker der Weltliteratur in dreißig Minuten zusammengefasst, mit den wichtigsten Zitaten – Szene für Szene, Akt für Akt! Mit Inhaltsangabe, Informationen zu Autor, allen Charakteren, literarischer Epoche, geschichtlichem Hintergrund: Diese neue Serie wendet sich an Lernende, Studierende – und solche, die ihre Kenntnisse der klassischen Literatur auffrischen wollen! Diese Ausgabe widmet sich Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Meisterwerk 'Faust – Der Tragödie erster Teil'. 30 Minuten: Schneller hören – mehr wissen!
Klassiker der Weltliteratur in dreißig Minuten zusammengefasst, mit den wichtigsten Zitaten – Szene für Szene, Akt für Akt! Mit Inhaltsangabe, Informationen zu Autor, allen Charakteren, literarischer Epoche, geschichtlichem Hintergrund: Diese neue Serie wendet sich an Lernende, Studierende – und solche, die ihre Kenntnisse der klassischen Literatur auffrischen wollen! Diese Ausgabe widmet sich Friedrich Schillers Sturm-und-Drang-Drama 'Die Räuber'. 30 Minuten: Schneller hören – mehr wissen!
Nun kommen die Muslime nach Europa nicht mehr als Eroberer, sondern als Migranten. Die meisten von ihnen sind friedliche Menschen, die keine politischen Ziele verfolgen. Doch der Islamismus wandert mit ein und will sein altes Projekt in Europa vollenden.
Man könnte sagen: Während das Boot des Islamismus in der arabischen Welt sinkt, wird der Westen zum Rettungsring. Europa gilt für Islamisten als die letzte Hijra (Auswanderung) und die neue Basis für die Metamorphose. Die erste Auswanderung von Mekka nach Median hat zu Errichtung des ersten muslimischen Staates geführt. Europa soll die neue Basis für die Renaissance des Islamismus werden.
Hamed Abdel-Samads so kundige wie kalt analysierte Geschichte des Islam kann als Prophezeiung der Zukunft Europas gelesen werden. Ihm, dem Zuwanderer, der sein Leben der Aufklärung verschrieben hat und dafür seit Jahren von einer Fatwa bedroht wird, ist wichtig: 'Wer aus der Geschichte etwas gelernt hat, muss sowohl den Islamismus als auch der Identitätspolitik vehement entgegenwirken. Wir müssen das Schweigegelübde brechen. Wir müssen über den Islam wieder reden, denn von seiner Zukunft hängt auch die Zukunft Europas ab.'
After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated territorial power base. Stuart monarchs encouraged schemes for expansion in America, Africa, and Asia, tightened control over existing territories, and endorsed systems of slave labor. But English power was precarious, and colonial designs were subject to regular defeats and failed experimentation. Recovering from recent Civil Wars at home, England was shaken by unrest and upheaval through the later seventeenth century. Colonial policies emerged from a kingdom riven with inner tensions, which it exported to enclaves overseas.
Gabriel Glickman reinstates the colonies within the domestic history of Restoration England. He shows how the pursuit of empire raised moral and ideological controversies that divided political opinion and unsettled many ideas of English national identity. Overseas ambitions disrupted bonds in Europe and cast new questions about English relations with Scotland and Ireland. Vigorous debates were provoked by contact with non-Christian peoples and by changes brought to cultural tastes and consumer habits. England was becoming an imperial nation before it had acquired a secure territorial empire. The pressures of colonization exerted a decisive influence over wars, revolutions, and party conflicts that destabilized the later Stuart kingdom.
This is a guidebook on world control and management, a program that Wells believed should be orchestrated (and would be successful) through what he called the 'Open Conspiracy'. This conspiracy is fully outlined in this work and is designed to be run by many separate organizations working together, as opposed to being run by just one group. Is this required reading for the world's most powerful people? Maybe it is. Or maybe it should be. Wells was a visionary and genius whose work should be paid attention to. Chapters include The Idea of the Open Conspiracy, We Have to Clear and Clean Up Our Minds, The Revolution in Education, Religion in the New World, What Mankind Has to Do, Modern Forces Antagonistic to the Open Conspiracy, The Resistances of the Less Industrialized Peoples to the Drive of the Open Conspiracy, The Open Conspiracy Begins as a Movement of Discussion, Explanation and Propaganda, Development of the Activities of the Open Conspiracy, Human Life in the Coming World Community, and more.
The twenty-first century began optimistically in Latin America. Left-leaning leaders armed with programs to reduce poverty and reclaim national wealth were seeing results-but as the aughts gave way to the teens, they began to fall like dominos. Where did the dreams of this 'pink tide' go? Look no further than the original culprits of Latin American disenfranchisement: resource-rich land and unscrupulous extraction.
Recounting the story commodity by commodity, Andy Robinson reveals what oxen have to do with the rise of Jair Bolsonaro, how quinoa explains the mob that descended on Evo Morales, and why oil is the culprit behind the protracted coup in Venezuela. In addition to the usual suspects like gold and bananas which underscored the original plunder of the Americas, Robinson also shows how a new generation of valuable resources-like coltan for smartphones and lithium for electric cars-have become important players in the fate of Latin America. And as the energy transition sets mineral prices soaring, Latin America remains at the mercy of the rollercoaster of commodity prices.
Robinson takes listeners from the salt plains of Chile to the depths of the Amazonian jungle to stitch together the story of Latin America's last decade, showing how the imperial plunder of the past carries on today under a new name.
A concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another.
It's hard to browse the news without seeing reports of yet another imposition of sanctions by one country on another. The United States has sanctions against more than thirty countries. Russia has repeatedly imposed sanctions against former Soviet republics. China has developed its own approach, including targeting private entities such as the NBA. And it's not just major powers: Japan and South Korea have sanctioned each other over WWII and colonial legacies; Saudi Arabia against Qatar because of differences over Iran; and France, Germany, and Norway against Brazil over the Amazon forest and climate change. In Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Bruce Jentleson-one of America's leading scholars on the subject-answers the fundamental questions about sanctions today: Why are they used so much? What are their varieties? What are the key factors affecting their success? Why have they become the tool of first resort for states engaged in international conflict? Jentleson demonstrates that examining sanctions is key to understanding international relations and explains how and why they will likely continue to bear on global politics.
Africa is one of the oldest continents but hasn’t it struck you as absolutely odd how a continent endowed with such wealth in terms of both ground resource as well as human resource, unbelievably great weather and wonderful soil can have such unbelievably high levels of poverty? It is nothing short of preposterous.
What makes this worse for is the fact that 58 years later, Africa still grapples with so much challenges that make you wonder why it has taken us so long as a people to be emancipated in every way.
In 1963, on 1st May, leaders from all across free and colonized Africa gathered in Addis Ababa with a dream of seeing the African continent become one giant regional power. It has not happened yet – but however that does not take away the yearning every son and daughter of the soil has to see Pan Africanism materialize.
The purpose for this narrative by the author in this particular book is to add his voice and help ignite any smoldering rubble of broken dreams and disenchantment back to a blazing flame.
It is Mwambazi’s opinion that Africa has everything it needs to become the economic engine of the entire world and can and will surpass both the West and the East should its citizens awaken to their true potential.
Now here is the enigma, AFRICA DOESN’T NEED THE REST OF THE WORLD TO SURVIVE BUT THE WORLD NEEDS AFRICA TO SURVIVE. I believe the Second African Renaissance is upon us, but it will take A COLLECTIVE AWAKENING OF THE GIANT’S INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS – ITS PEOPLE!
The United States is the most powerful actor in the international system, but it is facing a set of challenges that might lead to its decline as this century unfolds.
In The Pursuit of Dominance, Christopher J. Fettweis examines the grand strategy of previous superpowers to see how they maintained, or failed to maintain, their status. Over the course of six cases, from Ancient Rome to the British Empire, he seeks guidance from the past for present US policymakers. Like the United States, the examples Fettweis uses were the world's strongest powers at particularly moments in time, and they were hoping to stay that way. Rather than focusing on those powers' rise or how they ruled, however, Fettweis looks at how they sought to maintain their power. From these cases, one paramount lesson becomes clear: Dominant powers usually survive even the most incompetent leaders. Fettweis is most interested in how these superpowers defined their interests, the grand strategies these regimes followed to maintain superiority over their rivals, and how the practice of that strategy worked.
A sweeping history of grand strategy, The Pursuit of Dominance looks at the past 2,000 years to highlight what-if anything-current US strategists can learn from the experience of earlier superpowers.
In den Jahren 1915 - 1917 hielt Sigmund Freud eine Vorlesungsreihe mit dem Namen 'Einführung in die Psychoanalyse' - der Grundstein dieser Disziplin schlechthin. In dieser Gesamtbox sind alle drei Zyklen enthalten: 1. Die Fehlleistungen (Vorlesungen 1 - 4), 2. Der Traum (Vorlesungen 5 - 15), Allgemeine Neurosenlehre (Vorlesungen 16 - 28).
Sie haben mitgemacht. Sind zu Tätern geworden. Haben unbescholtene Bürger mit Hass und Gewalt überzogen, sie ihrer Freiheit beraubt. Haben kontrolliert, bedroht, gezwungen und bestraft. Gehetzt, gespalten, entmenschlicht und traumatisiert. Kritiker zu Staatsfeinden erklärt. Politiker, Journalisten, Wissenschaftler und Bosse waren sich nicht zu schade, sich als Totengräber der Demokratie zu betätigen und mittels quasireligiöser Dogmen und vermeintlich letzter Wahrheiten das Ende der liberalen Ordnung einzuläuten.
Kann Business an sich moralisch gut und gottgefällig sein? Manchmal erscheint Business so zwielichtig - Endergebnisse werden manipuliert, Verbraucher werden getäuscht, oder jemand wird befördert, nur weil er Beziehungen hat.
Wayne Grudem stellt ein neues Konzept vor: Business selbst verherrlicht Gott, wenn es auf eine Weise betrieben wird, die Gottes Charakter und Schöpfung nachahmt. Er zeigt, dass alle Aspekte des Business, einschließlich der Themen Eigentum, Gewinn, Geld, Wettbewerb sowie Kreditaufnahme und -vergabe, Gott verherrlichen, weil sie Gottes Wesen widerspiegeln. Obwohl Grudem nicht naiv ist und weiß, wie leicht diese Aktivitäten pervertiert und als Mittel zur Sünde benutzt werden können, ist er überzeugt, dass Christen die Businesswelt nicht scheuen sollten.
Dieses biblisch fundierte Buch ist ein durchdachter Leitfaden zur Nachahmung Gottes im Umgang mit Kunden, Kollegen, Mitarbeitern und anderen Unternehmen. Sehen Sie, wie Ihr Business - und Ihr Leben im Business - der Ehre Gottes gewidmet werden kann.
