Resultados para "Sand" en Política y gobierno

Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments. Over time, soldiers, scholars, and military experts have offered various explanations for this pattern.

Working from both primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain's role in the creation of the modern Middle East and the rise of Zionism from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948, when Britain handed over Palestine to United Nations' control. From the decisions that Britain made has flowed much of the instability of the region and of the worldwide tensions that threaten the twenty-first century; this thought-provoking book considers how much Britain was to blame.

The Finnish Front Line is a historical biography of Urho Kekkonen, the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland. Gordon F. Sander focuses on Kekkonen's pivotal first term as president, which was bracketed by two crises that together formed the template for both Finland's relationship with the Soviet Union from 1956 through the fall of the USSR, and Kekkonen's own "special" relationship with Moscow: the Night Frost crisis of 1957, which derived from the Kremlin's desire to exert greater influence on Finnish politics.

From fake news to conspiracy theories, from inflammatory memes to misleading headlines, misinformation has swiftly become the defining problem of our era. The crisis threatens the integrity of our democracies, our ability to cultivate trusting relationships, even our physical and psychological well-being—yet most attempts to combat it have proven insufficient. With remarkable clarity, Sander van der Linden explains why our brains are so vulnerable to misinformation.

The Left seems to be dying a slow death. Bestselling historian Shlomo Sand argues that the global decline of the Left is linked to the waning of the idea of equality that has united citizens in the past and inspired them to engage in collective action. Sand retraces the evolution of this idea in a wide-ranging account that includes seventeenth-century England, the French Revolution, the birth of anarchism and Marxism, the decolonial, feminist, and civil rights revolts, and the left populism of our time.

This groundbreaking work deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the 'Holy Land' of Israel—and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for them throughout the twentieth...

Na década de 1980, três físicos realizaram um estudo pioneiro sobre o ponto crítico que leva à ocorrência de uma avalanche. Eles partiram do princípio de que o desmoronamento de uma pilha de areia é certo, embora não saibamos quando ele se dará nem sua dimensão. Da mesma forma, pesquisadores do mundo inteiro há tempos já alertavam sobre a iminência de uma nova pandemia, mesmo não podendo determinar com exatidão a data desse evento, bem como seus desdobramentos.

Anyone who has ever crammed for a test, capitulated to a grade-grubbing student, or fretted over a child's report card knows that the way we assess student learning in American schools is freighted with unintended consequences. As experts agree, our primary assessment technologies—grading, rating, and ranking—don't actually provide an accurate picture of how students are doing in school. In Off the Mark, Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt explain how we got into this predicament, why we remain beholden to outmoded forms of assessment, and what we can do to change course.

Are contemporary soldiers exploited by the state and society that they defend? More specifically, have America's professional service members disproportionately carried the moral weight of America's war-fighting decisions since the inception of an all-volunteer force? In this volume, Michael J. Robillard and Bradley J. Strawser examine the question of whether and how American soldiers have been exploited in this way. Robillard and Strawser offer an original theory of "moral exploitation".

Why do political leaders become entangled in so many sex scandals? How did the US military inadvertently help make San Francisco a mecca of gay culture? And what was the original purpose of vibrators? Find out the answers to all these questions and more as journalist Ross Benes delves into the complicated relationship between everyday human life - including religion, politics, and technology - and our sexuality.

A damning portrait of the U.S.-Mexico border, where militaristic fantasies are unleashed, violent technologies are tested, and immigrants are targeted. Over the past three decades, U.S. immigration and border security policies have turned the southern states into conflict zones, spawned a...

‘The very grubby coalface of foreign policy … I found the entire book most horribly addictive’ Independent ‘One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful study is amazement at the efforts the British and French each put into undermining the other’ Spectator A fascinating...

From Ty McCormick, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, an epic and timeless story of a family in search of safety, security, and a place to call home. When Asad Hussein was growing up in the world’s largest refugee camp, nearly every aspect of life revolved around getting to...

"Man hält die Heimat für den relativ permanenten, die Wohnung für den auswechselbaren, übersiedelbaren Standort. Das Gegenteil ist richtig: Man kann die Heimat auswechseln oder keine haben, aber man muß immer, gleichgültig wo, wohnen. Der Mensch kann überall wohnen: unter den Pariser Brücken, in Zigeunerkarawanen, in den Hütten der Paulistaner Favelas und sogar in Auschwitz. Er ist wie die Ratte - kosmopolitisch... Wer aus der Heimat vertrieben wird (oder den Mut aufbringt, von dort zu fliehen), der leidet."

Wenige Begriffe haben in der letzten Zeit eine größere Konjunktur gehabt als das Wort "Vertrauen". Eine solche Konjunktur verweist auf ein erhebliches Defizit, gerät aber auch in die Gefahr, Überdruss zu wecken, weil man das Wort nicht mehr hören kann. Hilfreich dagegen könnte es sein, sich anhand der Ideengeschichte die historische Kontinuität und die grundsätzliche Bedeutung des Zusammenhangs von Vertrauen und freiheitlichem Zusammenleben vor Augen zu führen, um die Wiederholungen der Tagesdebatten für einen Augenblick zu verlassen.

"Sein Medium war das gesprochene Wort." (Prof. M. Rainer Lepsius) Inhalt: Ich bin Weltbürger; Einmal Emigrant, immer Emigrant; Positivismus heißt Handlung; Demokratie; Der Mensch sträubt sich vor der Freiheit; Was ist Soziologie? Im Berlin der 20er Jahre; [...].

On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a car bomb in downtown Oslo, Norway. He didn't stop there, traveling several hours from the city to ambush a youth camp while the rest of Norway was distracted by his earlier attack. The evidence suggests a startling truth: that this was the work of one man, pursuing a mission he was convinced was just. As George Michael demonstrates in Lone Wolf Terror and the Rise of Leaderless Resistance, they are not isolated cases. Rather, they represent the new way warfare will be conducted in the twenty-first century.

Im Jahr 1942 wird Käthe Sasso in Wien wegen Hochverrats angeklagt und verhaftet. Mit 16 Jahren muss die junge Widerstandskämpferin die unmenschlichen Verhöre der Gestapo durchstehen und miterleben, wie Ihre Kameradinnen aus den Todeszellen hingerichtet werden. Ihre Kindheit verbringt sie in einem deutsch-kroatischen Dorf im Burgenland bei ihrer Großmutter Majka (kroatisch für "Mutter"). Von Majka liebevoll erzogen, lernt sie das wichtigste Gut des Menschen zu schätzen - die Freiheit.

The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production facilities will be at risk; port infrastructures will need to be raised; and over ten million Americans fleeing rising seas will become climate refugees.