50 Facts That Should Change the World 2. 0
Author: Jessica Williams
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2011-05
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1459621603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Revised, updated, and every bit as vital as the first edition!...
Author: Jessica Williams
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2011-05
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1459621603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Revised, updated, and every bit as vital as the first edition!...
Author: Jessica Williams
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781567319842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jessica Williams
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Published: 2007-08-02
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1848312652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this new edition of her bestseller, Jessica Williams tests the temperature of our world and diagnoses a malaise with some shocking symptoms. Get the facts but also the human side of the story on the world?s hunger, poverty, material and emotional deprivation; its human rights abuses and unimaginable wealth; the unstoppable rise of consumerism, mental illness, the drugs trade, corruption, gun culture, the abuse of our environment and more. The prognosis might look bleak, yet there is hope, Williams argues, and it's down to us to act now to change things.
Author: Stephen Fender
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
Published: 2008-09-01
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1934708224
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Are Americans being told the full story about what’s going on in the United States today? In this book, you’ll learn hard facts that will open your eyes and minds to a very different reality than the official versions. Following the popular 50 Facts That Should Change The World, this new book puts our nation under the microscope, telling us that: The United States of America is a country with fifty capital cities, few of which anyone can name/ a nation with 65 million gun owners and 35,000 gun deaths each year/ a place where there’s one car for every adult/ and where twice as many people claim to go to church as actually do.One town in Kentucky elected a black Labrador as its mayor.The United States produces a quarter of global CO2 emissions, and has a population rising twice as fast as that of the European Union.German could have been the national language.Republican states are the most generous givers to charity.The United States boasts the largest welfare state in the world—our military. Stephen Fender presents a vibrant, proud, and yet critical portrait of the world’s most powerful but least understood nation.
Author: Hywel Williams
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2014-08-12
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1623655331
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The currents of History run deep and often unseen beneath the everyday ripple of events. But now and again the current rises to the surface, and the events of a single day shed an exceptional light on the meaning of the past. Such events are the subject of Days that Changed the World. Some of the 50 days described here mark the end of an era; others the start of something new. Many are the dates of bloody battles or murders; others of momentous decisions or breathtaking discoveries. All are remembered as powerful symbols of their time. Our story begins almost 2500 years ago on 28 September 480 before the Christian Era, when the Athenian navy destroyed the Persian invasion fleet in the Bay of Salamis. Had the Persians won we might never have heard the names of Plato, Aristotle or Alexander, nor recognize the word democracy. Charting 50 such defining moments, concluding with 11 September 2001 and the destruction of New York's Twin Towers, Days that Changed the World is a unique and fascinating way to portray the story of world history. These 50 history-making days include: The Battle of the Salamis; The Assassination of Julius Caesar; The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ; The Dedication of Constantinople; The Death of Muhammad; The Coronation of Charlemagne; The Death of Genghis Khan; The Fall of Constantinople; The Defeat of the Spanish Armada; The Defenestration of Prague; The Fall of the Bastille; The Battle of Waterloo; Parliament Passing the Emancipation Act; The Battle of Sedan; The Boxer Rebellion; The First Day of the Somme; The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor; The Bombing of Hiroshima; Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream'; The Breaching of the Berlin Wall; Nelson Mandela's Release from Prison; Nine Eleven.
Author: Stephen Fender
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781282744073
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Glyn Daly
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2019-03-15
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0810139375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Speculation: Politics, Ideology, Event develops Hegel’s radical perspective of speculative thought as a way of reclaiming and revitalizing the sense of the future and its possibilities. Engaging with such figures as Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Žižek, and Fredric Jameson, Glyn Daly articulates the distinctness of speculative philosophy and draws its implications for new debates in areas of science, politics, capitalism, ideology, ethics, and the event. In a confrontation with today’s fatalistic milieu, principal emphasis is given to Hegel’s idea of infinity as the intrinsic dimension of negativity within all finitude. Against the modern era’s paradigmatic tendency to externalize social problems in the form of antagonism and Otherness, Daly argues for a renewal of utopian thought based on Hegelian reconciliation and the affirmation of excess as the essence of all being. On these grounds, he advances a new kind of political imagination that in speculative terms centers on uncompromising notions of truth and reason.
Author: Laurie Calkhoven
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2015-12-29
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 0545889634
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the author of "I Grew Up to be President" comes an exciting new book that explores fifty influential and inspirational American women who changed the world. Women have always played an important role in the history of the United States. But before they were women, they were regular girls just like anyone else. So how did these seemingly ordinary girls grow up to be such extradorinary women?In WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD, you'll meet fifty of the most influential and inspirational American women who had a lasting impact on our nation and the world. Starting with some of America's "Founding Mothers" like Pocahontas and Abigail Adams, and continuing up to the present day with game changers like Hillary Clinton, Oprah, and Misty Copeland, the book features a unique and diverse cast from all walks of life. With a mix of photographs and quirky illustrations, Women Who Changed the World is a fun and exciting read that will inspire future generations of leaders for years to come!
Author: William Brawner
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2008-07-21
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1435744233
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Our world, the planet Earth, needs our help, desperately, if she is to allow the human race to survive and thrive; to reach whatever levels of social, economic, spiritual and intellectual achievement we can attain. We have done a superior job of following God's directive to "go forth and multiply". We have been a great deal less successful in our realization that we are not the earth's owners, merely her stewards.