This collection features a diverse array of quotes from influential thinkers spanning from the 5th century B.C.E. to contemporary times. It brings together insights from speakers, philosophers, authors, entrepreneurs, and scientists, offering profound wisdom in a straightforward format. Readers can access a wealth of knowledge and inspiration, effectively encapsulating the brilliance of great minds throughout history within a single volume.
The current world population is 7.9 billion people. Our demands are already making a massive impact on the earth. Global warming, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, these are all symptoms of a bigger problem, human numbers and excessive consumption. Given our impact on earth now we have to reduce our numbers rapidly. We don't have time to wait until 2100 for numbers to decrease gradually. After looking at all of the issues surrounding the population debate, The Depopulation Imperative argues that to achieve any reduction we need a profound moral change from an emphasis on the priority of the human to a new basic moral principle that puts the earth first. While the implications of this principle are radical, in the end the book argues that we can do it and there are grounds for hope.
The loss, discovery and reinvention of the world's earliest civilization, the Sumerians. číst celé
The story of one of the first and most important civilisations in history, and the first to invent writing.
This first-of-its-kind book speaks to key normative and empirical issues in American government. It will appeal to those interested in the president, the Supreme Court, and judicial independence, including scholars; undergraduate, graduate, and law students; members of the media; and the well-educated general public.
On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects.The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives headlong into the era’s most baffling murder mystery. Seized upon by battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the case became a publicity circus. Reenactments of the murder were staged in Times Square, armed reporters lurked in the streets of Hell’s Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikely trio—a hard-luck cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professor—all raced to solve the crime.What emerged was a sensational love triangle and an even more sensational trial: an unprecedented capital case hinging on circumstantial evidence around a victim whom the police couldn’t identify with certainty, and who the defense claimed wasn’t even dead. The Murder of the Century is a rollicking tale—a rich evocation of America during the Gilded Age and a colorful re-creation of the tabloid wars that have dominated media to this day.
Eine spannende und lebendige Geschichtsstunde mit faszinierenden Porträts der Zeitungsmogule Joseph Pulitzer und William Randolph Hearst Über ganz New York verteilt werden die ordentlich abgetrennten Körperteile eines Mannes gefunden. Die Polizei tappt im Dunkeln. Weder Zeugen noch Motive noch Verdächtige bieten Anhaltspunkte. Diese grausigen Funde im Juni 1897 sind der Beginn eines der mysteriösesten Mordfälle des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der Fall löst einen noch nie da gewesenen Medienzirkus aus, der die Geburtsstunde des Boulevardjournalismus ist. Die Spuren führen Reporter und Polizisten in das deutsche Immigrantenmilieu und zu einer verhängnisvollen Dreiecksbeziehung. Doch handelt es sich bei der kopflosen Leiche wirklich um William Guldensuppe? Bis zum Schluss hält der historische Fall mit seinen überraschenden Wendungen die damalige Bevölkerung wie den heutigen Leser in Atem.
Ma che idea, lasciare la California per un brumoso paesino della campagna gallese! Se non fosse che il paesino è Hay-on-Wye, la «Mecca dei bibliofili», dove c’è una libreria antiquaria ogni quaranta abitanti, e dove si celebra ogni anno uno dei più noti Festival della Letteratura – e se non fosse che il pellegrino è Paul Collins, instancabile e ardimentoso cacciatore di libri perduti e strampalati. Ingaggiato nel 2000 da Richard Booth, il libraio che nel 1977 si proclamò Re del Principato Autonomo di Hay, Collins si è potuto dedicare per sei mesi alla sua attività preferita: frugare tra cataste di libri effimeri «che fin dall’inizio non erano destinati a durare», e tramandarci le loro storie. Ed ecco le ponderose raccolte di riviste obsolete («La rivista delle meraviglie. Composta interamente di materiale classificabile come MIRACOLOSO! BIZZARRO! STRANO! STRAVAGANTE! SOPRANNATURALE! ECCENTRICO! ASSURDO! OSCURO! e INDESCRIVIBILE!»), le memorie apocrife ( Sono stata la cameriera di Hitler ) o anonime ( Confessioni della moglie di uno scrittore ), gli autori che scrivono dall’aldilà, e le prime edizioni «grigie e pesanti come tombini». Mentre cerca casa, fantasticando di stabilirsi definitivamente in un grande «pub sconsacrato» del Seicento, il Sixpence House, Collins riesce anche a far domanda per un seggio alla Camera dei Lord (quella «specie di governo fondato sulla copula. Una spermocrazia, se preferite»). Oltre che una incantevole tranche de vie , Al paese dei libri è una sorprendente meditazione sul valore dei libri nel tempo – e sulla volubile incuranza del passato, «l’unico Paese dove è ancora permesso dileggiare gli indigeni».
Beim neuen Titel des australischen Trainers Paul Collins handelt es sich um das ultimative Handbuch, das dabei hilft, sich einen flachen Bauch, eine kräftige Lendenregion und eine schlanke Taille anzutrainieren. Die Bauchmuskeln spielen eine wichtige Rolle bei Alltagsbewegungen, sportlichen Bewegungsabläufen und bei körperlichen Aktivitäten. Eine starke Bauchregion schützt vor Verletzungen. Das Buch enthält mehr als 70 leicht zu erlernende Übungen und Tests, bei denen das eigene Körpergewicht, Fitness- und Medizinbälle sowie spezielle Geräte für das Bauchmuskeltraining eingesetzt werden.
A superb visual introduction to what are undoubtedly some of the greatest works of art from the ancient world, showcasing a series of specially taken photographs of the British Museum's unrivalled collection of Assyrian sculptures.
