Résultats pour "De ware" dans Sciences sociales et politiques

An in-depth examination of how the United States can build more effective partner militaries Military assistance has a bad reputation. Large-scale attempts to build partner militaries in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam cost the United States billions of dollars and ended ignominiously, with the...

Brought to you by Penguin. On a warm, sunny afternoon in May 1981, more than 10,000 pilgrims from all over the world gather on St. Peter’s Square for the start of Pope John Paul’s general audience. Out of nowhere, a gunshot is heard. John Paul collapses. A gunman is apprehended. After the...

Host Jack Maddox reconstructs the Sioux Wars through primary sources and battlefield analysis, examining how broken treaties, gold rush greed, and military campaigns shattered Native sovereignty. From Fort Laramie to Little Bighorn and Mankato, this series documents the brutal collision between American expansion and Indigenous resistance. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Jack Maddox uses military records, memoirs, and eyewitness testimony to uncover the Apache Wars as a decades-long struggle of resistance and survival. Each episode examines key moments — from the Bascom Affair's fatal miscommunication to Apache guerrilla mastery and the scouts who ended Geronimo's campaign — revealing the strategies, betrayals, and human costs that defined this brutal conflict. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Jack Maddox reconstructs the Lincoln County War through court records and survivor testimony, exposing the corrupt alliances, economic monopolies, and dueling badges that transformed New Mexico Territory into a lawless battlefield where Billy the Kid became legend and institutional power crumbled into violence. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Weekday coverage of the ongoing war in Iran from BDN.

"[Narrator Steven Crossley's] British accent gives his narration an academic-sounding quality fitting for the text. He is clear and precise in pronunciation and enunciation and is suitably expressive throughout." — AudioFile Magazine The Death of Democracy is a riveting audiobook account of...

Host Alexandra Reeves explores cartel alliances in *Blood In, Blood Out*, where billion-dollar partnerships collapse into brutal wars overnight. Each episode dissects real alliances turned bloodbaths—from El Mayo's kidnapping to Los Zetas betraying the Gulf Cartel—revealing how desperation forges deals and paranoia destroys them. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

"Sun Tzŭ on the Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World" by Sunzi is an ancient Chinese military treatise written in the 5th century BC. Composed of 13 chapters, each explores different aspects of warfare, strategy, and tactics. This influential text emphasizes intelligence...

One of America's leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do. Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe in witches? Marvin Harris answers these and...

Join Ruth Fielding, a courageous Red Cross worker, as she journeys through war-torn France during the First World War. Tasked with a daring mission to rescue a lost American soldier behind enemy lines, Ruths story is one of bravery, resilience, and adventure. Experience the thrill of her quest in this captivating tale! - Summary by KevinS

Three of the seven “prophets” presented in this audiobook—Descartes, Rousseau, and Nietzsche—provoked or facilitated, through their intellectual activity, great upheavals. The others—Pascal, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Soloviev— predicted these very upheavals but showed us the way to overcome them. If we study all seven of these philosophers in depth, we will have an easier time grasping the essence and origin of the universal drama now unfolding before our eyes and we will make wise and courageous choices for a better future.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The fast-paced inside story of America’s plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon “[A]...

From the former news policy lead at Google, an “informative and often harrowing wake-up call” (Publishers Weekly) that explains the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the authoritarian regimes of China and Russia that could potentially crush democracy. From...

World War Gods is an epic four-part series that delves into the origins and true nature of the gods, weaving together a narrative that is as thrilling as it is revelatory. This series does more than tell a story—it challenges the way you think, introducing the groundbreaking concept of abstract history. If you crave mind-expanding revelations, if uncovering the hidden truths of the universe excites you, if you engage with deep philosophical discourse, and if you have a passion for history.

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War Podcast is the creation of Seth Paridon and Bill Toti. Seth is a World War II historian with over 20 years experience who's many roles also was serving as a chief historian for The National WWII Museum for 15 years. Bill is not a historian, but is a retired submarine commodore and military planner with a special interest in the Pacific War. Bill has a unique perspective to offer as one who spent more than a decade sailing those same waters where the action in “The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War” took place. Each week, Bill and Seth dive ...

Listen to the greatest thinkers of all time as they explore the deepest questions of human existence.

War-game simulation specialists James F. Dunnigan and Austin Bay have revised their highly regarded analyses, bringing up to date not only the many conventional conflicts around the world today but the new battlegrounds that have emerged since the previous edition was published more than a decade ago - the Global War on Terror, counterinsurgency struggles around the world and the latest frontier of modern combat: cyber war.

An inspiring account from one of history’s darkest moments. Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story. As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany’s many problems. She grew up in an apartment building where neighbors were more than happy to report Jews to the Gestapo.

“[A] brilliant book…by far the best study yet” (The Wall Street Journal) of the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan and its long-lasting influence on our world. In the wake of World War II, with Britain’s empire collapsing and Stalin’s on the rise, US officials under new...