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For four years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Traveling extensively—to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools in Pakistan, to prisons in Amman, Asqelon, and Pensacola—she discovered that the Islamic...

Seit Jahrzehnten leben die Bewohner der Milchstraße in Frieden, die Sternenvölker arbeiten zusammen. Dann öffnet sich buchstäblich eine Kluft im Kosmos. Wie sich zeigt, greifen die Mächte des Chaos erneut nach der Milchstraße und den benachbarten Galaxien. Die Terraner finden heraus: In Cassiopeia, einer kleinen Galaxis bei Andromeda, ist ein Chaoporter gestrandet. Warum? Und welche Gefahren gehen von diesem Fahrzeug der Chaotarchen für die Menschheit aus?

Nicholas Stern, former chief economist of the World Bank, was asked by the British government to direct the largest study ever conducted into the reality of global warming and the possible ways of remedying it. Backed by full government resources, Stern answers the most urgent questions of our time: what will be the cost of global warming - and what can we do about it?

The Conflict over the Conflict chronicles one of the most divisive and toxic issues on today’s college and university campuses: Israel/Palestine.

When history teacher Fritz Russell walks through his classroom door, he finds himself in the company of General Robert E. Lee, over 150 years in the past. Fritz finds his sudden time trip to the past both a gift and a chance for great adventure. But when a portal opens to the Oval Office, he realizes that the mysterious gate could also be put to a more serious purpose. When the president hires him to help with national security, Fritz doesn't believe there is any danger in traveling across time and space.

Evan Stern and Michelle Mylett were on tv show for 12 seasons. They've reunited to talk film, tv, pop culture, and of course -- Letterkenny, the show that brought them together. Do you have spicy questions? A boss who you need to get rid of? (metaphorically) -- lucky for you, they've got Spare Hearts. A segment where they answer your questions about love and life.Submit your questions to sparepartspod@gmail.com<33 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eine ferne Zukunft – in der die Erde nur ein Mythos ist … Nach einer gefährlichen Reise durch Raum und Zeit kehrt Perry Rhodan in die Milchstraße zurück. Wieviel Zeit vergangen ist, weiß er nicht. Was sich geändert hat, kann er nicht einmal ahnen. Schnell stellt er aber fest: In der Galaxis ist die Cairanische Epoche angebrochen – und als schlimmster Feind in dieser Zeit gilt er.

The former CEO of NPR set out for conservative America to find out why these people are so wrong about everything. It turns out, they weren’t. Ken Stern watched the increasing polarization of our country with growing concern. As a longtime partisan Democrat himself, he felt forced to...

The NYU Stern School of Business is one of the top business schools in the world thanks to the leading academics, researchers, and provocative thinkers who call it home. In Regulating Wall Street: The New Architecture of Global Finance, an impressive group of the Stern school's top authorities on finance combine their expertise in capital markets, risk management, banking, and derivatives to assess the strengths and weaknesses of new regulations in response to the recent global financial crisis.

As an ADHD child with dyslexia, Tom Stern felt unable to live up to the great expectations set by his very successful grandfather and father; as a result, he suffered from extreme anxiety. Over time, he developed a methodology that increased his confidence and enabled him to achieve success in the entertainment industry, later founding an executive search firm that has sustained excellence for more than a quarter century. It is Tom's goal to help others achieve success in sales and realize their dreams by overcoming their fears as well. 

The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change was one of the most difficult and hopeful achievements of the twenty-first century: 195 nations finally agreed, after twenty years of trying, to establish an ambitious, operational regime to address one of the greatest civilizational challenges of our time. In Landing the Paris Climate Agreement, Todd Stern provides an engaging account from inside the rooms where it happened: the full, charged, seven-year story of how the Paris Agreement came to be, following an arc from Copenhagen, to Durban, to the secret US-China climate deal in 2014, to Paris.

Riscopriamo il piacere di ascoltare i grandi scrittori italiani che hanno dedicato al Natale queste storie...

The private life behind the public face of a sex symbol. After being crowned Miss America a decade ago, Cathy Forester has been in some glamorous settings - but she has little to show for it. She’s endured a string of failed loves, a divorce, and the death of her parents. Restless by temperament, Cathy thinks she may have found a new life with a younger man, Peter Shaw. Peter is the son of a famous musician and is still battling to come into his own. Smitten by Cathy’s beauty, he jumps at the chance to step out of his father’s shadow.

Oggi questo celebre resoconto di un semplice sottoufficiale alpino che si trova a combattere nel settore centrale del fronte russo, proprio quando l'esercito dell'Unione Sovietica sferra il suo potente attacco demolitore, acquista rilievo speciale. Man mano che i fatti narrati si allontanano nel tempo, il diario del sergente diventa più intenso e assume i caratteri dell'esperienza perenne. La testimonianza scritta, rispetto agli eventi storico-geografici da cui è scaturita, intrattiene lo stesso rapporto che potremmo supporre fra la moneta e il suo conio.

In the early years of the twentieth century, Mississippi County, Arkansas, was a brutal and profitable place. Home to starving, landless farmers, the county produced almost two percent of the entire world’s cotton. It was also the site of two rape trials that made national headlines: an accusation that sent two Black men, almost certainly innocent, to death row; and the case of two white men, almost certainly guilty, who were likewise sentenced to death but who would ultimately face a very different fate.

Considering her last field trip ended in disaster, Frannie is relieved she’ll be allowed to attend the upcoming excursion to a local radio station. Deciding it’s time to get a job, Frannie brings everything she’ll need—including business cards she made herself and a resume. But when things don’t go as planned, Frannie ends up in trouble once again.

Dr. Stern’s The Flight from Woman is a study of the polarity of the sexes as reflected in the conflict between two modes of knowledge–scientific or rational, as contrasted with intuitive or poetic. In exploring this rich theme, he undertakes the psychological portraits of six representative figures whose thought and work have influenced modern man: Descartes, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, and Sartre. The scientific revolution of the last 300 years has yielded, in Dr. Stern’s view, a de-ferninization and de-humanization of society, in the sense that it is a rejection of ...

An investigation into the nature of violence, terror, and trauma through conversations with a notorious war criminal and hero to white nationalists. Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with...

In midcentury America, one man is determined to take over the airwaves with a program as audacious as it is entertaining. Bald, bombastic, and irresistible, Golk is his name and You're on Camera is his show. To "golk" someone is to trick her, on camera, into betraying her true nature.

Diary of a Mad Boomer isn't just a memoir-it's a cross-generational roast. Gary E. Stern takes you from Cold War paranoia and draft notices to oat milk boba and doomscrolling, proving that absurdity is timeless and laughter is the only thing that still works. Whether you're a Boomer made of asbestos and bourbon or a Gen Z'er rubbernecking the wreckage, this book is for anyone willing to admit the obvious: life is messy, stupid, and occasionally hilarious.