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Two-time Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Barbara Tuchman explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state - and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today.

The companion book to COURSERA's wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn" Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need...

From best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture, showing that such mass festivities have been indigenous to the West since the ancient Greeks.

In this series of 24 captivating lectures, an award-winning teacher and acclaimed scholar delves into the story of how, why, where, and when we became human. You'll gain a fresh understanding of the forces that have shaped our species, as Professor King synthesizes the best that more than a century of scientific scholarship has to offer across a variety of disciplines to gain the insights offered by fossils, ancient skeletal remains, and lifestyle information like cave art and stone tools.

Esteemed Egyptologist Barbara Mertz updates her widely praised social history of the people of ancient Egypt, which was originally published in 1968. Combining impeccable scholarship with a delightfully personal style, the author reconstructs the life of the Egyptians from birth to death, and beyond death, too.

Quietly and steadily, the number of women making six figures or more is increasing and continues to rise at a rate faster than for men. From entrepreneurs to corporate executives, from white-collar professionals to freelancers and part-timers, women are forging careers with considerable financial success. In Secrets of Six-Figure Women, Barbara Stanny, journalist, motivational speaker, and financial educator, identifies the seven key strategies of female high earners.

Moments before entering the battlefield, the great Pandava warrior, Prince Arjuna, faces a moral dilemma about the violence and death the war will cause. Questioning the meaning of life, Arjuna asks himself, "Why do I exist? Why should I fight against my loved ones? And where shall I go after I die?" Arjuna seeks out Krishna for the answers in The Bhagavad Gita, an ancient text that has been called the quintessence of the spirituality of India. Their dialogues touch upon ethical dilemmas and philosophical issues that go far beyond the war Arjuna faces.

EducAzione Social è il podcast degli incontri dell'Intergruppo parlamentare su social network, dipendenze digitali e uso consapevole degli smartphone, creato su iniziativa della senatrice Barbara Floridia, Presidente della Commissione di Vigilanza Rai e realizzato da ASSIPOD.org - Associazione Italiana PodcastingLe opinioni e i contenuti espressi nell’ambito dell’iniziativa sono nell’esclusiva responsabilità dei proponenti e dei relatori e non sono riconducibili in alcun modo al Senato della Repubblica o ad organi del Senato medesimo.

From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes marginalized free black people in the Indian nations well after the Civil War and slavery had ended. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara Krauthamer rewrites the history of southern slavery, emancipation, race, and citizenship to reveal the centrality of Native American slaveholders and the black people they enslaved.

‘Anche dopo’ è il podcast che nasce per raccontare il procrastinare in modo diverso: non come difetto ma come possibilità. Un modo di vivere che nasconde tesori inattesi spesso rimasti invisibili.Nessun consiglio pratico, tecnica o metodo per risolvere la procrastinazione. Anzi.Ogni lunedì, a partire dai miei 'Anche dopo', tutte le cose che rimando, racconto le meraviglie che il procrastinare riserva, scoperte fissando immagini confuse, gli stereogrammi, e ascoltando citazioni e personaggi letterari che sono illuminazione. Insieme a questi importanti compagni di viaggio, quello che ...

Frauen-Neuanfänge-Veränderungen. Dieser Podcast ist ein Herzensprojekt von mir, entstanden aufgrund meines eigenen Veränderungsprozesses. Ich wollte wissen und auch verstehen, woher mein tiefer und recht unerwarteter Wunsch nach etwas Neuem in meinem Leben gekommen ist. Im Austausch mit anderen Frauen habe ich bemerkt, dass ich gar nicht die Einzige bin, der es so geht. Ich habe so viele spannende und motivierende Geschichten über Neuanfänge und Veränderungen gehört, dass ich darüber einen Podcast machen wollte. Wir sprechen dabei auch über all die Ängste und Unsicherheiten, die ...

Le ragazze del titolo eravamo noi alla fine degli anni '90.In un appartamento al piano terra di via Milazzo, abitavamo in quattro, o forse in tre, a distanza di 30 anni ancora ne stiamo discutendo…Abbiamo deciso di cominciare a raccontarci in 10 puntate, in cui non abbiamo inventato nulla, a partire dal lavoro che fa da sfondo alle nostre chiacchiere e, quando ci siamo concesse qualche licenza narrativa, lo abbiamo detto esplicitamente.I nomi, quelli sì, li abbiamo cambiati, per pudore, ironia o semplice quieto vivere.Ma quando i nominati si riconosceranno, e lo faranno, speriamo che ...

The Intercessor’s Mic with Barbara Cummings is a conversation space shaped by depth, clarity, and meaningful dialogue. Each episode features thoughtful exchange with individuals who are on post and on purpose — people who bring insight, intelligence, and intention to the work they do and the lives they lead.This podcast welcomes voices with perspective. Innovators, thinkers, creators, analysts, communicators, and individuals who carry influence in their own spheres. Whether their expertise comes from technology, culture, human behavior, leadership, creativity, or lived experience, they ...

Musings and Observations from a Cloistered Woman of Service Each episode offers a glimpse into the practice of inner work — bringing awareness and presence to the ordinary tasks of daily life.

The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor. Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in BAIT AND SWITCH, she enters another hidden realm of the economy—the...

In this collection of never-before-published teachings by Charlotte Joko Beck, one of the most influential Western-born Zen teachers, she explores our “core beliefs” - the hidden, negative convictions we hold about ourselves that direct our thoughts and behavior and prevent us from experiencing life as it is. Wryly humorous and relatable, Beck uses powerfully clear language to show how our lives present us with daily opportunities to move from thinking to experiencing, from compulsivity to confidence, and from anguish to peace.

The corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock. In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter this erosion of humanistic education. Focusing on the individual faculty member and his or her own professional practice, Berg and Seeber present both an analysis of the culture of speed in the academy and ways of alleviating stress while improving teaching, research, and collegiality.

Returning to the "Aunt Hill" from a two-year trip around the world, 20-year-old Rose Campbell suddenly finds herself surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them! Rose is rich and pretty, and she suspects many of these suitors are more interested in her wealth than her dreams. But she is determined to live her own life and find her own love, despite the many plans of aunts, uncles, and cousins. Louisa May Alcott wrote this delightful sequel to Eight Cousins at the request of her many fans.

New York Times bestselling biographer Barbara Leaming has written a riveting political dramaof the last ten years of Winston Churchill's public life. In Churchill Defiant, Leaming tells the tumultuous behind-the-scenes story of Churchill's refusal to retire after his 1945 electoral defeat, and...

An accomplished former ghostwriter and book researcher who worked with Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, and Hillary Clinton goes behind-the-scenes of the national’s capital to tell the story of how she survived the exciting, but self-important and self-promoting world of the Beltway...