Showing results for "Collapse" in Politics & Social Sciences

In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid...

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What...

China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper...

Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future.

The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 to end all traffic between the city’s two halves: the democratic west and the communist east. The iconic symbol of a divided Europe, the Wall became a focus of western political pressure on East Germany; as Ronald Reagan’s famously said in a 1987 speech in Berlin, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

On February 22, 2011, a devastating earthquake shook Christchurch, killing 185 people. One hundred and fifteen of those people were in the CTV building. The building should never have been built.

Is the world heading for a cliff? Why are the challenges we face in the US so similar to what they are facing throughout Europe, Canada, and Australia, including mass migration, rising crime, and the soaring cost of food, housing, energy, and medical care? Why are the banking and financial systems worldwide teetering on the brink of insolvency? Why is freedom declining, privacy being eliminated, and heavy handed government on the rise in the freedom loving countries of the Western world? Why is so much unrest being fomented? Is there a master plan behind it all? I'm convinced the evidence is ...

In the 1990s, a vision emerged of a frictionless world of globalization in which the West would become ever richer on the basis of a tech-based service economy, all underpinned by a rules-based liberal international order. It became the basis for the mainstream politics of center-left and right. Philip Pilkington argues that this vision was always delusional and is now dying.

The Globalist Plan to Collapse Everything is a revealing portrayal of the dangers of the globalist agenda. Unveiling the eleven key pillars of Western civilization, the book walks through the steps being taken to dismantle them, ending civilization as we know it.

The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), based at the Tavistock and Portman Trust in North London, was set up initially to provide - for the most part - talking therapies to young people who were questioning their gender identity. But in the last decade GIDS has referred more than a thousand children, some as young as nine years old, for medication to block their puberty. In the same period, the number of referrals has exploded, increasing thirty-fold, while the profile of the patients has changed, from largely pre-pubescent boys to mostly adolescent girls.

In this New York Times bestseller, one of America’s premier physicians offers a must-read account of the new challenges facing parents today and a program for how we can better prepare our children to navigate the obstacles they face In The Collapse of Parenting, internationally acclaimed...

An exploration of how and why the Constitution's plan for independent courts has failed to protect individuals' constitutional rights, while advancing regressive and reactionary barriers to progressive regulation.

In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism and true crime, Stacy Horn sheds light on how the subprime mortgage scandal of the 1970s and a long history of white-collar crime slowly devastated East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood that would come to be known as the Killing Fields. On...

من لم يندهش عندما شاهد المعابد المهجورة في أنغكور وات أو مدن المايا التي تلفها الأدغال، ويتساءل: "هل يمكن أن نلقى المصير نفسه؟". في هذا الكتاب المثير للاهتمام، يتحرّى جارد دياموند ـــ الذي أحدث كتابه (أسلحة وجراثيم وفولاذ) ثورة في فهمنا للتاريخ ـــ كيف أن استعمال

In the middle of the night on June 24, 2021, a 12-story section of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex roared to the ground, killing 98 people in Surfside, Florida. Collapse: Disaster in Surfside is a 12-part investigative and narrative reporting project featuring the Pulitzer-Prize-winning coverage of the Miami Herald in collaboration with Treefort Media. We’re talking with survivors, witnesses, experts, first responders, and journalists, to get the whole story of Surfside. How the building went up, and why it went down. We’re piecing together 911 calls, police body camera ...

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought, and the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093. Dramatizing science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, The Collapse of Western Civilization reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do, providing a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate-change literature.

When the pocket breaks down, the truth comes out. Welcome to The Pocket Collapse Podcast — your all-access pass to the wildest takes, sharpest analysis, and no-huddle chaos of the football world. Hosted by Larry and Zach, this show brings the heat every week with NFL news, bold predictions, fantasy football strategy (redraft, keeper, dynasty), and brutally honest reactions when things go off script. From the biggest plays to the worst collapses, we break it all down — with unfiltered takes, fantasy insight you actually want, and a mic'd-up energy that hits harder than a blindside blitz.

Do you have a love/hate relationship with social media? Does it ever feel like you are living in a simulation? Do you fear the algorithm knows you better than you know yourself? Does the 21st Century have you feeling down? Welcome to Context Collapse: A podcast by two aging millennials (Eric & Laura) examining the modern condition and all that it encompasses.

Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbilly Elegy and the classic Bowling Alone in this hard-hitting analysis that identifies the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: it is not purely the result of economics...

Part of the Mark and Pete Podcasts under Utter Piffle, Narrative Collapse is hosted by Peter and dedicated to tearing down the lies of the mainstream and uncovering the truth they don’t want you to hear. From woke ideology to government deception, fake science to historical cover-ups, we cut through the propaganda and challenge the official story. Each episode, we dismantle the false narratives shaping society—whether it’s the hoax of global warming, the real story behind 9/11, the lies about COVID, or the truth about the Ukraine war. We expose how the elite manipulate public perception,...