Showing results for "Collapse" in 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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...

On the Frontlines of Collapse chronicles the current decline of our society and discusses ways we can mitigate a terrible future. Hosted by authors Christopher David and Christopher Michael from the New Revenant Society. If you’re familiar with their work from NewRevenantSociety.com you’ll have a great time listening to their candid conversations and explanations of society today.

No dia 25 de janeiro de 2019, às 12h28, a B1, barragem desativada da Mina do Córrego do Feijão, explorada pela mineradora Vale na cidade de Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, rompeu. Seu rastro de lama, rejeitos de minério e destruição se estendeu por mais de 300 quilômetros, levando torres de transmissão, trens de carga, pontes, casas, árvores, animais e, na contagem oficial da tragédia, a vida de 270 pessoas (ou 272, considerando as duas gestantes entre os mortos).

Between falling apart and coming together lies the threshold—step through with a Zen master's invitation to practice hope in chaotic times. Take a breath. Take a step. In this time of collective acceleration—when institutions crumble, climate chaos intensifies, and polarization hardens...

In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future. Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday. In movies, books, and more, our imaginations run...

"Saudi-Led Coalition Resumes Bombing of Yemeni Capital after Talks Collapse" is from the August 09, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Rod Nordland and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Building Collapses in Kenyan Capital, Killing at Least 10" is from the April 30, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Jeffrey Gettleman and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Spanish Castle Is Spared From Collapse, but Not Criticism" is from the March 11, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Mark A. Walsh and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"A Silicon Valley Dream Collapses in Allegations of Fraud" is from the August 31, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Katie Benner and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Behind 2016's Turmoil, a Collapse of White Identity" is from the January 11, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Amanda Taub and narrated by Fleet Cooper.