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In Consequences: The Rise of a Fractured World Order, William Priest, David Roche, and Alex Michailoff deliver an engaging, timely, and insightful analysis of identifying the sources and challenges facing liberal democracies and their ability to confront autocracies and autocratic behavior. The authors identify and address structural flaws present in both democracies and autocracies.

This is the second book by Pastor Omar Fisher as he details the far-reaching consequences of prison on our society. This writing investigates the lives of those recently released from prison and the corresponding experiences of Pastor Omar as he visited and interacted with those who were incarcerated and their families and their communities.

The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) was one of the most important documents to come out of World War I – specifically the period of the Armistice and the subsequent settlement negotiations. And, a century on, it remains of particular relevance to our times – an uncompromising and forthright analysis of how international diplomacy can be suffused by personalities, prejudices, personal ambition and outright, uncontrolled feelings of revenge.

When Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, analysts and policymakers highlighted the unifying shock that NATO members experienced. However even before the return of US president Donald Trump, beneath this seeming cohesion lay deep-seated differences in how member states perceive and prioritize security threats.

Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in 10 years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have 24 million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. And gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia....

Plato. Aquinas. Descartes. Kant. Freud. These great thinkers are still impacting the culture today—from public-policy decisions to world events, theology, the arts, education, and even everyday conversations. In this classic book, the late R. C. Sproul expertly surveys history's most influential streams of thought, proving that ideas are not just passing fads—they have consequences for generations to come. Helping readers better understand how many of these ideas have shaped their own thinking, this audiobook will empower Christians to be a Christlike influence in the world.

Welcome to the very first episode of Clippers & Consequences, the podcast where my beard (and sometimes my gums!) are always on the line! Join Lemuel and Deinye as we dive into some truly ancient mysteries – specifically, the Great Pyramid conspiracy theories. Was it aliens? Giant lasers? Or just incredible human ingenuity? You won't believe some of the ideas out there! Then, we fast-forward to the slightly less ancient, but equally intriguing, world of pyramid schemes. We'll talk about how these notorious setups started and how they've evolved into today's often-misunderstood multi-level ...

In The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Keynes presents a brief historical review of laissez-faire economic policy. Though he agrees in principle that the marketplace should be free of government interference, he suggests that government can play a constructive role in protecting individuals from the worst harms of capitalism's cycles, especially as concerns unemployment.

This well-researched and highly critical examination of the state of our mental health system by the industry's most relentless critic presents a new and controversial explanation as to why - in spite of spending $147 billion annually - 140,000 seriously mentally ill are homeless, 390,000 are incarcerated, and even educated, tenacious, and caring people can't get treatment for their mentally ill loved ones.

As we wrap up 2024, the pop culture experts at Consequence are back with our Annual Report, celebrating the year’s best in music and entertainment. And this time, we’re bringing you something extra — a brand new podcast series exclusively on Amazon Music!

As we wrap up 2024, the pop culture experts at Consequence are back with our Annual Report, celebrating the year’s best in music and entertainment. And this time, we’re bringing you something extra — a brand new podcast series exclusively on Amazon Music!

In 1991, Ioan Culianu was on the precipice of a brilliant academic career. Culianu had fled his native Romania and established himself as a widely admired scholar at just forty-one years old. He was teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School where he was seen as the heir apparent to his mentor, Mircea Eliade, a fellow Romanian expatriate and the founding father of the field of religious studies, who had died a few years earlier.

Called by New York Times columnist David Brooks the "smartest and most devastating" critic of President George W. Bush's Iraq policies, Peter W. Galbraith was the earliest expert to describe Iraq's breakup into religious and ethnic entities, a reality that is now commonly accepted.

From Consequence of Sound's crack team of music journalists, straight to your headphones. We're serving up album reviews and exclusive track-by-track interviews for the music fan on the go who wants to stay in the know.

From Consequence of Sound's crack team of music journalists, straight to your headphones. We're serving up album reviews and exclusive track-by-track interviews for the music fan on the go who wants to stay in the know.

The beauty of words is that they can go beyond their meaning. Words can yield different outcomes based on context, timing, and intended audience. The right words can unlock terrific possibilities, while the wrong ones can unleash terrible consequences. This podcast explores how words and messages, when wielded incorrectly, can cause unfortunate results for the bearers. We think about the consequence of a message so that brands & leaders can turn their words from weapons of consequence to opportunities of possibility.

Welcome to the consequence of love podcast!A show about 2 kids who fell in love and started a family! talking about what and who we love and how it has affected us.How did we get to where we are today and Learning from our past and others?getting to know what they went through, what we go through and we'll talk about love, mental health, relationships ( or relationship with those things) parenting, what we want in love, life and each other.What do you love and how has that affected you? What have you gone through?What do you still struggle with? Maybe we can learn from each other as we go on ...

Join JT, host of the Consequence of Habit Podcast, as he explores how habits relate to happiness and success or lack thereof. Each Tuesday, JT pulls the curtains back on his own habits, good and bad, and talks to others who have made massive changes in their lives by changing their habits.

Unintended Consequences, a podcast from Intent Clinical, discusses topics that no one wants to bring up in public. Through a series of interviews with individuals and experienced professionals, Unintended Consequences will cover stories of success, wealth, drugs, addiction, disease, depression, aging, dementia, infertility, recovery, healing, optimizing, and thriving. Turning it all around - and living with intention. Join us as we unapologetically examine life’s most difficult moments while sharing insights from guests who found a path forward. Unintended Consequences: Good people, bad ...

Intended Consequences is the official podcast of the StrategyCorp Institute. The podcast discusses practical provincial and Canadian policy ideas that achieve the actual goals they are designed to achieve with interesting guests and experts. The Institute aims to combine political acuity with policy recommendations to provide a one-stop shop for expert policy advice that is politically practical and possible to implement. StrategyCorp is a Canadian advisory firm that prides itself on being at the nexus of government connectivity and smart policy thought.