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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...

"A moral dilemma gripped Anil K. Gupta when he was invited by the Bangladeshi government to help restructure their agricultural on-farm research sector in 1985. He noticed how the marginalized farmers were being paid poorly for their otherwise unmatched knowledge. The gross injustice of this...

Cambridge professor and renowned historian Anthony Pagden covers a vast subject in a compact package with Peoples and Empires. This wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating work examines the origins and history of the West with terse, efficient prose. With a captivating narration by Robert O'Keefe, listeners will find this work enjoyable and utterly absorbing.

Mitte bis Ende der 1990er Jahre: Der Ost-West Konflikt zu Ende, das Ozonloch kein Thema mehr, Terrorismus und Klimakrise noch in weiter Ferne. Während Millionen bei der Loveparade in Berlin feiern und der neue Markt Reichtum für alle verspricht, basteln junge Menschen in Kindernzimmern und Studentenbuden an Computern, jumpern Mainboards und versuchen in dieses verheißungsvolle Internet zu gehen. Gleichermaßen Begleiter und Endgegner dieser Digitalisierungswelle: Windows95. Heute stehen wir am Beginn der KI Revolution, die das Potenzial hat mindestens so disruptiv durch Gesellschaften zu ...

After hundreds of years of technological revolution and rapid economic advancement, humanity has reached a moment of crisis in its relationship with nature. Many of the approaches endorsed such as sustainable development (SD), the planetary boundaries (PB), ESG (Environmental, social, and governance) have different strengths, but they cannot really address the complexity and multifaceted aspects of human development and human-nature relationship. When the time comes to 2022, while we have got a list of sustainable things to do, we are further plagued with human conflict, unresolved pandemics, ...

David DuByne's Mini Ice Age Conversations Podcast discusses timelines for what you can expect from now through 2024 as society resets so you can keep your families and communities safe. Civilization is affected by energetic mappable cycles on Earth as the Sun repeats its 400-year cycle of low activity affecting global crop production, the economy and every aspect of our lives.