Showing results for "Culture and Civilization" in Social Sciences

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century...

How do historians create their histories? What role do the historian's viewpoint and method play in what we accept as truth? Answer these questions and more as you go inside the minds of our greatest historians and explore the idea of written history as it has shaped humanity's story over 2,000 years

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...

As the "science of humanity," anthropology can help us understand virtually anything about ourselves, from our political and economic systems, to why we get married, to how we decide to buy a particular bottle of wine. This 24-lecture course reveals the extraordinary power of anthropology - and its subspecialty, cultural anthropology - as a tool to understand the world's varied human societies, including our own.

The Civilization Archive explores the rise, brilliance, and legacy of the world’s greatest civilizations.From the empires of Rome and Persia to the dynasties of China, the kingdoms of Africa, and the cultures of the Americas, each episode uncovers how societies were built, how they expanded, and why they fell.Through immersive storytelling and historical analysis, we trace the ideas, innovations, conflicts, and people that shaped human history.This is not just a history podcast. It is a living archive of humanity’s grand experiment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...

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...

The Conflict Archive is a documentary podcast exploring the wars, campaigns, and military conflicts that reshaped civilizations and redrew the map of the world.From the conquests of Alexander the Great to the beaches of Normandy, each series examines a defining conflict through strategy, politics, leadership, and human consequence.Across ancient battlefields, medieval crusades, industrial revolutions, and modern global wars, these episodes trace how organized violence has shaped nations, empires, and the course of history itself.Part of The Archive Network.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

Thomas C. Foster, acclaimed author of the phenomenal bestseller How to Read Literature Like a Professor, returns with a hugely entertaining appreciation of twenty-five works of literature that have greatly influenced the American identity. In a delightfully informative, often wry manner...

From Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural communes to academic philosophy departments, a seemingly inconceivable idea is being seriously discussed: that the end of humanity’s reign on earth is imminent, and that we should welcome it. Anthropocene antihumanism has been inspired by revulsion at...

The world is a wall of echoes, reflecting back every era’s cry, sigh, and longing, again and again. We believe we’ve long escaped the shadows of the past, yet at the next corner, we always crash into our own silhouette. Thus, history gains its echo, civilization shows its cracks, and life throbs with a pain that never heals. I write these words because I cannot stop questioning. Why has class never disappeared, only changed its name? Why do oppression, suffering, and injustice still lurk so obstinately beneath the polished surface of civilization? Why, despite the flourishing of science ...

In Status Civilization, Will Barrent awakens with no memories, only to find himself on Omega—a ruthless planet designated for criminals, where the average lifespan barely exceeds three years. Branded as a murderer, he is thrust into the depths of an illicit society as a mere “peon,” the lowest of the low. A mysterious girl hands him a weapon, igniting his journey towards power—a journey fraught with brutal choices. Yet, this path is essential for uncovering the truth behind his imprisonment, a truth that challenges his very identity and forces him to confront the ...

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, ...

he Mature Indus civilization flourished from about 2600 to 1900 BCE, marking the beginning of urban civilization on the Indian subcontinent. The civilization included cities such as Harappa, Ganeriwala, and Mohenjo-daro in modern-day Pakistan, and Dholavira, Kalibangan, Rakhigarhi, and Lothal in modern-day India.

The Innovation Civilization podcast hosted by Waheed Nabeel, and friends of Empasco, features conversations with domain experts on the topics of civilizational progress, technology, history, philosophy, and the first-principles of the ideas that shape our world.

The Free Mind Podcast explores philosophic and political ideas with adventurous disregard for intellectual trends. Listeners are invited to pull up a chair in an intellectual laboratory where rationally defensible arguments are tested in the spirit of truth-seeking, and made in a conversational style free of academic jargon. The podcast engages scholars and public intellectuals who seek to present a diversity of viewpoints in a venue where good faith is granted at the door, and clear expression of ideas is more important than adherence to any particular ideology.

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.