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An odyssey into life’s challenging questions during an unforgettable summer motorcycle trip Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance became an instant bestseller upon its publication in 1974...

Combining theory, comparative politics, and international relations, Introduction to Politics, Fourth Edition provides the most comprehensive introduction to the subject for first-year undergraduate students, with the most global perspective. The new edition has been fully updated with additional case studies and examples to help students to understand how key theories and principles apply in the context of real-world events. New to the fourth edition is a chapter on "Non-Western Approaches", which helps students to bring more diverse perspectives to their study of politics.

First published in 1621, and hardly ever out of print since, it is a huge, varied, idiosyncratic, entertaining and learned survey of the experience of melancholy, seen from just about every possible angle that could be imagined. The Anatomy of Melancholy, presented here with all the original quotations in English, is, at last, available on audiobook in its entirety.

In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza and astronomer Bob Berman take the listener on an intellectual thrill ride as they reexamine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe, and the nature of reality itself. The first step is acknowledging that our existing model of reality is looking increasingly creaky in the face of recent scientific discoveries.

In aanloop naar zijn 75e verjaardag op 31 augustus 2023 vertelt Robert Jan Peters over zijn veelbewogen leven.

The essential guide to radiation: the good, the bad, and the utterly fascinating, explained with unprecedented clarity. Earth, born in a nuclear explosion, is a radioactive planet; without radiation, life would not exist. And while radiation can be dangerous, it is also deeply misunderstood and...

Some of baseball's rebels are widely recognized, but most of them are either little known or known primarily for their baseball achievements—not their political views and activism. Many players, owners, reporters, and other activists challenged both the baseball establishment and society's status quo. Baseball Rebels tells stories of baseball's reformers and radicals who were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America's broader political and social protest movements, making the game—and society—better along the way.

Can scientific explanation ever make reference to God or the supernatural? The present consensus is no; indeed, a naturalistic stance is usually taken to be a distinguishing feature of modern science. Science Without God?: Rethinking the History of Scientific Naturalism shows that the history of Western science presents us with a more nuanced picture.

In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was—and is—a world-class lab, and its reactor was the cornerstone of US materials science. But its discovery triggered a media and political firestorm that resulted in the reactor's shutdown, and even attempts to close the entire laboratory. A quarter century later, the episode reveals the dynamics of today's controversies in which fears and the dismissal of science disrupt serious discussion and research of vital issues.

Mit "ned zwida" bekommt das Salzkammergut endlich seinen eigenen Podcast. Dabei tauchen die beiden Freunde Robert Steiner & Peter Zeitlhofer tief in die Seele ihrer Heimat ein und treffen auf Menschen mit außergewöhnlichen Geschichten. www.salzkammergut-podcast.com **Titelmusik:** "Im Salzkammergut" von Ralph Benatzky, großartig interpretiert von [Andreas Erber](https://open.spotify.com/track/0LKskVp1NxLm1jcRQ6dH1g?si=2dd64b3fa2884dee) Sprecherin: Claudia Riedler-Bittermann - Hier geht's zu ihrem Podcast [Stilgeschichten & Herzenssachen](https://open.spotify.com/show/2y6BAswdtGoGcYH8GdMQRs?...

Höre Aktuelles, Geschichten und Unerwartetes aus der Stadt an der Elbe, bei Dresden. Es heißt: "Radebeul, eine Stadt zum Genießen" ... Bekannt u.a. für guten Wein und Karl May. Aber wir wollen mit Menschen aus Radebeul sprechen, die hier bekannt, geliebt, gehasst oder geboren sind. Uns interessiert ihre ganz persönliche Beziehung zur Stadt, ihre Lebensgeschichte, ihr Antrieb, ihre Ideen und Träume sowie Geschichten aus dem Stadtleben. Lasst euch mitnehmen auf viele Folgen mit ganz unterschiedlichen Gästen. Abonniert den Kanal und hört Podcast - habt einfach Radebeul im Ohr.

Ein neuer Podcast, der den politischen Unsinn und kursierende Fehlinformationen unter die Lupe nimmt. Jede zweite Woche widmen wir uns den Themen Politik, Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft, um mit euch gemeinsam einen Weg raus aus dem Dschungel der abgedroschenen Floskeln und politischen Grabenschlachten zu finden. Wir glauben daran, dass sich Probleme gemeinsam besser lösen lassen, weil Alleingänge oft nur zu eindimensionalen Lösungsansätzen führen, welche in unserer komplizierten Welt oft nur unzufriedenstellende Resultate hervorbringen. Deshalb halten wir mit Polito Mobile keinen ...

This exhilarating Cold War narrative takes listeners from top-secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages of a powerful man's intimate diary. Ike's Mystery Man brings a new dimension to our understanding of the inner-workings of the Eisenhower White House. It also shines a bright light on the indispensable contributions and sacrifices made by patriotic gay Americans. Ike's Mystery Man relies on thousands of personal letters, interviews, and previously classified archives to tell a gripping story that has never before been told.

From the author of A Tomb With a View - a celebration of the weird and wonderful churches of Britain Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in our towns, villages and cities, even as their influence and authority has waned. They contain art and architectural wonders - one...

Bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of television, sparked by the fall of play-it-safe network TV and the rise of boundary-busting cable, followed by streaming, which overturned...

High Crimes opens with Nancy Pelosi deciding the House should take up impeachment, then, in part one, leaps back to explain what Ukraine was really all about: not just Joe Biden and election interference, but a money grab and oil. In the second part, the authors recount key meetings throughout the run up to the impeachment hearings, including many of the heated confrontations between the Trump administration and House Democrats.

The daughter of Robert F. Kennedy shares personal remembrances of her father and through conversations with politicians, media personalities, celebrities and leaders, explores the influence that he continues to have on the issues at the heart of America's identity. Robert F. Kennedy staunchly...

A surprising, irreverent, and scrupulously reported deconstruction of today's fashions in energy policy. Everybody is talking about "energy independence." But is it really achievable? Is it actually even desirable? In this controversial, meticulously researched book, Robert Bryce exposes the false promises behind the rhetoric while blasting nearly everybody - Republicans, Democrats, environmentalists, and war-mongering neoconservatives - for misleading voters about our energy needs.

The author of the acclaimed biography of President James Polk, A Country of Vast Designs, offers a fresh, playful, and challenging way of playing “Rating the Presidents,” by pitching historians’ views and subsequent experts’ polls against the judgment and votes of the presidents’ own contemporaries.

Long before the advent of conservative talk radio and Fox News, Robert Ringer was an outspoken advocate for the cause of freedom and free enterprise. In this classic work - updated for the 21st century - Ringer's basic premise is that liberty must be given a higher priority than all other objectives.