Showing results for "Seventeen" in Politics & Social Sciences

The story of the love affair between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII, and his abdication in order to marry the divorcée, has provoked fascination and discussion for decades. However, the full story of the couple's links with the German aristocracy and Hitler has until now remained untold. Meticulously researched, 17 Carnations chronicles this entanglement, starting with Hitler's early attempts to matchmake between Edward and a German noblewoman.

The "official story" has always felt a little too neat, hasn’t it? If you’ve ever looked at a headline and felt that itch in the back of your brain, the one that says the math isn't adding up—then you’re in the right place. This isn't a lecture, and we aren't here to sell you a tin foil hat. We’re just pulling back the curtain to see who’s actually holding the strings. 17 CHAPTERS. ZERO FILTER. This audiobook is a deep-dive into the shadows of reality, narrated to feel less like a documentary and more like a late-night conversation you weren't supposed to overhear.

A mother of two is brutally attacked, but is the wrong man sent to prison?Hosted by the award-winning journalist, Emily Dugan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brian Cox and Robin Ince present a witty, irreverent look at the world according to science. The Infinite Monkey Cage has become one of BBC Radio 4’s most popular science-based programmes. In each episode physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince delve into a particular field of science...

To modern Western society, capitalism is the air we breathe, and most people rarely think to question it, for good or for ill. But knowing what makes capitalism work - and what makes it fail - is crucial to understanding its long-term health and the vast implications for the global economy that go along with it. 

On "Seventeen: Conversations with My Teenage Self," writer and essayist Laura Leigh Abby reads her 17 year-old diary - with the entries voiced by teen influencer Leia Immanuel - and reflects on it, revealing so much more than anyone could have expected. This narrative podcast is nostalgic of the early aughts, an era before social media and smartphones, while also acknowledging the inherent and often unwitting misogyny of the time. Adult Laura addresses journal entries that contain problematic sexual encounters, and explores how a generation of would-be feminists were influenced by the mixed ...

A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narratives in the master-words of the most eminent historians. This is volume 17 of 22, covering from 1844-1861 AD. (Summary Adapted from the Title Page)

Fin dai tempi più antichi, l'uomo ha cercato di spiegare il perché delle sue sfortune, inventando storie talmente convincenti da sopravvivere anche oggi, tanto che quando si rompe uno specchio o quando un gatto nero attraversa la strada, quelle storie attraversano la nostra mente e le raccontiamo a chi abbiamo vicino in quel momento. Come mai, ancora nel 21esimo secolo, in un era altamente tecnologica e iperconnessa come la nostra, questa sorta di "sottocultura parallela" continua a resistere? Tradizione? Ignoranza? Cazzeggio?

The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment when they, and 500 other innocent travellers, needed it most. An ISIS terrorist planned to kill more...

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds what they considered the best pieces of human writing, and compiled an ambitious collection of 45 volumes (with a 46th being an index-guide). Besides the selection and translation of a huge number of poems, letters, short stories and sections of books, the collection offers, before each chapter, a short essay about the author or subject in question...

After three years as a killing-field slave, seventeen-year-old Bun Yom escaped from the Khmer Rouge and became a freedom fighter. Using his wisdom, courage, and infinite compassion, Bun rescued thousands of Cambodian people and soon became the Cambodian Freedom Fighters’ greatest soldier. Tomorrow I’m Dead is the only known first-person account of the freedom fighter’s heroic liberation of slaves from the Khmer Rouge killing fields.

The 2030 Agenda, proclaimed at the 2015 United Nations Summit in New York, is a "global future contract" which national governments are expected to adhere. This agenda includes 17 so-called "sustainability goals" that look good on the surface. A closer look reveals the same actors who want nothing less than full control over the earth's resources, a single centralized world government, and the enslavement of all human beings on earth.

Tecumseh was a leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy that opposed the United States during the War of 1812. He became a folk hero remembered by many Canadians for his defense of their country. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)

'A map for how feminism can move forward inclusively' (GRAZIA), featuring essays by writers including Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, and Afua Hirsch, bestselling author of Brit(ish) Black Lives Matter * Trans Rights * Sex Workers' Rights * Body Positivity * Disability...

What if I don't know how to "do stuff" all the other gays can do? What if I don't know the name of that gay Netflix movie? What if I'm not obsessed with Jennifer Coolidge like everyone else? Am I really bad at being gay? While being gay has become more socially and legally acceptable, there's a...

Exploring the aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics of whiskey as well as everything from geographical origin to stylistic differences between whiskey and Scotch, Whiskey and Philosophy will teach you things that are both practical and thought provoking....

For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II. Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward...

Die Agenda 2030, die 2015 auf dem Gipfeltreffen der Vereinten Nationen in New York ausgerufen wurde, ist ein "Weltzukunftsvertrag", dem sich die nationalen Regierungen unterwerfen sollen. Diese Agenda umfasst 17 sogenannte "Nachhaltigkeitsziele", die nur auf den ersten Blick gut aussehen. Beschäftigt man sich eingehender mit ihnen, kommt man immer wieder zu den gleichen Akteuren, die in Wahrheit nichts weniger wollen, als die volle Kontrolle über die Ressourcen unserer Erde, eine einzige zentrale Weltregierung und somit die Versklavung aller Völker.

India is a union of 28 states, additionally consisting of 8 union territories. The history, culture, festivals and language of each state and union territories are different. Discover this diverse range of information in this episode...

On December 7th, 1955, Kitty McInerney lay dying in a New York hospital bed. The 47-year-old Irish immigrant, suffering from severe toxemia, was preparing for an emergency c-section to give birth to her 17th child. As a Catholic priest performed her last rites, Kitty succumbed to a rare moment of quiet reflection.