The World Crisis

Author : Winston S. Churchill
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780795331510

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The World Crisis: The Aftermath by Winston S. Churchill Pdf

The aftermath of World War I is explored in the fourth volume of Winston Churchill’s “remarkable” eyewitness account of history (Jon Meacham, bestselling author of Franklin and Winston). Once the war was over, the story didn’t end—not for Winston Churchill, and not for the West. The fourth volume of Churchill’s series, The World Crisis: The Aftermath documents the fallout of WWI—including the Irish Treaty and the peace conferences between Greece and Turkey. The period immediately after World War I was extremely chaotic—and it takes a genius of narrative description and organization to accurately and accessibly describe it for us. Churchill, who went on to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature, depicts the international disorganization and anarchy in the period immediately after the war—with the unique perspective of both a historian and a political insider. “Whether as a statesman or an author, Churchill was a giant; and The World Crisis towers over most other books about the Great War.” —David Fromkin, author of A Peace to End All Peace

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Reconstruction (1914-1939)
ISBN : UOM:39015004876358

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The World Crisis: 1915 by Winston Churchill Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300189193

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Global Crisis by Geoffrey Parker Pdf

The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-17th century. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In this meticulously researched volume, historian Geoffrey Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and women who experienced the many political, economic, and social crises that occurred between 1618 to the late 1680s. He also incorporates the scientific evidence of climate change during this period into the narrative, offering a strikingly new understanding of the General Crisis. Changes in weather patterns, especially longer winters and cooler and wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons and destroyed harvests. This in turn brought hunger, malnutrition, and disease; and as material conditions worsened, wars, rebellions, and revolutions rocked the world.

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Reconstruction (1914-1939)
ISBN : UCSC:32106006367657

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The World Crisis by Winston Churchill Pdf

World War 1 and its aftermath.

Author : Nicholas Maxwell
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811234620

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World Crisis, The - And What To Do About It: A Revolution For Thought And Action by Nicholas Maxwell Pdf

Science and technology have made the modern world possible, but also created all the global problems that threaten our future: the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, mass extinction of species, environmental degradation, overpopulation, lethal modern war, and the menace of nuclear weapons. Nicholas Maxwell, world-renowned philosopher of science and author of 14 books, argues that all these problems have come about because humans have solved only the first of two great problems of learning — how to acquire scientific knowledge and technological know-how — but not the second — how to create a civilized, wise world.The key disaster of our times is that we have science without wisdom. At present, universities all over the world are devoted to the pursuit of specialized knowledge and technology, or 'knowledge-inquiry'. Maxwell contends that they need to be radically transformed so that their basic function becomes to help humanity tackle global problems, with a more rigorous and socially beneficial perspective he calls 'wisdom-inquiry'. The World Crisis — And What to Do About It spells out in detail the changes that need to be made to academic inquiry, why they need to be made, and how they would enable universities to help humanity actively and effectively tackle and solve current global problems.Related Link(s)

Author : Guiglelmo Carchedi,Michael Roberts
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781608461882

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World in Crisis by Guiglelmo Carchedi,Michael Roberts Pdf

Most mainstream economists view capitalism’s periodic breakdowns are nothing more than temporary aberrations from another wise unbroken path toward prosperity. For Marxists, this fundamental flaw has long been acknowledged as a central feature of the free market system. This groundbreaking volume brings together Marxist scholars from around the world to offer an empirically grounded defense of Marx’s law of profitability and its central role in explaining these capitalist crises. Gugliemo Carchedi has worked at the United Nations in New York and has taught at the University of Amsterdam. Michael Roberts has worked as an economist for over thirty years in the city of London financial center.

Author : David Miller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781487554583

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Solved by David Miller Pdf

If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly. Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduce our carbon footprint. We cannot wait for national governments to agree on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage the average temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees. In Solved, David Miller argues that cities are taking action on climate change because they can – and because they must. The updated paperback edition of Solved: How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis demonstrates that the initiatives cities have taken to control the climate crisis can make a real difference in reducing global emissions if implemented worldwide. By chronicling the stories of how cities have taken action to meet and exceed emissions targets laid out in the Paris Agreement, Miller empowers readers to fix the climate crisis. As much a “how to” guide for policymakers as a work for concerned citizens, Solved aims to inspire hope through its clear and factual analysis of what can be done – now, today – to mitigate our harmful emissions and pave the way to a 1.5-degree world.

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472585493

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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume II by Winston Churchill Pdf

Originally published: London: Cassell, 1956.

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781442916364

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The Crisis (Volume 1 of 3) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) by Winston Churchill Pdf

Story of a Yankee and a Southern lady during the Civil War and a study of the fierce political movements of the time, personified in representative characters including Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman.

Author : Ian Bremmer
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1982167505

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The Power of Crisis by Ian Bremmer Pdf

Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years—including the pandemic—to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade. In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises—global health emergencies, transformative climate change, and the AI revolution. Today, Americans cannot reach consensus on any significant political issue, and US and Chinese leaders behave as if they’re locked in a new Cold War. We are squandering opportunities to meet the challenges that will soon confront us all. In coming years, humanity will face viruses deadlier and more infectious than Covid. Intensifying climate change will put tens of millions of refugees in flight and require us to reimagine how we live our daily lives. Most dangerous of all, new technologies will reshape the geopolitical order, disrupting our livelihoods and destabilizing our societies faster than we can grasp and address their implications. The good news? Some farsighted political leaders, business decision-makers, and individual citizens are already collaborating to tackle all these crises. The question that should keep us awake is whether they will work well and quickly enough to limit the fallout—and, most importantly, whether we can use these crises to innovate our way toward a better world. Drawing on strategies both time-honored and cutting-edge, from the Marshall Plan to the Green New Deal, The Power of Crisis provides a roadmap for surviving—even thriving in—the 21st century. Bremmer shows governments, corporations, and every concerned citizen how we can use these coming crises to create the worldwide prosperity and opportunity that 20th-century globalism promised but failed to deliver.

Author : Stephen Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139503648

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Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership by Stephen Gill Pdf

This groundbreaking collection on global leadership features innovative and critical perspectives by scholars from international relations, political economy, medicine, law and philosophy, from North and South. The book's novel theorization of global leadership is situated historically within the classics of modern political theory and sociology, relating it to the crisis of global capitalism today. Contributors reflect on the multiple political, economic, social, ecological and ethical crises that constitute our current global predicament. The book suggests that there is an overarching condition of global organic crisis, which shapes the political and organizational responses of the dominant global leadership and of various subaltern forces. Contributors argue that to meaningfully address the challenges of the global crisis will require far more effective, inclusive and legitimate forms of global leadership and global governance than have characterized the neoliberal era.

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472586629

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The World Crisis Volume II by Winston Churchill Pdf

Volumes 1-3 originally published in 1950 by Odhams Press. Volume 4 originally published in 1929 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Volume 5 originally published in 1931 by Charles Scribner's Sons.

Author : Gabriel Kolko
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015080841136

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World in Crisis by Gabriel Kolko Pdf

A survey of the major problems confronting the world today, ranging from the financial crisis to the US foreign policy dilemmas.

Author : Larry Allen
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781780231280

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The Global Economic Crisis by Larry Allen Pdf

From Greece scrambling to meet Eurozone austerity measures to America’s sluggish job growth, there is every indication that the world has not recovered from the economic implosion of 2008. And for many of us, the details of what led to the recession—and why it has continued—remain murky. Economic historian Larry Allen clears up the subject in The Global Economic Crisis, offering an insightful and nonpartisan chronology of events and their consequences. Illuminating the interlocked economic processes that lay beneath the crisis, he analyzes the changing nature of the global financial system, central bank policies, housing bubbles, deregulation, sovereign debt crises, and more. Allen begins the timeline with the economic crisis in Japan in the late 1990s, asking whether Japan’s experience could be an indicator of the outcome of the recession and what it can teach us about managing a sluggish economy. He then takes a comparative look at the economies of Brazil, China, and India. Throughout, he argues that many elements have contributed to the ongoing crisis, including the introduction of the euro, the growth of new financial instruments such as securitization, collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps, interest rate policies, and the housing boom and subprime mortgage fiasco. Lucid and informative, The Global Economic Crisis provides an impartial explanation to anyone seeking to understand the current state—and future—of the world’s economy.

Author : Roger Berkowitz,Taun N. Toay
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780823249602

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The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis by Roger Berkowitz,Taun N. Toay Pdf

By reaching beyond "how" the crisis happened to "why" the crisis happened, the authors provide fresh thinking about how to respond