A Short History Of The World In 50 Failures
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A Short History Of The World In 50 Failures
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Author : Ben Gazur
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2025-04-15
A Short History Of The World In 50 Failures written by Ben Gazur and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-15 with History categories.
A fascinating and entertaining alternative history of the world told through fifty of the greatest failures, catastrophes and missed opportunities ever to occur. Explore the failures, mistakes and missed opportunities that shaped history in this new entry in the series. From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder, to the unsuccessful stint in medical school which led to a career in naturalism for Charles Darwin, to the missile detection system malfunction that almost sparked a nuclear war, the course of human history has so often been shaped by failures of all magnitudes. In fifty bite-sized chapters spanning thousands of years, A Short History of the World in 50 Failures details how the world as we know it has been defined by plans gone awry, opportunities not seized upon and schemes that were always fated to end in catastrophe. Whether it's the pharaoh Akhenaten's misplaced attempt to found a new religion or Napoleon's doomed invasion of Russia, discover a fascinating collection of outsized tales and historical snafus that created the world as we know it today.
A Short History Of The World In 50 Failures
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Author : Ben Gazur
language : en
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Release Date : 2024-12-05
A Short History Of The World In 50 Failures written by Ben Gazur and has been published by Michael O'Mara Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-05 with History categories.
A fascinating and entertaining alternative history of the world told through fifty of the greatest failures, catastrophes and missed opportunities ever to occur.
Inventing Iraq
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Author : Toby Dodge
language : en
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Release Date : 2003
Inventing Iraq written by Toby Dodge and has been published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Between 1920 and 1932, Great Britain endeavored unsuccessfully to create a modern democratic state in the region that became known as Iraq. The unwieldy patchwork state it fashioned embodied the imperatives of Whitehall while running roughshod over the political sensibilities of the region's inhabitants. When Britain grew weary of holding together its fractious creation, it hastened Iraq toward independence. Democracy was quickly dispensed with by a series of coups, culminating in 1968 with the Ba'ath Party's siezure of power. Britain's failure, Dodge contends, forms the crucial historical backdrop against which the Bush administration's removal of Saddam Hussein and its aftermath must be understood.
Failures Of Imagination
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Author : Michael McCaul
language : en
Publisher: Forum Books
Release Date : 2016-01-12
Failures Of Imagination written by Michael McCaul and has been published by Forum Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-12 with Political Science categories.
From the Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, a gripping look at the most dangerous and unexpected threats to our national security—and the actions needed to protect us. America’s inability to foresee the September 11, 2001 attacks was deemed a collective “failure of imagination.” Our political leaders and intelligence professionals failed to anticipate the wide-ranging and unorthodox threats to the nation’s security. Nearly a decade and a half later, imaginations in Washington D.C. are still failing. Despite assurances from our leaders that America is safer today than it was before 9/11, the truth is, we are still vulnerable. Congressman Michael McCaul has spent years in Washington watching the Obama administration ignore or dangerously underestimate the most pressing threats to the country. Now in Failures of Imagination: The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland—and How to Thwart Them, the sitting chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, who receives daily intelligence about threats materializing against America, depicts in real time the hazards that are closer than we realize. From cyber-warriors who can cripple the Eastern seaboard to radicalized Americans in league with Islamic jihadists to invisible biological warfare, many of the most pressing dangers are the ones we've heard about the least—and are doing the least about. In this compelling and action-packed narrative, McCaul outlines realistic scenarios that could inflict more damage on the nation than any attack we’ve yet faced. He then explains how our vulnerabilities were created, why our enemies are actively contemplating them, and what we can do to solve them before it’s too late. Failures of Imagination offers a call to action for Americans to address these very real and present dangers, and the need for the White House—whoever its occupant will be—to combat them with the seriousness and urgency they require.
Elizabeth Margaret
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Author : Andrew Morton
language : en
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Release Date : 2021-03-30
Elizabeth Margaret written by Andrew Morton and has been published by Michael O'Mara Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the internationally renowned bestselling author of Diana: Her True Story and Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, comes the sensational and captivating biography of Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, Princess Margaret.
A Short History Of Transport In Japan From Ancient Times To The Present
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Author : John Andrew Black
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2022-03-18
A Short History Of Transport In Japan From Ancient Times To The Present written by John Andrew Black and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-18 with Business & Economics categories.
A Short History of Transport in Japan from Ancient Times to the Present is a unique study: the first by a Western scholar to place the long-term development of Japanese infrastructure alongside an analysis of its evolving political economy. Drawing from New Institutional Economics, Black offers a historically informed critique of contemporary planning using the example of Japan’s historical institutions, their particular biases, and the power they have exerted over national and local transport, to identify how reformed institutional arrangements might develop more sustainable and equitable transport services. With chapters addressing each major form of transport, Black examines the predominant role of institutions and individuals – from seventeenth-century shoguns to post-war planners – in transforming Japan’s maritime infrastructure, its roads and waterways, and its adoption of rail and air transport. Using a multidisciplinary, comparative, and chronological approach, the book consults a range of technical, cultural, and political sources to tease out these interactions between society and technology. This spirited new contribution to transport studies will attract readers interested in institutional power, the history of transport, and the development of future infrastructure, as well as those with a general interest in Japan.
Famine
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Author : Cormac Ó Gráda
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009
Famine written by Cormac Ó Gráda and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Business & Economics categories.
"O Grada explores the causes and profound consequences of famine over the past five millennia ... He enriches our understanding of the most crucial and far-reaching aspects of famine; how food markets can mitigate famine or make it worse; famine's long-term demographic consequences; and the successes or failures of globalized disaster relief. O Grada demonstrates the central role famine has played in the economic and political histories of places"--From publisher description.
A Short History Of Progress
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Author : Ronald Wright
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2009-08-06
A Short History Of Progress written by Ronald Wright and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-06 with Science categories.
Palaeolithic hunters who learnt how to kill two mammoths instead of one had made progress. Those who learnt how to kill 200 by driving a whole herd over a cliff had made too much. Many of the great ruins that grace the deserts and jungles of the earth are monuments to progress traps, the headstones of civilisations which fell victim to their own success. The twentieth-century ́s runaway growth has placed a murderous burden on the planet. A Short History of Progress argues that this modern predicament is as old as civilisation. Only by understanding the patterns of progress and disaster that humanity has repeated since the Stone Age can we recognise the inherent dangers, and, with luck, and wisdom, shape its outcome.
Making Deep History
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Author : Clive Gamble
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
Making Deep History written by Clive Gamble and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
The discovery of ancient stone implements alongside the bones of mammoths by John Evans and Joseph Prestwich in 1859 kicked open the door for a time revolution in human history. Clive Gamble explores the personalities of these revolutionaries and the significant impact their work had on the scientific advances of the next 160 years.
How They Blew It
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Author : Jamie Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Release Date : 2010-07-03
How They Blew It written by Jamie Oliver and has been published by Kogan Page Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-03 with Business & Economics categories.
How They Blew It is a series of eye-popping tales of entrepreneurs and business leaders who went from corporate gurus to financial disaster zones in rapid and humiliating fashion. Full of surprising details and mind-blowing sums of money, it looks at the characteristics of these leaders and the fine line between hero and zero.How They Blew It is about the people at the heart of these business catastrophes. It is about what drives them to succeed and then to fail. It is a compelling examination of the rights and wrongs of each case and it seeks to get into the minds of the people behind the business disasters and ask "Why the hell did they do that?" By examining how business ventures can go so badly wrong, you can learn to avoid those mistakes in the first place.