Showing results for "Kaplan" in World

In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world's hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands.

Adventures in ADHD and ship salvage. A multi-generational story about a son’s ADHD, a grandfather’s ship salvage career, and a mother’s struggle to understand the challenges of each. Every episode contains one ship salvage job and explores the life lessons gleaned from those tales. The salvage jobs, as improbable as it may seem, became metaphors for understanding her son’s ADHD. Host Elizabeth Rynecki delves into this unlikely intersection over 6 episodes, talking to her son, her father and people whose lives have been touched by ADHD. https://www.elizabethrynecki.com/...

The weekly podcast about crimes culpable, people peculiar and illnesses interesting, with Dr Robert M. Kaplan; forensic psychiatrist, writer and historian.Listeners will be delving into true crime topics from doctors and nurses who kill, to the minds of assassins, political mass murders & more!For more information on Dr Robert M. Kaplan visit: www.rkaplan.com.auEnjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A squared plus b squared equals c squared. It sounds simple, doesn’t it? Yet this familiar expression opens a gateway into the riotous garden of mathematics, and sends us on a journey of exploration in the company of two inspired guides, Robert and Ellen Kaplan. With wit, verve, and clarity, they trace the life of the Pythagorean theorem, from ancient Babylon to the present, visiting along the way Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, President James Garfield, and the Freemasons - not to mention the elusive Pythagoras himself.

In 1945, both the U.S. State Department and U.S. Intelligence saw Czechoslovakia as the master key to the balance of power in Europe and as a chessboard for the power-game between East and West. Washington believed that the political scene in Prague was the best available indicator of whether the United States would be able to coexist with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.

Want free, quick prep from Barron’s experts? Study with Barron’s AP® U.S. History Podcast and be prepared for exam day.We’ll discuss historical thinking skills and themes, explore each time period covered on the exam, walk you through answering all question types, pose questions and provide answers, and offer tips and strategies to help you succeed.Learn more about Barron's at www.barronseduc.com.AP® is a registered trademark of the College Board, which was notinvolved in the production of, and does not endorse this product.

Want free, quick prep from Barron’s experts? Study with Barron’s AP® World History Podcast and be prepared for exam day.We’ll discuss historical thinking skills and themes, briefly explore each time period covered on the exam, walk you through answeringall question types, pose questions and provide answers, and offer tips and strategies to help you succeed.Learn more about Barron's at www.barronseduc.com.AP® is a registered trademark of the College Board, which was notinvolved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.