Henry Carter Hull

History of the world with emphasis on man's influence on the environment through cultivation and use of its natural resources.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion Robert B. Cialdini's, PhD Influence and NOT the original book. Preview: Robert B. Cialdini's Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion examines the compliance methods by which marketers, salespeople, and others, such as cult leaders, pressure people into doing things they would not otherwise do. There are six basic compliance tools: reciprocity, consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and scarcity. Inside this...

Thekla Jansen, a teacher in Burgdorf, Germany during the early days of the third Reich, reminds herself that Adolf Hitler's rule cannot last forever as she compromises her morals and cooperates with the government's intrusive orders.

"The bestselling author of The Secretary tells the gripping story of the real roots of the Sunni-Shia conflict in Middle East in the 1979 Iran Revolution that changed the region forever"-- Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, once allies and twin pillars of US strategy in the region, became mortal enemies after 1979. Ghattas weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to show how the 1979 Iranian revolution-- fueled by American policy-- fed intolerance,...

Civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall's triumph in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America's public schools completed the final leg of an heroic journey to end legal segregation. For 20 years, during wartime and the Depression, Marshall had traveled hundreds of thousands of miles through the Jim Crow South of the United States, fighting segregation case by case, establishing precedent after precedent, all...

Explores through text and illustrations how each era since the death of Jesus has discovered through his life and teachings the answers to fundamental questions of human existence and destiny.

Provides an analysis of the planet's current state of health and looks at the dangers to Earth's natural "lifesupport" systems.

With archival footage and never before seen interviews, this film shares the legacy of one of the greatest peacemakers of our time, Desmond Tutu.