The Age of Assassins describes in gripping detail Vladimir Putins ruthless rise to power in Russia from his earliest rise to power in 1991 as an insignificant former KGB officer in Berlin. He gained power over the entire country and its economy by determining elections through business deals and criminal intervention -- from sophisticated ......
The Daring Expedition that Launched Arctic Exploration
New edited edition of the ripping, true-life diaries of Nansen's audacious expedition to cross Greenland at a time when no one had ever undertaken arctic exploration of any kind. At the time, no one had ever succeeded in or even seriously thought about penetrating the icy depths of Greenland. His plan for crossing with a small expedition, ......
Like a modern Viking 32-year-old Nansen set sail from Norway in 1893 to reach the North Pole. Experts warned him that his voyage was tantamount to suicide. Compact and nimble, his ship the Fram had been specially built to withstand the relentless, devastating pressure of the polar ice cap. At the right moment, he intended to strike out into the ......
Gone is the old narrative of slow, animal-like evolution. Instead, we now see humanity’s emergence as marked by explosive transformations – like the Palaeolithic spiritual leap that gave birth to cave art, a profound expression of shamanistic visionary consciousness.
How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent
Antarctica is, and has always been, very much "for sale." Whales, seals, and ice have all been marketed as valuable commodities, but so have the stories of explorers. The modern media industry developed in parallel with land-based Antarctic exploration, and early expedition leaders needed publicity to generate support for their endeavors. Their ......
Reflection and Religion in Byzantium and the Middle East
Reveals a conception of selfhood in Byzantine and Middle-Eastern sources that is fundamentally collective rather than merely individual, challenging Western-centric narratives of the modern self and enriching contemporary discussions on communal ways of being. What if the story we tell ourselves about of the modern self is incomplete? The ......
Reflection and Religion in Byzantium and the Middle East
Reveals a conception of selfhood in Byzantine and Middle-Eastern sources that is fundamentally collective rather than merely individual, challenging Western-centric narratives of the modern self and enriching contemporary discussions on communal ways of being. What if the story we tell ourselves about of the modern self is incomplete? The ......
