With a New Afterword by the Author
In her bestselling autobiography, Barbara Walters, arguably the most important woman in the history of television, describes her extraordinary public and private journey.
Audition is the story of an amazingly full life, from her childhood, when Walters's glamorous, risktaking father ran the legendary Latin Quarter nightclub and gained and lost several fortunes, to her own groundbreaking career--as the first woman co-host of the "Today" show, the first female network news co-anchor, the host and producer of countless top-rated interview specials, the anchor of "20/20," and the creator and co-host of "The View." She reveals personal details: her broken marriages and the often difficult but ultimately wonderful relationship with her daughter. And she lets us into the inner lives of some of the world's most intriguing figures, who became a part of her own world, including Fidel Castro, Yasir Arafat, Princess Diana, Angelina Jolie, and every U.S. president since Nixon. Audition is heartbreaking and honest, surprising and fun, sometimes startling, and always fascinating.

Since the end of the cold war, a series of costly civil wars, many of them ethnic conflicts, have dominated the international security agenda. The international community, often acting through the United Nations or regional organizations like NATO, has felt compelled to intervene with military forces in many of these conflicts -- four of which comprise the heart of this book: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, Cambodia, and Rwanda. "Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention" is a detailed examination by a host of distinguished scholars of these recent interventions in order to draw lessons for today's policy debates.

The contributors view ethnic conflict and internal war through the prism of the concept of the security dilemma -- a situation in which parties with strong incentives to cooperate wind up nonetheless in bloody competition out of distrust of the opponent. "Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention" assesses how international intervention can help solve the security dilemma in civil wars by designing political and military arrangements that make security commitments credible to the warring parties. The mixed record of partial successes, failures, and in some cases counterproductive interventions suggests an urgent need to extract lessons with a view toward developing a framework for making future policy choices.

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Europa, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Alle Jahre wieder dringt der Duft von frischgebackenen Platzchen oder Gansebraten aus den heimischen Backofen. Die Familie trifft sich unter einem geschmuckten Weihnachtsbaum und am Abend des 24. Dezembers werden vor der Bescherung Wurste und Kartoffelsalat verspeist. Doch warum ist das so? Woher stammen diese Brauche? In diesem Buch werden die Ursprunge der gangigsten Weihnachtsbrauche wie z. B. des Weihnachtsbaums, des Weihnachtsessens und der Weihnachtsgeschenke aufgedeckt und aus Sicht der Wissenschaft beleuchtet. Aus dem Inhalt: Ursprung des Weihnachtsfestes Nikolaus, Christkind und Weihnachtsmann Die Herkunft des Weihnachtsbaumes Geschichte des Festessens zur Weihnachtszeit Christkindelmarkt und -bescherung Der Wandel zum Konsumfest