The Vanishing Criminal: Causes of Decline in Australia's Crime Rate by Don Weatherburn, Sara Rahman
English | September 10, 2022 | ISBN: 0522877346 | 320 pages | EPUB | 7.29 Mb
In 2000, Australia had the highest rate of burglary, the highest rate of contact crime (assault, sexual assault, and robbery) and the second highest rate of motor vehicle theft among the 25 countries included in the international crime victim survey, which takes in the United States, the United Kingdom, and most western European countries. Then in 2001, Australian crime statistics began to decline. By 2018, rates of the most common forms of crime had fallen between 40 and 80 percent and were lower than they'd been in twenty or in some cases thirty years. Australia is not the only country to have experienced this social trend. In The Vanishing Criminal Don Weatherburn and Sara Rahman set out to explain the dramatic fall in crime, rigorously but accessibly comparing competing theories against the available evidence. Their conclusions will surprise many and reshape the terms for discussion of these questions well into the future.

Technologies in Decline; Socio-Technical Approaches to Discontinuation and Destabilisation; First Edition
by Zahar Koretsky
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032101024 | 295 pages | True PDF | 8.34 MB
The central questions of this book are how technologies decline, how societies deal with technologies in decline, and how governance may be explicitly oriented towards parting with 'undesirable' technology.

Nation, Empire, Decline: Studies in Rhetorical Continuity from the Romans to the Modern Era (Classical Inter/Faces) by Nancy Shumate
English | December 14, 2006 | ISBN: 0715635514 | True EPUB | 160 pages | 2.3 MB
The often overlapping discourses of nationalism and imperialism, along with related ideas of social decline, have been central in 19th- and 20th-century Anglo-European views of the world.

Development Without Aid: The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora By David A. Phillips
2013 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 0857283030 | PDF | 3 MB
"Development Without Aid" aims to opens up perspectives about foreign aid to the world's poorest countries. Growing up inAfrica the author developed a sense of the limitations of foreign assistance and from this evolves a critique ofaid as an alien resource unable to provide the dynamism that could propel the poorest countries out of poverty. The book aims to help move the discussion beyond foreign aid. It examines the rapid growth of the world's diasporas as aresource of increasing strength in terms of both financial and human capital, and considers how far such a resource might supersede aid. The key point is that diaspora initiatives are a type of indigenous resource flowing through private initiative, not an alien resource flowing through public bureaucratic organizations. The book usesextensive research evidence to explore the possibilities for a resumption of sovereignty by poor states, especially in Africa, over their own development with the assistance of the world's diasporas.

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Date/Year: 2022

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English | 2022 | ISBN: 0300254067 | 296 pages | True PDF | 19.76 MB
A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nations

English | ASIN: B0BF8SYS97 | 2022 | 10 hours and 19 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 284 MB
The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many periods of history and many parts on the world. The updated edition of Mancur Olson's award-winning book The Rise and Decline of Nations.

James Petras, "Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power"
English | ISBN: 0932863604 | 2009 | 192 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Criticizing and exposing the powerful public role of American Zionism in shaping US policy in the Middle East is the biggest taboo in US politics. Politicians, academics, journalists, prelates and ordinary American citizens who publicly voice their dissent are targeted for political purges, denied academic tenure, and access to the mass media and scurrilously labeled as 'anti-Semites' by the Zionist power configuration. This book challenges the claims of Zionist apologists who argue that the 'Israel power configuration' is just another lobby, by empirically examining several major policies. The case studies demonstrate conclusively that today issues of war and peace, trade and investment agreements by US, European and Asian oil companies and banks in the Middle East, multi-billion dollar arms sales to Saudi Arabia are all subject to ZPC scrutiny and veto. The new 'broad definition' of what affects Israel includes Lobby backing for Bush's shredding of Constitutional restraints on his war powers. It is not merely regional expansion which 'interests Israel' but economic and military aid and sales-namely who determines what military goods the US can sell to Arab states as well as what high end military technology the US should provide to the world's fourth biggest arms merchant-Israel (which is also the US's arms export competitor).the Zionist power configuration (ZPC) in the US Congress has blocked trade and sales to Saudi Arabia, despite the backing of the US oil and military-industrial sectors. Thanks to its influence in the mass media, the ZPC effectively delayed, degraded and then marginalized a long-awaited report by16 US national intelligence agencies on Iran's non-military nuclear program in favor of dubious bellicose claims issued by the state of Israel. At a time when our national economy is in deep crisis, the Israel Lobby is pushing for a new military confrontation and war with Iran, oblivious to its catastrophic consequences for the American people. Major pro-Israel officials and politicians in Homeland Security, the National Security Council, the Congress and the White House are passing more police-state legislation to control and silence the growing majority opposition to the expansion of wars in the Middle East promoted by the Israel Lobby. This book establishes the reasons why coming to grips with the impact of Israel and the Israel Lobby on US policy is so essential to bringing peace to the Middle East, restoring public freedoms in our country and taking back our right to decide not only US foreign policy, but our domestic policy as well, in the interests of the vast majority of the American people.

Jonathan Foltz, "The Novel after Film: Modernism and the Decline of Autonomy"
English | ISBN: 0190676493 | 2017 | 304 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 23 MB
According to prevailing media histories, film long ago ought to have rendered the novel obsolete. The irony of this story is that the "death of the novel" at the hands of film has for a long time now been a pervasive trope of the novel's continued reinvention. The Novel After Film offers a substantial reassessment of this paradoxical new condition of novelistic practice in which writers have re-imagined the novel in the shadow of film. In the cinema, a generation of modernist writers found a medium whose bad form was also laced with the glamor of the popular, and whose unfamiliar visual language seemed to harbor a future for innovative writing after modernism. How did the cinema-with its crude continuities, crowded theaters, stock Descriptions, and ghostly images-seem to flout conventional ideas of narrative form? What new literacies of experience and representation did film seem to promise?