Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821 by Michael Broers
English | August 30th, 2022 | ISBN: 1639361774 | 496 pages | True EPUB | 26.50 MB
An accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emperor's life-from his defeat in Russia and the drama of Waterloo to his final exile-as the world Napoleon has created begins to crumble around him.

Robert Lewis, "Chicago's Industrial Decline: The Failure of Redevelopment, 1920-1975"
English | ISBN: 1501752626 | 2020 | 272 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
In Chicago's Industrial Decline Robert Lewis charts the city's decline since the 1920s and describes the early development of Chicago's famed (and reviled) growth machine. Beginning in the 1940s and led by local politicians, downtown business interest, financial institutions, and real estate groups, place-dependent organizations in Chicago implemented several industrial renewal initiatives with the dual purpose of stopping factory closings and attracting new firms in order to turn blighted property into modern industrial sites. At the same time, a more powerful coalition sought to adapt the urban fabric to appeal to middle-class consumption and residential living. As Lewis shows, the two aims were never well integrated, and the result was on-going disinvestment and the inexorable decline of Chicago's industrial space.

William E. Scheuerman, "A New American Labor Movement: The Decline of Collective Bargaining and the Rise of Direct Action"
English | ISBN: 1438485492 | 2021 | 264 pages | EPUB | 807 KB
The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheuerman analyzes how the decline of unions and the emergence of these new direct-action movements are reshaping the American labor movement. Tens of thousands of exploited workers-from farm laborers and gig drivers to freelance artists and restaurant workers-have taken to the streets in a collective attempt to attain a living wage and decent working conditions, with or without the help of unions. This new worker militancy, expressed through mass demonstrations, strikes, sit-ins, political action, and similar activities, has already achieved much success and offers models for workers to exercise their power in the twenty-first century. Finally, Scheuerman notes, many of the strategies of the new direct-action groups share features with the sectoral bargaining model that dominates the European labor movement, suggesting that sectoral bargaining may become the foundation of a new American labor movement.

Benedict Beckeld, "Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations"
English | ISBN: 1501763180 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Western Self-Contempt travels through civilizations since antiquity, examining major political events and the literature of ancient Greece, Rome, France, Britain, and the United States, to study evidence of cultural self-hatred and its cyclical recurrence. Benedict Beckeld explores oikophobia, described by its coiner Sir Roger Scruton as "the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours,'" in its political and philosophical applications. Beckeld analyzes the theories behind oikophobia along with their historical sources, revealing why oikophobia is best described as a cultural malaise that befalls civilizations during their declining days.

Gangadhar Jha, "Fragile Urban Governance: Evolution, Decline, and Empowerment of Local Self-Government in India"
English | ISBN: 1138343455 | 2018 | 384 pages | EPUB | 1071 KB
Urbanization is giving rise to a vibrant and volatile urban India. The urban local self-government (ULSG) is struggling to provide efficient, effective, inclusive and responsive urban services. Most ULSGs are too fragile to perform the mandated functions for enhancing the quality of life and making cities and towns livable.

William Mcgowan, "Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America"
English | ISBN: 1594034869 | 2010 | 288 pages | MOBI | 606 KB
The New York Times was once considered the gold standard in American journalism and the most trusted news organization in America. Today, it is generally understood to be a vehicle for politically correct ideologies, tattered liberal pieties, and a repeated victim of journalistic scandal and institutional embarrassment.

English | 2016 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B01F49RARM | Duration: 3:22 h | 101 MB
Hans-Hermann Hoppe / Narrated by Millian Quinteros
A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline represents nothing less than a sweeping revisionist history of mankind, in a concise and listenable volume. Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe skillfully weaves history, sociology, ethics, and Misesian praxeology to present an alternative - and highly challenging - view of human economic development over the ages.

Size: 986.58 MB | Total Duration: 49:58 | Total Tracks: 6
Format: FLAC | 2691 Kbps
Album: The Decline
Artist: Perish
Genre: Metal
Date/Year: 2022

Why Democracies Develop and Decline
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1316514412 | 403 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem) pioneered new ways to conceptualize and measure democracy, producing a multidimensional and disaggregated data set on democracy around the world that is now widely used by researchers, activists, and governments. Why Democracies Develop and Decline draws on this data to present a comprehensive overview and rigorous empirical tests of the factors that contribute to democratization and democratic decline, looking at economic, social, institutional, geographic, and international factors. It is the most authoritative and encompassing empirical analysis of the causes of democratization and reversals. The volume also proposes a comprehensive theoretical framework and presents an up-to-date description of global democratic developments from the French Revolution to the present. Each chapter leverages the specialized expertise of its authors, yet their sustained collaboration lends the book an unusually unified approach and a coherent theory and narrative.

Ross Anthony, "The Rise and Decline and Rise of China: Searching for an Organising Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 1920655840 | 2016 | 412 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Running like a red thread through this book are the manifestations of Sino-African relations dating back many centuries. In this way, The Rise and Decline and Rise of China: Searching for an Organising Philosophy takes forward the work MISTRA conducted on the Mapungubwe society, one of the advanced states that existed in southern Africa some 800 years ago. What makes this research report unique, though, is that the treatment of these issues has been undertaken primarily from an African perspective.