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![The Civic Bargain How Democracy Survives [Audiobook]](https://i122.fastpic.org/big/2024/0104/6d/2ac6890cdd74d6e73e1acf7fe2a3186d.jpeg) Free Download The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0CD2NGYNM | 2023 | 10 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 291 MB Author: Brook Manville, Josiah Ober Narrator: Christopher Douyard A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive-if we want it to. Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country's system of governance is being "tested" or is "under attack." But is the future of democracy necessarily so dire? In The Civic Bargain, Brook Manville and Josiah Ober push back against the prevailing pessimism about the fate of democracy around the world. Instead of an epitaph for democracy, they offer a guide for democratic renewal, calling on citizens to recommit to a "civic bargain" with one another to guarantee civic rights of freedom, equality, and dignity.  Free Download Alison Hulme, "On the Commodity Trail: The Journey of a Bargain Store Product from East to West" English | ISBN: 1472572866 | 2015 | 172 pages | PDF | 2 MB Following the journey of eight bargain store objects, Alison Hulme reveals the complex story behind society's simplest and cheapest commodities. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, On the Commodity Trail explores the colourful and fascinating histories of everyday objects.Along the way, we observe raw materials on municipal rubbish dumps in China, newly re-made products in the world's largest wholesale market, and take a journey across the seas, to bargain stores in Europe and North America, arriving finally in the homes of consumers. Weaving together narratives from the people we meet at different parts of the commodity chain - waste peddlers, wholesalers, store owners, and shoppers - the book examines the places and people at the heart of these localized yet immense global networks.Unlike other investigations of commodity chains, this study does not chart a straightforward trajectory from production to consumption. Instead, it demonstrates that the low-end commodity chain is one of constant rupture in which products are made and re-made, blurring the dividing line between producing and consuming.An ethnography of material culture as well as an examination of commodity culture at a time of economic downturn, this deeply-engrossing book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of commodity chains and consumer culture. ![Dark Bargain Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution [Audiobook]](https://i116.fastpic.org/big/2022/0322/6f/d23ec4363ade36f06b13c7194ce4416f.jpeg) English | ASIN: B09MV64Q7V | 2021 | 8 hours and 52 minutes |MP3 | M4B | 243 MB On September 17, 1787, at the State House in Philadelphia, 39 men from 12 states, after months of often bitter debate, signed America's Constitution. Yet very few of the delegates, at the start, had had any intention of creating a nation that would last. Most were driven more by pragmatic, regional interests than by idealistic vision. Many were meeting for the first time, others after years of contention, and the inevitable clash of personalities would be as intense as the advocacy of ideas or ideals. No issue was of greater concern to the delegates than that of slavery.
![Faustian Bargain The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War [Audiobook]](https://i116.fastpic.org/big/2021/1212/0b/48a6e4bc11c9a69b130c7804e47dfe0b.jpeg) English | ASIN: B09JJ5XRD3 | 2021 | 15 hours and 24 minutes |MP3|M4B | 424 MB When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, launching World War Two, its military might was literally overwhelming. The Luftwaffe bombed towns and cities across the country; 50 divisions of the Wehrmacht crossed the border. Yet only two decades earlier, at the end of World War One, Germany had been an utterly and abjectly defeated military power. Foreign troops occupied its industrial heartland, and the Treaty of Versailles had reduced its vaunted army to a fraction of its size, banning it from developing new military technologies. When Hitler came to power in 1933, these strictures were still in effect. By 1939, however, he had at his disposal a fighting force of 4.2 million men, armed with the most advanced weapons in the world. How could this seemingly miraculous turnaround have happened?  Car Mechanics Bargain Cars - Issue 8 - September 2021 English | 54 pages | True PDF | 14 MB |
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