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Free Download Talk at the Brink: Deliberation and Decision During the Cuban Missile Crisis by David R. Gibson
English | July 29, 2012 | ISBN: 0691151318 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 4.5 MB
In October 1962, the fate of the world hung on the American response to the discovery of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba. That response was informed by hours of discussions between John F. Kennedy and his top advisers. What those advisers did not know was that President Kennedy was secretly taping their talks, providing future scholars with a rare inside look at high-level political deliberation in a moment of crisis. Talk at the Brink is the first book to examine these historic audio recordings from a sociological perspective. It reveals how conversational practices and dynamics shaped Kennedy’s perception of the options available to him, thereby influencing his decisions and ultimately the outcome of the crisis.

Free Download America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink by Kenneth M. Stampp
English | April 30th, 1992 | ISBN: 0195039025 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 4.07 MB
It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused widespread unemployment among industrial workers. The Mormons in Utah Territory threatened rebellion when federal troops approached with a non-Mormon governor to replace Brigham Young.

Free Download David Stipp, "The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution"
English | 2013 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1617230081, Hardcover | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Living longer is closer than we think.

Free Download World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFC6HSXS | 2024 | 14 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 414 MB
Author: Dmitri Alperovitch, Garrett M. Graff
Narrator: Will Collyer
A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin’s intention to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine months before it took place, lays out the case for why China’s Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan in the coming years and the dire stakes for America and the whole world if he is not deterred. In World on the Brink, security expert Dmitri Alperovitch makes the case that we are already in the midst of Cold War II, with China, and that Taiwan is the perilous strategic flashpoint of this new conflict that risks triggering a devastating war between major nuclear powers in a similar role that West Berlin nearly played during Cold War I.

Free Download Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
English | September 13, 2022 | ISBN: 0593233077 | 320 pages | PDF | 3.54 Mb
15 "simple but powerful" (The New York Times Book Review) strategies for raising emotionally healthy girls, based on cutting-edge science that explains the modern pressures that make it so difficult for adolescent girls to thrive

Free Download James Marcus, "Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
English | ISBN: 0691254338 | 2024 | 344 pages | EPUB, PDF | 18 MB + 15 MB

Free Download Back from the Brink: Turning Escorts Around by Seetha, Sharad Gupta
English | November 10, 2019 | ISBN: 9353573491 | 230 pages | PDF | 7.93 Mb
The Escorts Group, one of India s most iconic business houses, has seen its share of major setbacks in its seventy-five-year history. Founded in 1944 in Lahore by H.P. Nanda, Escorts was first a victim of Partition. It bounced back, setting up its manufacturing base in Faridabad on the outskirts of Delhi. Over the years it was associated with leading global players such as Ford, JCB and Yamaha. The Rajdoot bikes it produced were a rage in the 1980s. But the same decade also witnessed a hostile takeover bid by Britain-based tycoon Swraj Paul, one of the lowest points in the company s life. The economic liberalisation of 1991 saw Rajan Nanda leading the foray into the services sector with the Escorts Heart Institute and a cellular telephony business. But some missteps resulted in the group exiting several of its ventures. At one point, the financial crisis was so deep that power supply to its office was cut off for non-payment of bills. From then to now, Escorts has seen a remarkable turnaround helmed by Nikhil Nanda. With flourishing businesses in the agri-machinery and construction and railway equipment sectors, Escorts reported its highest ever profit after taxes of over Rs 400 crore in 2019, with a year-on-year growth of a robust 40 per cent. It is now leading in innovation, developing electric, autonomous and hybrid tractors, and services such as Traxi the Uber for tractors. Back from the Brink is the story of how this turnaround happened: by adopting best business practices, putting the right people in the right roles, and working on relationships with dealers, suppliers and the core customer farmers. This is an eye-opening account of business management, with many crucial lessons for practitioners, professionals and students looking to understand how a much-loved quintessentially Indian company is run and revived.

Free Download On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System by Henry M. Paulson, Dan Woren, Hachette Audio
English | 2010 | ISBN: B0036QUORY | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 15 hours and 4 minutes + EPUB | 826 Mb
When Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was appointed in 2006 to become the nation’s next Secretary of the Treasury, he knew that his move from Wall Street to Washington would be daunting and challenging.
But Paulson had no idea that a year later, he would find himself at the very epicenter of the world’s most cataclysmic financial crisis since the Great Depression. Major institutions including Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, AIG, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup, among others – all steeped in rich, longstanding tradition – literally teetered at the edge of collapse. Panic ensnared international markets. Worst of all, the credit crisis spread to all parts of the U.S. economy and grew more ominous with each passing day, destroying jobs across America and undermining the financial security millions of families had spent their lifetimes building.
This was truly a once-in-a-lifetime economic nightmare. Events no one had thought possible were happening in quick succession, and people all over the globe were terrified that the continuing downward spiral would bring unprecedented chaos. All eyes turned to the United States Treasury Secretary to avert the disaster.

Free Download Tarek Osman, "Egypt on the Brink: From the Rise of Nasser to the Fall of Mubarak"
English | 2011 | pages: 332 | ISBN: 0300177267, 0300198698 | PDF | 19,9 mb
Tarek Osman’s lively account of Egypt, its recent history, and myriad internal conflicts and frustrations, was published in November 2010 to immediate acclaim. Within months, the Egyptian people had risen in protest against the regime and President Mubarak was forced to resign. In this fully revised and updated edition, Osman tells the extraordinary story of the February 2011 protests, and discusses their implications for Egypt and the rest of the world.