Tag: Price

Beyond Price Value in Culture, Economics, and the Arts


Free Download Michael Hutter, "Beyond Price: Value in Culture, Economics, and the Arts "
English | ISBN: 052186223X | 2007 | 334 pages | PDF | 19 MB
How do we place a value on a painting, or a piece of music, or a traditional ritual? The market can determine a price in monetary terms for a variety of cultural phenomena, but how much does that tell us about the real value of these things? This book explores the tensions between economic and cultural value from a range of disciplinary viewpoints and provides many new insights into how value is constructed in contemporary society.

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The Price of Truth The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany [Audiobook] (2024)


Free Download The Price of Truth: The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany (Audiobook)
English | April 15, 2023 | ASIN: B0C1DBGSD3 | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 2m | 353 MB
Author: Richard Fine | Narrator: Paul Boehmer
On May 7, 1945, journalist Edward Kennedy bypassed military censorship to be the first to break the news of the Nazi surrender executed in Reims, France. While, at the behest of Soviet leaders, Allied authorities prohibited release of the story, Kennedy stuck to his journalistic principles and refused to manage information he believed the world had a right to know. No action by an American correspondent during the war proved more controversial.
The Paris press corps was furious at what it took to be Kennedy’s unethical betrayal; military authorities threatened court-martial before expelling him from Europe. Kennedy defended himself, insisting the news was being withheld for suspect political reasons unrelated to military security. After prolonged national debate, Kennedy’s career was in ruins.

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The Price of Prosperity Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them


Free Download The Price of Prosperity: Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them by Todd G. Buchholz, Brilliance Audio
English | June 07, 2016 | ISBN: B01FI5XYZY | 11 hours and 24 minutes | MP3 68 kbps | 327 Mb
In this bold history and manifesto, a former White House director of economic policy under President George H. W. Bush exposes the economic, political, and cultural cracks that wealthy nations face and makes the case for transforming those same vulnerabilities into sources of strength – and the foundation of a national renewal
America and other developed countries, including Germany, Japan, France, and Great Britain are in desperate straits. The loss of community, a contracting jobs market, immigration fears, rising globalization, and poisonous partisanship – the adverse price of unprecedented prosperity – are pushing these nations to the brink.
Acclaimed author, economist, hedge fund manager, and presidential advisor Todd G. Buchholz argues that without a sense of common purpose and shared identity, nations can collapse. The signs are everywhere: Reckless financial markets encourage people to gamble with other people’s money. A coddling educational culture removes the stigma of underachievement. Community traditions such as American Legion cookouts and patriotic parades are derided as corny or jingoistic. Newcomers are watched with suspicion and contempt.

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Ultimate Price The Value We Place on Life


Free Download Howard Steven Friedman, "Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life"
English | ISBN: 0520343220 | 2020 | 232 pages | AZW3 | 922 KB
How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underlie these price tags are often buried in technical language, yet they influence our economy, laws, behaviors, policies, health, and safety.

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The Price of Thirst Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos


Free Download Karen Piper, "The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos"
English | ISBN: 0816695423 | 2014 | 296 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
"There’s Money in Thirst," reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of NestlĂ©, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so "we’re all aware that it has a price." But for those who have no access to clean water, a fifth of the world’s population, the price is thirst. This is the frightening landscape that Karen Piper conducts us through in The Price of Thirst-one where thirst is political, drought is a business opportunity, and more and more of our most necessary natural resource is controlled by multinational corporations.

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The Price of Thirst Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos


Free Download Karen Piper, "The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos"
English | ISBN: 0816695423 | 2014 | 296 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
"There’s Money in Thirst," reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of NestlĂ©, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so "we’re all aware that it has a price." But for those who have no access to clean water, a fifth of the world’s population, the price is thirst. This is the frightening landscape that Karen Piper conducts us through in The Price of Thirst-one where thirst is political, drought is a business opportunity, and more and more of our most necessary natural resource is controlled by multinational corporations.

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The Price of Freedom Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland


Free Download T. Stephen Whitman, "The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland"
English | 1997 | ISBN: 0813120047, 0813155541 | PDF | pages: 253 | 23.1 mb
The Price of Freedom carefully examines how urban slavery, long neglected by historians, became an important step in the path from bonded to free labour. The author argues that the creation of "term slavery" and the increase in manumission in Baltimore during the post-revolutionary era should be attributed to economic self-interest rather than humanitarian impulses founded in republican ideology or religion. Using the leverage of flight, the author shows how skilled slaves wielded considerable power in negotiating the terms of their labour. This meticulous study sheds new light on free and unfree labour during the early national period.

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The Price of Victory (Graphic Readers Level 4)


Free Download Kate Simkins, John Kelly, "The Price of Victory (Graphic Readers Level 4)"
English | 2007 | pages: 52 | ISBN: 1405318392 | PDF | 11,4 mb
Witness a tale of rivalry and sabotage at the Olympic Games. Watch the past come to life in this gripping comic-book tale. Travel back in time to the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece and meet Pylades and his brother Kinesias, a champion athlete. From falling statues to sinking boats, join the brothers on their dangerous adventure, as it becomes clear someone wants to murder Kinesias before he can compete. But can they stop the person behind this dastardly assassination Description before the Games begin?

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