Europe and the Wider World (What is Europe?) By Bernard Waites (editor)
1995 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0415124212 | PDF | 8 MB
This book examines the concept of Europe in its relations to those areas of the globe beyond its borders. In particular it is concerned with the historical evolution and contemporary setting of Europe vis-a-vis The United States of America, the developing world and the former Soviet Union. This involves drawing on the perspectives of international history, politics and economics.A unifying feature of the analysis included here is provided by the fact that the "bi-polar world" that emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War has effectively been brought to an end with the collapse first of Soviet control in Eastern Europe, and then by the break-up of the Soviet Union itself and a prospective reduction of American influence in western Europe. What will Europe look like in an increasingly "multi-polar world"? An answer to this depends not only on the evolving external connections between Europe and other parts of the world but also on the internal development of European political and economic integration. The dynamic of this crucial dual relationship is examined here.

Ethics, Law and Society: Volume II By SГёren Holm, Jennifer Gunning (editor)
2006 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0754648818 | PDF | 6 MB
This key collection brings together a selection of papers commissioned and published by the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society. It incorporates contributions from a group of international experts along with a selection of short opinion pieces written in response to specific ethical issues. The collection addresses issues arising in biomedical and medical ethics ranging from assisted reproductive technologies to the role of clinical ethics committees. It examines broader societal issues with particular emphasis on sustainability and the environment and also focuses on issues of human rights in current global contexts. The contributors collect responses to issues arising from high profile cases such as the legitimacy of war in Iraq to physician-related suicide. The volume will provide a valuable resource for practitioners and academics with an interest in ethics across a range of disciplines.

Naoki Nakashima, "Epidemiologic Research on Real-World Medical Data in Japan: Volume 1 "
English | ISBN: 9811663750 | 2022 | 124 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book analyzes the development of medical big data projects in Japan.Japan is experiencing unprecedented population aging, and labor productivity has decreased accordingly. Big data analysis of the Japanese medical real-world database (RWD) has the potential to tackle this issue.To allow readers to gain an understanding of Japanese medical big data analysis, the book discusses the original Japanese system that generates medical RWDs in the hospital medical records system, the nationwide standardized health checkup system, and the public medical insurance system in Japan.After introducing four major big data projects in the healthcare-medical field in Japan, the book explains the importance of creating information standards to maintain data quality and to analyze medical big data. It enables readers to analyze which standards are installed in which RWDs, how the standards are maintained, and which issues are prevalent in Japan.This book also describes the ethical processes involved in big data projects involving medical RWDs in Japan.

Environmental Microbial Evolution
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1071626906 | 365 Pages | PDF (True) | 13 MB
This volume explores the latest techniques used to study environmental microbial evolution, with a focus on methods capable of addressing deep evolution at long timescales. The chapters in this book are organized into three parts. Part One introduces molecular dating approaches and time calibration ideas that allow for the determination of evolutionary timescales of microbial lineages. Part Two describes several advanced phylogenomic tools such as models for genome tree construction, a taxon sampling method, outgroup-independent tree-rooting methods, and gene family evolution models. Part Three covers techniques used to study trait evolution. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.

Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture Vol 1 - 2 by Jr. James S. Donnelly, Karl S. Bottigheimer, Mary E. Daly
English | July 30, 2004 | ISBN: 0028659023 | 1116 pages | PDF | 83 Mb
In this encyclopedia, designed for "the educated lay public," more than 400 signed articles produced by 205 expert contributors come in three sizes. The largest articles offer more than 2,000 words of in-depth coverage and historical overview. The medium-sized (1,000-2,000 words) and smaller articles (less than 1,000 words) cover historical figures and more discrete events and topics. The A-Z entries are preceded by a chronology and followed by a selection of almost 150 primary documents ranging from the Confession of St. Patrick (c. 450) to the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (1998)-a real bonus to users. Access is aided by an alphabetical list of entries and a comprehensive index with the main entries in bold type. Twenty-three maps and numerous black-and-white photographs and illustrations accompany the text.

Email List Ninja: Informational Guide to get you started in Email Marketing by Coach MiyagiSan
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BDTYFKWQ | 105 pages | EPUB | 0.24 Mb
Email marketing is the act of sending a commercial message, typically to a group of people, using email. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing. It involves using email to send advertisements, request business, or solicit sales or donations. This book is an informational guide to get you started in Email Marketing and positioning yourself to build a legacy.

Educational Policy Borrowing in China: Looking West or looking East? By Charlene Tan
2016 | 226 Pages | ISBN: 0415743249 | PDF | 4 MB
For over a decade, Mainland China has been embarking on an ambitious nation-wide education reform ('New Curriculum Reform') for its basic education. The reform reflects China's propensity to borrow selected educational policies from elsewhere, particularly North America and Europe. Chinese scholars have used a local proverb "the West wind has overpowered the East wind" to describe this phenomenon of 'looking West'.But what do we mean by educational policy borrowing from the West?What are the educational policies in China's new curriculum reform that are perceived to be borrowed from the West?To what extent have the borrowed educational policies in China's new curriculum reform been accepted, modified, and rejected by the various educational stakeholders?How does culture influence the various educational stakeholders in China in interpreting and mediating educational policy borrowing from the West?How do the findings of this study on China's education reform inform and add to the existing theories on and approaches to on cross-cultural educational policy borrowing?This book answers the above questions by critically discussing China's policy borrowing from the West through its current reform for primary and secondary education. It presents the latest in-depth research findings from a three-year empirical study (2013-2015) with school principals, teachers, students and other educational stakeholders across China. This study offers new insights into China's educational policy borrowing from the West and international implications on cross-cultural educational transfer for academics, policymakers and educators.

Education and the State: International perspectives on a changing relationship By Carla Aubry (editor), Michael Geiss (editor), Veronika Magyar-Haas (editor), JГјrgen Oelkers (editor)
2014 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1138777854 | PDF | 3 MB
In most countries in the world, school education is the business of the state. Even if forms and functions differ, the imparting of elementary knowledge is universally regarded as a public function. Yet this is neither self-evident nor self-explanatory. The degree of involvement of state agencies in the supervision, financing and organization of the school system sometimes varies so much that the usual assumption of a common understanding of 'the state' seems to be an illusion.Making international comparisons and focusing strongly on the historical conditions of the current form of state education, this volume paints a nuanced picture of how the relationship between 'education' and 'state' has been and is conceptualized. Insights into this relationship are gained by considering and analysing both specific processes such as financing and bureaucracy; and conceptual ideas, for example community, authority, and political utopias. The book presents comparative studies and analyses of regional and local conditions, arguing that the history of each country or region is critical to educational success, and the relationship between the education and the state must be reconsidered, both internationally and historically, in order to be of actual conceptual value.Education and the State presents a broad variety of approaches and examples that provide a significant contribution to the understanding of the relationship between education and the state. It will be of key value to academics and researchers in the fields of the history of education, the politics of education, and educational administration.

Daniel S. Hamermesh, "Economics is Everywhere"
English | ISBN: 1429287756 | 2011 | 272 pages | PDF | 1190 KB
Economics Is Everywhere, Fourth Edition, presents 400 vignettes inspired by everyday events from news articles, films, family and popular culture. Professor Hamermesh also employs his interactions with students, frequently featuring student insight in these short scenes. Economics Is Everywhere helps students to apply what they are learning in their introductory microeconomics courses by examining economics examples that can be found in day-to-day life. In covering topics such as opportunity costs, trade-offs, supply and demand, elasticity, competitive markets and monopoly Dan Hamermesh on Freakonomics

Easy Trifle Cookbook (Trifles Cookbook, Trifles Recipes, Trifle Cookbook, Trifle Recipes, Trifles) by Chef Maggie Chow
English | October 16, 2015 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B016SGEIC0 | 90 pages | EPUB | 0.33 Mb
An Elegant Dessert of Luxury fit for Royalty. Infused with sweet fruits, filled with delicious puddings, and layered with lush cake. Trifles are the prized dessert of the English and these are the easiest ways to make them. . .

Laura Ashe, "Early Fiction in England: From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0141392878 | EPUB | pages: 464 | 0.6 mb
A brilliant new anthology that shows how fiction was reinvented in the twelfth century after an absence of hundreds of years.

EX(TRA)TERRITORIAL Reassessing Territory in Literature, Culture and Languages / Les Territoires littГ©raires, culturels et linguistiques en question By Didier Lassalle and Dirk Weissmann
2014 | 330 Pages | ISBN: 9042038667 | PDF | 4 MB
As a judicial concept dating back to the 17th century, the term ex(tra)territoriality has long excited the interest of scholars and writers who have, since the 20th century, not hesitated to appropriate the notion, widening and transforming it in the process. This transfer to the field of humanities has opened a new space of reflection, a space for imagination, through the means of a creative re-reading, among others, which has given rise to new but related concepts such as "deterritorialization". To take into account the growing importance of this extraterritoriality paradigm reassessing the idea of territory in literature, culture and languages, this book offers an interdisciplinary and plurilingual journey through four centuries, four continents and a dozen languages, from literature to new media, encompassing philosophy, history, linguistics, the press, the cinema...

Drama and Theatre with Children: International perspectives By Charru Sharma (editor)
2015 | 218 Pages | ISBN: 1138859745 | PDF | 3 MB
Drama as a process-centred form is a popular and valued methodology used to develop thinking and learning in children, while theatre provides a greater focus on the element of performance. In recent years, offering drama and theatre as a shared experience is increasingly used to engage children and to facilitate learning in a drama classroom. Using drama and theatre as a central component with children, this book is an amalgamation of theory, research and practice from across the globe offering insights into differing educational contexts.Chapters provide an exploration of the methodologies and techniques used to improve drama in the curriculum, and highlight the beneficial impact drama has in a variety of classrooms, enriching learning and communication. Contributions from 17 authors, ranging from teachers in schools or universities, to researchers and drama practitioners, examine a variety of perspectives related to drama and children in an attempt to bridge gaps and move ahead collectively as educators, practitioners and researchers in drama and theatre. Divided into two parts, Part I reflects on the use of drama in its varied forms with children, while Part II focuses on projects and experiments with children using theatre in order to draw links between drama, theatre and pedagogy.Drama and Theatre with Children will be key reading for researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of drama education, theatre education, curriculum studies and child development. The book will also be of interest to drama practitioners, school teachers and teacher training leaders.

Maximillien De Lafayette, "Djinn, Sihr And Spiritism. Volume 4"
English | ISBN: 1312596864 | 2014 | 130 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Volume 4 from a set of 5 volumes, Djinn, Sihr And Spiritism: Vocabulary, Phraseology And Dictionary Of The Languages Of Sahiriin, Djinn, Afarit, Shayatiin, Spirits, Witchcraft. Published by Times Square Press. New York. Also available in a mega book containing the whole set of 5 volumes. There is no way in the world would you be able to summon and communicate with spirits, Djinns, Afarit, demons and even Noble Souls (Arwaah Tahira) if you are not familiar with the terminology, vocabulary and phraseology of their languages and the Sihr language. This book will teach you all of the above, and provide you with most useful phrases needed in your conversation with summoned spirits and entities. It is easy, fun, and fast!

Diving Medicine by Olaf Rusoke-Dierich
English | EPUB | 2018 | 432 Pages | ISBN : 3319738356 | 99.03 MB
This book is the very first to cover the decompression theory in detail. It gives many information on all topics of the diving medicine, and is richly and uniquely illustrated. It offers a good guideline of high quality practice in diving medicine. The author provides a very structured and easy to understand book, by covering all aspects of the diving medicine, such as equipment, physiology, and related issues as gas intoxications, venomous animals or damages that can occur in the diving practice. Relevant physiological and anatomical illustrations enlight even complex topics. The Diving medicine book will appeal to health experts like doctors and nurses, but also to diving schools and teachers

Distributed Computing and Optimization Techniques: Select Proceedings of ICDCOT 2021
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811922802 | 855 Pages | PDF (True) | 27 MB
This book introduces research presented at the International Conference on Distributed Computing and Optimization Techniques (ICDCOT-2021), a two-day conference, where researchers, engineers, and academicians from all over the world came together to share their experiences and findings on all aspects of distributed computing and its applications in diverse areas. The book includes papers on distributed computing, intelligent system, optimization method, mathematical modeling, fuzzy logic, neural networks, grid computing, load balancing, communication. It will be a valuable resource for students, academics, and practitioners in the industry working on distributed computing.

Cat Hope, John Charles Ryan, "Digital Arts"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1780933231, 1780933207 | PDF | pages: 255 | 8.6 mb
Digital Arts presents an introduction to new media art through key debates and theories. The volume begins with the historical contexts of the digital arts, discusses contemporary forms, and concludes with current and future trends in distribution and archival processes. Considering the imperative of artists to adopt new technologies, the chapters of the book progressively present a study of the impact of the digital on art, as well as the exhibition, distribution and archiving of artworks.

Dialogue in Places of Learning: Youth Amplified in South Africa By Adam Cooper
2016 | 190 Pages | ISBN: 1138194638 | PDF | 3 MB
Showing how youth from one of the poorest and most violent neighborhoods in Cape Town, South Africa, learn differently in three educational contexts― in classrooms, in a community hip hop crew, on a youth radio show―this book illuminates how South African schools, like schools elsewhere, subtly reproduce inequalities by sorting students into social hierarchies linked to assessments of their use of language. Highlighting the voices and perspectives of young South Africans, this case study of youth in the global South explores how language is linked to cultural mixing which occurred during colonialism and slavery and continues through patterns of global mobility. Dialogue in Places of Learning: Youth Amplified in South Africa demonstrates how language and learning are bound to space and place.

Leng Hoe Lon, "Deflated: How to find your footing in a shaky blockchain investment world"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 981500932X | 174 pages | EPUB | 1.1 MB
Turning complex financial instruments such as cryptocurrency into eminently readable stories, Leng Hoe Lon, the author of Decrypted, is back with Deflated.

David Graeber, "Debt: The First 5000 Years"
English | ISBN: 1612194192 | 2014 | 560 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The groundbreaking international best-seller that turns everything you think about money, debt, and society on its head-from the "brilliant, deeply original political thinker" David Graeber (Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me)

Culturicide, Resistance, and Survival of the Lakota: (Sioux Nation) By James V. Fenelon
1998 | 440 Pages | ISBN: 0815331193 | PDF | 13 MB
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Cruise Ship Handbook
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031116283 | 317 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 34 MB
This book offers a concise, yet comprehensive introduction to the engineering and other principles behind passenger cruise ships. It covers all the important regulations concerning cruise ship design and operation, as well as safety, stability, and environmental aspects. It describes principles of cruise ship hydrodynamics, structures, power plant and propulsion, as well as relevant machinery and control system. Further, it deals with key cruise ship hotel systems, such as air conditioning, freshwater, firefighting, garbage, wastewater and communication systems, and many more. Written in a concise, straightforward style, and including many original drawings, this book offers a unique, informative and inspiring guide, to students and professionals in the field of naval architecture and marine engineering, cruise ship owners and managers, and curious cruise ship passengers alike.

Carlo Milanesi, "Creative Projects for Rust Programmers: Build exciting projects on domains such as web apps, WebAssembly, games, and parsing"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1789346223 | EPUB | pages: 404 | 4.8 mb
A practical guide to understanding the latest features of the Rust programming language, useful libraries, and frameworks that will help you design and develop interesting projects

Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival By Katie Gentile
2006 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0881634387 | PDF | 88 MB
Amid the welter of clinical studies, memoirs, and other death-defying tales of eating disorders, we remain unclear about the relationships among trauma, anorexia, and bulimia, and about the psychological pathways to recovery.Creating Bodiesoffers the gripping story of healing and transformation detailed in one woman's diaries. Hannah wrote 18 diaries between the ages of 14 and 32. In the excerpts reprinted herein, we watch Hannah navigate violent adolescent friendships, descend into anorexia and bulimia, marry an abusive man, struggle to recover memories of sexual abuse, and finally to heal. And we learn of her interaction with Katie Gentile, who analyzed her diaries and met with Hannah to discuss the latter's own understanding of the diaries and of the diary analysis.Through a close study of both the content and structure of Hannah's diaries, Gentile shows how unspeakable, embodied remnants of sexual trauma become symbolized and how, within this process, Hannah's bulimia functioned as both an act of self destruction and a lifesaving form of resistance.Anchored in relational psychoanalysis and critical feminist theory, Creating Bodies provides a uniquely longitudinal account of the development of, and ultimate recovery from, an eating disorder fueled by childhood sexual abuse.An invaluable contribution to the literature on adolescent and adult eating disorders, it is also a thoughtful meditation on how the act of writing deepens issues of relationality and, over time, promotes cure.Psychoanalysts will be intrigued by the rich process issues embedded in prose journals, notes, and letters - both close to and distinct from clinical process issues - that Gentile uses to understand Hannah's projects of self-destruction and reconstruction.

Cook the Vietnamese Way: Delectable Homemade Vietnamese Recipes by Heston Brown
English | May 6, 2019 | ISBN: 1097151980 | 98 pages | EPUB | 3.01 Mb
You are probably thousands of kilometers away from Vietnam, but the distance should not matter for you to enjoy one of the country's greatest exports - their food. That is great and all, but you are wondering exactly how you can do this when you do not have any idea how to cook their food. Take a deep breath; this book is here to be your companion. Nobody said you cannot get help.

Control stress: stop worrying and feel good now! By Paul McKenna
2007 | 111 Pages | ISBN: 0593056299 | PDF | 7 MB
The book and trance work together as a complete breakthrough system - the totally natural way to improve your overall quality of life!

James H. Mills, Satadru Sen, "Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 1843310333, 1843310325 | PDF | pages: 217 | 8.3 mb
The editors bring together some of the best new scholarship on physicality in modern India in a single volume and provide a balance of materials from colonial and post-colonial India. Included are new writings by established and upcoming writers in the social sciences and humanities, all based on original research.

Conducting Technology Acceptance Research in Education: Theory, Models, Implementation, and Analysis by Г–mer Faruk UrsavaЕџ
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 191 Pages | ISBN : 3031108450 | 11.7 MB
This book provides an in-depth discussion of the emergence of technology acceptance theories and models, how we can use these theories and models in education, and data collection and analysis processes of technology acceptance research in education. The book discusses how we can make meaning of technology and apply it to educational settings while we investigate the processes via which people adopt technology in education. The book will appeal to students enrolled in upper undergraduate and graduate courses that cover technology acceptance and use in education, researchers who would like to conduct technology acceptance research in education and need a comprehensive resource, and practitioners such as teachers and administrators who would like to promote technology use at schools.

Toshiki Tajima, "Computational Plasma Physics: With Applications To Fusion And Astrophysics"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0813342112, 0367092034 | PDF | pages: 528 | 9.6 mb
The physics of plasmas is an extremely rich and complex subject as the variety of topics addressed in this book demonstrates. This richness and complexity demands new and powerful techniques for investigating plasma physics. An outgrowth from his graduate course teaching, now with corrections, Tajima's text provides not only a lucid introduction to computational plasma physics, but also offers the reader many examples of the way numerical modeling, properly handled, can provide valuable physical understanding of the nonlinear aspects so often encountered in both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. Included here are computational methods for modern nonlinear physics as applied to hydrodynamic turbulence, solitons, fast reconnection of magnetic fields, anomalous transports, dynamics of the sun, and more. The text contains examples of problems now solved using computational techniques including those concerning finite-size particles, spectral techniques, implicit differencing, gyrokinetic approaches, and particle simulation.

Kit's Educational Publishing, "Complete Graded Spelling Lists for Years One to Six: British and World English"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1495263045 | PDF | pages: 171 | 10.6 mb
Complete Graded Spelling Lists for Years One to Six is the only spelling word book you will ever need. This book contains more than 6,500 words, presented in 300 weekly word lists, graded for difficulty from Year One to Year Six.