Ancient Near East: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East, Including Regions Such as Mesopotamia, Ancient Iran, Egypt, Anatolia, and the Levant by Captivating History
English | October 31, 2020 | ISBN: 1647489768 | 134 pages | EPUB | 0.92 Mb
If you want to discover the captivating history of the ancient Near East, then keep reading...

American History in 50 Events: (Battle of Yorktown, Spanish American War, Roaring Twenties, Railroad History, George Washington, Gilded Age) by Henry Freeman
English | December 31, 2015 | ISBN: 1522985085 | 56 pages | PDF | 0.47 Mb
[i]Have you ever wondered why America is the way it is?

Along the Borderlines: A Memoir by Caroline Kraus
2020 | ISBN: 1734957905 | English | 338 pages | EPUB | 0.9 MB
In this poignant exploration of friendship, love and independence, Caroline Kraus revisits a transformative period during her early twenties. Alternating between St. Louis and San Francisco, past and present, we meet Caroline at the precipice of adulthood, struggling to overcome the loss of her mother to cancer. As a consuming new friendship takes hold of her heart, Kraus navigates her first job, a house full of roommates, and her own rapid unraveling. Told with wry humor and insight, the author's journey offers a portal into universal territories of heart and mind, across the fissures and fault lines of attachment, grief and self-discovery.

Gerry O'Reilly, "Aligning Geopolitics, Humanitarian Action and Geography in Times of Conflict"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030113973 | PDF | pages: 269 | 4.2 mb
This textbook offers valuable insights into the nexus between geography, geopolitics, and humanitarian action. It elucidates concepts regarding conflict and power, as well as the role of the state and the international community in mitigating and preventing violence and war. Here the material and non-material, existential or imagined reasons for conflict are deconstructed, ranging from land and resource grabs to Utopian ideals that can degenerate into dystopias, as with Daesh's caliphate in Syria and Iraq. In turn, the issues discussed range from the local to wider national and global levels, as do their resolution mechanisms. Due to insecurities, the impacts of globalization, divisive nationalistic and isolationist reactions emerging in some democracies including the USA, the UK's Brexit stress, and the ominous rise of populist parties across continental Europe (from France and the Netherlands to the Visegrád Group, the Balkans, and Greece), citizen fatigue has become increasingly evident, reflected in ever-growing socio-political malaise and violence.

Alejandro Lerroux and the Failure of Spanish Republican Democracy: A Political Biography (1864-1949) (Sussex Studies in Spanish History) by Roberto Villa Garcia
2020 | ISBN: 1789760488, 1789760534 | English | 264 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Alejandro Lerroux (1864-1949) was one of the most polemical figures of early twentieth century Spanish politics. As leader of the Radical Republican Party and six-time prime minister between 1933 and 1935, his admirers saw him as a patriot determined to create a Republic for all citizens, while his critics denounced him as an opportunistic demagogue willing to sacrifice the Republic to its enemies. This book is the first scholarly biography in any language of this titan of modern Spanish politics. Utilising neglected primary material, Villa Garcia argues that Lerroux embodies the transition from the elitist liberal politics of the nineteenth century to the modern mass politics of the twentieth. Like the Second Republic itself, Lerroux's political career ended in failure. The work is a timely reminder to students of modern Spain that the demise of Republican democracy was not inevitable. Nevertheless, after the abrupt end to Lerroux's effort to sustain a broadly based moderate and democratic government, Spain would never again achieve stable and constitutional rule until 1977. The political defeat of Lerroux was a major turning point in the country's history, a fateful step in the failure of democracy and the coming of civil war.

Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Science by Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Richard Samuels
2019 | ISBN: 1350068861 | English | 264 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This volume gathers together leading philosophers of science and cognitive scientists from around the world to provide one of the first book-length studies of this important and emerging field. Specific topics considered include learning and the nature of scientific knowledge, the cognitive consequences of exposure to explanations, climate change, and mechanistic reasoning and abstraction. Chapters explore how experimental methods can be applied to questions about the nature of science and show how to fruitfully theorize about the nature and role of science with well-grounded empirical research.

Stacey N. J. Blackman, Dennis A. Conrad, Launcelot I. Brown, "Achieving Inclusive Education in the Caribbean and Beyond: From Philosophy to Praxis"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030157687 | PDF | pages: 297 | 4.2 mb
This book offers an international perspective of philosophical, conceptual and praxis-oriented issues that impinge on achieving education for all students. It sheds light on the historical, systemic, structural, organizational, and attitudinal barriers that continue to be antithetical to the philosophy and practice of inclusive education within the Caribbean. The first section of the book examines how globalized views of inclusion informed by philosophical ideas from the North have influenced and continue to influence the equity in education agenda in the region. The second section considers how exclusion and marginalization still occur across selected Caribbean islands. It provides both quantitative and qualitative data about the nature and experience of exclusion in selected Caribbean islands, the UK and USA. The third section tackles the practical realities of transforming education systems in the Caribbean for inclusion. In particular, it identifies teacher practices as the main site of interrogation that needs to be tackled if inclusion is to be successful. The fourth and final section examines the contribution of principals and exemplars to the development and advocacy for inclusive education. It discusses how educational leadership is understood, as well as the role of school principals in making inclusion a reality in schools, the challenges experienced and the qualities of education leaders.

Absolute C++, Global Edition 6th Edition
by Walter Savitch
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1292098597 | 1004 Pages | PDF True | 7 MB

Aberrant Nuptials: Deleuze and Artistic Research 2 by Paulo de Assis, Paolo Giudici
2019 | ISBN: 9462702020, 9461663056 | English | 488 pages | PDF | 56 MB
Aberrant Nuptials explores the diversity and richness of the interactions between artistic research and Deleuze studies. "Aberrant nuptials" is the expression Gilles Deleuze uses to refer to productive encounters between systems characterised by fundamental difference. More than imitation, representation, or reproduction, these encounters foster creative flows of energy, generating new material configurations and intensive experiences. Within different understandings of artistic research, the contributors to this book―architects, composers, film-makers, painters, performers, philosophers, sculptors, and writers―map current practices at the intersection between music, art, and philosophy, contributing to an expansion of horizons and methodologies. Written by musicians and artists who have been reflecting Deleuzian and Post-Deleuzian discourses in their artworks, and by established Deleuze scholars who have been working on interferences between art and philosophy, this volume reflects the current relevance of artistic research and Deleuze studies for the arts.

A Small Door Set in Concrete: One Woman's Story of Challenging Borders in Israel/Palestine by Ilana Hammerman
2019 | ISBN: 022666631X | English | 327 pages | PDF | 1 MB
"I was taught from the start not to be silent."