Weather: An Act Of Man (Second Edition) By Michael Fleming
2014 | 88 Pages | ISBN: 1505683084 | EPUB | 2 MB
Clouds cannot form naturally on earth, according to physics (with the exception of a volcanic eruption).Weather is man-made.
Using Storytelling to Support Children and Adults with Special Needs : Transforming lives through telling tales By Nicola Grove
2015 | 146 Pages | ISBN: 113817002X | PDF | 2 MB
This innovative and wide-ranging book shows how storytelling can open new worlds for learners with or without special educational needs. With sections that outline both therapeutic and educational approaches, the leading practitioners who contribute to this practical resource draw on their extensive experience, and distil their own approaches for the reader to use as inspiration for their own lessons.Providing a highly accessible combination of theory and practice, the contributors to this book: define their own approach to storytelling describe the principles and theory that underpin their practice demonstrate how they work with different types of story provide extensive case-studies and assessment frameworks for a range of different special needs and age ranges provide some 'top tips' for practitioners who want to start using stories in this way.Using Storytelling to Support Children and Adults with Special Needs will be of interest to all education professionals as well as therapists, youth workers, counsellors, and storytellers and theatre practitioners working in special education.
Troubling Method: Narrative Research as Being By Petra Munro Hendry; Roland Mitchell; Paul William Eaton
2018 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 1433155400 | PDF | 3 MB
Troubling Methodseeks to extract narrative inquiry from method. The shift to a post-humanist, post-qualitative moment is not just another stage in modernism that seeks to "improve" knowledge production, but is a shift to understanding research as an ontology, a way of being in the world, rather than a mode of production. Fundamental assumptions of research: method, data, analysis, and findings are deconstructed and reconfigured as a mode of relational intra-action.Troubling Method is constructed as a dialogue between the three authors, focusing on their work as qualitative, narrative researchers. The authors revisit six previously published works in which they grapple with the contradictions and ironies of engaging in pragmatist, critical, and feminist qualitative research. After a lengthy introduction which problematizes "method," the book is divided into three sections, each with two chapters that are bracketed by an introduction to the issues discussed in the chapters and then a "dialogue interlude" in which the authors deliberate what makes possible the questions they are raising about method and narrative research. The three sections attend to the central premises of "narrative research as being": 1) relationships, 2) listening, and 3) unknowing.Troubling Method is ideal for introductory or advanced courses in qualitative research, narrative inquiry, educational research, and those aimed at employing critical theories in qualitative and narrative inquiry.
Think Like a UX Researcher: How to Observe Users, Influence Design, and Shape Business Strategy By David Travis; Philip Hodgson
2019 | 294 Pages | ISBN: 1138365297 | PDF | 15 MB
Think Like a UX Researcherwill challenge your preconceptions about user experience (UX) research and encourage you to think beyond the obvious. You'll discover how to plan and conduct UX research, analyze data, persuade teams to take action on the results and build a career in UX. The book will help you take a more strategic view of product design so you can focus on optimizing the user's experience. UX Researchers, Designers, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts and Marketing Managers will find tools, inspiration and ideas to rejuvenate their thinking, inspire their team and improve their craft.Key FeaturesA dive-in-anywhere book that offers practical advice and topical examples. Thought triggers, exercises and scenarios to test your knowledge of UX research. Workshop ideas to build a development team's UX maturity. War stories from seasoned researchers to show you how UX research methods can be tailored to your own organization.
The Things We've Seen by Agustín Fernández Mallo, translated by Thomas Bunstead
English | March 24, 2021 | ISBN: 1913097307 | EPUB | 600 pages | 1.6 MB
The Things We've Seen, a novel in three parts, is Agustin Fernandez Mallo's most ambitious and accomplished novel to date.
The Subject and the Text: Essays on Literary Theory and Philosophy By Manfred Frank
1998 | 245 Pages | ISBN: 0521561213 | PDF | 15 MB
In this collection of essays, the German philosopher Manfred Frank challenges many of the fundamental assumptions of contemporary theory. The emphasis on language, he claims, ignores key arguments inherited from Romantic hermeneutics, those which demonstrate that interpretation is an individual activity never finally governed by rules. Andrew Bowie's introduction situates Frank's work in the context of contemporary debates in philosophy and literary theory.
The Simple Math of Writing Well: Writing for the 21st Century by Jennie Harrop
English | PDF | 2018 | 248 Pages | ISBN : 0999829203 | 14.5 MB
Writing guides abound, but The Simple Math of Writing Well is one of a kind. Readers will find its practical approach affirming, encouraging, and informative, and its focus on the basics of linguistic structure releases 21st-century writers to embrace the variety of mediums that define our internet-connected world. As Harrop reminds us in the opening chapters of her book, we write more today than ever before in history: texts, emails, letters, blogs, reports, social media posts, proposals, etc. The Simple Math of Writing Well is the first guide that directly addresses the importance of writing well in the Google age.
The Shambhala guide to yoga By Georg Feuerstein
1996 | 180 Pages | ISBN: 157062142X | PDF | 25 MB
This overview of the essentials of Yoga-understood not merely as a system of exercises but as a full-fledged spiritual tradition-is meant to both broaden and deepen the understanding of beginning students. It covers all the basic elements of this ancient discipline and philosophy of India and includes newly translated excerpts from the scriptures. Special attention is given to branches of Yoga, such as Tantra, that are of great interest to Western students but frequently misunderstood. The topics covered include: * The principal branches of Yoga * Moral principles * Meditation and concentration * Control of the breath * The physical exercises of Hatha Yoga * Diet * Mantras: sacred sounds of power * The powerful psychospiritual energy known as Kundalini * The transmutation of sexual energy * The teacher-student relationship * Suggestions for further reading and other resources
The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt By Brian M. Fagan
2004 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0813340616 | EPUB | 6 MB
The scandalous rape of Ancient Egypt is a historical vignette of greed, vanity, and dedicated archaeological research. It is a tale vividly told by renowned archaeology author, Brian Fagan, with characters that include the ancient historian Herodotus; Theban tomb robbers; obelisk-stealing Romans; Coptic Christians determined to erase the heretical past; mummy traders; leisured antiquarians; major European museums; Giovanni Belzoni, a circus strongman who removed more antiquities than Napoleon's armies; shrewd consuls and ruthless pashas; and archaeologists such Sir Flinders Petrie who changed the course of Egyptology.This is the first thoroughly revised edition ofThe Rape of the Nile- Fagan's classic account of the cavalcade of archaeologists, thieves, and sightseers who have flocked to the Nile Valley since ancient times. Featured in this edition are new accounts of stunning recent discoveries, including the Royal Tombs of Tanis, the Valley of Golden Mummies at Bahariya, the Tomb of the Sons of Ramses, and the sunken city of Alexandria (whose lighthouse was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World). Fagan concludes with a clear-eyed assessment of the impact of modern mass tourism on archaeological sites and artifacts.
The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl: A Historical Development By J. N. Mohanty
2008 | 452 Pages | ISBN: 0300124589 | PDF | 27 MB
This deeply insightful book traces the development of Husserl's thought from his earliest investigations in philosophy―informed by his work as a mathematician―to his publication of Ideas in 1913. Jitendra N. Mohanty, an internationally renowned Husserl scholar, presents a masterful study that illuminates Husserl's central concerns and provides a definitive assessment of the first phases of the philosopher's career.