Work of Hospitals: Global Medicine in Local Culture by William C. Olsen
English | ISBN: 1978823037, 1978823045 | 242 pages | EPUB | data | 7 Mb
In the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western Europe (France, Greece), and the United States illustrate how hospitals play a significant role in the social production of health and disease in the communities where they are. Many low-resource countries have experienced increasing privatization and dysfunction of public sector institutions such as hospitals, and growing withdrawal of funding for non-profit organizations. Underlying the chapters in The Work of Hospitals is a fundamental question: how do hospitals function lacking the medications, equipment and technologies, and personnel normally assumed to be necessary? This collection of ethnographies demonstrates how hospital administrators, clinicians, and other staff in hospitals around the world confront innumerable risks in their commitment to deliver health care, including civil unrest, widespread poverty, endemic and epidemic disease, and supply chain instability. Ultimately, The Work of Hospitals documents a vast gulf between the idealized mission of the hospital and the implementation of this mission in everyday practice. Hospitals thus become "contested space" between policy and practice.
Goli M. Rezai-Rashti, "Women, Islam and Education in Iran "
English | ISBN: 113823673X | 2019 | 176 pages | PDF | 868 KB
Drawing on the complexities and nuances in women's education in relation to the aftermath of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, this edited collection examines implications of religious-based policies on gender relations as well as the unanticipated outcomes of increasing participation of women in education. With a focus on the impact of the Islamic Republic's Islamicization endeavor on Iranian society, specifically gender relations and education, this volume offers insight into the paradox of increasing educational opportunities despite discriminatory laws and restrictions that have been imposed on women.
Women's Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound by Felicity Wilcox
English | August 27, 2021 | ISBN: 0367210258, 0367210266 | 228 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Women's Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound shines a long-overdue light on the works and lives of female-identifying screen composers. Bringing together composer profiles, exclusive interview excerpts, and industry case studies, this volume showcases their achievements and reflects on the systemic gender biases women have faced in an industry that has long excluded them. Across 16 essays, an international array of contributors present a wealth of research data, biographical content, and musical analysis of film, television, and video game scores to understand how the industry excludes women, the consequences of these deficits, and why such inequities persist - and to document women's rich contributions to screen music in diverse styles and genres.
Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets: Managing Performance within Ecosystems
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030897699 | 165 Pages | PDF | 3.21 MB
This book focuses on social perspectives of women's entrepreneurship, in the context of work-life balance and crowd-based business modelling, and economic perspectives associated with quality-of-life expectations. It focuses on the convergence of business perspectives and the social values and lifestyle of women entrepreneurs. The attributes of women entrepreneurship in developing economies have been discussed with focus on new entrepreneurial trends, changing organizational design and workplace environment, frugal innovation and technology, and shifts in market behavior.
With Drama in Mind: Real learning in imagined worlds By Patrice Baldwin
2004 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 1855390949 | PDF | 19 MB
Discover Your Hidden Talents will show you how to: Use drama to support multisensory learning accross a wide range of subjects, Toolkit of multipurpose drama strategies to encourage learning, Masses of photocopiable resource sheets and templates, Includes 5 drama units of work with VAK thinking frames - instantly useable and ideal as templates for future planning. This book is excellent for anyone looking to set up drama in school, breathe new life into their drama teaching, or introduce more creativity into any area of the curriculum. Chair of National Drama, Patrice Baldwin, demonstrates how teachers can use drama as a powerful tool to develop flexible thinking and learning through creative, imagined experience - and kick start the latest government initiatives.
When Clothes Become Fashion: Design and Innovation Systems By Ingrid Loschek
2009 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1847883672 | PDF | 2 MB
When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on an intricate network of manufacture, marketing and retail. Fashion is both medium and message but it does not explain itself. It requires language and images for its global mediation. It develops from the prescience of the designer and is dependent on acceptance by observers and wearers alike. When Clothes Become Fashion explores the structures and strategies which underlie fashion innovation, how fashion is perceived and the point at which clothing is accepted or rejected as fashion. The book provides a clear theoretical framework for understanding the world of fashion -- its aesthetic premises, plurality of styles, performative impulses, social qualities and economic conditions.
Michael Long, "We the Resistance: Documenting a History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States"
English | ISBN: 0872867560 | 2019 | 610 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
"A highly relevant, inclusive collection of voices from the roots of resistance. . . . Empowering words to challenge, confront, and defy."-Kirkus Reviews
Washington's History, Revised Edition: The People, Land, and Events of the Far Northwest (Westwinds Press Pocket Guide) by WestWinds Press
English | October 23, 2018 | ISBN: 1513261770 | 164 pages | PDF | 9.78 Mb
Now with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author.
War Economies and International Law: Regulating the Economic Activities of Violent Conflict
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1108483704 | 329 Pages | PDF | 2.4 MB
Economic activity continues during war. But what rules apply when US troops occupy Syrian oil fields? Who is responsible when multinational companies use minerals extracted by child labourers in war zones? This book examines how international law regulates the war economies that are at the heart of strategic competition between great powers and help sustain the irregular warfare in today's war zones. Drawing on advances in our understanding of the social and economic dynamics in war zones, this book identifies predation, a combination of violence and economic opportunity, as the core pathology of war economies. The author presents a framework for understanding the regulation of war economies based on the history of international law and existing norms of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international human rights law and the law of international peace and security. War Economies and International Law concludes that the pathologies of predation in war demand answers based on an international regulatory strategy.
Xiaofei Tian, "Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China"
English | 2012 | pages: 396 | ISBN: 0674062523 | PDF | 20,1 mb
This book explores the parallel and yet profoundly different ways of seeing the outside world and engaging with the foreign at two important moments of dislocation in Chinese history, namely, the early medieval period commonly known as the Northern and Southern Dynasties (317-589 CE), and the nineteenth century. Xiaofei Tian juxtaposes literary, historical, and religious materials from these two periods in comparative study, bringing them together in their unprecedentedly large-scale interactions, and their intense fascination, with foreign cultures.