Edward Paice, "Youthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the World"
English | ISBN: 1800241607 | 2022 | 352 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
A riveting study of Africa's demographics - its youth and growth - and what they mean for the continent, today and into the future.

Kenneth M. Keisel, "Wright Field"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1467116297, 1531697542 | ASIN: B01EGWAZJI | EPUB | pages: 128 | 16.2 mb
Wright Field features scores of photographs that show the airfield from its founding in 1927 through World War II, the Cold War, and beyond.

Lynne Agress, "Working With Words In Business And Legal Writing"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0738205621, 1541672585 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 1.3 mb
Written to help the business person gain a grammatical advantage on his or her competition, Working with Words in Business and Legal Writing is a quick and complete guide to writing clear and concise e-mails, letters, and reports. By using real-world before-and-after examples from her workshop, Dr. Lynne Agress examines and explains the most common grammatical pitfalls in business writing and helps the reader focus on avoiding confusing and incorrect language.

Amrita Basu, "Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism "
English | ISBN: 1009123149 | 2022 | 250 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book reflects the changing modalities of Hindu nationalist organizing among women and youth. It provides unique insights into how this immensely powerful political formation has been able to preside over a massive network of grassroots organisations among most segments of Indian society and capture national power. Chapters explore the techniques the RSS, VHP and BJP employ and the messages they convey about masculinity, femininity, and LGBTQ communities, and analyze contrasting forms of women's activism in defending and opposing Hindu nationalism. This book contributes to the global literature on the gender dimensions of rightwing politics. By exploring why women advance the agenda of the Hindu Right despite its conservative views on gender and sexuality, the book makes an important intervention in feminist and women's studies scholarship.

Rebecca Cypess, "Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment"
English | ISBN: 0226817911 | 2022 | 368 pages | PDF | 9 MB
A study of musical salons in Europe and North America between 1760 and 1800 and the salon hostesses who shaped their musical worlds.

Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, 1549-1650 By Haruko Nawata Ward
2009 | 422 Pages | ISBN: 0754664783 | PDF | 15 MB
Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages, this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christianity in Japan, which up to now has paid little or no attention to the experience of women. Focusing on the century between the introduction of Christianity in Japan by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in 1549 and the Japanese government's commitment to the eradication of Christianity in the mid-seventeenth century, this book outlines how women provided crucial leadership in the spread, nurture, and maintenance of the faith through various apostolic ministries. The author's research on the religious backgrounds of women from different schools of late medieval Japanese Shinto-Buddhism sheds light on individual women's choices to embrace or reject the Reformed Catholicism of the Jesuits, and explores the continuity and discontinuity of their religious expressions. The book is divided into four sections devoted to an in-depth study of different types of apostolates: nuns (women who took up monastic vocations), witches (the women leaders of the Shinto-Buddhist tradition who resisted Jesuit teachings), catechists (women who engaged in ministries of persuasion and conversion), and sisters (women devoted to missions of mercy). Analyzing primary sources including Jesuit histories, letters and reports, especially Lu-s Fr3is' Hist3ria de Japão, hagiography and family chronicles, each section provides a broad understanding of how these women, in the context of misogynistic society and theology, utilized resources from their traditional religions to new Christian adaptations and specific religio-social issues, creating unique hybrids of Catholicism and Buddhism. The inclusion of Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese texts, many available for the first time in English, and the dramatic conclusion that women were largely responsible for the trajectory of Christianity in early modern Japan, makes this book an essential reading for scholars of women's history, religious history, history of Christianity, and Asian history.

William Henry Harrison: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of US Presidents) by Hourly History
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B56ZGNVW | 50 pages | EPUB | 0.22 Mb
Discover the remarkable life of William Henry Harrison...

Wildland Fire Smoke in the United States: A Scientific Assessment
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030870448 | 343 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 52 MB
This open access book synthesizes current information on wildland fire smoke in the United States, providing a scientific foundation for addressing the production of smoke from wildland fires. This will be increasingly critical as smoke exposure and degraded air quality are expected to increase in extent and severity in a warmer climate. Accurate smoke information is a foundation for helping individuals and communities to effectively mitigate potential smoke impacts from wildfires and prescribed fires. The book documents our current understanding of smoke science for (1) primary physical, chemical, and biological issues related to wildfire and prescribed fire, (2) key social issues, including human health and economic impacts, and (3) current and anticipated management and regulatory issues. Each chapter provides a summary of priorities for future research that provide a roadmap for developing scientific information that can improve smoke and fire management over the next decade.

Ainsley Arment, "Wild and Free Nature: 25 Outdoor Adventures for Kids to Explore, Discover, and Awaken Their Curiosity"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0062916572 | ASIN: B089GWTG9M | EPUB | pages: 144 | 12.5 mb
The companion to The Call of the Wild + Free:styled in the lush aesthetic of the Wild + Free brand, a four-color book offering outdoor activities andessays,that parents, educators, and caregivers can use to inspire their children.

Why Study Literature? By Rikke Kragelund (editor), Henrik Skov Nielsen (editor)
2011 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 8779345514 | PDF | 3 MB
This book presents new ways of thinking about the historical, epistemological and institutional role of literature, and aims at providing a theoretically well-founded basis for what might otherwise be considered a relatively unfounded historical fact, i.e. that both literature and the teaching of literature hold a privileged position in many educational institutions. The contributors take their point of departure in the title of the volume and use narratological, historical, cognitive, rhetorical, postcolonial and political frameworks to pursue two separate but not necessarily related questions: Why literature? and, Why study? This collection brings together theoretical studies and critical analyses on literature as a medium among, and compared to, other media and includes essays on the physical and mental geography of literature, focussing on the consequences and values of its reading and studying.