Pulp Virilities and Post-War American Culture
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031090535 | 280 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This book interrogates the repertoire of masculine performance in popular crime fiction and cinema from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. This critical survey of the back alleys of pulp culture reveals American masculinities to be unsettled, contentious, crisis-ridden, racially fraught, and sexually anxious. Libertarian in their sensibilities, self-aggrandizing in their sentiments, resistant to the lures of upper mobility, scornful of white collar and corporate culture, the protagonists of these popular and populist works viewed themselves as working-class heroes cast adrift. Pulp Virilities explores the enduring traditions of hard-boiled and noir literature, casting a critical eye on its depictions of urban life and representations of gender, crime, labor, and race. Demonstrating how anxieties and possibilities of American masculinity are hammered out in works of popular culture, Pulp Virilities provides a rich cultural genealogy of contemporary American social life.
Digby Tantam, "Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice: A Narrative Framework"
English | ISBN: 0521479630 | 2002 | 334 pages | PDF | 1403 KB
This important and timely book gives a balanced synthesis, based on actual cases, evidence, practice, and experience, to describe the process of psychotherapy and identify the fundamental elements that lead to good outcome across all its schools. In the course of developing a consistently reliable, effective, practical psychotherapy, Digby Tantam pinpoints four essential principles to provide essential reading for psychiatrists or clinical psychologists looking for a straightforward framework for short-term psychotherapy and anyone working long-term with patients using a psychotherapy model.
Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice By Anne Caldwell (editor), Oz Hardwick (editor)
2022 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 1032058617 | PDF | 30 MB
Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice vigorously engages with the Why? and the How? of prose poetry, a form that is currently enjoying a surge in popularity. With contributions by both practitioners and academics, this volume seeks to explore how its distinctive properties guide both writer and reader, and to address why this form is so well suited to the early twenty-first century. With discussion of both classic and less well- known writers, the essays both illuminate prose poetry's distinctive features and explore how this outsider form can offer a unique way of viewing and describing the uncertainties and instabilities which shape our identities and our relationships with our surroundings in the early twenty-first century. Combining insights on the theory and practice of prose poetry, Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice offers a timely and valuable contribution to the development of the form, and its appreciation amongst practitioners and scholars alike. Largely approached from a practitioner perspective, this collection provides vivid snapshots of contemporary debates within the prose poetry field while actively contributing to the poetics and craft of the form.
John M. Owen, "Program Evaluation: Forms and Approaches Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 0367719088 | 2021 | 304 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Program Evaluation 3rd edition has the hallmarks of thoroughness, insight and fluency of other editions but brings us up to date with a map of the evaluation territory new travelers will find invaluable.'
Jack C. Richards, "Professional Development for Language Teachers: Strategies for Teacher Learning "
English | ISBN: 0521613833 | 2005 | 214 pages | PDF | 1306 KB
Professional Development for Language Teachers examines ten different techniques that can be used to facilitate professional development in language teaching. These effective teaching tools are: self-monitoring, support groups, journal writing, classroom observation, teaching portfolios, analysis of critical incidents, case analysis, peer coaching, team teaching, and action research. The book begins with a conceptual framework for professional development. All chapters contain practical examples in the form of vignettes written by teachers using the techniques, as well as reflection questions to help readers apply the approach in their own teaching context.
George Economou, Paul Blackburn, "Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1681370301 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 2.3 mb
It was out of medieval Provence-Proensa-that the ethos of courtly love emerged, and it was in the poetry of the Provençal troubadours that it found its perfect expression. Their poetry was also a central inspiration for Dante and his Italian contemporaries, propagators of the modern vernacular lyric, and seven centuries later it was no less important to the modernist Ezra Pound. These poems, a source to which poetry has returned again and again in search of renewal, are subtle, startling, earthy, erotic, and supremely musical.
Proceedings of 2021 5th Chinese Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control
by Zhang Ren, Mengyi Wang
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811939977 | 1902 Pages | True PDF | 150 MB
Probabilistic Machine Learning for Finance and Investing (Early Release)
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781492097662 | 82 pages | EPUB,MOBI | 4.05 MB
Whether based on academic theories or machine learning strategies, all financial models are at the mercy of modeling errors that can be mitigated but not eliminated. Probabilistic ML technologies are based on a simple and intuitive definition of probability and the rigorous calculus of probability theory.
Principle of Interest Politics: Logic of Political Life from China's Perspective
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811939624 | 978 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 8 MB
The book aims to build a political theory of interest politics by adopting an interest-analyzing approach of Marxism to explore the dual characteristics of social interests. Based on the logical start-point, the book unveils the foundations, nature, and characteristics of social-political life such as political power and political right. Then, a systematic research is conducted from perspectives of political behavior, political system, and political culture, following the two logical thread lines as political power and right. Finally, the book sees the analysis of social and political development in accordance with the inter-function of political power and political rights caused by the changes and development of social interests. It is a must-read book for readers interested in the political theory and political development in China.
Princeton Review AP Computer Science a Prep, 2023: 4 Practice Tests + Complete Content Review + Strategies & Techniques (College Test Preparation) by The Princeton Review
English | September 13th, 2022 | ISBN: 0593450736 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 6.81 MB
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SCORE A PERFECT 5. Ace the 2023 AP Computer Science A Exam with this comprehensive study guide, which includes 4full-length practice tests, thoroughcontent reviews, targeted strategies for every section of the exam, and access to online extras.