Multicampus University Systems: Africa and the Kenyan Experience By Ishmael I. Munene
2014 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0415825148 | PDF | 2 MB
In the face of increasing social demand and cutbacks in state budgetary support, universities in African countries are now turning towards a multicampus system strategy. As African governments have adopted neoliberal education policies that place premium on entrepreneurialism, profit making, privatization, and markets as drivers of university development, a reshaping of the academic work and organizational framework have taken place. However, little is known about the impact of this paradigm shift on access, quality and governance in higher education. This book fills the void in research and academic knowledge about the impact of the emerging university configurations in Africa. It analyzes the paradox surrounding the performance of multicampus university systems as avenues of broadening university access but whose structural success may be qualitatively contested.This book offers a refreshing examination of the African multicampus university system from both an African and global perspective. It makes use of empirical data from Kenya collected during extensive fieldwork along with substantive library and documentary resources on the rest of the continents to fortify arguments and demonstrate important conclusions. This allows for a comparative analysis of policies and strategies used in the establishment of campuses, both within and beyond national boundaries in the continent, and will be a welcome contribution to the existing repertoire on African universities.

Motherland: Soviet Nostalgia in the Russian Federation
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811939748 | 229 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
This book explores the extent to which and the reasons why Russia's citizens harbor feelings of nostalgia for the Soviet Union today. Based on the results of a nationwide survey and rigorous field research carried out within several of Russia's regions, Dr. Sullivan uncovers material and cultural rationales for this sentiment of nostalgia - which poses both an opportunity and a challenge to the Russian government. With Russian nationalism and revanchism a resurgent force in contemporary global affairs, this detailed study will interest scholars of international relations and of populist authoritarianism around the world.

Morton's Neuroma: Podiatrist Turned Patient: My Own Journey (Reflective Podiatric Practice) by David R Tollafield
English | January 30, 2018 | ISBN: 1981779280 | 150 pages | EPUB | 2.48 Mb
Nerve pain in the foot (Morton's neuroma) affects thousands of sufferers each year. It might seem unusual but Podiatrist David Tollafield explains the management of his own neuroma in a new book aimed at patients and professionals. Information leaflets while helpful fail to provide that personal touch- this is the difference between a pure factual and emotional context. One is single dimension, the other three dimensional. The key aim - avoid surgery, but where necessary the book provides a day by day, week by week guide over nine-months. The sections have a clear index and reference to common questions supported by diagrams, tables and colour pictures.'Very easy to understand...I would have found it helpful to have something like this as I was on Google and wanted as much as possible prior to surgery.' J.N PatientI doubt this level of information could be bettered...' Trevor Prior, former Dean and Consultant (Directorate of Podiatric Surgery).

Samantha Langsdale, Elizabeth Rae Coody, "Monstrous Women in Comics"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1496827635, 1496827627 | PDF | pages: 292 | 34.6 mb
Contributions by Novia Shih-Shan Chen, Elizabeth Rae Coody, Keri Crist-Wagner, Sara Durazo-DeMoss, Charlotte Johanne Fabricius, Ayanni C. Hanna, Christina M. Knopf, Tomoko Kuribayashi, Samantha Langsdale, Jeannie Ludlow, Marcela Murillo, Sho Ogawa, Pauline J. Reynolds, Stefanie Snider, J. Richard Stevens, Justin Wigard, Daniel F. Yezbick, and Jing Zhang

Monsters in Performance: Essays on the Aesthetics of Disqualification By Michael Chemers (editor), Analola Santana (editor)
2022 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 0367683903 | PDF | 22 MB
Monsters in Performance boasts an impressive range of contemporary essays that delve into topical themes such as race, gender, and disability, to explore what constitutes monstrosity within the performing arts. These fascinating essays from leading and emerging scholars explore representation in performance, specifically concerning themselves with attempts at social disqualification of undesirables. Throughout, the writers employ the concept of monstrosity to describe the cultural processes by which certain identities or bodies are configured to be threateningly deviant. The editors take a range of previously isolated critical inquiries - including bioethics, critical race studies, queer studies, and televisual studies - and merge them to create an accessible and dynamic platform which unifies these ranges of representations.The global scope and interdisciplinary nature of Monsters in Performance renders it an essential book for Theatre and Performance students of all levels as well as scholars; it will also be an enlightening text for those interested in monstrosity and Cultural Studies more broadly.

Modern Corporations and Strategies at Work
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811946477 | 238 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 12 MB
Strategies are integral to growth, expansion and sustainability of modern corporations. The agile strategies are central to overcome challenges of the turbulent times accelerated by risks, pandemics, wars, political instabilities and environmental disasters. This book on 'Modern Corporations and Strategies at Work' focuses on different strategies followed by corporations. This book makes critical reading of corporate strategies and evaluates them. This book offers insights into the way corporations develop and implement strategies to face different challenges. This book explores wider world of corporate strategies and their limitations.

Model-Based Safety and Assessment: 8th International Symposium, IMBSA 2022, Munich, Germany, September 5-7, 2022, Proceedings by Christel Seguin, Marc Zeller, Tatiana Prosvirnova
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 270 Pages | ISBN : 3031158415 | 72.3 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Model-Based Safety and Assessment, IMBSA 2022, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2022. The 15 revised full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 initial submissions. The papers focus on model-based and automated ways of assessing safety and other attributes of dependability of complex systems. They are organized in topical sections on safety analysis automation, MBSA practices, causal models and failure modeling strategies, designing mitigations of faults and attacks, data based safety analysis, dynamic risk assessment.

Christel Seguin, "Model-Based Safety and Assessment: 8th International Symposium, IMBSA 2022, Munich, Germany, September 5-7, 2022, Procee"
English | ISBN: 3031158415 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 30 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Model-Based Safety and Assessment, IMBSA 2022, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2022. The 15 revised full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 initial submissions. The papers focus on model-based and automated ways of assessing safety and other attributes of dependability of complex systems. They are organized in topical sections on safety analysis automation, MBSA practices, causal models and failure modeling strategies, designing mitigations of faults and attacks, data based safety analysis, dynamic risk assessment.

Mirages of the Armée de l'Air in the Chilean Air Force by Julio Arróspide
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B634NXJX | 100 pages | PDF | 61 Mb
Account of the history of the Mirage 50FC supersonic fighter jets of the Chilean Air Force, from its origin for the Israel Defense Forces as a 5J variant, its operation in the Armйe de l'Air as Mirage 5F, its modification to standard 50, its operation in the Chilean Air Force and its modification to Mirage Pantera, related by Julio Arrуspide Rivera, Alexandre Gannier and Raъl Zamora Martнnez. This monograph summarizes forty years of history of these magnificent fighter aircraft in 100 pages and was reviewed by prominent Chilean and French aeronautical researchers and pilots and mechanics who operated the Mirage material of the Aviation Group No. 4 of the Chilean Air Force. It includes aspects unknown to date, the origin and fate of these aircraft. The text is supported by more than 300 photographs provided by prominent Chilean and French photographers and 90 digital illustrations designed by Julio Arrуspide Rivera, which show the evolution of these magnificent supersonic deltas from their operation in the Armйe de l'Air to their last days in the Chilean Air Force. Within the 90 illustrations, the most representative paint schemes of the evolution of these Mirages are included, drawn in three views, with details and color codes for model makers and modelers enthusiastic about combat aircraft.

Mining the Landscape: The Archaeology of Mount Shamrock by Geraldine Mate
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 273 Pages | ISBN : 3031129059 | 33.9 MB
Mining was one of the primary elements of colonial enterprise in Australia and a factor in movement on colonial frontiers. In the second half of the 19th and early 20th century, mining-particularly of gold-saw transformations of the land itself, as well as in the way that people working in mining engaged with the landscape around them. Landscape archaeology provides a theoretical perspective that allows an articulation of how people created and understood the place in which they lived and worked.