In Search of Providence: Transnational Mayan Identities By Patricia Foxen
2020 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 0826515800 | PDF | 2 MB
Traveling back and forth between the Guatemalan highlands and Providence, Rhode Island, the author followed the migration paths of a community of K'iche' Indians, often acting as a courier to bring news and photographs to families. As several said to the author, "Now you have lived with your own skin what we have gone through, only you can leave at any time."This ethnography juxtaposes the context of post-war reconstruction at home, shaped by a fragile institutional peace process and emerging pan-Maya movement, with the hidden, marginal lives of mostly undocumented K'iche' transmigrants in New England, and describes the continuous movement of people, money, symbols, and ideas between the two locations. Transnational migration creates tension between material success and K'iche' traditional suspicion of standing out and displaying that success. Showing off or losing touch with one's responsibilities at home can invite envidias (envy), chismes (malicious gossip), and even brujería (witchcraft).Some of the perpetrators of violence in Guatemala have re-created their positions of dominance in Providence. One K'iche' recounts, "He used a notebook, like the one you have, and each time I took even a glass of water he would write it down. He charged me $300 just for arriving, those $300 were like a tip for him. He told me he would not help me find work, and he would drink a lot and would say, 'You thought it would be easy here, you thought it is just picking up dollars here--well, you are screwed.'"For students, the book provides rich accounts of the difficulties of entering the field and maintaining trust among people in divided and changing communities.

Phil Chambers, "Improve Your Speed Reading Skills"
English | 2014 | pages: 205 | ISBN: 1292083379 | PDF | 3,9 mb

Hunter Hastings, Jeff Saperstein, "Improve Your Marketing to Grow Your Business: Insights and Innovation That Drive Business and Brand Growth"
English | 2007 | pages: 254 | ISBN: 0132161621, 0132331594 | PDF | 1,9 mb
"Marketing is part art and part science. The 'art era' was ok in the 20th century. If you need to consistently generate growth and increased profitability in this century, you better stick with the science. When cost cutting is not enough to improve the bottom line, it is time to focus again on the consumer. Improve Your Marketing to Grow Your Business shows how to go from consumer insights to relevant innovation and actionable marketing plans. Metrics to measure marketing effectiveness complete a must-read book."

Kay W. Sieg, "Illustrated Essentials of Musculoskeletal Anatomy"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0935157077 | PDF | pages: 196 | 321.1 mb

Identifying Threats and Threatening Identities: The Social Construction of Realism and Liberalism By David L. Rousseau
2006 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0804754152 | PDF | 16 MB
How does a state determine if another state is an important military or economic threat? The issue of threat perception drives a wide variety of behaviors, from allegiance formation and defense spending to trade relations and regime membership. While liberal theorists and realists both agree that threat perception is a cornerstone of international relations, there is widespread disagreement on the factors that contribute to our fear of other states. In particular, the field is deeply divided between those who believe material factors such as the balance of military power determine the perception of threat and those who believe ideational factors such as shared democratic value determine the perception of threat.Using a variety of social scientific methods of investigation ranging from laboratory experiments and public opinion surveys to computer simulations and case studies, Rousseau challenges these conventional arguments and sheds new light on this debate. He presents a model of identity formation that can explain when ideas will (and will not) have a decisive impact on threat perception.

Jeana Visel OSB, "Icons in the Western Church: Toward a More Sacramental Encounter"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0814646603 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 5.4 mb
Within the Eastern tradition of Christianity, the eikon, or religious image, has long held a place of honor. In the greater part of Western Christianity, however, discomfort with images in worship, both statues and panel icons, has been a relatively common current, particularly since the Reformation. In the Roman Catholic Church, after years of using religious statues, the Second Vatican Council's call for "noble simplicity" in many cases led to a stripping of images that in some ways helped refocus attention on the eucharistic celebration itself but also led to a starkness that has left many Roman Catholics unsure of how to interact with the saints or with religious images at all.

Joe Moshenska, "Iconoclasm As Child's Play"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0804798508 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 8.5 mb
When sacred objects were rejected during the Reformation, they were not always burned and broken but were sometimes given to children as toys. Play is typically seen as free and open, while iconoclasm, even to those who deem it necessary, is violent and disenchanting. What does it say about wider attitudes toward religious violence and children at play that these two seemingly different activities were sometimes one and the same? Drawing on a range of sixteenth-century artifacts, artworks, and texts, as well as on ancient and modern theories of iconoclasm and of play, Iconoclasm As Child's Play argues that the desire to shape and interpret the playing of children is an important cultural force. Formerly holy objects may have been handed over with an intent to debase them, but play has a tendency to create new meanings and stories that take on a life of their own. Joe Moshenska shows that this form of iconoclasm is not only a fascinating phenomenon in its own right; it has the potential to alter our understandings of the threshold between the religious and the secular, the forms and functions of play, and the nature of historical transformation and continuity.

IS THE U.S ECONOMY IN A RECESSION?: The Fed's Urgent Warning! Prepare For Economic Collapse, Tips On How To Prepare For a Recession, What to Do? by Gina Jacobs
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B86JGZCK | 62 pages | EPUB | 0.14 Mb
THE U.S ECONOMY SHRANK 0.9%, MARKING SECOND STRAIGHT CONTRACTION AND STOKING RECESSION WORRIES? KEEP READING!!!

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FUNDAMENTALS: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTER AGE by LEGACY TECH INFLUENCERS
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BKC65DWB | 80 pages | EPUB | 0.28 Mb
Information Technology (IT) is a generic term that covers the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of information. It involves the application of computers and communication technology in the task of information handling, information and information flow from the generation to the utilization levels. It is restricted to systems dependent on microelectronics based combination of computers and telecommunication technologies. The IT is the boon for mankind. It gives accessibility to information at fingertips. There has been discussion on Information highways and high tech libraries. The promising and diversified possibilities of IT have reduced the space and time between the people, countries, and continents and ultimately have led to the emerging concepts Global Society and Global Village. Hence it is essential to give a bird s eye view of IT and its changing trends in relation to library and information applications.

IELTS Introduction: Study Skills By Verity Cole
2012 | 96 Pages | ISBN: 0230425747 | PDF | 28 MB
IELTS Introduction is a brand new course designed specifically for low-level students wishing to take the IELTS exam.The 12 units aim to train students within an IELTS band of 3-4 in the skills required.Each unit contains a wide range of IELTS tasks, with exercises aimed at developing listening skills, speaking skills, reading skills as well as providing extensive writing practice; all of the material any beginner level student will need for IELTS success!The book adopts a guided, step-by-step approach to tasks so that lower-level students are gently introduced to what is needed in the IELTS exam. There are shorter reading passages and listening tasks with IELTS-type questions to familiarise students with what to expect in the exam.The Student's Book is also complemented with IELTS Introduction Study Skills which includes an audio CD and extra tests for additional exam practice. KEY FEATURES - Extra Audio CD for further listening practice - Full IELTS practice exam