Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice By Michael Oliver
2009 | 201 Pages | ISBN: 0230220282 | PDF | 2 MB
In this absorbing text by a leading writer and respected activist, theory, policy, historical background and personal experience are combined to give readers a rich and illuminating picture of the key issues raised by disability.In the author's uniquely clear and lively narrative style, the book explores:- The practical and political challenges that disablement presents- Theoretical understandings of disability- Disability law and the realities of policy implementation- Key points of contention for the disability movementThis long-awaited new edition of a best-selling text includes new stories from the author's experience, as well as sharply framed debate about the development of policy over the last decade and a half. Its expansive coverage includes discussion of welfare, rehabilitation, special education and normalization.This book is core reading for students of social work, nursing, health and applied social science taking modules in disability studies. Michael Oliver was the first Professor of Disability Studies in the United Kingdom and is Emeritus Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Greenwich, UK. He is the author of the path-breaking The Politics of Disablement and Social Work with Disabled People (in its third edition, co-authored with Bob Sapey).
Transdisciplinarity
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030946509 | 1200 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 176 MB
This contributed volume book aims at discussing transdisciplinary approaches to address common problems. By working transdisciplinarily, researchers coming from different disciplines can work jointly using a shared conceptual framework bringing together disciplinary-specific theories and concepts. There are numerous barriers that can obstruct effective communication between different cultures, communities, religions and geographies. This book shows that through bringing together different disciplines, researchers not only can surpass these barriers but can effectively produce new venues of thought that can positively affect the development and evolution of research and education. The book discusses new and emerging applications of knowledge produced by transdisciplinary efforts and covers the interplay of many disciplines, including agriculture, economics, mathematics, engineering, industry, information technology, marketing, nanoscience, neuroscience, space exploration, human-animal relationships, among others. Consequently, it also covers the relationship between art and science, as one of the most remarkable transdisciplinary approaches that paves the way for new methods in engineering, design, architecture and many other fields.
Heung-Wah Wong, "Tradition and Transformation in a Chinese Family Business "
English | ISBN: 1138914843 | 2019 | 248 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Family businesses have been an important part of the economy in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and in the Chinese diaspora, and, since the reforms, in mainland China itself. Some people have argued that the success of Chinese family businesses occurs because of the special characteristics and approach of such businesses. This book examines the nature of Chinese family business and the key issues involved by exploring in detail the case of a leading Hong Kong jewellery company which was established in the early 1960s and which has grown to become one of the biggest jewellery manufacturers, exporters, and retailers in post-war Hong Kong. The book considers the motivations of Chinese people to set up their own businesses, outlining the strategies adopted, including the strategies for raising capital, and the qualities of successful Chinese entrepreneurs. It discusses the management of the company, including relations between family members, profit sharing and succession planning, and assesses how conflict and crises are coped with and overcome. It charts the evolution of the company, looking at how it has been transformed into a listed corporation. The book concludes by arguing for the importance of studying Chinese family businesses culturally.
Daniel McNeil, "Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation"
English | ISBN: 1771136073 | 2022 | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This uniquely interdisciplinary study of Black cultural critics Armond White and Paul Gilroy spans continents and decades of rebellion and revolution.
The Writer's Journey: In the Footsteps of the Literary Greats (Journeys of Note) by Travis Elborough
English | October 18th, 2022 | ISBN: 071126872X | 224 pages | True EPUB | 18.90 MB
Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works in this beautiful illustrated atlas.
The Voyage of Verrazzano: A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America By Henry C. Murphy
2019 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 1330872223 | PDF | 15 MB
Excerpt from The Voyage of Verrazzano: A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in AmericaThe following pages, intended to show the claim of discovery in America by Verrazzano to he without any real foundation, belong to a work, in hand, upon the earliest explorations of the coast which have led to the settlement of the United States by Europeans. They are now printed separately, with some additions and necessary changes, in consequence of the recent production of the map of Hieronimo de Verrazano, which professes to represent this discovery, and is therefore supposed to afford some proof of its authenticity; in which view it has been the subject of a learned and elaborate memoir by J. Carson Brevoort Esq.Certain important documents in relation to Verrazzano, procured from the archives of Spain and Portugal by the late Buckingham Smith, on a visit to those countries a year or two before his death, are appended. They were intended to accompany a second edition of his Inquiry, a purpose which has been interrupted by his decease. They were entrusted by him to the care of his friend, George H. Moore Esq., of New York, who has placed them at our disposal on the present occasion.The fragmentary and distorted form in which the letter aserihed to Verrazzano, appeared in the collection of Ramusio, and was thence universally admitted into history, rendered it, necessary that the letter should be here given complete, according to its original meaning. It is, therefore, annexed in the English translation of Dr. Cogswell, which though not entirely unexceptionable is, for all purposes, sufficiently accurate.
The Ultimate People Skills Handbook: Learn More About People Than You Do Your Products, and You Will Be Unusually Successful by Christina Richardson
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BFZF5LXW | 125 pages | EPUB | 2.09 Mb
Is It Really Possible to Increase Profits & Productivity...While Having More Fun on the Job and Without Sacrificing Your Personal Life?
Meg Muckenhoupt, "The Truth about Baked Beans: An Edible History of New England "
English | ISBN: 1479882763 | 2020 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Forages through New England's most famous foods for the truth behind the region's culinary myths
Magdalen King-Hall, "The Story of the Nursery "
English | ISBN: 1032367636 | 2022 | 306 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Originally published in 1958, this reconstruction of the lives of young children of nursery age is an excursion into the past, from the Middle Ages to the opening years of the twentieth century. It tells of the methods, often extraordinary to our ideas, by which they were brought up from babyhood to about seven years old, their clothes, diet, the fearsome remedies that were inflicted on them in illness, their toys, games, books and first steps in education. It shows how the pristine simplicity of the child's nature, which hardly alters throughout the centuries, was moulded by the pressure of the adult society around them into some semblance of the accepted contemporary type.
Jennifer Reich, "The State of Families"
English | ISBN: 0367027763 | 2020 | 446 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The State of Families: Law, Policy, and the Meanings of Relationships collects essential readings on the family to examine the multiple forms of contemporary families, the many issues facing families, the policies that regulate families, and how families―and family life―have become politicized.