Social Justice in Dance/Movement Therapy: Practice, Research and Education
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031194500 | 188 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
This book demonstrates the use of dance/movement therapy to directly counteract social injustices and promote healing in international settings. It also demonstrates the potential for dance/movement therapy in prevention and wellness in clinical and community settings. The use of improvisational and creative dance is presented throughout the book as a tremendously clear, strong and powerful inroad to healing in every setting. The chapters in this book do not directly address social justice in dance/movement therapy, but rather provide provoking social justice related positions. This call for a provoking re-examination of the definition of dance/movement therapy is fitting as we―as a community―challenge our identity as dance/movement therapists, educators, supervisors and as human beings who have internalized oppression in various forms through our many identifiers and the unique intersections of those identifiers. The editors and authors posit that social justice cannot be fully addressed by focusing solely on the social issues. Rather, we must be aware of where and how the social issues come into the individual(s), the setting, and the therapy process itself.

Simplified Basic and Higher Algebra with Statistics and Probability: A Self-Teaching Book for High Schools and Colleges by Kingsley Augustine
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09FMSSDDB | 471 pages | PDF | 4.12 Mb
If you have bought any of my books on Simplified Algebra (Volume 1 to 4), then this book might not be for you because this book is an edited version with some corrections and inclusion of solutions to the exercises. However, if you have not bought any of my books on Simplified Algebra (Volume 1 to 4), then you will find this book very useful for learning the basics and more advanced problems on Algebra including basic problems on statistics and probability.

Simplified Basic and Higher Algebra: A Self-Teaching Book for High Schools and Colleges by Kingsley Augustine
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09FMWSSTW | 344 pages | PDF | 3.10 Mb
If you have bought any of my books on Simplified Algebra (Volume 1 to 4), then this book might not be for you because this book is an edited version with some corrections and inclusion of solutions to the exercises. However, if you have not bought any of my books on Simplified Algebra (Volume 1 to 4), then you will find this book very useful for learning the basics and more advanced problems on Algebra.

Edgar Garcia, "Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu"
English | ISBN: 022665902X | 2020 | 288 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar Garcia makes clear in Signs of the Americas. Rather than being dead languages, these sign-systems have always been living, evolving signifiers, responsive to their circumstances and able to continuously redefine themselves and the nature of the world.

Md. Rashed Chowdhury, "Seasonal Flood Forecasts and Warning Response Opportunities: ENSO Applications in Bangladesh "
English | ISBN: 3031178238 | 2022 | 231 pages | PDF | 14 MB
This book explores the feasibility of using El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-based forecasts and early warning systems to prevent losses from floods and droughts in Bangladesh. Despite advances in short-range flood forecasting and information dissemination systems in Bangladesh, the present system is less than satisfactory. This is due to short lead-time products, outdated dissemination networks, and lack of direct feedback from the end-user. One viable solution is to produce long-lead seasonal forecasts―the demand for which is significantly increasing in Bangladesh― and disseminate these products through appropriate channels. As observed in other regions, the success of seasonal forecasts, in contrast to short-term forecasts, depends on consensus among the participating institutions. Therefore, the primary objective of the book is to revisit and modify the framework of an ideal warning response system for issuance of consensus seasonal flood forecasts in Bangladesh. The book discusses issues related to the 5-stage Flood Forecasts, Warning, and Response System (FFWRS) and emphasizes the role of the seasonal 'Climate Outlook Forum (COF)' in Bangladesh. The book also identifies ways to improve forecasting and early warning systems by utilizing ENSO-based climate data and models, and discusses a comprehensive and participatory approach to seasonal flood hazard management in Bangladesh.

Mike Papadakis, "Search-Based Software Engineering: 14th International Symposium, SSBSE 2022, Singapore, November 17-18, 2022, Proceeding"
English | ISBN: 3031212509 | 2022 | 140 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2022, which was held in Singapore, in November 2022.

Say It Right in Italian by EPLS
English | March 7, 2018 | ISBN: 126011628X | 192 pages | EPUB | 22 Mb
Speak a new language with confidence with this accessible guide to correct pronunciation!

David H. Brown, "Santería Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion "
English | ISBN: 0367321750 | 2021 | 454 pages | EPUB, PDF | 23 MB + 66 MB
Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institutions, rituals, and iconography. Originally published in 2003 Santería Enthroned combines art, history, cultural anthropology, and ethnohistory to show how Africans and their descendants have developed novel forms of religious practice in the face of relentless oppression. Focusing on the royal throne as a potent metaphor in Santería belief and practice it shows how negotiations among ideologically competing interests have shaped the religion's symbols, rituals, and institutions from the nineteenth century to the present. Rich case studies of change in Cuba and the United States, including a New Jersey temple and South Carolina's Oyotunji Village, reveal patterns of innovation similar to those found among rival Yoruba kingdoms in Nigeria. Throughout, the book argues for a theoretical perspective on culture as a field of potential strategies and "usuable pasts" that actors draw upon to craft new forms and identities - a perspective that will be invaluable to all students of the African Diaspora.

Saint Francis of Assisi By Ivan Gobry
2016 | 350 Pages | ISBN: 1586170856 | EPUB | 1 MB
He has inspired countless films, paintings, poems and novels. But who was Francesco Bernadone, now known as Saint Francis of Assisi? Despite the wealth of writing on the life of this great saint, many still don't know the man. They know the legend: a Francis made palatable to modern sensibilitiesùthe happy friar who carols to the birds and writes poems to the sun and moon. This is the image of the saint that is usually presented, even though it fails to encompass the true personality of Francis. Ivan Gobry, Ph.D., takes on the task of revealing the real man, the man who abandoned wealth and chose to live a beggar's life. Saint Francis lived a life that was full of danger and adventure, ministering to lepers and even traveling to Egypt in an attempt to convert the Muslims. Disciples flocked to him, drawn by the radical challenge of living the Gospel in a world that had become attracted to decadence. Francis rejoiced in nature and animals, but also fought spiritual battles against temptation and vice. Dr. Gobry restores a profoundly human dimension to the Little Poor Man of Assisi: a far cry from the image that has become conventional.

Saint Dominic: The Grace of the Word By Fr. Guy Bedouelle, O.P
2017 | 290 Pages | ISBN: 0898705312 | EPUB | 1 MB
Written by one of the foremost contemporary authorities on Saint Dominic, this book represents the latest, best, most concise and readable spiritual biography of Saint Dominic. The focus of the biography is the way in which Saint Dominic embodied the role of Christ as preacher and the results that came from this grace. From his earliest youth, Sacred Scripture was the very heart and foundation of Dominic's spiritual life. He never ceased to plunge into the Word of God, to study it, to pray it. Bedouelle thus documents how Saint Dominic's whole life and mission was one continuous proclamation of the power of the Gospel to transform individual lives and society. "Written in both a popular and scholarly style, the combination of historical comprehensiveness and keen theological insight in this work brings Dominic alive as the contemplative and tireless preacher, fed from a deeply interior stream of life" - Gabriel O'Donnell, O.P., from the Preface