Designing and Implementing Effective Evaluations: Comprehensive Case Studies in Program Evaluation
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367229722 | 108 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
Designing and Implementing Effective Evaluations provides extensive real-life examples of program evaluations that illustrate the various elements and steps in conducting a successful evaluation. The detailed and diverse range of case studies show the common elements, methods, approaches, and processes of program evaluations, while also demonstrating the way that good evaluators adapt and tailor those methods to the specific characteristics and needs of a given program.
James McCourt, "Delancey's Way"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0375403116 | PDF | pages: 379 | 17.2 mb
An operatic, satirical romp through (high and low) Washington - filled with politicos and pundits, divas and divine spirits - by the greatly admired author of Time Remaining and the cult classic Mawrdew Czgowchwz ("Bravo, James McCourt, a literary countertenor, in the exacting tradition of Firbank and Nabokov" - Susan Sontag).
Deepening Democracy:
Comparative Perspectives on Decentralization, Cooperativism and Self-Managed Development
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032132841 | 267 Pages | PDF (True) | 3 MB
Data Visualization and Analysis in Second Language Research (Second Language Acquisition Research Series) By Guilherme D. Garcia
2021 | 286 Pages | ISBN: 0367469642 | PDF | 6 MB
This introduction to visualization techniques and statistical models for second language research focuses on three types of data (continuous, binary, and scalar), helping readers to understand regression models fully and to apply them in their work. Garcia offers advanced coverage of Bayesian analysis, simulated data, exercises, implementable script code, and practical guidance on the latest R software packages. The book, also demonstrating the benefits to the L2 field of this type of statistical work, is a resource for graduate students and researchers in second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and corpus linguistics who are interested in quantitative data analysis.
Elena Bollinger, "Cultures and Literatures in Dialogue: The Narrative Construction of Russian Cultural Memory "
English | ISBN: 103237974X | 2022 | 212 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book addresses the narrative construction of Russian cultural memory in the work of Julian Barnes. It investigates how Barnes's texts tend to display a memory process as a transcultural mode of the creation of English and Russian national identities. Examining a need to revisit Russian canonical works, the detailed discursive analysis of the selected English texts exposes an intertextual remembering by duplication, thus contributing to the prevention of forgetting through the recuperation of still misrecollected cultural meanings. By creatively incorporating Russian intertextual elements into his work as a novelist, the author seems to insist on sweeping across and beyond national boundaries, revealing how frail the invention of tradition is when leading to the illusion of a solid collective memory and its political legitimation. The book considers not only a constructive dialogue between Barnes's fiction and Russian classical literature, but also this writer's interpretative, mostly imaginative, integration of Russian literature and culture into his work as a novelist. Exploring the double meaning of a literary metaphor as a mnemonic image of memory and a product of imagination, it offers a comprehensive analysis of Barnes's texts which play with intertextuality as an efficient tool of displacement of official memory, providing a deeper understanding of historical and cultural processes related to the constantly moving architecture of transcultural memory.
Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice By Chris Barker
2007 | 552 Pages | ISBN: 1412924154 | PDF | 9 MB
Chris Barker′s best-selling Cultural Studies has established itself as the leading undergraduate introduction to Cultural Studies. It takes the student through all they need to know: the theoretical foundations and developments of Cultural Studies and the questions that occupy the field today, from the multiple meanings of ′culture′ itself to ideology, language, subjectivity, sex, space, race, media, the urban, youth and resistance. With its concise, accessible definitions, stimulating activities, checked ′key points′, chapter summaries, and an expanded glossary, it is an indispensable tool for students and lecturers alike. This third edition is fully updated with: * a new chapter on electronic media and ′digital culture′; * major additions of material on the creative industries, culture jamming, new feminism and ′raunch culture′ and globalization; * all-new photographs presented with pedagogic activities; * biographical snapshots of key figures in cultural studies. This book is now even more the best-value one-stop shop for Cultural Studies. Chris Barker is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong, and author of The SAGE Dictionary of Cultural Studies.
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
English | October 13, 2009 | ASIN: B000TG1X9C, ISBN: 0061844039, 0062283251 | True AZW3 | 466 pages | 0.6 MB
The classic study of the creative process from the bestselling author of Flow.
Counterattack: The West's Battle Against the Terrorists by Christopher Dobson
English | May 24, 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01G5S90T2 | 234 pages | EPUB | 0.27 Mb
This was the first book to be released to the general public that reveals in detail how the Western democracies are beginning to win the war against international terrorism.
Cool Wheat-Free Recipes: Delicious & Fun Foods Without Gluten By Nancy Tuminelly
2013 | 32 Pages | ISBN: 1617835862 | PDF | 3 MB
The Cool Recipes for Your Health series gives young readers the tools to make healthy, tasty--and safe--dishes for anybody, anytime. This book has kid-tested, easy refined wheat-free (gluten-free) recipes, perfect for those dealing with a gluten intolerance or celiac disease. Basic baking techniques, tools, and ingredients are illustrated so kids can quickly prepare each recipe, such as Blueberry Pancakes and Avocado Tacos. Let kids leap into cooking--and love it! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Hsieh Bao Hua, "Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0739198408, 0739145142 | 396 pages | EPUB | 2.2 MB
In the long course of late imperial Chinese history, servants and concubines formed a vast social stratum in the hinterland along the Grand Canal, particularly in urban areas. Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China is a survey of the institutions and practice of concubinage and servitude in both the general populace and the imperial palace, with a focus on the examination of Ming-Qing political and socioeconomic history through the lives of this particular group of distinct yet associated individuals. The persistent theme of the book is how concubines, appointed by patriarchal polygamy, and servants, laboring under the master-servants hierarchy, experienced interactions and mobility within each institution and in associating with the other. While reviewing how ritual and law treated concubines and servants as patriarchal possessions, the author explores the perspectives available for individual concubines and servants and the limitations in their daily circumstances, searching for their "positional powers" and "privilege of the inferiors" in the context of Chinese culture during the Ming-Qing time period.