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Strategic Intelligence and Civil Affairs to Understand Legitimacy and Insurgency

Author : Diane E. Chido
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030209776
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Intelligence and Civil Affairs to Understand Legitimacy and Insurgency written by Diane E. Chido and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the common pitfalls of U.S. military interventions in efforts at stabilization, which supports post-conflict societies by establishing stable governance, rule of law, a safe and secure environment, economic development and social well-being for all members of the population. These efforts are often unsuccessful and can even cause harm when mission teams do not understand both the populations with whom they are engaging and policymakers. The book recommends prioritizing a relational approach to stabilization with a professional and well-resourced Civil Affairs and strategic intelligence approach to engagements over the current preference for transactional, often lethal operations.

STEM Learning with Young Children

Author : Shelly Counsell
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807774561
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book STEM Learning with Young Children written by Shelly Counsell and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This teacher’s guide provides the background information, STEM concepts, and strategies needed to successfully implement an early STEM curriculum (Ramps and Pathways) with young children, ages 3–8. R&P actively engages young children in designing and building ramp structures using wooden cove molding, releasing marbles on the structures, and observing what happens. Children use logical-mathematical thinking and problem-solving skills as they explore science concepts related to motion, force, and energy. This guide helps teachers to: Structure and organize an engaging STEM learning environment. Understand and promote logical-mathematical and scientific thinking during investigations. Promote social settings that enhance communication, cooperation, and collaboration. Make the necessary accommodations and modifications for diverse learners. Integrate STEM concepts and skills with other content areas. Align teaching and learning with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Assess STEM learning using formative and summative assessments. Establish adult learning communities to support ongoing professional development. Help children develop habits and behaviors that contribute to positive attitudes toward STEM. This one-of-a-kind resource uses a newly created Inquiry Teaching Model (ITM) as the conceptual framework and devotes specific attention to the importance of an inclusive, social, STEM learning environment in which children are free to collaborate, take risks, and investigate within the context of exploratory and constructive play. “This book is a must for all concerned with the education of young children. Using ramps and pathways as an exciting and stimulating example of how to engage children in rich STEM experiences, this team of highly knowledgeable and skilled researchers and practitioners draw from their deep and extensive backgrounds to present a clear and comprehensive view of the current landscape of inquiry-based STEM teaching and learning for young children. It is a book that can and should inform both policy and practice.” —Karen Worth, Elementary Education Department, Wheelock College

The Irish Writer and the World

Author : Declan Kiberd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139446006
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Irish Writer and the World written by Declan Kiberd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish Writer and the World is a major new book by one of Ireland's most prominent scholars and cultural commentators. Declan Kiberd, author of the award-winning Irish Classics and Inventing Ireland, here synthesises the themes that have occupied him throughout his career as a leading critic of Irish literature and culture. Kiberd argues that political conflict between Ireland and England ultimately resulted in cultural confluence and that writing in the Irish language was hugely influenced by the English literary tradition. He continues his exploration of the role of Irish politics and culture in a decolonising world, and covers Anglo-Irish literature, the fate of the Irish language and the Celtic Tiger. This fascinating collection of Kiberd's work demonstrates the extraordinary range, astuteness and wit that have made him a defining voice in Irish studies and beyond, and will bring his work to new audiences across the world.

Contemporary Postcolonial Theory

Author : Padmini Mongia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100032432X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Postcolonial Theory written by Padmini Mongia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices, severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of this theory have also been raised. This Reader is positioned at the juncture where it can address these contestations. It makes available some of the 'classics' of the field; engages with the issues raised by contemporary practitioners; but also offers several of the arguments that strongly critique postcolonial theory. Although postcolonial theory purports to be inter-disciplinary and frequently anti-foundationalist, traces of disciplinary formations and linearity have continued to haunt its articulations. This Reader, on the other hand, offers a uniquely inter-disciplinary mapping. It is concerned with three main areas: definitional problems and contests including the current challenges to postcolonial theory; the 'disciplining of knowledge', where the multiple resonances of the word 'disciplining' are all engaged; and the location of practice where the relations between intellectual practice and historical conditions are explored. Finally, since the guiding principle of this Reader is simultaneous attention to the enabling and constraining mechanisms of historical realities and institutional practices, the commentary problematizes the writing of histories, the formations of canons, and indeed the production of Readers.

The Microbiology of the Drop-in Biofuel Production

Author : Satinder Kaur Brar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031616375
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book The Microbiology of the Drop-in Biofuel Production written by Satinder Kaur Brar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transforming Agriculture and Foodways

Author : David Goodman
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529231507
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Agriculture and Foodways written by David Goodman and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wave of innovation driven by the convergence of digital and molecular technologies is transforming food production and ways of eating in the US, Western Europe and Australasia. This book explores a range of contemporary agri-food issues, such as the digitalisation of farm production, aka Precision Agriculture, farmer independence, gene editing, alternative proteins and the rise of app-based home food deliveries. This is the first book to provide a systemic analysis of technological innovation and its socio-economic consequences in modern food systems, including the ‘hollowing out’ of rural communities and pronounced industrial concentration. The food system is under growing public pressure to respond to global climate change, but this book finds little evidence of transition to sustainable low-carbon trajectories.

Suicide in Canada

Author : Antoon A. Leenaars
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802077912
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book Suicide in Canada written by Antoon A. Leenaars and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by Canada's leading experts on suicide, this collection provides long-awaited information that focuses specifically on Canada.

America in White, Black, and Gray

Author : Klaus P. Fischer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441175989
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book America in White, Black, and Gray written by Klaus P. Fischer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the reviews of Nazi Germany "The best one-volume history of the Third Reich available.It fills a void which has existed for a long time and it will probably become the basic text for generations of students."-Walter Laqueur "An indispensable, compellingly readable political, military and social history of the Third Reich."-Publishers Weekly From the reviews of History of an Obsession "This is truly a significant work, for Fischer gives a balanced account of a complex subject, making it painfully clear just how Germany became capable of genocide." - Booklist "Fischer writes with a clear mastery of both primary and secondary sources. Synthesizing a wide spectrum of literature into a fine, scholarly work." - Library Journal No decade since the end of World War II has been as seminal in its historical significance as the 1960s. That stormy period unleashed a host of pent-up social and generational conflicts that had not been experienced since the Civil War: intense racial and ethnic strife, cold war terror, the Vietnam War, counter-cultural protests, controversial social engineering, and political rancor. Numerous studies on various aspects of these issues have been written over the past 35 years, but few have so successfully integrated the many-sided components into a coherent, synthetic, and reliable book that combines good storytelling with sound scholarly analysis. The main materials covered will be the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies; the Civil Rights movement; the Vietnam War and the protest it generated; the New Left, student radicals, and Black student militancy; and, finally, the counter-cultural side of the 60s: hippies, sex and Rock 'n' Roll.

Straight Talk about Professional Ethics, Second Edition

Author : Kim Strom-Gottfried
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190615478
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Straight Talk about Professional Ethics, Second Edition written by Kim Strom-Gottfried and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one make the right choices when faced with ethical dilemmas? Social service professionals use a unique set of principles to guide their decisions within a broad and complex array of situations. Straight Talk about Professional Ethics, Second Edition provides readers with the guidelines that will help them make decisions in a manner that is clinically and ethically effective. This book explains the seven core concepts that guide ethical practice in the helping professions: self-determination, informed consent, competence, confidentiality and privacy, attention to conflicts of interest, maintenance of professional boundaries, and professionalism and integrity. Developing a commitment to the ethics of a profession and an understanding of how those ethics apply to commonly occurring workplace situations is a major element of professional preparation.

Consuming Mexican Labor

Author : Ronald L. Mize
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442601574
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Consuming Mexican Labor written by Ronald L. Mize and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican migration to the United States and Canada is a highly contentious issue in the eyes of many North Americans, and every generation seems to construct the northward flow of labor as a brand new social problem. The history of Mexican labor migration to the United States, from the Bracero Program (1942-1964) to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), suggests that Mexicans have been actively encouraged to migrate northward when labor markets are in short supply, only to be turned back during economic downturns. In this timely book, Mize and Swords dissect the social relations that define how corporations, consumers, and states involve Mexican immigrant laborers in the politics of production and consumption. The result is a comprehensive and contemporary look at the increasingly important role that Mexican immigrants play in the North American economy.

The Community College in a Global Context

Author : Tod Treat
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118720148
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book The Community College in a Global Context written by Tod Treat and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The community college is poised to contribute beyond its own community to across the world. To do so—to advance the work for the betterment of students and communities—it must engage internationally while building capacity. Recognizing the growing importance of educating students in a globalized world, this volume explores the community college in an international context. It addresses global ideals, values, competencies, and understanding in a local context and shows: How individual community colleges have internationalized How models and partnerships can aid progression to comprehensive internationalization How international systems consider adoption and adaptation. The authors point to a crucial vision for the future: Globalization has moved the U.S. community college steadily from international education as an add-on to international education as a choice, and now to international education as a crucial, integrated mission that has drawn increased interest from other nations intent on an educated, skilled citizenry. The community college is no longer about the United States; the community college is for all of us, a world phenomenon. This is the 161st volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Essential to presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, New Directions for Community Colleges provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinct and expanding educational mission.

Daily Life in the Colonial South

Author : John Schlotterbeck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Daily Life in the Colonial South written by John Schlotterbeck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines patterns of everyday life in the colonial South from European contact to 1770, documenting how they evolved over time and differences across lines of geography, nationality, ethnicity, religion, race, gender, and class. This work provides the first synthesis of daily life in the colonial South from the time of European arrival to 1770—a period that is often overlooked or treated briefly in most surveys on the history of the South. Daily Life in the Colonial South describes how a diverse mix of people created new patterns of living, behaving, and believing across diverse and changing physical, demographic, economic, and social environments by adapting inherited cultures in new settings. The book emphasizes the everyday experiences of ordinary people from the Chesapeake Bay to the Lower Mississippi River, examining aspects of daily life such as work, families, possessions, food, leisure, bodies, and beliefs. It presents balanced coverage of English, French, Spanish, and Native American settlements, describing the lives of both men and women, and making use of quotes from historical documents. An introductory chapter profiles the colonial South at six periods set 50 years apart between 1500 and 1750, while the conclusion discusses colonial southern identities on the eve of the American Revolution.

Thirsty Planet

Author : Constance Elizabeth Hunt
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848137907
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Thirsty Planet written by Constance Elizabeth Hunt and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the year 2025 nearly 2 billion people will live in regions experiencing absolute water scarcity. In the face of this emerging crisis, how should the planet's water be used and managed? Current international policy sees nature competing with human uses of water. Hunt takes issue with this perspective. She suggests that nature is the source of water and only by making the conservation of nature an absolute priority will we have the water we need for human use in future. It is essential , therefore, to manage water in ways that maintain the water cycle and the ecosystems that support it. This book looks at the complexity of the problem. It provides a wide array of ideas, information, case studies and ecological knowledge - often from remote corners of the developing world -- that could provide an alternative vision for water use and management at this critical time. Essential and compelling reading for students on courses related to water resource management and development; water managers and decision makers, and non-specialists with an interest in global water issues.

Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004494898
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health, illness and disease are topics well-suited to interdisciplinary inquiry. This book brings together scholars from around the world who share an interest in and a commitment to bridging the traditional boundaries of inquiry. We hope that this book begins new conversations that will situate health in broader socio-cultural contexts and establish connections between health, illness and disease and other socio-political issues. This book is the outcome of the first global conference on “Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease,” held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, in June 2002. The selected papers pursue a range of topics from the cultural significance of narratives of health, illness and disease to healing practices in contemporary society as well as patients’ illness experiences. Researchers and health care practitioners now live in the age of interdisciplinarity, which has transformed both health care delivery and research on health. The essays in this collection transcend the traditional boundaries of biomedicine and draw attention to the many ways in which health is embedded in socio-cultural norms and how these norms, in turn, shape health practices and health care. This volume is of interest not only to researchers but also to those delivering health care.

Managing Chineseness

Author : Daphnee Lee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137582588
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Managing Chineseness written by Daphnee Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the personal experiences of professionals who are a part of the post-colonial and late-industrializing reality in the global value chain in Singapore. Looking at Chinese Singaporean employees at a French multi-national firm, the author explores the evolving social constructions of ‘Chineseness’. Sociologist Manuel Castells once hailed Singapore as ‘the only true Leninist project that has survived’, and Lee revisits the Singapore ‘social laboratory’, addressing recent dialectics that transpire within the global political economy. Currently, professional actors need to address the demands of dual hegemony in response to China’s rise in the Western-dominated capitalist political economy. Underlying these constructions are enduring dispositions that mediate interpretations of professionalism. The author puts to test the potential for change, surveying a large cohort of teachers as makers of future professionals. The question is, does change occur in the domain of practice or the habitus, if it is possible in the first place? The book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in Sociology, Identity and Ethnicity, Business Management, Globalisation, Organizational Sociology and Sociology of Education.

Fodor's 2006 Italy

Author : Matthew Lombardi
Publisher : Fodor's
ISBN 13 : 1400015553
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fodor's 2006 Italy written by Matthew Lombardi and published by Fodor's. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information on travel, restaurants, accommodations, sightseeing, and shopping for Italy-bound tourists

India's New Independent Cinema

Author : Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317290739
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book India's New Independent Cinema written by Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first-ever book on the rise of the new wave of independent Indian films that is revolutionising Indian cinema. Contemporary scholarship on Indian cinema so far has focused asymmetrically on Bollywood—India’s dominant cultural export. Reversing this trend, this book provides an in-depth examination of the burgeoning independent Indian film sector. It locates the new 'Indies' as a glocal hybrid film form—global in aesthetic and local in content. They critically engage with a diverse socio-political spectrum of ‘state of the nation’ stories; from farmer suicides, disenfranchised urban youth and migrant workers to monks turned anti-corporation animal rights agitators. This book provides comprehensive analyses of definitive Indie new wave films including Peepli Live (2010), Dhobi Ghat (2010), The Lunchbox (2013) and Ship of Theseus (2013). It explores how subversive Indies, such as polemical postmodern rap-musical Gandu (2010) transgress conventional notions of ‘traditional Indian values’, and collide with state censorship regulations. This timely and pioneering analysis shows how the new Indies have emerged from a middle space between India’s globalising present and traditional past. This book draws on in-depth interviews with directors, actors, academics and members of the Indian censor board, and is essential reading for anyone seeking an insight into a current Indian film phenomenon that could chart the future of Indian cinema.