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by Maria Teresa Chicote Pompanin
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032406674 | 251 Pages | True PDF | 35 MB
Free DownloadNetta Cohen, "New under the Sun: Early Zionist Encounters with the Climate in Palestine"
English | ISBN: 0520397223 | 2024 | 227 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
New under the Sun explores Zionist perceptions of-and responses to-Palestine’s climate. From the rise of the Zionist movement in the late 1890s to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Netta Cohen traces the production of climactic knowledge through a rich archive that draws from medicine and botany, technology and economics, and architecture and planning. As Cohen convincingly argues, this knowledge was not only shaped by Jewish settlers’ Eurocentric views but was also indebted to colonial practices and institutions. Zionists’ claims to the land were often based on the construction of Jewish settlers as natives, even while this was complicated by their alienated responses to Palestine’s climate. New under the Sun offers a highly original environmental lens on the ways in which Zionism’s spatial ambitions and racial fantasies transformed the lives of humans and nonhumans in Palestine.
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English | June 24, 2025 | ISBN: 0231203462, 0231203470 | True EPUB | 600 pages | 0.8 MB
One of China’s first works of science fiction, New Story of the Stone is a belated twentieth-century sequel to the beloved eighteenth-century masterpiece Story of the Stone (more famously known as Dream of the Red Chamber). The story follows protagonist Jia Baoyu, borrowed from the original Story, as he is dramatically hurled forward over a hundred years from his own time into a bewildering future: first the decadent semicolonized late Qing China of the author’s own time and later an astonishing high-tech Confucian utopia called the Realm of Civilization.
Free DownloadFemale Amerindians in Early Modern Spanish Theater By Gladys Robalino; Moisés R. Castillo; Judith G. Caballero ; Erin Alice Cowling; Ronna Feit; Esther Fernandez; María Ferrer-Lightner; Melissa Figueroa; Glenda Nieto-Cuebas; María Luisa Quiroz Taub
2014 | 251 Pages | ISBN: 1611486106 | EPUB | 1 MB
Female Amerindians in Early Modern Spanish Theater is a collection of essays that focuses on the female Amerindian characters in comedias based on the discovery, exploration, and conquest of America. This book emerges as a response to the limited number of studies that focus on these characters, and more importantly, on the function of these characters as theatrical artifacts within conquest plays. Conquest plays are about a handful, their heroes are the European male conquerors, yet ‘the Amerindian’ has attracted attention from critics for the value as constructs of cultural discourse. We see this character, the ‘theatrical Indian,’ as a construct, an instrument, in many ways, a spectacular artifact of the baroque tramoya, which emerges from the conversion point of the Counterreformation ideology. It has been our purpose here to advance the study of these characters by adding a gender perspective. Therefore, while sociological and cultural studies are still a fundamental part of the theoretical framework of this project, we use feminism as a critical matrix in our inquiries. Amerindian female characters stand apart from male Amerindians and Spanish women in dramas, which, we believe, make them worthy of individual attention. The articles in this collection delineate different representations of Amerindian women and, as a whole, this book contributes to a better understanding of the dramatic use of these characters.
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English | December 22, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DR8C18XF | 285 pages | EPUB | 0.71 Mb
Escape 9-to-5: Financial Strategies for Early Retirement is your ultimate guide to achieving financial independence and living life on your own terms. Packed with practical strategies and expert insights, this book offers a step-by-step blueprint to help you break free from the traditional 9-to-5 grind and design a life of freedom, purpose, and financial security.
Free DownloadKevin Simoes Loureiro, "Plurilingual Education Policy in Early Childhood Education and Care: Aiming Towards More Equal Opportunities in Luxembou"
English | ISBN: 3031682203 | 2024 | 327 pages | EPUB | 15 MB
This book explores the implementation of educational policies aimed at addressing educational inequalities and specifically focuses on Luxembourg’s pioneering plurilingual education policy in non-formal early childhood education and care. It emphasizes the significance of developing plurilingual policies that accommodate diverse linguistic and organizational contexts, ensuring more effective implementation and equitable educational opportunities for all children. Through an in-depth analysis, this book provides insights into various aspects of policy implementation. It delves into the drivers and goals of the plurilingual policy, the measures taken to implement it, the challenges encountered, and the success factors identified at the policy level. Additionally, it examines the attitudes, intentions and obstacles faced by those involved at the practice level. Drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks and empirical studies, the book presents multiple perspectives on the subject. By employing a mixed-methods design, including policy document analysis of the plurilingual education program, expert interviews with policy-level stakeholders and a cross-sectional survey of early childhood practitioners in the non-formal education sector, this work offers a multifaceted approach. The book not only enhances the understanding of policy implementation processes, but also sheds light on the practical implications and potential for reducing educational inequalities in multilingual educational settings. The findings and discussions in this book are, thus, pertinent not only to Luxembourg, but also offer policy- and practice-related implications for similar educational contexts globally.
Free DownloadAzra Moeed, "Playful Science Investigations in Early Childhood: A Longitudinal Case Study "
English | ISBN: 981997285X | 2024 | 116 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
This book showcases a case study of the development of a generalist early childhood education (ECE) teacher into a confident and competent teacher of science in early childhood with support from a mentor. It argues that with guided mentoring, and later, timely support of a mentor as and when required, ECE teachers can deliver the curriculum, teach science by providing opportunities to explore and then build on children’s interest through intentionally planned activities, dialogue, and discourse.
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English | ISBN: 3030998290 | 2022 | 502 pages | EPUB | 55 MB
This edited book provides an overview of unstructured and structured play scenarios crucial to developing young children’s awareness, interest, and ability to learn Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in informal and formal education environments. The key elements for developing future STEM capital, enabling children to use their intuitive critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, and promoting active citizenship and a scientifically literate workforce, begins in the early years as children learn through play, employing trial and error, and often investigating on their own.
Free DownloadKirsten Hastrup, "Early Ethnography in the American Arctic"
English | ISBN: 1032416327 | 2023 | 274 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book offers a portrait of early ethnographic work in the American Arctic, with a focus on understanding the mutual constitution of the Inuit and their early ethnographers. It draws mainly on a rich repository of written testimonies from the early twentieth century, the ‘great ethnographic period’ when new scholarly interest in the region took off. Supplementing the movements and observations of whalers, traders, and missionaries, the early chroniclers offered new knowledge of Inuit life. Although their descriptions of the Inuit bear the marks of their time, the texts have left a deep mark on later developments and contributed to a long-lasting view of human life in the Arctic. The chapters show the infiltration of lives and landscapes, of thoughts and materials, of Inuit and ethnographers. The book will be relevant to anthropologists as well as historians, geographers, and others with an interest the Arctic region and Indigenous studies.
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English | 2025 | ISBN: 9781837638079 | 112 Pages | EPUB | 1 MB
Designing a custom programming language can be the most effective way to solve certain types of problems-especially when precision, safety, or domain-specific expressiveness matters. This book guides you through the full process of creating your own language and interpreter, from design to implementation, using modern C++.
