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 Narrative Inquiry in Music Education: Troubling Certainty By Margaret S. Barrett, Sandra L. Stauffer (auth.), Margaret S. Barrett, Sandra L. Stauffer (eds.) 2009 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 1402098618 | PDF | 4 MB This text provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of narrative inquiry approaches to research in music education, and contextualizes this work within the larger conversations of music education research and practice. In an innovative dialogic approach the text is divided into 3 parts, each presenting a different perspective on the uses and purposes of narrative in and for music education. Section I explores the origins of narrative research across a range of fields of inquiry and presents a conception of narrative inquiry as "resonant work". Section II provides 7 examples of narrative inquiry research, each of which is accompanied by a reflective commentary. The commentaries provide an interpretive perspective of the narrative accounts, suggest further questions that arise from the inquiry, and provide insight into the potential uses of the narrative account for the theory and practice of music education. Section III brings together the perspectives of two eminent theorists and practitioners.  Nakajima B5N 'Kate' and B6N 'Jill' Units (Combat Aircraft) by Mark Chambers, Tony Holmes, Jim Laurier English | June 20, 2017 | ISBN: 1472818741 | 96 pages | AZW3 | 8,49 MB Entering service during the Sino-Japanese War, the Nakajima B5N (code-named "Kate") excelled and went on to achieve surprising and dramatic successes in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It also contributed to the sinking of the U.S. aircraft carriers USS Lexington at the Battle of the Coral Sea, USS Yorktown at the Battle of Midway, and USS Hornet at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Its replacement, the Nakajima B6N "Jill," while a marked improvement over its illustrious predecessor, was never able to achieve its full potential in combat due to advances in Allied aircraft, finding itself relegated to the dreaded Kamikaze strikes in the latter part of the war.
 Timothy D. Taylor, "Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio" English | ISBN: 0822349469 | 2012 | 432 pages | PDF | 3 MB This unique anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the development of the phonograph, film sound, and the radio. These three sound technologies shaped Americans' relation to music from the late nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War, by which time the technologies were thoroughly integrated into everyday life. There are more than 120 selections between the collection's first piece, an article on the phonograph written by Thomas Edison in 1878, and its last, a column advising listeners "desirous of gaining more from music as presented by the radio." Among the selections are articles from popular and trade publications, advertisements, fan letters, corporate records, fiction, and sheet music. Taken together, the selections capture how the new sound technologies were shaped by developments such as urbanization, the increasing value placed on leisure time, and the rise of the advertising industry. Most importantly, they depict the ways that the new sound technologies were received by real people in particular places and moments in time.  Multiple Orgasms for Women: The Complete Guide for Him and for Her to Reach Ecstasy: Psychological Techniques for Her, Sex Positions, Toys and Techniques to Help Her Reach Climax Again and Again by E.L. Sweet English | March 9, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B085RLMP49 | 155 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.72 Mb Are you a woman that has never experienced an orgasm despite the many sexual encounters you've had? Or are you a man that cannot seem to get their woman to climax and make them have multiple orgasms?  Alin Olteanu, "Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication: A Semiotic Perspective" English | 2019 | ISBN: 303017882X | PDF | pages: 155 | 1.7 mb This highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism. It reveals how semiotics provides fresh and valuable insights into multiculturalism: in contrast to the binary logic of dualistic philosophy, semiotic logic does not understand the value of truth in rigid terms of 'true' or 'false', 'right' or 'wrong' only. The value of truth resides in meaning, which is a dynamic, evolutionary phenomenon, rooted, nevertheless, in factuality.  Babak Naderi, "Motivation of Workers on Microtask Crowdsourcing Platforms" English | 2018 | pages: 125 | ISBN: 3319726994 | PDF | 3,4 mb This book studies the motivation of crowdworkers to find out how to attract more people and reach a higher quality of outcomes. The book first proposes a taxonomy for studying the motivation of crowdworkers including the potential influencing factors, different types of motivation, and possible consequences and outcomes related to the motivation. Next, the CWMS questionnaire, an instrument for measuring the underlying motivation of crowdworkers is developed. It considers different dimensions of motivation suggested by the Self-Determination Theory of motivation which is a well-established and empirically validated psychological theory used in various domains. This instrument can be used to study the effect of platform and user characteristics on the general motivation of crowdworkers. Later, the task-specific motivation of crowdworkers is studied in detail: Influencing factors are investigated, subjective methods for measuring them are evaluated, a model for predicting worker's decision on taking a task is proposed, the relative importance of different factors for two populations of crowdworkers is studied, and finally, a model for predicting the expected workload (as one of the major influencing factors) given the task design is proposed.  More Sex, Better Zen, Faster Bullets: The Encyclopedia of Hong Kong Film by Stefan Hammond, Mike Wilkins English | July 11th, 2020 | ISBN: 1909394645 | 344 pages | True EPUB | 55.83 MB How and why did films from Hong Kong ― a former British Crown Colony and map-speck ― become so popular? Post-WWII, creative freedom was scarce in Asia, but Hong Kong was a safe space for filmmakers seeking to profit from overseas Chinese markets and Chinatowns worldwide. Both Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest set up massive operations in Hong Kong and let the celluloid slip.
 Steven Pierce, "Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria" English | ISBN: 0822360918 | 2016 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates even minor official interactions, from traffic control to university admissions. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering how corruption plays an important role in the processes of political change in all states. He suggests that corruption is best understood in Nigeria, as well as in all other nations, as a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices. The best solution to combatting Nigerian government corruption, Pierce contends, is not through attempts to prevent officials from diverting public revenue to self-interested ends, but to ask how public ends can be served by accommodating Nigeria's history of patronage as a fundamental political principle.
 MongoDB Fundamentals: A hands-on guide to using MongoDB and Atlas in the real world by Amit Phaltankar English | 2020 | ISBN: 1839210648 | 748 Pages | EPUB | 34 MB  Peter S. Rose, Milton H. Marquis, "Money and Capital Markets" English | 2007 | ISBN: 0073405167, 025615239X | PDF | pages: 840 | 9.4 mb "Money and Capital Markets, 10th Edition" by Peter Rose and Milton Marquis provides a thorough and comprehensive view of the whole financial system. All the major types of financial institutions and financial instruments present today are discussed, along with how and why the system of money and capital markets is changing. "Money and Capital Markets" also provides a descriptive explanation of how interest rates and security values are determined. It discusses the current and future trends of the globalization of financial markets, the ongoing consolidation of the financial institutions' sector, and recent efforts to protect consumer privacy in the financial services field. |
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