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 Sue Kenny, Brian McGrath, Rhonda Phillips, "The Routledge Handbook of Community Development: Perspectives from Around the Globe" English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138940763 | PDF | pages: 511 | 4.8 mb The Routledge Handbook of Community Development explores community development theory and practice across the world. The book provides perspectives about community development as an interactive, relevant and sometimes contradictory way to address issues impacting the human condition. It promotes better understanding of the complexities and challenges in identifying, designing, implementing and evaluating community development constructs, applications and interventions. This edited volume discusses how community development is conceptualized as an approach, method or profession. Themes provide the scope of the book, with projects, issues or perspectives presented in each of these areas.  The Reality of Brain Injury (After Brain Injury: Survivor Stories) by Andrew Tillyard English | ISBN: 1032155027, 1032155035 | 140 pages | EPUB | March 11, 2022 | 2.10 Mb A respected medical professional, family man, and keen athlete, Andrew Tillyard had a full and active life until a vehicle crash changed it all. He sustained a serious head injury and was airlifted to the hospital where he worked, having only just survived. In this book, he recounts the raw, uncompromising struggles he faced to rebuild his life.  The Qur'an and Its Biblical Subtext By Gabriel Said Reynolds 2010 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 041577893X | PDF | 4 MB This book challenges the dominant scholarly notion that the Qur'ān must be interpreted through the medieval commentaries shaped by the biography of the prophet Muhammad, arguing instead that the text is best read in light of Christian and Jewish scripture. The Qur'ān, in its use of allusions, depends on the Biblical knowledge of its audience. However, medieval Muslim commentators, working in a context of religious rivalry, developed stories that separate Qur'ān and Bible, which this book brings back together. In a series of studies involving the devil, Adam, Abraham, Jonah, Mary, and Muhammad among others, Reynolds shows how modern translators of the Qur'ān have followed medieval Muslim commentary and demonstrates how an appreciation of the Qur'ān's Biblical subtext uncovers the richness of the Qur'ān's discourse. Presenting unique interpretations of 13 different sections of the Qur'ān based on studies of earlier Jewish and Christian literature, the author substantially re-evaluates Muslim exegetical literature. Thus The Qur'ān and Its Biblical Subtext, a work based on a profound regard for the Qur'ān's literary structure and rhetorical strategy, poses a substantial challenge to the standard scholarship of Qur'ānic Studies. With an approach that bridges early Christian history and Islamic origins, the book will appeal not only to students of the Qur'an but of the Bible, religious studies and Islamic history.  Richard Kraut, "The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised" English | ISBN: 0198828845 | 2018 | 272 pages | PDF | 9 MB The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised presents a philosophical theory about the constituents of human well-being. The principal idea is that what Aristotle calls 'external goods' - wealth, reputation, power - have at most an indirect bearing on the quality of our lives. Starting with
 Michael L. Wehmeyer, "The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors: Implications for Understanding Disability" English | ISBN: 1793634653 | 2022 | 296 pages | PDF | 2 MB Historically, interventions designed to impact the lives of disabled people were predicated upon deficits-based models of disability. This began to change with the introduction of World Health Organization (WHO) frameworks, particularly the International Classification of Function (ICF), that emphasized that disability could only be understood in the context of interactions among health, environmental factors, and personal factors and by examining the impact of such factors on a person's activities and participation. The ICF identified personal factors as among the elements of a social-ecological model of disability but did not provide an extensive taxonomy of what constitutes such factors.  The Philosophy Of Marx By Etienne Balibar, Chris Turner 2014 | 139 Pages | ISBN: 1781681538 | EPUB | 2 MB In The Philosophy of Marx, Etienne Balibar provides an accessibleintroduction to Marx and his key followers, complete withpedagogical information for the student to make the most challengingareas of theory easy to understand. Examining all the key areasof Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoreticalcontext-including the concepts of class struggle, ideology,humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism, and thestate-The Philosophy of Marx is a gateway into the thought of one ofhistory's great minds.  The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention by Allen Lane English | November 10, 2020 | ISBN: 0241242185 | 241 pages | PDF | 7.64 Mb 'Sheds light on one of humanity's most distinctive traits, celebrates human cognitive diversity, and is rich with empathy and psychological insight.' - Steven Pinker  The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History (Oxford Handbooks) by Paul Gootenberg English | ISBN: 0190842644 | 720 pages | EPUB | March 11, 2022 | 1.78 Mb Drugs and their illicit use have long fascinated writers and the public at large. Informed by new interdisciplinary perspectives, a growing number of academically trained historians are now approaching drugs as a wide-open topic for serious research. This Handbook of Global Drug History is the first major attempt by historians of drugs to take stock of the recent progress and directions of this field, utilizing both a global scope and long-term historical perspective. Thirty-five original essays simultaneously survey what is known historically about drugs across the world (in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa) as well as illustrating their historical interconnections.  The New Neapolitan Cinema By Alex Marlow-Mann 2011 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0748640665 | PDF | 2 MB Vito and the Others (1991), Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992) and Libera (1993), the debuts of three young Neapolitan filmmakers, stood out dramatically from the landscape of Italian cinema in the early 1990s. On the back of their critical success, over the next decade and a half, Naples became a thriving centre for film production.In this first study in English of one of the most vital and stimulating currents in contemporary European Cinema, Alex Marlow-Mann provides a detailed, multi-faceted and provocative study of this distinct regional tradition. In tracing the movement's relationship with the popular musical melodramas previously produced in Naples, he reveals how contemporary Neapolitan filmmakers have interrogated, subverted and reconfigured cinematic convention as part of a through-going re-examination of Neapolitan identity.
 The Networking Playbook: Transform Your Social Capital into Professional Career Success by Darryl Howes English | March 11th, 2022 | ISBN: 1637421893 | 146 pages | True EPUB | 2.46 MB Is your career headed where it needs to go? Don't sit back and wait for things to happen! Design your career and deliver your life! |
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