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 Peter Temin, "Never Together: The Economic History of a Segregated America " English | ISBN: 1316516741 | 2022 | 250 pages | PDF | 5 MB In November 2020, The New York Times asked fifteen on its columnists to 'explain what the past four years have cost America.' Not one of the columnists focused on President Trump's racism. This book seeks to redress this imbalance and bring Black Americans' role in our economy to the forefront. While all humans were created equal, economic history in the United States tells a different story. Reconstruction lasted for only a decade, and Jim Crow laws replaced it. The Civil Rights Movement lasted through the 1960s, yet decayed under President Nixon. The United States has been declining in the Social Product Index, where it now is the lowest of the G7 and 26th in the world. For health and happiness, Temin argues that we need lasting integration efforts that allow Black Americans equal opportunity. This book convincingly integrates Black and white activities into an inclusive economic history of America.  Neuro-Linguistic Programming: How To Use Mind Reading Techniques by Eustolia Gordner English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09NFH5G5W | 378 pages | EPUB | 0.38 Mb Understanding colleagues, clients, and associates are critical in shaping the decision at work. Regardless of differences in belief, language, race, and social status, people still have many things in common. We love, suffer, hope, and laugh in the same way, so why don't you think you can't understand someone?  Navigating Social Security Options by Danny Pieters English | PDF | 2019 | 127 Pages | ISBN : 303005991X | 1.4 MB "A very useful enrichment of the social security discourse, this book offers a great checklist from a social law perspective and is of interest to all social scientists." - Robert Holzmann, Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Honorary Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia  Jose-Ma Losada-Goya, "Myth & Subversion in the Contemporary No" English | ISBN: 1443837466 | 2012 | 545 pages | PDF | 2 MB This bilingual work aims to identify and explain the subversive rewriting of ancient, medieval and modern myths in contemporary novels. The book opens with two theoretical essays on the subject of subversive tendencies and myth reinvention in the contemporary novel. From there, it moves on to the analysis of essential texts. Firstly, classical myths in authors such as Andre Gide, Thomas Pynchon, Julio Cortazar, Italo Calvino or Christa Wolf (for instance Theseus, Oedipus or Medea) are discussed. Then, myths of biblical origin - such as the Flood or the Golem - are revisited in the work of Giorgio Bassani, Julian Barnes and Cynthia Ozick. A further section is concerned with the place of modern myths (Faust, the ghost, Ophelia...) in the fiction of Gunter Grass, Paul Auster, or Clara Janes. The contributors have also delved into the relationship between myth and art - especially in the discourse of contemporary advertising, painting and cinema - and myth's intercultural dimensions: hybridity in the Latin American novels of Augusto Roa Bastos and Carlos Fuentes, and in the Hindu-themed novels of Bharati Mukherjee. This volume emerges from the careful selection of 37 essays out of over 200 which were put forward by outstanding scholars from 25 different countries for the Madrid International Conference on Myth and Subversion (March 2011). Este volumen bilingue identifica y explica la practica subversiva aplicada a los mitos antiguos, medievales y modernos en la novela contemporanea. Abren el libro dos estudios teoricos sobre la tendencia subversiva y la reinvencion de mitos en la actualidad. Prosigue el analisis de diversos textos de primera importancia. En primer lugar se revisan los mitos clasicos en autores como Andre Gide, Thomas Pynchon, Julio Cortazar, Italo Calvino, Christa Wolf (p. ej., Teseo, Edipo, Medea). En segundo lugar, la reescritura de los mitos biblicos segun Giorgio Bassani, Julian Barnes, Cynthia Ozick (p. ej., el diluvio o el Golem). En tercer lugar, mitos modernos en la ficcion de Gunter Grass, Paul Auster o Clara Janes (p. ej., Fausto, el fantasma, Ofelia). El volumen presta igualmente atencion a las relaciones entre mito y arte (su recurrencia en la publicidad, la pintura y el cine contemporaneos) y a la vertiente intercultural de los mitos: el mestizaje en la novela latinoamericana o hindu en Augusto Roa Bastos, Carlos Fuentes o Bharati Mukherjee. La compilacion resulta de una exquisita seleccion de 37 textos entre los mas de 200 propuestos para el Congreso Internacional Mito y Subversion (Madrid, marzo de 2011) por investigadores de prestigio procedentes de 25 paises.  Music, Cosmology, and the Politics of Harmony in Early China By Erica Fox Brindley 2012 | 225 Pages | ISBN: 1438443137 | PDF | 4 MB Explores the religious, political, and cultural significance attributed to music in early China.In early China, conceptions of music became important culturally and politically. This fascinating book examines a wide range of texts and discourse on music during this period (ca. 500-100 BCE) in light of the rise of religious, protoscientific beliefs on the intrinsic harmony of the cosmos. By tracking how music began to take on cosmic and religious significance, Erica Fox Brindley shows how music was used as a tool for such enterprises as state unification and cultural imperialism. She also outlines how musical discourse accompanied the growth of an explicit psychology of the emotions, served as a fundamental medium for spiritual attunement with the cosmos, and was thought to have utility and potency in medicine. While discussions of music in state ritual or as an aesthetic and cultural practice abound, this book is unique in linking music to religious belief and demonstrating its convergences with key religious, political, and intellectual transformations in early China."This is an enormous contribution to the field in terms of addressing some early conceptions of music and its social, cultural, and political role in the developing political and cosmic system based on correlative thinking, or as the author puts it, a 'cosmology of mystical resonance.'" - Joanne D. Birdwhistell, author of Mencius and Masculinities: Dynamics of Power, Morality, and Maternal Thinking  Christel N. Temple, "Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory " English | ISBN: 1785277197 | 2022 | 268 pages | PDF | 5 MB One critical priority of the discipline of Africana studies is applied memory, specifically, how the record of the culture's survival and agency reveals usable and reproducible knowledge and behavior. In terms of how Muhammad Ali, as an historical actor, has left an heroic legacy that bequeaths to us a sort of inheritance, the critical task at hand is to systematically explore this historical actor's life, feats, philosophy, grit, worldview, and even his folkloric antihero to decipher his Africana cultural memory value. At the core of this edited collection is a commitment to enhance the cultural storytelling about Muhammad Ali and to critically itemize the lessons we garner from his life as allegory. The ancestral life is one that is remembered and recalled. The contributors' research uncovers Ali's local, national, and global encounters that are legacy worldviews. These perspectives give us direction for mining the critical depth of Ali's encounters which map his memory in terms of culturally sustaining confidence, self-esteem, reinvention, immortalization, and empathy. These are the fertile seeds of Africana cultural memory which bloom into powerful markers and monuments of an epic life of hyperheroic activity relevant to cultural memory, sports, history, politics, health, and aesthetics.  Donna Tatsuki, "Model United Nations Simulations and English as a Lingua Franca" English | ISBN: 1527573532 | 2021 | 225 pages | PDF | 4 MB One of the most important 21st century skills is the ability to negotiate constructive resolutions in the face of conflicts of interest. Negotiation is a form of communication that requires more than just language ability. It requires being able to listen to, and communicate with, others within a milieu of diverse language abilities, academic, professional and cultural backgrounds in an increasingly global society. Added to this is the reality that the majority of English spoken globally is English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Model United Nations (MUN) simulations are uniquely positioned to help students develop their language ability and their global competencies, as well as being ideal opportunities for participants to experience ELF in an intensely communicative context. A common goal in MUN simulations is to prepare students to solve complex problems that are associated with living in a technological, competitive, and globally connected world. This volume provides researchers, negotiation practitioners, and language teachers with insights and best practices in MUN event and delegate preparation. Application of these best practices will significantly enrich the pedagogic environments designed for MUN delegates, especially in ELF contexts.
 Marshall Tuttle, "Modal Ethos and Semiotics in Tonal Music: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Massenet, Mahler and Debussy" English | ISBN: 1495505162 | 2017 | 260 pages | PDF | 37 MB This work examines a specific technical and expressive means by which the various ecclesiastical modes persisted and were integrated into compositional practices of the tonal period, from the time of Bach through to the early twentieth century. Methods are considered for bringing the concepts of modal ethos forward to post tonal music. An approach is described which can recreate all the significant parameters of modal reference at a structural level without compromising even the most stringent demands of post tonal compositional practices.  Mind over Money: The Psychology of Money and How to Use It Better by Harper Perennial English | November 1, 2016 | ISBN: 0062317008 | 384 pages | EPUB | 1.02 Mb The acclaimed author of Time Warped tackles the very latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and biology to provide a fresh, fascinating, and thought-provoking look at our relationship with money-perfect for fans of Dan Ariely and Freakonomics.  Military Transition For Dummies (For Dummies (Career/Education)) by For Dummies English | August 27, 2021 | ISBN: 1119824788 | 416 pages | MOBI | 2.55 Mb This isn't your average military transition book. It goes far beyond how to write a resume and find a job by providing you with all the guidance you need to successfully reenter the civilian world. Whether you've served three years or thirty, this is the book for you. |
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