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 Geraldine Mooney Simmie, "School-Based Deliberative Partnership as a Platform for Teacher Professionalization and Curriculum Innovation " English | ISBN: 0367264595 | 2019 | 178 pages | PDF | 3 MB Using cutting-edge and frontline research relating to present day problems in educational systems, this volume provides a critical discussion about political alternatives in education to neoliberalism. Based on Engeström's Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), a theory that has potential for new areas of educational research, this book explores a conceptual framework of curriculum innovation in school practice that focuses on processes of mutual meaning-making as boundary crossing between partners from different communities.  Jenny Wiley Legath, "Sanctified Sisters: A History of Protestant Deaconesses" English | 2019 | ISBN: 1479860638 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 7.0 mb The first history of the deaconess movement in the United States  John Prados, "Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA" English | 2009 | ISBN: 1566638232 | EPUB | pages: 736 | 1.1 mb From its founding in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency has been discovered in the midst of some of the most crucial―and most embarrassing―-episodes in United States relations with the world. Richard Nixon's 1969 presidential order that declared CIA covert operations necessary to the attainment of American foreign policy goals was an acknowledgment that secret warfare tools had a much wider application than just the cold war conflict with the Soviet Union. The question of what, exactly, these operations have contributed to U.S. policy has long been neglected in the rush to accuse the CIA of being a "rogue elephant" or merely listing its nefarious deeds. Safe for Democracy for the first time places the story of the CIA's covert operations squarely in the context of America's global quest for democratic values and institutions. National security historian John Prados offers a comprehensive history of the CIA's secret wars that is as close to a definitive account as is possible today. He draws on three decades of research to illuminate the men and women of the intelligence establishment, their resources and techniques, their triumphs and failures. In a dramatic and revealing narrative, Safe for Democracy not only relates the inside stories of covert operations but examines in meticulous detail the efforts of presidents and Congress to control the CIA and the specific choices made in the agency's secret wars. Along the way Mr. Prados offers eye-opening accounts of the covert actions themselves, from radically revised interpretations of classic operations like Iran, Guatemala, Chile, and the Bay of Pigs; to lesser-known projects like Tibet and Angola; to virtually unknown tales of the CIA in Guyana and Ghana. He supplies full accounts of Reagan-era operations in Nicaragua and Afghanistan, and brings the story up to date with accounts of more recent activities in Somalia, Bosnia, and Iraq, all the while keeping American foreign policy goals in view. Safe for Democracy<  Russia in War and Revolution: The Memoirs of Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff by Hoover Institution Press English | March 1, 2021 | ISBN: 0817923640 | 672 pages | PDF | 90 Mb Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff (1885-1971) led a remarkable life in the shadows of history. This book presents his memoirs for the first time, translated and annotated by his granddaughter Tanya A. Cameron. Born into a noble family, Olferieff was a Russian career military officer who observed firsthand key events of the early twentieth century, including the 1905-7 revolution, the Great War, the collapse of the imperial state, and the civil wars in Ukraine and Crimea.  Various, "Routledge Library Editions: Hinduism" English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367143003 | PDF | pages: 210 | 11.0 mb This collection comprises ten important volumes in the study of Hinduism. Written by leading authors, these works gather together Hindu religious practice, ethics and art to form an in-depth overview of the Hindu world. A Dictionary of Hinduism is a key work, as is the two-volume Hindu World. As a whole, they form an invaluable reference collection.  Romeo and Juliet: A close study of the relationship between text and film By Courtney Lehmann 2011 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0713679123 | PDF | 4 MB This close study of the relationship between text and film versions of Romeo & Juliet will offer plenty of material to literature and film studies students to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text.Focusing on West Side Story and Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, the book discusses the literary text in its historical context, key themes and dominant readings of the text, how the text is adapted for the screen, and how adaptations have changed our reading of the original text. There are numerous excerpts from the literary text, screenplays, and shooting scripts, with suggestions for comparison. The book also features quotations from authors, screenwriters, directors, critics, and others linked with the chosen film and text.  Paolo Amorosa, "Rewriting the History of the Law of Nations: How James Brown Scott Made Francisco de Vitoria the Founder of International Law" English | 2019 | pages: 369 | ISBN: 0198849370 | PDF | 2,7 mb In the interwar years, international lawyer James Brown Scott wrote a series of works on the history of his discipline. He made the case that the foundation of modern international law rested not, as most assumed, with the seventeenth-century Dutch thinker Hugo Grotius, but with  Revival and Reconciliation: The Anglican Church and the Politics of Rwanda by Phillip A. Cantrell II 2022 | ISBN: 0299335100 | English | 248 pages | PDF | 7.5 MB When Europe began colonizing Rwanda in the late nineteenth century, the Anglican Church played a significant and long-lasting role in controlling the colony through the Ruanda Mission. This informative volume shows how the church repeatedly aligned with the regime in power and failed to take account of its own history in fomenting ethnic tensions prior to the 1994 genocide. In recent years, the media has depicted Rwanda as a model of unity, development, and recovery, yet Phillip A. Cantrell II argues that not all is as it seems, as he takes a critical look at the church's complicity with authoritarian rule-from the Tutsi monarchy to the Rwandan Patriotic Front.  Resilience in a Digital Age: Global Challenges in Organisations and Society English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030859533 | 334 Pages | PDF | 7 MB In recent years, decision-makers from all sectors have been using 'resilience' as a keyword for managing societal turbulences. But what is resilience? How can we benefit from integrating digital transformation and resilience?
 Lori Beckett, "Research-Informed Teacher Learning: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Research and Practice " English | ISBN: 036713313X | 2020 | 202 pages | PDF | 9 MB Research-Informed Teacher Learning explores career-long improvements in knowledge building and the skills required in curriculum reform, transformations in teaching methods, alterations to assessment, and restructurings in school administration and management. This extends to meeting the needs and interests of different and diverse students and groups of students, mentoring student teachers and beginning teachers, and supporting experienced teachers, so they are all responsive to their local school-communities, thereby contributing to democratic schooling and the public good. |
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