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 Literature and Medicine: Volume 1: The Eighteenth Century English | 2021 | ISBN: 1108420869 | 293 Pages | PDF | 5 MB Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century and Romantic period, a time when most diseases had no cure, this collection provides a valuable overview of how two dynamic fields influenced and shaped one another. Covering a period in which both medicine and literature underwent frequent and sometimes radical change, the volume examines the complex mutual construction of these two fields via various perspectives: disability, gender, race, rank, sexuality, the global and colonial, politics, ethics, and the visual. Diseases, fashionable and otherwise, such as Defoe's representation of the plague, feature strongly, as authors argue for the role literary genres play in affecting people's experience of physical and mental illness (and health) across the volume. Along with its sister publication, Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century, this volume offers a major critical overview of the study of literature and medicine.
 Nancy Rankie Shelton, "Literacy Policies and Practices in Conflict: Reclaiming Classrooms in Networked Times" English | ISBN: 0415527414 | 2014 | 188 pages | PDF | 1361 KB Current U.S. school reform efforts link school success, student achievement, and teacher performance to standardized tests and narrowly prescribed curricula. How do test-driven, mandated curricula in urban school systems overtly and subtly impact teachers' efforts to provide technologically advanced, challenging classroom environments that foster literacy development for all students? How do these federal policies affect instruction at the classroom level?  Niharika Banerjea, Kath Browne, Eduarda Ferreira, "Lesbian Feminism: Essays Opposing Global Heteropatriarchies" English | 2019 | ISBN: 178699531X | PDF | pages: 417 | 2.7 mb Drawing on the incredible wealth of diversity of languages, cultures and movements in which lesbian feminisms have been articulated, this book confronts the historic devaluation of lesbian-feminist politics within Anglo-American discourse and ignites a transnational and transgenerational discussion regarding the relevance of lesbian feminisms in today's world, a discussion that challenges the view of lesbian feminism as static and essentialist.  Stephanie L. Mudge, "Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism" English | 2018 | ISBN: 0674971817 | PDF | pages: 557 | 3.2 mb Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the market's tendencies to produce inequality. But in the 1990s they gave up on protection, asking voters to adapt to a market-driven world. Meanwhile, new, extreme parties began to promise economic protections of their own―albeit in an angry, anti-immigrant tone.
 Learning to Lead: The Journey to Leading Yourself, Leading Others, and Leading an Organization by Ron Williams and Karl Weber English | May 7, 2019 | ISBN: 1626346224 | 322 pages | EPUB | 1 MB Wall Street Journal Bestseller  Learn Enough jаvascript to be Dangerous: A Tutorial Introduction to Programming with jаvascript English | 2022 | ISBN: 9780137843763 | 304 Pages | EPUB | 7 MB jаvascript plays a key role in modern software development, not only because it is the only language that runs inside virtually all web browsers, but also because it has become widely used for back-end and general-purpose development as well. Although jаvascript is a big language, you don't need to learn "everything" about it to get started-just how to use it efficiently to solve real problems. In Learn Enough jаvascript to Be Dangerous, renowned instructor Michael Hartl teaches the specific concepts, skills, and approaches you need to be professionally productive.  Leading on Inclusion: The Role of the SENCO by Mhairi C. Beaton, Geraldene N. Codina English | Apr 22, 2021 | ISBN: 036742049X, 0367420503 | 202 pages | PDF | 3 MB This comprehensive resource provides a range of perspectives on inclusion, giving Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCOs) the opportunity to consider the principles and practice that underpin their leadership role.  Tirthankar Roy, "Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy: India 1947 and Beyond " English | ISBN: 022679900X | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB An essential history of India's economic growth since 1947, including the legal reforms that have shaped the country in the shadow of colonial rule.  Tsvetomira Danova, "John of Damascus' Marian Homilies in Mediaeval South Slavic Literatures" English | ISBN: 3631833903 | 2020 | 540 pages | PDF | 14 MB John of Damascus is one of the most remarkable figures among the Church Fathers. The reception of his theological and philosophical works among the Orthodox Slavs in the Middle Ages has been comparatively well researched - unlike that of his homiletic works. This book is devoted to four Slavonic translations of three homilies of John of Damascus dedicated to the Mother of God. It offers the first comprehensive, complex study of the translations of John's First and Third Homilies on the Dormition and his Homily on the Nativity of the Mother of God, preserved in South Slavic hagiographic and homiletic collections. The problems related to the textual tradition and translational peculiarities of these works have a central place in this study. It is supplemented with an edition of the Slavonic translations with parallel Greek text, as well as with a Slavonic-Greek and Greek-Slavonic list of content words.
 John Adams's Nixon in China: Musical Analysis, Historical and Political Perspectives By Timothy A. Johnson 2011 | 278 Pages | ISBN: 1409426823 | PDF | 4 MB John Adams' opera, "Nixon in China", is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemporary literature. Timothy A. Johnson illuminates the opera and enhances listeners' and scholars' appreciation for this landmark work. This music-analytical guide presents a detailed, in-depth analysis of the music tied to historical and political contexts. The opera captures an important moment in history and in international relations, and a close study of it from an interdisciplinary perspective provides fresh, compelling insights about the opera. The music analysis takes a neo-Riemannian approach to harmony and to large-scale harmonic connections. Musical metaphors drawn between harmonies and their dramatic contexts enrich this approach. Motivic analysis reveals interweaving associations between the characters, based on melodic content. Analysis of rhythm and meter focuses on Adams's frequent use of grouping and displacement dissonances to propel the music forward or to illustrate the libretto. The book shows how the historical depiction in the opera is accurate, yet enriched by this operatic adaptation. The language of the opera is true to its source, but more evocative than the words spoken in 1972-due to Alice Goodman's marvelous, poetic libretto. And the music transcends its repetitive shell to become a hierarchically-rich and musically-compelling achievement. |
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