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 Ying Zhu, "Improving Competitiveness through Human Resource Development in China: The Role of Vocational Education " English | ISBN: 1138625108 | 2019 | 144 pages | PDF | 3 MB This book looks at the development of vocational education and training in China and how it is crucial to human resource development and improving competitiveness. It briefly outlines the contextual issues related to vocational education and training in China, the importance of vocational education and how China has been using vocational training to reduce the unemployment rate and raise its overall human capital.  Jenny Sharpe, "Immaterial Archives: An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss " English | ISBN: 0810141582 | 2020 | 216 pages | PDF | 7 MB In this innovative study, Jenny Sharpe moves beyond the idea of art and literature as an alternative archive to the historical records of slavery and its aftermath. Immaterial Archives explores instead the intangible phenomena of affects, spirits, and dreams that Caribbean artists and writers introduce into existing archives. Through the works of Frantz Zéphirin, Edouard Duval-Carrié, M. NourbeSe Philip, Erna Brodber, and Kamau Brathwaite, examines silences as black female spaces, Afro-Creole sacred worlds as diasporic cartographies, and the imaginative conjoining of spirits with industrial technologies as disruptions of enlightened modernity.  Sally Tomlinson, "Ignorant Yobs?: Low Attainers in a Global Knowledge Economy" English | ISBN: 0415525772 | 2013 | 168 pages | PDF | 766 KB What happens to young people who are defined as lower attainers or having learning difficulties in a global knowledge economy?  Idolized: Music, Media, and Identity in American Idol By Katherine L. Meizel 2010 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0253222710 | PDF | 3 MB The hit television program American Idol provides a stage where the politics of national, regional, ethnic, and religious identity are performed for millions of viewers. Diversity is carefully highlighted and coached into a viable commodity by judges, argues Katherine Meizel, with contestants packaged into familiar portraits of American identities. Consumer choice, as expressed by audience voting, also shapes the course of the show-negotiating ideas of democracy and opportunity closely associated with the American Dream. Through interviews with audience members and participants, and careful analyses of television broadcasts, commercial recordings, and print and online media, Meizel demonstrates that commercial music and the music industry are not simply forces to be criticized or resisted, but critical sites for redefining American culture.  Florian Coulmas, "Identity: A Very Short Introduction" English | 2019 | ISBN: 0198828543 | EPUB | pages: 152 | 3.4 mb Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet "identity" is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in  Kevin Kocher, "How to Train Police Bloodhound and Scent Discriminating Patrol Dog" English | 2014 | pages: 752 | ISBN: 0578069865 | PDF | 18,5 mb One of the problems with trailing or tracking dogs is uniformity. The inconsistency between different dogs limits what instructors can uniformly teach handlers. Using the method of training presented in this book will produce the uniformity that has been missing.  How to Make Hammered Wire Jewellery by Linda Jones English | March 1st, 2022 | ISBN: 1782212981 | 144 pages | True EPUB | 33.41 MB Learn how to make gorgeous jewellery using only basic techniques, including rings, pendants, bracelets, earrings and more in a dazzling array of styles.  How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics By Calvert Watkins 1995 | 613 Pages | ISBN: 0195085957 | PDF | 29 MB In How to Kill a Dragon Watkins uses the comparative method to reconstruct and examine the structure of the dragon/serpent- slaying myths, which recur in various guises throughout the Indo-European poetic tradition. He finds the "signature" formula for the myth--the divine hero who slays the serpent or overcomes adversaries--occurs in the same linguistic form in a wide range of sources and over millennia, including Old and Middle Iranian holy books, Greek epic, Celtic and Germanic sagas, down to Armenian oral folk epic of the last century. Watkins argues that this formula is the vehicle for the central theme of a proto-text, and a central part of the symbolic culture of speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language: the relation of humans to their universe, the values and expectations of their society. Therefore, he further argues, poetry was a social necessity for Indo- European society, where the poet could confer on patrons what they and their culture valued above all else: "imperishable fame."
 Gordon D. Fee, Mark L. Strauss, "How to Choose a Translation for All Its Worth: A Guide to Understanding and Using Bible Versions" English | 2007 | pages: 170 | ISBN: 0310278767 | EPUB | 0,9 mb With so many Bible translations available today, how can you find those that will be most useful to you? What is the difference between a translation that calls itself "literal" and one that is more "meaning-based"? And what difference does it make for you as a reader of God's Word?How to Choose a Translation for All Its Worth brings clarity and insight to the current debate over translations and translation theories. Written by two seasoned Bible translators, here is an authoritative guide through the maze of translations issues, written in language that everyday Bible readers can understand.Learn the truth about both the word-for-word and meaning-for-meaning translations approaches. Find out what goes into the whole process of translation, and what makes a translation accurate and reliable. Discover the strengths and potential weaknesses of different contemporary English Bible versions. In the midst of the present confusion over translations, this authoritative book speaks with an objective, fair-minded, and reassuring voice to help pastors, everyday Bible readers, and students make wise, well-informed choices about which Bible translations they can depend on and which will best meet their needs.  Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film By Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor 2003 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0813190770 | PDF | 25 MB Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film. This updated edition includes a new chapter on Smoke Signals, the groundbreaking independent film written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre. Taken as a whole the essays explore the many ways in which these portrayals have made an impact on our collective cultural life. |
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