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 Patricia Higham, "Communication and Interviewing Skills for Practice in Social Work, Counselling and the Health Professions " English | ISBN: 1138342947 | 2019 | 202 pages | EPUB | 779 KB This book supports and develops the communication and interviewing skills of professional practitioners and student practitioners in social work, counselling, and the health professions.  Lee Thayer, "Communication: Ethical and Moral Issues " English | ISBN: 1138959642 | 2017 | 400 pages | EPUB | 1270 KB This pioneering book, on the ethical and moral dimensions of communication and communication systems in the modern world, was originally published in 1974. It derived from an International Symposium on communication, consisting of world-class scholars ranging from philosophy and anthropology, to cybernetics and psychiatry, and from literary criticism to the social and behavioural sciences.
 Common Sense Natural Beekeeping: Sustainable, Bee-Friendly Techniques to Help Your Hives Survive and Thrive by Kim Flottum English | November 30, 2021 | ISBN: 1631599550 | 164 pages | PDF | 35 Mb With Common Sense Natural Beekeeping, learn to keep bees sustainably with limited chemicalor human intervention.  Leo Bogart, "Commercial Culture: The Media System and the Public Interest" English | ISBN: 1138520799 | 2018 | 416 pages | EPUB | 749 KB American mass media are the world's most diverse, rich, and free. Their dazzling resources, variety, and influence arouse envy in other countries. Their failures are commonly excused on the grounds that they are creatures of the market, that they give people what they want. 'Commercial Culture' focuses not on the glories of the media, but on what is wrong with them and why, and how they may be made better. This powerful critique of American mass communication highlights four trends that sound an urgent call for reform: the blurring of distinctions among traditional media and between individual and mass communication; the increasing concentration of media control in a disturbingly small number of powerful organizations; the shift from advertisers to consumers as the source of media revenues; and the growing confusion of information and entertainment, of the real and the imaginary. The future direction of the media, Leo Bogart contends, should not be left to market forces alone. He shows how the public's appetite for media differs from other demands the market is left to satisfy because of how profoundly the media shape the public's character and values. Bogart concludes that a world of new communications technology requires a coherent national media policy, respectful of the American tradition of free expression and subject to vigorous public scrutiny and debate. 'Commercial Culture' is a comprehensive analysis of the media as they evolve in a technological age. It will appeal to general readers interested in mass communications, as well as professionals and scholars studying American mass media.  Meghan Tinsley, "Commemorating Muslims in the First World War Centenary: Making Melancholia " English | ISBN: 0367551853 | 2021 | 182 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Commemorating Muslims in the First World War Centenary engages with the explosion of public commemorations in Britain and France in the wake of the First World War centenary, alongside the hyper-visibility of British and French Muslims in political and popular discourse. Bringing these two phenomena together, it draws on national commemorations of the First World War centenary in Britain and France, alongside eleven local field sites that foregrounded Muslims, to make sense of how national memory changes when it seeks to include a previously excluded group. Through an identification of three distinct narratives, which correspond to three ways of situating Muslims in relation to the nation―mourning, mobilisation, and melancholia―it intervenes in debates surrounding memory, nationhood, and belonging to make sense of the centenary as an extended exercise in nation-building at a moment when the borders of British and French national identity were openly, and violently, contested. With particular attention to sites of melancholia, the author shows how certain sites disrupt national memory and refrain from producing any cohesive narrative to repair that which has been fractured. An exploration of the ways in which commemoration pushes nations to grapple with their past and present, without prescribing any tidy solution, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology with interests in memory studies, nationalism and postcolonial studies.
 Oscar H. Gandy, "Coming to Terms with Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage" English | ISBN: 1138260479 | 2016 | 248 pages | EPUB | 371 KB The application of probability and statistics to an ever-widening number of life-decisions serves to reproduce, reinforce, and widen disparities in the quality of life that different groups of people can enjoy. As a critical technology assessment, the ways in which bad luck early in life increase the probability that hardship and loss will accumulate across the life course are illustrated. Analysis shows the ways in which individual decisions, informed by statistical models, shape the opportunities people face in both market and non-market environments. Ultimately, this book challenges the actuarial logic and instrumental rationalism that drives public policy and emphasizes the role that the mass media play in justifying its expanded use. Although its arguments and examples take as their primary emphasis the ways in which these decision systems affect the life chances of African-Americans, the findings are also applicable to a broad range of groups burdened by discrimination.  George Caspar Homans, "Coming to My Senses: The Autobiography of a Sociologist" English | ISBN: 1412851521 | 2013 | 383 pages | EPUB | 557 KB Those interested in the development of scientific theory and in the nature of academic life will appreciate this intellectual autobiography written by one of America's leading sociologists. Following his family tradition (The Education of Henry Adams was written by his great-uncle), George Caspar Homans describes how his ideas about the proper nature of theory in social science, both in form and content, have developed over time. The chief interest of the book lies in the description of this process.  Combinatorial Optimization for Undergraduates by L. R. Foulds English | PDF | 1984 | 236 Pages | ISBN : 1461395135 | 16.4 MB The major purpose of this book is to introduce the main concepts of discrete optimization problems which have a finite number of feasible solutions. Following common practice, we term this topic combinatorial optimization. There are now a number of excellent graduate-level textbooks on combina torial optimization. However, there does not seem to exist an undergraduate text in this area. This book is designed to fill this need. The book is intended for undergraduates in mathematics, engineering, business, or the physical or social sciences. It may also be useful as a reference text for practising engineers and scientists.  Matthew T. Huber, "Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet" English | ISBN: 1788733886 | 2022 | 320 pages | EPUB | 1328 KB How to build a movement to confront climate change  Doug Buehl, "Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning, 4th edition" English | 2017 | ISBN: 1625311702 | EPUB | pages: 260 | 37.4 mb Educators across all content areas have turned to Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning for almost two decades. The fourth edition delivers rich, practical, and research-based strategies that readers have found invaluable in today's classrooms. Author Doug Buehl has written all-new chapters that focus on the instructional shifts taking place as the Common Core State Standards are implemented across the United States. These introductory chapters will help you do the following: |
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