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 City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage By Maria Kromidas Ph.D 2016 | 196 Pages | ISBN: 0813584795 | PDF | 2 MB Cosmopolitanism-the genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversity-is often associated with adult worldliness and sophistication. Yet, as this innovative new book suggests, children growing up in multicultural environments might be the most cosmopolitan group of all.City Kids profiles fifth-graders in one of New York City's most diverse public schools, detailing how they collectively developed a sophisticated understanding of race that challenged many of the stereotypes, myths, and commonplaces they had learned from mainstream American culture. Anthropologist Maria Kromidas spent over a year interviewing and observing these young people both inside and outside the classroom, and she vividly relates their sometimes awkward, often playful attempts to bridge cultural rifts and reimagine racial categories. Kromidas looks at how children learned race in their interactions with each other and with teachers in five different areas-navigating urban space, building friendships, carrying out schoolwork, dealing with the school's disciplinary policies, and enacting sexualities. The children's interactions in these areas contested and reframed race. Even as Kromidas highlights the lively and quirky individuals within this super-diverse group of kids, she presents their communal ethos as a model for convivial living in multiracial settings. By analyzing practices within the classroom, school, and larger community, City Kids offers advice on how to nurture kids' cosmopolitan tendencies, making it a valuable resource for educators, parents, and anyone else who is concerned with America's deep racial divides. Kromidas not only examines how we can teach children about antiracism, but also considers what they might have to teach us.  Sarah Hamilton, "Church and People in the Medieval West, 900-1200" English | 2013 | pages: 436 | ISBN: 058277280X, 1138139491 | PDF | 4,7 mb During the middle ages, belief in God was the single more important principle for every person, and the all-powerful church was the most important institution. It is impossible to understand the medieval world without understanding the religious vision of the time, and this new textbook offers an approach which explores the meaning of this in day-to-day life, as well as the theory behind it.
 Building Pedagogues: White Practicing Teachers and the Struggle for Antiracist Work in Schools By Zachary A. Casey, Shannon K. McManimon 2020 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 1438479751 | PDF | 2 MB An in-depth account and model of antiracist professional development for white practicing teachers.Antiracist professional development for white teachers often follows a one-size-fits-all model, focusing on narrow notions of race and especially white privilege at the expense of more radical analyses of white supremacy. Frustrated with this model, Zachary A. Casey and Shannon K. McManimon, both white teacher educators, developed a two-year professional development seminar called "RaceWork" with eight white practicing teachers committed to advancing antiracism in their classrooms, schools, and communities. Drawing on interviews, field notes, teacher reflections, and classroom observations, Building Pedagogues details the program's theoretical and pedagogical foundations; Casey and McManimon's unique tripartite approach to race and racism at personal, local, and structural levels; learnings, strategies, and practical interventions that emerged from the program; and the challenges and resistance these teachers faced. As the story of RaceWork and a model for implementing it, the book concludes by reminding its audience of teachers, teacher educators, and researchers that antiracist professional development is a continual, open-ended process. The work of building pedagogues is an ongoing process.  British Jacobin Politics, Desires, and Aftermaths: Seditious Hearts By James Epstein, David Karr 2021 | 404 Pages | ISBN: 0367464446 | PDF | 16 MB This book explores the hopes, desires, and imagined futures that characterized British radicalism in the 1790s, and the resurfacing of this sense of possibility in the following decades. The articulation of "Jacobin" sentiments reflected the emotional investments of men and women inspired by the French Revolution and committed to political transformation. The authors emphasize the performative aspects of political culture, and the spaces in which mobilization and expression occurred - including the club room, tavern, coffeehouse, street, outdoor meeting, theater, chapel, courtroom, prison, and convict ship. America, imagined as a site of republican citizenship, and New South Wales, experienced as a space of political exile, widened the scope of radical dreaming. Part 1 focuses on the political culture forged under the shifting influence of the French Revolution. Part 2 explores the afterlives of British Jacobinism in the year 1817, in early Chartist memorialization of the Scottish "martyrs" of 1794, and in the writings of E. P. Thompson. The relationship between popular radicals and the Romantics is a theme pursued in several chapters; a dialogue is sustained across the disciplinary boundaries of British history and literary studies. The volume captures the revolutionary decade's effervescent yearning, and its unruly persistence in later years.  Bread Machine Baking for Beginners by Hensperger, Beth; English | 2023 | ISBN: 0760383448 | 282 pages | True EPUB | 5.52 MB  Ó Tuama, "Borders and Belonging: The Book of Ruth: A Story for Our Times" English | ISBN: 1786222566 | 2021 | 144 pages | EPUB | 160 KB A leading poet and a theologian reflect on the Old Testament story of Ruth, a tale that resonates deeply in today's world with its themes of migration, the stranger, mixed cultures and religions, law and leadership, women in public life, kindness, generosity and fear. Ruth's story speaks directly to many of the issues and deep differences that Brexit has exposed and to the polarisation taking place in many societies.  Curtis McGrath, "Blood, Sweat and Steel" English | ISBN: 0733340784 | 2022 | 352 pages | EPUB | 32 MB From Afghanistan to gold - an extraordinary tale of tragedy, resilience and triumph  Whitney French, "Black Writers Matter: Revised Edition" English | ISBN: 0889778744 | 2021 | 216 pages | EPUB | 345 KB "Black Writers? African, Bluesy, Classical, Disrespectful, Erudite, Fiery, Groovy, Haunting, Inspiring, Jazzy, Knowing, Liberating, Militant, Nervy, Optimistic, Pugnacious, Quixotic, Rambunctious, Seductive, Truculent, Urgent, Vivacious, Wicked, X-ray sharp, Yearning, Zesty. And so, they matter!" ―George Elliott Clarke
 Between Past and Future: Civil-Military Relations in the Post-Communist Balkans By Haken Wiberg, Biljana Vankovska 2003 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1860646247 | PDF | 45 MB Between Past and Future is essential coverage with theoretical underpinning of the civil-military relations in the seven major post-Communist Balkan states of Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia.
 Bountavy Sisouphanthong, "Atlas of Laos: The spatial structures of economic and social development of the Lao People's Democratic Republic" English | 2000 | ISBN: 9747551411 | PDF | pages: 161 | 21.5 mb |
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