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 Yasmine Shamma, "Migration, Culture and Identity: Making Home Away " English | ISBN: 3031120841 | 2022 | 221 pages | PDF | 4 MB This book is about homemaking in situations of migration and displacement. It explores how homes are made, remade, lost, revived, expanded and contracted through experiences of migration, to ask what it means to make a home away from home. We draw together a wide range of perspectives from across multiple disciplines and contexts, which explore how old homes, lost homes, and new homes connect and disconnect through processes of homemaking. The volume asks: how do spaces of resettlement or rehoming reflect both the continuation of old homes  Christopher Craig, "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan " English | ISBN: 0824886259 | 2021 | 278 pages | PDF | 3 MB Among the challenges facing Japan in its quest to match the modern states of the Western world, none was more crucial than the development of agriculture. With a state focused more on the emblematic goals of mechanization, urbanization, and a modern military, it fell upon local elites in villages across the country to bring rice production into the modern era. Middlemen of Modernity explores these elites and their actions in a region in northeastern Japan, presenting a view of the transformation of Japanese agriculture from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Meiji-era agricultural policy called for village elites to mobilize their wealth and local reputations to introduce improved farming methods, transform the physical landscape, and increase agricultural production. Farmers looked to the same figures to use their elevated status and government connections to direct public funds toward building prosperous villages. But economic shocks and social change created a new generation of elites with their own vision for agricultural improvement, leading to conditions that caused famine, economic disparity, and village unrest. The official and local responses to these discrepancies brought an end to the elite leadership of agricultural development at the beginning of the twentieth century, but its legacy set the course for farming and rural Japanese society for the next half century.  Stephen Edgell, "Middle-Class Couples: A Study of Segregation, Domination and Inequality in Marriage " English | ISBN: 1032437200 | 2023 | 152 pages | PDF | 8 MB When this book was originally published in 1980, sociologists had long held the view that the middle-class marriage in contemporary Britain was characterised by role desegregation and marital equality. Middle-Class Couples reported on research which provided a critical re-analysis of this orthodoxy. The book is a theoretically informed, empirical study which largely debunks many of the myths associated with this alleged movement towards 'equal marriage' among professional couples. The author analysed the sexual division of labour among a group of professional workers and their wives at the child-rearing stage of their family cycle. The research paid special attention to the notion of marital equality and the power dimension of marriage, the household division of labour and the patterning of leisure between husbands and wives. A radical critique of the existing social theories of the family and society incorporated in the classic studies of Parsons, Watson, Young and Willmott, Ann Oakley and Elizabeth Bott.  Microsoft PowerPoint Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques: An indispensable guide to mastering PowerPoint's advanced tools to create engaging presentations English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781839215339 | 338 Pages | EPUB (True) | 35 MB  Microbial Systematics; Biomolecules and Natural Macromolecules Applications by Bhagwan Narayan Rekadwad English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032309830 | 231 pages | True PDF | 10.69 MB  Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England By Tara E. Pedersen 2015 | 166 Pages | ISBN: 1472440013 | PDF | 3 MB We no longer ascribe the term 'mermaid' to those we deem sexually or economically threatening; we do not ubiquitously use the mermaid's image in political propaganda or feature her within our houses of worship; perhaps most notably, we do not entertain the possibility of the mermaid's existence. This, author Tara Pedersen argues, makes it difficult for contemporary scholars to consider the mermaid as a figure who wields much social significance. During the early modern period, however, this was not the case, and Pedersen illustrates the complicated category distinctions that the mermaid inhabits and challenges in 16th-and 17th-century England. Addressing epistemological questions about embodiment and perception, this study furthers research about early modern theatrical culture by focusing on under-theorized and seldom acknowledged representations of mermaids in English locations and texts. While individuals in early modern England were under pressure to conform to seemingly monolithic ideals about the natural order, there were also significant challenges to this order. Pedersen uses the figure of the mermaid to rethink some of these challenges, for the mermaid often appears in surprising places; she is situated at the nexus of historically specific debates about gender, sexuality, religion, the marketplace, the new science, and the culture of curiosity and travel. Although these topics of inquiry are not new, Pedersen argues that the mermaid provides a new lens through which to look at these subjects and also helps scholars think about the present moment, methodologies of reading, and many category distinctions that are important to contemporary scholarly debates.  Mental Health Secrets: A Practical Guide To Understanding Mental Health Problems by ARIJ EXCELLENCE English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQT7ZH16 | 125 pages | EPUB | 0.16 Mb Mental Health Secret : A Practical Guide To Understanding Mental Health Problems  Meditation Journal For Force Realists By Alethea J Thompson 2012 | 372 Pages | ISBN: 1477548513 | EPUB | 1 MB This book is meant to help you learn how to meditate and develop your own meditation style.  Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Common Garments 1100-1480 by Sarah Thursfield English | March 23rd, 2015 | ISBN: 0896762955 | 243 Pages | EPUB | 106.91 MB The Medieval Tailor's Assistant is the standard work for both amateurs and professionals wishing to re-create the clothing of the Medieval era for historical interpretation or drama. This new edition extends its range with details of fitting different figures and many more patterns for main garments and accessories from 1100 to 1480. It includes simple instructions for plain garments, as well as more complex patterns and adaptations for experienced sewers.  James L. Marcum, "Medicines That Kill: The Truth about the Hidden Epidemic" English | ISBN: 1414368852 | 2013 | 256 pages | EPUB | 771 KB The recent deaths of celebrities like Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith, Heath Ledger, and Whitney Houston have shown a spotlight on the overuse and abuse of prescription drugs. Most people believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal substances. But, when combined with other over-the-counter sedatives, prescription drugs can be every bit as powerful, addictive, and dangerous. In 2006, overdoses on a class of prescription pain relievers called opioid analgesics killed more people than those killed by overdoses on cocaine and heroin combined. Right now, among 35 to 54 year olds, poisoning by prescription drugs is the most common cause of accidental death―even more so than auto-related deaths. In |
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