Free Download Wendy Sims-Schouten, "Safeguarding and Mental Health Support in Contemporary Childhood"
English | ISBN: 0367652447 | 2022 | 134 pages | EPUB | 215 KB
Approaches regarding safeguarding and mental health in childhood have been in constant flux. Framed within a critical realist ontology, this book provides insight into causal factors (individual, material, institutional) and social structures that impact on the continued legacy of the 'deserving/undeserving' paradigm.

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Free Download Sacred Natural Sites: Conserving Nature and Culture By Bas Verschuuren (editor), Robert Wild (editor), Jeffrey Mcneely (editor), Gonzalo Oviedo (editor)
2010 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 1849711666 | PDF | 6 MB
Sacred Natural Sites are the world's oldest protected places. This book focuses on a wide spread of both iconic and lesser known examples such as sacred groves of the Western Ghats (India), Sagarmatha /Chomolongma (Mt Everest, Nepal, Tibet - and China), the Golden Mountains of Altai (Russia), Holy Island of Lindisfarne (UK) and the sacred lakes of the Niger Delta (Nigeria). The book illustrates that sacred natural sites, although often under threat, exist within and outside formally recognised protected areas, heritage sites. Sacred natural sites may well be some of the last strongholds for building resilient networks of connected landscapes. They also form important nodes for maintaining a dynamic socio-cultural fabric in the face of global change. The diverse authors bridge the gap between approaches to the conservation of cultural and biological diversity by taking into account cultural and spiritual values together with the socio-economic interests of the custodian communities and other relevant stakeholders.

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Free Download STM8 Microcontroller Development on Ubuntu: Companion to the Arduino to ARM Series by A.C. Me
English | May 29, 2018 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07124SMWJ | 101 pages | EPUB | 3.89 Mb
Installation, configuration and test of development environments for the STM8 family of microcontrollers on Ubuntu. Both command line environment and Code::Blocks IDE are installed, configured and tested.

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Free Download SEXY BRATS, NAUGHTY VIRGINS EROTIC SHORT STORIES (100 EROTICA SEX BOOKS COLLECTION) by Jamie Cummlots
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B5DTFBTN | 3339 pages | EPUB | 1.98 Mb
This collection of100 SEX storiesis ONLY for readers who are ready to have soaked panties... raging rods... and an uncontrollable urge to F**K!!!

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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1472850998 | 65 pages | True PDF EPUB | 35 MB

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Free Download Ruritania: A Cultural History, from The Prisoner of Zenda to the Princess Diaries By Nicholas Daly
2020 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0198836600 | PDF | 5 MB
This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), which introduced Ruritania, a colourful pocket kingdom. In this swashbuckling tale, Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the king of Ruritania to foil a coup, but faces a dilemma when he falls for the lovely Princess Flavia. Hope's novel inspired stage and screen adaptations, place names, and even a board game, but it also launched a whole new subgenre, the "Ruritanian romance". The new form offered swordplay, royal romance, and splendid uniforms and gowns in such settings as Alasia, Balaria, and Cadonia. This study explores both the original appeal of The Prisoner of Zenda, and the extraordinary longevity and adaptability of the Ruritanian formula, which, it is argued, has been rooted in a lingering fascination with royalty, and the pocket kingdom's capacity to hold a looking glass up to Britain and later the United States. Individual chapters look at Hope's novel and its stage and film adaptations; at the forgotten American versions of Ruritania; at the chocolate-box principalities of the musical stage; at Cold War reworkings of the formula; and at Ruritania's recent reappearance in young adult fiction and made-for-television Christmas movies. The adventures of Ruritania have involved a diverse list of contributors, including John Buchan, P.G Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Vladimir Nabokov, and Ian Fleming among the writers; Sigmund Romberg and Ivor Novello among the composers; Erich Von Stroheim and David O. Selznick among the film-makers; and Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Ustinov, Peter Sellers, and Anne Hathaway among the performers.

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Free Download Yong Huang, "Rorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism: With Responses by Richard Rorty"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0791476847, 0791476839 | PDF | pages: 335 | 11.2 mb
An engagement between Confucianism and the philosophy of Richard Rorty.

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Free Download Ross Singer, "Rooted Resistance: Agrarian Myth in Modern America "
English | ISBN: 1682261433 | 2020 | 318 pages | EPUB | 1075 KB
From farm-to-table restaurants and farmers markets, to support for fair trade and food sovereignty, movements for food-system change hold the promise for deeper transformations. Yet Americans continue to live the paradox of caring passionately about healthy eating while demanding the convenience of fast food. Rooted Resistance explores this fraught but promising food scene. More than a retelling of the origin story of a democracy born from an intimate connection with the land, this book wagers that socially responsible agrarian mythmaking should be a vital part of a food ethic of resistance if we are to rectify the destructive tendencies in our contemporary food system.

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Free Download Romantic Narratives in International Politics: Pirates, Rebels and Mercenaries By Alexander Spencer
2016 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0719095298 | PDF | 15 MB
Romantic Narratives in International Politics is a story about the importance of stories in International Relations (IR). It brings insights from literary studies and narratology into IR and political science by developing a new discourse analytical method of narrative analysis. Focusing on the three elements of setting, characterization and employment, the book argues that narratives are of fundamental importance for human cognition and identity construction; they help us understand the social and political world in which we live. Empirically the book looks at narratives about pirates, rebels and private military and security companies (PMSCs). It illustrates in the case of pirates and rebels that the romantic images embedded in cultural stories influence our understanding of modern piracy in places like Somalia or rebels in Libya. Dominant romantic tales marginalize other, less flattering, stories about these actors, in which they are constituted as terrorists and made responsible for human rights violations. In contrast, in the case of PMSCs in Iraq the absence of such romantic cultural stories makes it difficult for such actors to successfully narrate themselves as romantic heroes to the public. This book will be of interest to students and teachers of international relations, political science and cultural studies.

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English | ISBN: 0762780428 | 2012 | 104 pages | EPUB | 17 MB
Rocks, Gems, and Minerals is a field guide to 80 of the most common and sought-after rocks, gems, and minerals hidden throughout North America. Conveniently sized to fit in your pocket and featuring full-color, detailed photographs, this informative guide makes it easy to identify rocks in your backyard and beyond. Also included is an introduction that covers fundamental geology information and interesting facts. This is the essential source when you're out in the field, both informative and beautiful to peruse.

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