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 Free Download Jill Keppeler, "Women's Suffrage Movement (Civic Participation: Fighting for Rights)" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1499426852, 1499428456 | EPUB | pages: 32 | 3.3 mb For most of history, women have been confined to their households, and to lives without equal rights or equal opportunities. This volume introduces readers to the women of the suffrage movement, the defining movement for women's rights, especially the right to vote. Primary sources and photographs will show readers firsthand how the challenges and successes of this movement shaped the lives of women across the United States. Readers will also learn about the inequality that still exists for women, and how they can change this injustice in the future.  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By identifying a discernible tradition of women's educational literature, and, in doing so, restoring female writers to the centre of the stage, this book adds its voice to existing scholarly efforts to correct the ongoing critical tendency to marginalise the contribution of women to the history of educational thought.  Free Download Nancy Hendricks, "Women's Equality in America: Examining the Facts " English | ISBN: 144087946X | 2024 | 208 pages | EPUB, PDF | 775 KB + 20 MB Written in vivid prose and with a keen eye for detail, Women's Equality in America is a valuable resource for understanding the issues and trends that dominate public discourse in discussions of women's rights and gender equality in America.  Free Download Sharon M. Harris, "Women's Early American Historical Narratives" English | 2003 | ISBN: 0142437107 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 0.4 mb This fascinating collection presents a rare look at women writers' first-hand perspectives on early American history. 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 Free Download Manujendra Kundu, "Women Performers in Bengal and Bangladesh: Caught up in the Culture of South Asia " English | ISBN: 019287151X | 2024 | 354 pages | EPUB | 897 KB Covering nearly 225 years, this volume tries to capture a broad spectrum of the situation of women performers from Gerasim Lebedeff's time (1795), who are considered to be the first performers in modern Bengali theatre, to today's time. The moot question is whether the role of women as performers evolved down the centuries. Whether this question will lead us to their subjugation to their male counterparts, producers, and directors has been explored here to give readers an understanding of when, where, by whom the politics began, and, by tracing the footprints, we have tried to understand if the politics has changed, or remains unchanged, or metamorphosed with regard to the woman's question in the performance discourse. We have explored, in this regard, how her body, mind, and sexuality interacted with and negotiated the phallocentric hierarchy.  Free Download Sally Garratt, "Women Managing for the Millennium" English | 2016 | ISBN: 0006386776 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.3 mb The mid-1990s is emerging as a significant time for change, particularly in the world of management. The shape and gender structure of organizations are altering rapidly as we move into the 21st century. As a result, organizations are increasingly having to look at new ways of working. This book looks at the meaning of these changes for women in the workplace and addresses such key issues as: How different generations of women reached their positions; whether women are better managers; What unique qualities women bring to management and how they fit in with the percieved demands that managers might face in the future; and the types of training that are most useful.  Free Download Jeffrey R. Holland, "Witness for His Names" English | 2019 | ISBN: 1629727091 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 4.0 mb When Elder Jeffrey R. Holland was first called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, he quickly learned that "among the most important responsibilities {he} had was to be one of the 'special witnesses of the name of Christ in all the world.'" This understanding prompted a habit in his daily scripture study of "jotting down or otherwise noting the references to Jesus's various names" in the standard works. With study, "the name of Christ was growing and swelling, expanding and emerging into the names of Christ."  Free Download Anna Bloch-Rozmej, "Within Language, Beyond Theories: Studies in Applied Linguistics Volume II" English | ISBN: 1443874574 | 2015 | 325 pages | PDF | 2 MB This is the second volume in a series of three books called Within Language, Beyond Theories, which focuses on current linguistic research surpassing the limits of contemporary theoretical frameworks in order to provide new insights into the structure of the language system and to offer more comprehensive accounts of linguistic phenomena from a number of the world's languages. The volume is composed of eighteen chapters, each focusing on a significant issue in the field of applied linguistics. Part I covers articles relating to language learning and teaching. The authors here are preoccupied with such topics as innovative methods of teaching phonetics, meaning and form-based instructions and CALL-related strategies in language learning, test design, and the issue of conversational convergence among advanced non-native speakers. This section also provides interesting insights into the role of pragmatics in the business English course syllabus and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). Part II brings together papers devoted to language acquisition, a psycholinguistic perspective on onomatopoeias, the impact of physical attractiveness on the perception of a foreign accent, and the problem of endangered languages. Articles included in Part III are concerned with the practical application of the conceptual theory of metaphor and metonymy and frame semantics in lexicography, specialist dictionaries and recent issues in translation studies. Drawing on the most recent advances in applied linguistics, the contributions to this volume address key issues in the field and formulate original solutions to a selection of widely debated problems. The analyses are firmly based on linguistic data obtained in the course of the authors' own research. The applicability of existing approaches is tested against evidence from a number of languages, such as Latvian, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, English, Turkish and German, and inspiring new ideas and creative solutions are proposed. The volume will be of interest to applied linguists, teachers, specialists in psycho- and sociolinguistics, lexicographers, and translators. |
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