Free Download Alice Roberts, "Crypt" English | ISBN: 1398519235 | 2024 | 352 pages | EPUB | 80 MB The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author of Ancestors and Buried - the final instalment in Professor Alice Roberts' acclaimed trilogy. Free Download The New York Times Editorial Staff, "Crowdfunding (Looking Forward)" English | 2019 | ISBN: 1642822574, 1642822566 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 2.9 mb In the age of social media networking and personal brands, a new form of fundraising is gaining significant traction. Whether you are a paleontologist seeking financial assistance for fossil excavation, or a musician looking to fund your first album, people are turning to crowdfunding as a way to realize projects, spread awareness about a cause, or even cover medical expenses. The New York Times articles collected in this volume give a sense of the great variety of crowdfunded projects, the particular advantages or drawbacks of the method, and the potential challenges and controversies that can arise from crowdfunding. Features such as media literacy questions and terms help readers understand how the reporting of the topic has developed.
Free Download Crosswordese: A Guide to the Weird and Wonderful Language of Crossword Puzzles by David Bukszpan English | November 14, 2023 | ISBN: 1797203029 | 280 pages | PDF | 11 Mb "Crosswordese in all its glory has never been so entertaining!"-Will Shortz Free Download Sam McManis, "Crossing California: A Cultural Topography of a Land of Wonder and Weirdness" English | 2018 | ISBN: 1610353137 | EPUB | pages: 296 | 2.0 mb Sacramento Bee journalist Sam McManis spent five years on the road trying to find the real California. He discovered that there is more than one California, but every different California is equally weird and wonderful. Worlds collide and commingle: the neo-hippies with the rednecked farmers; the urban sophisticates with the quirky desert dwellers; the Hollywood power brokers with the outsider artists. Brought together in a bouillabaisse of voices, Crossing California will make you see the state in an entirely new light. Free Download Battman, 200 chefs, "Crossing Borders/Sweet Crossings" English | 2018 | ISBN: 0933477600 | PDF | pages: 217 | 8.7 mb Recipes from 200 of the best chefs in the United States and beyond including Michael White, Eric Ripert, Daniel Boulud, Charlie Palmer and Gavin Kaysen. It is a beautiful photo book with recipies meant to inspire you to reach past geographic boundaries and blend flavors you may have never thought to pair. Battman asked the top chefs to create dishes that drew from all of their influences: traveling, reading, social media and connections with the world around them. This book belongs as much on your coffee table as it does in your kitchen. Battman's photos are beautiful. We asked the chefs to make a dish that reflects what they have learned from their years of cooking. That being said, don t be too intimidated to give these dishes a go! Bring these cross-cultural recipes into your home and let them inspire and expand your pantry and palate! Free Download Krum Krumov, "Cross-Cultural Psychology: Why Culture Matters (Hc) " English | ISBN: 1623963176 | 2013 | 476 pages | PDF | 2 MB Cross-Cultural Psychology: Why Culture Matters addresses both established and very recent research in cultural and comparative cross-cultural psychology. The book is written by Professor Krum Krumov of Sofia University in Bulgaria and Professor Knud S. Larsen from Oregon State University. The authors are long-term colleagues with extensive research experience in cultural, cross-cultural and international settings. The book starts with a discussion of the tentative nature of cultural information given the forces of globalization and communication integration. Weighing these issues still permits for some powerful conclusions about differences that matter as well as human universals based on our communalities. The reader is also provided with a through grounding in relevant research approaches and critical thinking that provides the basis for an evaluation of the research literature. Further, the book reports on what we know about the origin of culture, especially the forces of cultural transmission and the evidence for socio-cultural evolution. The impact of culture and psychology on human development is contrasted and evaluated. A chapter on language stresses the importance of evolutionary forces and the relationship to socio-culture. In turn that discussion sets the stage for reporting the relevant research on cognition that yields information on the impact of genetics, but also the affect of cultural evolution. A distinct contribution is the evaluation of human happiness and emotions. The book demonstrates tangible relationships to both the universal expressions of emotions, but also the impact of cultural values on well-being. A consideration of personality theory follows in the systematic and progressive discourse in the book. Research is reported on Western, Eastern and Indigenous conceptualizations and research approaches. The discussion on the self is considered next and the authors evaluate cultural, social and comparative cross-cultural dimensions. Finally, a discussion of sex and gender follows as associated with salient cross-cultural dimensions. The book concludes with a discussion of the affect of cultural values in organizational behavior and a consideration of the relationship between culture and human health. Free Download Juliane House, "Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning " English | ISBN: 1399523228 | 2024 | 240 pages | PDF | 9 MB Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning provides a new ground-breaking approach to the study of second language learning through the lens of cross-cultural pragmatics. Cross-cultural pragmatics involves the use of contrastive linguistic research, supported by a variety of methodologies such as surveys, interviews and discourse completion tests. A key strength of the speech act-centred interactional framework proposed is that it allows the reader to understand difficulties faced by foreign language learners through pragmatic evidence. An important advantage of this approach is that it consistently avoids ideological pre-assumptions and related overgeneralisations. The book presents the framework in a highly accessible and reader-friendly way and illustrates how to put this framework to use with a number of case studies. The authors are internationally leading experts of pragmatics and applied linguistics whose work is a must-read for both academics and students focusing on applied linguistics and second language learnings.
Free Download Gregory A. Boyd, "Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence" English | 2018 | ISBN: 1506432603, 1506420737 | EPUB | pages: 280 | 3.5 mb Renowned pastor-theologian Gregory A. Boyd tackles the Bible's biggest dilemma. Free Download Cromwell's Wars at Sea by John Barratt English | March 28, 2007 | ISBN: 1844154599 | 224 pages | PDF | 8.33 Mb The 200 years that separate the navy of Drake's day from that of Nelson were critical for the development of Britain's sea power, and the decade of the Commonwealth, of Cromwell's rule, is one of the turning points in the story. Free Download Verdicchio, "Croce on History" English | ISBN: 143317894X | 2021 | 160 pages | EPUB, PDF | 400 KB + 6 MB The book is the first critical reading of all the major writings on history by Benedetto Croce. The study is not a summary but a critical assessment based on the relevance of Croce's aesthetics for his concept of history. This account differs from previous studies which are characterized by the excluding or by minimizing the aesthetic, a process the author calls "defiguring." Within this framework Croce's concept of history is not a total philosophy but only an allegory of history: a narrative of the impossibility of history. In other words, Croce's history is not unlike his definition of Hegel's Phenomenology or his system as fiction. It is also not unlike Vico's New Science, the other major influence on Croce's concept of history, as an imaginative science. This study realigns Croce's concept of history with Hegel's and Vico's to redefine, thanks to Croce, how we understand history. |