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Free Download In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust By Barry McCrea
2011 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0231527330 | PDF | 1 MB
In the Company of Strangers shows how a reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary experiments of the modernist novel. While stories of marriage and long-lost relatives were a mainstay of classic Victorian fiction, Barry McCrea suggests that rival countercurrents within these family Descriptions set the stage for the formal innovations of Joyce and Proust. Tracing the challenges to the family Description mounted by figures such as Fagin, Sherlock Holmes, Leopold Bloom, and Charles Swann, McCrea tells the story of how bonds generated by chance encounters between strangers come to take over the role of organizing narrative time and give shape to fictional worlds-a task and power that was once the preserve of the genealogical family. By investigating how the question of family is a hidden key to modernist structure and style, In the Company of Strangers explores the formal narrative potential of queerness and in doing so rewrites the history of the modern novel.

Free Download In Their Siblings' Voices: White Non-Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Being Raised with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters By Rita Simon; Rhonda Roorda
2009 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 023151994X | PDF | 1 MB
In Their Siblings' Voices shares the stories of twenty white non-adopted siblings who grew up with black or biracial brothers and sisters in the late 1960s and 1970s. Belonging to the same families profiled in Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories and In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees, these siblings offer their perspectives on the multiracial adoption experience, which, for them, played out against the backdrop of two tumultuous, politically charged decades. Simon and Roorda question whether professionals and adoption agencies adequately trained these children in the challenges presented by blended families, and they ask if, after more than thirty years, race still matters. Few books cover both the academic and the human dimensions of this issue. In Their Siblings' Voices helps readers fully grasp the dynamic of living in a multiracial household and its effect on friends, school, and community.

Free Download Shlomo Izre'el, "In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language "
English | ISBN: 9027204977 | 2020 | 452 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their own theoretical and practical experience to the table. In the first part of the book they segment spoken material from a range of different languages (Russian, Hebrew, Central Pomo (an indigenous language from California), French, Japanese, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese). In the second part of the book each author analyzes the same two spoken English samples, but looking at them from different perspectives, using different methods of analysis as reflected in their respective analyses in Part I. This approach allows for common tendencies of segmentation to emerge, both prosodic and segmental.

Free Download Improving Measures of Science, Technology, and Innovation: Interim Report By National Research Council; Policy and Global Affairs; and Economic Affairs Technology Board on Science; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Committee on National Statistics; and Innovation Indicators for the Future Technology Pa
2012 | 77 Pages | ISBN: 0309253896 | EPUB | 1 MB
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), at the U.S. National Foundation, is 1 of 14 major statistical agencies in the federal government, of which at least 5 collect relevant information on science, technology, and innovation activities in the United States and abroad. The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 expanded and codified NCSES's role as a U.S. federal statistical agency. Important aspects of the agency's mandate include collection, acquisition, analysis, and reporting and dissemination of data on research and development trends, on U.S. competitiveness in science, technology, and research and development, and on the condition and progress of U.S. science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. Improving Measures of Science, Technology and Innovation: Interim Report examines the status of the NCSES's science, technology, and innovation (STI) indicators. This report assesses and provides recommendations regarding the need for revised, refocused, and newly developed indicators designed to better reflect fundamental and rapid changes that are reshaping global science, technology and innovation systems. The book also determines the international scope of STI indicators and the need for developing new indicators that measure developments in innovative activities in the United States and abroad, and Offers foresight on the types of data, metrics and indicators that will be particularly influential in evidentiary policy decision-making for years to come. In carrying out its charge, the authoring panel undertook a broad and comprehensive review of STI indicators from different countries, including Japan, China, India and several countries in Europe, Latin America and Africa. Improving Measures of Science, Technology, and Innovation makes recommendations for near-term action by NCSES along two dimensions: (1) development of new policy-relevant indicators that are based on NCSES survey data or on data collections at other statistical agencies; and (2) exploration of new data extraction and management tools for generating statistics, using automated methods of harvesting unstructured or scientometric data and data derived from administrative records.

Free Download Improving Health Literacy Within a State: Workshop Summary By Institute of Medicine; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Roundtable on Health Literacy; Maria Hewitt
2011 | 114 Pages | ISBN: 0309215722 | EPUB | 1 MB
Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services they need to make appropriate health decisions. According to Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion (IOM, 2004), nearly half of all American adults-90 million people-have inadequate health literacy to navigate the healthcare system. To address issues raised in that report, the Institute of Medicine convened the Roundtable on Health Literacy, which brings together leaders from the federal government, foundations, health plans, associations, and private companies to discuss challenges facing health literacy practice and research and to identify approaches to promote health literacy in both the public and private sectors. On November 30, 2010, the roundtable cosponsored a workshop with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles. Improving Health Literacy Within a State serves as a summary of what occurred at the workshop. The workshop focused on understanding what works to improve health literacy across a state, including how various stakeholders have a role in improving health literacy. The focus of the workshop was on presentations and discussions that address (1) the clinical impacts of health literacy improvement approaches; (2) economic outcomes of health literacy implementation; and (3) how various stakeholders can affect health literacy.

Free Download Christopher Findlay, Tony Warren, "Impediments to Trade in Services: Measurements and Policy Implications"
English | 2000 | pages: 429 | ISBN: 0415240905 | PDF | 2,9 mb
First Published in 2004. The economic impact of barriers to world trade and investment in services has been thought impossible to measure. As a consequence, significant global policy initiatives such as the General Agreement on Trade in Services have been concluded in an information void. This book challenges the view that impediments to services trade cannot be quantified, detailing how these barriers can be measured and their significance estimated. The book contains studies measuring impediments to trade and investment in a variety of sectors, including telecommunications, finance, shipping, education and air transport. The authors explain how the measures were calculated and show how the results could be used in sophisticated economic models. The final part of the book looks at current issues in services negotiations in the World Trade Organisation and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. The measurements and methods detailed in this work have clear relevance to policymaking on services liberalisation and could be used by both international and regional organisations in services negotiations. This work will consequently prove to be an extremely valuable addition to the literature of the field.

Free Download Impala Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners by Ravi Prasad
English | October 19, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DKCPF5Y1 | 121 pages | EPUB | 10 Mb
Impala Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners is the perfect resource for anyone looking to dive into the world of Apache Impala. Whether you're a data enthusiast, IT professional, or simply curious about big data technologies, this comprehensive guide will take you through the basics of Impala in a clear and structured manner.

In the Company of Strangers Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust

In Their Siblings' Voices White Non-Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Being Raised with Black and Biracial Brother

In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language

In Praise of Floods The Untamed River and the Life It Brings

Improving Measures of Science, Technology, and Innovation Interim Report

Improving Health Literacy Within a State Workshop Summary

Improving Hand Function in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Imprisoning the Enemy How 12 million Axis POWs were held in captivity during WW2 and after

Impediments to Trade in Services Measurements and Policy Implications

Impala Essentials A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners