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 Host Cities: How Refugees Are Transforming the World's Urban Settings by Karen Jacobsen English | November 18, 2025 | ISBN: 0300254695, 9780300285918 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 7 MB A revealing study of how the arrival of refugees affects and transforms cities  Horizontal Inequalities & Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies By Frances Stewart 2008 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0230516807 | PDF | 2 MB This book explores the role of horizontal inequalities - inequalities that exist between ethnic, religious or racial groups - as a source of violent conflict. This study shows how political, economic and cultural status inequalities have contributed to conflict, drawing on econometric evidence and in-depth studies of West Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia. It points the way to policies which would reverse inequality and thus reduce the risk of conflict.  Hope in the Age of Anxiety By Anthony Scioli, Henry B. Biller 2009 | 440 Pages | ISBN: 0195380355 | PDF | 3 MB Economic collapse, poverty, disease, natural disasters, the constant threat of community unrest and international terrorism--a quick look at any newspaper is enough to cause almost anyone to feel trapped and desperate. Yet the recent election also revealed a growing search for hope spreading through society. In the timely Hope in the Age of Anxiety, Anthony Scioli and Henry Biller illuminate the nature of hope and offer a multitude of techniques designed to improve the lives of individuals, and bring more light into the world. In this fascinating and humane book, Scioli and Biller reveal the ways in which human beings acquire and make use of hope. Hope in the Age of Anxiety is meant to be a definitive guide. The evolutionary, biological, and cultural roots of hope are covered along with the seven kinds of hope found in the world's religions. Just as vital, the book provides many personal tools for addressing the major challenges of the human condition: fear, loss, illness, and death. Some of the key areas illuminated in Hope in the Age of Anxiety: How do you build and sustain hope in trying times? How can hope help you to achieve your life goals? How can hope improve your relationships with others? How can hope aid your recovery from trauma or illness? How does hope relate to spirituality? Hope in the Age of Anxiety identifies the skills needed to cultivate hope, and offers suggestions for using these capacities to realize your life goals, support health and healing, strengthen relationships, enhance spirituality, and inoculate yourself against the despair that engulfs many individuals.  Hope All the Way: Discovering Divine Signs in Life after Loss by Theo Boyd English | December 2, 2025 | ISBN: 1637634374 | 256 pages | EPUB | 6.21 Mb Discover how divine signs, unexpected hope, and heartfelt truth can guide you through grief and transform loss into purpose in Hope All the Way.  Hong Kong Cinema: Coloniser, Motherland and Self By Yingchi Chu 2002 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0700717463 | PDF | 1 MB Examining Hong Kong cinema from its inception in 1913 to the end of the colonial era, this work explains the key areas of production, market, film products and critical traditions. Hong Kong Cinema considers the different political formations of Hong Kong's culture as seen through the cinema, and deals with the historical, political, economic and cultural relations between Hong Kong cinema and other Chinese film industries on the mainland, as well as in Taiwan and South-East Asia. Discussion covers the concept of 'national cinema' in the context of Hong Kong's status as a quasi-nation with strong links to both the 'motherland' (China) and the 'coloniser' (Britain), and also argues that Hong Kong cinema is a national cinema only in an incomplete and ambiguous sense.  Homonoia Vol. II: Beiträge zur Pädagogik und Sprachdidaktik Deutsch | 14 Jan. 2026 | ASIN: B0GGSWSZTN | 214 Seiten | EPUB (True) | 3.66 MB Band II der Reihe Homonoia versammelt eine Auswahl veröffentlichter Beiträge zu pädagogischen Fragestellungen. Im ersten Teil widmet sich der Band grundlegenden Aspekten der Lerntheorie. Es folgt ein spanischsprachiger Fachartikel zum Grammatikunterricht, ergänzt durch eine deutsche Zusammenfassung. Anschließend werden Ansätze Jean Piagets in ihrer Anwendbarkeit auf den Unterricht - insbesondere im Bereich des Sprachlernens - beleuchtet. Ein weiterer Beitrag vergleicht die Auswirkungen von Videofilmen und Hörbüchern auf den ungesteuerten Spracherwerb und zeigt, welche unterschiedlichen Kompetenzen durch die jeweiligen Medien gefördert werden. Ergänzt wird der Band durch pointierte, teils polemische Zeitungsartikel zur Plurilingualität sowie durch einen abschließenden kulturgeschichtlichen Essay.  Professor Heath Brown, "Homeschooling the Right: How Conservative Education Activism Erodes the State" English | ISBN: 0231188811 | 2021 | 264 pages | MOBI | 1165 KB For four decades, the number of conservative parents who homeschool their children has risen. But unlike others who teach at home, conservative homeschool families and organizations have amassed an army of living-room educators ready to defend their right to instruct their children as they wish, free from government intrusion. Through intensive but often hidden organizing, homeschoolers have struck fear into state legislators, laying the foundations for Republican electoral success.  Homemade Sausage Making for Beginners: Recipes and Techniques to Grind, Stuff, and Twist Artisanal Sausage at Home by Chris Carter, James Peisker English | October 7, 2025 | ISBN: 0760398062 | 144 pages | MOBI | 10 Mb Make the best homemade sausage with techniques from Nashville's Porter Road Butcher in this affordable and concise edition of their first book, Homemade Sausage.  Timothy Garton Ash, "Homelands: A Personal History of Europe" English | ISBN: 0300257074 | 2023 | 384 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe's triumphs and tragedies  Homecoming by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1035906023, 9781803288802 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 2.4 MB In this collection of essays on African and Caribbean literature, culture, and politics, Ngugi wa Thiong'o delivers a groundbreaking critique of colonialism and capitalism in postcolonial Africa. |
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