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Free Download Carey Molter, "Ate As in Skate (Word Families Set 8)"
English | 2003 | pages: 25 | ISBN: 159197271X | PDF | 0,5 mb
Introduces, in brief text and illustrations, the use of the letter combination "ate" in such words as "skate," "date," "plate," and "gate."

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Free Download María Marta Ferreyra, "At a Crossroads: Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean "
English | ISBN: 1464810141 | 2017 | 298 pages | EPUB | 22 MB
Higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean has expanded dramatically in the past 15 years, as the average gross enrollment rate has more than doubled, and many new institutions and programs have been opened. Although higher education access has become more equitable, and higher education supply has become more varied, many of the 'new' students in the system are, on average, less academically ready than are their more advantaged counterparts. Furthermore, only half of higher education students, on average, complete their degree, and labor market returns to higher education vary greatly across institutions and programs. Thus, higher education is at a crossroads today. Given the region's urgency to raise productivity in a low-growth, fiscally constrained environment, going past this crossroads requires the formation of skilled human capital fast and efficiently. 'At a Crossroads: Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean' contributes to the discussion by studying quality, variety, and equity of higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean. The book presents comprehensive evidence on the recent higher education expansion and evolution of higher education labor market returns. Using novel data and state-of-the-art methods, it studies demand and supply drivers of the recent expansion. It investigates the behavior of institutions and students and explores the unintended consequences of large-scale higher education policies. Framing the analysis are the singular characteristics of the higher education market and the market segmentation induced by the variety of students and institutions in the system. At this crossroads, a role emerges for incentives, information, accountability, and choice.

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Free Download Nicole C. Rudolph, "At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort "
English | ISBN: 1782385878 | 2015 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key groups of actors ― state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers ― arguing that modernizers looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building; designers and advocates of the modern home contributed to the democratization of French society; and the French home of the Trente Glorieuses, as it was built and inhabited, was a hybrid product of architects', planners', and residents' understandings of modernity. This volume identifies the "right to comfort" as an invention of the postwar period and suggests that the modern mass home played a vital role in shaping new expectations for well-being and happiness.

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Free Download Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas: A Festschrift for Professor Sir Robert Wilson By Allan J. Willis, Thomas W. Hartquist (auth.), A. J. Willis, T. W. Hartquist (eds.)
1996 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 9048147298 | PDF | 14 MB
Throughout his career Sir Robert Wilson has demonstrated that advances in a wide variety of fields in astrophysics and laboratory physics are achievable through the application of fundamental plasma spectroscopy. His work has included: optical studies that probed the nature of interstellar dust and first revealed the existence of O star winds; vacuum ultraviolet and X-ray diagnosis of fusion plasmas; rocket ultraviolet and X-ray observations of the Sun; and the conception, development and use of the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite which has contributed greatly to stellar, interstellar and extragalactic astrophysics. This volume contains reviews honouring Sir Robert and reflecting his interests.

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Free Download Astrophysical Applications of Gravitational Lensing: Proceedings of the 173rd Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Melbourne, Australia, 9-14 JULY, 1995 By Hans-Walter Rix (auth.), C. S. Kochanek, J. N. Hewitt (eds.)
1996 | 443 Pages | ISBN: 079233955X | PDF | 13 MB
EDWIN TURNER AND RACHEL WEBSTER Co-Chairs, Scientific Organizing Committee lAU Symposium 173, Astrophysical Applications of Gravitational Lenses, was held in Melbourne, Australia from July 9-14, 1995. The Symposium was sponsored by lAU Commissions 47 and 40. With the discovery by Walsh and collaborators of the first instance of a gravitational lens, the multiply imaged quasar 0957+561, the area of grav itational lensing moved from speculative theory to a major astrophysical tool. Since that time, there have been regular, approximately biennial in ternational meetings both in Europe and in North America, which have specifically focussed on gravitational lensing. On this occasion, with the blessing of the lA U, the meeting was held at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It was the first international astronomical meeting to be held at the University of Melbourne, and hope fully has given the astronomical community some enthusiasm for trekking half-way round the globe to Australia to discuss their latest work.

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Free Download David A. King, "Astronomy in the Service of Islam "
English | ISBN: 086078357X | | 352 pages | EPUB, PDF | 30 MB + 64 MB
Based on a wide variety of previously unstudied sources, these articles explain how science was applied to three aspects of Islamic ritual in the Middle Ages: the regulation of the lunar calendar; the organisation of the times of the five daily prayers; and the determination of the sacred direction (qibla) towards the Kaaba in Mecca. Simple procedures of folk astronomy were used by the scholars of religious law who determined popular practice; more complicated mathematical methods were provided by the scientists - and this proved a powerful incentive for the development of scientific analysis and research. Some of these procedures were to have far-reaching consequences. For example, the astronomical alignment of the Kaaba - known to various medieval writers, but long forgotten - led to the adoption of similar alignments for the qibla, and the final articles show how these were calculated, whether from astronomical observation or geographical computation, and their impact on the orientation of religious and secular architecture across the Islamic world. C'est à partir d'une grande diversité de sources inexplorées que ces articles expliquent comment la science avait été appliquée a trois aspects du rituel islamique au Moyen Age: la régulation du calendrier lunaire; l'organisation des heures assignées aux cinq prières quotidiennes; et l'établissement de la direction sacrée (qibla) vers la Kaaba de la Mecque. Des procédés simples d'astronomie populaire étaient utilisés par les érudits en droit religieux qui décidaient de la pratique populaire; des méthodes mathématiques plus complexes étaient offertes par les hommes de science - ce qui, en effet, s'avèra être une motivation puissante dans le développement de l'analyse et de la recherche scientifique. Certains de ces procédés eurent des consequences d'une grande portée par la suite. L'alignement astronomique de la Kaaba - pour ne reprendre qu'un exemple connu

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Free Download Milton V. Anastos, "Aspects of the Mind of Byzantium: Political Theory, Theology, and Ecclesiastical Relations with the See of Rome "
English | ISBN: 0860788407 | 2001 | 368 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 28 MB
This volume of studies by the late Milton Anastos contains his major articles published after his previous collection appeared, along with the first publication of a portion of 'The Mind of Byzantium', Anastos's projected multi-volume survey of Byzantine intellectual history. These essays deal with the theoretical foundations of Byzantine imperial autocracy, with the formulation of Byzantine theology, and with the often contentious relations between the Churches of Constantinople and Rome. The Byzantine concept of imperial absolutism is shown to have been derived from ancient Greek philosophy and to have persisted unchanged throughout Byzantine history. Other articles focus on the theology of Basil of Caesarea, which is found to be inconsistent with orthodox doctrine in important respects. Last, the relations between the Roman Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church in the Byzantine period are surveyed, with emphasis on the theological and ecclesiological controversies that divided them.

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Free Download Bernardo Brown, "Asian Migrants and Religious Experience: From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility "
English | ISBN: 9462982325 | 2018 | 346 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Typically, scholars approach migrants' religions as a safeguard of cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their communities of origin. This ethnographic anthology challenges that position by reframing the religious experiences of migrants as a transformative force capable of refashioning narratives of displacement into journeys of spiritual awakening and missionary calling. These essays explore migrants' motivations in support of an argument that to travel inspires a search for new meaning in religion.

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Free Download Artist Management for the Music Business: Manage Your Career in Music: Manage the Music Careers of Others
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032014784 | 436 Pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Anyone managing an artist's career needs to be well versed and have a savvy understanding of the moving parts of the music business. Learn how and why those moving parts "move," as well as how to manage and navigate a music-based career.

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Free Download Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Businesses: How to Develop Strategies for Innovation
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1394233973 | 525 Pages | PDF | 104 MB
Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Businesses demonstrates how AI is a catalyst for change in business functional areas. Though still in the experimental phase, AI is instrumental in redefining the workforce, predicting consumer behavior, solving real-life marketing dynamics and modifications, recommending products and content, foreseeing demand, analyzing costs, strategizing, managing big data, enabling collaboration of cross-entities, and sparking new ethical, social and regulatory implications for business. Thus, AI can effectively guide the future of financial services, trading, mobile banking, last-mile delivery, logistics, and supply chain with a solution-oriented focus on discrete business problems. Furthermore, it is expected to educate leaders to act in an ever more accurate, complex, and sophisticated business environment with the combination of human and machine intelligence.

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