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Free Download Kim Gallon, "Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (Volume 1) "
English | ISBN: 0252043227 | 2020 | 216 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Critics often chastised the twentieth-century black press for focusing on sex and scandal rather than African American achievements. In Pleasure in the News, Kim Gallon takes an opposing stance-arguing that African American newspapers fostered black sexual expression, agency, and identity.

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Free Download Joe Norris, "Playbuilding as Qualitative Research: A Participatory Arts-Based Approach "
English | ISBN: 1598744771 | 2010 | 272 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book is for both art-based researchers and research-informed artists, exploring the theatrical genre known as Collective Creation, or Playbuilding. Performers generate data around chosen topics― from addiction and sexuality to qualitative research―by compiling scenes from their disparate voices. Audience members become involved in the investigation, and the performed scenes do not end the conversation but challenge and extend it. Through discussion and audience participation, the process examines how knowledge is defined and how data is mediated.

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Free Download Plate Tectonics (Great Discoveries in Science) by Fiona Young-Brown
English | December 15th, 2018 | ISBN: 1502643960 | 128 pages | True EPUB | 4.92 MB
This essential volume explores the slow but mighty shifts that created the continents and that continue to shape modern landscapes. Readers will look at theories put forward through the ages to explain volcanoes and earthquakes, and they'll examine how geologists learned what we now understand about Earth's crust. In a world of constant movement, how do these ever-shifting plates affect our lives today? Photographs, diagrams, and sidebars help students understand the science that answers this and other questions.

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Free Download Plant Genome Engineering
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1071631306 | 680 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 48 MB
This volume provides readers with a collection of the latest protocols used to study plant genome editing and trait engineering. The chapters in this book are organized into five parts: genome engineering systems; machinery design and validation; delivery tools; generation and analysis of engineering materials; and crop genome engineering applications. The chapters cover topics such as methods of applying the popular CRISPR-Cas9 or CRISPR-Cas12 systems for editing genomes in different crop species, the use of small synthetic plastome for potato genome engineering, and the use of CRISPR-Cas9 for algal cell genome engineering. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.

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Free Download Margaret Bone, "Plans and Provisions for the Mentally Handicapped "
English | ISBN: 103206000X | 2021 | 210 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The lack of good statistical information had been a major factor in the poor planning of services for the mentally handicapped in the late 1960s. The principal object of this book was to provide an accurate factual basis for the planning of future services.

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Free Download Sy Adler, "Planning the Portland Urban Growth Boundary: The Struggle to Transform Trend City"
English | ISBN: 087071211X | 2022 | 272 pages | EPUB | 975 KB
In this companion volume to his 2012 book Oregon Plans: The Making of an Unquiet Land-Use Revolution, Sy Adler offers readers a deep analysis of planning Portland's Urban Growth Boundary. Required by one of Oregon's nineteen statewide planning goals, a boundary in the Portland metropolitan area was intended to separate urban land and land that would be urbanized from commercially productive farmland. After adopting the goals, approving the Portland growth boundary in 1979 was the most significant decision the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission has ever made, and, more broadly, is a significant milestone in American land-use planning.

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Free Download Richard Field, "Planning and Budgeting Skills for Health and Social Work Managers "
English | ISBN: 0857259873 | 2012 | 104 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
At a time of increasing government austerity, it is vital that managers and leaders within health and social care organisations have a critical understanding of good planning and budgeting skills. This handbook will guide managers through the complex area of the planning process and includes sections on organisational aspects of planning, completing evaluation forms and analysis and strategic goal-setting. The Author then looks at effective budgeting skills including year-end forecasting, profiling and efficiency.

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Free Download David L. Morgan, "Planning Focus Groups: v. 2: Planning Focus Groups "
English | ISBN: 076190817X | | 160 pages | EPUB | 968 KB
David L Morgan covers the wide range of practical tasks required in the course of a research project when using focus groups. Throughout, Planning Focus Groups emphasizes the clarifying purposes of the research project in order to collect data that meet the goals. The author extensively and concisely covers the basic decisions that are necessary to plan a research project using focus groups, such as who should be in the groups, the total number of groups, their size and much more. This volume also features a detailed discussion of personnel and budgets. Among the other topics covered are recruitment, selecting locations, and recording and managing data. Practical material includes checklists and recruitment tools.

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Free Download Claudia Glatz, "Plain Pottery Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East: Production, Use, and Social Significance (UCL Insti"
English | ISBN: 1629580902 | 2015 | 257 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The evolution and proliferation of plain and predominantly wheel-made pottery presents a characteristic feature of the societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean since the fourth millennium B.C. This plain pottery has received little detailed archaeological attention in comparison to aesthetically more pleasing and chronologically sensitive decorated traditions. Yet, their simplicity and standardization suggest they are products of craft specialists, the result of high-volume production, and therefore important in understanding the social systems in early complex societies. This volume-reevaluates the role and significance of plain pottery traditions from both historically specific perspectives and from a comparative point of view;-examines the uses and functions of this pottery in relation to social negotiation and group identity formation;-helps scholars understand cross-regional similarities in development and use.

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Free Download Leanne Weber, "Place, Race and Politics: The Anatomy of a Law and Order Crisis"
English | ISBN: 1800430469 | 2021 | 135 pages | EPUB | 1123 KB
Place, Race and Politics presents an integrated analysis of the social and political processes that combined to construct a media-driven 'crisis' concerning African youth crime in the city of Melbourne, Australia.

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