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Free Download Kelli Te Maihāroa, "Indigenous Autoethnography: Illuminating Māori Voices"
English | ISBN: 9819967171 | 2024 | 223 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
This book opens new pathways for decolonial autoethnography, presented as a series of reflective stories that showcase how Māori have negotiated and navigated their personal and professional identities within contemporary society. Framed within the academic methodology of Indigenous Autoethnography, authors recount their personal and professional experiences to address their encounters with cultural trauma and personal enlightenment. As a culturally responsive methodology, Indigenous Autoethnography embraces reflective practice and critical awakening to validate Indigenous knowledge, ensuring that it remains meaningful and responsive to the needs of Māori. Utilising metaphorical storytelling as a primary means of sensemaking, this work reinforces the importance of Māori and other Indigenous People to seek wisdom from the past to guide them into the future. With Indigenous knowledge historically ignored and misrepresented in higher education, this seminal text provides invaluable guidance for global Indigenous researchers seeking to produce story work that genuinely encompasses physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions.
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Free Download Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial by Benjamin Perrin
English | October 3, 2023 | ISBN: 1487506279 | 408 pages | PDF | 2.56 Mb
Based on first-hand interviews with survivors, people who have committed offences, and others on the frontlines, Indictment puts the Canadian criminal justice system on trial and proposes a bold new vision of transformative justice.
#MeToo. Black Lives Matter. Decriminalize Drugs. No More Stolen Sisters. Stop Stranger Attacks.

Free Download Aslam Khan, "India's Energy Diplomacy in Eurasia: Geopolitical and Geo-economic Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 9819982804 | 2023 | 336 pages | EPUB | 13 MB
This book provides an accurate evaluation of re-integration of Eurasia in the context of India's energy security and diplomacy which requires a normative shift as in the current Eurasian geopolitical and geo-economic matrix, the growing role of transit countries and their proximity with the Energy Complex Zone negates the fact that great powers or strong states control the Eurasian Heartland. Authors believe that wrecking this norm is fundamental here to deconstruct the undercurrents of energy geopolitics prevailing in Eurasia over the emerging phenomenon, as it discourages the re-integration of the Eurasian region. It explores how the geopolitical struggle between major powers for energy resources has been engendering mutual interdependencies between energy producers and transit countries.
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Free Download Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing
by Rahim Kurwa
English | 2025 | ISBN: 0520421485 | 242 Pages | True ePUB | 9.1 MB
Indefensible Spaces examines the policing of housing through the story of Black community building in the Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County's northernmost outpost. Tracing its evolution from a segregated postwar suburb to a destination for those priced, policed, and evicted out of Los Angeles, Rahim Kurwa tells the story of how the Antelope Valley resisted Black migration through the policing of subsidized housing-and how Black tenants and organizers fought back. This book sheds light on how the nation's policing and housing crises intersect, offering powerful lessons for achieving housing justice across the country.

Free Download Jennifer Quigley, "Incorporating Applied Behavior Analysis into the General Education Classroom "
English | ISBN: 3031358244 | 2023 | 216 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
This user-friendly textbook addresses the relevance of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) within the general education setting. Oftentimes, ABA is thought of as only applicable to those with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disorders. In contrast, the application of ABA principles is appropriate for any socially significant problem, such as those that arise daily in the general education setting. This book will help educators, through individual and group interventions, decrease maladaptive behavior in their classrooms and to increase the focus on the curriculum.
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Free Download Mark Jones, "Inclusive Adult Education: Embedding Diversity and Supporting Alternative Learning Environments in UK Higher Education "
English | ISBN: 3031670981 | 2025 | 228 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
This book offers critical discussion of developing inclusive theory, practice, and policy that supports the needs and experiences of adult learners within higher education settings in the UK. The first part of the book shares the research of authors, all who have lived experience of their area of expertise, and the experiences and needs of adult learners in relation to religion, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability as well as including an intersectional lens. The second section of the book discusses practice and understandings of adults learners in non-conventional higher education settings within the police service, criminal justice, and health care.
These contributions provide new knowledge to better support those from diverse backgrounds to thrive in the higher education environment. This book will be of interest to academics who teach/support adult learners, students of education, as well as practitioners who work outside traditional higher education settings such as community educators and policymakers.

Free Download In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow: Accelerate data analytics for efficient processing of flat and hierarchical data structures
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1835461220 | Pages: 406 | EPUB (True) | 15.03 MB
Harness the power of Apache Arrow to optimize tabular data processing and develop robust, high-performance data systems with its standardized, language-independent columnar memory format
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Free Download Implementing Event-Driven Microservices Architecture in .NET 7: Develop event-based distributed apps that can scale with ever-changing business demands using C# 11 and .NET 7 by Joshua Garverick, Omar Dean McIver, Donovan Brown
English | March 17, 2023 | ISBN: 1803232781 | 326 pages | EPUB | 14 Mb
Implement modern design patterns that leverage domain-driven data, to achieve resiliency and scalability for data-dependent applications
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Free Download Xi Chen, "Implementing E-assessment for Learning in Primary EFL Writing: A Case Study in China"
English | ISBN: 9819794900 | 2025 | 279 pages | EPUB | 13 MB
This book examines how e-assessment can be implemented in primary English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing in an examination-oriented context. It provides valuable insights on e-assessment for learning (E-AfL) to teacher educators and teachers in both local and global contexts, especially teacher educators undertaking professional development programs of assessment in examination-oriented contexts. For researchers and graduate students who are interested in e-assessment for learning (E-AfL) and writing assessment, this book provides them with valuable resources to further their understanding of E-AfL research and broadens writing assessment scholarship. For pre- and in-service teachers and program administrators, the book serves as a practical and accessible guidebook, proffering effective guidance to empower teacher learning of assessment and to apply pedagogic principles to assessment design.
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Free Download Ricardo C. Mello, "Implementing Cloud Robotics for Practical Applications: From Human-Robot Interaction to Autonomous Navigation "
English | ISBN: 3031169077 | 2023 | 116 pages | EPUB | 13 MB
This book explores cloud robotics by casting a light on key issues and proposing a novel approach towards implementation and practical aspects to allow for the widespread adoption of cloud-based functionality. The advent of cloud robotics can to unleash a new generation of smart robotic devices by allowing robots to explore cloud computing capabilities to share data and to offload heavy processing applications. Cloud robotics is investigated as an enabler to a series of applications and devices, questioning how the insertion of network and cloud technologies into such systems might affect the interaction between a robot and the human operating it, and what are the limiting requirements for cloud-based solutions. Aiming at researchers and practitioners, this book also presents a methodology based on open-source software and commercial off-the-shelf devices to provide a common standard for reproducing and benchmarking different cloud robotics systems.
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