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Free Download The Prison Path : School Practices that Hurt Our Youth By Christen E. Clemson
2015 | 169 Pages | ISBN: 1610489802 | EPUB | 1 MB
The Prison Path: School Practices that Hurt Our Youth takes a unique and unapologetic look into the practices, social norms, construction, and policies within our schools that mirror prisons. From the physical building to the labeling and placement of special education students, schools are reflecting correctional institutions. Beyond the mundane and into the world of social cliques, discipline policies, uniforms, and ethics, this book highlights how similarities between schools and prisons create a hidden and dangerous environment for at-risk students. While many schools and teachers are doing the best they can while facing budget shortfalls, it is the inherent policies, procedures, and normalities that are thought of as being part of the school experience, that may be the most hazardous for at-risk students. Therefore, this book highlights these occurrences and juxtaposes them with similar situations within prisons, providing an eye-opening and daunting look at prisons and schools. This book will cause teachers and those within education to question the practices, policies, and norms that we consider part of the typical school experience. Some additional key features of this book include: Chapter by chapter examination of the similarities in prisons and school Detailed look at the process of special education labeling and its detrimental impact on students Examination of the role of social cliques and gangs in institutions A unique look at the school-to-prison pipeline In-depth questions to ask oneself about to improve schools Dangers of inviting school resources officers into schools and cutting guidance services Real-life scenarios

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by Irene Didinsky
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1604272074 | 220. pages | True EPUB | 6.27 MB
Despite the high stakes, comprehensive resources on program management are surprisingly scarce. That' s where The Practitioner' s Guide to Program Management, Second Edition, steps in to fill the void. This updated edition of the original classic provides a systematic approach to program management, addressing the critical need for clear definitions and practical guidance. Divided into strategic and tactical parts, the book covers everything from executing corporate strategy through programs to delivering them on time and within budget. With easy-to-follow chapters and helpful visuals, this guide empowers program managers to standardize practices and reduce inconsistencies, ensuring successful outcomes time and time again.

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by Frank Columbus
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9798895303740 | 308 pages | True PDF | 18.54 MB
This book focuses on advances in health and disease. Chapter 1 discusses enteral insufficiency in purulent inflammation in the abdominal cavity. Chapter 2 analyzes the foundation of bioethics which includes the principles, challenges and applications in medical practice. Chapter 3 attempts to explain the biosynthesis, chemical composition, antioxidant activities and therapeutic potential of hydroxycinnamic acids (HCAs) in their role in disease prevention and treatment. Chapter 4 examines the recent prevalence of brucellosis, the pathogenicity of the microorganism as well as the clinical manifestations of the infection in humans. Chapter 5 discusses innovative liposomal systems in phytotherapy. In Chapter 6 the pathomechanisms, triggers and different clinical presentations of vitiligo, as well as the safety of various cosmetic applications are reviewed. Finally, Chapter 7 is aimed at the antimicrobial effects of silver nanoparticles.

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by Steve Jones
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1399537091 | 273 Pages | PDF | 5.3 MB
Scream reputedly transformed the slasher subgenre in 1996, heralding a new subgeneric form: the postmodern slasher. Despite being a distinctive, influential phase in the subgenre's development, it has been widely assumed that postmodern slasher films are distinguished from their predecessors because they employ intertextuality, metafictional self-reflexivity, pastiche and deconstruction.

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English | March 12, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0F1DQPW6W | 390 pages | EPUB | 1.50 Mb
The Post-M&A Mentor - What No One Tells You About Post-M&A Success Until It's Too Late
The deal is done. Now what?

Free Download The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808: A World on the Move by A. J. R. Russell-Wood
English | July 31, 1998 | ISBN: 0801859557 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 50 MB
This is the story of the first and one of the greatest colonial empires: its birth, apotheosis, and decline. By approaching the history of the Portuguese empire thematically, A. J. R. Russell-Wood is able to pursue ideas and make connections that previously have been constrained by strict chronological approaches. Using the study of movement as a focus, Russell-Wood gains unique insight into the diversity, breadth, and balance between the competing interests and priorities that characterized the Portuguese culture and its expansion spanning four centuries' events on four different continents.

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by Carolyn Abott
English | 2025 | ISBN: 0231214227 | 312 Pages | True ePUB | 2.3 MB
This book is a nuanced and comprehensive account of the intricate politics surrounding public sector pensions, an issue that has become increasingly contentious in recent years. Drawing from an array of case studies and theoretical perspectives, it delves into how public sector pensions are negotiated, structured, and sustained, revealing the consequences for governance, labor relations, and public policy.

Free Download The Politics of Crisis Management in China : The Sichuan Earthquake By Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo
2014 | 163 Pages | ISBN: 0739139525 | EPUB | 1 MB
This book analyzes the ways in which the Chinese government and military responded to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province. It adopts a comparative and historical perspective in studying the responses of the Chinese government in the first critical 72 hours, the mobilization of the People's Liberation Army and its difficulties, the assertive and important role of the non-governmental groups which established a partnership with the state in the rescue operations, and the process and politics of reconstruction. The book is rich in materials, including comparative case studies of the Tangshan earthquake in 1976, the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003, the earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and Myanmar, and the contrasts with the Japanese earthquake tsunami in 2011. Researchers, government officials, policy analysts, seismic specialists, journalists and students will find this book extremely useful, conceptually insightful and practically policy-relevant.

Free Download The Politics of Being Mortal By Alfred G. Killilea
2014 | 183 Pages | ISBN: 0813152879 | EPUB | 1 MB
While much has been written in recent years on death and dying, there has been little treatment of how people cope with death in the absence of religious belief, and virtually no examination of the potential political repercussions of a wider acceptance of mortality in American society. Alfred Killilea's strikingly original book revolves around a central irony: though the subject of death has been largely shunned in American culture lest it rob life of meaning and contentment, confronting death may be crucial to enable us as individuals and as a society to affirm life, even to survive, in this nuclear age. Killilea argues that the denial of death has fostered a disavowal of limits in general, and that a greater awareness of our mortality would provide a much needed catalyst for change in our political response to narcissism and nuclearism. He traces how, from John Locke to the present, a politics and an economics based on growth for the sake of growth have required an avoidance of human vulnerability. Our confrontation with mortality, Killilea argues, would goad us to question our roles as mere acquirers and to take more seriously the need for equality and community in our society. In charting how we can come to terms with death and how profoundly our attitudes toward death affect our attitudes toward politics, Killilea vides lucid and authoritative commentaries on such provocative thinkers as Earnest Becker, Robert Jay Lifton, Michael Novak, Daniel Bell, Christopher Lasch, and Jonathan Schell. Scholars in many fields as well as interested lay readers will find the treatment of these issues and thinkers compelling. This easily accessible book is an urgent reminder that the most valuable spur to the examined life extolled by Socrates is the knowledge that we will die.

Free Download The Plausibility of Policy : Case Studies from the Social Domain By Vasco Lub
2015 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 9462364699 | PDF | 1 MB
The social domain has seen a growing debate on the effectiveness of public measures. The realization is taking shape that the legitimacy of social policies - such as the socialization of vulnerable groups, anti-radicalization programs, or regeneration projects in deprived neighborhoods - has to go beyond the intuition that they "should" work. But, unlike methods in spheres such as medicine and healthcare, social programs typically have no sharp demarcation in time, intensity, or target group, and are implemented in a rich context of unforeseen and unknown variables. This makes it difficult (if not impossible) to assess their impact with research methods that centralize a mono causal effect. In The Plausibility of Policy, author Vasco Lub presents alternative approaches to assessing the likelihood of social policy measures achieving their intended effects. One of his main lines of argument is to confront policy assumptions with existing scientific data. In doing so, he sheds light on how such measures can be assessed and to what degree claims about those intended effects can be substantiated. [Subject: Social Policy, Public Administration]