Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Bureaucracy By Christopher Bjork
2005 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0415974445 | PDF | 1 MB
Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Authority, the first published study of life inside Indonesian schools, explores the role that classroom teachers' behavior and locates their actions within the broader cultures of education and government in Indonesia.

Pamela J. Prickett, "Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels"
English | ISBN: 022674728X | 2021 | 181 pages | EPUB | 950 KB
The area of Los Angeles known as South Central is often overshadowed by dismal stereotypes, problematic racial stigmas, and its status as the home to some of the city's poorest and most violent neighborhoods. Amid South Central's shifting demographics and its struggles with poverty, sociologist Pamela J. Prickett takes a closer look, focusing on the members of an African American Muslim community and exploring how they help each other combat poverty, job scarcity, violence, and racial injustice. Prickett's engaging ethnography relates how believers in this longstanding religious community see Islam as a way of life, a comprehensive blueprint for individual and collective action, guiding how to interact with others, conduct business, strive for progress, and cultivate faith.

Kashmir Saivism - The Central Philosophy of Tantrism By Kamalakar Mishra
1999 | 499 Pages | ISBN: 8170306329 | PDF | 84 MB
A brilliant exposition of Tantric tradition. Mishra profoundly explains a system which allows us to fully integrate spiritual inquiry and practice with the mundane goal of physical enjoyment (and) worldly involvement. For spiritual seekers of any sort, with a true interest in understanding the nature of Tantra. This book will finally provide true insight into the ways and means of Tantric philosophy. The present work is an exposition of the philosophy and religionofthe Trika system, popularly known as Kashmir Saivism. Kashmir Saivism is the most prominent system of the Tantric traditional on. The author considers Kashmir Śaivism the true or central philosophy of Tantrism. In this book, he attempts to present alogical analysis of the Tantric position of Abhinavagupta. He has also shown, according to his understanding, what remains unresolved and unanswered in his philosophy, but he admits that in the present work he is mainly playing the role of advocate of Abhinavagupta rather than critic. He is trying (a) to justify the Tantric position from the rational point of view, (b) to work out aconsistent philosophy of Kashmir Saivism, (c) to present the rationale of the abstruse Tantric tradition, (d) to trace out and clarify the inner thread of logic running through the entire system of thought, and (e) to demonstrate the soundness and significance of Kashmir Śaivism.

Bush Foods: Arrernte Foods from Central Australia By Margaret Kemarre Turner, John Henderson
2005 | 80 Pages | ISBN: 0949659908 | PDF | 10 MB
From the complex, ritual preparation and distribution of a kangaroo, to the simplicity of enjoying the sweet nectar dripping from a corkwood blossom, Bush Foods describes the traditional foods of the Arrernte of Central Australia. Margaret Kemarre Turner, a respected Arrernte woman, reveals in her own language a resourceful people with an intimate knowledge of their country. Her words are illustrated by Shawn Dobson, a talented young Arrernte artist. As well as providing valuable cultural information, Bush Foods can be used as a resource for language learners.

Smart Education in China and Central & Eastern European Countries by Rongxia Zhuang, Dejian Liu, Demetrios Sampson, Danimir Mandic, Siyi Zou, Yu Huang, Ronghuai Huang
English | PDF | 2023 | 340 Pages | ISBN : 9811973180 | 6.5 MB
This book focuses on the development of smart education in China and some countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A brief discussion on the idea of smart education was given in the introduction chapter, followed by a series of national smart education profiles of eleven countries. In detail, the profile starts with an overview of ICT in Education or smart education in the country and policies of ICT in Education or smart education. Some key features of smart education in each country were discussed with examples of best practices. The profile ends with a description of trends of smart education in the country. Based on the information above, the final chapter presents an analysis among the eleven countries with six major features they presented and concluded the book with suggestions on advancing smart education by three points.

Hélène Thibault, "Uyat and the Culture of Shame in Central Asia "
English | ISBN: 9811943273 | 2022 | 188 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book proposes an interdisciplinary look at the culture of shame in Central Asia and evaluates its role in the regulation of social and political interactions in the region. Contributors demonstrate how 'uyat' relies on patriarchal and hierarchical gender norms that negatively affect women and queer bodies. More specifically, contributors address issues of the taboo of sex education in Kazakhstani schools, favored heteronormativity and its consequences on queer bodies, and the compliance of parents to give their first born to adoption to the husband's parents in Kyrgyzstan. The book also reflects on how these norms are challenged by young generations. Lastly, the book will also bring a novel reading on local political dynamics by examining the role of shame in Kazakhstani politics as a form of accountability in the absence of genuine political competition. This book will interest scholars of Central Asia, gender theorists, and scholars of post-socialist societies.

Tectonics of Asia (Northern, Central and Eastern Asia) by Oleg V. Petrov
English | EPUB | 2021 | 265 Pages | ISBN : 303062000X | 107.8 MB
The book provides the results of tectonic, geological and geophysical studies of Northern, Central and Eastern Asia obtained over the last 20 years, and a Tectonic map for this area overview as well as essays on its geodynamic evolution.

Joanna Regulska, "Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe"
English | ISBN: 0754646629 | 2006 | 336 pages | EPUB | 889 KB
The transformations seen in women's active citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe mirror the social political and economic transformations in the region since the fall of communism at the end of the 1980s. This book challenges the universal notion of 'citizenship' by focusing on the diversity of situations women in this region have found themselves in since the end of the 1980s, looking at the challenges and struggles they have faced to assert themselves as citizens and their citizenship rights. Featuring detailed case studies which demonstrate the social and political discrimination between women that still exists, the book will be of interest to academics and post-graduate students in women's/gender studies, political sociology and European studies.

Railways in South Wales and the Central Wales Line in the late 20th Century by Peter J Green
English | November 29, 2022 | ISBN: 1399086545 | True EPUB | 184 pages | 115 MB
In the early 1980s, I began to visit South Wales on a regular basis to photograph the railway scene. At that time, the collieries and steelworks were generating a lot of rail traffic with Class 37 diesels being the usual motive power.

Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska, "Non-Inclusive Education in Central and Eastern Europe: Comparative Studies of Teaching Ethnicity, Religion and Gender"
English | ISBN: 1350325260 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book presents research into inclusive education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), written by scholars based in CEE. Inclusive education has become a framework for understanding and embracing diversity but most of the research in this area has been carried out in intercultural or culturally diverse settings within a relatively inclusive and open framework of democratic/liberal and multicultural Western societies. Unlike many Western societies, the realities of CEE countries are often much less diverse and connected with different fragile historical and political processes, which puts tackling sensitive topics in a different context. The editors and contributors address the dominant Western ways of looking at inclusive and global education in CEE. They argue that Western leveraged pedagogy has been imposed on CEE and outline the context-specific problems of teaching global education in CEE. Collectively, the chapters offer critical responses to the issues of exclusion and exclusionary practices of 'silenced' minorities in CEE. Written by academics based in Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary Poland, Romania and Russia, the book cover topics including Roma genocide in Poland, teaching about Islam and teaching about LGBTQ+ issues. The book includes a preface written by Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, USA.