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English | 2017 | ISBN: 0764211374 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 2.2 mb
A Guide to Meaningful Parent-Son Conversations

Free Download Rafi Segal, "Design and Solidarity: Conversations on Collective Futures"
English | ISBN: 0231204043 | 2023 | 232 pages | PDF | 24 MB
In times of crisis, mutual aid becomes paramount. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, new forms of sharing had gained momentum to redress precarity and stark economic inequality. Today, a diverse array of mutualistic organizations seek to fundamentally restructure housing, care, labor, food, and more. Yet design, art, and architecture play a key role in shaping these initiatives, fulfilling their promise of solidarity, and ensuring that these values endure.

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English | September 15th, 2023 | ISBN: 0895562693 | 198 pages | True EPUB | 2.49 MB
Join E.J. Gold in his playful discovery of this relatively new technology sweeping our culture - the world of AI, Artificial Intelligence. Gold intuitively explores ChatGPT and AI image generation, lightheartedly using his diverse background and his seasoned artistic insight to create stunning, evocative AI generative content. In addition, as an artist, Gold opens doors to all who may wish to follow his example, a way to offer AI-assisted generative graphics for public consumption as digital content or as a physical item.

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English | ISBN: 0823234681 | 2012 | 270 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The essays in this book have grown out of conversations between the authors―and their colleagues and students―over the past decade and a half. Their germinal question concerned the ways in which Charles Sanders Peirce was and was not both an idealist and a realist. The dialogue began as an exploration of Peirce's explicit uses of these ideas and then turned to consider the way in which answers to the initial question shed light on other dimensions of Peirce's architectonic.

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English | ISBN: 1934542431 | 2013 | 314 pages | PDF | 12 MB
The field of cultural and religious theory expanded dramatically in the first decade of the twenty-first century, opening new dynamic spaces for interdisciplinary inquiry. In this volume, which is a collection of interviews from the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, major contemporary theorists, philosophers, and theologians such as Slavoj Žižek, Jean-Luc Marion, Avital Ronell, Richard Kearney, John D. Caputo, Carl A, Raschke, Thomas J.J. Altizer, and Mark C. Taylor provide detailed analyses of critical issues in cultural and religious studies. Conversation topics are timely and far-ranging, from the history of religious theory in the postmodern era to the role of religious and cultural theory in addressing political, social, and artistic movements. In addition, the collected major figures discuss and reflect on their past contributions to the study of religion and culture and provide previews of their on-going scholarly projects and intellectual concerns

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English | ISBN: 1934542172 | 2009 | 258 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition Studies is a collection of in-depth interviews featuring leading figures from across the composition and rhetoric field. With topics ranging from issues of cultural, racial, and ethnic identity to the history of composition and rhetoric in higher education, these conversations define cutting-edge concepts in a postmodern intellectual context. Developed for teachers and students in composition and rhetoric, this volume provides authoritative commentary on the major issues in writing studies, cultural analysis, and rhetoric. Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition Studies represents a multiform approach to discussing the past, present, and future of a dynamic field of study.

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English | October 31, 2023 | ISBN: 1788605578 | 276 pages | PDF | 4.86 Mb
An accessible guide to the business of being a board director, through the lens of 18 crucial conversations.How do you understand what is really going on in an organisation, so you can exercise the oversight that is required from you?How do you overcome the information asymmetry problem, where the executive directors know more about the operation than you do?How will you collaborate as a board to set the right strategic direction in a context that changes constantly?How will you see the organisation through the eyes of your advisors, your employees and your key stakeholders?How can you manage the risks you know about as well as the ones you don't?Your best tool for all of this is conversation - about the right topics, with the right people, at the right time. This book shows you what these conversations need to cover and how to make them count. Whether you are a new director of a PLC, a long-standing Trustee of a charity, or a governor of an educational institution, this book will help you and your colleagues become the board your organisation needs.

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English | ISBN: 1557537232 | 2015 | 460 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
Design is ubiquitous. Speaking across disciplines, it is a way of thinking that involves dealing with complex, open-ended, and contextualized problems that embody the ambiguities and contradictions in everyday life. It has become a part of pre-college education standards, is integral to how college prepares students for the future, and is playing a lead role in shaping a global innovation imperative. Efforts to advance design thinking, learning, and teaching have been the focus of the Design Thinking Research Symposium (DTRS) series. A unique feature of this series is a shared dataset in which leading design researchers globally are invited to apply their specific expertise to the dataset and bring their disciplinary interests in conversation with each other to bring together multiple facets of design thinking and catalyze new ways for teaching design thinking.

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English | November 2, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CMK1ZDSB | 229 pages | PDF | 0.64 Mb
Improve your English vocabulary with this book of English words, phrases, expressions, idioms, and more. These lessons are designed for advanced English learners.

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English | 2022 | ISBN: 099512292X | EPUB | pages: 328 | 3.9 mb
Identity, understanding, and celebration through the stories of thirty remarkable New Zealanders. Soldiers, politicians, Olympians, doctors, musicians, academics, businesspeople, farmers, writers, and fa'afafine . . . the thirty LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders in this book are remarkable individuals. They each speak with candour and honesty about their challenges and successes, and together they show how LGBTQIA+ people strengthen the rich culture of Aotearoa. From the famous-Grant Robertson, Gareth Farr, Chlöe Swarbrick-to the less well known, these stories encourage empathy and understanding, challenge stereotypes, and offer courage and hope.