Akira Kurosawa (Critical Lives) by Peter Wild PDF | 1.68 MB
English | 209 Pages

Title: Akira Kurosawa
Author: Wild, Peter
Year: 2015

The Ethics of Insurgency A Critical Guide to Just Guerrilla Warfare by Michael L Gross
epub | 629.71 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B00OUWJGOA | Author: Michael L. Gross | Year: 2015

1620 A Critical Response to the 1619 Project by Peter W Wood | 1.21 MB
English | N/A Pages

Title: 1620
Author: Peter W. Wood
Year: N/A

The Ethics of Insurgency A Critical Guide to Just Guerrilla Warfare by Michael L Gross | 629.71 KB
English | 341 Pages

Title: The Ethics of Insurgency: A Critical Guide to Just Guerrilla Warfare
Author: Michael L. Gross
Year: 2015

Ana Ndumu, "Borders and Belonging: Critical Examinations of Library Approaches toward Immigrants"
English | ISBN: 163400082X | 2021 | 318 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Borders and Belonging explores the role of libraries as both places of belonging as well as instruments of exclusion, xenophobia and assimilation. For over a century, North American libraries have liaised between immigrant communities and mainstream society by providing important sociocultural and educational services. Yet, outreach efforts have largely adhered to "Americanizing" ideals that reinforce ethnocentric and fatalist attitudes particularly toward undocumented and/or underprivileged migrants, refugees and asylees. As immigration continues to dominate public consciousness and political debates, the library profession must interrogate presumptions of immigrant incompetence or inferiority; professional awe whereby librarians are uncritically positioned as rescue workers; along with inattention to the contributions of immigrants within the profession as well as U.S. and Canadian societies. Through reflective essays, original research, and critical analyses presented by a range of specialists and thought leaders, Borders and Belonging challenges readers to dismantle problematic paradigms.

Rubric Nation: Critical Inquiries on the Impact of Rubrics in Education By Michelle Tenam-Zemach, Joseph E. Flynn Jr.
2015 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 1623969611 | PDF | 2 MB
What is a rubric and how are they being used in teacher education and evaluation? When did rubrics become ubiquitous in the field of education? What impact do rubrics have on students, teachers, teacher educators, and the educational enterprise? This book is an edited volume of essays that critically examine the phenomenon of rubrics in teacher education, evaluation and education more broadly. Rubrics have seen a dramatic rise in use and presence over the past twenty-five years in colleges of education and districts across the country. Although there is a wealth of literature about how to make rubrics, there is scant literature that explores the strengths and weaknesses of rubrics and the impact the rubric phenomenon is having in reshaping education. The chapters included in this edited volume will critically reflect on the contemporary contexts of rubrics and the uses and impact of rubrics in education. Since rubrics have become indelible in education, it is necessary for a fuller, nuanced discussion of the phenomenon. Creating a book that explores these aspects of rubrics is timely and fundamental to expanding the discourse on this ubiquitous evaluation tool. This book is not meant to be a series of chapters dedicated to best practices for creating rubrics, nor is this text meant to present all sides of the rubric discussion. Rather, this text intends to offer critical polemics about rubrics that can spur greater critical discussion about a phenomenon in education that has largely been unquestioned in the literature.

Jason Staggs, "Critical Infrastructure Protection XV: 15th IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference, ICCIP 2021, Virtual Event, March 15-"
English | ISBN: 3030935108 | 2022 | 267 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The information infrastructure - comprising computers, embedded devices, networks and software systems - is vital to operations in every sector: chemicals, commercial facilities, communications, critical manufacturing, dams, defense industrial base, emergency services, energy, financial services, food and agriculture, government facilities, healthcare and public health, information technology, nuclear reactors, materials and waste, transportation systems, and water and wastewater systems. Global business and industry, governments, indeed society itself, cannot function if major components of the critical information infrastructure are degraded, disabled or destroyed.

Audiovisual Tourism Promotion: A Critical Overview
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9811664099 | 287 Pages | PDF EPUB | 5 MB
This book deploys the concept of 'audiovisual tourism promotion' to account for the promotional functions performed by a vast array of diverse media texts including tourism films, feature films, digital videos conceived for online circulation, video games and TV commercials. From this point of view, this volume fills a major gap in the literature by providing the first comprehensive critical overview of audiovisual tourism promotion as a distinct media field. In this book, the study of audiovisual tourism promotion is characterised by an interdisciplinary approach which combines film studies, media studies, human geography, sociology, tourism studies, history, postcolonial and gender studies. This book will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars from different disciplines.

Stephen P. Cohen, "The South Asia Papers: A Critical Anthology of Writings by Stephen Philip Cohen"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0815734387, 0815728336 | EPUB | pages: 396 | 0.8 mb
Stephen Philip Cohen, the scholar who virtually created the field of South Asian security studies, has curated a unique collection of the most interesting and important articles, chapters, and speeches from his fifty-year career. Cohen, often described as the "dean" of U.S. South Asian studies, is a dominant figure in the fields of military history, military sociology, and South Asia's strategic emergence.

Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom By bell hooks
2009 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0415968194 | PDF | 1 MB
In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today. In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication of the previous best-selling volumes in her Teaching series, Teaching to Transgress and Teaching Community. The issues are varied and broad, from whether meaningful teaching can take place in a large classroom setting to confronting issues of self-esteem. One professor, for example, asked how black female professors can maintain positive authority in a classroom without being seen through the lens of negative racist, sexist stereotypes. One teacher asked how to handle tears in the classroom, while another wanted to know how to use humor as a tool for learning. Addressing questions of race, gender, and class in this work, hooks discusses the complex balance that allows us to teach, value, and learn from works written by racist and sexist authors. Highlighting the importance of reading, she insists on the primacy of free speech, a democratic education of literacy. Throughout these essays, she celebrates the transformative power of critical thinking. This is provocative, powerful, and joyful intellectual work. It is a must read for anyone who is at all interested in education today.