Free Download Critical Topics in Exhaust Gas Aftertreatment By Peter Eastwood
2000 | 157 Pages | ISBN: 0863802427 | PDF | 16 MB
Reviewing the major technical issues on tailpipe standards from an applications and systems perspective, British mechanical engineer Eastwood describes where current aftertreatment fails, what new types are now under research, and how aftertreatment can most effectively be integrated into a vehicle's powertrain. His study pivots on eight specific problems currently faced by the automotive industry that must be solved or circumvented if air quality goals are to be met. After reviewing the exhaust environment, he discusses such topics as diesel particulate filters and oxidation catalysts, aging in catalysts and oxygen sensors, the cold-start problem, and fuels. His references emphasize the most recent works.

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English | ISBN: 1433194600 | 2022 | 202 pages | PDF, EPUB | 10 + 3 MB
The decolonization of education necessarily involves a critique of dominant ideologies, pedagogies, and the current organization of education, to be replaced by what, in 1970, Paulo Freire called "the pedagogy of the oppressed." Critical Theory and Pedagogy presents a theory for decolonizing, democratizing, and reconstructing education in order to meet the challenges of a global and technological society. A democratic and intersectional reconstruction of education must build on and synthesize perspectives of classical philosophy of education, Deweyean radical pragmatism, Freirean critical pedagogy, poststructuralism, and critical theories of gender, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, disability, indigeneity, and more, while criticizing obsolete idealist, elitist, and antidemocratic aspects of traditional concepts of education.

Free Download Amy Pattee, "Critical Survey of Young Adult Literature"
English | ISBN: 1619259710 | 2016 | pages | PDF | 53 MB
Critical Survey of Young Adult Literature aims to discuss the most representative young adult works that forms today's canon for academic coursework and library collection development, with over 300 essays of clear, concise, and accessible analysis. This collection includes classic young adult titles like The Outsiders, popular series like Divergent, plus a variety of significant themes, film adaptations, and other sections important to the popular young adult category.

Free Download Kathryn a Davis, "Critical Qualitative Research in Second Language Studies: Agency and Advocacy (Hc) "
English | ISBN: 161735385X | 2011 | 452 pages | PDF | 4 MB
A volume in Contemporary Language Education Series Editor: Terry A. Osborn, University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee This volume begins by locating critical inquiry within the epistemological and methodological history of second language study. Subsequent chapters portray researcher-participant exploration of identity and agency while challenging inequitable policies and practices. Research on internationalization, Englishization, and/or transborder migration address language policies and knowledge production at universities in Hong Kong, Standard English and Singlish controversies in Singapore, media portrayals of the English as an Official Language movement in South Korea, transnational advocacy in Japan, and Nicaraguan/Costa Rican South to South migration. Transnational locations of identity and agency are fore-fronted in narrative descriptions of Korean heritage language learners, a discursive journey from East Timor to Hawaii, and a reclaimed life history by a Chinese peasant woman. Labor union and GLBT legal work illustrate discourses that can hinder or facilitate agency and change. Hawaiian educators advocate for indigenous self-determination through revealing the political and social meanings of research. California educators describe struggles at the front-lines of resistance to policies and practices harmful to marginalized children. A Participatory Action Research (PAR) project portrays how Latina youth in the U.S. "resist wounding inscriptions" of the intersecting emotional and physical violence of homes, communities, and anti-immigrant policies and attitudes. Promoting agency through drawing on diversity resources is modeled in a bilingual undergraduate PAR project. The volume as a whole provides a model for critical research that explores the multifaceted and evolving nature of language identities while placing those traditionally known as participants at the center of agency and advocacy.

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by Robert Bernasconi
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0197587968 | 393 Pages | True PDF | 23.5 MB

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by Tomasz W. Dlotko and Yejuan Wang
English | 2020 | ISBN: 3110597551 | 310 Pages | True PDF | 4.62 MB

Free Download D. Venkat Rao, "Critical Humanities from India"
English | 2020 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0367735105, 1138743046 | EPUB | 3,5 mb
The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally addressed the questions of what is proper to man, rights of man, crimes against humanity, human creativity and action, human reflection and performance, human utterance and artefact. The university as a philosophical-political institution transmits this humanist account. This European humanistic legacy, which is little more than Christian anthropology, barely received any questioning from cultures that faced colonialism. In such a context, this volume attempts to unravel the 'barely secularized heritage' of Europe (Derrida's phrase) and its fatal consequences in other cultures. The task of Critical Humanities is to explore the ways in which the question of being human (along with non-human others) today from heterogeneous cultural 'backgrounds' can be undertaken. The future of the humanities teaching and research is contingent upon the risky task of configuring cultural difference from non-European locations. Such a task is inescapable and urgently needed when tectonic cultural upheavals have begun to show devastating effect on planetary coexistence today. It is precisely in such a context that this collection of essays on critical humanities affirms, 'without alibi', the urgency of collective reflection and innovative research across the traditional disciplinary and institutional borders and communication systems on the one hand and Asian, African and European cultural formations on the other. Critical Humanities are at one level little more than communities on the verge (critical) but whose centuries long survival and resilient creations of cultural (and /as natural) habitats are of deeply enduring significance to affirm the biocultural diversities of living that compose the planet.

Free Download Steven Camicia, "Critical Democratic Education and LGBTQ-Inclusive Curriculum"
English | 2016 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 041570992X, 0367540983 | PDF | 0,5 mb
This book illustrates the relationship between politics and the ways in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) issues are taught in schools. This book examines relationships between society, schools, and LGBTQ inclusion in order to understand perennial issues related to critical democratic education, and how schools are responding to generational shifts in ideology. By conducting a case study comparison of California and Utah, Camicia provides an in-depth view of the politically and culturally different landscapes that shape LGBTQ curriculum in schools.

Free Download Critical Decisions: How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together by Peter A. Ubel
English | September 4, 2012 | ISBN: 0062103822 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 0.5 MB
We've all been there, sitting uncomfortably in a paper gown as a doctor impassively describes our prognosis. Sometimes it's simple and treatable. Other times we get news we can't fathom, and then are faced with decisions that are literally life and death. How do we decide?

Free Download Stephanie Ann Houghton, "Critical Cultural Awareness: Managing Stereotypes Through Intercultural "
English | ISBN: 1443845221 | 2013 | 285 pages | PDF | 1338 KB
In a rapidly globalizing world, one of the most challenging barriers to be overcome is the stereotype. This book aims to promote understanding of the nature of stereotypes and to suggest ways in which teachers can manage them by developing critical cultural awareness as an intrinsic part of the intercultural communicative competence of their students. Part I explores ways of defining, eliciting and illustrating stereotypes from theoretical standpoints. Part II showcases ways of addressing stereotypes through intercultural (language) education to provide teachers with a firm platform for the practical application of their knowledge and skills when attempting to manage stereotypes in the classroom.