Free Download Richard Clapp, "From Critical Science to Solutions: The Best of Scientific Solutions "
English | ISBN: 0895034085 | 2012 | 226 pages | PDF | 3 MB
First Published in 2017. In this volume, the editor collected articles that primarily appeared in the "Scientific Solutions" section of New Solutions, A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy. The articles in the book are grouped into three general categories, starting with Critical Science. These articles are primarily critiques of "how science is done" or how science is incorporated into public health policy in the United States and elsewhere. The second category is what I have called Precautionary Science. These articles, such as the ones by Dement on asbestos and Solomon, and colleagues on the risks of manganese, essentially call for precautionary regulations to reduce exposures where there is substantial but, in the eyes of some, less than definitive scientific knowledge. The final category is Solutions Science. In some ways, this represents the current stage of precautionary science, where we have begun to look at larger societal issues and have moved beyond traditional scientific approaches and critiques.

Free Download Angelo Napolano, "Fictional Names: A Critical Study of Some Theories Not Committed to the Existence of Fictional Entities"
English | ISBN: 1443859737 | 2014 | 130 pages | PDF | 449 KB
If it is true that when we use a name, it must be the name of something, what is it that we name when we use terms such as Sherlock Holmes, Odysseus, and many of the same type? What is it we are addressing and how do the referential relations work assuming that we are thinking or talking about something when we use these terms? Otherwise, if we are speaking about nothing when we use a fictional name, how do we understand the linguistic process which gives us the impression of speaking about something? This book develops a critical study of some theories which deny any ontological existence to fictional characters. It provides an analysis of the contribution of these terms to the meaning of the sentences in which they are used and on the structure of thoughts adopted in assertions about fictional characters.

Free Download Evidence-Based Critical Care: A Case Study Approach By Robert C. Hyzy
English | PDF (True) | 2017 | 769 Pages | ISBN : 3319433393 | 28.3 MB
This book provides learners with a unique opportunity by virtue of the format outlined above. Each case presentation has a case vignette, which leads up to an important clinical question, and is followed by additional discussion which resolves the question posed.

Free Download Raqib Chowdhury, "Enacting English Across Borders: Critical Studies in the Asia Pacific"
English | ISBN: 1443862193 | 2014 | 281 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book houses contemporary theoretical and empirical studies by emergent researchers and scholars in the disciplines of ELT, Applied Linguistics and TESOL who address several newly-emerged and emerging issues in the field from their own contexts (predominantly Asian settings). Each chapter, in its own unique way, challenges, unpacks and critiques existing misconceptions and pre-conceived assumptions of the use, learning and teaching of English in today's fluid and globalised, postmodern era. While some contributors to the book have brought such issues to the forefront through a critical consideration of histories and policies, others have explored how English is enacted, practised, learned, and/or taught across a wide range of settings in order to further illustrate the various manifestations of the worldwide expansion of the language. Together the chapters of this book highlight the current discrepancies and inconsistencies in different areas of interest in the field of ELT, and provide carefully considered suggestions on how to address these issues.

Free Download Dress History of Korea: Critical Perspectives on Primary Sources by Kyunghee Pyun, Minjee Kim
English | May 18, 2023 | ISBN: 1350143375 | 368 pages | MOBI | 9.80 Mb
Bringing together a wealth of primary sources and with contributions from leading experts, Dress History of Korea presents the most recent approaches to the interpretation of dress and fashion of Korea. Through close analysis of visual, written, and material sources-some newly excavated or recently re-discovered in global museums-the book reveals how dress and adornment evolved from the period of state formation to the modern era.

Free Download João M. Paraskeva, "Critical Perspectives on the Denial of Caste in Educational Debate "
English | ISBN: 036772510X | 2023 | 340 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This volume represents the first exploration of caste in the field of curriculum studies, challenging the ongoing silence around the issue of caste in education and curriculum theory. Presenting comprehensive critical examination of caste as a category of domination and oppression in the colonial power matrix, chapters confront Eurocentric educational epistemologies which deny the existence and influence of caste. The book examines the impact of such silence in educational policy, praxis, and curriculum, and draws from leading scholars to illustrate the fluidity of power and oppression in the caste system. By challenging historical, cultural, and institutional origins of caste and foregrounding perspectives from outside Western epistemological frameworks, the book pioneers a critical approach to integrating caste in educational debate to interrupt social and cognitive injustices. In so doing so, the volume advocates for an alternative, non-derivative curriculum reason, through an itinerant curriculum theory as a path toward the emergence of a critical Dalit educational theory. As such, it makes a vital contribution for scholars and researchers looking to refine and enhance their knowledge of curriculum studies by highlighting the importance of theorizing caste in the role of education.

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English | October 16, 2023 | ISBN: 1637425201 | 146 pages | PDF | 3.91 Mb
A massive paradigm shift in the world of work and the way we manage people. What's changing - everything!

Free Download Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative by Ashley Scott Kelly
English | EPUB | 2021 | 256 Pages | ISBN : 9811640661 | 276.1 MB
This book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China-Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021.

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English | ISBN: 0415877121 | 2011 | 144 pages | PDF | 1136 KB
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Free Download Diane M. Hoffman, "Critical Anthropology of Childhood in Haiti, A: Emotion, Power, and White Saviors"
English | ISBN: 1350321338 | 2024 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 483 KB + 10 MB
This book offers a critical anthropological perspective on contemporary childhood in Haiti. It is based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a period of 13 years with vulnerable children in Haiti. Diane M. Hoffman raises important questions about how interventions by well-meaning foreigners and 'white saviors' often misrepresent Haitian culture and society as deficient, while privileging their own emotions alongside supposedly universal ideas about children that reinforce their own power to define and intervene in Haitian lives. She argues for a new approach to Haitian childhood that centers children's informal learning and self-education alongside indigenous spirituality and constructions of personhood that can resist the hegemony of neo-colonial and neo-liberal forces. Instead of representing the country and its children as a place of "problems to be solved," the book shows the importance prioritizing aspects of Haitian world-views in order to develop a more culturally-informed understanding of childhood in Haiti that can support genuine social change.