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Free Download Hsu-Ming Teo, "Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction "
English | ISBN: 1032801778 | 2024 | 218 pages | EPUB, PDF | 844 KB + 19 MB
Romantic fiction has often involved stories of travel. In narratives of the journey towards love, "romance" often involves encounters with "exotic" places and peoples. When history is invoked in such stories, the past itself is exoticised and treated as "other" to the present to serve the purposes of romanticisation: a narrative strategy by which all manner of things – settings, characters, costumes, customs, consumables – are made to perform a luxuriant otherness that amplifies the experience of love. This volume questions the reparative function of Anglophone romantic historical fiction to ask: can Descriptions of travel and discourses of tourism empower women while narrating stories of healing for the wounds of the past? This is the first volume to consider how romanticised and exoticised women’s historical fiction not only serves the purposes of armchair travel but may also replicate colonial discourse, unintentionally positioning readers as neocolonial, neo-Orientalist cultural voyeurs as well as voyagers.

Free Download Margret A. Winzer, Kaz Mazurek, "Special Education in the 21st Century"
English | 2000 | pages: 285 | ISBN: 1563681005 | PDF | 1,1 mb
In the late 20th century, a tidal wave of calls for reform and inclusion of special needs students swept over public special education. The current debates over implementing these themes today are authoritatively addressed by 19 distinguished scholars in this thorough volume. Organized into three cohesive sections, it begins with the issues of educational reform and the emerging discourses of disability and integration in the inclusion movement. Respective chapters appraise specific arguments for inclusion and the federal legislation and litigation surrounding and supporting special education.

Free Download Station: A Whistlestop Tour of 20th- and 21st-Century Railway Architecture by Christopher Beanland
English | April 30, 2024 | ISBN: 1849948259 | 208 pages | MOBI | 83 Mb
A glorious celebration of modern railway architecture in the 20th century and beyond, travelling all over the world.

Free Download 21st Century Foresight:
Shaping the Future for Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Development in South Africa
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031695569 | 398 Pages | PDF (True) | 70 MB

Free Download Proceedings of the 21st International Meshing Roundtable By Daniel Sieger, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch (auth.), Xiangmin Jiao, Jean-Christophe Weill (eds.)
2013 | 606 Pages | ISBN: 3642335721 | PDF | 91 MB
This volume contains the articles presented at the 21st International Meshing Roundtable (IMR) organized, in part, by Sandia National Laboratories and was held on October 7-10, 2012 in San Jose, CA, USA. The first IMR was held in 1992, and the conference series has been held annually since. Each year the IMR brings together researchers, developers, and application experts in a variety of disciplines, from all over the world, to present and discuss ideas on mesh generation and related topics. The technical papers in this volume present theoretical and novel ideas and algorithms with practical potential, as well as technical applications in science and engineering, geometric modeling, computer graphics, and visualization.

Free Download Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21st Century
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819978017 | 2821 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 25 MB
This book mainly seeks to explain, define and update the recurring forms of populism in the 21st century. Examples used in this Introduction are limited to English speaking countries. But populism’s existent expressions are ecumenically global. Like any long-lasting perennial organism it is sturdy and comes in a variety of forms adaptable to environmental changes. In political or cultural terms its expression has been neither exclusively left, center, nor right. Populism contains multitudes, dates back centuries before it was identified with its modern name.

Free Download Nick Veronico, Jim Dunn – 21st Century U.S. Air Power
MBI Publishing | 2004 | ISBN: 0760320144 | English | 184 pages | PDF | 109.88 MB
This illustrated reference provides detailed information on all the major aircraft in the U.S. military arsenal. It covers the history and capabilities of fighters, bombers, and support craft, describing their mission profiles, armaments and weapons systems, tail codes, and combat history. Striking photos show the aircraft in action, including images from the buildup of the Gulf War!

Free Download On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century by Tony Blair
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 0593799798 | 368 pages | PDF | 2.08 Mb
The leadership manual Tony Blair wishes he had when he became prime minister, with personal insights and global examples that show aspiring leaders how to go from talking about change to making change.

Free Download Nelson González Ortega, "Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe: Performing Borders, Identities and Texts"
English | ISBN: 1800733801 | 2022 | 250 pages | PDF | 25 MB
The 21st century has witnessed some of the largest human migrations in history. Europe in particular has seen a major influx of refugees, redefining notions of borders and national identity. This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading international scholars of migration from perspectives as varied as literature, linguistics, area and cultural studies, media and communication, visual arts, and film studies. Together, they offer innovative interpretations of migrants and contemporary migration to Europe, enriching today’s political and media landscape, and engaging with the ongoing debate on forced mobility and rights of both extra-European migrants and European citizens.

Free Download Carol Bohmer, Amy Shuman, "Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century"
English | 2007 | pages: 301 | ISBN: 041577375X | PDF | 1,2 mb
Many nations recognize the moral and legal obligation to accept people fleeing from persecution, but political asylum applicants in the twenty-first century face restrictive policies and cumbersome procedures. So, what counts as persecution? How do applicants translate their stories of suffering and trauma into a narrative acceptable to the immigration officials? How can asylum officials weed out the fake from the genuine without resorting to inappropriate cultural definitions of behaviour?