Tag: Becoming

Becoming Tangata Tiriti Working with Maori, Honouring the Treaty


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English | August 8, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DBJ6KN6M | 177 pages | EPUB | 0.90 Mb
Becoming Tangata Tiriti brings together twelve non-Maori voices – dedicated professionals, activists and everyday individuals – who have engaged with te ao Maori and have attempted to bring te Tiriti to life in their work. In stories of missteps, hard-earned victories and journeys through the complexities of cross-cultural relationships, Becoming Tangata Tiriti is a book of lessons learned.Sociologist Avril Bell analyses the complicated journey of today’ s partners of te Tiriti o Waitangi, and asks: Who are we as tangata tiriti? How do we identify in relation to Maori? What are our responsibilities to te Tiriti? What do we do when we inevitably stumble along the way?With words by champions in their fields, including Meng Foon, Andrew Judd and others, this concise paperback acts as a guide for those just beginning their journey towards a Tiriti-based society – and is a sound refresher for others well along the path.

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Becoming Little Shell A Landless Indian’s Journey Home


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English | August 20, 2024 | ISBN: 1571313982 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 2.5 MB
Growing up in Montana, Chris La Tray always identified as Indian. Despite the fact that his father fiercely denied any connection, he found Indigenous people alluring, often recalling his grandmother’s consistent mention of their Chippewa heritage.

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Becoming Elizabeth Arden The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire


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English | September 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 0525559760 | 512 pages | True EPUB | 42.77 MB
A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and successful business-women in American history, BECOMING ELIZABETH ARDEN opens the Red Door to a world of wealth, glamor, and the profitable business of beauty

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Becoming Earth How Our Planet Came to Life, UK Edition


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English | August 29th, 2024 | ISBN: 1529038154 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 1.36 MB
A radically thought-provoking account of a major shift in how we understand our Earth, not simply as an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather as a planet that came to life.

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Formations of Class and Gender Becoming Respectable


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1997 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0761955119 | PDF | 15 MB
Explanations of how identities are constructed are fundamental to contemporary debates in feminism and in cultural and social theory. Formations of Class & Gender demonstrates why class should be featured more prominently in theoretical accounts of gender, identity and power. Beverley Skeggs identifies the neglect of class, and shows how class and gender must be fused together to produce an accurate representation of power relations in modern society. The book questions how theoretical frameworks are generated for understanding how women live and produce themselves through social and cultural relations. It uses detailed ethnographic research to explain how `real’ women inhabit and occupy the social and cultural posit

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Being and Becoming Through Higher Education Expanding Possibilities


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English | ISBN: 9819720613 | 2024 | 280 pages | EPUB, PDF | 561 KB + 5 MB
This book focuses on the importance of an ontological dimension for today’s higher education, with critical attention to implications for the student experience, engagement, satisfaction, wellbeing, employability, (dis)embodiment and activism in which students take a stand on their own being and becoming. In accessible language, key philosophical ideas are explored for their relevance to contemporary higher education, integrating philosophical with pedagogical perspectives.

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