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Free Download Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy By Kevin H. O’Rourke; Jeffrey G. Williamson
2001 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 0262650592 | PDF | 2 MB
Kevin O’Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914–the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.Globalization is not a new phenomenon, nor is it irreversible. In Gobalization and History, Kevin O’Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914–the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years. The authors estimate the extent of globalization and its impact on the participating countries, and discuss the political reactions that it provoked. The book’s originality lies in its application of the tools of open-economy economics to this critical historical period–differentiating it from most previous work, which has been based on closed-economy or single-sector models. The authors also keep a close eye on globalization debates of the 1990s, using history to inform the present and vice versa. The book brings together research conducted by the authors over the past decade–work that has profoundly influenced how economic history is now written and that has found audiences in economics and history, as well as in the popular press.

Free Download Combating Terrorism in the 21st Century: American Laws, Strategies, and Agencies by Joseph R. Rudolph Jr., William J. Lahneman
English | September 27, 2022 | ISBN: 1440855943 | 488 pages | MOBI | 2.15 Mb
This combination A-Z encyclopedia and primary document collection provides an authoritative and enlightening overview of U.S. anti- and counterterrorism politics, policies, attitudes, and actions related to both foreign and domestic threats, with a special emphasis on post-9/11 events.

Free Download Bringing Schools into the 21st Century By Guofang Wan, Dianne M. Gut (auth.), Guofang Wan, Dianne M. Gut (eds.)
2011 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 9400702671 | PDF | 6 MB
Shift happens: Emerging technologies and globalization have resulted in political, social and cultural changes. These changes have a profound impact on all aspects of human life, including education. Yet while society has changed and continues to change, schools are slow to keep up. This book explores issues related to transforming and modernizing our educational systems, including the impact of societal shifts on education, the efforts at various levels to bring schools into the 21st century, the identification of 21st century skills, the reformation of the curriculum, the creation of alternative models of schooling, the innovative use of technology in education, and many others. It addresses questions like the following: Should schools systems adapt to better meet the needs of tomorrow’s world and how should this be accomplished? How can society better prepare students for a changing and challenging modern world? What skills do students need to lead successful lives and become productive citizens in the 21st century? How can educators create learning environments that are relevant and meaningful for digital natives? How can the school curriculum be made more rigorous to meet the needs of the 21st century? This book encourages readers to transcend the limits of their own educational experience, to think beyond familiar notions of schooling, instruction and curriculum, to consider how to best structure learning so that it will benefit future generations. It encourages a deeper analysis of the existing education system and offers practical insights into future directions focused on preparing students with 21st century skills.

Free Download Bringing Schools into the 21st Century By Guofang Wan, Dianne M. Gut (auth.), Guofang Wan, Dianne M. Gut (eds.)
2011 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 9400702671 | PDF | 6 MB
Shift happens: Emerging technologies and globalization have resulted in political, social and cultural changes. These changes have a profound impact on all aspects of human life, including education. Yet while society has changed and continues to change, schools are slow to keep up. This book explores issues related to transforming and modernizing our educational systems, including the impact of societal shifts on education, the efforts at various levels to bring schools into the 21st century, the identification of 21st century skills, the reformation of the curriculum, the creation of alternative models of schooling, the innovative use of technology in education, and many others. It addresses questions like the following: Should schools systems adapt to better meet the needs of tomorrow’s world and how should this be accomplished? How can society better prepare students for a changing and challenging modern world? What skills do students need to lead successful lives and become productive citizens in the 21st century? How can educators create learning environments that are relevant and meaningful for digital natives? How can the school curriculum be made more rigorous to meet the needs of the 21st century? This book encourages readers to transcend the limits of their own educational experience, to think beyond familiar notions of schooling, instruction and curriculum, to consider how to best structure learning so that it will benefit future generations. It encourages a deeper analysis of the existing education system and offers practical insights into future directions focused on preparing students with 21st century skills.

Free Download Seumas Milne, "The Revenge of History: The Battle for the 21st Century"
English | 2013 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1781680914, 1844679632 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
From 9/11 to the Arab Spring and beyond – encompassing the economic crisis, the rise of China, and conflicts in the Middle East – The Revenge of History turns the orthodoxies of the past generation on their head. In this coruscating account of the first decade of the twenty-first century, Seumas Milne presents a powerful indictment of the United States, a global and corporate empire in decline. Milne also examines the causes of the credit crisis and the Great Recession, reveals the policy of humanitarian military intervention to be a failed land grab, explains the dynamo behind the roaring Chinese economy and discovers new models of society flourishing in Latin America. Brilliant, bold and always incisive, The Revenge of History is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand what has gone wrong.

Free Download Eric O. Springsted, "Simone Weil for the Twenty-First Century"
English | ISBN: 026820022X | 2021 | 288 pages | EPUB | 835 KB

Free Download Amie A. Doughty, "Royalty in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Reshaping the Folktale and Disney Tradition"
English | ISBN: 1793627002 | 2023 | 172 pages | EPUB, PDF | 300 KB + 966 KB
Doughty examines contemporary children’s and young adult (YA) literature featuring royal characters through a folkloric lens and shows different ways authors transform the traditional royal characters from folktales and Disney films. She shows how princes and princesses are more progressive than their predecessors through expanding gender roles. She also demonstrates how different types of abdication work to transform readers’ expectations of royals and how they reach a happy ending different from traditional folktales and Disney. Finally, employing Rudine Sims Bishop’s ideas about mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors, she explores how queer royals and royals of color offer new mirrors for children and young adults. Each chapter presents a typology of royal books related to the topic and explains how they work to transform the folktale tradition. Doughty concludes with a discussion of the transformational gaps remaining in royal children’s and YA literature.

Free Download Jonathan D. Rosen, "Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century: A Human Dumping Ground "
English | ISBN: 0739191357 | 2015 | 258 pages | EPUB | 964 KB

Free Download Jonathan D. Rosen, "Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century: A Human Dumping Ground "
English | ISBN: 0739191357 | 2015 | 258 pages | EPUB | 964 KB

Free Download JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey, "Career Development Interventions In The 21st Century"
English | 2013 | pages: 425 | ISBN: 1292041897 | PDF | 79,8 mb
Uses the National Career Development Association’s Career Counseling Competencies, the National Career Development Guidelines for professional school counselors, and CACREP Standards as a framework for covering the knowledge areas and skills required for effective career development interventions in a diverse society.