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Free Download Michael J. Shapiro, "Deforming American Political Thought: Challenging the Jeffersonian Legacy"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138182702, 1138182710 | EPUB | pages: 236 | 1.0 mb
Deforming American Political Thought offers an alternative to the dominant American historical imagination, treating issues that range from the nature of Thomas Jefferson’s vision of an egalitarian nation to the persistence of racial inequality. Presenting multifaceted arguments that transcend the myopic scope of traditional political discourses, Michael J. Shapiro summons disparate disciplines and genres – architecture, crime stories, novels, films, and jazz/blues music (among others) to provide approaches to the comprehension of diverse facets of American political thought from the founding to the present. The book’s various investigations disclose that there have always been dissenting voices, articulated in diverse genres of expression that cast doubt on the moral purpose and exceptionalism of the American mind.

Free Download The Heredity Hoax: Challenging Flawed Genetic Theories of Human Development
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032699574 | 569 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 16 MB
Through an interdisciplinary lens, it illuminates the dynamic nature of human development, empowering readers to question established notions, and embrace the complexity of our potential. Across the book, the work of top-tier scientists, from developmental, comparative, educational, and biological science illuminates theory and research converging on the conclusion that the multiple egregiously flawed work of genetic reductionists should be expunged from research pertinent to human development. The book challenges the prevailing reductionist narratives and their application to social policies, programs, and uses in media. Theoretically based and empirically rigorous, this multidisciplinary approach to human development will shine a light on the inequities in individuals or groups that suggest that specific genes do not enable them to succeed in life.

Free Download Onofrio Romano, "The Sociology of Knowledge in a Time of Crisis: Challenging the Phantom of Liberty "
English | ISBN: 0415720362 | 2014 | 220 pages | EPUB | 578 KB
The speed of social dynamics has overtaken the speed of thought. Adopting a dialectical perspective towards reality, social theory has always detected faults in the dominant social pattern, foreseeing crises and outlining in advance the features of new social models. Thought has always moved faster than reality and its ruling models, ensuring a dynamic equilibrium during modernity. Despite any dramatic social crisis, theory has always provided exit routes. The tragedy of current crisis lies in the fact that its social implications are exasperated by the absence of alternative views. This book identifies the causes of this mismatch between thought and reality, and illustrates a way out.

Free Download Microfinance: Interventions in Challenging Contexts by na Paula Matias Gama, Mário Augusto, Ricardo Emanuel Correia, Fábio Duarte
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 452 Pages | ISBN : 9819753872 | 19.5 MB

Free Download Teaching and Learning Physics Effectively in Challenging Times
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031725409 | 531 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 36 MB
This book presents a comprehensive collection of recent developments in Physics Education Research. Expert authors contribute chapters reflecting insights gained from years of experience and recent research advancements. The book begins with general frameworks and guidelines for teaching and learning physics. It then examines experience-based learning, including experiential learning, inquiry-based learning, and remote experimental activities. Further, it addresses the teaching and learning of complex topics such as environmental science and contemporary physics. Finally, it focuses on teacher education, a crucial area for translating research into classroom practice. Together, these chapters provide a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements in teaching and learning physics.

Free Download Challenging the Status Quo: A Poltical Memoir by Derek Quigley
English | March 6th, 2025 | ISBN: 1776922204 | 375 pages | True EPUB | 3.20 MB
A farmer and lawyer, Derek Quigley had entered Parliament just five years earlier as National MP for Rangiora. After his falling out with Muldoon he was an advisor to the Lange/Douglas Labour government, then a cofounder of the ACT Party.

Free Download Imaging Methods for Novel Materials and Challenging Applications, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics By Sanichiro Yoshida (auth.), Helena Jin, Cesar Sciammarella, Cosme Furlong, Sanichiro Yoshida (eds.)
2013 | 450 Pages | ISBN: 1461442346 | PDF | 22 MB
Imaging Methods for Novel Materials and Challenging Applications, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the third volume of seven from the Conference, brings together 62 contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Experimental and Applied Mechanics, including papers on: Role of optical interferometry in advancement of material characterizationThree-dimensional imaging and volumetric correlationDigital holography and experimental mechanicsDigital image correlationMetrology and displacement measurement at different scalesOptical methods for dynamic testsOptical methods for and with MEMS and NEMSThermomechanics and infrared imagingImaging methods applied to biomaterials and soft materialsApplied photoelasticityOptical measurement systems using polarized lightHybrid imaging techniquesContouring of surfacesNovel optical techniques

Free Download Chris McInerney, "Challenging times, challenging administration: The role of public administration in producing social justice in Ireland"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0719088291 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 1.1 mb
The role of public administration and social justice is an area long overlooked in Ireland and more broadly in Europe, though it is somewhat more developed in the USA. This book addresses that gap and presents an original work, drawing on a broad range of conceptual material as well as empirical experiences in Ireland. It focuses on the role of the administrative system as a social justice actor in its own right, with its own dispositions and value systems. In taking this approach the book establishes a conceptual and practical justification for public administration to be proactive in pursuing social justice outcomes.

Free Download Merry Wiesner-Hanks, "Challenging Women’s Agency and Activism in Early Modernity "
English | ISBN: 9463729321 | 2021 | 312 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Examining women’s agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women’s Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women’s agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women’s actions and activism. They address a capacious set of questions about how women, from their teenage years through older adulthood, asserted agency through social practices, speech acts, legal disputes, writing, viewing and exchanging images, travel, and community building. Despite family and social pressures, the actions of girls and women could shape their lives and challenge male-dominated institutions. This volume includes thirteen essays by scholars from various disciplines, which analyze people, texts, objects, and images from many different parts of Europe, as well as things and people that crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific.

Free Download Jan-Jaap van Eerten, Bertjan Doosje, "Challenging Extremist Views on Social Media: Developing a Counter-Messaging Response"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367253151 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 0.5 mb
This book is a timely and significant examination of the role of counter-messaging via social media as a potential means of preventing or countering radicalization to violent extremism.