Tag: Difference

Free Download Perfectly Imperfect: Embrace Your Difference, Find Your Superpower by Liadán Hynes, Ellen Keane
English | January 4th, 2024 | ISBN: 071719616X | 304 pages | True EPUB | 2.72 MB
Learn to love your imperfect, messy self just as you are.

Free Download Philosophies of Difference: A Critical Introduction to Non-philosophy by François Laruelle, translated by Rocco Gangle
English | March 3, 2011 | ISBN: 0826436633, 1350030295 | True EPUB/PDF | 256 pages | 0.6/2.2 MB
A crucial text in the development of François Laruelle’s oeuvre and an excellent starting point for understanding his broader project, Philosophies of Difference offers a theoretical and critical analysis of the philosophers of difference after Hegel and Nietzsche. Laruelle then uses this analysis to introduce a new theoretical practice of non-philosophical thought.

Free Download ‘Race Is Everything’: Art and Human Difference by David Bindman
English | June 26, 2023 | ISBN: 1789146968 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 18.5 MB
A timely and revealing look at the intertwined histories of science, art, and racism.

Free Download Authentic Professional Learning: Making a Difference Through Learning at Work By Ann Webster-Wright (auth.)
2010 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 9048139465 | PDF | 3 MB
Meeting the challenges of an unpredictable global future will be hard enough for all sectors, but one thing is certain: ongoing learning by all of the professions is vital. This book applies cutting-edge educational theory to the concept of lifelong learning. It argues for a significant paradigm shift from the traditional practice of providing programs to develop professionals, towards enabling professionals’ capability for authentic inquiry into their own practices. In doing so, the text contributes much to the ongoing debate about how professionals can be supported in ways that nourish them as individuals as well as leading to worthwhile and sustainable outcomes for society as a whole. The book highlights a disparity between the reality of professionals’ learning experiences and the rhetoric commonly employed in relation to professional performance development. Empirical data reveal that professionals take their responsibilities to improve their practice seriously, but consider their continuing learning needs to be more profound than that provided by narrow professional development rhetoric. The didactic and episodic nature of many professional development activities does not adequately support the multifaceted and idiosyncratic nature of authentic professional learning, as lived by professionals in practice. In this volume, the common themes across diverse experiences of learning are defined within a phenomenological framework as understanding, engagement, interconnection and openness. Realistic guidelines to support learning, in ways that balance professional accountability and agency, are elucidated in the context of this framework. The book highlights contemporary workplace dilemmas for professionals, including those working in healthcare, who are anxious to make a difference to the lives of those they care for. Drawing on phenomenological philosophy, Ann Webster-Wright explores the issue of authenticity in professional life as well as the contribution that professionals can make to society. ‘This book is a pioneering example of the kind of studies that are needed to further understanding of professional practice and how it can be improved. It focuses on what practitioners can do to act together for themselves. It applies the notion of being professional to the core of practice: learning from what one does.’ David Boud ‘This book does more than merely challenge the traditional way of conceptualising professional development. It also offers bases for reshaping efforts to secure all ongoing professional learning in ways centred on the learners themselves.’ Stephen Billet

Free Download Brian D. Robinette, "The Difference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation"
English | ISBN: 0268203520 | 2023 | 338 pages | EPUB | 572 KB

Free Download Michael J. Colacurcio, "Doctrine and Difference "
English | ISBN: 103236873X | 2023 | 286 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1016 KB + 7 MB
Doctrine and Difference: The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature aims to expand and deepen our knowledge into the inquiry of "contextual historicism," observing writers of the American nineteenth century, and their vastly differing approaches to perceptions such as race, gender, and national identity. Ranging from the religious acuities of the first American Puritans to the more secularized literary awakening of the American Renaissance and into late-century texts that deliberately resist the limits of received religious and political opinion, this volume seeks to uncover a history of human thought within classic American Literature. This volume critically observes these survivable works of literature, presenting insight into the "difference" made by conversation, dispute, and dramatized self-doubt within novels and poems of the historical past.

Free Download Einstein’s Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe by Paul Sen
English | 2021 | ISBN: B08FNDYWGL | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:05:00 | 304 Mb
This entertaining, eye-opening account of how the laws of thermodynamics are essential to understanding the world today – from refrigeration and jet engines to calorie counting and global warming – is "a lesson in how to do popular science right" (Kirkus Reviews).
Einstein’s Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a theory essential to comprehending our universe. "Although thermodynamics has been studied for hundreds of years…few nonscientists appreciate how its principles have shaped the modern world" (Scientific American). Thermodynamics – the branch of physics that deals with energy and entropy – governs everything from the behavior of living cells to the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Not only that, but thermodynamics explains why we must eat and breathe, how lights turn on, the limits of computing, and how the universe will end.
The brilliant people who decoded its laws came from every branch of the sciences; they were engineers, physicists, chemists, biologists, cosmologists, and mathematicians. From French military engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot to Lord Kelvin, James Joule, Albert Einstein, Emmy Noether, Alan Turing, and Stephen Hawking, author Paul Sen introduces us to all of the players who passed the baton of scientific progress through time and across nations. Incredibly driven and idealistic, these brave pioneers performed groundbreaking work often in the face of torment and tragedy. Their discoveries helped create the modern world and transformed every branch of science, from biology to cosmology.

Free Download Thomas Prosser, "What’s in it for me?: Self-interest and political difference"
English | ISBN: 1526152320 | 2021 | 216 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This punchy and provocative book asks a simple but overlooked question: why do we have the political views that we do?

Free Download John C. Maxwell, "The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0785260986, 1404116559 | EPUB | pages: 184 | 1.1 mb
What can make the difference in your life today? How can two people with the same skills and abilities, in the same situation, end up with two totally different outcomes? John C. Maxwell says the difference maker is attitude.

Free Download Aaron Tillman, "Magical American Jew: The Enigma of Difference in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film"
English | ISBN: 1498565026 | 2017 | 158 pages | EPUB | 494 KB
Efforts to describe contemporary Jewish American identities often reveal more questions than concrete articulations, more statements about what Jewish Americans are not than what they are. Highlighting the paradoxical phrasings that surface in contemporary writings about Jewish American literature and culture-language that speaks to the elusive difference felt by many Jewish Americans-Aaron Tillman asks how we portray identities and differences that seem to resist concrete definition. Over the course of Magical American Jew, Tillman examines this enigma-the indefinite yet undeniable difference that informs contemporary Jewish American identity-demonstrating how certain writers and filmmakers have deployed magical realist techniques to illustrate the enigmatic difference that Jewish Americans have felt and continue to feel.