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Free Download Indivisible: How to Forge Our Differences into a Stronger Future (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLX1VVKQ | 2024 | 7 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 216 MB
Author: Denise Hamilton
Narrator: Denise Hamilton
Denise Hamilton helps listeners unpack their preconceived notions and reimagine a world that’s better than just "inclusive." Denise Hamilton has always believed in the power and promise of a word she learned as a schoolgirl: "indivisible." In her groundbreaking debut, she challenges listeners to move beyond current notions of diversity and inclusion to build communities, workplaces, and relationships that live up to that word. She urges us to reexamine long-held beliefs and habits and to dismantle hierarchies that shape our current society. If we want to repair the fraying stitches that bind us together, if we want to build a truly close-knit collective, we cannot settle for our present approach. It’s time to recalibrate and identify a goal higher than inclusivity-the goal of indivisibility. As a nationally recognized DEI leader, Hamilton shares accessible, personal stories and offers self-examination questions, intentional action steps, and journal prompts. While the audiobook has a focus on business and leadership, the lessons within can transform our professional and personal lives.

Free Download Reader’s Block : A History of Reading Differences
by Matthew Rubery
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1503632490 | 290 Pages | True PDF | 9.4 MB

Free Download Stephany De Scisciolo, "Reducing Race Differences in Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising: The Case for Regulation"
English | ISBN: 1498574165 | 2018 | 140 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Reducing health disparities by increasing access to health information is a national health policy priority. Evidence exists that direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising (DTCA) is effective in educating consumers about health issues. However, racial disparities exist in such advertising. In 2009, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a report that included recommendations for enhancing the ability of DTCA to reach disadvantaged populations, including racial and ethnic minorities. Reducing Race Differences in Direct to Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising compares the pharmaceutical advertisements placed in five popular women’s magazines published prior to and following the 2009 FDA report to assess the impact of these recommendations on the content and appearance of advertisements placed in magazines of differing racial orientation. From a health policy perspective, the results are disappointing. The FDA recommendations had no impact on the frequency or content of the DTCA appearing in White-oriented versus Black-oriented magazines. In fact, far fewer drugs used to treat life-threatening conditions were advertised in Black-oriented magazines after the 2009 FDA recommendations. The book concludes that enhancing the educational and motivational value of DTCA will require more than a set of recommendations. The results shed light on the pharmaceutical industry’s compliance with both hard and soft regulation. Neither federal recommendations nor industry guidelines resulted in the changes to DTCA envisioned by the FDA. Regulatory action is necessary to ensure that pharmaceutical companies develop advertising campaigns that not only promote their products, but also positively impact the health outcomes of those who read their ads.

Free Download Judit Dombi, "Intercultural Communicative Competence and Individual Differences"
English | ISBN: 1527563693 | 2021 | 205 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book presents a concise critical overview of the literature on intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and offers insights into research on this concept. As a novel contribution to the field, the book frames ICC in relation to other learner variables, such as motivation, willingness to communicate, communication apprehension, and self-perceived communication competence. Based on empirical data, the study proposes and tests a model of English majors ICC interacting with individual differences related to L2 communication. The findings highlight that students beliefs about their own performance, their apprehension from communication situations and their language learning motivation were successfully integrated into a new model of intercultural communicative competence as understood in an interactional EFL context.

Free Download Sex and Gender Differences in Infection and Treatments for Infectious Diseases
English | 2023 | ISBN: 303135138X | 525 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
This fully revised and significantly expanded second edition examines sex and gender differences in the immune system’s response to bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections. The volume discusses both common and distinct molecular mechanisms that mediate these differences and illustrates how responses to vaccines may differ between the sexes and in pregnant individuals. Special emphasis is placed on the interplay between hormones and the immune system in the pathogenesis of HIV, SARS-CoV-2, influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, and amebiasis. This second edition includes completely rewritten chapters as well as all new contents.

Free Download The Handbook of Sex Differences Volume I Basic Biology
by Ellis, Lee;Palmer, Craig T.;Hopcroft, Rosemary;Hoskin, Anthony W.;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367434679 | 1019 pages | True PDF EPUB | 7.31 MB
The Handbook of Sex Differences is a four-volume reference work assembled and written to assess sex differences in human traits (although findings regarding other species are also included). Based on the authors’ highly influential 2008 book Sex Differences, these volumes highlight important new research findings from the last decade and a half alongside earlier findings. Conclusions reached by meta-analyses are also included. In this, the work’s first volume, findings from thousands of studies are summarized regarding basic biology. Results having to do with sex ratios at birth and traits involving a wide range of bodily features are reported along with numerous complex aspects of biochemistry, neurology, and physical health. The eight chapters comprising Volume I are as follows: 1 Reproduction, Development, and Morphology; 2 Anatomical and Physiological Factors; 3 Bodily Fluids, Biochemicals, and Biochemical Receptors; 4 The Brain: Structure and Functioning; 5 Physical Health and Illness Factors; 6 Responses to Physical and Chemical Environmental Factors; 7 Responses to Stress and to Pain; 8 Prenatal Factors. The Handbook of Sex Differences is of significant importance for any researcher, student, or professional who requires a comprehensive resource on sex differences.