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September 17, 2024

Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me) Adventures in Boyhood [Audiobook]

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Free Download Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMPLRG8Q | 2024 | 7 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Jay Ellis
Narrator: Jay Ellis
Jay Ellis, star of HBO’s Insecure, tells the story of growing up with an imaginary best friend you will never forget-part Dwayne Wayne from A Different World, part Will Smith from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air-in this hilarious, vulnerable memoir. What to do when you’re the perpetual new kid, only child, and military brat hustling school to school each year and everyone’s looking to you for answers? Make some shit up, of course! And a young Jay Ellis does just that, with help from his imaginary friend, Mikey. A testament to the importance of invention, trusting oneself, and making space for creativity, Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)? is a memoir of a kid who confided in his imaginary sidekick to navigate parallel pop culture universes (like watching Fresh Prince alongside John Hughes movies or listening to Ja Rule and Dave Matthews) to a lifetime of birthday disappointment (being a Christmas-season Capricorn will do that to you) and hoop dreams gone bad. Mikey also guides Ellis through tragedies, like losing his teenage cousin in a mistaken-target drive-by and the shame and fear of being pulled over by cops almost a dozen times the year he got his driver’s license. As his imaginary friend morphs into adult consciousness, Ellis charts an unforgettable story of looking inward to solve to some of life’s biggest (and smallest) challenges, told in the roast-you-with-love voice of your closest homey.

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September 16, 2024

Just War Thinkers

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Free Download Daniel R. Brunstetter, "Just War Thinkers "
English | ISBN: 1138122483 | 2017 | 282 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This volume offers a set of concise and accessible introductions to the seminal figures in the historical development of the just war tradition.

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September 16, 2024

A Socially Just Classroom Transdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Writing Across the Humanities

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Free Download Kristin Coffey, "A Socially Just Classroom: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Writing Across the Humanities "
English | ISBN: 1648891756 | 2022 | 310 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This edited collection provides a range of transdisciplinary approaches to the teaching of writing across the Humanities through the lens of inclusion and equity in higher education. In three parts – From Disciplinary Practice to Transdisciplinary Application, The Collective We: Transparent Pedagogy in Praxis, Power in Presence: From Chalkboard to Pavement – the chapters focus on teaching triumphs and challenges, specific learning objectives and best practices, theories and their applications, and concrete examples of campus action within specific institutional or socio-historical contexts. In whole, the book represents what a socially just classroom looks like from first-year university writing classes, to advanced graduate studies, and the impact of learning beyond the university. Building on the scholarship of equity in higher education, the book forefronts transdisciplinary pedagogies with chapters representing language and literature, creative writing, cultural and ethnic studies, women and gender studies, and media studies.

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September 15, 2024

Socially Just Educational Leadership in Unjust Times A Bourdieusian Study of Social Justice Educational Leadership Prac

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Free Download Katrina MacDonald, "Socially Just Educational Leadership in Unjust Times: A Bourdieusian Study of Social Justice Educational Leadership Prac"
English | ISBN: 3031476158 | 2023 | 190 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book offers a richly observed study of three principals working in some of the most disadvantaged primary schools in Victoria, Australia. It explores their social justice understandings and practices in working to improve the educational outcomes for children in their schools, through autobiography, biographical interviews, in-depth interviews and observations. The work looks into their life histories, the formation of their primary and secondary habitus, and uncovers and examines their encounters with the public education field. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice and his ‘thinking tools’, the book investigates how the principals’ understandings of social justice are shaped by the intersection of their life and work histories.

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September 15, 2024

Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition

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Free Download Mark Douglas, "Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1009098934 | PDF | pages: 370 | 3.4 mb
In this volume, Mark Douglas presents an environmental history of the Christian just war tradition. Focusing on the transition from its late medieval into its early modern form, he explores the role the tradition has played in conditioning modernity and generating modernity’s blindness to interactions between ‘the natural’ and ‘the political.’ Douglas criticizes problematic myths that have driven conventional narratives about the history of the tradition and suggests a revised approach that better accounts for the evolution of that tradition through time. Along the way, he provides new interpretations of works by Francisco de Vitoria and Hugo Grotius, and, provocatively, the Constitution of the United States of America. Sitting at the intersection of just war thinking, environmental history, and theological ethics, Douglas’s book serves as a timely guide for responses to wars in a warming world as they increasingly revolve around the flashpoints of religion, resources, and refugees.

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