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Buddhapalita’s Commentary on Nagarjuna’s Middle Way Buddhapalita-Mulamadhyamaka-Vrtti


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English | ISBN: 1949163202 | 2021 | 400 pages | EPUB | 1187 KB
A masterful translation of classic scholar Buddhapalita’s breakthrough elucidation of Nagarjuna’s famous Middle Way text, which has profoundly influenced generations of Buddhist philosophers.

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Art and Violence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance


Free Download Meriem Pagès Robert G. Sullivan, "Art and Violence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"
English | ISBN: 1527560198 | 2020 | 225 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This collection of essays explores the intersection of art and violence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It will appeal primarily to students and scholars in the fields of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and will also be of interest to readers with an interest in medieval and early modern art history.

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Science Stories Science Methods for Elementary and Middle School Teachers


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English | 2017 | pages: 386 | ISBN: 1305960726 | PDF | 73,5 mb
SCIENCE STORIES helps you get in touch with your "scientific self" and become empowered to teach science in your own classrooms. This book’s unique approach uses stories of science in real-world classrooms to demonstrate important science content and strategies in action. Following each story, you’ll have the opportunity to reflect on the connections to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and to the teaching and disciplinary ideas behind the story. This approach makes the stories’ instructional value explicit. Author Janice Koch helps you feel comfortable with the prospect of teaching science and encourages you in the discovery and exploration of life, physical, and earth and space sciences. Through a warm and inviting narrative style, the author also fosters an appreciation for engineering design and for science and engineering practices.

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Great Power Competition and Middle Power Strategies


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031380231 | 394 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 8 MB
This edited volume addresses geo-economic strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific, exploring both the theoretical and thematic contours of this concept and issue-specific dynamics in the areas of finance, trade, energy, and technology competition. Chapters focus on the impact of renewed great power competition between Washington and Beijing in the Indo-Pacific region across these four areas. Each addresses central concerns for the future of the global economic order and offers a lens to understand interstate competition in light of the geopolitical shifts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Written by an international panel of experts, this volume provides a cohesive view of the region’s most pressing issues. As such, it will be relevant to scholars specializing in Indo-Pacific domestic politics and foreign policy, U.S. foreign policy, middle powers, China-U.S. relations, China-EU relations, Asia-Pacific developments, international security, international political economy, and emerging markets.

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The Middle Sea A History of the Mediterranean


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English | December 4, 2007 | ISBN: 0385510233 | 720 pages | EPUB | 5.79 Mb
This lively and dramatic book brings roaring to life the grand sweep of 5,000 years of history in the cradle of civilization.

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Middle Level Teacher Preparation across International Contexts (Routledge Research in Teacher Education)


Free Download Middle Level Teacher Preparation across International Contexts (Routledge Research in Teacher Education) by Cheryl R. Ellerbrock, Katherine M. Main, David C. Virtue
English | September 2, 2022 | ISBN: 103208040X | 318 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
This volume offers a cross-national analysis of teacher education programs designed to prepare teachers for work in middle level schools.

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Gender, nation and conquest in the high Middle Ages Nest of Deheubarth (Gender in History MUP)


Free Download Gender, nation and conquest in the high Middle Ages: Nest of Deheubarth (Gender in History MUP) by Susan M. Johns
English | October 31, 2013 | ISBN: 0719089999 | 289 pages | PDF | 6.61 Mb
This book is an account of noblewomen in Wales in the high Middle Ages, focusing on one particular case-study, Nest of Deheubarth. A key figure in one of the most notorious and portentous abductions of the middle ages, this ‘Helen of Wales’ was both mistress of Henry I and ancestress of a dynasty which dominated the Anglo-Norman conquests of Ireland.

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