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Missing Persians Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History


Free Download Nasrin Rahimieh, "Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History "
English | ISBN: 081562753X | 2001 | 208 pages | PDF | 48 MB
Missing Persians serves to articulate in elegant, vibrant prose the disparate and displaced narratives of five Persian subjects. Nasrin Rahimieh’s complex and nuanced arguments effectively demonstrate the links that her five figures have to a stable Persian identity-complicated by their experiences of travel, exile, conversion, and social change. Rahimieh delineates the captivating histories of "missing" Persians from the sixteenth century to modern times and defines the arbitrary generic boundaries that isolate Persian biographies, autobiographies, travelogues, and social histories. Balancing their documentary and historical value with creative and fictional elements, she reads them as individual engagements with broader questions of Persian identity at different moments of the nation’s history. As modes of self-expression, these texts reveal both remnants of traditional Persian literary forms and new styles adopted through translations and readings in European literature and history. Even as it sheds new light on crucial points in cultural self-definition,

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Reproductive Health―The Missing Millennium Development Goal Poverty, Health, and Development in a Changing World


Free Download Abdo S. Yazbeck, Thomas W. Merrick, "Reproductive Health―The Missing Millennium Development Goal: Poverty, Health, and Development in a Changing World"
English | 2006 | pages: 228 | ISBN: 0821366130 | PDF | 1,9 mb
While women in developing countries continue to die in large numbers in child birth, Population and Reproductive Health specialists and advocates around the world are struggling to keep the policy agenda focused on the rights and needs of poor women. The 1994 Cairo Conference and Program of Action changed how we do business, and opened many doors, but the agenda is not complete and has stalled in a number of ways. At the country level, governments and donors are making difficult choices about how and where to allocate scarce human and financial resources. Funding approaches have moved away from the implementation of narrowly directed health programs to a broader approach of health system development and reform. At the same time, countries are also centering their development agenda on the broad goal of poverty reduction. This volume addresses a large knowledge and capacity gap in the Reproductive Health community and provides tools for key actors to empower faster positive change. It is a synopsis of the materials developed for WBI’s learning program on Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Poverty Reduction, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform. The volume brings together knowledge about epidemiology, demography, economics, and trends in global financial assistance. The volume also introduces practical tools such as benefit incidence analysis, costing, and stakeholder analysis to strengthen the evidence base for policy and to address the political economy factors for reform.

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The Missing Kennedy Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women


Free Download The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women by Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff
English | October 7, 2015 | ISBN: 1610881745, 1610881753 | True EPUB | 270 pages | 15.5 MB
Rosemary Kennedy, younger sister of President John F. Kennedy, was lobotomized in 1941 at age 23. In 1959, she was put out of public view at a remote facility in rural Wisconsin, where, for more than twenty years, she remained unvisited by family and non-family alike, until 1962.

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Wisconsin’s 37 The Lives of Those Missing in Action in the Vietnam War


Free Download Erin Miller, "Wisconsin’s 37: The Lives of Those Missing in Action in the Vietnam War"
English | ISBN: 1476672008 | 2018 | 251 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
The signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 signified the end of the Vietnam War. American personnel returned home and the 591 American prisoners held captive in North Vietnam were released. Still, 2,646 individuals did not come home. Thirty-seven of those missing in action were from Wisconsin. Their names appear on the largest object-a motorcycle (now part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection)-ever left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Using the recollections of the soldiers’ families, friends and fellow servicemen, the author tells the story of each man’s life.

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CSS3 The Missing Manual


Free Download CSS3: The Missing Manual By David Sawyer McFarland
2013 | 656 Pages | ISBN: 1449325947 | EPUB | 35 MB
CSS3 lets you create professional-looking websites, but learning its finer points can be tricky-even for seasoned web developers. This Missing Manual shows you how to take your HTML and CSS skills to the next level, with valuable tips, tricks, and step-by-step instructions. You’ll quickly learn how to build web pages that look great and run fast on devices and screens of all sizes.The important stuff you need to know:Start with the basics. Write CSS3-friendly HTML, including the HTML5 tags recognized by today’s browsers. Apply real-world design. Format text, create navigation tools, and enhance pages with graphics. Make your pages lively. Create eye-catching animations and give your visitors attractive tables and forms. Take control of page layouts. Use professional design techniques such as floats and positioning. Look great on any device. Craft websites that adapt to desktop, tablet, and mobile browsers. Get advanced techniques. Use CSS3 more effectively and efficiently, and ensure that your web pages look good when printed.

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You’re Not Listening What You’re Missing and Why It Matters


Free Download You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy, Macmillan Audio
English | January 07, 2020 | ISBN: B07WJ6MR2P | 6 hours and 31 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 179 Mb
"How well we listen determines how we love, learn, and connect with one another, and in this moment when we need to hear and be heard more than ever, this thought-provoking and engaging book shows us how." (Lori Gottlieb, New York Times best-selling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone)
At work, we’re taught to lead the conversation.
On social media, we shape our personal narratives.

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The Missing Thread A Women’s History of the Ancient World [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CMJQ4JB8 | 2024 | 17 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 496 MB
Author: Daisy Dunn
Narrator: Daisy Dunn, Jenny Funnell

A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center-from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of history. Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and desire. For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women-whether they were simply sitting at their looms at home or participating in the highest echelons of power-were up to something much more interesting than other histories would lead us to believe. Together, these women helped to make antiquity as we know it.

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College Girl, Missing The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight [Audiobook]


Free Download College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D79HJ41P | 2024 | 4 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Shawn Cohen
Narrator: Kyle Snyder

This book is the heartbreaking story that every parent dreads . . . Cohen sheds light on what really happened the night Lauren was never seen again. She visited friends. She walked to a bar. She was right there . . . until she was gone. College student Lauren Spierer was pursuing her dreams, joining her boyfriend at a party school eight hundred miles from home. Social and gregarious, studying fashion and rooming with friends, Lauren embraced her new adventure with the zeal of a young woman who suddenly had everything she desired. But there was a dark side that she and her inner circle kept secret.

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