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Free Download Anti-Vaccination and the Media: Historical Perspectives by Allison Cavanagh
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 143 Pages | ISBN : 3031705580 | 6.4 MB
This book explores narratives of vaccine hesitancy using samples from the UK press, and looks at the ways these have changed between the 1950s and the present. The work draws on a variety of research instruments including semantic network analysis and analysis of metaphor to provide a rich description of anti-vaccine narratives in different historical periods.

Free Download Paul E. Quast, "Speaking Beyond Earth: Perspectives on Messaging Across Deep Space and Cosmic Time"
English | ISBN: 1476690006 | 2024 | 298 pages | PDF | 21 MB
Since the dawn of the Space Age, small cohorts of humanity have broadcast signals towards other stars, fabricated "space-time capsules" to "speak for Earth" aboard interstellar probes, deposited collections of "space oddities" on other astronomical bodies, and permanently incised the memory of our species across the deep-time legacy of the Sol System. Many of these purposeful "messages" are the consequence of age-old behaviors, traditions, and material practices using modern aerospace technologies. Most attempt to preserve narratives of human experience in social exchange devices for imagined, exotic audiences. Looking back upon this accumulative history of "messaging from Earth", how do we begin to interpret such an eclectic portrait of Earth for ourselves?

Free Download Alan S. Waterman PhD, "The Best Within Us: Positive Psychology Perspectives on Eudaimonia"
English | ISBN: 1433812614 | 2013 | 303 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The Best Within Us explores the many ways the philosophic concept of eudaimonia is being employed in psychology.

Free Download Douglas E. Bell, "English for Academic Purposes: Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future "
English | ISBN: 180041448X | 2024 | 210 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Since its inception in the 1960s, the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) has enjoyed a period of almost continual expansion and growth and now represents a multi-million dollar industry worldwide. This book provides readers with a critical and comprehensive overview of EAP’s birth, its historical development and its ongoing trajectory, incorporating along the way the views of individuals who have played key roles in the field. It examines a wide range of crucial topics in EAP, including pedagogy, materials and assessment and the role of EAP and those who teach it within the academy. The book concludes with a glimpse into the future as the author discusses the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities currently facing EAP and also evaluates some of the threats posed by issues such as privatisation and generative AI.

Free Download Activating and Engaging Learners and Teachers: Perspectives for English Language Education by Carmen Amerstorfer, Max von Blanckenburg
English | March 13, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BY9RJ4CW | 515 pages | EPUB | 15 Mb
This book offers a nuanced, integrated understanding of EFL learning and instruction and investigates both learner and teacher perspectives on four thematically interconnected parts. Part I encompasses chapters on psychological aspects related to teaching and learning and presents the latest research on positive language education, teacher empathy, and well-being. Part II deals with EFL teaching methodology, specifically related to teaching pronunciation, language assessment, peer response, and strategy instruction. Part III addresses aspects of cultural learning including inter- and transculturality, digital citizenship, global learning, and cosmopolitanism. Part IV concerns teaching with literary texts, for instance, to reflect on social and political discourse, facilitate empowerment, imagine utopian or dystopian futures, and to bring non-Western narratives into language classrooms.

Free Download The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring: A Multiple Perspectives Approach By
2007 | 499 Pages | ISBN: 1405133732 | PDF | 3 MB
Cutting across the fields of psychology, management, education, counseling, social work, and sociology, The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring reveals an innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to the practice and theory of mentoring.Provides a complete, multi-disciplinary look at the practice and theory of mentoring and demonstrates its advantages Brings together, for the first time, expert researchers from the three primary areas of mentoring: workplace, academy, and community Leading scholars provide critical analysis on important literature concerning theoretical approaches and methodological issues in the field Final section presents an integrated perspective on mentoring relationships and projects a future agenda for the fieldContent: Chapter 1 Overview and Introduction (pages 1-6): Tammy D. Allen and Lillian T. EbyChapter 2 Definition and Evolution of Mentoring (pages 7-20): Lillian T. Eby, Jean E. Rhodes and Tammy D. AllenChapter 3 Youth Mentoring: Theoretical and Methodological Issues (pages 21-47): Thomas E. KellerChapter 4 Student?Faculty Mentoring: Theoretical and Methodological Issues (pages 49-69): W. Brad Johnson, Gail Rose and Lewis Z. SchlosserChapter 5 Workplace Mentoring: Theoretical Approaches and Methodological Issues (pages 71-91): Terri A. Scandura and Ekin K. PellegriniChapter 6 Reflections on the Theoretical Approaches and Methodological Issues in Mentoring Relationships (pages 93-96): Marcus M. Butts, Jaime R. Durley and Lillian T. EbyChapter 7 Naturally Occurring Mentoring Relationships Involving Youth (pages 97-117): Renee SpencerChapter 8 Naturally Occurring Student?Faculty Mentoring Relationships: A Literature Review (pages 119-138): Carol A. MullenChapter 9 Naturally Occurring Mentoring Relationships Involving Workplace Employees (pages 139-158): Thomas W. Dougherty, Daniel B. Turban and Dana L. HaggardChapter 10 Reflections on Naturally Occurring Mentoring Relationships (pages 159-162): Elizabeth Lentz and Tammy D. AllenChapter 11 The Benefits Associated with Youth Mentoring Relationships (pages 163-187): Lynn Blinn?PikeChapter 12 Student?Faculty Mentorship Outcomes (pages 189-210): W. Brad JohnsonChapter 13 The Benefits Associated with Workplace Mentoring Relationships (pages 211-231): Aarti Ramaswami and George F. DreherChapter 14 Reflections on the Benefits of Mentoring (pages 233-236): Angie L. Lockwood, Sarah Carr Evans and Lillian T. EbyChapter 15 Diversity and Youth Mentoring Relationships (pages 237-258): Belle Liang and Jennifer M. GrossmanChapter 16 Mentoring in Academia: Considerations for Diverse Populations (pages 259-280): William E. Sedlacek, Eric Benjamin, Lewis Z. Schlosser and Hung?Bin SheuChapter 17 Diversity and Workplace Mentoring Relationships: A Review and Positive Social Capital Approach (pages 281-300): Belle Rose RaginsChapter 18 Reflections on Diversity and Mentoring (pages 301-304): Hazel Anne, M. Johnson, Xian Xu and Tammy D. AllenChapter 19 Best Practices for Formal Youth Mentoring (pages 305-324): Andrew MillerChapter 20 Best Practices for Student?Faculty Mentoring Programs (pages 325-343): Clark D. CampbellChapter 21 Best Practices in Workplace Formal Mentoring Programs (pages 345-367): Lisa M. Finkelstein and Mark L. PoteetChapter 22 Reflections on Best Practices for Formal Mentoring Programs (pages 369-372): Kimberly E. O’Brien, Ozgun B. Rodopman and Tammy D. AllenChapter 23 New Directions in Mentoring (pages 373-395): Steve Bearman, Stacy Blake Beard, Laurie Hunt and Faye J. CrosbyChapter 24 Common Bonds: An Integrative View of Mentoring Relationships (pages 397-419): Tammy D. Allen and Lillian T. Eby

Free Download Paschalis Kitromilides, "Insular Destinies: Perspectives on the history and politics of modern Cyprus "
English | ISBN: 0815356609 | 2019 | 242 pages | PDF | 13 MB
In this collection, an eminent authority on the history of political thought and on the intellectual history of modern Hellenism employs his twin academic specializations in political science and in intellectual history to understand the intricacies of the historical experience of his native island. Writing in a perspective inspired by the work of Fernand Braudel, he attempts in a series of studies in cultural and social history to recover lost and overlooked aspects of the collective destinies of Cyprus and the Cypriot diaspora in the centuries of Ottoman rule, a period of critical significance for the survival of the people of the island. He then turns to a penetrating analysis of the politics of the Cyprus Question. The pertinent studies collected in this volume bear the imprint of the deep soul-searching by the younger generation of Cypriot scholars at the time of the tragedy of 1974 over what went so wrong that their country was exposed to foreign invasion, occupation and division. The hints at answers to these questions offered by the author’s interdisciplinary and critical treatment of the subject make this work an indispensable aid to anyone wishing to grasp the deeper antinomies and dilemmas immanent in the Cyprus Question.

Free Download The Cartesian Brain: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives
by Denis Kambouchner, Damien Lacroux
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032545658 | 292 Pages | True ePUB | 2.91 MB

Free Download Amber Haque, "Psychology of Personality: Islamic Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 1737281627 | 2022 | 276 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The International Association of Islamic Psychology has republished this classic in Islamic Psychology literature which has been out of print for almost a decade. First published in 2009, the original volume edited by Amber Haque and Yasien Mohamed is now available again, with a new foreword by Abdallah Rothman. Psychology of Personality: Islamic Perspectives is the first edited volume of selected papers on human nature and personality from an Islamic perspective. It includes contributions from authors who were pioneers in the field such as Malik Badri, Syed Naquib al-Attas, and Laleh Bakhtiar, to name a few. The book is an attempt at clarifying the conceptual confusion that resulted in keeping psychology separate from religion, separate from a soul. The authors have incorporated religious and transcendental concepts that shape human personality, which are based on the Qur’ān and the works of early Muslim scholars. The text is timely as modern psychology is demonstrating a new interest in indigenous and alternative perspectives of psychology. This book is suitable for students of Islamic psychology as well as researchers and scholars whose works are related to the Islamic psychology of personality.

Free Download Paolo Stellino, "Philosophical Perspectives on Suicide: Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein"
English | ISBN: 3030539369 | 2020 | 262 pages | EPUB, PDF | 680 KB + 3 MB
This book aims to address in a novel way some of the fundamental philosophical questions concerning suicide. Focusing on four major authors of Western philosophy – Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein – their arguments in favour or against suicide are explained, contextualized, examined and critically assessed. Taken together, these four perspectives provide an illuminating overview of the philosophical arguments that can be used for or against one’s right to commit suicide. Intended both for specialists and those interested in understanding the many complexities underlying the philosophical debate on suicide, this book combines philosophical depth with exemplary clarity.