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Free Download Polyvagal Perspectives: Interventions, Practices, and Strategies (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) by Stephen W. Porges
English | August 13, 2024 | ISBN: 1324053402 | 352 pages | PDF | 5.45 Mb
From the originator of Polyvagal Theory, new writings on applying a polyvagal perspective across disciplines.

Free Download Víctor Navarro-Remesal, "Perspectives on the European Videogame "
English | ISBN: 9463726225 | 2021 | 236 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The history of European videogames has so far been overshadowed by the global impact of the Japanese and North American industries. However, European game development studios have played a major role in videogame history, and many prominent videogames in popular culture, such as Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider, Alone in the Dark, and The Witcher, were made in Europe. This book proposes an inquiry into European videogames, including both analyses of transnational aspects of European production and close readings of national specificities. It offers a kaleidoscope of European videogame culture, focusing on the analysis of European works and creators but also addressing contextual aspects and placing videogames within a wider sociocultural and philosophical ground.

Free Download Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, "Order and Disorder: Anthropological Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 1845451988 | 2008 | 184 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the classic anthropological issues of order and disorder. Examining order within the political and legal spheres and in contrasting local settings, the papers in this volume highlight its complex and contested nature. Elaborate displays of order seem necessary to legitimate the institutionalization of violence by military and legal establishments, yet violent behaviour can be incorporated into the social order by the development of boundaries, rituals and established processes of conflict resolution. Order is said to depend upon justice, yet injustice legitimates disruptive protest. Case studies from Siberia, India, Indonesia, Tibet, West Africa, Morocco and the Ottoman Empire show that local responses are often inconsistent in their valorization, acceptance and condemnation of disorder.

Free Download Bruna Di Sabato, "Multilingual Perspectives from Europe and Beyond on Language Policy and Practice "
English | ISBN: 036736347X | 2021 | 196 pages | EPUB, PDF | 910 KB + 2 MB
This edited volume offers an overarching, yet detailed view of fast-changing language policy and practice in Europe and beyond. It provides a thorough investigation of different linguacultural scenarios, exploring how language policy has repercussions on research and initiatives in the field of language education.

Free Download Oliver Heckmann, "Future Urban Habitation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Conceptions, and Designs"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119734851 | PDF | pages: 446 | 77.8 mb
Presents forward-looking concepts, innovative research, and transdisciplinary perspectives for developing strategies for future urban habitation

Free Download Cicero as Philosopher: New Perspectives on His Philosophy and Its Legacy edited by Andree Hahmann, Michael Vazquez
English | December 2, 2024 | ISBN: 3111591174 | True EPUB | 418 pages | 2.3 MB
Few philosophers present themselves with as much complexity as Marcus Tullius Cicero. At once a philosopher, statesman, orator, and lawyer, Cicero consciously fashioned his own image for posterity and wrote philosophical texts as invitations for his readers to think for themselves. His philosophy has continued to unfold over the centuries, repeatedly inspiring new and independent philosophical positions. Since J.G.F. Powell’s pivotal contribution in 1995, we have witnessed countless translations and scholarly treatments of Cicero’s philosophy that emphasize his creativity and influence. In this tradition, the present volume offers fresh and incisive contributions that advance the ongoing renaissance in Cicero scholarship.

Free Download Carroll E. Wilson, "Bilingualism: Cultural Influences, Global Perspectives and Advantages/Disadvantages "
English | ISBN: 1634852273 | 2016 | 215 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book focuses on the cultural influences of bilingualism, as well as global perspectives, and the advantages and disadvantages of being bilingual. Chapter One discusses the Letter of Aristeas. Chapter Two discusses various aspects bridging the issues of culture implementation during a planned school course of English as a global language (EGL). Chapter Three discusses the future direction of studies related to the application of the testing effect and retrieval practice in foreign language learning. Chapter Four reports findings from a study that examined whether there would be significant differences on oral narrative retelling among kindergarten, first, and second grade Spanish-English bilingual children in U.S. schools. Chapter Five highlights some of the issues related to the concept and practice of translanguaging as proposed by Baker (2011) and Garca (2012) within the broader context of language contact. Chapter Six records the bilingual immigrant students views on their L1 development and use and their attitudes towards home language and culture; and the majority students views on the linguistic and cultural identities of their immigrant classmates. Chapter Seven ivestigates the association between levels of language proficiency and levels of bilingualism and performance on verbal and visual-spatial working memory tasks in young monolinguals and bilinguals 9-year old children in South Africa. Chapter Eight analyzes the grammar knowledge and use of second-generation Spanish/English bilinguals in South Florida. The final chapter reviews recent studies on extensive reading focusing on EFL settings such as Japan and China.

Free Download Basic and Clinical Perspectives in Vision Research: A Celebration of the Career of Hisako Ikeda By John L. Barbur (auth.), Jon G. Robbins, Mustafa B. A. Djamgoz, Anthony Taylor (eds.)
1995 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 1475793642 | PDF | 10 MB
I have been asked to write a brief foreword to this volume honoring Hisako Ikeda, providing a review of the accomplishments in our field over the past four decades, when Hisako was an active participant. This I am delighted to do. It has been a most exciting time in vision research and Hisako has been right in the middle of much of the excitement, publishing on a wide variety of topics and providing much new data and many new insights. Hisako’s research career can be divided by decades into four quite distinct areas of inquiry. In the 1950s, as a student in Japan, her research interests were psychophysical in nature, and she was concerned with visual illusions, figural aftereffects, and motion detec tion. In the 1960s, after her move to London, she began electrophysiological studies. Much of her work in the 1960s was concerned with the electroretinogram (ERG), its components, and the use of this electrical response for evaluating spectral sensitivities of the eye and retinal degenerations. This work represented the beginning of her electrodiagnostic clinical work, which continued until her retirement.

Free Download Florian Schneider, "Global Perspectives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Asserting Agency through Regional Connectivity"
English | ISBN: 946372785X | 2021 | 350 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The year 2013 saw the launch of the largest, most influential investment initiative in recent memory: China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This globe-spanning strategy has reshaped local economies and regional networks, and it has become a contested subject for scholars and practitioners alike. How should we make sense of the complex interactions that the BRI has enabled? Understanding these processes requires truly global perspectives alongside careful attention to the role that local actors play in giving shape to individual BRI projects. The contributions in Global Perspectives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Asserting Agency through Regional Connectivity provide both ‘big picture’ assessments of China’s role in regional and global interactions and detailed case studies that home in on the role agency plays in BRI dynamics. Written by leading area studies scholars with diverse disciplinary expertise, this book reveals how Chinese efforts to recalibrate the world are taken up, challenged, revamped, and reworked in diverse contexts around the world.

Free Download New Perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese: History, Politics and Material Culture
by Manolis Pagkalos and Andrea Scarpato
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1350228907 | 272 Pages | True PDF | 36 MB