Download or read book Underdays written by Martin Ott and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We encounter many voices in life: from friends and family, from media, from co-workers, from other artists. In a highly connected global world, where people and entities are electronically enmeshed, we filter these voices constantly to get to what we determine to be the truth. Taking inspiration from pop culture, politics, art, and social media, Martin Ott mines daily existence as the inspiration and driving force behind Underdays. Underdays is a dialogue of opposing forces: life/death, love/war, the personal/the political. Ott combines global concerns with personal ones, in conversation between poems or within them, to find meaning in his search for what drives us to love and hate each other. Within many of the poems, a second voice, expressed in italic, hints at an opposing force “under” the surface, or multiple voices in conversation with his older and younger selves—his Underdays—to chart a path forward. What results is a poetic heteroglossia expressing the richness of a complex world.

Download or read book The Connected Seven written by B.J. Scott and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is about a young man named Jacob Roberts, who joins an elite military grade organization and stops a deadly biologically weaponized virus attack from General Kang, who is spreading it throughout the world. When Jacob attends High School with his best friend Dillon, they become friends with a girl named Ivy, and her best friend Avira, who has twin brothers Ari and Augustin. While Jacob is in school he also stays connected with Greta, his elderly neighbor's grandchild and first love from the United Kingdom. Jacob finishes his military training a couple of years later and joins a pilot project funded in conjunction with thee other Government's in England. Ivy falls ill before the squad's departure to focus on a Jemaah Islamiyah Group's act of violence stationed in Jakarta, Indonesia. The squad arrives and they align with a ghost agent named Zagi who helps them intervene on the JI Group's activity. The squad is led to the discovery of a weaponized virus, fronted by General Kang, whom the JI Group are trying to steal the virus from. The squad determines the virus is spread through the use of contaminated hosts, long-range migratory water fowl and kidnapped test subjects from Japan that the General has released back into society. Jacob finds the cure Kang intended to use and leaves Indonesia to report the findings back to his Headquarters. Returning to England, Jacob realizes Ivy has been infected with the virus. It becomes a race against time to save his friend and stop a potential world disaster from occurring.

Download or read book Psychology of Adjustment written by John Moritsugu and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology of Adjustment: The Search for Meaningful Balance combines a student focus with state-of-the-art theory and research to help readers understand and adjust to life in a context of continuous change, challenge, and opportunity. Incorporating existential and third wave behavioral psychology perspectives, authors John Moritsugu, Elizabeth M. Vera, Jane Harmon Jacobs, and Melissa Kennedy emphasize the importance of meaning, mindfulness, and psychologically-informed awareness and skill. An inviting writing style, examples from broad ethnic, cultural, gender, and geographic areas, ample pedagogical support, and cutting-edge topical coverage make this a psychological adjustment text for the 21st century.

Download or read book Reviving Ancient Chinese Mathematics written by Jiri Hudecek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-century China has been caught between a desire to increase its wealth and power in line with other advanced nations, which, by implication, means copying their institutions, practices and values, whilst simultaneously seeking to preserve China’s independence and historically formed identity. Over time, Chinese philosophers, writers, artists and politicians have all sought to reconcile these goals and this book shows how this search for a Chinese way penetrated even the most central, least contested area of modernity: science. Reviving Ancient Chinese Mathematics is a study of the life of one of modern China’s most admired scientific figures, the mathematician Wu Wen-Tsun. Negotiating the conflict between progress and tradition, he found a path that not only ensured his political and personal survival, but which also brought him renown as a mathematician of international status who claimed that he stood outside the dominant western tradition of mathematics. Wu Wen-Tsun’s story highlights crucial developments and contradictions in twentieth -century China, the significance of which extends far beyond the field of mathematics. On one hand lies the appeal of radical scientific modernity, "mechanisation" in all its forms, and competitiveness within the international scientific community. On the other is an anxiety to preserve national traditions and make them part of the modernisation project. Moreover, Wu’s intellectual development also reflects the complex relationship between science and Maoist ideology, because his turn to history was powered by his internalisation of certain aspects of Maoist ideology, including its utilitarian philosophy of science. This book traces how Wu managed to combine political success and international scientific eminence, a story that has wider implications for a new century of increasing Chinese activity in the sciences. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese history, the history of science and the history and philosophy of mathematics.

Download or read book The Political Economy of Education Reforms in Vietnam written by Minh Quang Nguyen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, drawing on a political economic perspective of education development, is a comprehensive account of the question "why some education systems flourish while others falter." It provides a state-of-the-art review of the Vietnamese way of education development, figuring out the pitfalls, challenges and opportunities of neoliberal reform. It also sheds new light on the rise of neoliberal capitalism in contemporary Vietnam as the country intensifies its market-oriented economic transition. Starting from educational development concerns, this book differentiates the growth and development concepts in education. While "growth with limited development" is well reflected in many developing education systems, the Vietnamese experience of education development stands to provide readers with unique insights about education in developing economies, especially in understanding how a socialist-oriented education system is struggling to thrive in the times of neoliberal capitalism. Authored by scholars specialising in Vietnamese education and politics, the chapters address key issues pertaining to the political economy of education reform in Vietnam and the government’s enduring efforts to drive education toward international standards through its costly market-infused education reforms. This book will appeal to postgraduate students, educators, educational policy-makers and scholars interested in Vietnamese studies, Vietnam education reforms, education governance, education for sustainability, internationalisation of education and the politics of education reforms.

Download or read book Shiko Unleashed written by William Speir and published by Progressive Rising Phoenix Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riley Gordon is a young woman adrift when she experiences a life-altering event. Her parents, recognizing that discipline is needed to help Riley get past what happened to her, enroll her in martial arts. As Riley turns her life around, studying martial arts becomes her center. When a mysterious stranger offers to show her what true martial arts are, she accepts his offer. After she has learned all that he can teach, she travels to Japan to continue her education at the school where he was taught. There's only one problem: the school has never accepted a woman as a student before. After convincing the school to let her in, she finds herself caught up in the ancient world of the shadow warriors, who have existed in secret for more than a thousand years. As she joins their ranks, she is sent on assignments around the world to bring justice to her clients, but not always in the way she expected or wanted. As she progresses in her skills and understanding of the arts of the shadow warrior, she reaches a level that few before have ever reached. In a world dominated by ancient traditions, will she be able to break through the male dominated hierarchy to reach her destiny so her power can finally be unleashed?

Download or read book Aaron Copland and His World written by Carol J. Oja and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-21 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text reassesses the legacy of one of America's best-loved composers at a pivotal moment - as his life and work shift from the realm of personal memory to that of history. The collection of 17 essays explores the stages of cultural change on which Aaron Copeland's long life unfolded.

Download or read book Twilight of the Wolves written by Edward J. Rathke and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twilight of the Wolves is an epic fantasy following a man cursed by a dying god's blessing, a mute eunuch carrying the dead to the Goddess of Death, and a young girl saved from a burning metropolis only to be raised by the cursed man and two wolf gods. These three lives intersect and become bound together as they walk with gods, watch them die, and hide from the terror that is humanity's lust for violence and destruction. Wandering across countries and cultures, the characters discover the cacophony and contradiction of visions and values that define humanity. They see the collision of cultures highlighting the definitions of civilization and try to find their place within and without them. The past, present, and future haunt the people of this world as they wander on, hoping to find an answer to the questions buried deepest.

Download or read book A Horse Named Lightning written by Debby Richardson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about a little boy who had dreams of catching a wild horse that the township named Lightning. The little boy dreamed of catching this horse which is a horse that no older person in town could ever catch and tame. The little boy lived and dreamed of gently getting the horse to trust him and after many adventures this horse finally came to trust Stephon. This is an awesome story with a lot of adventures. This book is for adults and Children alike.

Download or read book One Dead Witness written by Nick Oldham and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Ancient Book of Beddhism Liber 888 written by Lee Gibson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beddhism - A tale of the bed through quotes and images.

Download or read book The Chronicles of Zobulex written by Aylmer Von Fleischer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-03-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Where The Sun Rains Blood," a fantasy and science fiction novel, is the story of Nii Lamptey, Nora Ameko and Tony Boateng. It is the first book in the "Chronicles of Zobulex" series.The novel is set in Ghana. The trio is invited by the President of Ghana to investigate the mystery of the Forest of Fear, after the failure of special military personnel. A gateway in this forest leads to another world, a place where the sun is red and the rains are red.Nii Lamptey, several years ago, while in secondary school, fell in love with a beautiful lady, Betsy. She stopped the relationship because she said she did not want to put his life in danger, since she was on Earth to stop the enemy. She further told Nii that she came from a land where the sun rained blood.The trio experience many adventures in this alternate world. But will Nii meet Betsy, and can they stop the enemy?