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Weaving Identity Textiles, Global Modernization and Harris Tweed

Weaving Identity Textiles, Global Modernization and Harris Tweed
Susan M Walcott, "Weaving Identity: Textiles, Global Modernization and Harris Tweed"
English | ISBN: 0578474182 | 2019 | 166 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Creating an identity is crucial for survival, whether of individuals, countries or commercial products. Carefully selected elements combine positive pieces from the past to project a desired image into the present. Weaving Identity illustrates the process of transition through the tale of a special textile, as cloth manufacture typically triggers the movement from field to factory in an industrial revolution. Scotland's Harris Tweed, famously "hand woven in the Outer Hebrides", transformed national identities through two turbulent centuries. The culture and history of home weavers turning the color of their landscape into material for markets on the other side of the world form an integral part of a globe spanning story involving wars, famine, migrations, industrialization and modernization. Key characters include the Scottish tycoon who capitalized on his profits from the Opium War to break the 19

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Visions of Utopia

Visions of Utopia
Edward Rothstein, "Visions of Utopia "
English | ISBN: 0195171616 | 2004 | 112 pages | PDF | 412 KB
From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common-they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics-Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and Herbert Muschamp-look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are still worth pursuing.

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Ukulele Blues Mastery Uke Like The Pros

Ukulele Blues Mastery  Uke Like The Pros
Ukulele Blues Mastery | Uke Like The Pros by Mr Terry Michael Carter
English | April 13, 2022 | ISBN: 1958192007 | 46 pages | PDF | 20 Mb
Welcome to the Ukulele Blues Mastery book by Uke Like The Pros. The Ukulele Blues Mastery book by Terry Carter is the most comprehensive book written for Blues on the ukulele in the universe. Whether you are a beginner at the Blues, or a seasoned veteran, the Ukulele Blues Mastery book is going to take you deep into the world of the Blues, and you will come out a better, more confident ukulele player. The Ukulele Blues Mastery book is going to show you how to play Blues Rhythm, Blues Fingerstyle, Blues Scales, and Blues Soloing for this wonderful four string instrument called the ukulele.

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Trends in Teaching Experimentation in the Life Sciences Putting Research into Practice to Drive Institutional Change

Trends in Teaching Experimentation in the Life Sciences Putting Research into Practice to Drive Institutional Change
Trends in Teaching Experimentation in the Life Sciences: Putting Research into Practice to Drive Institutional Change by Nancy J. Pelaez
English | 9811689024 | 2022 | 572 Pages | ISBN : 3030985911 | 30.2 MB
This book is a guide for educators on how to develop and evaluate evidence-based strategies for teaching biological experimentation to thereby improve existing and develop new curricula. It unveils the flawed assumptions made at the classroom, department, and institutional level about what students are learning and what help they might need to develop competence in biological experimentation.

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Transfusion Medicine Quality in Laboratory Diagnosis

Transfusion Medicine Quality in Laboratory Diagnosis
Quentin Eichbaum MD PhD, "Transfusion Medicine: Quality in Laboratory Diagnosis "
English | ISBN: 193628796X | 2012 | 160 pages | PDF | 1456 KB
The Diagnostic Standards of Care series presents common errors associated with diagnoses in clinical pathology, using case examples to illustrate effective analysis based on current evidence and standards. In addition to being a practical diagnostic guide, each volume demonstrates the use of quality assurance and the role of the pathologist in ensuring quality and patient safety.

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This Incredibly Benevolent Force The Holy Spirit in Reformed Theology and Spirituality

This Incredibly Benevolent Force The Holy Spirit in Reformed Theology and Spirituality
C. Van der Kooi, "This Incredibly Benevolent Force: The Holy Spirit in Reformed Theology and Spirituality"
English | ISBN: 0802876137 | 2018 | 176 pages | AZW3 | 282 KB
A key refrain in Reformed theology is that God's Spirit trumpets the message of salvation through Jesus Christ into every nook and cranny of the universe-but how? And in what way does this cosmic truth touch and shape the mundane reality of our lives and our world?

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This Day in Irish History From the social media sensation @thisdayirish

This Day in Irish History From the social media sensation @thisdayirish
Padraic Coffey, "This Day in Irish History: From the social media sensation @thisdayirish"
English | ISBN: 1788492579 | 2021 | 368 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
You may know all about the Easter Rising and the Good Friday Agreement, but did you know that the hypodermic needle was invented in Tallaght? Or that Dublin was the first city in the world to have a woman stockbroker, decades before London or New York? Or that the formula used to create the video game Tomb Raider was sketched on a bridge in Cabra in the nineteenth century?

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