OECD, "Good Practice for Good Jobs in Early Childhood Education and Care"
English | 2020 | pages: 54 | ISBN: 9264897240 | PDF | 2,5 mb
Recruiting and retaining skilled staff is a long-standing challenge for the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector. OECD countries are increasingly demanding that ECEC staff be highly skilled and highly qualified, but a combination of low wages, a lack of status and public recognition, poor working conditions, and limited opportunities for professional development mean that recruitment and retention are frequently difficult. What can countries do to build a highly qualified and well-trained ECEC workforce? What is the best route to increasing staff skills without exacerbating staff shortages? How can countries boost pay and working conditions in the context of limited resources? Building on past OECD work on early childhood education and care, and drawing on the experience of OECD countries, this report outlines good practice policy measures for improving jobs in ECEC and for constructing a high-quality workforce.

K-Ming Chang, "Gods of Want: Stories"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0593241584 | 224 pages | EPUB | 6.5 MB
Startling stories center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American women in "a voracious, probing collection, proof of how exhilarating the short story can be" (The New York Times Book Review)-from the National Book Award "5 Under 35" honoree and author of Bestiary

Global Migration Governance from Below: Actors, Spaces, Discourses
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031069838 | 137 Pages | PDF (True) | 2 MB
After a long time of neglect, migration has entered the arena of international politics with a force. The 2018 Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular migration (GCM) is the latest and most comprehensive framework for global migration governance. Despite these dynamics, migration is still predominantly framed as a state-centric policy issue that needs to be managed in a top-down manner. This book proposes a difference approach: A truly multi-stakeholder, multi-level and rights-based governance with meaningful participation of migrant civil society. Drawing on 15 years of participant observation on all levels of migration governance, the book maps out the relevant actors, "invited" and "invented" spaces for participation as well as alternative discourses and framing strategies by migrant civil society. It thus provides a comprehensive and timely overview on global migration governance from below, starting with the first UN High Level Dialogue in 2006, evolving around the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) and leading up to the consultations for the International Migration Review Forum in 2022.

Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, Michael Jan Friedman, "Ghost Hunting: True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society"
English | 2007 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1416541136 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
The real-life adventures of the paranormal investigators-slash-plumbers who star in the #1 hit Sci Fi Channel television show Ghost Hunters.

Stephen Gilligan, "Generative Trance: The Experience of Creative Flow"
English | ISBN: 178583388X | 2019 | 308 pages | EPUB | 810 KB
Stephen Gilligan's Generative Trance offers a framework for developing a more creative consciousness and lays out the step-by-step processes by which this can be done. William James used to say that 'the unconscious mind is the horse and the conscious mind is the rider: it's the relationship between the two that is most important.' In Generative Trance renowned trainer Stephen Gilligan shows you how to harness this relationship for a much more powerful and effective therapeutic intervention, and reveals how life can be lived as a great journey of consciousness. Emphasizing that reality and identity are constructed by ourselves, Gilligan explains how generative trance is crucial in creating new realities and possibilities for clients. It is a view that differs markedly from the traditional hypnosis ideas of a client losing control, as well as from Ericksonian approaches that feature a benevolent hypnotist who bypasses the conscious mind to work with a client's unconscious mind. Instead, generative trance stresses a 'disciplined flow' process in which a person's conscious and unconscious minds cooperate to weave a higher consciousness capable of transformational change.

Fundamentals of Periodontology
by Rameshwari Singhal
English | 2017 | ISBN: 9351298175 | 633 Pages | True PDF | 51 MB

Kari Polanyi-Levitt, "From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization: On Karl Polanyi and Other Essays"
English | ISBN: 1780326491 | 2013 | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Four years into the unfolding of the most serious crisis since the 1930s, Karl Polanyi's prediction of the fateful consequences of unleashing the destructive power of unregulated market capitalism on peoples, nations, and the natural environment has assumed new urgency and relevance. Polanyi's insistence that 'the self-regulating market' must be made subordinate to democracy, otherwise society itself may be put at risk, is as true today as it was when Polanyi wrote.

Bettina Lange, "From Economy to Society? Perspectives on Transnational Risk Regulation (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) "
English | ISBN: 1781907382 | 2013 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This special issue asks what role society can play in the regulation of transnational risks, as an alternative to or at least significant addition to reliance on state regulatory activity and the myth of the self-regulatory capacity of markets (Stiglitz, 2001, p. xiii). How can a social sphere contribute to the prevention and management of risks, often transnational in nature, posed by economic activity? Leading socio-legal scholars explore whether and how the idea of harnessing the regulatory capacity of a social sphere provides a new analytical lens that can provide fresh insights into transnational risk regulation, and whether this idea helps to identify innovative approaches to regulating transnational risks.

Freud's Argument for the Oedipus Complex: A Philosophy of Science Analysis of the Case of Little Hans
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032224088 | 297 Pages | PDF (True) | 7.4 MB
In this close reading of Freudian theory, Jerome C. Wakefield reconstructs Freud's argument for the Oedipal theory of the psychoneuroses, placing the case of Little Hans into a philosophy-of-science context and critically rethinking the epistemological foundations of psychoanalysis.

Johanna A. Solomon, "Four Dead in Ohio: The Global Legacy of Youth Activism and State Repression (Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and"
English | ISBN: 180071808X | 2021 | 237 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The nine essays in this volume reflect on global student and youth activism 50 years after the National Guard shootings of student activists demonstrating against the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia at Kent State U. in Ohio in 1970. Sociology, political science, history, peace studies, and other scholars from the US, Qatar, South Korea, and South America discuss student and youth movements, including student protests against the apartheid system in South Africa in the 1960s at Michigan State U., mediated youth engagement in online spaces, the creation of a space for youth peace builders on the NYU campus, and why student and youth movements are often portrayed as a violent, harmful, threatening, or negative; the relationship between society, youth, social movements, and state repression in Chile, Iraq, and Ukraine; and the processes of memory and commemoration of the democracy uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, and the Kent State shootings. The volume originated in a conference, "Commemorating Violent Conflict and Building Sustainable Peace," held in October 2019 at Kent State U. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)