Voyage across a Constellation of Information: Information Literacy in Interest-Driven Learning Communities (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) By Crystle Martin
2013 | 143 Pages | ISBN: 143311805X | PDF | 8 MB
What do orcs, elves, and information literacy have to do with each others? Find out in Voyage across a Constellation of Information as we take an in-depth look at information literacy practices (how people find, evaluate, and use information) in the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft and its online community. This book teases out real-world information literacy practices by following players as they solve their information needs through collective activity, relying on and building a set of individual and collective practices within the online community. Voyage across a Constellation of Information offers educators, information professionals, and researchers an opportunity to get an inside look at the new practices of digital spaces, and lays the groundwork for inclusion of these practices into 21st-century education.

Vision, Reading Difficulties, and Visual Stress
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031039297 | 361 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB
This book provides an overview of the research surrounding the relevance of visual factors for those who struggle with reading. Visual interventions that have been advocated as helping with reading include spectacles that simply correct refractive errors (e.g., long-sightedness), coloured overlays (sheets placed on the page) and coloured lenses, vision therapy, and computer games. This book explains the rationale behind these interventions and discusses the evidence supporting them. Clear advice is given in plain English to those wondering if these interventions will be helpful.

Violence in Post-Conflict Societies: Remarginalization, Remobilizers and Relationships By Anders Themnér
2011 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0415579228 | PDF | 3 MB
This book compares post-civil war societies to look at the presence or absence of organized violence, analysing why some ex-combatants return to organised violence and others do not.Even though former fighters have been identified as a major source of insecurity, there have been few efforts to systematically examine why some ex-combatants re-engage in organized violence, while others do not. This book compares the presence or absence of organized violence in different ex-combatant communities - former fighters that used to belong to the same armed faction and who share a common, horizontal identity based on shared war-and peacetime experiences - in the Republic of Congo (ex-Cobras, Cocoyes and Ninjas) and Sierra Leone (ex-Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, Civil Defense Force and Revolutionary United Front). The main determinants of ex-combatant violence are whether former fighters have access to elites and to second-tier individuals - such as former mid-level commanders - who can act as intermediaries between the two. By utilizing relationships based on selective incentives and social networks, these two kinds of remobilizers are able to generate the needed enticements and feelings of affinity, trust or fear to convince ex-combatants to resort to arms. These findings demonstrate that the outbreak of ex-combatant violence can only be understood by more clearly incorporating an actor perspective, focusing on three levels of analysis: the elite, midlevel and grass-root.This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, civil wars, post-conflict reconstruction, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR.

Walter S. DeKeseredy, "Violence Against Women: Myths, Facts, Controversies"
English | 2011 | pages: 193 | ISBN: 1442603992 | PDF | 1,0 mb
In Violence Against Women, award-winning author Walter S. DeKeseredy offers a passionate but well-documented sociological overview of a sobering problem. He starts by outlining the scope of the challenge and debunks current attempts to label intimate violence as gender neutral. He then lays bare the structural practices that sustain this violence, leading to a discussion of long- and short-term policies to address the issue. DeKeseredy includes an examination of male complicity and demonstrates how boys and men can change their roles. Throughout, he responds to myths that dismiss threats to women's health and safety and provides an impassioned call to action for women, men, and policymakers.

Stewart Shapiro, "Varieties of Logic"
English | ISBN: 0199696527 | 2014 | 240 pages | EPUB | 414 KB
Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct. Logical relativism is a pluralism according to which validity and logical consequence are relative to something. In Varieties of Logic, Stewart Shapiro develops several ways in which one can be a pluralist or relativist about logic. One of these is an extended argument that words and phrases like "valid" and "logical consequence" are polysemous or, perhaps better, are cluster concepts. The notions can be sharpened in various ways. This explains away the "debates" in the literature between inferentialists and advocates of a truth-conditional, model-theoretic approach, and between those who advocate higher-order logic and those who insist that logic is first-order.

Variability in Perspectives on Current Issues in Social Sciences (Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences) By Daniel Bešina
2019 | 174 Pages | ISBN: 363180282X | PDF | 7 MB
Social and human sciences are currently in a special position. On the one hand, they are subject to frequent doubts and mistrust while on the other hand, there is a view that the 21st century will be a century of social and human sciences, addressing their importance in solving key cultural and social issues of humanity. In general, however, we can observe a decreasing interest in human and social sciences. The authors of the book believe that the rejection of the importance of human sciences is based on a fundamental misconception of facts. Society's education and culture is a prerequisite for the economic level of each country. Innovation is not only a matter of technical importance; it is equally important to understand human cultural behaviour in the broadest possible context. This book presents studies in selected topics from social, human and historical sciences that demonstrate the relevance of the research in the area under consideration. The contributors to this book are researchers in the departments of Archaeology, Ethnology and Folklore, History, Culture and Tourism Management of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra.

Variability in Learner Errors as a Reflection of the CLT Paradigm Shift (Fremdsprachendidaktik inhalts- und lernerorientiert / Foreign Language Pedagogy - content- and learner-oriented) By Joanna Pfingsthorn
2013 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 3631638043 | PDF | 8 MB
In the last three decades the field of language teaching and learning has undergone a paradigm shift towards Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), which has put an emphasis on meaningful interaction and implied an abrupt departure from an extensive study of learner errors. Although learners in CLT classes are expected to be competent, yet not perfectly accurate communicators, the impact of the CLT paradigm on learner errors has not been investigated thoroughly. This study examines the extent to which the CLT paradigm shift has left its mark on learner errors. Written production is analyzed and compared with learner data recorded in the early stages of the shift to CLT. The data reveal that while morphosyntactic errors have not undergone drastic changes, discourse organization and lexical skills have improved.

Using the Logic of Lattices to Draw Inferences from Structured Data by William S. Veatch
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09CG121HC | 200 pages | PDF | 7.74 Mb
William S. Veatch

Unlock the Power of Your Chakras: An Immersive Experience through Exercises, Yoga Sets & Meditations by Masuda Mohamadi
English | August 8th, 2022 | ISBN: 0738771023 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 60.08 MB
300+ Color Photos & Illustrations to Guide Youto a Healthier & Happier Life

Unity To Master UI Development by James Parsons
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B8V758Y7 | 595 pages | EPUB | 42 Mb
A functional UI is a crucial component for player interaction in every kind of computer game. Along with giving vital statistical info to the player, the UI is likewise the window through which the player engages with the world established by the game. Unity's tools offer you the chance to produce facility and also attractive UIs to make your video game stand out.