From Language Skills to Literacy: Broadening the Scope of English Language Education Through Media Literacy By Csilla Weninger
2018 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0415788889 | PDF | 2 MB
The narrowing of English language education curriculum in many contexts has negatively impacted classroom teaching and learning. High-stakes standardized testing, scripted curricula, and the commodification of English have converged to challenge socially meaningful classroom literacy instruction that promotes holistic development. Although in different ways, these factors have shaped the teaching of English as both first and second language. How can English educators respond? This book argues that the first step is to take account of the broader policy, political and cultural landscape and to identify the key constraints affecting teachers, students and parents. These will set the broad parameters for developing local pedagogic approaches, while still recognizing the constraints thatactively push against them. Using Singapore English language teaching as a case study, this book illustrates how this process can unfold, and how media literacy principles were vernacularized to design English classroom pedagogies that stretched the bounds of what is acceptable and possible in the local context.

Francois Laruelle, Miguel Abreu, Taylor Adkins, "From Decision to Heresy: Experiments in Non-Standard Thought"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0983216908 | PDF | pages: 521 | 6.4 mb
Introductory collection of writings by a creative and subversive thinker, ranging from the origins of "non-philosophy" to its evolution into what Laruelle now calls "non-standard philosophy."

Fragmented Memories: Struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India By Yasmin Saikia
2004 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0822334259 | PDF | 3 MB
Fragmented Memories is a beautifully rendered exploration of how, during the 1990s, socially and economically marginalized people in the northeastern Indian state of Assam sought to produce a past on which to base a distinctive contemporary identity recognized within late-twentieth-century India. Yasmin Saikia describes how groups of Assamese identified themselves as Tai-Ahom-a people with a glorious past stretching back to the invasion of what is now Assam by Ahom warriors in the thirteenth century. In her account of the 1990s Tai-Ahom identity movement, Saikia considers the problem of competing identities in India, the significance of place and culture, and the outcome of the memory-building project of the Tai-Ahom.Assamese herself, Saikia lived in several different Tai-Ahom villages between 1994 and 1996. She spoke with political activists, intellectuals, militant leaders, shamans, and students and observed and participated in Tai-Ahom religious, social, and political events. She read Tai-Ahom sacred texts and did archival research-looking at colonial documents and government reports-in Calcutta, New Delhi, and London. In Fragmented Memories, Saikia reveals the different narratives relating to the Tai-Ahom as told by the postcolonial Indian government, British colonists, and various texts reaching back to the thirteenth century. She shows how Tai-Ahom identity is practiced in Assam and also in Thailand. Revealing how the "dead" history of Tai-Ahom has been transformed into living memory to demand rights of citizenship, Fragmented Memories is a landmark history told from the periphery of the Indian nation.

Lisa Sharon Harper, "Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World-and How to Repair It All"
English | ISBN: 1587435276 | 2022 | 256 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
A Word & Way 2022 Book of the Year

Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution By John Bezis-Selfa
2003 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0801439930 | PDF | 47 MB
Stacks of stone preside over many bucolic and wooded landscapes in the mid-Atlantic states. Initially constructed more than two hundred years ago, they housed blast furnaces that converted rock and wood into the iron that enabled the United States to secure its national independence. By the eve of the Revolutionary War, furnaces and forges in the American colonies turned out one-seventh of the world's iron.Forging America illuminates the fate of labor in an era when industry, manhood, and independence began to take on new and highly charged meanings. John Bezís-Selfa argues that the iron industry, with its early concentrations of capital and labor, reveals the close links between industrial and political revolution. Through means ranging from religious exhortation to force, ironmasters encouraged or compelled workers―free, indentured, and enslaved―to adopt new work styles and standards of personal industry. Eighteenth-century revolutionary rhetoric hastened the demise of indentured servitude, however, and national independence reinforced the legal status of slavery and increasingly defined manual labor as "dependent" and racially coded. Bezís-Selfa highlights the importance of slave labor to early American industrial development. Research in documents from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries led Bezís-Selfa to accounts of the labor of African-Americans, indentured servants, new immigrants, and others. Their stories inform his highly readable narrative of more than two hundred years of American history.

Forest Hydrology and Catchment Management: An Australian Perspective (2nd Edition)
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031128397 | 727 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 91 MB
This book provides scientific evidence to underline the notion that forests offer the most reliable water catchments in the natural environment. The unique Australian ecosystem provides valuable information on the water yields and hydro-ecology of forests. Insights can be transferred to other climate zones and conditions.

Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century (Magic in History) by Richard Kieckhefer
English | September 15, 1998 | ISBN: 0271017511 | True EPUB | 392 pages | 20.7 MB
Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages. The result is the most vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now available.

Richard L.T. Orth, "Folk Religion of the Pennsylvania Dutch: Witchcraft, Faith Healing and Related Practices"
English | ISBN: 1476672261 | 2018 | 269 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
For almost three centuries, the "Pennsylvania Dutch"-descended from German immigrants-have practiced white magic, known in their dialect as Braucherei (from the German "brauchen," to use) or Powwowing. The tradition was brought by immigrants from the Rhineland and Switzerland in the 17th and 18th centuries, when they settled in Pennsylvania and in other areas of what is now the eastern United States and Canada. Practitioners draw on folklore and tradition dating to the turn of the 19th century, when healers like Mountain Mary-canonized as a saint for her powers-arrived in the New World. The author, a member of the Pennsylvania Dutch community, describes in detail the practices, culture and history of faith healers and witches.

Fodor's InFocus Grand Canyon National Park (Full-color Travel Guide) by Fodor's Travel Guides
English | October 25, 2021 | ISBN: 1640974679 | 176 pages | PDF (Converted) | 67 Mb
Whether you want to hike along South Rim trails, take a rafting trip on the Colorado River, or discover the Canyon's fauna and flora, the local Fodor's travel experts on the Grand Canyon are here to help! Fodor's In Focus Grand Canyon National Park guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This brand new edition has an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.

Linda Honan, "Focus on Adult Health: Medical-Surgical Nursing"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1496349288 | PDF | pages: 4501 | 132.1 mb
Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022!