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Free Download Julianne Werlin, "Writing at the Origin of Capitalism: Literary Circulation and Social Change in Early Modern England"
English | ISBN: 0198869460 | 2021 | 208 pages | PDF | 982 KB
In the late sixteenth through seventeenth centuries, England simultaneously developed a national market and a national literary culture. Writing at the Origin of Capitalism describes how economic change in early modern England created new patterns of textual production and circulation with lasting consequences for English literature. Synthesizing research in book and media history, including investigations of manuscript and print, with Marxist historical theory, this volume demonstrates that England’s transition to capitalism had a decisive impact on techniques of writing, rates of literacy, and modes of reception, and, in turn, on the form and style of texts.

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English | 2018 | ISBN: 1423217764 | 6 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 0.9 MB
There is a reason why it’s called "writer’s block": long writing projects are daunting regardless of whether you are a student writing an essay or a professional who suddenly must access those long-forgotten academic skills to write a report. Our new Writing Tips & Tricks guide contains the information you need to get that project underway in an easy-to-use, color coded format. Use it to improve your writing so your point gets across and your readers take away the main ideas. Diagrams help illustrate key points in the writing process, and often forgotten grammar and mechanics issues are explained with examples.

Free Download Wreck of the Isabella by David Miller
English | January 31st, 2020 | ISBN: 1557507686 | 280 pages | True EPUB | 7.56 MB
The story of the wreck of the British merchant brig Isabella on the Falkland Islands in 1812, the rescue of whose passengers was complicated by the outbreak of war between Britain and the United States, telling of the adventures which befell citizens of both countries before the passengers were restored to their native shore.

Free Download Worth a Thousand Words: Using Graphic Novels to Teach Visual and Verbal Literacy
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1119394325 | 178 Pages | PDF (True) | 10 MB
While our kids today are communicating outside the classroom in abbreviated text bursts with visual icons, teachers are required to teach them to critically listen, think, and read and write complex texts. Graphic novels are a uniquely poised vehicle we can use to bridge this dissonance between student communication skills and preferences with mandated educational goals.

Free Download Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations By Tasha Colbert, Cornelia Bent
2017 | 186 Pages | ISBN: 1138656429 | PDF | 39 MB
Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations offers an in-depth insight into cross-modality and transdisciplinary practice in the arts therapies. Including contributions from drama, music, dance movement and art therapists, as well as professionals from related disciplines, it vividly demonstrates how the alchemy of these collaborations produces innovative interventions and new approaches to working with clients.Compelling examples of collaborative practice cover a variety of client groups, ranging from Syrian refugee children and women with eating disorders, to homeless war veterans and sex offenders.　Together, the authors make the case for the effectiveness of cross-modal and transdisciplinary approaches when working with otherwise hard-to-reach and complex populations.This book is a guide to good practice and an invaluable resource for both experienced arts therapists and those new to the field. It will also be of benefit to healthcare and education professionals, arts practitioners, and anyone with an interest in the subject.

Free Download Todd Carmody, "Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare"
English | ISBN: 1478015446 | 2022 | 328 pages | PDF | 31 MB
Throughout the history of the United States, work-based social welfare practices have served to affirm the moral value of work. In the late nineteenth century this representational project came to be mediated by the printed word with the emergence of industrial print technologies, the expansion of literacy, and the rise of professionalization. In Work Requirements Todd Carmody asks how work, even the most debasing or unproductive labor, came to be seen as inherently meaningful during this era. He explores how the print culture of social welfare-produced by public administrators, by economic planners, by social scientists, and in literature and the arts-tasked people on the social and economic margins, specifically racial minorities, incarcerated people, and people with disabilities, with shoring up the fundamental dignity of work as such. He also outlines how disability itself became a tool of social discipline, defined by bureaucratized institutions as the inability to work. By interrogating the representational effort necessary to make work seem inherently meaningful, Carmody ultimately reveals a forgotten history of competing efforts to think social belonging beyond or even without work.

Free Download Professor Monica A. Hershberger, "Women in American Operas of the 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes "
English | ISBN: 1648250610 | 2023 | 238 pages | PDF | 107 MB
The first feminist analysis of some of the most performed works in the American-opera canon, emphasizing the voices and perspectives of the sopranos who brought these operas to life.

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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031235207 | 291 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
In the wake of the Great Depression, economic recovery and nutritional improvement in Britain simultaneously occurred with their decline in British Africa. While histories of science, medicine and British Empire have provided fertile analytical ground for decades, the field of nutrition science has received comparatively little attention. Widespread malnutrition between the World Wars called into question the role of the British state in preserving the welfare of both its citizens and its subjects, especially women, given their role in feeding their families. International organizations such as the League of Nations, empire- wide projects such as nutrition surveys conducted by the Committee for Nutrition in the Colonial Empire (CNCE), sub-imperial networks of medical and teaching professionals, and individuals on-the-spot wove a dense web of ideas on nutrition. Women, especially of the working class, bore the brunt of the struggle to access nutritious food as a wave of interest in the new science of nutrition swept the globe between the wars, with imperial Britain in the lead. The British state buoyed the economic slump of the Great Depression in the metropole by importing more colonial goods more cheaply, feeding metropolitan Brits on the back of the colonial empire, particularly in Africa. This book stands apart for the way it places nutrition science in both Britain and Africa under a single analytic lens of economics, gender and empire, contributing to research on British and African history, British Empire, women’s history and the history of science, medicine and health.

Free Download Sara Witter Connor, "Wisconsin’s Flying Trees in World War II: A Victory for American Forest Products and Allied Aviation"
English | ISBN: 1540209571 | 2014 | 290 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Wisconsin’s trees heard "Timber " during World War II, as the forest products industry of the Badger State played a key role in the Allied aerial campaign. It was Wisconsin that provided the material for the De Havilland Mosquito, known as the "Timber Terror," while the CG-4A battle-ready gliders, cloaked in stealthy silence, carried the 82nd and 101st Airborne into fierce fighting throughout Europe and the Pacific. Sara Witter Connor follows a forgotten thread of the American war effort, celebrating the factory workers, lumberjacks, pilots and innovative thinkers of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory who helped win a world war with paper, wood and glue.

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English | ISBN: 1948908441 | 2020 | 248 pages | EPUB | 920 KB
From its eighteenth-century beginnings, the Santa Barbara wine industry achieved success by embracing a "wine by design" model. In this process farmers, winemakers, and entrepreneurs overcome roadblocks like diseases, government policies and regulations, and environmental concerns by utilizing the latest technological advances coupled with agribusiness capitalism.