Tag: Adoption

Free Download Richey Wyver, "Exploring Swedish International Adoption Desire: Transracial Bodies and Nation-Building in the ‘Goodest’ Country"
English | ISBN: 3031388003 | 2023 | 172 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book is a critical study of international adoption in Sweden, based on analysis of adoption-related texts, images and videos. The author argues that representations of adoption, and specifically of the bodies of international, transracial adoptees, are used to create and sustain myths of Swedish exceptionalism, concealing the nation’s colonial, racist and eugenic histories. The book challenges the virtuous perception of international adoption, and exposes and critiques the underlying racism and violence of both the adoption industry and the shaping of Sweden as a ‘good’ nation. It will appeal to students and scholars of adoption and migration, as well as those engaged in anti-racism research.

Free Download Crop improvement, adoption and impact of improved varieties in food crops in Sub-Saharan Africa By Tomas S. Walker, Jeffrey R. Alwang
2015 | 478 Pages | ISBN: 1780644019 | PDF | 5 MB
Following on from the CGIAR study by Evenson and Gollin (published by CABI in 2003), this volume provides up-to-date estimates of adoption outcomes and productivity impacts of crop variety improvement research in sub-Saharan Africa. The book reports on the results of the DIIVA Project that focussed on the varietal generation, adoption and impact for 20 food crops in 30 countries. It also compares adoption outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa to those in South Asia, and guides future efforts for global agricultural research

Free Download Elliott Anderson, "Answers in Abundance: A Miraculous Adoption Journey as Told from a Father’s Heart "
English | ISBN: 1600372325 | 2007 | 256 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Answers in Abundance will primarily reach Christian women between the ages of 25 and 50 who have either been through a similar experience, know somebody who has or is currently involved in the painful process; or who simply enjoy human interest stories that can be referred to friends and family. The story transcends the spiritual ingredients, however, and could be read by a larger audience than just evangelical Christians. There are, conservatively estimating, over two million infertile couples in the United States. Infertile Christian married couples in America often keep their plight a secret for years. If and when they finally begin to talk openly with their close friends, it’s nearly always the woman who bears the responsibility for investigating various options. It is also usually the female who carries the guilt through this entire process.

Free Download Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CV82XGKM | 2024 | 10 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Gretchen Sisson
Narrator: Angel Pean, Emily Norman, Katie Koster, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Si Chen, Renata Friedman

Free Download Scaling Generative AI – Building a Strategy for Adoption and Expansion
Released 1/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 28m | Size: 68 MB
Generative AI is not going anywhere, and according to one study it could add more than seven trillion dollars to the global economy in the coming years. It’s incumbent on organizations to take advantage of the lucrative opportunities genAI will bring, and this course with Danilo McGarry is designed for developers and tech leaders who want to effectively apply and scale GAI tools within their organizations. Learn how to strategically implement and leverage generative AI technologies to drive innovation, enhance productivity, and achieve success in your organization with the right governance structure and approach. Plus, get tips on best practices for setting up the right culture so that AI can thrive in your organization.

Free Download Acceptance of Remote Services: Perception, Adoption, and Continued Usage in Organizational Settings By Nancy V. Wünderlich (auth.)
2010 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 3834919578 | PDF | 3 MB
The increasing employment of information and communication technologies in companies and households has led to considerable changes in the way services are conceived, developed, and delivered. Nancy V. Wünderlich employs a multi-method approach comprising an international qualitative study in Germany, USA and China and a longitudinal quantitative study to analyze remote services. She develops the Interactive Technology-Mediated Service Model (ITSUM) to provide a comprehensive approach of explaining both initial acceptance and repeated, continued usage of remote services in organizations. Finally, she derives managerial implications for remote service providers on how to increase remote service acceptance among their customers and facilitate the export of remote services.

Free Download Azure Cloud Adoption Framework Handbook: A comprehensive guide to adopting and governing the cloud for your digital transformation by Sasa Kovacevic, Darren Dempsey
English | July 31, 2023 | ISBN: 1803244526 | 202 pages | EPUB | 3.10 Mb
Explore the methodologies and reasons behind successful legacy application moves to a hyper-space cloud, specifically Azure

Free Download Emily Hipchen, "The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader"
English | ISBN: 1032067829 | 2023 | 284 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1172 KB + 1027 KB

Free Download Jungyun Gill Assistant Professor, "Unequal Motherhoods and the Adoption of Asian Children: Birth, Foster, and Adoptive Mothers"
English | ISBN: 1498509622 | 2016 | 170 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book explores a deeply personal aspect of globalization: the adoption of Asian children by white Americans. It is based on dozens of interviews with adoptive mothers and adoption social workers, nearly two hundred letters and essays written by Korean birth mothers who put their children up for adoption, and field work at an adoption agency in South Korea. It also includes analyses and explanations of U.S. and South Korean governments’ social characteristics and policies regarding adoptions and how relations between nations have affected international adoption. The book focuses on whether the commonly held notion that adoptions are to serve children’s welfare and their best interests has tended to render gendered aspects of international adoptions invisible. Factors such as gender inequality, social control of women’s reproductive power, patriarchic family structure, and social beliefs concerning womanhood and motherhood that affect international adoptions are revealed in this book. The multiple ways in which adoptive, birth, and foster mothers experience gender oppression from their different social positions of class, race, and nationality are explored and the interdependencies and inequalities of the motherhoods of these three groups of women are brought to light.

Free Download Lori Holden, "The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1442217391, 1442217383 | EPUB | pages: 227 | 2.5 mb
Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, ninety percent or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these agencies do not often or adequately prepare either adopting parents or birth parents for the road ahead of them!The adult parties in open adoptions are left floundering.