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Free Download Queer social philosophy : critical readings from Kant to Adorno By Halle, Randall
2004 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 0252029070 | PDF | 1 MB
In "Queer Social Philosophy", Randall Halle analyzes key texts in the tradition of German critical theory from the perspective of contemporary queer theory, exposing gender and sexuality restrictions that undermine those texts’ claims of universal truth. Addressing such figures as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, and Habermas, Halle offers a unique contribution to contemporary debates about sexuality, civil society, and politics

Free Download Clément Petitjean, "Occupation: Organizer: A Critical History of Community Organizing in America"
English | ISBN: 164259914X | 2023 | 340 pages | EPUB | 1378 KB
A trenchant history of community organizing and a must-read for the next generation of organizers seeking to learn from the successes, failures, and contradictions of the past.

Free Download Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni, "OSCE in Critical Care Medicine – I"
English | ISBN: 9390020492 | 2020 | 302 pages | PDF | 217 MB
The OSCEs have become a part of most examinations in Critical Care Medicine. This book will be of great help to the examinees. The contents have been divided into two sections one is Questions and the second is Answers. It contains chapters on Respiratory Medicine, Neurology, Nephrology, Microbiology and Infection Control, Hemodynamics, Drugs, Biochemistry, Miscellaneous, and Case Scenarios.Contains nearly 330 questions with model answers.Questions range from the old tests, new techniques and devices, and results of laboratory and other investigations.Also covers questions on all organ systems and different ways these systems may be affected by the disease.The answers are structured from examination point-of-view. These will help the examinees in developing the skills to face the objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) in their examination.

Free Download John Pearson, Bob Buford, "Mastering the Management Buckets: 20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Non-Profit"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0801018145, 0830745947 | EPUB | pages: 284 | 3.6 mb
In the most practical, humorous, and fast-moving chapters you’ve ever read on business and nonprofit leadership and management, this in-the-trenches management expert presents his 20 Management Buckets System for understanding and organizing your important mission. "When you don’t know what you don’t know," says John Pearson, "the Law of Unintended Consequences will derail you every time." Based on Pearson’s 48-hour Management Buckets Workshop Experience, Mastering the Management Buckets offers detailed implementation tools, including 99 practical takeaways that a leader could implement immediately, plus nine management breakthrough strategies. Learn how The People Bucket, The Donor Bucket, The Hoopla Bucket, The Customer Bucket, and others can make or break your organization. For managers and leaders to use on their own, in weekly staff meetings, mentoring young leaders and managers, and a host of other ways.

Free Download Marion O’Donnell, "Maria Montessori: A Critical Introduction to Key Themes and Debates"
English | ISBN: 1441134727 | 2013 | 208 pages | PDF | 1524 KB
Maria Montessori considers the origins of Montessori education, examines the key themes of this philosophy of education and explores the relevance of Montessori practices today. Montessori students aged 3-18 study in a stress-free environment with no timetables, no examinations and no homework and yet they are empowered, independent and self-disciplined learners. The curriculum follows the interests of individual children and Montessori educators focus on the development of the whole child, promoting happiness and wellbeing.

Free Download Joe L. Kincheloe, "Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction"
English | 2008 | pages: 281 | ISBN: 9048197457, 1402082231 | PDF | 2,6 mb
In a globalized neo-colonial world an insidious and often debilitating crisis of knowledge not only continues to undermine the quality of research produced by scholars but to also perpetuate a neo-colonial and oppressive socio-cultural, political economic, and educational system. The lack of attention such issues receive in pedagogical institutions around the world undermines the value of education and its role as a force of social justice. In this context these knowledge issues become a central concern of critical pedagogy. As a mode of education that is dedicated to a rigorous form of knowledge work, teachers and students as knowledge producers, anti-oppressive educational and social practices, and diverse perspectives from multiple social locations, critical pedagogy views dominant knowledge policies as a direct assault on its goals. Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction takes scholars through a critical review of the issues facing researchers and educators in the last years of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Refusing to assume the reader’s familiarity with such issues but concurrently rebuffing the tendency to dumb down such complex issues, the book serves as an excellent introduction to one of the most important and complicated issues of our time.

Free Download Freud: A Critical Re-evaluation of his Theories By Reuben Fine
2013 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0415717086 | PDF | 12 MB
In this book, originally published in 1963, Dr Fine sets out to describe what Freud said, and to re-evaluate his views critically in the light of the best knowledge of the time. Freud’s numerous changes of view, his constant searching for the truth wherever it might lead him, as well as his resolute adherence to certain hard-won positions once he had achieved them, are all skilfully traced. Freud’s intellectual Odyssey is divided into four periods. From 1886 to 1895 he was a neurologist investigating hysteria and other ‘nervous’ disorders. Then came his self-analysis, from 1896 to 1899, the real matrix from which psycho-analysis grew. The first psycho-analytic system of psychology was developed in the period from 1900 to 1914. The remainder of his life, from 1914 to 1939, was devoted to the elaboration of ego psychology, and heart of contemporary psycho-analysis. Dr Fine undertook, in writing this book, the formidable task of examining the whole body of Freud’s thought, to clarify what he said, and to review his ideas critically in the light of the best available existing knowledge. As he says ‘In this process of criticism I have tried to specify which aspects of Freud have stood the test of time and which have not.’ ‘So far as I can see no one has ever before taken the trouble to ask: "What did Freud actually say? How does what Freud said stand up in terms of what we now know?"’ In answering these questions, Dr Fine develops a major thesis that all modern psycho-analysis derives from Freud, though it has moved far in many different directions. The contention is that emphasis on schools is misleading and has obscured the actual historical growth of the science. As he states in his Preface to this volume, Dr Fine’s conviction is: ‘By building on Freud’s fundamental insights, we can move on most readily to empirical research and thus construct a more satisfactory science of psychology.’

Free Download Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems: 28th International Conference, FMICS 2023, Antwerp, Belgium, September 20-22, 2023, Proceedings
by Alessandro Cimatti and Laura Titolo
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031436806 | 271 Pages | True PDF | 15.4 MB

Free Download Clyde W. Barrow, "Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science "
English | ISBN: 1800375905 | 2024 | 812 pages | PDF | 4 MB
An indispensable and exemplary reference work, this Encyclopedia adeptly navigates the multidisciplinary field of critical political science, providing a comprehensive overview of the methods, approaches, concepts, scholars and journals that have come to influence the discipline’s development over the last six decades.

Free Download Greg William Misiaszek, "Ecopedagogy: Critical Environmental Teaching for Planetary Justice and Global Sustainable Development "
English | ISBN: 1350083798 | 2020 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB
To stop the downward spiral of intensifying environmental violence that inevitably leads to social violence we, as humans, need to better understand what is at stake and to determine how to make changes at the root levels. Ecopedagogy is centered on understanding the struggles of and connections between human acts of environmental and social violence.