Tag: Experiences

Free Download CL Wren Radford, "Lived Experiences and Social Transformations Poetics, Politics and Power Relations in Practical Theology "
English | ISBN: 9004509984 | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book argues for the productive and problematic nature of sharing lived experiences as a political and theological practice, drawing on a case study with anti-poverty activists in the UK to argue for a critical, creative, and collaborative approach to engaging with marginalised experiences in practical theology.

Free Download Vaike Fors, "Imagining Personal Data: Experiences of Self-Tracking"
English | ISBN: 1350051381 | 2019 | 176 pages | PDF | 1412 KB
Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements of everyday life. Imagining Personal Data examines the implications of the rise of body monitoring and digital self-tracking for how we inhabit, experience and imagine our everyday worlds and futures. Through a focus on how it feels to live in environments where data is emergent, present and characterized by a sense of uncertainty, the authors argue for a new interdisciplinary approach to understanding the implications of self-tracking, which attends to its past, present and possible future. Building on social science approaches, the book accounts for the concerns of scholars working in design, philosophy and human-computer interaction. It problematizes the body and senses in relation to data and tracking devices, presents an accessible analytical account of the sensory and affective experiences of self-tracking, and questions the status of big data. In doing so it proposes an agenda for future research and design that puts people at its centre.

Free Download Valentine Berthet, "Guide to Qualitative Research in Parliaments: Experiences and Practices"
English | ISBN: 3031398076 | 2023 | 166 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This open access book is a hands-on guide on doing qualitative research in parliaments, exploring achievements and drawbacks for all. From early-career scholars looking for an ‘in’ to start their research to senior academics interested in methodological details, the book offers a novel approach to discussing qualitative methodologies. It presents unique insights based on a large-scale qualitative study in the European Parliament using interview and ethnographic data. Comprehensive yet accessible, the book accounts the step-by-step process of qualitative research in parliaments, offering a reflexive and analytical perspective that moves beyond a textbook or theory-only format.

Free Download Ulrich Teichler, "Careers of University Graduates: Views and Experiences in Comparative Perspectives"
English | 2007 | pages: 278 | ISBN: 9048174775, 1402059256 | PDF | 1,8 mb
Graduates from institutions of Higher Education do not only hope to get employed and be better paid. Study can also have an impact on employment and work in many respects: facilitating transition to employment, opening up opportunities for demanding, interesting and responsible professional assignments, increasing remuneration and job security, providing opportunities for continuing learning and leading the way to international mobility and visibly international assignments. The book provides a series of detailed analyses of graduate employment and work in comparative perspective. It draws from the survey of graduates from 11 European countries and Japan first published in H. Schomburg und U. Teichler "Higher Education and Graduate Employment and Work" (Dordrecht: Springer 2006). In this volume, scholars from twelve countries show how transition to employment, job assignments, employment assessments of the quality of employment and work vary by the graduates’ socio-biographic and educational background. It also focuses on experiences during the course of study and competences acquired, international experience, regional background and regions of employment. It demonstrates more substantial differences of the relationships between study and subsequent employment between various countries than previous debates and analyses have suggested.

Free Download Fred Karl, "Ageing in the Crisis: Experiences from Greece (4) "
English | ISBN: 3643909845 | 2018 | 200 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Demographic ageing should not be a crisis for either societies or individuals, though often reported as problematic. But what about ageing during long periods of crisis, when social and economic conditions worsen? The book takes a look at the experiences of Greece, the country most shaken by the severe financial crisis of the last years. The book describes the strong influence of the crisis on ageing, health and social relations and the challenges to which Greek institutions and citizens respond. The authors represent the multidisciplinary field of economics, social policy, health and family research and civil society in Greece.

Free Download Psychology of Near-Death Experiences (NDE) – Accredited Cert
Published 1/2024
Created by Elmira Strange, MPhil, Dip
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 20 Lectures ( 2h 30m ) | Size: 2 GB

Free Download Nadine Lalich, "Alien Experiences: 25 Cases of Close Encounter"
English | ISBN: 0971177643 | 2017 | 186 pages | EPUB | 712 KB
Many current and ancient sources suggest that UFOs and extraterrestrial beings have been visiting the earth and interacting with humans for thousands of years. If this is true, monumental implications arise regarding the origin and evolution of humanity and the future of our planet. This book discusses the highly controversial subject of alien contact and abduction, recounting twenty-five cases of close encounter. The cases included have been selected from the files of psychotherapist, Barbara Lamb, who has been working with abductees since 1991. In her work with 560 individuals, more than 1,800 regressions have revealed encounters with what appear to be non-human life forms. Although extraterrestrial contact is difficult to prove scientifically, the events described in this book are accurate in that they have been presented as they were described by the individuals who experienced them. These are normal men and women living average, responsible lives who have been subjected to extremely unusual events. These individuals display such a compelling sincerity and marked emotional response to their strange experiences there can be no doubt they have experienced some kind of extraordinary event. As a reader, you may be curious about the subject, or you may be a confirmed skeptic. You may also be someone who is investigating unusual occurrences in your own life. Whatever the case may be, if with an open mind you will simply consider the possibilities inferred by the cases described herein, you might find yourself on the road to a greater vision of reality.

Free Download A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Vietnamese Children and Mothers in Canada: Composing Lives in Transition
by Thi Thuy Hang Tran
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819958172 | 189 Pages | True PDF | 3.2 MB

Free Download Yingmei Luo, "A New Representation of Chinese Learners: Experiences of Chinese Learners of English in Tertiary Sino-Australian Program"
English | ISBN: 9811621519 | 2021 | 155 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines Chinese tertiary students’ experiences of learning English in Sino-Australian programs in China. Using an institutional ethnography, the book examines one well-established Sino-Australian program based at a Chinese university. The book explores the ways that participant students used the Chinese words, tropes and their meanings to describe their English learning experiences with both local Chinese and foreign English teachers. This book introduces an innovative theoretical framework, "representation theory with a multilingual perspective", to analyse how Chinese students’ everyday experiences are constructed and mediated through language, discourse and identity. This framework also highlights graphic examples of how concepts are created in both Chinese and English, and thus serves as a powerful tool for deconstructing dichotomies between China and the West. The aim of this book is, then, two-fold: to show how a novel theoretical lens can help us to develop more nuanced understandings of Chinese students, and to propose a new methodological and theoretical framework through which one can challenge the monolingual subjectivity and parochial views of both Chinese and Western conceptions.

Free Download Sound: Profound Experiences with Chanting, Toning, Music, and Healing Frequencies (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQZ77YYX | 2024 | 6 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 343 MB
Author: Dr. J. J. Hurtak, Dr. Desiree Hurtak
Narrator: David Marantz
You are a musical instrument in the great song of a living universe. Join social scientists and futurists Drs. J. J. and Desiree Hurtak as they show you how sound is an integral part of who you are and how you got here-in fact, it is the sacred song of your soul. Witness the science of frequency and timeless art of sound as an instrument of-and entry point to-the Divine as the coauthors, along with our sacred storytellers, share their mystical experiences. Sound is alive in everything, and it is tuning humanity to a brighter future. Discover how plants create music and how space is a symphony of creation. Understand archeo-acoustics and how sound is used in sacred temples. Raise your vibration as you chant mantras composed of sacred names, thoughts, and expressions. Create harmony in your life as you embrace the world of musical experience and come in tune with your truest vibrational nature.