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Free Download Perspective Magazine – January 2024
English | 100 pages | PDF | 63 MB

Free Download Perspective – December 2023 – January 2024
English | 142 pages | PDF | 132.8 MB

Free Download Power and Inequality: A Reformist Perspective
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009370529 | 318 Pages | PDF | 1.3 MB
Power is a broad and complex concept that cuts across all fields in humanities and social sciences. Written by a leading historian of economic thought, Power and Inequality presents a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary analysis of power as an economic and social issue. Its aim is not to formulate a new abstract theory of power but rather to illustrate the different ways in which power is used to exacerbate social and economic inequality. Issues such as division of labour and its evolution, different forms of capitalism up to the money-manager economy, the role of networks (from the family to mason lodges and the mafia), the state and the international arena, culture and the role of the masses are considered. The analysis of these elements, causing inequalities of various kinds, is a prerequisite for devising progressive policy strategies aiming at a reduction of inequalities through a strategy of reforms.

Free Download Ronnie McKenzie, "Meteorites: A southern African perspective"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1775840980 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 28.5 mb
Meteorites are the remnants of meteors from outer space that have survived the corridor of fire through Earth’s atmosphere and landed on our planet. Rare, and bearing secrets about the formation of our Universe, these ‘treasures from space’ have fascinated people ever since they were first identified in the late 18th century as extraterrestrial arrivals. This jam-packed book by enthusiast and collector Ronnie McKenzie introduces the topic in straightforward language and is richly illustrated with some 200 photographs and diagrams. It discusses how to identify meteorites, where they come from and where they have landed on Earth, the many different types, and how to set about collecting them. It also dispels some of the myths about these stones, and presents some infamous meteorite scams. A handy basic guide for those new to the topic, and for anyone interested in entering the field of meteorite collecting.

Free Download Cervantes in Perspective edited by Julia Domínguez
English | April 11, 2013 | ISBN: 8484897184 | True EPUB | 160 pages | 0.6 MB
Cervantes in Perspective brings together original essays on Miguel de Cervantes´s life and literature written by nine significant Cervantes scholars.

Free Download Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective By Alice C. Harris; Lyle Campbell
1995 | 488 Pages | ISBN: 0521478812 | PDF | 27 MB
This study utilizes a cross-linguistic approach to establish a general framework for the investigation of syntactic change. It reveals shared properties of changes across languages, determines what mechanisms lie behind them, and how they correlate to the overall explanation of syntactic change.

Free Download Sustainable Manufacturing Systems: An Energy Perspective (IEEE Press Series on Systems Science and Engineering) by Lin Li, MengChu Zhou
English | November 22, 2022 | ISBN: 1119578248 | 432 pages | MOBI | 18 Mb
Sustainable Manufacturing Systems

Free Download Handbook of Asian Education: A Cultural Perspective By Yong Zhao (editor), Jing Lei (editor), Guofang Li (editor), Ming Fang He (editor), Kaori Okano (editor), Nagwa Megahed (editor), David Gamage (editor), Hema Ramanathan (editor)
2010 | 584 Pages | ISBN: 0805864458 | PDF | 3 MB
Comprehensive and authoritative, this Handbook provides a nuanced description and analysis of educational systems, practices, and policies in Asian countries and explains and interprets these practices from cultural, social, historical, and economic perspectives. Using a culture-based framework, the volume is organized in five sections, each devoted to educational practices in one civilization in Asia: Sinic, Japanese, Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindu. Culture and culture identities essentially are civilization identities; the major differences among civilizations are rooted in their different cultures. This framework offers a novel approach to capturing the essence of the diverse educational systems and practices in Asia. Uniquely combining description and interpretation of educational practices in Asia, this Handbook is a must-have resource for education researchers and graduate students in international and comparative education, globalization and education, multicultural education, sociocultural foundations of education, and Asian studies, and for educational administrators and education policy makers.

Free Download From Cause to Causation: A Peircean Perspective By Menno Hulswit (auth.)
2002 | 258 Pages | ISBN: 1402009771 | PDF | 6 MB
From Cause to Causation presents both a critical analysis of C.S. Peirce’s conception of causation, and a novel approach to causation, based upon the semeiotic of Peirce. The book begins with a review of the history of causation, and with a critical discussion of contemporary theories of the concept of `cause’. The author uncovers a number of inadequacies in the received views of causation, and discusses their historical roots. He makes a distinction between "causality", which is the relation between cause and effect, and causation, which is the production of a certain effect. He argues that, by focusing on causality, the contemporary theories fatally neglect the more fundamental problem of causation. The author successively discusses Peirce’s theories of final causation, natural classes, semeiotic, and semeiotic causation. Finally, he uses Peirce’s semeiotic to develop a new approach to causation, which relates causation to our experience of signs.

Free Download From Cause to Causation: A Peircean Perspective By Menno Hulswit (auth.)
2002 | 258 Pages | ISBN: 1402009771 | PDF | 6 MB
From Cause to Causation presents both a critical analysis of C.S. Peirce’s conception of causation, and a novel approach to causation, based upon the semeiotic of Peirce. The book begins with a review of the history of causation, and with a critical discussion of contemporary theories of the concept of `cause’. The author uncovers a number of inadequacies in the received views of causation, and discusses their historical roots. He makes a distinction between "causality", which is the relation between cause and effect, and causation, which is the production of a certain effect. He argues that, by focusing on causality, the contemporary theories fatally neglect the more fundamental problem of causation. The author successively discusses Peirce’s theories of final causation, natural classes, semeiotic, and semeiotic causation. Finally, he uses Peirce’s semeiotic to develop a new approach to causation, which relates causation to our experience of signs.