Tag: Place

Free Download Robert W. Marans, "Handbook of Quality of Life Research: Place and Space Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 1789908787 | 2024 | 442 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This erudite Handbook demonstrates how multiple approaches have been used to conceptualize, measure, and model the complex issue of quality of life (QOL) and individual well-being, emphasizing place and space as critical factors in a meaningful QOL experience.

Free Download God Is My Hiding Place: 40 Devotions for Refuge and Strength by Corrie ten Boom
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0800761774 | 176 Pages | EPUB | 20.7 MB
If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest.

Free Download Falling into Place: A Story of Love, Poland, and the Making of a Travel Writer by Thomas Swick, Pico Iyer
English | November 15, 2023 | ISBN: 1538181770 | 260 pages | PDF | 2.99 Mb
From Booklist’s Starred Review: "[Swick] keenly and empathically observes the world, bringing both a relatably human approach and learned appreciation for the art of travel and of life."

Free Download Exploring Place in the Australian Landscape: In the Country of the White Cockatoo
by David S. Jones
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811932123 | 509 Pages | True PDF | 12.7 MB

Free Download Carole Pegg, "Drones, Tones, and Timbres: Sounding Place among Nomads of the Inner Asian Mountain-Steppes"
English | ISBN: 0252045459 | 2024 | 344 pages | PDF | 4 MB
An indispensable study of the music of Altai-Sayan peoples

Free Download David Alexander : the shape of place By Alexander, David; Wylie, Liz; Alexander, David
2012 | 107 Pages | ISBN: 0773540350 | PDF | 6 MB
It can be easy to consider landscape painting as cliche, an art form whose time has passed. David Alexander’s vibrant, large-scale works show the wonder and possibility that remain undiminished in paintings of the natural environment and breathe new life into the landscape tradition. Gathering together six essays on Alexander, this book provides insight into Alexander’s inspiration, creative drive, and the unique engagement with nature that has led him to seek out and paint remote locales across Canada and as far away as Greenland, Iceland, New Mexico, and Argentina. Award-winning writer Sharon Butala contributes an extended meditation on her first encounter with the artist and his work. An interview with Robert Enright reveals Alexander’s engagement with tradition, and texts by the late Gilbert Bouchard, Ihor Holubizky, Aethalsteinn Ingolfsson, and Liz Wylie, present a variety of insights into understanding and appreciating his art. A detailed chronology of Alexander’s career is included. Reproductions of his major works appear throughout and the essays are illustrated with preliminary paintings and working sketches, conveying insight into his creative process. A valuable discovery for those interested in nature and its artistic renderings, Alexander’s art is about conveying an immersion in the landscape. This book allows a similar presence within his lushly painted landscapes, imparting an intimate understanding of his art

Free Download Nicole Constable, "Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor"
English | ISBN: 0520282027 | 2014 | 280 pages | EPUB | 1386 KB
Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong-born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies.

Free Download Mary Mashburn, "Aging in Place: Navigating the Maze of Long-Term Care"
English | ISBN: 168350979X | 2018 | 132 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Overwhelmed by handling your aging loved one’s affairs? Is your parents’ estate in good order? Do you know what their wishes are and how you can honor them? Are you struggling with where your parent can be best cared for following a hospital stay? Are you feeling guilty or manipulated by your family?

Free Download Susan Carter, "Academic Identity and the Place of Stories: The Personal in the Professional"
English | 2020 | pages: 144 | ISBN: 3030436039, 3030436004 | PDF | 1,7 mb
This book explores academic identity development in the 21st century university. Recognising dramatic shifts in academic practices and landscapes, the book pushes back on rising neoliberalism with a person-focused, culturally aware pathway for career development. Stories of the author’s own experiences intersect a solid grounding in educational literature, encouraging scholars to take an active role in considering their own academic identity. In doing so, this volume suggests that academics look inward at what matters to them – rather than being overwhelmed by academia – in order to shape identities and career trajectories that are dynamic and satisfying.

Free Download Carla Risseeuw, "Conceptualizing Friendship in Time and Place, "
English | ISBN: 9004311785 | 2017 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB

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