Tag: Practicing

Practicing the Presence of People How We Learn to Love


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English | 1999 | ISBN: 1578562651 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 1.9 mb
In the deepest part of our hearts and souls is the desire to love well. Yet in our struggle to do so, we learn that, as Mike Mason puts it, "We are not born with love; it is something we must learn." Now, in Practicing the Presence of People, he helps us launch that learning process. Mason points the way to fresh knowledge and fresh experience, showing how we can discover new things about those we love, understand them from the inside out, tenderly identify with their weaknesses, and celebrate that they too were lovingly made by the hand of God.

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Practicing Social Work in Deprived Communities Competencies, Methods, and Techniques


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English | ISBN: 3030659860 | 2021 | 279 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This contributed volume offers a holistic understanding of social work practice in deprived communities through its thematization of understanding deprived communities globally, the development of competencies for social work practice in and with deprived communities, social work education as a community development tool, and the empowerment of social workers in deprived communities. Inequality as a globally recognized challenge is extensively elaborated within the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Global Agenda program for social work, making this a timely and important contribution to the literature.

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Practicing Health Geography The African Context


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English | ISBN: 3030634701 | 2021 | 221 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This volume uniquely presents case studies on health geography in Africa, and analyzes health practices in different African regions to illustrate a unified perspective to the geographies of health. The book describes various contemporary and traditional themes that have characterized the discipline of health geography, and uses its 13 case studies across 14 chapters to challenge the perceived dichotomy between health geography and medical geography among health researchers and practitioners. In 3 sections, the book provides readers with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to understanding health geography in Africa.

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Autodesk Inventor Exercises – Learn by Practicing Design 100 Real-World 3D Models by Practicing


Free Download Autodesk Inventor Exercises – Learn by Practicing: Design 100 Real-World 3D Models by Practicing by CADArtifex, John Willis, Sandeep Dogra
English | August 23, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CGJ84TBF | 172 pages | MOBI | 12 Mb
Autodesk Inventor Exercises – Learn by Practicing book is designed to help engineers and designers interested in learning Autodesk Inventor by practicing 100 real-world mechanical models. This book does not provide step-by-step instructions to design 3D models, instead, it is a practice book that challenges users to first analyze the drawings and then create the models using the powerful toolset of Autodesk Inventor. This approach helps users to enhance their design skills and take them to the next level.

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Practicing R for Statistical Computing


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English | July 20, 2023 | ISBN: 9819928850 | 309 pages | MOBI | 35 Mb
This book is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to R programming for data analysis, manipulation and presentation. It covers fundamental data structures such as vectors, matrices, arrays and lists, along with techniques for exploratory data analysis, data transformation and manipulation. The book explains basic statistical concepts and demonstrates their implementation using R, including descriptive statistics, graphical representation of data, probability, popular probability distributions and hypothesis testing. It also explores linear and non-linear modeling, model selection and diagnostic tools in R.

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Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World An Anthropological Odyssey


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2006 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0759108811 | PDF | 118 MB
In this book distinguished anthropologist June Nash demonstrates how ethnography can illuminate a wide array of global problems. She describes encounters with an urban U.S. community undergoing de-industrialization, with Mandalay rice cultivators accommodating to post-World War II independence through animistic pratices, with Mayans mobilizing for autonomy, and with Andean peasants and miners confronting the International Monetary Fund. Havin worked in a great variety of cultural settings around the world, Nash challenges us to expand our anthropological horizons and to think about local problems in a global manner.

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