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Free Download Tony Blackshaw, "The new Bauman reader: Thinking sociologically in liquid modern times"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1784994030, 1526100797 | EPUB | pages: 424 | 0.6 mb
Zygmunt Bauman has written more than seventy books over five decades, most taking a single subject and finding doors to open it in all directions. His work is an essential reference point in sociology, but it is time that everyone caught up with him. In this book Tony Blackshaw doesn’t just tell us that Bauman is a massive star in sociology, he demonstrates why his light shines brighter than that of almost any other intellectual figure in the world today by offering his readers deep insights into the ‘Bauman Effect’.

Free Download Bianca Vienni-Baptista, "Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research: A Reader"
English | ISBN: 1529225736 | 2023 | 264 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Introduction chapter is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This groundbreaking reader is designed to lower the barriers to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in research. Edited by experienced researchers from a range of different fields, it paves the way for future scholarship and effective research collaborations across disciplines. Chapters offer extracts from key academic texts on topics such as the design, funding, evaluation and communication of research, providing those new to the field with a thorough grounding. They highlight examples of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary triumphs – and challenges. Concluding each chapter is a commentary provided by practitioners from diverse backgrounds, many of whom are themselves developing new approaches to inter- and transdisciplinarity. The book is: * the first ever comprehensive reader for interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity; * essential reading for those seeking to become effective collaborative researchers; * complete with concise introductions, extracts, commentary and further reading in each chapter. This is a much-needed primer that improves our understanding of the characteristics of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, unlocking their exciting potential in research and teaching within and beyond academia.

Free Download Reader 4.8.1 | macOS | 8 mb
Minimalist design with powerful tools for reading, particularly academic documents:

Free Download The Junior Tarot Reader’s Handbook: A Kid’s Guide to Reading Cards by Nikki Van De Car, Uta Krogmann
English | October 4, 2022 | ISBN: 0762479043 | 146 pages | PDF | 38 Mb
Learn how to read tarot cards and understand what the past, present, and future have to say about your life, especially as it pertains to friendships, family, and school.

Free Download Michael Parenti, "Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0872864820 | PDF | pages: 424 | 11.3 mb
Internationally acclaimed, award-winning author Michael Parenti is one of America’s most astute and engaging political analysts. Parenti’s work has enlightened and enlivened readers for many years, covering a wide range of subjects.

Free Download James Shea, "The Routledge Global Haiku Reader"
English | ISBN: 1032275650 | 2023 | 374 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an extensive critical perspective, this volume provides leading essays by poets and scholars who explore haiku’s various global developments, demonstrating the form’s complex and sometimes contradictory manifestations from the twentieth century to the present.

Free Download Christopher Plant, Judith Plant, "Home!: A Bioregional Reader"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1897408102 | PDF | pages: 196 | 13.2 mb
By providing tools to understand the land we live on and the sources of its natural regeneration, the more than 40 contributors to Home! open up new possibilities for the creation of cultures in keeping with the requirements of the natural world. Home! contains essays, poems, songs, and beautiful illustrations.

Free Download Reader’s Digest India – July 2023
English | 152 pages | True PDF | 78.1 MB

Free Download The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader By Michael Huxley (editor), Noel Witts (editor)
1996 | 448 Pages | ISBN: 0415116287 | PDF | 65 MB
The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader provides a pioneering introduction to all types of performance (dance, drama, music, theatre and live art) through the writings of forty-two practitioners, critics and theorists which together reaffirm performance as a discipline in its own terms.Organised alphabetically, rather than chronologically or according to art form, this reader invited cross-disciplinary comparisons. Each piece is fully supplemented by a contextual summary, detailed cross-references and suggestions for further reading. The editors’ introductory essay provides an invaluable analysis of the field, and the definitive bibliography offers an essential reference source.The reader, which makes it possible to compare major writings on all types of performance in one volume, will be an essential sourcebook for researchers, practitioners and students. It will also be of interest to anyone who enjoys innovative live performance.

Free Download The Performance Studies Reader By Henry Bial (editor), Sara Brady (editor)
2007 | 424 Pages | ISBN: 0415772753 | PDF | 20 MB
Following on from the highly successful first anthology of critical and theoretical writings on performance studies, this is an updated and significantly expanded second edition which brings the anthology up to date with current debate. The new edition contains expanded introductory essays, eight entirely new pieces, and is cross-referenced with Richard Schechner’s second editionof Performance Studies: An Introduction. The two volumes combine perfectly to offer a unique and complete teaching resource. This important collection is also widely used by students and scholars around the world as a stand-alone text, offering a stimulating introduction to the crucial debates of performance studies. Collecting together key critical pieces,theReader providesan overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies.