Tag: Reform

Free Download Julie Hotchin, "Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000 – 1500: Debating Identities, Creating Communities "
English | ISBN: 1837650497 | 2023 | 296 pages | EPUB | 18 MB
New approaches to understanding religious women’s involvement in monastic reform, demonstrating how women’s experiences were more ambiguous and multi-layered than previously assumed.

Free Download Åse Gornitzka, Maurice Kogan, Alberto Amaral, "Reform and Change in Higher Education: Analysing Policy Implementation"
English | 2005 | pages: 368 | ISBN: 1402034024, 1402055366 | PDF | 6,7 mb
Starting from the now classical book by Ladislav Cerych and Paul Sabatier (1986), the editors present a critical appreciation of that initial work and a review and critical appraisal of current empirical policy research in higher education.

Free Download Reconfiguring Islamic tradition : reform, rationality, and modernity By Muḥammad ʻAbduh; Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb; Muḥammad ʻAbduh; Haj, Samira; Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb
2009 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 0804769753 | EPUB + PDF | 1 MB
Samira Haj conceptualizes Islam through a close reading of two Muslim reformers-Muhammad ibn ‘Abdul Wahhab (1703-1787) and Muhammad ‘Abduh (1849-1905)-each representative of a distinct trend, chronological as well as philosophical, in modern Islam. Their works are examined primarily through the prism of two conceptual questions: the idea of the modern and the formation of a Muslim subject. Approaching Islam through the works of these two Muslims, she illuminates aspects of Islamic modernity that have been obscured and problematizes assumptions founded on the oppositional dichotomies of modern/traditional, secular/sacred, and liberal/fundamentalist. The book explores the notions of the community-society and the subject’s location within it to demonstrate how Muslims in different historical contexts responded differently to theological and practical questions. This knowledge will help us better understand the conflicts currently unfolding in parts of the Arab world.

Free Download Janice Carlisle, "Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain "
English | ISBN: 052186836X | 2012 | 290 pages | PDF | 22 MB
How did Victorians, as creators and viewers of images, visualize the politics of franchise reform? This study of Victorian art and parliamentary politics, specifically in the 1840s and 1860s, answers that question by viewing the First and Second Reform Acts from the perspectives offered by Ruskin’s political theories of art and Bagehot’s visual theory of politics. Combining subjects and approaches characteristic of art history, political history, literary criticism, and cultural critique, Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain treats both paintings and wood engravings, particularly those published in Punch and the Illustrated London News. Carlisle analyzes unlikely pairings – a novel by Trollope and a painting by Hayter, an engraving after Leech and a high-society portrait by Landseer – to argue that such conjunctions marked both everyday life in Victorian Britain and the nature of its visual politics as it was manifested in the myriad heterogeneous and often incongruous images of illustrated journalism.

Free Download Mark Neuendorf, "Emotions and the Making of Psychiatric Reform in Britain, c. 1770-1820 "
English | ISBN: 3030843556 | 2021 | 309 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book explores the ways which people navigated the emotions provoked by the mad in Britain across the long eighteenth century. Building upon recent advances in the historical study of emotions, it Descriptions the evolution of attitudes towards insanity, and considers how shifting emotional norms influenced the development of a ‘humanitarian’ temperament, which drove the earliest movements for psychiatric reform in England and Scotland. Reacting to a ‘culture of sensibility’, which encouraged tears at the sight of tender suffering, early asylum reformers chose instead to express their humanity through unflinching resolve, charging into madhouses to contemplate scenes of misery usually hidden from public view, and confronting the authorities that enabled neglect to flourish. This intervention required careful emotional management, which is documented comprehensively here for the first time. Drawing upon a wide array of medical and literary sources, this book provides invaluable insightsinto pre-modern attitudes towards insanity.

Free Download Bede Harris, "Constitutional Reform as a Remedy for Political Disenchantment in Australia: The Discussion We Need"
English | 2020 | pages: 279 | ISBN: 9811536015, 9811535981 | PDF | 2,6 mb
The central argument of this book explores the disillusionment that Australians feel with regard to the way politics is conducted. The book explores causes of that disillusionment, and argues that because these are ultimately traceable to defects in the constitution, it is only through constitutional reform that government can be improved.

Free Download Mark Paul, "California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It"
English | 2010 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0520266560, 0520268520 | EPUB | 1,4 mb
Is California beyond repair? A sizable number of Golden State citizens have concluded that it is. Incessant budget crises plus a government paralyzed by partisan gridlock have led to demands for reform, even a constitutional convention. But what, exactly, is wrong and how can we fix it? In California Crackup, Joe Mathews and Mark Paul provide clear and informed answers. Their fast-paced and often humorous narrative deftly exposes the constitutional origins of our current political and economic problems and furnishes a uniquely California fix: innovative solutions that allow Californians to debate their choices, settle on the best ones, hold elected officials accountable for results, and choose anew if something doesn’t work.

Free Download Barry Naughton, "Wu Jinglian: Voice of Reform in China"
English | ISBN: 0262019434 | 2013 | 368 pages | EPUB | 425 KB
Writings by Wu Jinglian map not only China’s path to economic reform but also the intellectual evolution of China’s most influential economist.

Free Download Susan Richter, Thomas Maissen, Manuela Albertone, "Languages of Reform in the Eighteenth Century: When Europe Lost Its Fear of Change"
English | 2019 | pages: 447 | ISBN: 0367427737, 1032087595 | PDF | 129,8 mb
Societies perceive "Reform" or "Reforms" as substantial changes and significant breaks which must be well-justified. The Enlightenment brought forth the idea that the future was uncertain and could be shaped by human beings. This gave the concept of reform a new character and new fields of application. Those who sought support for their plans and actions needed to reflect, develop new arguments, and offer new reasons to address an anonymous public. This book aims to compile these changes under the heuristic term of "languages of reform." It analyzes the structures of communication regarding reforms in the 18th century through a wide variety of topics.

Free Download Yukai WANG, "A Report on China’s Administration Reform "
English | ISBN: 9811626928 | 2021 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book traces the history of China’s administrative reform in the past 35 years, focusing on the three phases of development, four guidelines and five major tasks of the reform since it is of great value to depict the entire process of China’s administrative system reform, analyzing the achievements, problems and prospects of the reform, and exploring experiences and lessons from the relationship between the administrative system reform and China’s economic, social and government transformation.