Tag: Rethinking

Free Download Rethinking Thomas Jefferson’s Writings on Slavery and Race By M. Andrew Holowchak
2020 | 175 Pages | ISBN: 1527544486 | PDF | 2 MB
Revisionism has been the historical vogue for well over two decades concerning Jeffersonian scholarship. This movement has been an attempt to neutralize the avowed hagiographical scholarship on Jefferson by aiming to offer an all-too-human Thomas Jefferson. The regrettable result has been a depiction, iterated and reiterated uncritically by scholars, of a less-than-human Jefferson, presenting him as an inveterate hypocrite and racist. Thus, Jeffersonian scholarship, as argued here, has become an exercise in useless, fatuous repetition of the same claims that has impeded attempts by serious scholars to gain fresh insights into the mind of one of the greatest Americans. This book offers a stimulating, provocative challenge to the stale revisionist claims on Jefferson concerning his hypocrisy and racism. It will appeal to mavens of Jefferson, as well as scholars intent on moving forward with Jeffersonian scholarship. The book will also appeal to those persons who believe it is time to resituate Jefferson on his little mountain.

Free Download Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Condensed Version By Katherine Bullock
2010 | 35 Pages | ISBN: 1565643585 | PDF | 1 MB
The need to challenge the negative stereotype of the veil as oppressive is urgent. It is on many people’s minds and the debate on whether to wear or not to wear is becoming ever more heated. This work focuses on the popular Western cultural view that the veil is oppressive for Muslim women and highlights the underlying patterns of power behind this constructed image of the veil. It examines the colonial roots of this negative stereotype and challenges the arguments of liberal feminists such as Mernissi to assert that in a culture of consumerism, the veil can be experienced as a liberation from the tyranny of the beauty myth and the thin ideal of woman

Free Download Rethinking Meditation: Buddhist Meditative Practice in Ancient and Modern Worlds by David L. McMahan
English | July 28, 2023 | ISBN: 0197661742 | 321 pages | PDF | 4.70 Mb
A dizzying array of meditation practices have emerged in the long and culturally diverse history of Buddhism. Yet if you are seeking out meditation today in North America and Europe-and, increasingly, in the rest of the world as well-you will likely encounter one particular type, often under the label "mindfulness." You will find it taught in Zen monasteries, Insight Meditation centers, health clubs, colleges, psychologists’ offices, corporations, liberal Christian churches, prisons, and the US military. Countless articles in popular magazines promote its benefits, often depicting it as a panacea for problems as wide-ranging as anxiety, depression, heart disease, eating disorders, and psoriasis. There are books on mindfulness and meditation not only by Buddhist monks but also by medical doctors, psychologists, computer engineers, business consultants, and a US congressman.

Free Download Rethinking Educational Practice Through Reflexive Inquiry: Essays in Honour of Susan Groundwater-Smith By Nicole Mockler, Judyth Sachs (auth.), Nicole Mockler, Judyth Sachs (eds.)
2011 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 9400708041 | PDF | 3 MB
Susan Groundwater-Smith is one of the most influential voices in the world of educational practitioner inquiry. The convener in Australia of the Coalition of Knowledge Building Schools, she is a staunch advocate of innovative methods of practitioner inquiry with a particular emphasis upon student voice and the use of images in capturing young people’s perspectives on their learning experience. So it is more than fitting that this unique text on practitioner inquiry and teacher professional learning is dedicated to her. Rethinking Education Practice Through Reflexive Inquiry is a compilation of essays that explore contemporary issues in practitioner inquiry and action research from the perspective of both university-based and school-based authors. The essays discuss the practical, political and theoretical dimensions of practitioner inquiry, advancing the argument that the adoption of an inquiring approach to practice is both an integral dimension of teachers’ work in the modern school as well as critical to effective and authentic professional learning. And the essays draw on the work of Groundwater-Smith to demonstrate the benefits brought to bear on schools, teachers and learners when the complex nature of the relationship between inquiry and practice is understood and acted upon in pursuit of democratic knowledge interests.

Free Download Jennifer Ingrey, "Rethinking School Spaces for Transgender, Non-binary, and Gender Diverse Youth "
English | ISBN: 036743573X | 2023 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 21 MB

Free Download Rethinking Peripheral Modernisms
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031355458 | 295 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 5 MB
This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism. It particularly focuses on European semi-peripheries, combining theoretical chapters and individual case studies to examine the cultural and aesthetic complexities of so-called peripheral modernisms. Contributing to research on the ‘transnational turn’ in New Modernist Studies, the volume takes recent scholarship on postcolonial modernisms one step further by exploring a broader geopolitical expanse than the (formerly) colonised regions under global capitalism. It highlights the local and translocal specificities of modernist movements from regions such as Eastern and Central Europe and the Mediterranean to offer new insights into the concept of global modernism.

Free Download Linda G. Mills, "Insult to Injury: Rethinking our Responses to Intimate Abuse"
English | 2006 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 0691127727, 0691096392 | EPUB | 1,2 mb
Locking up men who beat their partners sounds like a tremendous improvement over the days when men could hit women with impunity and women fearing for their lives could expect no help from authorities. But does our system of requiring the arrest, prosecution, and incarceration of abusers lessen domestic violence or help battered women? In this already controversial but vitally important book, we learn that the criminal justice system may actually be making the problem of domestic violence worse. Looking honestly at uncomfortable facts, Linda Mills makes the case for a complete overhaul and presents a promising alternative.

Free Download Henry Rosemont Jr., "Against Individualism: A Confucian Rethinking of the Foundations of Morality, Politics, Family, and Religion "
English | ISBN: 073919982X | 2016 | 226 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

Free Download T. Colin Campbell PhD/PhD, Howard Jacobson, Don Hagen (Narrator), "Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition"
English | ASIN: B00CH2EJY2 | 2013 | M4B@64 kbps | ~11:09:00 | 305 MB
What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine.
Whole, a New York Times bestseller and an eye-opening, paradigm-changing journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, is a scientific tour de force with powerful implications for our health and for our world.

Free Download Gary Taubes, Arthur Morey (Narrator), "Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments"
English | ASIN: B0C4C4HFX8 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~16:25:00 | 466 MB
An eye-opening investigation into the history of diabetes research and treatment by the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Why We Get Fat "[Gary] Taubes’s meticulous, science-based work makes him the Bryan Stevenson of nutrition, an early voice in the wilderness for an unorthodox view that is increasingly becoming accepted."-Niel Barsky, The Guardian
Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes was treated almost exclusively through diet, from subsistence on meat, to reliance on fats, to repeated fasting and near-starvation regimens. After two centuries of conflicting medical advice, most authorities today believe that those with diabetes can have the same dietary freedom enjoyed by the rest of us, leaving the job of controlling their disease to insulin therapy and other blood-sugar-lowering medications. Rather than embark on "futile" efforts to restrict sugar or carbohydrate intake, people with diabetes can lead a normal life, complete with the occasional ice-cream cake, side of fries, or soda.