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Gust's Maze

By: Marcia Andrade

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Felwitt is a place like no other; battered by heavy snow, covered by dark clouds, and completely isolated from the rest of the world as a result of a curse that has fallen upon it. Felwitt's most notorious teenager, Gustav Grubbin, is determined to find out the truth behind the village's bizarre weather conditions.

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Pneuma Springs Publishing

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1907728295

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9781907728297

Cycles

By: Maria de Andrade

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Cycles

By: Maria de Andrade

A young couple meets during a Carnival celebration in their beloved city of Lisbon, beginning a passionate and challenging journey together that will span two countries and two political revolutions. Told through Tiago and Marta's eyes, Cycles explores how lives, families and careers changed, for the worse and for the better, as Portugal fought to find democracy in the early 1970s in the wake of the Carnation Revolution, a turbulent military coup d'Etat. When the couple eventually fulfills Tiago's dream of immigrating to Canada, they experience a new form of political unrest as they settle in Montreal during the Quebec Referendum. Together they must struggle to redefine themselves as they learn a new language, make friends and try to succeed and get ahead in their new country. This thoughtful, compelling novel takes on universal themes and offers an insightful take on the complexities of politics, family, marriage, and women in the workplace. Most of all, it illustrates how love, in all its forms, can endure in the face of hardship.

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300

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FriesenPress

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1460297172

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9781460297179

The Gunpowder Age

China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History

By: Tonio Andrade

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The Gunpowder Age

China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History

By: Tonio Andrade

A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact on China's role in global history The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answer, opening a fresh perspective on a key question of world history: why did the countries of western Europe surge to global importance starting in the 1500s while China slipped behind? Historians have long argued that gunpowder weapons helped Europeans establish global hegemony. Yet the inhabitants of what is today China not only invented guns and bombs but also, as Andrade shows, continued to innovate in gunpowder technology through the early 1700s—much longer than previously thought. Why, then, did China become so vulnerable? Andrade argues that one significant reason is that it was out of practice fighting wars, having enjoyed nearly a century of relative peace, since 1760. Indeed, he demonstrates that China—like Europe—was a powerful military innovator, particularly during times of great warfare, such as the violent century starting after the Opium War, when the Chinese once again quickly modernized their forces. Today, China is simply returning to its old position as one of the world's great military powers. By showing that China’s military dynamism was deeper, longer lasting, and more quickly recovered than previously understood, The Gunpowder Age challenges long-standing explanations of the so-called Great Divergence between the West and Asia.

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Princeton University Press

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0691178143

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9780691178141

Zenobia

Shooting Star of Palmyra

By: Nathanael J. Andrade

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Zenobia

Shooting Star of Palmyra

By: Nathanael J. Andrade

Hailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (also Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman empire from 268 to 272. She thus became the most famous Palmyrene who ever lived. This book situates Zenobia in the social, economic, cultural, and material context of her Palmyra.

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305

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190638818

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9780190638818

Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion

By: Ramya Sundaram,Ulrich Hoerning,Natasha de Andrade FalcÃ£o,Natalia MillÃ¡n,Carla Tokman,Michele Zini

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Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion

By: Ramya Sundaram,Ulrich Hoerning,Natasha de Andrade FalcÃ£o,Natalia MillÃ¡n,Carla Tokman,Michele Zini

Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion presents "profiles" or "portraits" of individuals who have limited labor-market attachment. It is widely accepted that those with limited attachment to the labor market are a highly heterogeneous group (including, for instance, recent job losers, long-term unemployed, school leavers with no labor-market experience, those close to retirement age, or people with caring responsibilities), and that understanding their circumstances and potential barriers is an essential prerequisite for designing and implementing a tailored and effective mix of policy support and incentives. The report takes a comprehensive view, focusing on both the labor market attachment of a country's out-of-work population and the social assistance package and poverty profile of the same segment of the population. In essence, the report looks at individuals through the lenses of both poverty/welfare status and labor market indicators, and, in doing so, the portraits helps move the dialogue from a purely labor market-centric view to a broader dialogue that includes social policy as a whole. This is an important shift; for instance, social protection programs, such as family benefits and maternity benefits, and broader social policy issues such as retirement ages, often have a great impact on who remains inactive. Specifically, the report presents portraits of the out-of-work population of six countries (Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania and Romania) in terms of distance from the labor market, human capital, and labor supply conditions, as well as demographic conditions. The analysis relies on the European Union Statistics of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) surveys for the years 2007 to 2011. Latent class analysis methodology allows multidimensional profiling of the out-of-work population, and identifies classes or groups of out-of-work individuals that are as homogeneous as possible within each class according to a set of observable characteristics, and as distant as possible between classes. Consequently, this analysis provide a much richer glimpse of the very different barriers to labor market integration that these various groups experience, considerably augmenting the limited amount of information contained in traditional descriptive statistics.

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293

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World Bank Publications

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1464805423

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9781464805424

International Students

Strengthening a Critical Resource

By: Maureen Andrade,Norman Evans

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International Students

Strengthening a Critical Resource

By: Maureen Andrade,Norman Evans

International students are often taken for granted in higher education institutions in the United States. Many college and university administrators are unaware of the initiatives of other nations to attract international students and of the need to support these students. Higher education journals have not focused much attention on international students. International Students: Strengthening a Critical Resource argues that U.S. institutions of higher education must increase their awareness of international student issues. Andrade reviews related research and highlights creative solutions and programming for the successful support of international students. The book provides practical, hands-on, broadly applicable solutions to addressing international student issues. Additionally, it serves as a practical guide for identifying and adopting best practices for serving international students.

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312

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R&L Education

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1607091771

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9781607091776

Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World

By: Nathanael J. Andrade

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Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World

By: Nathanael J. Andrade

By engaging with recent developments in the study of empires, this book examines how inhabitants of Roman imperial Syria reinvented expressions and experiences of Greek, Roman and Syrian identification. It demonstrates how the organization of Greek communities and a peer polity network extending citizenship to ethnic Syrians generated new semiotic frameworks for the performance of Greekness and Syrianness. Within these, Syria's inhabitants reoriented and interwove idioms of diverse cultural origins, including those from the Near East, to express Greek, Roman and Syrian identifications in innovative and complex ways. While exploring a vast array of written and material sources, the book thus posits that Greekness and Syrianness were constantly shifting and transforming categories, and it critiques many assumptions that govern how scholars of antiquity often conceive of Roman imperial Greek identity, ethnicity and culture in the Roman Near East, and processes of 'hybridity' or similar concepts.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107244560

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9781107244566

The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity

Networks and the Movement of Culture

By: Nathanael J. Andrade

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The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity

Networks and the Movement of Culture

By: Nathanael J. Andrade

Explores the social interactions and pathways that enabled Christianity to travel across Asia and to India.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108419127

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9781108419123

Women's Rights: International studies on gender roles and its influence on human rights

By: Mônica Sapucaia,Denise Andrade

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Women's Rights: International studies on gender roles and its influence on human rights

By: Mônica Sapucaia,Denise Andrade

This book, which I am pleased to preface, is divided into two parts of great relevance to contemporary feminist studies, especially to the peripheral countries of the capitalist world. In it lie essays that I divide into two categories. On the one hand, we have articles that address structural issues involving human rights and, in particular, women’s rights. These are the texts that discuss the way in which the subject of human rights, in the contexts of the regional economic communities, are inserted; there are also the texts that address the bankruptcy of the patriarchal political system regarding the political representation of women in countries like India and Brazil; and the chapter in which the authors reflect on the need for an international feminist normative that breaks with the predominantly male discourse in international law, which disregards feminist proposals for normalization. The other part of the book covers varied subjects that connect with the feminist agenda and gender studies as well as contemporary identity processes. These are studies on the reproductive rights of women; sexual and domestic violence against women; environmental degradation and its relation to the patriarchal model to the detriment of traditional cultures; the immigration of women for marriage as a conscious choice; mental health and its relation to gender issues. Chapters: 1. REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMMUNITIES IN HUMAN AND WOMEN´S RIGHTS PROTECTION 2. WOMEN REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: A REFLECTION ABOUT INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 3. WOMEN AND MENTAL HEALTH: A STUDY ON ADOLESCENCY AND GENDER IN BRAZIL 4. A PROGRAM TO COMBAT HARASSMENT AGAINST WOMEN: CONSIDERATION FOR IMPLEMENTATION AT THE UNIVERSITY 5. DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN BRAZIL: IS THERE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL? 6. ENVIRONMENTAL PATRIARCHY AND INDIGENOUS WOMEN: FROM INVISIBILITY TO RESISTANCE 7. MARRIAGE EMIGRATION OF WOMEN FROM RUSSIA 8. RESERVATIONS, INTERSECTIONALITY, AND WOMEN’S REPRESENTATION IN INDIAN POLITICS 9. FIGHTING AGAINST GENDER INEQUALITY IN PARLIAMENT: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES FROM THE BRAZILIAN CASE 10. BUILDING UP AN INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST LAW

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Deviant

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8553240185

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9788553240180

Mokken Scale & Complex Sampling Designs: insights

By: Andrade,Marcia

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Mokken Scale & Complex Sampling Designs: insights

By: Andrade,Marcia

This is the first e-book that presents some insights into the construction of Mokken scales with complex survey data, and, in particular, the estimation of Mokken's scalability coefficients - Hij, Hi, and H - with binary responses. Every day, researchers work with complex samples selected from finite populations of interest to make inferences about population parameters. However, in many situations these samples are assumed as SRS samples. Serious consequences have been reported in the complex survey data literature; when this assumption is considered. I invite you to find out a little more about some relevant contributions to the development of the Psychometry under complex sampling designs, as highlighted in this e-book. Keywords: Mokken scaling, Mokken scale analysis, complex data, Complex Mokken, design effect, clustering, sampling weights, stratification, clustered samples, variance estimation, point estimation, large-scale educational surveys, Jackknife resampling technique, Non Parametric Item Response Theory.

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Autografia

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8555266696

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9788555266690

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Gust's Maze

Gust's Maze

Cycles

Cycles

The Gunpowder Age

The Gunpowder Age

Zenobia

Zenobia

Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion

Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion

International Students

International Students

Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World

Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World

The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity

The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity

Women's Rights: International studies on gender roles and its influence on human rights

Women's Rights: International studies on gender roles and its influence on human rights

Mokken Scale & Complex Sampling Designs: insights

Mokken Scale & Complex Sampling Designs: insights

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