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Global Trends in Job Polarisation and Upgrading

A Comparison of Developed and Developing Economies

Edited by Sergio Torrejón Pérez, Enrique Fernández-Macías, John Hurley ...

This open-access book offers a comparative analysis of changes in employment structures on a global scale, focusing on employment trends during the first decades of the 21st century across 17 developed and developing economies, including countries from Europe, North America, Central and Latin America, and Asia. The authors examine patterns of occupational change in all cases, with job upgrading ... Read more

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This open-access book offers a comparative analysis of changes in employment structures on a global scale, focusing on employment trends during the first decades of the 21st century across 17 developed and developing economies, including countries from Europe, North America, Central and Latin America, and Asia. The authors examine patterns of occupational change in all cases, with job upgrading
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Opticks (Unabridged)

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by Isaac Newton ...

Narrated by John Fernandez, Peggy Rooney, Fannie Alexander, Sandra Maeder ...

Unabridged

12 hours 2 min

The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 - 1672. He worked on refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form of light and an ether to transmit forces between the corpuscles. His "Opticks", first published 1704 contains his postulates about the topic. This is the fourth edition in English, ... Read more

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The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 - 1672. He worked on refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form of light and an ether to transmit forces between the corpuscles. His "Opticks", first published 1704 contains his postulates about the topic. This is the fourth edition in English,
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Well Played Retrospective

The Past, Pandemic and Future of Video Games, Value and Meaning

Edited by Drew Davidson, Ira Fay, Clara Fernandez-Vara, Jane Pinckard, John Sharp ...

Well Played is a concept of providing in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game. Around Halloween in 2020, the Well Played Journal started its 10th volume. Looking back, the first “well played” presentation and article was in 2003, the first book came out in 2009, and the first journal issue was released in 2011. ... Read more

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Well Played is a concept of providing in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game. Around Halloween in 2020, the Well Played Journal started its 10th volume. Looking back, the first “well played” presentation and article was in 2003, the first book came out in 2009, and the first journal issue was released in 2011.
... Read more
Towards Unity & Political Empowerment for US Mexicans, Chicanos, Latinos

by John Y. Fernandez ...

Empowering Guide: Uniting and Amplifying Political Influence for Latinos in the US - Strategies, Data, Solutions, and Media Insights for Election Success.This comprehensive guidebook is a beacon of hope for the 19% of the US population who are of Mexican, Chicano, and Latino descent. It aims to increase unity, political power, and representation, addressing the stark disparity that sees this ... Read more

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Empowering Guide: Uniting and Amplifying Political Influence for Latinos in the US - Strategies, Data, Solutions, and Media Insights for Election Success.This comprehensive guidebook is a beacon of hope for the 19% of the US population who are of Mexican, Chicano, and Latino descent. It aims to increase unity, political power, and representation, addressing the stark disparity that sees this
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Towards Unity & Political Empowerment for US Mexicans, Chicanos, Latinos

by John Y. Fernandez ...

Empowering Guide: Uniting and Amplifying Political Influence for Latinos in the US - Strategies, Data, Solutions, and Media Insights for Election Success.This comprehensive guidebook is a beacon of hope for the 19% of the US population who are of Mexican, Chicano, and Latino descent. It aims to increase unity, political power, and representation, addressing the stark disparity that sees this ... Read more

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Empowering Guide: Uniting and Amplifying Political Influence for Latinos in the US - Strategies, Data, Solutions, and Media Insights for Election Success.This comprehensive guidebook is a beacon of hope for the 19% of the US population who are of Mexican, Chicano, and Latino descent. It aims to increase unity, political power, and representation, addressing the stark disparity that sees this
... Read more
Well Played Retrospective

The Past, Pandemic and Future of Video Games, Value and Meaning

Edited by Drew Davidson, Ira Fay, Clara Fernandez-Vara, Jane Pinckard, John Sharp ...

Well Played is a concept of providing in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found through the experience of playing a game. Around Halloween in 2020, the Well Played Journal started its 10th volume. Looking back, the first “well played” presentation and article was in 2003, with the first book coming out in 2009, and the first journal issue released in ... Read more

$2.99 USD

Well Played is a concept of providing in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found through the experience of playing a game. Around Halloween in 2020, the Well Played Journal started its 10th volume. Looking back, the first “well played” presentation and article was in 2003, with the first book coming out in 2009, and the first journal issue released in
... Read more
The Mexican/Latino Struggle for Educational Equity in California, 1492-2022

by John Y. Fernandez ...

The Mexican/Latino Struggle for Educational Equity in California, 1492-2022 offers an in-depth history of the struggle of Mexican/Latinos for educational equity under Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. rule.Dr. John Fernandez, a retired teacher of 31 years, independent scholar, and community activist, crafts a guidebook for academic scholars that conducts historical research and offers best practices for ... Read more

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The Mexican/Latino Struggle for Educational Equity in California, 1492-2022 offers an in-depth history of the struggle of Mexican/Latinos for educational equity under Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. rule.Dr. John Fernandez, a retired teacher of 31 years, independent scholar, and community activist, crafts a guidebook for academic scholars that conducts historical research and offers best practices for
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Planning, Urban Design, and Architecture for Climate Action

by Jeffrey Raven, Mattia Federico Leone, Sanjukkta Bhaduri, Christian Braneon, David Corbett, David Driskell, Ursula Eicker, John E. Fernandez, Jing Gan, Anna Hürlimann, Ilana Judah, Michael Neuman, Barbara Norman, Dennis Pamlin, Chao Ren, Rob Roggema, Pourya Salehi, Anne Shellum, Andréa Souza Santos, Joel Towers, Cristina Visconti, William Solecki, Minal Pathak, Martha Barata, Aliyu Salisu Barau, Maria Dombrov, Cynthia Rosenzweig ...

Series series Elements in Climate Change and Cities
Embedding climate resilient development principles in planning, urban design, and architecture means ensuring that transformation of the built environment helps achieve carbon neutrality, effective adaptation, and well-being for people and nature. Planners, urban designers, and architects are called to bridge the domains of research and practice and evolve their agency and capacity, developing ... Read more

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Embedding climate resilient development principles in planning, urban design, and architecture means ensuring that transformation of the built environment helps achieve carbon neutrality, effective adaptation, and well-being for people and nature. Planners, urban designers, and architects are called to bridge the domains of research and practice and evolve their agency and capacity, developing
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Sustainable Urban Metabolism

by Paulo Ferrao, John E. Fernandez ...

A unified framework for analyzing urban sustainability in terms of cities' inflows and outflows of matter and energy.Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked communications of urban hubs. The urban population now generates more than eighty percent of global GDP. Cities ... Read more

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A unified framework for analyzing urban sustainability in terms of cities' inflows and outflows of matter and energy.Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked communications of urban hubs. The urban population now generates more than eighty percent of global GDP. Cities
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Morality and Justice

Reading Boylan's 'A Just Society'

by James A. Donahue, Marcus Duwell, Dale Jacquette, Tanja Kohen, Christopher Lowry, Seumas Miller, Johann-Christian Poder, Edward H. Spence, Wanda Teays, John-Stewart Gordon, Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, Michael Boylan, Robert Paul Churchill, Udo Schuklenk, Rosemarie Tong ...

This book is a collection of twelve essays devoted to Michael Boylan's important work in moral philosophy,A Just Society. The collection is thematically organized to mirror Boylan's own volume, so the first half explores fundamental issues of justification in ethics while the second half focuses on issues involving ethical discourse, social justice, and the moral foundations of public policy. In ... Read more

$47.99 USD

This book is a collection of twelve essays devoted to Michael Boylan's important work in moral philosophy,A Just Society. The collection is thematically organized to mirror Boylan's own volume, so the first half explores fundamental issues of justification in ethics while the second half focuses on issues involving ethical discourse, social justice, and the moral foundations of public policy. In
... Read more
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The Thing About Weres [Dramatized Adaptation]

Mystwalker 2

by Leigh Evans ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Colleen Delany, Jonathan Feuer, Matthew Bassett, Gregory Linington, Terence Aselford, Kimberly Gilbert, Joel David Santner, Jonathon Church, Christopher Graybill, Joe Brack, Dani Stoller, Scott Graham, Laura C. Harris, Nanette Savard, Elizabeth Jernigan, Tony Nam, Todd Scofield, Michael John Casey, Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey ...

Series series Mystwalker
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7 hours 3 min

In the never-ending saga that is my love-hate relationship with Robson Trowbridge, I, half-Were Hedi Peacock, have had a change of heart. Ever since I shoved Trowbridge through the Gates of Merenwyn, I've been the leader of the pack--hard to believe, right? The thing is: I'm half-Fae. So even though my Were side is ready to heed the call of the wild, the other part of me is desperate to take ... Read more

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In the never-ending saga that is my love-hate relationship with Robson Trowbridge, I, half-Were Hedi Peacock, have had a change of heart. Ever since I shoved Trowbridge through the Gates of Merenwyn, I've been the leader of the pack--hard to believe, right? The thing is: I'm half-Fae. So even though my Were side is ready to heed the call of the wild, the other part of me is desperate to take
... Read more
Dostoevsky

Volume 6, #4

by Seth Myers, William Collen, Mary Lou Cornish, Awara Fernandez, John Givens, Matthew Lilly, Patricia Newberry, Thomas Sims, Katie Windham, Joshua Jo Wah Yen ...

Series Book 4 - Volume 6
DostoevskySober Hope: Finding Faith in the Bleak MidwinterAs winter descends to end the year 2023, it is a time for contemplation: a time to revel in the joys and find balm for the woes of the past year, a time to find the courage to hold on, and the hope to thrive in the new year. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) faced his own bleak (and Russian!) winters, from childhood play amongst the ... Read more

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DostoevskySober Hope: Finding Faith in the Bleak MidwinterAs winter descends to end the year 2023, it is a time for contemplation: a time to revel in the joys and find balm for the woes of the past year, a time to find the courage to hold on, and the hope to thrive in the new year. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) faced his own bleak (and Russian!) winters, from childhood play amongst the
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