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  Cornerstone For Learning -...

  Elle Sebeth

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  The ability to read and write is truly one of our greatest gifts and should be bestowed on all.
  
  For all those struggling to develop the skills to read and write through conventional, mainstream routes, this book provides the starting point in your journey to acquire literacy.
  
  It is a book for all ages. Your journey will be personal and will be travelled at a pace that suits you.
  
  Once confident in your ability to read and write, a whole new world will open up for you to explore independently.

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  Why I Did Not Die

  Roxana

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  Why i did not die  a book on a life of resilience; a life of hardiness; a life of pliability lessons taught through real-life near-death incidents. fate    life & death.    a simple cycle. fate    are birth & death not prescribed?    is death not a side effect of living? fate    are we given more than one chance, for our last day to be our last?    how does one contest fate? fate    after life, death has to inevitably follow.    it is simply written. is this fate?

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  Pedagogy(ies) in English...

  Diego Ubaque Casallas

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  El libro nace de una indagación prolongada sobre la pedagogía en la formación de docentes de inglés. En conversación crítica con estudios anteriores, la examina como un constructo atravesado por la colonialidad y propone reimaginarla desde un horizonte plural y decolonial. Frente a visiones instrumentalistas que perpetúan jerarquías epistémicas, desborda la noción singular de pedagogía y la abre a pedagogías relacionales y encarnadas, capaces de resistir la racionalidad neoliberal. A partir de distintos estudios, analiza cómo la pedagogía opera como significante cautivo, fijado por rigideces semánticas y repeticiones institucionales, evidentes en las políticas bilingües colombianas. Mediante tres hilos —pedagogía colonial, pedagogías críticas y pedagogías apócrifas— cartografía tensiones entre órdenes dominantes y expresiones desplazadas. Al concebirla como biopraxis, práctica vivida y disruptiva, la obra convoca una reflexividad encarnada que abra futuros pluriversales. Desde mi lugar como formador colombiano, este libro es crítica y provocación para pensar, hacer y sentir de otro modo.

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  The Wisdom of the Ancients -...

  H.A. Drake

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  This book is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in place by people living in the ancient Mediterranean world. It covers approximately 2,000 years in time (from ca. 1000 BCE to 1000 CE) and spatially moves from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia (roughly, modern Iraq), through Greece and Rome, to the new Germanic states growing in what is now western Europe. 
   
   
   
  The four ideas, as author H. A. Drake proposes, are monotheism, the idea that there is only one god, not many; individual rights, the idea that there is a limit to what the state can order us to do; naturalized citizenship, the idea that the full rights and privileges of citizenship can be extended to people who have no birthright to them; and creation of a standard by which to judge the performance of states. It is easy, now, to take these ideas for granted. By discussing these ideas in their historical context with clarity and wit, The Wisdom of the Ancients reminds listeners how preposterous they were originally and how different our world would be if they had not taken hold.

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  Charles Wheeler - Witness to the...

  Shirin Wheeler

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  A look at the major events of the twentieth century through the eyes of the man who witnessed it all: celebrated BBC foreign correspondent Charles Wheeler. This audiobook is narrated by his daughter, Shirin Wheeler, and features original audio from Charles' broadcasting days. Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain's greatest news reporters. For more than four decades, he reported for radio and television from most of the world's trouble spots. Present at many of the key episodes of the twentieth century, he had - as a BBC manager noted after the shooting of George Wallace, Presidential candidate and Governor of Alabama, on 15 May 1972, 'a knack of being in the right place at the right time'.  It was typical of Charles that he ran towards the sound of the gunshot while the crowd was running in the opposite direction.Wheeler's investigative skill and sense of judgement made him one of the most authoritative reporters of his generation. But what was it like to have been witness to the events that shaped our modern world? In this book - part memoir, part history, part reflection - his daughter, Shirin Wheeler, examines her father's journalistic legacy and brings her personal knowledge to bear on the project. She will tell the story of her father: a patient listener and forensic interrogator who was driven by curiosity and passion to report and expose injustice, and above all to give a voice to people ignored or unheard by many.

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  Postmortem - What Survives the...

  Courtney Lund O'Neil

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  On a December night in 1978, Courtney Lund O'Neil's mother, teenaged Kim Byers, saw her friend Rob Piest alive for the last time. At the end of his shift at the pharmacy where they both worked, fifteen-year-old Rob went outside to speak to a contractor named John Wayne Gacy about a possible job. That night Rob became Gacy's final victim; his body was later found in the Des Plaines River. Kim's testimony, along with a receipt belonging to her found in Gacy's house, proving that Rob had been there, would be pivotal in convicting the serial killer who assaulted and killed over thirty young men and boys. 
   
   
   
  Though she grew up far from Des Plaines, Courtney has lived in the shadow of that nightmare, keenly aware of its impact on her mother. In search of deeper understanding and closure, Courtney and Kim travel back to Illinois. Postmortem transforms their personal journey into a powerful exploration of the ever-widening ripples generated by Gacy's crimes. From the 1970s to the present day, his shadow extends beyond the victims' families and friends—it encompasses the Des Plaines neighborhood forever marked by his horrific murders, generations of the victims' families and friends, those who helped arrest and convict him, and many others. Postmortem is a complex story of loss and violence, grief and guilt, and the legacy that remains long after a killer is caught.

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