Emma Kennedy, "The Things We Left Unsaid: An Unforgettable Story of Love and Family"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1787463281, 1529124050 | EPUB | pages: 416 | 0.4 mb
After her wedding in cancelled hours before she is due to walk down the aisle, Rachel is newly single and must move back in with her mother, Eleanor.
Andrea Flores, "The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America (Volume 53) "
English | ISBN: 0520376846 | 2021 | 312 pages | PDF | 9 MB
A powerful and challenging look at what "success" and belonging mean in America through the eyes of Latino high schoolers.
Peter Gelderloos, "The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution from Below"
English | ISBN: 0745345123 | 2022 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally incapable of solving the crisis. But there is hope.
The Security Culture Playbook: An Executive Guide To Reducing Risk and Developing Your Human Defense Layer by Perry Carpenter, Kai Roer
English | April 19th, 2022 | ISBN: 1119875234 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 3.86 MB
Mitigate human risk and bake security into your organization's culture from top to bottom with insights from leading experts in security awareness, behavior, and culture.
Alison Finlay, Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir, "The Saga of the Jmsvikings: A Translation with Full Introduction"
English | 2018 | pages: 186 | ISBN: 1580443117 | PDF | 2,1 mb
Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jmsvikings tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress off the Baltic coast, and launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler of Norway in the late tenth century. This translation presents the longest and earliest text of the saga, never before published in English, with a full literary and historical introduction to this remarkable work.
Oddr Snorrason, Theodore M. Andersson, "The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason"
English | 2003 | pages: 196 | ISBN: 0801441498 | PDF | 10,2 mb
Oddr Snorrason, a Benedictine monk in northern Iceland in the late twelfth century, composed a landmark Latin biography of the legendary Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason (died 1000 C.E.). This biography was soon translated into Icelandic, and the translation (though not the Latin original) is preserved in two somewhat differing versions and a small fragment of a third. The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason is the first English translation of this text, augmented by an introduction and notes to guide the reader.
Sue Kenny, Brian McGrath, Rhonda Phillips, "The Routledge Handbook of Community Development: Perspectives from Around the Globe"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138940763 | PDF | pages: 511 | 4.8 mb
The Routledge Handbook of Community Development explores community development theory and practice across the world. The book provides perspectives about community development as an interactive, relevant and sometimes contradictory way to address issues impacting the human condition. It promotes better understanding of the complexities and challenges in identifying, designing, implementing and evaluating community development constructs, applications and interventions. This edited volume discusses how community development is conceptualized as an approach, method or profession. Themes provide the scope of the book, with projects, issues or perspectives presented in each of these areas.
The Reality of Brain Injury (After Brain Injury: Survivor Stories) by Andrew Tillyard
English | ISBN: 1032155027, 1032155035 | 140 pages | EPUB | March 11, 2022 | 2.10 Mb
A respected medical professional, family man, and keen athlete, Andrew Tillyard had a full and active life until a vehicle crash changed it all. He sustained a serious head injury and was airlifted to the hospital where he worked, having only just survived. In this book, he recounts the raw, uncompromising struggles he faced to rebuild his life.
The Qur'an and Its Biblical Subtext By Gabriel Said Reynolds
2010 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 041577893X | PDF | 4 MB
This book challenges the dominant scholarly notion that the Qur'ān must be interpreted through the medieval commentaries shaped by the biography of the prophet Muhammad, arguing instead that the text is best read in light of Christian and Jewish scripture. The Qur'ān, in its use of allusions, depends on the Biblical knowledge of its audience. However, medieval Muslim commentators, working in a context of religious rivalry, developed stories that separate Qur'ān and Bible, which this book brings back together. In a series of studies involving the devil, Adam, Abraham, Jonah, Mary, and Muhammad among others, Reynolds shows how modern translators of the Qur'ān have followed medieval Muslim commentary and demonstrates how an appreciation of the Qur'ān's Biblical subtext uncovers the richness of the Qur'ān's discourse. Presenting unique interpretations of 13 different sections of the Qur'ān based on studies of earlier Jewish and Christian literature, the author substantially re-evaluates Muslim exegetical literature. Thus The Qur'ān and Its Biblical Subtext, a work based on a profound regard for the Qur'ān's literary structure and rhetorical strategy, poses a substantial challenge to the standard scholarship of Qur'ānic Studies. With an approach that bridges early Christian history and Islamic origins, the book will appeal not only to students of the Qur'an but of the Bible, religious studies and Islamic history.
Richard Kraut, "The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised"
English | ISBN: 0198828845 | 2018 | 272 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised presents a philosophical theory about the constituents of human well-being. The principal idea is that what Aristotle calls 'external goods' - wealth, reputation, power - have at most an indirect bearing on the quality of our lives. Starting with