The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico edited by Kevin Trerraciano, Jeanette Peterson
English | September 10, 2019 | ISBN: 1477318402 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 186 MB
In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades of work on an extraordinary encyclopedic project titled General History of the Things of New Spain, known as the Florentine Codex (1575-1577). Now housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and bound in three lavishly illustrated volumes, the codex is a remarkable product of cultural exchange in the early Americas.

The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought By William R. Everdell
1998 | 509 Pages | ISBN: 0226224813 | PDF | 29 MB
A lively and accessible history of Modernism, The First Moderns is filled with portraits of genius, and intellectual breakthroughs, that richly evoke the fin-de-siècle atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St. Louis, and St. Petersburg. William Everdell offers readers an invigorating look at the unfolding of an age."This exceptionally wide-ranging history is chock-a-block with anecdotes, factoids, odd juxtapositions, and useful insights. Most impressive. . . . For anyone interested in learning about late 19th- and early 20th- century imaginative thought, this engagingly written book is a good place to start."-Washington Post Book World"The First Moderns brilliantly maps the beginning of a path at whose end loom as many diasporas as there are men."-Frederic Morton, The Los Angeles Times Book Review"In this truly exciting study of the origins of modernist thought, poet and teacher Everdell roams freely across disciplinary lines. . . . A brilliant book that will prove useful to scholars and generalists for years to come; enthusiastically recommended."-Library Journal, starred review"Everdell has performed a rare service for his readers. Dispelling much of the current nonsense about 'postmodernism,' this book belongs on the very short list of profound works of cultural analysis."-Booklist"Innovative and impressive . . . [Everdell] has written a marvelous, erudite, and readable study."-Mark Bevir, Spectator"A richly eclectic history of the dawn of a new era in painting, music, literature, mathematics, physics, genetics, neuroscience, psychiatry and philosophy."-Margaret Wertheim, New Scientist"[Everdell] has himself recombined the parts of our era's intellectual history in new and startling ways, shedding light for which the reader of The First Moderns will be eternally grateful."-Hugh Kenner, The New York Times Book Review"Everdell shows how the idea of "modernity" arose before the First World War by telling the stories of heroes such as T. S. Eliot, Max Planck, and Georges Serault with such a lively eye for detail, irony, and ambiance that you feel as if you're reliving those miraculous years."-Jon Spayde, Utne Reader

Laurence Fleming, "The Entokil Man: The Life of Harold Maxwell-Lefroy"
English | 2015 | pages: 246 | ISBN: 1903660173 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
Harold Maxwell-Lefroy, the founder of Rentokil, was a maverick and a man of enormous drive and energy. From an early age he was fascinated with the insect world, and his thorough understanding of species' life cycles and habits, in its practical application, was to change the face of agriculture in several parts of the world. He was among the first really to apply the scientific method to dealing with insect pests, and the agriculture of the Caribbean and India still owes him an enormous debt. His book Indian Insect Pests is still in print, an invaluable resource to Indian agriculturalists. In the Caribbean he saved the sugar crop which had been ravaged by pests, and was then sent to India as the official entomologist. Here his energy and drive led to an education programme for Indian farmers that for the first time showed them that the devastating consequences of insect pests were avoidable, along with the destruction of livelihoods that had always been an occupational hazard. He became the first Professor of Entomology at Imperial College and developed patented anti-pest chemical treatments that led him to create Rentokil towards the end of his life - trademark rules barred him from calling it Entokil, as he had wanted to. He went on to save the roof of Westminster Hall from the death-watch-beetle infestation that would certainly have led to its collapse. But he was also an inveterate risk-taker, who drove without regard for his own safety, and applied the same principles to his scientific practice. He died at the young age of 48, overcome by the poisonous gases he was developing - without the proper breathing equipment. Rentokil is his most tangible legacy, but it all began with one man's single-minded dedication to the application of science.

Philip G. Schrag, "The End of Asylum"
English | ISBN: 1647121078 | 2021 | 224 pages | EPUB | 1394 KB
The Trump administration's war on asylum and what Congress and the Biden administration can do about it

The Encyclopedia of Physics by Robert M. Besançon
English | PDF | 1990 | 1393 Pages | ISBN : 0442005229 | 242.44 MB
Welcome to physics, the science of relativity and gravitation, matter and energy, quarks and quanta, lasers and masers, and many other intriguing scientific areas.

The Emotional Life of the Great Depression by John Marsh
English | December 31, 2019 | ISBN: 0198847734 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 2 MB
The Emotional Life of the Great Depression documents how Americans responded emotionally to the crisis of the Great Depression. Unlike most books about the 1930s, which focus almost exclusively on the despair of the American people during the decade, this volume explores the 1930s through other, equally essential emotions: righteousness, panic, fear, awe, love, and hope.

Manon Hedenborg White, "The Eloquent Blood: The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism"
English | 2019 | pages: 375 | ISBN: 0190065028 | PDF | 3,9 mb
In the conventional dichotomy of chaste, pure Madonna and libidinous whore, the former has usually been viewed as the ideal form of femininity. However, there is a modern religious movement in which the negative stereotype of the harlot is inverted and exalted. The Eloquent Blood focuses on the changing construction of femininity and feminine sexuality in interpretations of the goddess Babalon. A central deity in Thelema, the religion founded by the notorious British occultist Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), Babalon is based on Crowley's favorable reinterpretation of the biblical Whore of Babylon, and is associated with liberated female sexuality and the spiritual ideal of passionate union with existence.

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553 By Tamara Atkin
2013 | 210 Pages | ISBN: 250354651X | PDF | 2 MB
'The Drama of Reform' establishes the impact of late medieval and early modern religious reform on dramaturgy. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it examines the interactions between theatricality and theology across a range of different plays including the Croxton 'Play of the Sacrament', 'Jacke Jugeler', John Bale's 'Three Laws', and Lewis Wager's 'Life and Repentaunce of Mary Magdalene'. Tracing the development of arguments concerning the interpretation of the sacraments, the relationship between priests and players, and the use and abuse of imagery and drama in religious worship, 'The Drama of Reform' draws on a rich variety of contextual materials including liturgical texts, heresy trial accounts, dramatic treatises, polemical tracts, and religious laws. Focussed on the period between Archbishop Arundel's Constitutions in the fifteenth century and Archbishop Cranmer's second Book of Common Prayer in the sixteenth, 'The Drama of Reform' explores the phenomenological similarities between drama and certain religious rites, notably the eucharist, and proposes that religious reform prompted attempts to reform dramaturgy. In presenting this analysis, the author argues that while drama continued to function as dramatic propaganda, efforts to initiate new modes of playing were only partially successful.

James A. Morone, "The Devils We Know: Us and Them in America's Raucous Political Culture"
English | ISBN: 0700620109 | 2014 | 272 pages | EPUB | 1062 KB
Is there an American culture? Certainly, says James Morone. Americans are fighting over it now. They have been fighting over it since the first Puritan stepped ashore. Americans hate government (no national health insurance!) and call for more of it (lock 'em up!). They prize democracy (power to the people) and scramble to restrict it (the electoral college in the 21st century?). They celebrate opportunity-but only for some (don't let those

Jirí Pribán, "The Defence of Constitutionalism: Or the Czech Question in Post-National Europe "
English | ISBN: 8024634236 | 2018 | 280 pages | EPUB | 962 KB
More than a century after the publication of Czech politician Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk's study The Czech Question, Czech politics-instead of the nation's historical struggle for survival and independence-has become a pragmatic question of democratic constitutionalism and civility. Originally published in major Czech newspapers, these essays on contemporary European politics demonstrate that this new understanding involves both technical questions of power making and critical questions of its meaning. Democracy, Přibáň shows, is the process of permanent self-correction. It possesses both the capacity to respond to unexpected problems and crises and intrinsic tensions between principled arguments and everyday administrative processes. Defending constitutionalism, therefore, draws on principles of civil rights and freedoms, limited government, and representative democracy, the validity and persuasive force of which are at stake not only in the Czech Republic, but also in the post-national European Union and our global society at large.