The Meaning of Something: Rethinking the Logic and the Unity of the Ontology
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031096096 | 412 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This innovative volume investigates the meaning of 'something' in different recent philosophical traditions in order to rethink the logic and the unity of ontology, without forgetting to compare these views to earlier significative accounts in the history of philosophy. In fact, the revival of interest in "something" in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as in contemporary philosophy can easily be accounted for: it affords the possibility for asking the question: what is there? without engaging in predefined speculative assumptions The issue about "something" seems to avoid any naive approach to the question about what there is, so that it is treated in two main contemporary philosophical trends: "material ontology", which aims at taking "inventory" of what there is, of everything that is; and "formal ontology", which analyses the structural features of all there is, whatever it is.
The Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism By Mary Eberstadt
2010 | 147 Pages | ISBN: 1586174312 | EPUB | 1 MB
A wickedly witty satire, The Loser Letters chronicles the conversion of a young adult Christian to atheism. With modern humor rivaling that of the media lampooning Onion, found on college campuses all over America, A. F. Christian's open letters to the "spokesmen of the New Atheism" explain her reasons for rejecting God and the logical consequences of that choice. Along the way she offers pithy advice to famous atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, in the hope of helping them win over more Christians. "Of course we score big time with the young guys who aren't responsible for anything, and don't really care about anything besides spending most of their time in the basement playing video games and texting girls," A.F. Christian points out. But what about all those serious, thoughtful people who are Christian believers? If the New Atheism is to make real headway, she argues, its advocates must do more to persuade intelligent theists living meaningful and fulfilling lives. Amid the many current books arguing for or against religion, social critic and writer Mary Eberstadt's The Loser Letters is truly unique: a black comedy about theism and atheism that is simultaneously a rollicking defense of Christianity. Echoing C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters and Dante's Divine Comedy, Eberstadt takes aim at bestsellers like The God Delusion and God Is Not Great with the sexual libertinism their authors advocate. In her loveable and articulate tragic-comic heroine, A.F. Christian, Dawkins, Hitchens and the other "Brights" have met their match.
The Lives of Ancient Villages: Rural Society in Roman Anatolia (Greek Culture in the Roman World)
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1009123211 | 403 Pages | PDF | 37 MB
Our conception of the culture and values of the ancient Greco-Roman world is largely based on texts and material evidence left behind by a small and atypical group of city-dwellers. The people of the deep Mediterranean countryside seldom appear in the historical record from antiquity, and almost never as historical actors. This book is the first extended historical ethnography of an ancient village society, based on an extraordinarily rich body of funerary and propitiatory inscriptions from a remote upland region of Roman Asia Minor. Rural kinship structures and household forms are analysed in detail, as are the region's demography, religious life, gender relations, class structure, normative standards and values. Roman north-east Lydia is perhaps the only non-urban society in the Greco-Roman world whose culture can be described at so fine-grained a level of detail: a world of tight-knit families, egalitarian values, hard agricultural labour, village solidarity, honour, piety and love.
Michelle Obama, "The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times"
English | ISBN: 0593237463 | 2022 | EPUB | 336 pages | 12 MB
In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world.
The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World's Imagination by Jens Andersen
English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 0063258021 | 432 pages | True EPUB | 101.08 MB
"Absolutely essential reading for every LEGO fan." -Blocks
The Kick-A** Book of Cobra Kai: An Official Behind-the-Scenes Companion by Rachel Bertsche
English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 0063217856 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 123.57 MB
Calling all bada**es! The only official guide to the kickin' world of the Emmy-nominated and globally beloved show Cobra Kai is here.
The Justification Reader By Thomas C. Oden
2002 | 163 Pages | ISBN: 0802839665 | PDF | 7 MB
The Justification Reader sets out the classic Christian teaching of "salvation by grace through faith." Distinguished theologian Thomas C. Oden, well known for retrieving the riches of church tradition, here gathers together the early Christian sources on the theme of justification.Ranging broadly through Christian history and across all branches of the church, Oden cites the writings of such major figures as Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzus, and John Chrysostom in the East and Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, and Gregory the Great in the West. Although Oden presents all the relevant historical texts on justification, the book also includes his own insightful explication of the doctrine. His work shows that what these church fathers teach on justification was restated almost verbatim by the sixteenth-century Reformers and can still be confessed in good conscience by Christians from every communion. Thus this volume both provides a compendium of a central belief of the faith and demonstrates its ecumenical potential.The first volume in a new series, this book will be an important sourcebook for readers from every tradition.
Lawrence Rosen, "The Judgment of Culture: Cultural Assumptions in American Law"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138237795 | PDF | pages: 267 | 2.3 mb
Legal systems do not operate in isolation but in complex cultural contexts.
The Joy Of Being An Entrepreneur: How To Achieve & Enjoy It! by Peter Osalor
English | September 27, 2022 | ISBN: 0993402305 | 80 pages | EPUB | 0.99 Mb
The Joy of an entrepreneur depicts the life of an entrepreneur which is a fun-filled life; because you have unlimited work, unlimited market, and unlimited opportunities.
The Jacobite Rebellion: 1745-46
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1472851161 | 145 Pages | PDF True | 26 MB
Dr Gregory Fremont-Barnes presents a detailed overview of the Forty-five Rebellion, dispelling the myths that have grown up around battles like Culloden and the figures of the Highlanders. Led by the charismatic Bonnie Prince Charlie and fought in the main by clansmen loyal to the Stuarts, the revolt initially saw government forces outmanoeuvred and outfought before the Prince's march on London halted at Derby. But the following spring, pursued back into the Highlands by the Duke of Cumberland, the Prince's army made its doomed last stand on the moor of Culloden. Fremont-Barnes examines this key turning point in British history, analysing the dynastic struggle of two royal houses, the Rebellion's manoeuvres and battles and the tragic aftermath for the Highlands.