Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader By Brian Brock, John Swinton
2012 | 576 Pages | ISBN: 0802866026 | EPUB | 4 MB
For two millennia Christians have thought about what human impairment is and how faith communities and society should respond to people with perceived impairments. However, never before has one volume collected the most significant Christian thinkers' writings on disability. Brian Brock and John Swinton have answered this need with Disability in the Christian Tradition. This book brings together for the first time the views of renowned Christian leaders throughout history - including Augustine, Aquinas, Julian of Norwich, Luther, Calvin, Hegel, Kierkegaard, van den Bergh, Bonhoeffer, Barth, Vanier, and Hauerwas. Fourteen experts in theology and disability studies guide readers through each era or group of thinkers, offering clear commentary and highlighting important themes.

Kirsti Bohata, "Disability in industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry, 1880-1948 "
English | ISBN: 1526124319 | 2020 | 288 pages | EPUB | 1226 KB
An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust.

, "Disability and the Victorians: Attitudes, interventions, legacies "
English | ISBN: 1526145715 | 2020 | 216 pages | EPUB | 813 KB
Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that present a unique overview of the development and impact of attitudes and interventions towards those with impairments during this time. The collection also considers how the legacies of these actions can be seen to have continued throughout the twentieth century right up to the present day. Subjects addressed include deafness, blindness, language delay, substance dependency, imperialism and the representation of disabled characters in popular fiction. These varied topics illustrate how common themes can be found in how Victorian philanthropists and administrators responded to those under their care. Often character, morality and the chance to be restored to productivity and usefulness overrode medical need and this both influenced and reflected wider societal views of impairment and inability.

Tracey A. Sowerby, "Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court, c.1500-1630 "
English | ISBN: 0367429322 | 2021 | 286 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In the sixteenth century, the Ottoman court in Constantinople emerged as the axial centre of early modern diplomacy in Eurasia. Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court, c.1500-1630 takes a unique approach to diplomatic relations by focusing on how diplomacy was conducted and diplomatic cultures forged at a single court: the Sublime Porte. It unites studies from the perspectives of European and non-European diplomats with analyses from the perspective of Ottoman officials involved in diplomatic practices. It focuses on a formative period for diplomatic procedure and Ottoman imperial culture by examining the introduction of resident embassies on the one hand, and on the other, changes in Ottoman policy and protocol that resulted from the territorial expansion and cultural transformations of the empire in the sixteenth century. The chapters in this volume approach the practices and processes of diplomacy at the Ottoman court with special attention to ceremonial protocol, diplomatic sociability, gift-giving, cultural exchange, information gathering, and the role of para-diplomatic actors.

Maria Vaiou, "Diplomacy in the Early Islamic World: A Tenth-Century Treatise on Arab-Byzantine Relations "
English | ISBN: 1788313526 | 2019 | 376 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Arab messengers played a vital role in the medieval Islamic world and its diplomatic relations with foreign powers. An innovative treatise from the 10th Century ("Rusul al-Muluk", "Messengers of Kings") is perhaps the most important account of the diplomacy of the period, and it is here translated into English for the first time. "Rusul al-Muluk" draws on examples from the Qur'an and other sources which extend from the period of al-jahiliyya to the time of the 'Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim (218-227/833-842). In the only medieval Arabic work which exists on the conduct of messengers and their qualifications, the author Ibn al-Farr rejects jihadist policies in favor of quiet diplomacy and a pragmatic outlook of constructive realpolitik. "Rusul al-Muluk" is an extraordinarily important and original contribution to our understanding of the early Islamic world and the field of International Relations and Diplomatic History.

Everald Compton, "Dinner with the Founding Fathers"
English | ISBN: 1528918428 | 2020 | 206 pages | EPUB | 385 KB
Few Australians have any awareness of how their nation was established on 1 January 1901 when six self-governing British colonies joined together as one nation. It was achieved after a dozen years of superb negotiations in which Federation conventions drafted and agreed on a splendid constitution which was approved by six colonial parliaments, six referendums in which ordinary Australians had their say, negotiations in London to have the British parliament gave its approval and finally gain the agreement of a difficult Queen Victoria who wanted the six colonies to become counties of England. Above all, it was achieved without violence, unlike their counterparts in USA. Everald Compton has now written a vivid account of it all as he creates a dinner held ten years after Federation in which the founding fathers relive the great political and legal battles they fought and the huge parochial attitudes they overcame to create a nation. It is one of those books which makes you stay awake to turn the next page. More importantly, it will get you thinking about the changes that are needed to the Constitution 120 years after Federation to make it relevant to a hugely different and rapidly changing world.

Dinner Delights: 53 Delicious Recipes for the Whole Family by Nancy Silverman
English | May 13, 2019 | ISBN: 109853574X | 118 pages | EPUB | 5.55 Mb
Out of dinner ideas? Need some culinary inspiration? Then the Dinner Delights cookbook is for you! This dinner cookbook offers you 53 delicious recipes for every palate, budget, schedule, and occasion. With basic techniques and ingredients and easy-to-follow recipes, this cookbook will have you making delicious, unforgettable meals in no time! Step up your dinner game with mouth-watering recipes such as:

Digital Hesitation: Why B2B Companies Aren't Reaching their Full Digital Transformation Potential by Thomas Lah, J.B. Wood
English | May 16th, 2022 | ISBN: 0986046264, 0986046280 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 8.35 MB
This digital transformation playbook provides details and guidance on the tactics required to build a profitable X-as-a-Service business model, including:

Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel by William G. Dever
English | June 1, 2005 | ISBN: 0802828523, 0802863949 | True EPUB | 344 pages | 6.7 MB
In this masterful commentary, respected biblical scholar Bruce Waltke carefully interprets the message of the prophet Micah, building a bridge between Micah's ancient world and our life today.

Rebecca Ayako Bennette, "Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One"
English | ISBN: 1501751204 | 2020 | 240 pages | EPUB | 1422 KB
Although physicians during World War I, and scholars since, have addressed the idea of disorders such as shell shock as inchoate flights into sickness by men unwilling to cope with war's privations, they have given little attention to the agency many soldiers actually possessed to express dissent in a system that medicalized it. In Germany, these men were called Kriegszitterer, or "war tremblers," for their telltale symptom of uncontrollable shaking. Based on archival research that constitutes the largest study of psychiatric patient files from 1914 to 1918,