In the Image of Saint Dominic: Nine Portraits of Dominican Life By Guy Bedouelle
2014 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 0898704677 | EPUB | 1 MB
A beautiful book of meditations on various Christian virtues or charisms as reflected in the lives of nine holy Dominican men and women. Manifesting the special grace and spirit given to St. Dominic, these outsanding lives are shining examples for modern Christians on how to make the Gospel teaching incarnate in today's world. Saints portrayed include Thomas Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, Martin de Porres, Fra Angelico, Peter of Verona, Catherine de Ricci and others. Charisms highlighted by each life include prayer, joy, poverty, study, friendship, art and more. The lives of the saints occupy a special place in the history and spirituality of the Catholic Church. The men and women in this book form a comprehensive image of one of the most significant movements in the history of Western Christianity: the Dominican order, whose particular charism emphasizes the sanctification of the intellect and importance tht sacred truth holds in the life of the Christian believer.
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology by Lucy Moore
English | 7 July 2022 | ISBN: 1786499150, 1786499177 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 6.2 MB
The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about ourselves.
Impact Assessment for Developing Countries
by Takuya Nakaizumi
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811954933 | 189 pages | True PDF EPUB | 2.99 MB
Imbibing for Introverts
by Cioletti, Jeff;Makansi, Elena;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1510768270 | 311 pages | True EPUB | 40.76 MB
R. Asokan, "Illogically Logical: The Ills of Society and the Best Treatment "
English | ISBN: 1543946267 | 2019 | 164 pages | EPUB | 220 KB
World, our country, its citizens and people in power; divided we stand, unable to solve the social problems that plague us. Politically and socially, we are stuck on a Rodent wheel (guinea pig), going round and round with no end in sight. We and politicians list the problems, blame the other party,compound the problems by kicking it to the next election cycle and then to the future generations. Treating a patient for an illness a doctor, often hurts them first ( like an operation) to fix them.This book is a summary of information gathered by the author over the past 50 years with history looked and evaluated as a neutral third party. Few pages in the beginning of each chapter will explain,who,why and what caused heath care crisis or foreign policy crisis like Iran and Syria. He offers solutions, applying his perspective as a Doctor and a Surgeon with a single objective of common good and survival of future generations. It deals with varied important issues like health care reform,education,foreign policy etc.
If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland by Anna Müller
English | December 5, 2017 | ISBN: 0190499869 | True EPUB | 344 pages | 4.7 MB
The specter of a prison punishment for even slight political offenses became an element of daily life in post-war Poland. In interwar Poland, imprisonment, especially for communists, had served as a rite of passage, endurance training, and a university teaching life skills. The post-war order brought a dramatic shift, as communists all over the region, often veterans of interwar prisons or war-time concentration camps, used incarceration sites as a way to mold the future. The prison system functioned as a tool to subjugate society and silence or destroy enemies- anti-communists as well as committed communists. Arrests, trials, and prison sentences directly and indirectly affected tens of thousands of people and instilled fear and insecurity in many more.
Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars by Azar Gat
English | October 18, 2022 | ISBN: 0197646700 | True EPUB/PDF | 352 pages | 2.1/18 MB
Combining insights from evolutionary psychology with a broad sweep through history, down to the ideological civil war ripping the United States apart, the book explores the deeper roots of people's inability to accept claims about reality which come from the opposite ideological camp, no matter how valid they might be.
Ice Cream Social: The Struggle for the Soul of Ben & Jerry's By Brad Edmondson
2014 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1609948130 | PDF | 4 MB
Ben & Jerry s has always been committed to an insanely ambitious three-part mission: making the world s best ice cream, supporting progressive causes, and sharing the companys success with all stakeholders: employees, suppliers, distributors, customers, cows, everybody. But it hasn t been easy.This is the first book to tell the full, inside story of the inspiring rise, tragic mistakes, devastating fall, determined recovery, and ongoing renewal of one of the most iconic mission-driven companies in the world. No previous book has focused so intently on the challenges presented by staying true to that mission. No other book has explained how the company came to be sold to corporate giant Unilever or how that relationship evolved to allow Ben & Jerry s to pursue its mission on a much larger stage.Journalist Brad Edmondson tells the story with an eye for details, dramatic moments, and memorable characters. He interviewed dozens of key figures, particularly Jeff Furman, who helped Ben and Jerry write their first business plan in 1978 and became chairman of the board in 2010. It s a funny, sad, surprising, and ultimately hopeful story.
Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages: Studies in Honor of Robert I. Burns By Larry J. Simon; Paul Edward Chevedden; Robert Ignatius Burns; Donald Joseph Kagay; Paul G. Padilla
1996 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 9004105735 | PDF | 22 MB
Brill's series The Medieval Mediterranean has established itself as the main forum for studies exploring all aspects of the Mediterranean world during a period of 1000 years. In the medieval period, the Mediterranean experienced a multiplicity of developments in social, political and economic structures, and in populations, religions and cultures. The centuries between the Late Roman world of the fourth and fifth century and the early modern, "Braudelian," Mediterranean of the sixteenth century were characterised by sweeping changes, including the establishment of post-Roman kingdoms in the west, the emergence of Slav societies in the Balkans, the struggle between Christians and Muslims in Spain and the movement of crusaders. Founded in 1993, The Medieval Mediterranean series reflects the complexity of this period with a wide variety of high-quality scholarly works: from broad surveys to diachronic studies of particular areas or cities; investigations of individual themes or issues; conference proceedings, text editions and fully annotated translations. Top specialists in a range of fields have contributed to the series and the volumes which have appeared so far have been warmly welcomed by reviewers. This series is indispensable for readers with interests in the history of later antiquity, the Middle Ages, Byzantium, Islam, the Balkans and the Black Sea area. Publication schedule At present 3 volumes of around 350 pages each are published in the series each year. The vast majority of the books in the series are in the English language, although works of outstanding quality in French or German may also be included. Volumes contain illustrations and maps where appropriate.
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension by Michio Kaku
English | 2018 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B079ZXQ7H4 | 370 pages | PDF | 2.98 Mb
Michio Kaku's classic book describes the development of ideas about multidimensional space. In recent years, some theoretical physicists -the author among them - have argued that the Universe exists not merely in the four spacetime dimensions (3 of space + one of time) with which Einstein made us familiar, but rather as a ten-dimensional hyperspace. Once the domain of the science fiction writer or the occultist, hyperspace may, according to superstring theorists, be the way to unify the