The Famous Lost Cities of Antiquity: The History of Large Settlements in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and the Middle East that Suddenly Disappeared by Charles River Editors
English | November 24, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BNCM9YB7 | 195 pages | EPUB | 4.21 Mb
One of the primary reasons why modern scholars know so much about Egyptian history is due to many monuments found up and down the Nile. Although some of the tombs built on the west bank of the Nile River have suffered a fair amount of wind damage and all of the great monuments have endured the ravages of time, they are amazingly well-preserved, thanks both to Egypt's arid climate and good workmanship. The Egyptian monument builders were truly a class above their contemporaries in terms of their trade, which was helped by the fact that they worked with the more permanent materials of sandstone and limestone, unlike Mesopotamian builders who were forced to primarily work with mud and brick.
The Faces of the Other: Religious Rivalry and Ethnic Encounters in the Later Roman World By Maijastina Kahlos (ed.)
2011 | 334 Pages | ISBN: 2503539998 | PDF | 2 MB
The foundations of European civilization as we know it today were laid in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. 'The Faces of the Other: Religious Rivalry and Ethnic Encounters in the Later Roman World' traces the roots of the attitudes and argumentation about religious or ethnic otherness in modern western culture. It aims at deepening the historical understanding of attitudes towards otherness as well as cultural and religious conflicts in world history. 'The Faces of the Other' discusses the conceptions, depictions, and attitudes towards the other in Graeco-Roman antiquity. The book focuses on the perception of otherness, whether other peoples or religions, in the Later Roman Empire as understood broadly, from the first until the fifth century CE. These others are ethnic others such as the Persians, Huns, and the Germanic peoples were to Romans, or religious others such as Jews were to Christians or Christians to Jews, Christians to pagans or pagans to Christians, or different cults to the 'mainstream' Romans, or different Christian sects to each other.
Christopher Kaczor, "The Ethics of Abortion: Women's Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 1032304618 | 2022 | 318 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The overturning of Roe v Wade makes the ethical consideration of abortion more important than ever. Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against the choice of abortion yet published. This third edition of The Ethics of Abortion critically evaluates all the major grounds for denying basic rights to fetal human beings, including the views of those who defend not only abortion but also post-birth abortion. It also provides several (non-theological) justifications for the conclusion that all human beings, including those in utero, should be respected as persons. This book also critiques the view that abortion is not wrong even if the human fetus is a person.
The Essential Diet for Fatty Liver: Nutrition Guide and Recipes to Heal Your Body by Andy De Santis RD MPH
English | May 24, 2022 | ISBN: 1638780447 | 130 pages | EPUB | 3.62 Mb
Start your journey to better liver health
José Medina, "The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations"
English | 2012 | pages: 347 | ISBN: 0199929041, 0199929025 | PDF | 3,8 mb
This book explores the epistemic side of oppression, focusing on racial and sexual oppression and their interconnections. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from interacting epistemically in fruitful ways-from listening to each other, learning from each other, and mutually enriching each other's perspectives. Medina's epistemology of resistance offers a contextualist theory of our complicity with epistemic injustices and a social connection model of shared responsibility for improving epistemic conditions of participation in social practices. Through the articulation of a new interactionism and polyphonic contextualism, the book develops a sustained argument about the role of the imagination in mediating social perceptions and interactions. It concludes that only through the cultivation of practices of resistance can we develop a social imagination that can help us become sensitive to the suffering of excluded and
The Enduring Value of Roger Murray
by Paul Johnson
English | 2023 | ISBN: 023119210X | 259 pages | True EPUB | 6.08 MB
Adam Geczy, "The End of Fashion: Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization"
English | ISBN: 1350045047 | 2018 | 256 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression, rather than as a signifier of status or profession, and designers are increasingly treated as 'artists', as fashion moves towards art and enters the gallery, museum, and retail space. This book is the first to fully explore the causes and implications of this shift, examining the impact of technological innovation, globalization, and the growth of the internet.
Ping Foong, "The Efficacious Landscape: On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court"
English | 2015 | pages: 157 | ISBN: 0674417151 | PDF | 14,6 mb
Ink landscape painting is a distinctive feature of the Northern Song, and painters of this era produced some of the most celebrated artworks in Chinese history. The Efficacious Landscape addresses how landmark works of this pivotal period first came to be identified as potent symbols of imperial authority and later became objects through which exiled scholars expressed disaffection and dissent. In fulfilling these diverse roles, landscape demonstrated its efficacy in communicating through embodiment and in transcending the limitations of the concrete.
Paolo Malanima, "The Economy of Renaissance Italy "
English | ISBN: 0367677741 | 2022 | 192 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Drawing on a wide range of literature and adopting a macroeconomic approach, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the Italian economy during the Renaissance, focusing on the period between 1348, the year of the Black Death, and 1630.
The Ecological Voice in Recent German-Swiss Prose By Andrew Liston
2011 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 3034302185 | PDF | 2 MB
This study focuses on the five most prominent Swiss writers of the last thirty-five years whose work features ecological crisis. It is an analysis of five narratologically divergent styles, ranging from the eco-parables of Franz Hohler to the hermeneutically defiant work of Gertrud Leutenegger. Between these poles, the author also explores works by Walther Kauer, Max Frisch and Beat Sterchi. Previously unpublished material from interviews with three of the authors is included. These writers are not only the most widely read and respected ecologically committed authors in Switzerland but also present a wide range of approaches to ecological problems in terms of both form and content. The study's purpose is not merely to provide a survey of fictional, ecological discourse in Switzerland but to analyse the literary strategies used: how well do the ways the authors tell their tales support their critical thrust? This question is posed within the proposition of the theoretical framework of an 'ecological voice'.