Mary Brown, "The Twelve Cakes of Christmas: An evolutionary history, with recipes"
English | ISBN: 1877578193 | 2011 | 192 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Many popular recipes come from lineages that can be traced back for decades, even centuries. Festive cakes have been made in December for at least two thousand years. Using archaeological evidence and ancient books, the authors define the key ingredients of the cakes that would eventually be served on Twelfth Night, at the end of the Christmas season. From 17th century English cookbooks, they identify recipes that would have been made as twelfth cakes, full of expensive ingredients like raisins, almonds, sweet wine and candied peel, but made like fruit-breads, with yeast.
The Tombstone Cookbook
by Sherry Monahan;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1493053868 | 201 pages | True PDF EPUB | 16.48 MB
The Theater of The Mind- A Breakthrough Treatment for Overcoming PTSD, Phobia and Trauma: The Theater of The Mind by Daniel Abella
English | August 6, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09C45V274 | 140 pages | MOBI | 0.50 Mb
The Theater of the Mind is a revolutionary new way to treat PTSD, Phobia, and Trauma,
Nikolas K. Gvosdev, "The Strange Death of Soviet Communism: A Postscript "
English | ISBN: 1412806984 | 2008 | 260 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The collapse of communism marked the close of an era of world history. What took place in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1991, in the eyes of its proponents, constituted a "great experiment" in the application of new modes of organization to social life, the largest such experiment in history. The Strange Death of Soviet Communism, which first appeared as a special issue of The National Interest, brings together leading scholars of Soviet history, who show why the experiment failed and how it has destroyed the laboratory of socialist utopias.
The Soils of Ethiopia
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031170113 | 360 Pages | PDF (True) | 20 MB
This book addresses Ethiopia's extremely rich soil diversity and resources, which have developed under various climatic conditions. Featuring contributions by a group of respected experts on Ethiopian soils and agriculture, it provides comprehensive information on the management approaches needed for sustainable soil utilization and conservation under such conditions and the attendant challenges. It offers a valuable resource for anyone interested in soils and agriculture in Ethiopia, but also in other African countries with similar climatic conditions. The book contains 13 chapters which illustrate the long history of knowledge and soil research; climate; geology and geomorphology; soil forming factors, processes, and classification; major soil types, their properties, fertility status, and management; land evaluation and land use planning; soils and society/industry; and future/emerging soil issues.
The Secret Language of Flowers (DK Gifts) by DK
English | January 10th, 2023 | ISBN: 0744069777 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 48.55 MB
Discover the uses and symbolic meanings of flowers over the centuries and across the globe.
The Saga of the Jómsvikings: A Translation for Students By Alison Finlay, Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir (transl.)
2019 | 124 Pages | ISBN: 1580443133 | PDF | 3 MB
Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the 'Saga of the Jómsvikings' tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress of the Baltic coast and launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler of Norway in the late tenth century. The saga's account of their stringent warrior code, fatalistic adherence to their own reckless vows and declarations of extreme courage as they face execution articulates a remarkable account of what it meant to be a viking. This translation presents the longest and earliest text of the saga, never before published in English, with a full literary and historical introduction to this remarkable work.
The Rumour of Globalisation: Desecrating the Global from Vernacular Margins By Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay
2013 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1849041415 | PDF | 5 MB
Drawing from recent theories of virtuality, performativity, and governmentality, and on post-colonial activist scholarship from the global south, this book presents a series of ethnographic and archival studies of what Mukhopadhyay terms 'vernacular globalisation' in India. The book's six provocative but substantive chapters of the book engage a wide range of events, objects, histories, narratives and episodes with the intent of interrogating what Franz Fanon called the 'zone of occult instability where the people dwell.' these chapters recount tales of quotidian commodity fetishism of rural cargo cults thriving on bazaar rumours about Chinese dumping in communist Calcutta, signpost desi cyberporn showcasing 'fat aunties' and Gandhi, dig deep into Indo-Persian travelogues about england and women's travel narratives to Japan embodying local traditions of cosmopolitanism, interrogate folk scroll paintings about 9/11 in the art historical mode and seek to uncover vernacular civic traditions of urbanism through an analysis of grotty slum photographs. The Rumour of Globlization presents facades of vernacular india negotiating globalising forces through a distinctive style of ethnography (fabulation) which is sensitive to subaltern political aspirations while maintaining a broad commitment to Marxist theory, Subaltern Studies scholarship and post-structuralist theory.
Jean-Luc Fournet, "The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity"
English | 2020 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0691198349, 0691230234 | EPUB | 43,4 mb
Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, Coptic had almost achieved official status, but only after an unusually prolonged period of stagnation. Jean-Luc Fournet traces this complex history, showing how the rise of Coptic took place amid profound cultural, religious, and political changes in late antiquity.
Jan-Olav Henriksen, "The Reconstruction of Religion: Lessing, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche"
English | ISBN: 1498220940 | 2015 | 218 pages | PDF | 26 MB
The Reconstruction of Religion explores the thoughts of three influential philosophers-G. E. Lessing, Søren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietzsche-looking in particular at their influential approaches to the relationship between religion and modernity. In a period of a little more than one hundred years, Lessing, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche each developed a different theory of religion. Rejecting the possibility of maintaining religious faith on the old foundation of church tradition, these thinkers formulated new ways of understanding religion in response to the challenges of modernity. Though the conclusions of each system are different, there remain important elements in common between them, such as the importance of "religious subjectivity" Jan-Olav Henriksen compares and contrasts the thought of Lessing, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, showing that each of these philosophers still has something important to contribute to understanding religion in our own postmodern era. For anyone interested in the position of religious belief in today's world, these reconstructions of religion are of great value. In addition to their place in the history of ideas, these three philosophical approaches anticipate some of the recent issues relating to religion in postmodernity. Henriksen's perceptive work moves beyond the level of historical analysis to insightful rereadings of Lessing, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche that help us better understand the place of religion in our pluralistic society.