Running Effective Meetings For Dummies by Joseph A. Allen, Karin M. Reed
English | September 27th, 2022 | ISBN: 1119875706 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 0.75 MB
Turn meetings into the best part of your day with this actionable, step-by-step guide
Geoffrey Hosking, "Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union"
English | 2006 | pages: 496 | ISBN: 0674021789, 0674030532 | PDF | 11,5 mb
Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union "Russia." Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end, in fact, Russia actually destroyed the Soviet Union. How did this happen, and what kind of Russia emerged?
Stephen Bates, "Royalty Inc: Britain's Best-Known Brand"
English | ISBN: 1781313563 | 2015 | 368 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
It is an amazing feat in the 21st century that Queen Elizabeth II, a small woman in her late-eighties, should be one of the most recognisable people on the planet.
Round Europe in These Recipes: Quick and Easy European Dishes That You Must Try by Ava Archer
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09BBH54NX | 74 pages | EPUB | 3.49 Mb
Europe is a very large continent with various countries in it, and going around Europe might take years to achieve. However, do you know you can have a taste of all the amazing cuisines in Europe? From Italian meals to French cuisines and Scandinavian meals.
Rome in the Late Republic, 2nd Edition by Mary Beard, Michael Crawford
English | January 27, 2000 | ISBN: 071562928X | Scan PDF | 130 pages | 2.5 MB
This well-established textbook outlines the key factors that every student must assess for a proper understanding of the period of the Late Roman Republic - from the attitudes of the aristocracy and the role of state religion to the function of political institutions.
Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (Cambridge Classical Studies) edited by Ingo Gildenhard, Cristiano Viglietti
English | August 13, 2020 | ISBN: 1108840167 | True PDF | 428 pages | 4.7 MB
Roman Frugality offers the first-ever systematic analysis of the variants of individual and collective self-restraint that shaped ancient Rome throughout its history and had significant repercussions in post-classical times. In particular, it tries to do the complexity of a phenomenon justice that is situated at the interface of ethics and economics, self and society, the real and the imaginary, and touches upon thrift and sobriety in the material sphere, but also modes of moderation more generally, not least in the spheres of food and drink, sex and power.
River-Sand Mining : An Ethnography of Resource Conflict in China
by Qian Zhu
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9004505903 | 306 Pages | True PDF | 29 MB
Richard H. Davis, "Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshipping Siva in Medieval India"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0691603081, 0691632499 | PDF | pages: 217 | 13.4 mb
Saiva liturgy is performed in a world that oscillates: a world permeated by the presence of Siva, where humans live in a condition of bondage and where the highest aim of the soul is to attain liberation from its fetters. In this account of Indian temple ritual, Richard Davis uses medieval Hindu texts to describe the world as it is envisioned by Saiva siddhanta and the way daily worship reflects and acts within that world. He argues that this worship is not simply a set of ritualized gestures, but rather a daily catechism in which the worshiper puts into action all the major themes of Saiva philosophy: the cyclic pattern of cosmic emission and reabsorption, the human path of attaining liberation, the manifestation of divinity in the world, and the proper interrelationship of humanity and god. In re-creating the convictions and intentions of a well-versed worshiper of the twelfth century, Davis moves back and forth between philosophical and ritual texts, demonstrating the fundamental Saiva belief that the capacities of humans to know about the world and to act within it are two inter-related modalities of the unitary power of consciousness.
Retribution (Crime and Punishment: Critical Essays in Legal Philosophy) By Thom Brooks (editor)
2014 | 452 Pages | ISBN: 1409451208 | PDF | 49 MB
Retribution is perhaps the most popular contemporary theory about punishment and has enjoyed enduring appeal as the oldest, even most venerable, penal theory with its strong ancient roots. Retribution is understood in many different ways, but the standard view of retribution is that punishment is justified where it is deserved and an offender should be punished in proportion to his desert. In this volume, retributivism is examined from various critical perspectives, including its diversity, relation with desert, the link between desert and proportionality, retributivist emotions and the idea of mercy. The theory of retribution has been the subject of a revival of interest in recent years and the essays selected for this volume are the leading works on retribution from the dominant international figures in the field.
Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece by Sarah Iles Johnston
English | August 2, 2013 | ISBN: 0520217071, 0520280180 | True PDF | 352 pages | 18.7 MB
During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions-most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. In Restless Dead, Sarah Iles Johnston presents and interprets these changes, using them to build a complex picture of the way in which the society of the dead reflected that of the living, expressing and defusing its tensions, reiterating its values and eventually becoming a source of significant power for those who knew how to control it. She draws on both well-known sources, such as Athenian tragedies, and newer texts, such as the Derveni Papyrus and a recently published lex sacra from Selinous.