An Essay on Man
by Cassirer, Ernst; Gordon, Peter E.;
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0300254075 | 258 pages | True PDF | 5.26 MB
Quantum Anthropology: Man, Cultures, and Groups in a Quantum Perspective By Radek Trnka, Radmila Lorencova
2016 | 193 Pages | ISBN: 8024634708 | PDF | 2 MB
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Glenn Beck, "Being George Washington: The Indispensable Man, as You've Never Seen Him"
English | ISBN: 1451659261 | 2011 | 304 pages | MOBI | 618 KB
#1 New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck puts his unique spin on the life and legacy of Founding Father George Washington.
The Kingdom of Man: Genesis and Failure of the Modern Project (Catholic Ideas for a Secular World) by Rémi Brague
2018 | ISBN: 0268104255 | English | 352 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
Was humanity created, or do humans create themselves? In this eagerly awaited English translation of Le Règne de l'homme, the last volume of Rémi Brague's trilogy on the philosophical development of anthropology in the West, Brague argues that with the dawn of the Enlightenment, Western societies rejected the transcendence of the past and looked instead to the progress fostered by the early modern present and the future. As scientific advances drained the cosmos of literal mystery, humanity increasingly devalued the theophilosophical mystery of being in favor of omniscience over one's own existence. Brague narrates the intellectual disappearance of the natural order, replaced by a universal chaos upon which only humanity can impose order; he cites the vivid histories of the nation-state, economic evolution into capitalism, and technology as the tools of this new dominion, taken up voluntarily by humans for their own end rather than accepted from the deity for a divine purpose.
Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics By Reinhold Niebuhr
2002 | 120 Pages | ISBN: 0664224741 | PDF | 1 MB
Moral Man and Immoral Society is Reinhold Niebuhr's important early study in ethics and politics. Forthright and realistic, it discusses the inevitability of social conflict, the brutal behavior of human collectives of every sort, the inability of rationalists and social scientists to even imagine the realities of collective power, and, ultimately, how individual morality can overcome social immorality.
Man's Worldly Goods: The Story of the Wealth of Nations. by Monthly Review Press
English | January 1, 1936 | ISBN: 0853450706 | 360 pages | AZW3 | 1.26 Mb
Man's Worldly Goods - The Story of The Wealth of Nations By Leo Huberman Originally published in the 1930s, this is 'an attempt to explain history by economic theory, and economic theory by history'. It charts the path from feudalism to capitalism, and then looks beyond capitalism to a perceived socialist future. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
Siobhan McKenna, "Man in Armour"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1460758773 | 272 pages | EPUB | 0.694 MB
How much money is enough? How powerful do you want to be? And what price will it extract from you? An intriguing, powerful and hard-hitting novel set in the world of big money and big deals, written by a leading business insider.
Making The Elephant Man: A Producer's Memoir by Jonathan Sanger
2016 | ISBN: 1476666628 | English | 208 pages | EPUB/PDF (True) | 7 MB/42 MB
The true story of John (Joseph) Merrick-a.k.a. the Elephant Man-has captured the imagination of generations of audiences, critics, actors and filmmakers. In 1978, producer Jonathan Sanger received a screenplay from two unknown writers about a hideously disfigured man who refused to fall victim to despair and instead exemplified human dignity. Reading it (twice), Sanger was determined that Merrick's story would be told. This book is Sanger's unvarnished first-person account of how The Elephant Man (1980) was made. His adventure in filmmaking-itself a study in triumph over despair-involved special effects nightmares, scheduling conflicts, location issues and many risky decisions. Assembling a team that included Mel Brooks (executive producer), David Lynch (director) and actors John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins, Sanger persevered in making this inspiring, award-winning film.
How Pac-Man Eats
by Noah Wardrip-Fruin
English | 2020 | ISBN: 026204465X | 382 Pages | PDF True | 10 MB
The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney By Michael Barrier
2007 | 414 Pages | ISBN: 0520241177 | PDF | 4 MB
After much research on the reviews on this website on which Disney biography to read, I was led to believe this was the best written of the 3 major works on Disney's life. At the end, I did not enjoy this work at all and found myself wishing I had chosen either Thomas' or Gabler's book instead.It is apparent throughout this book Barrier had a substantial amount of material on Disney left over from his earlier work on the history of Hollywood animation and often lets stories about the Disney animators themselves runaway for pages at a time. There were points where I started to question if the appropriate title for this book was "Walt Disney Animators." The initial narrative of this book is choppy at best as Barrier spends the first quarter of this book quoting various sources to establish Disney pre-Snow White, then in the next sentence fast forwarding as much as 40 years to a different quote that refutes what was just previously said. It's like you are watching a documentary of multiple interviews being slices together of two people arguing the same point from different eras. This is very hard to follow and flows nothing like a good biography should, as shown in the excellent work on another cartoon mogul, Charles Shultz, done by David Michaelis.Barrier also side tracks the book with multiple personal critiques of both animated and life action features where he becomes more critic than biographer. A horrendous example was a very shallow effort at summarizing what the movie Mary Poppins meant to the studio. The author is states the movie is essentially a "shallow fantasy" although it succeeded in the launching of Julie Andrews as a major star and won multiple Academy Awards. Barrier has no sense that the movie was kept true to story by the author, P.L Travers, and he is more concerned about the casting of Van Dyke than acknowledging the strong musical score. He critiques the lack of strong central story "lurking as a failure" when ignoring this same premise when reviewing positively the feature Alice in Wonderland. At times, Barrier hits his stride when writing about Disney's work as overall mastermind behind the creation of Snow White, DisneyLand and his own personal miniature train hobby. However, these moments are rare and you spend a majority of the time skipping around to various points of view and personal opinions of the author. You also get a very two dimensional history of Disney as the author cannot look at some of the other aspects that made Disney's feature films great, such as there overall musical score. Overall, this is unfortunately one of the worst written biographies I've read and will now have to pick up another one to obtain a better perspective on Disney.