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Free Download Patrick T. R. Gray, "Claiming the Mantle of Cyril: Cyril of Alexandria and the Road to Chalcedon "
English | ISBN: 9042942576 | 2021 | 306 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Everyone knows the series of events that comprised the Nestorian Controversy, but who knows, leaving aside divine agency, how and why events unfolded as they did? In this book an answer is proposed in terms of normal human behavior. There are occasional noble acts, and banal activities, but also, as here, one finds a tangled web of Descriptions, counter-Descriptions, and downright lies that even sainted bishops might employ to defend what they held dear. Texts left by the participants, when closely examined, provide rich evidence of this. For instance there is the show trial of Eutyches; papal ultimata; fake capitulations; intentional late arrival; a universal council that never happened, etc. What drove events forward most of all was the defensive strategy Antiochene controversialists developed and refined. They could, they realized, use select texts of Cyril’s to co-opt Cyril’s authority. They could, that is, claim the mantle of Cyril.

Free Download Shelley Sang-Hee Lee, "Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America"
English | 2012 | pages: 273 | ISBN: 1439902143, 1439902135 | PDF | 1,7 mb
In Claiming the Oriental Gateway, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee explores the various intersections of urbanization, ethnic identity, and internationalism in the experience of Japanese Americans in early twentieth-century Seattle. She examines the development and self-image of the city by documenting how U.S. expansion, Asian trans-Pacific migration, and internationalism were manifested locally-and how these forces affected residents’ relationships with one another and their surroundings. Lee details the significant role Japanese Americans-both immigrants and U.S. born citizens-played in the social and civic life of the city as a means of becoming American. Seattle embraced the idea of cosmopolitanism and boosted its role as a cultural and commercial Gateway to the Orient at the same time as it limited the ways in which Asian Americans could participate in the public schools, local art production, civic celebrations, and sports. She also looks at how Japan encouraged the notion of the gateway in its participation in the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and International Potlach. Claiming the Oriental Gateway thus offers an illuminating study of the Pacific Era and trans-Pacific relations in the first four decades of the twentieth century.

Free Download John Buchanan, "Challenging the Deprofessionalisation of Teaching and Teachers: Claiming and Acclaiming the Profession"
English | 2020 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 9811585377, 9811585407 | PDF | 2,6 mb
This book explores how best to invest in and nurture teachers. It examines deprofessionalisation and reprofessionalisation in the recent developments in the understanding of teaching and learning, including the effects of standardizing teaching, education shaped by student satisfaction data and basic skills tests.

Free Download Jason Jividen, "Claiming Lincoln: Progressivism, Equality, and the Battle for Lincoln’s Legacy in Presidential Rhetoric"
English | ISBN: 0875804357 | 2011 | 243 pages | EPUB | 276 KB
Abraham Lincoln is clearly one of the most frequently cited figures in American political rhetoric, especially with regard to issues of equality. But given the ubiquity of Lincoln’s legacy, many references to him, even on the presidential level, are often of questionable accuracy. In Claiming Lincoln, Jividen posits that in much twentieth-century presidential rhetoric, especially from progressive leaders, Lincoln’s understanding of equality is slowly divorced from its grounding in the natural rights thinking of the American Founding and reinterpreted in light of progressive history.