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Free Download Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays (The Princeton-China Series, 8) by Xinian Fu, Nancy Steinhardt, Alexandra Harrer
English | May 30, 2017 | ISBN: 9780691159997 | 448 pages | MOBI | 37 Mb
A groundbreaking book by one of the world’s leading historians of Chinese architecture

Free Download Robert M. Sapolsky, "The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays On the Biology of the Human Predicament"
English | 1997 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 068483409X, 0684838915 | EPUB | 7,6 mb
In the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould and Oliver Sacks, Robert Sapolsky offers a sparkling and erudite collection of essays about science, the world, and our relation to both. "The Trouble with Testosterone" explores the influence of that notorious hormone on male aggression. "Curious George’s Pharmacy" reexamines recent exciting claims that wild primates know how to medicate themselves with forest plants. "Junk Food Monkeys" relates the adventures of a troop of baboons who stumble upon a tourist garbage dump. And "Circling the Blanket for God" examines the neurobiological roots underlying religious belief.

Free Download Will Stockton, "The 33 1/3 B-sides: New Essays by 33 1/3 Authors on Beloved and Underrated Albums"
English | ISBN: 1501342452 | 2019 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
If given another chance to write for the series, which albums would 33 1/3 authors focus on the second time around? This anthology features compact essays from past 33 1/3 authors on albums that consume them, but about which they did not write. It explores often overlooked and underrated albums that may not have inspired their 33 1/3 books, but have played a large part in their own musical cultivation.

Free Download W. S. Penn, "Raising Bean: Essays on Laughing and Living "
English | ISBN: 0814349307 | 2022 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 662 KB + 6 MB
Offered in the oral traditions of the Nez Perce, Native American writer W. S. Penn records the conversations he held with his granddaughter, lovingly referred to as "Bean," as he guided her toward adulthood while confronting society’s interest in possessions, fairness, and status. Drawing on his own family history and Native mythology, Penn charts a way through life where each endeavor is a journey―an opportunity to love, to learn, or to interact―rather than the means to a prize at the end.

Free Download John Mowitt, "Radio: Essays in Bad Reception"
English | 2011 | pages: 244 | ISBN: 0520270509, 0520270495 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
In a wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and transhistorical assessment, John Mowitt examines radio’s central place in the history of twentieth-century critical theory. A communication apparatus that was a founding technology of twentieth-century mass culture, radio drew the attention of theoretical and philosophical writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, and Frantz Fanon, who used it as a means to disseminate their ideas. For others, such as Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, and Raymond Williams, radio served as an object of urgent reflection. Mowitt considers how the radio came to matter, especially politically, to phenomenology, existentialism, Hegelian Marxism, anticolonialism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. The first systematic examination of the relationship between philosophy and radio, this provocative work also offers a fresh perspective on the role this technology plays today.

Free Download Michael E. Bratman, "Planning, Time, and Self-Governance: Essays in Practical Rationality"
English | 2018 | pages: 289 | ISBN: 019086785X, 0190867868 | PDF | 119,0 mb
Our human capacity for planning agency plays central roles in the cross-temporal organization of our agency, in our acting and thinking together (both at a time and over time), and in our self-governance (both at a time and over time). Intentions can be understood as states in such a planning system. The practical thinking at the bottom of this planning capacity is guided by norms that enjoin synchronic plan consistency and means-end coherence as well as forms of plan stability over time. The essays in this book aim to deepen our understanding of these norms and to defend their status as norms of practical rationality for planning agents.

Free Download Shaul Magid, "Piety and Rebellion: Essays in Hasidism "
English | ISBN: 1618117513 | 2019 | 580 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Piety and Rebellion examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between Hasidic fidelity to tradition and its rebellious attempt to push the devotional life beyond the borders of conventional religious practice. Many of the essays exhibit a comparative perspective deployed to better articulate the innovative spirit, and traditional challenges, Hasidism presents to the traditional Jewish world. Piety and Rebellion is an attempt to present Hasidism as one case whereby maximalist religion can yield a rebellious challenge to conventional conceptions of religious thought and practice.

Free Download Paul and Mark : comparative essays. Part I, Two authors at the beginnings of Christianity By Evangelist Markus; Apostel Heiliger. Paulus; Wischmeyer, Oda
2014 | 708 Pages | ISBN: 3110272792 | PDF | 9 MB
This volume contains a comprehensive evaluation of the hypothesis that the Gospel of Mark has been influenced by the theology of the apostle Paul. It discusses the history of this view from the nineteenth century to the modern day, analyses possible historical connections between the apostle and the evangelist, and compares and contrasts many major theological themes in both the epistles and the Gospel. This important collection of essays will be of major significance in the growing debate over Pauline influence on the Gospel of Mark

Free Download Lee Brandon, "Paragraphs and Essays: With Integrated Readings Ed 13"
English | ISBN: 1305654188 | 2016 | 608 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Did you know that reading and writing skills are connected? They are, and you’ll learn the hows and whys in this book. PARAGRAPHS AND ESSAYS WITH INTEGRATED READINGS offers "tell-show" instruction, many examples of good professional and student writing to serve as models for your own work, and interesting and relevant reading-based topics and prompts related to multiple course areas and careers. The reading-based writing presented in this book provides clear guidance experience in critical thinking that enables you to write competently across the disciplines and transition smoothly to the next level of the English program. The technology package includes MindTap, an interactive, online learning experience – built on the texts content – that guides you through the course.

Free Download Robert M. Sapolsky, "Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals"
English | 2005 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0743260163, 0743260155 | EPUB | 0,2 mb
How do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one’s behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine’s list of America’s "50 Most Beautiful People" teach us about nature and nurture? What makes one organism sexy to another? What makes one orgasm different from another? Who will be the winner in the genetic war between the sexes?