Tag: Fate

July 7, 2023

Night without End The Fate of Jews in German-Occupied Poland (Studies in Antisemitism)

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Free Download Night without End: The Fate of Jews in German-Occupied Poland (Studies in Antisemitism) by Jan Grabowski, Barbara Engelking, Alina Skibińska
English | September 6, 2022 | ISBN: 0253062861 | 659 pages | PDF | 34 Mb
Three million Polish Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, wiping out nearly 98 percent of the Jewish population who had lived and thrived there for generations. Night Without End tells the stories of their resistance, suffering, and death in unflinching, horrific detail. Based on meticulous research from across Poland, it concludes that those who were responsible for so many deaths included a not insignificant number of Polish villagers and townspeople who aided the Germans in locating and slaughtering Jews.

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July 4, 2023

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China

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Free Download Harper Donald, "Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China"
English | 2017 | pages: 546 | ISBN: 9004310193 | PDF | 25,9 mb
Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China is a comprehensive introduction to the manuscripts known as daybooks, examples of which have been found in Warring States, Qin, and Han tombs (453 BCE-220 CE). Their main content concerns hemerology, or "knowledge of good and bad days." Daybooks reveal the place of hemerology in daily life and are invaluable sources for the study of popular culture.

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June 27, 2023

Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity Under Pitiless Skies

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Free Download Nicola Denzey Lewis, "Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Under Pitiless Skies "
English | ISBN: 9004245480 | 2013 | 220 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity, Nicola Denzey Lewis dismisses Hans Jonas’ mischaracterization of second-century Gnosticism as a philosophically-oriented religious movement built on the perception of the cosmos as negative or enslaving. A focused study on the concept of astrological fate in "Gnostic" writings including the Apocryphon of John, the recently-discovered Gospel of Judas, Trimorphic Protennoia, and the Pistis Sophia, this book reexamines their language of "enslavement to fate (Gk: heimarmene)" from its origins in Greek Stoicism, its deployment by the apostle Paul, to its later use by a variety of second-century intellectuals (both Christian and non-Christian). Denzey Lewis thus offers an informed and revisionist conceptual map of the ancient cosmos, its influence, and all those who claimed to be free of its potentially pernicious effects.

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June 26, 2023

The Wreck of the Neva The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Irish Women Aboard

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Free Download Kevin Todd, "The Wreck of the Neva: The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Irish Women Aboard"
English | ISBN: 1856359816 | 2013 | 320 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The Neva sailed from Cork on January 8,1835, destined for the prisons of Botany Bay. There were 240 people on board, most of them either female convicts or the wives of already deported convicts, and their children. On May 13, 1835 she sank with the loss of 224 lives. The authors have comprehensively researched sources in Ireland, Australia, and the UK to reconstruct in fascinating detail the stories of these women. Most perished beneath the ocean waves, but for others the journey from their poverty stricken and criminal pasts continued towards hope of freedom and prosperity on the far side of the world.

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