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Free Download Bernd Steinbock, "Social Memory in Athenian Public Discourse: Uses and Meanings of the Past"
English | 2012 | pages: 424 | ISBN: 0472118323, 0472037781 | PDF | 3,2 mb
Prompted by the abundant historical allusions in Athenian political and diplomatic discourse, Bernd Steinbock analyzes the uses and meanings of the past in fourth-century Athens, using Thebes’ role in Athenian memory as a case study. This examination is based upon the premise that Athenian social memory, that is, the shared and often idealized and distorted image of the past, should not be viewed as an unreliable counterpart of history but as an invaluable key to the Athenians’ mentality. Against the tendency to view the orators’ references to the past as empty rhetorical phrases or propagandistic cover-ups for Realpolitik, it argues that the past constituted important political capital in its own right. Drawing upon theories of social memory, it contextualizes the orators’ historical allusions within the complex net of remembrances and beliefs held by the audience and thus tries to gauge their ideological and emotive power.

Free Download Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, and Memory By René Lemarchand
2011 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0812243358 | PDF | 3 MB
Unlike the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, or Armenia, scant attention has been paid to the human tragedies analyzed in this book. From German Southwest Africa (now Namibia), Burundi, and eastern Congo to Tasmania, Tibet, and Kurdistan, from the mass killings of the Roms by the Nazis to the extermination of the Assyrians in Ottoman Turkey, the mind reels when confronted with the inhuman acts that have been consigned to oblivion.Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, and Memory gathers eight essays about genocidal conflicts that are unremembered and, as a consequence, understudied. The contributors, scholars in political science, anthropology, history, and other fields, seek to restore these mass killings to the place they deserve in the public consciousness. Remembrance of long forgotten crimes is not the volume’s only purpose–equally significant are the rich quarry of empirical data offered in each chapter, the theoretical insights provided, and the comparative perspectives suggested for the analysis of genocidal phenomena. While each genocide is unique in its circumstances and motives, the essays in this volume explain that deliberate concealment and manipulation of the facts by the perpetrators are more often the rule than the exception, and that memory often tends to distort the past and blame the victims while exonerating the killers.Although the cases discussed here are but a sample of a litany going back to biblical times, Forgotten Genocides offers an important examination of the diversity of contexts out of which repeatedly emerge the same hideous realities.

Free Download Jonathan Hancock, "Improve Your Memory"
English | 2015 | pages: 257 | ISBN: 1292083298 | PDF | 5,9 mb
Whether it’s preparing for the big event like an exam and important presentation at work, or simply remember this week’s shopping list, Brilliant Memory Training will help you stop worrying about your memory – and start using it to the full.

Free Download Memory, Anniversaries and Mental Health in International Historical Perspective: Faith in Reform (Mental Health in Historical Perspective) by Rebecca Wynter, Jennifer Wallis, Rob Ellis
English | August 20, 2023 | ISBN: 3031229770 | 330 pages | PDF | 5.67 Mb
This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry and mental health. It challenges simplistic representations of the callous nature of mental health care in the past, while at the same time eschewing a celebratory and uncritical marking of anniversaries and individuals. Asking critical questions of the early Whiggish histories of mental health care, the book problematizes the idea of a shared professional and institutional history, and the abiding faith placed in the reform of medicine, administration, and even patients. It contends that much post-1800 legislation drafted to ensure reform, acted to preserve beliefs about the ‘bad old days’ and a ‘brighter future’ in the state memories of imperial powers, which in turn exported these notions around the world. Conversely, the collection demonstrates the variety of remembering and forgetting, building on recent interest in the ideological and cultural linkages between past and present in international psychiatric practice. In this way, it seeks to trace the pathways of memory, exploring the direction of travel, and the perpetuation, remodeling, and uprooting of recollection.

Free Download 33 Memory Techniques To Remember Anything
Published 7/2023
Created by ELOUAZZANI HAMZA
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 35 Lectures ( 34m ) | Size: 186 MB

Free Download Travis B. Williams, "History and Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Remembering the Teacher of Righteousness"
English | ISBN: 1108493335 | 2019 | 458 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The nature and reliability of the ancient sources are among the most important issues in the scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is noteworthy, therefore, that scholars have grown increasingly skeptical about the value of these materials for reconstructing the life of the Teacher of Righteousness. Travis B. Williams’ study is designed to address this new perspective and its implications for historical inquiry. He offers an important corrective to popular conceptions of history and memory by introducing memory theory as a means of informing historical investigation. Charting a new methodological course in Dead Sea Scrolls research, Williams reveals that properly representing the past requires an explanation of how the mnemonic evidence found in the relevant sources could have developed from a historical progression that began with the Teacher. His book represents the first attempt in Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship to integrate history and memory in a comprehensive way.

Free Download Grace Tjandra Leksana, "Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia: Embedded Remembering "
English | ISBN: 9463723560 | 2023 | 226 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research presents complexities of memory culture of violence. These memories are not exclusively determined by the state’s repressive memory project, but are actually embedded in intricate social relations and local context where the violence occurred. What people remember, forget, or silenced is part of the continuous negotiation to claim one’s right, to relate to the state, and to be Indonesian citizen. This book redefines the politics of memory – that it does not necessarily appear in formal arenas, but actually lies in the intricate web of local dynamics, often involving transactional and clientelistic practices.

Free Download IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY: The little book about memory for better learning. by Moises Merit
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B4BNPXVT | 80 pages | MOBI | 0.29 Mb
If you want to keep failing, or settle for being a mediocre student, read no further.

Free Download Pawel Sawinski, "Germanicus Caesar: History and Memory "
English | ISBN: 3515134409 | 2023 | 170 pages | PDF | 42 MB
The historical memory of the principate is for obvious reasons dominated by the emperors, with one exception: Germanicus Caesar, who, though not a ruler, appears in the sources as if he had been one. Chosen by Augustus as his ultimate heir, the embodiment of the dynastic principle, yet never the emperor; put at the head of one third of the Roman army to reconquer Germania, but recalled before the task’s completion; the last to hold an imperium which made him almost a co-regent of the emperor, cut short by his sudden death – he reflects like no one the transition of the principate from the Augustan phase to its mature form. Equally significant is the longevity of the memory of his person and the variety of ways in which it was expressed: the only non-emperor commemorated in the Feriale Duranum, he figures on coins struck long after the end of the Julio-Claudians and an edict of his, quoted in a legal text of the 3rd century, appears in the Digesta. To give justice to his memorability, our contributions approach him in the perspective of not only history, classical philology, art history/archaeology and numismatics, but also Egyptology and Roman law.

Free Download Elena Paskaleva, "Memory and Commemoration Across Central Asia: Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries "
English | ISBN: 9004310274 | 2023 | 400 pages | PDF | 23 MB
Memory and Commemoration Across Central Asia: Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries presents new research in the field of Central Asian Studies, focusing on the practice and usage of historical and religious commemoration in Central Asia and Afghanistan.