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February 4, 2024

Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith

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Free Download Carson Holloway, "Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith"
English | ISBN: 0875804845 | 2014 | 270 pages | EPUB | 424 KB
While the dominant approaches to the current study of political philosophy are various, with some friendlier to religious belief than others, almost all place constraints on the philosophic and political role of revelation. Mainstream secular political theorists do not entirely disregard religion. But to the extent that they pay attention, their treatment of religious belief is seen more as a political or philosophic problem to be addressed rather than as a positive body of thought from which we might derive important insights about the nature of politics and the truth of the human condition.

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January 31, 2024

Robert’s Rules of Order Fast Track The Brief and Easy Guide to Parliamentary Procedure for the Modern Meeting [Audiobook]

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Free Download Robert’s Rules of Order Fast Track: The Brief and Easy Guide to Parliamentary Procedure for the Modern Meeting (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQZ44GVL | 2024 | 5 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Jim Slaughter
Narrator: Greg Lockett
Must-Have Advice on Running Effective and Organized Meetings. Easy, accessible, and to the point. Robert’s Rules of Order gives you everything you need to know to conduct shorter, fairer, and more orderly meetings. In this new and improved update, you’ll find: The fundamentals of parliamentary procedure, with tips on knowing which rules to use for your meetings. Simple suggestions for making, seconding, and debating motions. A primer on voting, from knowing when it’s required, to breaking ties, to handling absentee and proxy votes. Straightforward strategies for setting and sticking to an agenda and efficiently recording your meeting’s minutes. Tips for handling disruptive members and tyrannical chairs. All-new guidance on conducting the modern virtual meeting.

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January 31, 2024

Redefining Ceasefires Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria

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Free Download Marika Sosnowski, "Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria"
English | ISBN: 1009347225 | 2023 | 220 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Since 2012, ceasefires have been used in Syria to halt violence and facilitate peace agreements. However, in this book, Marika Sosnowski argues that a ceasefire is rarely ever just a ‘cease fire’. Instead, she demonstrates that ceasefires are not only military tactics but are also tools of wartime order and statebuilding. Bringing together rare primary documents and first-hand interviews with over eighty Syrians and other experts, Sosnowski offers original insights into the most critical conflict of our time, the Syrian civil war. From rebel governance to citizen and property rights, humanitarian access to economic networks, ceasefires have a range of heretofore underexamined impacts. Using the most prominent ceasefires of the war as case studies, Sosnowski demonstrates the diverse consequences of ceasefires and provides a fuller, more nuanced portrait of their role in conflict resolution.

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January 30, 2024

The Rule for Holy Communion Canons, Order of Preparation, and Prayers After Holy Communion

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Free Download The Rule for Holy Communion: Canons, Order of Preparation, and Prayers After Holy Communion by Holy Trinity Monastery
English | April 26, 2022 | ISBN: 0884654885 | 112 pages | EPUB | 0.48 Mb
This comprehensive booklet contains all the prayers necessary for an Orthodox Christian preparing to receive Holy Communion, as well as the post-Communion Prayers of Thanksgiving. Also included is the Synodal document "On the Participation of the Faithful in the Eucharist," recently approved by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to express its official teachings regarding proper reverence and preparation for the holiest of Christian sacraments. The texts are arranged to match the usage of Holy Trinity Monastery and incorporate the psalms as translated in the Psalter for Prayer. Comprehensive rubrics are included to guide the reader.

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January 30, 2024

Syria and the New World Order

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Free Download Syria and the New World Order By Neil Quilliam
1999 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 0863722490 | PDF | 8 MB
The advent of the New World Order has challenged Syria’s role in the Middle East. Traditionally viewed as a pariah state and a Soviet satellite, Syria’s future looked uncertain as the balance of world power moved out of Soviet into US control, causing the withdrawal of Soviet support and threatening Syria’s quest for regional hegemony. Syria, however, has been able to adapt to the transformation in the world order. Dr Quilliam maintains that Syrian foreign policy has been determined by both domestic politics and international political realities. He begins by defining Syria in terms of its domestic arena: its geography (both physical and political), natural resources, history, population and economy. He then discusses the governing system of the country, detailing the different political parties and how the system actually functions in Syria. Moving to the international political system, the author then expands upon the regional balance of power and Syria’s relations with her neighbors. Following a rational policy, the Syrian state was compelled to realign itself with the US-led world order in an attempt to pursue regional hegemony. It was able to do this by joining the US-led coalition forces in the liberation of Kuwait in 1990/91 and was rewarded with a place in the postwar regional order and a central role in the Madrid Peace Conference. Syria and the New World Order is a clear and comprehensive account of Syria’s adjustment to the realities of the day.

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January 30, 2024

Order and Chaos in Dynamical Astronomy

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Free Download Order and Chaos in Dynamical Astronomy by George Contopoulos
English | PDF | 2002 | 633 Pages | ISBN : 3540433600 | 57.8 MB
There have been many books on Dynamical Astronomy up to now. Many are devoted to Celestial Mechanics, but there are also several books on Stellar and Galactic Dynamics. The first books on stellar dynamics dealt mainly with the statistics of stellar motions (e. g. Smart’s "Stellar Dynamics" (1938), or Trumpler and Weaver’s "Statistical Astronomy" (1953)). A classical book in this field is Chandrasekhar’s "Principles of Stellar Dynamics" (1942) that dealt mainly with the time of relaxation, the solutions of Liouville’s equation, and the dynamics of clusters. In the Dover edition of this book (1960) an extended Appendix was added, containing the statistical mechanics of stellar systems, a quite "modern" subject at that time. The need for a classroom book was covered for several years by the book of Mihalas and Routly "Galactic Astronomy" (1969).

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