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Free Download Die Ära Gottlieb Daimlers: Neue Perspektiven zur Frühgeschichte des Automobils und seiner Technik By Reinhard Seiffert (auth.)
2009 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 3834809624 | PDF | 8 MB
Wann und von wem wurde das Automobil erfunden? Wir glauben es zu wissen, doch vieles aus der Zeit vor 1900 blieb unbekannt und unerschlossen. Reinhard Seiffert nimmt das lange unterschätzte Wirken Gottlieb Daimlers zum Anlass, in die Anfänge der Automobilgeschichte zurückzublicken. Er verfolgt über Jahrzehnte hinweg die Veränderungen der Erinnerungskultur und der Bewertung von Personen und Konstruktionen, von Marken und Mythen. Dabei legt der Autor den Schwerpunkt auf die Schlüsselfunktion der Technik und liefert zukunftsweisende Erkenntnisse im Hinblick auf den Wandel der Lebensgewohnheiten, das steigende Umweltbewusstsein und die Endlichkeit der Ressourcen. Dem Leser eröffnet sich eine neue Sicht auf scheinbar festgefügte Wissensgrundlagen.

Free Download The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies (Directors’ Cuts) by Michael Goddard
English | September 22, 2013 | ISBN: 023116730X, 0231167318 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 16.9 MB
Raúl Ruiz, while considered one of the world’s most significant filmmakers by several film critics, is yet to be the subject of any thorough engagement with his work in English.

Free Download Malleable Māra: Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil By Michael D. Nichols
2019 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 1438473222 | EPUB | 2 MB
Analyzes the breadth of representations of the mythic figure of Māra in Buddhism to reveal how closely tied such narratives are to the social and historical concerns of Buddhist communities.2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleThis is the first book to examine the development of the figure of Māra, who appears across Buddhist traditions as a personification of death and desire. Portrayed as a combination of god and demon, Māra serves as a key antagonist to the Buddha, his followers, and Buddhist teaching in general. From ancient India to later Buddhist thought in East Asia to more recent representations in Western culture and media, Māra has been used to satirize Hindu divinities, taken the form of wrathful Tibetan gods, communicated psychoanalytic tropes, and appeared as a villain in episodes of Doctor Who. Michael D. Nichols details and surveys the historical transformations of the Māra figure and demonstrates how different Buddhist communities at different times have used this symbol to react to changing social and historical circumstances. Employing literary and cultural theory, Nichols argues that the representation of Māra closely parallels and reflects the social concerns and anxieties of the particular Buddhist community producing it.Michael D. Nichols is Associate Professor of Philosophy/Religion at Saint Joseph’s College.

Free Download The Muhammad Avatāra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam By Ayesha A Irani
2021 | 456 Pages | ISBN: 0190089229 | PDF | 5 MB
In The Muhammad Avatara, Ayesha Irani offers an examination of the Nabivamsa, the first epic work on the Prophet Muhammad written in Bangla. This little-studied seventeenth-century text, written by Saiyad Sultan, is a literary milestone in the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural history of Islam, and marks a significant contribution not only to Bangla’s rich literary corpus, but also to our understanding of Islam’s localization in Indic culture in the early modern period. That Sufis such as Saiyad Sultan played a central role in Islam’s spread in Bengal has been demonstrated primarily through examination of medieval Persian literary, ethnographic, and historical sources, as well as colonial-era data. Islamic Bangla texts themselves, which emerged from the sixteenth century, remain scarcely studied outside the Bangladeshi academy, and almost entirely untranslated. Yet these premodern works, which articulate Islamic ideas in a regional language, represent a literary watershed and underscore the efforts of rebel writers across South Asia, many of whom were Sufis, to defy the linguistic cordon of the Muslim elite and the hegemony of Arabic and Persian as languages of Islamic discourse. Irani explores how an Arabian prophet and his religion came to inhabit the seventeenth-century Bengali landscape, and the role that pir-authors, such as Saiyad Sultan, played in the rooting of Islam in Bengal’s easternmost regions. This text-critical study lays bare the sophisticated strategies of translation used by a prominent early modern Muslim Bengali intellectual to invite others to his faith.