Tag: Studies

Free Download Ephraim Chamiel, "The Dual Truth, Volumes I & II: Studies on Nineteenth-Century Modern Religious Thought and Its Influence on Twentieth-Ce"
English | ISBN: 161811882X | 2019 | 596 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands: they include halakhists from Rabbi Ettlinger to Rabbi Eliezer Berkowitz; Jewish philosophers from Isaac Bernays to Yeshayau Leibowitz; and biblical commentators such as Samuel David Luzzatto and Rabbi Umberto Cassuto.

Free Download Teaching Israel Studies: Global, Virtual, and Ethnographic Approaches to Active Learning
by Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb
English | 2022 | ISBN: 303116914X | 298 Pages | True PDF | 4.83 MB

Free Download Studies on Tantra in Bengal and Eastern India
by Madhu Khanna
English | 2022 | ISBN: 981193021X | 192 Pages | True PDF | 3.3 MB

Free Download Studies on Moral Competence: Proposals and Dilemmas for Discussion
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031521382 | 253 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7.4 MB
This book shows how to use discussions of moral dilemmas as a strategy to develop moral competence in children and youth in educational environments using the Konstanz Method of Dilemma Discussion (KMDD). This method was developed by the German psychologist Georg Lind (1847-2021), who defines moral competence as an ability to solve problems and conflicts based on moral principles or values, through reflection, dialogue and deliberation, instead of using force, violence, deception and manipulation. According to Lind, this ability can be developed in children and youth through KMDD.

Free Download Roger E. Reynolds, "Studies on Medieval Liturgical and Legal Manuscripts from Spain and Southern Italy "
English | ISBN: 1138375357 | 2018 | 332 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Though it may not be immediately obvious why articles on topics from such distantly removed areas of western Europe – the Iberian peninsula and southern Italy – should appear in the same volume (the fourth collection by Roger Reynolds), the materials covered illustrate that they are indeed closely related, both in their differences and their similarities. Both peninsulas had their own indigenous liturgies and music (Old Spanish and Beneventan), distinctive written scripts (Visigothic and Beneventan), and legal and theological traditions, and repeatedly these worked their influence on other areas of western Europe. Although there were frequent attempts by the papacy and secular rulers from the 9th to the 13th century to suppress these distinctive traditions in both areas, elements of these nonetheless survived well into the 16th century and beyond. Despite the differences in these traditions, the articles in this volume also demonstrate through manuscript evidence the continued exchange of the distinctive customs between the Iberian peninsula and southern Italian cultures from the very early Middle Ages through the 12th century.

Free Download Jack Martin, "Studies of Life Positioning: A New Sociocultural Approach to Psychobiography "
English | ISBN: 1032608854 | 2024 | 160 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book illustrates how Life Positioning Analysis can be used as a theoretical and methodological approach to sociocultural psychobiography.

Free Download Nai Xia, "Studies in Silk Road Archaeology"
English | ISBN: 9819974747 | 2024 | 367 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book is a collection of Nai Xia’s quintessential works on Silk Road studies. A key resource in the field of Silk Road Archaeology, it features in-depth content, a broad range of material, careful textual research, and meticulous analysis. With thorough investigations of foreign coinage, silk textiles, and artifacts with foreign styles excavated in different parts of China, it explores the exchange between ancient China and Central Asia, Western Asia, and Europe. In particular, this book provides detailed descriptions of the economic and cultural ties between ancient China, Pre-Islamic Arabia, the Sasanian Empire, and the Byzantine Empire. The research propounds innovative theories on the history and evolution of East-West transportation routes, i.e., the overland Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road. Based on the study of ancient relics and excavated artifacts, it points out that cultural exchange along the Silk Road was never unilateral, but instead, mutual influence and cooperation were obvious. Since ancient times, countries along the Silk Road have had a tradition of amicable foreign relations and the promotion of common interests. The book is intended for academics, scholars and researchers.

Free Download J.L. Mancha, "Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics "
English | ISBN: 1138382558 | 2019 | 352 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
In this selection of studies, J.L. Mancha explores aspects of the development of medieval optics and astronomy, including some medieval antecedents of the work of early modern astronomers. The articles deal with Latin, Hebrew and Arabic texts, and the process of translation and transmission of knowledge, and focus on three main themes. First, the theory and astronomical use of the pinhole camera in the 12th and 13th centuries; the texts edited here contain a solution to the problem of the formation of images cast by light through triangular apertures, equivalent to Kepler’s, a description of the correct procedure for measuring solar apparent diameters using finite apertures, and a derivation of the Sun’s eccentricity from its apparent diameters at apogee and perigee. Second, the characteristics of the Latin and Provençal versions of Levi ben Gerson’s astronomical work, composed in collaboration with the author, as well as his tables and canons for finding syzygies and the mathematical methods used in the derivation of parameters. Third, different aspects of the survival of homocentric astronomy in the Middle Ages, especially al-Bitruji’s model for trepidation and the technique for calculating the hippopede resulting from Eudoxan couples.

Free Download Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice by William H. McRaven
English | June 1, 1996 | ISBN: 0891416005 | 432 pages | PDF | 13 Mb
Vice Adm. William H. McRaven helped to devise the strategy for how to bring down Osama bin Laden, and commanded the courageous U.S. military unit that carried it out on May 1, 2011, ending one of the greatest manhunts in history. In Spec Ops, a well-organized and deeply researched study, McRaven analyzes eight classic special operations. Six are from WWII: the German commando raid on the Belgian fort Eben Emael (1940); the Italian torpedo attack on the Alexandria harbor (1941); the British commando raid on Nazaire, France (1942); the German glider rescue of Benito Mussolini (1943); the British midget-submarine attack on the Tirpitz (1943); and the U.S. Ranger rescue mission at the Cabanatuan POW camp in the Philippines (1945). The two post-WWII examples are the U.S. Army raid on the Son Tay POW camp in North Vietnam (1970) and the Israeli rescue of the skyjacked hostages in Entebbe, Uganda (1976). McRaven-who commands a U.S. Navy SEAL team-pinpoints six essential principles of "spec ops" success: simplicity, security, repetition, surprise, speed and purpose. For each of the case studies, he provides political and military context, a meticulous reconstruction of the mission itself and an analysis of the operation in relation to his six principles. McRaven deems the Son Tay raid "the best modern example of a successful spec op [which] should be considered textbook material for future missions." His own book is an instructive textbook that will be closely studied by students of the military arts. Maps, photos.

Free Download Astrid Franke, "Reading the Social in American Studies"
English | ISBN: 3030935507 | 2022 | 297 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Reading the Social in American Studies offers a unique exploration of the advantages and benefits in using sociological terms and concepts in American literary and cultural studies and, conversely, in using literature―understood broadly―to uncover a microlevel of the social. Its temporal scope ranges from the early 19th to the 21st century, providing a historical dimension that is otherwise often missing from studies on the conjunction of literature and sociology. The contributors’ approaches include genre reflections as well as close readings, theoretical discussions of crucial sociological terms, and literary observations backed up by empirical sociological studies. The book will familiarize international readers with ideas on the social from both sides of the Atlantic, including scholarship of such figures as John Dewey, Georg Simmel, Norbert Elias, and Pierre Bourdieu.