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Free Download How to Survive the Modern World: Making sense of, and finding calm in, unsteady times by Alain de Botton
English | October 7th, 2021 | ISBN: 1912891530 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 13.39 MB
A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing.

Free Download Kenneth Michael Bauer, "High Frontiers: Dolpo and the Changing World of Himalayan Pastoralists"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0231123914, 0231509022 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 21.7 mb
Dolpo is a culturally Tibetan enclave in one of Nepal’s most remote regions. The Dolpo-pa, or people of Dolpo, share language, religious and cultural practices, history, and a way of life. Agro-pastoralists who live in some of the highest villages in the world, the Dolpo-pa wrest survival from this inhospitable landscape through a creative combination of farming, animal husbandry, and trade.

Free Download Angeliki Lymberopoulou, "Hell in the Byzantine World 2 Volume Hardback Set: A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Medit"
English | ISBN: 110869070X | 2020 | 936 pages | PDF | 19 MB
The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people over the centuries since the emergence of the Christian faith. These landmark volumes provide the first large-scale investigation of this imagery found across the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world. Particular emphasis is placed on images from churches across Venetian Crete, which are comprehensively collected and published for the first time. Crete was at the centre of artistic production in the late Byzantine world and beyond and its imagery was highly influential on traditions in other regions. The Cretan examples accompany rich comparative material from the wider Mediterranean – Cappadocia, Macedonia, the Peloponnese and Cyprus. The large amount of data presented in this publication highlight Hell’s emergence in monumental painting not as a concrete array of images, but as a diversified mirroring of social perceptions of sin.

Free Download Gildas and the Scriptures: Observing the World through a Biblical Lens By Thomas O’Loughlin
2012 | 396 Pages | ISBN: 2503534368 | PDF | 3 MB
Gildas is the earliest insular writer who has left us a substantial legacy of theological writing. He is usually, however, not seen as a theological writer but as an historical source for ‘dark age’ Britain at the time of the Germanic invasions in the mid-sixth century. Yet the deacon Gildas saw himself as a prophet charged by God to call the rulers and clergy of his society back to being a chosen people of the covenant. The form this call took was that of an indictment of those groups based on the testimonia of the Christian scriptures.This book is a study both of Gildas’s use of the scriptures (his text, his canon, his exegetical strategies) and of how, from the way he interprets sacred history, he created a distinctive theology of the church and of salvation.

Free Download Flaying in the Pre-Modern World: Practice and Representation By Larissa Tracy
2017 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 1843844524 | PDF | 32 MB
Skin is the parchment upon which identity is written; class, race, ethnicity, and gender are all legible upon the human surface. Removing skin tears away identity, and leaves a blank slate upon which law, punishment, sanctity, or monstrosity can be inscribed; whether as an act of penal brutality, as a comic device, or as a sign of spiritual sacrifice, it leaves a lasting impression about the qualities and nature of humanity. Flaying often functioned as an imaginative resource for medieval and early modern artists and writers, even though it seems to have been rarely practiced in reality. From images of Saint Bartholomew holding his skin in his arms, to scenes of execution in Havelok the Dane, to laws that prescribed it as a punishment for treason, this volume explores the idea and the reality of skin removal – flaying – in the Middle Ages. It interrogates the connection between reality and imagination in depictions of literal skin removal, rather than figurative or theoretical interpretations of flaying, and offers a multilayered view of medieval and early modern perceptions of flaying and its representations in European culture. Its two parts consider practice and representation, capturing the evolution of flaying as both an idea and a practice in the premodern world. Larissa Tracy is Associate Professor, Longwood University. Contributors: Frederika Bain, Peter Dent, Kelly DeVries, Valerie Gramling, Perry Neil Harrison, Jack Hartnell, Emily Leverett, Michael Livingston, Sherry C.M. Lindquist, Asa Mittman, Mary Rambaran-Olm, William Sayers, Christine Sciacca, Susan Small, Larissa Tracy, Renee Ward

Free Download Digitalization in Business: on the Road to a Sustainable World
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English | 2023 | ISBN: 9798886972757 | 364 pages | True PDF | 25.92 MB

Free Download Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire by Eckart Frahm
English | April 4th, 2023 | ISBN: 1541674405 | 528 pages | True EPUB | 23.19 MB
A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires

Free Download Anna Mason’s Watercolour World by Anna Mason
English | April 24, 2018 | ISBN: 1782213473 | 144 pages | PDF (Converted) | 52 Mb
Learn to paint with Anna Mason, using this inspiring, practical watercolor guide to botanical art

Free Download A world transformed By George H.W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft
1998 | 587 Pages | ISBN: 0679432485 | PDF | 37 MB
It was one of the pivotal times of the twentieth century–during George Bush’s presidency, an extraordinary series of international events took place that materially changed the face of the world. Now, former President Bush and his national security advisor, Brent Scowcroft, tell the story of those tumultuous years.Here are behind-the-scenes accounts of critical meetings in the White House and of summit conferences in Europe and the United States, interspersed with excerpts from Mr. Bush’s diary. We are given fresh and intriguing views of world leaders such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl, and François Mitterrand–and witness the importance of personal relationships in diplomacy. There is the dramatic description of how President Bush put together the alliance against Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War. There are the intensive diplomatic exchanges with Beijing following the events of Tiananmen Square, and the intricate negotiations leading up to German reunification. And there is the sometimes poignant, sometimes grim portrayal of Gorbachev’s final years in power.A World Transformed is not simply a record of accomplishment; Bush and Scowcroft candidly recount how the major players sometimes disagreed over issues, and analyze what mistakes were made. This is a landmark book on the conduct of American foreign policy–and how that policy is crucial to the peace of the world. It is a fascinating inside look at great events that deepens our understanding of today’s global issues.

Free Download World War T by George S. Corey
English | MP3@192 kbps | 14 min | 20.3 MB
World War T is an uproarious political satire that imagines the "Zombie Trump-ocalypse" that never was.