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Free Download Eugen O. Chirovici, "Rumors That Changed the World: A History of Violence and Discrimination"
English | ISBN: 1498500838 | 2014 | 192 pages | EPUB | 680 KB
The aim of the book is to explore the social and cultural impact of rumor from Antiquity to the mid-1990s, examining it as one of the most important contributing factors to violence and discrimination. Usually defined as an unverified account that circulates from one person to another and refers to an object, event, or matter of public interest, rumor and its impact have largely been ignored by scholars and authors.

Free Download Joseph A. Bracken S.J., "Reciprocal Causality in an Event-Filled World"
English | ISBN: 1978709781 | 2022 | 168 pages | EPUB, PDF | 309 KB + 3 MB
Given the current sense of helplessness in dealing with environmental change and other urgent issues, a new world view is needed that emphasizes the unique contribution that individual citizens can make to the common good as opposed to their individual needs and desires. In a recent encyclical on the environment, Pope Francis set forth reasons from Scripture and Church teaching for this shift in perspective, but he did not provide a philosophically based foundation for this change of heart. To fill that gap, Joseph Bracken examines key writings of process-oriented philosophers like Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead along with systems-oriented thinkers like Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Ervin Laszlo to create a systems-oriented understanding of the God-world relation.

Free Download Proceedings of World Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances and Applications: WCAIAA 2023 by Ashish Kumar Tripathi, Darpan Anand, Atulya K. Nagar
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 543 Pages | ISBN : 9819958806 | 12.7 MB
This book is a collection of outstanding research papers presented at the World Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances and Applications (WCAIAA 2023), organized by Sir Padampat Singhania University, India and is technically sponsored by Soft Computing Research Society during March 18-19, 2023. The topics covered are agent-based systems, evolutionary algorithms, approximate reasoning, bioinformatics and computational biology, artificial intelligence in modeling and simulation, natural language processing, brain-machine interfaces, collective intelligence, computer vision and speech understanding, data mining, swarm intelligence, machine learning, human-computer interaction, intelligent sensor, devices and applications, and intelligent database systems.

Free Download Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, "Magic and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Studies in Honor of Christopher A. Faraone"
English | ISBN: 1032341262 | 2023 | 374 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 24 MB
This volume explores aspects of ancient magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean, specifically ways in which religious and mythical ideas, including the knowledge and practice of magic, were transmitted and adapted through time and across Greco-Roman, Near Eastern, and Egyptian cultures.

Free Download Pter Hajdu, "Literatures of the World and the Future of Comparative Literature: Proceedings of the 22nd Congress of the International"
English | ISBN: 9004538496 | 2023 | 384 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This volume invites the readers interested in comparative literature to take an exciting journey round the globe. The comparatists who met in Macau in 2019 discuss the connections between geographically and culturally diverse topics and locations.

Free Download Loren R Spielman, "Jews and Entertainment in the Ancient World "
English | ISBN: 3161550005 | 2020 | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Countering the traditional belief that Jews in antiquity were predominantly disinterested in the popular entertainments of the Greek and Roman world, Loren R. Spielman maps the varieties of Jewish engagement with theater, athletics, horse racing, gladiatorial, and beast shows in antiquity. The author argues that Jews from Hellenistic Alexandria to late antique Sepphoris enjoyed and exploited, or alternatively resisted and scorned, popular forms of public entertainment as they adapted to the political, social, and religious realities of imperial rule. Including references to ancient Jewish actors, athletes, promoters, and plays alongside analysis of rabbinic and other early Jewish critique of sport and spectacle, Loren R. Spielmandescribes the different ways that attitudes towards entertainment might have played a role in shaping ancient Jewish identity.

Free Download Peter Stewart, "Gandharan Art and the Classical World: A Short Introduction"
English | ISBN: 1803276940 | 2023 | 94 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In the early centuries AD, the small region of Gandhara (centred on what is now northern Pakistan) produced an extraordinary tradition of Buddhist art which eventually had an immense influence across Asia. Mainly produced to adorn monasteries and shrines, Gandharan sculptures celebrate the Buddha himself, the stories of his life and the many sacred characters of the Buddhist cosmos. Since this imagery was rediscovered in the nineteenth century, one of its most fascinating and puzzling aspects is the extent to which it draws on the conventions of Greek and Roman art, which originated thousands of kilometres to the west. Inspired by the Gandhara Connections project at Oxford University’s Classical Art Research Centre, this book offers an introduction to Gandharan art and the mystery of its relationship with the Graeco-Roman world of the Mediterranean. It presents an accessible explanation of the ancient and modern contexts of Gandharan art, the state of scholarship on the subject, and guidance for further, in-depth study.

Free Download Malini Guha, "From Empire to the World: Migrant London and Paris in the Cinema"
English | ISBN: 0748656464 | 2015 | 256 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The study of globalization in cinema assumes many guises, from the exploration of global cinematic cities to the burgeoning ‘world cinema turn’ within film studies, which addresses the global nature of film production, exhibition and distribution. In this ambitious new study, Malini Guha draws together these two distinctly different ways of thinking about the cinema, interrogating representations of global London and Paris as migrant cinematic cities, featuring the arrival, settlement and departure of migrant figures from the decline of imperial rule to the global present.

Free Download Henri Lefebvre, "Everyday Life in the Modern World "
English | ISBN: 1032533935 | 2023 | 244 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 5 MB
Philosopher, sociologist and urban theorist, Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was one of the great social theorists of the twentieth century and pioneered the theorization of everyday life and space.

Free Download Essentials on Dynamic Capabilities for a Contemporary World: Recent Advances and Case Studies by Bruno F. Abrantes, Jesper Lind Madsen
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 211 Pages | ISBN : 3031348133 | 6 MB
This book is about dynamic capabilities (DCs) in the context of the 21st century, in which global challenges seem to come from different quadrants. For instance, an environmental threat to the planet´s sustainability, or technological advancements disrupting the traditional value chains call for new business models accompanying societal trends. Although the usual approach in dealing with these business models is from a competitiveness perspective, the editors of this book avoid it as the approach seems reductive of what the organizations are required to be aware of and cope with in the modern world only to their organizational ecosystems.