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Free Download Matthew H. Bowker, "Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity: Albert Camus, Postmodernity, and the Survival of Innocence"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415717612 | EPUB | pages: 132 | 0.5 mb
What does it mean to describe something or someone as absurd? Why did absurd philosophy and literature become so popular amidst the violent conflicts and terrors of the mid- to late-twentieth century? Is it possible to understand absurdity not as a feature of events, but as a psychological posture or stance? If so, what are the objectives, dynamics, and repercussions of the absurd stance? And in what ways has the absurd stance continued to shape postmodern thought and contemporary culture?

Free Download A Brief History of Albert Einstein – Space, Time, and Quantum Theory: E=mc² and the Foundations of Modern Physics (A Brief History On) by Scott Matthews
English | June 14, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D76SHNYN | 128 pages | EPUB | 5.28 Mb
Are you captivated by the mysteries of the universe and the minds that unravel them? Eager to understand how a single equation transformed our understanding of everything from atoms to galaxies? Wondering how the thoughts of one visionary could redefine the boundaries of space, time, and reality itself?

Free Download Robert D. Zaretsky, "Albert Camus: Elements of a Life"
English | ISBN: 080147907X | 2013 | 200 pages | EPUB | 599 KB
Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into (and out of) difficult periods of my life. More recently, I have carried him into university classes that I have taught, coming out of them with a renewed appreciation of his art. To be sure, my idea of Camus thirty years ago scarcely resembles my idea of him today. While my admiration and attachment to his writings remain as great as they were long ago, the reasons are more complicated and critical.―Robert Zaretsky

Free Download Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe by Ken Krimstein
English | August 20th, 2024 | ISBN: 1635579538 | 224 pages | True AZW3 | 60.55 MB
"Clever, charming, amusing, and just plain brilliant. Ken Krimstein is the most inventive graphic biographer on the planet-and certainly the only one who could explain both Einstein and Kafka. A page turner on gravity and relativity!" -KAI BIRD, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus, the biography that inspired the Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer

Free Download Michele Alacevich, "Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography"
English | ISBN: 0231199821 | 2021 | 352 pages | AZW3 | 7 MB
Winner, 2023 Best Book Award, Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought

Free Download Robert Zaretsky, "A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning"
English | ISBN: 0674724763 | 2013 | 240 pages | AZW3 | 360 KB
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Albert Camus declared that a writer’s duty is twofold: "the refusal to lie about what one knows and the resistance against oppression." These twin obsessions help explain something of Camus’ remarkable character, which is the overarching subject of this sympathetic and lively book. Through an exploration of themes that preoccupied Camus-absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation-Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to our actions, and who pushed himself, and those about him, to challenge the status quo.

Free Download Peter Francev, "Coming Back to the Absurd: Albert Camus’s the Myth of Sisyphus 80 Years on "
English | ISBN: 9004526757 | 2022 | 244 pages | PDF | 15 MB

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Free Download David P Whithorn, "Bringing Uncle Albert Home"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0750942096 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.3 mb
Private Albert Turley was just an ordinary British soldier of the First World War. He died on the Somme for King and Country. He didn’t win any medals for gallantry and has no known grave. Like thousands more soldiers whose names fill local war memorials the length of the country, he left neither letters nor diaries from which to reconstruct his story. This book describes one man’s search for the story of his distant relative, describing Private Turley’s active service with the 3rd Battalion, the Worcestershire Regiment that led to his death in one of the most infamous battles of the twentieth century. David Whithorn’s painstaking reconstruction of Albert’s story from surviving records and histories led to a pilgrimage following his footsteps to the Somme hillside where he fell in August 1916. What sets this book apart from the many others written about the soldiers and campaigns of the First World War is its dual function as both tightly focused history of the 3rd Worcestershire and a detective story that eventually reveals what happened to Private Albert Turley.

Free Download Robert E. Meagher, "Albert Camus and the Human Crisis"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1643138219 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 2.7 mb
A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis" that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant study of Camus’s life and influence for those readers who, in Camus’s words, "cannot live without dialogue and friendship."

Free Download Who Was Albert Einstein? by Jess Brallier
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0448424967 | 112 Pages | EPUB | 5.9 MB
Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein-but what exactly did he do?