Tag: Beginnings

Free Download Alex McKay, "Their Footprints Remain: Biomedical Beginnings Across the Indo-Tibetan Frontier"
English | 2008 | pages: 303 | ISBN: 9053565183 | PDF | 1,7 mb
By the end of the 19th century, British imperial medical officers and Christian medical missionaries had introduced Western medicine to Tibet, Sikkim, and Bhutan. Their Footprints Remain uses archival sources, personal letters, diaries, and oral sources in order to tell the fascinating story of how this once-new medical system became imbedded in the Himalayas. Of interest to anyone with an interest in medical history and anthropology, as well as the Himalayan world, this volume not only identifies the individuals involved and describes how they helped to spread this form of imperialist medicine, but also discusses its reception by a local people whose own medical practices were based on an entirely different understanding of the world.

Free Download Sidney H. Griffith, "The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic: Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period "
English | ISBN: 086078889X | 2002 | 345 pages | PDF | 24 MB
The articles in this collection complement those in Professor Griffith’s previous volume, Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of 9th-Century Palestine, studying the first efforts of Christians living in the early Islamic world to respond to the religious challenges of Islam. In particular, the author shows how Christian apologists who wrote in Arabic adopted in defense of Christian doctrines the modes of discourse (kalam) then employed by Muslim controversialists (mutakallimun) to advance the claims of Islam. The writers whose works are studied here developed a truly Christian ‘ilm al-kalam, that is to say a science of defending Christianity in an Arabic idiom borrowed largely from Muslims.

Free Download David Rankine, "Wicca Magickal Beginnings: A Study of the Possible Origins of the Rituals and Practices Found in this Modern Tradition of Pagan Witchcraft and Magick"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1905297157 | PDF | pages: 241 | 1.8 mb
The origins of the Wiccan Tradition have long been a subject of debate amongst practitioners and scholars alike. Did Gerald Gardner invent the tradition? Is Wicca a survival of a British folk magick system? Could it be a continuation of a European tradition of Pagan Witchcraft? Might it be that it evolved from Victorian ceremonial magick, or perhaps it is the modern manifestation of the medieval Grimoire Tradition?

Free Download Karen Meyers, Jerry Phillips, "Colonialism And The Revolutionary Period: (Beginnings-1800)"
English | 2005 | pages: 97 | ISBN: 0816056676 | PDF | 1,0 mb
Each title in this series examines the history, development, and people integral to the evolution of American literature in an attempt to place popular American literature in its historical and cultural context.

Free Download David Stick, "Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America"
English | 1983 | ISBN: 0807841102, 0807815543 | EPUB | pages: 266 | 3.2 mb
Well before the Jamestown settlers first sighted the Chesapeake Bay or the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts, the first English colony in America was established on Roanoke Island. David Stick tells the story of that fascinating period in North Carolina’s past, from the first expedition sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584 to the mysterious disappearance of what has become known as the lost colony.

Free Download 31 Days to New Beginnings (Change Your Life In a Month!)
Published 9/2024
Duration: 4h | Video: .MP4, 1920×1080 30 fps | Audio: AAC, 44.1 kHz, 2ch | Size: 4.93 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
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Free Download Meir Shalev, "Beginnings: Reflections on the Bible’s Intriguing Firsts"
English | 2011 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0307717186 | EPUB | 2,1 mb
The bestselling and prize-winning Israeli author Meir Shalev describes the many "firsts" of the Bible – the first love and the first death, to the first laugh and the first dream – providing a fresh, secular and surprising look at the stories we think we know.

Free Download Susan Evans McCloud, "Voices from the Dust: A Song of Beginnings"
English | 1996 | ISBN: 157008226X | EPUB | pages: 260 | 0.9 mb
The saga of Neferure, a woman whose courageous spirit and indomitable will must sustain her as her people struggle to establish a new land. Torn between Shemnon, whom she has loved since childhood, and Himni, who is of her faith, she comes to learn the power challenges have to strengthen or to destroy. Faith, love, loss, and joy is the gospel are all elements of this epic tale that captures the emotions and dramas of the Book of Mormon peoples and events.

Free Download Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations by Dana S. Dunn, Bernard B. Beins, Maureen A. McCarthy
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0195378210 | 416 Pages | PDF | 1.1 MB
Introductory and capstone experiences in the undergraduate psychology program are crucial ways to engage students in their major and psychology department, impart realistic expectations, and prepare them for life beyond college.

Free Download Isabel González-Díaz, "Unhappy Beginnings "
English | ISBN: 1032526599 | 2023 | 206 pages | EPUB, PDF | 948 KB + 3 MB
This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames through the resignification of concepts such as unhappiness, precarity, failure, and vulnerability. The chapters bring to the fore how those potentially negative elements can be refigured as ambivalent sites of resistance and social bonding. Following Sara Ahmed’s rereading of happiness, other authors such as Judith Butler, Wendy Brown, Jack Halberstam, Lauren Berlant, or Henry Giroux are mobilized to interrogate films, memoirs, and novels that deal with precarity, alienation, and inequality. The monograph contributes to enlarging the archives of unhappiness by changing the focus from prescribed norms and happy endings to unruly practices and unhappy beginnings. As the different contributors show, unhappiness, precarity, vulnerability, or failure can be harnessed to illuminate ways of navigating the world and framing society that do not necessarily conform to the script of happiness―whatever that means.