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Free Download English Cathedral and Monastic Carpentry by Cecil A. Hewett
English | September 7, 2023 | ISBN: 1803994770 | 320 pages | EPUB | 59 Mb
Well over a hundred great churches were build in the cathedral tradition in the middle ages. They are our most important group of historical monuments and embody the finest craftwork of medieval architecture. Despite a great mass of specialist literature and research on other aspects, it was not until Cecil Hewett’s work over the past three decades that any serious attention was paid to their functional carpentry or, indeed, to their decorative timberwork.

Free Download Margaret Willes, "In The Shadow of St. Paul’s Cathedral: The Churchyard that Shaped London"
English | ISBN: 0300249837 | 2022 | 320 pages | PDF | 42 MB
The extraordinary story of St. Paul’s Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium

Free Download Explosion in a Cathedral (Audiobook)
English | September 12, 2023 | ASIN: B0BBY4FVNG | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 58m | 720 MB
Author: Alejo Carpentier | Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi | Translator: Adrian Nathan West
"If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction."-Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of Books
One of Cuba’s-and Latin America’s-greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in sixty years and featuring a new foreword by Alejandro Zambra

Skull Cathedral: A Vestigial Anatomy (Audiobook)
English | Datum: October 08, 2021 | ASIN: B09FNTKV5K | MP3@64 kbps | 06h 41m | 176.15 MB
Author: Melissa Wiley
Narrator: Lana Sugarman
In Skull Cathedral, Melissa Wiley pulls stories from the vestigial remnants of the creatures we were or could have become. The appendix, pinky toes, tonsils, male nipples, wisdom teeth, and coccyx are starting points through which Wiley explores exaltation, eroticism, grief, and desire. Using the slow evolution and odd disintegration of vestigial organs to enter the braided stories of the lives we establish for ourselves, the people we grieve, and the mysteries of youth, memory, and longing, Wiley’s lens is deeply feminist and compassionate.

Free Download George Weigel, "The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0465092683 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.2 mb
Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty-first century? Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist "cube" of the Great Arch of La Defense in Paris with the civilization that produced the "cathedral" of Notre-Dame, George Weigel argues that Europe’s embrace of a narrow secularism has led to a crisis of morale that is eroding Europe’s soul and threatening its future – with dire lessons for the rest of the democratic world. Weigel traces the origins of "Europe’s problem" to the atheistic humanism of the nineteenth-century European intellectual life, which set in motion a historical process that produced two world wars, three totalitarian systems, the Gulag, Auschwitz, the Cold War – and, most ominously, the Continent’s de-population, which is worse today than during the Black Death. And yet, many Europeans still insist – most recently, during the debate over a new EU constitution – that only a public square shorn of religiously-informed moral argument is safe for human rights and democracy. Precisely the opposite, Weigel suggests, is true: the people of the "cathedral" can give a compelling account of their commitment to everyone’s freedom; the people of the "cube" cannot. Can there be any true "politics" – any true deliberation about the common good, and any robust defense of freedom – without God? George Weigel makes a powerful case that the answer is "No," because, in the final analysis, societies are only as great as their spiritual aspirations.

Free Download The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200 By C. Stephen Jaeger
2013 | 544 Pages | ISBN: 0812200306 | PDF | 30 MB
Before the rise of universities, cathedral schools educated students in a course of studies aimed at perfecting their physical presence, their manners, and their eloquence. The formula of cathedral schools was "letters and manners" (litterae et mores), which asserts a pedagogic program as broad as the modern "letters and science." The main instrument of what C. Stephen Jaeger calls "charismatic pedagogy" was the master’s personality, his physical presence radiating a transforming force to his students. In The Envy of Angels, Jaeger explores this intriguing chapter in the history of ideas and higher learning and opens a new view of intellectual and social life in eleventh- and early twelfth-century Europe.

Free Download The Cathedral And The Bazaar: Musings On Linux And Open Source By An Accidental Revolutionary By Eric S. Raymond
2001 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 0596001088 | PDF | 1 MB
Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development is being embraced and studied by many of the biggest players in the high-tech industry, from Sun Microsystems to IBM to Intel.The Cathedral & the Bazaar is a must for anyone who cares about the future of the computer industry or the dynamics of the information economy. Already, billions of dollars have been made and lost based on the ideas in this book. Its conclusions will be studied, debated, and implemented for years to come. According to Bob Young, "This is Eric Raymond’s great contribution to the success of the open source revolution, to the adoption of Linux-based operating systems, and to the success of open source users and the companies that supply them."The interest in open source software development has grown enormously in the past year. This revised and expanded paperback edition includes new material on open source developments in 1999 and 2000. Raymond’s clear and effective writing style accurately describing the benefits of open source software has been key to its success. With major vendors creating acceptance for open source within companies, independent vendors will become the open source story in 2001.