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Free Download James Williams, "Gilles Deleuze’s Logic of Sense: A Critical Introduction and Guide"
English | 2008 | pages: 233 | ISBN: 0748626115, 0748626107 | PDF | 0,6 mb
This book offers the first critical study of The Logic of Sense, Gilles Deleuze’s most important work on language and ethics, as well as the main source for his vital philosophy of the event. Deleuze’s philosophy has always promised a revolution in ethical theories and in our understanding of the relation between language, thought and action. This book develops a critical reading of Deleuze’s work in order to convey the potential and risks of his new approaches to questions of how to live an intense life in response to the excitement and danger of events. This interpretation covers all aspects of Deleuze’s book, including engagements with phenomenology, with analytic philosophy of language, with stoicism, with literary theory and with psychoanalysis. Its aim is to open new debates and develop current ones around Deleuze’s work in philosophy, politics, literature, linguistics and sociology.

Free Download J. P. Sullivan, "Critical Essays on Roman Literature"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138686883 | PDF | pages: 431 | 41.5 mb
First published in 1962, this book is the first of two volumes which bridge the gap between the study of classics and the study of literature and attempt to reconcile the two disciplines. Focusing on elegy and lyric, this collection of essays offers a critical examination of Latin literature and aims to stimulate critical discussion of a selection of Latin poets.

Free Download Margaretha Häggström, Catarina Schmidt, "Relational and Critical Perspectives on Education for Sustainable Development: Belonging and Sensing in a Vanishing World"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030845095, 3030845125 | PDF | pages: 202 | 9.6 mb
This volume focuses on the fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), education, to look at sustainability from various angles with the purpose of challenging preconceptions about what sustainable education might entail and how it should be conducted. To this end, the book assembles scholars from various research fields and disciplines, who are willing to be at the cutting edge regarding sustainability and education on all levels with students in the ages of 6-15. Through this approach, the text points towards a "wild pedagogy" in line with post-sustainable thinking. This involves agency and the role of nature itself as a co-educator, and promotes cultural changes, and explorative processes of finding "the wild" – the unknown, and complexity in nature – and thus of challenging the human need for control. This approach is also, in line with the 2030 Agenda, an attempt to move from advocating predetermined behavioural change to embracing a pluralistic perspective on sustainability, based on holistic views on education. Such views include curiosity, wonderment, compassion and agency as guiding lights.

Free Download Physics of Critical Fluctuations By Yuli M. Ivanchenko, Alexander A. Lisyansky (auth.)
1995 | 390 Pages | ISBN: 1461286956 | PDF | 28 MB
Building on Wilson’s renormalization group, the authors have developed a unified approach that not only reproduces known results but also yields new results. A systematic exposition of the contemporary theory of phase transitions, the book includes detailed discussions of phenomena in Heisenberg magnets, granular super-conducting alloys, anisotropic systems of dipoles, and liquid-vapor transitions. Suitable for advanced undergraduates as well as graduate students in physics, the text assumes some knowledge of statistical mechanics, but is otherwise self-contained.

Free Download O. V. Vijayan: The Critical Insider
by E. V. Ramakrishnan and K. C. Muraleedharan
English | 2025 | ISBN: 0367715740 | 349 Pages | True PDF | 40 MB

Free Download E. V. Ramakrishnan, "O. V. Vijayan: The Critical Insider "
English | ISBN: 0367715740 | 2024 | 326 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
O.V. Vijayan (1930-2005) was an acclaimed Malayalam novelist, short story writer, cartoonist, translator, columnist, political analyst, and public intellectual. In a literary career spanning almost half a century, he published six novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eight volumes of non-fictional prose, three volumes of reminiscences, three volumes of cartoons, and four self-translations. This book offers a comprehensive understanding of O.V. Vijayan’s work by analysing his fictional and non-fictional works, cartoons, and columns, and situates him in the context of Malayalam literary culture and Indian literature at large.

Free Download Leo Catana, "Jacob Brucker, Critical History of Philosophy: âPreliminary Discourseâ and âThe Socratic Schoolâ "
English | ISBN: 0192847147 | 2024 | 272 pages | PDF | 4 MB
It is well known that philosophy has a history that spans over more than two thousand years. It is less known, however, that the discipline narrating philosophy’s past emerged much later, namely in the 18th century. That new discipline was called ‘history of philosophy’. The German historian and theologian Johann Jacob Brucker (1696-1770) had a decisive influence upon the formation of this new discipline through his Latin work Historia critica philosophiae (Critical history of philosophy), which was first published in 1742-1744, and which came out in a second edition in 1766-1767. To Brucker it was paramount to define history of philosophy as a philosophical discipline, and not merely as a historical discipline. In order to achieve this, it was vital to define the new discipline’s object and explain which material should be included or excluded, and it was crucial to define an interpretative and philosophical method to be deployed on the material selected. Brucker’s

Free Download Josef Schmied, "Critical Discourse and Corpus Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar"
English | ISBN: 3736973470 | 2021 | 272 pages | PDF | 19 MB
The present volume draws on the experience of the Workshop held in Germany in late 2018 to combine the specialisations of the two linguistic research teams of the two partner universities, Sun Yat-sen University in China and Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany. It combines more theoretical approaches by experienced scholars and case studies by young researchers on topics and texts on current Chinese developments. The contributions can also serve as a general model for open and critical international and intercultural academic discourse.

Free Download Kapil Zirpe, "Critical Care Medicine MCQs Practice Book Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 9389188466 | 2019 | 370 pages | PDF | 131 MB
This revised second edition includes 668 MCQs related to critical care medicine with 300+ new to this edition. A few new sections such as imaging, pharma therapy, etc, have been included and the theory paper of 50 questions has been added for practice purposes at the end of book. Emphasis has been attributed to tropical diseases, the respiratory system, sepsis, infection control, neurocritical care, trauma and mechanical ventilation. The answers have been given for MCQs along with explanations at the end of every chapter.

Free Download Medieval Love Letters: A Critical Anthology
by Myra Stokes and Ad Putter
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1009398105 | 503 Pages | PDF | 4.7 MB