Tag: Death

Death of the Author A Novel


Free Download Death of the Author: A Novel by Nnedi Okorafor
English | January 14, 2025 | ISBN: 0063443678, 0063391147 | True EPUB | 448 pages | 1.2 MB
Recommended by New York Times Book Review * People * NPR * Rolling Stone * Los Angeles Times * Reader’s Digest * and more!

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The Liberation of Life through Death Reading Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich


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2022 | 65 Pages | ISBN: 303107615X | PDF | 1 MB
This book undertakes to show how the exercise of reading Tolstoy’s "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" involves articulating for ourselves, as readers, what it means to liberate life through death. What Tolstoy’s short story shows us, the author argues, is that life can be truly liberated through death only when we see that death is neither a supernatural event nor a natural end but involves a work of love. In Part 1 of his study, the author addresses the common assumptions that give rise to the idea that religious and secular views of life and death are opposed in modernity. He also examines the history of values that Tolstoy’s story embodies. In Part 2, he analyses the life and death of Ivan Ilyich in order to show that the values that are embedded in Tolstoy’s story are at once religious and secular.

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El Campesino Life And Death In Soviet Russia


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English | 2020 | ISBN: 1016433409 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 0.6 mb
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Story of the SS Hitler’s Infamous Legions of Death


Free Download Nigel Cawthorne, "Story of the SS: Hitler’s Infamous Legions of Death"
English | ISBN: 1848588410 | 2012 | 384 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Author Nigel Cawthorne provides a concise, yet detailed look at one of the most chilling organizations ever conceived by the human imagination, and whose misdeeds are viewed with an unflinching gaze, making for a chilling, yet engrossing read.

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Treblinka Survivor The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling


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English | ISBN: 0752463713 | 2011 | 256 pages | MOBI | 3 MB
More than 800,000 people entered Treblinka, and fewer than seventy came out. Hershl Sperling was one of them. He escaped. Why then, fifty years later, did he jump to his death from a bridge in Scotland? The answer lies in a long-forgotten, published account of the Treblinka death camp, written by Hershl Sperling himself in the months after liberation and discovered in his briefcase after his suicide. It is reproduced here for the first time. In Treblinka Survivor, Mark S. Smith traces the life of a man who survived five concentration camps, and what he had to do to achieve this. Hershl’s story, which takes the reader through his childhood in a small Polish town to the bridge in faraway Scotland, is testament to the lasting torment of those very few who survived the Nazis’ most efficient and gruesome death factory. The author personally follows in his subject’s footsteps from Klobuck, to Treblinka, to Glasgow.

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Brain Death of an Idea The Heritability of Intelligence


Free Download Manfred Velden, "Brain Death of an Idea: The Heritability of Intelligence"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 3847102885 | PDF | pages: 66 | 0.5 mb
It is a matter of scientific debate to what extent intelligence is hereditary. However, in a relatively broad part of the public the opinion prevails that intelligence is to a large extent hereditary, which means that it can only be minimally improved through social intervention. The book presents the scientific methods for determining heritability in the individual. It is clear from these methods that there can be no general value for heritability of intelligence, and that a heritability value says practically nothing as to the extent to which intelligence can be altered. The volume traces the history of research on the heritability of intelligence. The discipline is manifestly plagued by dubious practices and has caused social damage on a large scale, for example in the context of eugenics, immigration or education policy.

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The Kitchener Enigma The Life and Death of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, 1850-1916


Free Download Trevor Royle, "The Kitchener Enigma: The Life and Death of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, 1850-1916"
English | ISBN: 0750967293 | 2016 | 416 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitchener’s latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, to reveal a caring man capable of displaying great loyalty and love to those close to him.New light is thrown on his Irish childhood, his years in the Middle East as a biblical archaeologist, his attachment to the Arab cause and on the infamous struggle with Lord Curzon over control of the army in India.In particular, Royle reassesses Kitchener’s role in the Great War, presenting his phenomenally successful recruitment campaign – ‘Your Country Needs You’ – as a major contribution to the Allied victory and rehabilitating him as a brilliant strategist who understood the importance of fighting the war on multiple fronts.

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