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Free Download The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects by Edmund Wilson
English | September 1, 1986 | ISBN: 0374513228 | True EPUB | 270 pages | 0.7 MB
The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects contains some of Edmund Wilson’s most significant and brilliant writings on topics and authors ranging from Pushkin, A. E. Housman, Flaubert, Henry James, Marxism, poetry and more.

Free Download F. A. Hayek, "The Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political Economists and Economic History "
English | ISBN: 0865977429 | 2009 | 400 pages | EPUB | 746 KB
In The Trend of Economic Thinking Hayek presents many of the figures that influenced the development of his economic thought. The articles range from well-known economists such as Mandeville, Hume, Smith, and Bastiat, to lesser-known figures such as Dupuit and Gossen, showing the breadth of Hayek’s study of the history of economic thought.

Free Download Richard Eldridge, "The Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in Philosophy and Literature"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0521804817, 0521800463 | PDF | pages: 268 | 15.7 mb
These challenging essays defend Romanticism against its critics. They argue that Romantic thought, interpreted as the pursuit of freedom in concrete contexts, remains a central and exemplary form of both artistic work and philosophical understanding. Richard Eldridge traces the central features of Romantic thinking and shows that Romanticism is neither emptily literary and escapist nor dogmatically optimistic and sentimental. The first serious philosophical defense of the ethical ideals of Romanticism, this volume will appeal particularly to all professionals and students in philosophy, literature and aesthetics.

Free Download Nicholas Humphrey, "The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution"
English | ISBN: 0192802275 | 2003 | 376 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Nicholas Humphrey’s writings about the evolution of the mind have done much to set the agenda for contemporary psychology. Here, in a series of riveting essays, he invites us to ‘take another look’ at a variety of the central and not-so-central issues: the evolution of consciousness, the nature of the self, multiple personality disorder, the placebo effect, cave art, religious miracles, medieval animal trials, the seductions of dictatorship, and much more.

Free Download Gary Marcus, "The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World’s Leading Neuroscientists"
English | ISBN: 069116276X | 2014 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Including a chapter by 2014 Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser

Free Download The Devils and Canon Barham: Ten Essays On Poets, Novelists and Monsters by Edmund Wilson
English | December 1, 1999 | ISBN: 0374526699 | True EPUB | 219 pages | 0.5 MB
Edmund Wilson’s last collection of criticism, The Devils & Canon Barham, contains ten essays on Poets, Novelists, and Monsters

Free Download Selected Essays (Penguin Modern Classics) by Kazi Nazrul Islam, translated by Radha Chakravarty
English | 1 January 2024 | ISBN: 0143464353 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 2.1 MB
Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) is widely remembered as the fiery iconoclast who fought against the structures of oppression and orthodoxy. The iconic ‘rebel poet’ of Bengal, Nazrul continues to be loved for his songs and poetry. But what of his prose, his journalism, and his politics?

Free Download Susan Flynn, Antonia Mackay, "Screening American Nostalgia: Essays on Pop Culture Constructions of Past Times"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1476680744 | PDF | pages: 218 | 18.6 mb
This book examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colors the visions of American life, essays explore contemporary American ideology as it is created and sustained by the screen. Nostalgia is omnipresent, selling a version of America that arguably never existed. Current socio-cultural challenges are played out onscreen and placed within the historical milieu through a nostalgic lens which is tempered by contemporary conservatism. Essays reveal not only the visual catalog of recognizable motifs but also how these are used to temper the uncertainty of contemporary crises. Media covered spans from 1939’s Gone with the Wind, to Stranger Things, The Americans, Twin Peaks, the Fallout franchise and more.

Free Download Gary Westfahl, Gregory Benford, Howard V. Hendrix, "Science Fiction and the Dismal Science: Essays on Economics in and of the Genre"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1476677387 | PDF | pages: 299 | 3.2 mb
Despite the growing importance of economics in our lives, literary scholars have long been reluctant to consider economic issues as they examine key texts. This volume seeks to fill one of these conspicuous gaps in the critical literature by focusing on various connections between science fiction and economics, with some attention to related fields such as politics and government. Its seventeen contributors include five award-winning scholars, five science fiction writers, and a widely published economist.

Free Download Nora Foster Stovel, "Relating Carol Shields’s Essays and Fiction: Crossing Borders"
English | ISBN: 3031114795 | 2023 | 293 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This collection of essays explores celebrated Canadian author Carol Shields’s experimentation with the essay genre in relation to her fiction. Shields’s essays clarify her iconoclastic approach to rules of narrative and illuminate her revisionist policies, elucidating the development of her fiction, both novels and stories, as her writing gradually becomes more explicitly feminist, as well as more daringly postmodernist. The dozen essays by the eminent Canadianists included in this edition throw fresh light on Shields’s writing, inviting us to read it with new eyes by revealing how her essays reflect and refract the brilliance of her fiction. These essays read Shields’s fiction through the lens of her essays, including those contained in the recent Giardini edition, wherein the author explains the creative methodologies involved in her fiction and also offers specific advice to writers of fiction.