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Free Download Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet: Essays and Interviews by Adrienne Su
English | August 6, 2024 | ISBN: 1589881923 | 238 pages | EPUB | 2.43 Mb
"Seasoned with a dash of [Su's] meticulously crafted poetry and even a recipe, this collection celebrates words, culture, food, and the human act of making that binds them all together. A literary gourmand’s delight."

Free Download Clare K. Rothschild, Trevor W. Thompson, "Galen’s De Indolentia: Essays on a Newly Discovered Letter"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 3161532155 | PDF | pages: 355 | 7.0 mb
In 2005, a French doctoral student discovered Galen’s long-lost treatise, De indolentia or On the Avoidance of Distress in a monastic library in Thessalonica. De indolentia is a letter to an unspecified addressee in which Galen describes how he responded to the fire that destroyed much of his library and medicines in 192 CE. The manuscript, catalogued in the Vlatadon monastery as codex 14, is of unspeakable value to scholars of antiquity. Classified with Galen’s writings on moral philosophy, De indolentia provides important evidence for second-century literary culture, including ancient library culture. It also addresses topics of interest to scholars in the field of ancient Christianity. The volume includes a brand new English translation of the text, a collation of all discrepancies among the leading critical editions of the Greek text, and essays by eminent scholars on different aspects of the text.

Free Download Firdous Ahmad Mala, "Essays on Mathematics: Three Essays on Alice and Others"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 6204749382 | PDF | pages: 62 | 1.5 mb
Mathematics is a subject like no other. Its marvels and its surprises are hard to enumerate. A society that has excelled at mathematics has achieved considerable success and has distinguished itself from many others. An anthology of Essays on Mathematics. It includes three essays on Alice, inspired by Lewis Carroll’s writings Through the Looking Glass and Alice’s Adventures in the Wonderland. There are other essays on the (Indian) National Mathematics Day, Artificial Intelligence, Russell, Al-Khwarizmi, Devlin, COVID19 lockdown and conditionals. These essays have appeared in several dailies and a monthly from time to time.

Free Download Thomas Carlyle, "Essays on Literature (Volume 5) "
English | ISBN: 0520339843 | 2020 | 880 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Essays on Literature brings together ten of the most important literary reviews and essays written by the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. Spanning his writing career, the essays allow the reader to track Carlyle’s development as a reviewer and stylist, the evolution of his perennial themes, and the tremendous impact of his writing on the development of British and American literature. In keeping with the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, these essays are accompanied by a thorough historical introduction to the material, extensive notes providing historical and cultural context while expanding on references and allusions, and a textual apparatus that carefully details and explains the editorial decisions made in reconciling the many editions of each essay.

Free Download Daniel W Smith, "Essays on Deleuze"
English | ISBN: 074864332X | 2012 | 480 pages | AZW3 | 1159 KB
Gathers 20 of Smith’s new and classic essays into one volume for the first time.

Free Download Essays on Art and Science by Eric R. Kandel
English | March 26, 2024 | ISBN: 0231212569 | True EPUB | 232 pages | 33.9 MB
When we view a work of art, we often experience an emotional response, but the causes of our reactions are complex. Our knowledge of why we respond to art as we do is rooted in science―in psychology and biology. Eric R. Kandel traces the origins of this understanding to early twentieth-century Vienna, which gave rise to the concept of the "beholder’s share," the realization that art is incomplete without the perceptual and emotional involvement of the viewer―that is, without our responses to it.

Free Download Encounter on the Seine: Essays (James Baldwin Centennial) by James Baldwin
English | August 6, 2024 | ISBN: 0807018678 | 120 pages | EPUB | 0.41 Mb
"James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harlem, to sing it on the Left Bank in Paris. . . . He was a giant." – Maya Angelou

Free Download Carey Fleiner, "Doctor Who and History: Critical Essays on Imagining the Past"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1476666563 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 4.1 mb
When Sydney Newman conceived the idea for Doctor Who in 1963, he envisioned a show in which the Doctor and his companions would visit and observe, but not interfere with, events in history. That plan was dropped early on and the Doctor has happily meddled with historical events for decades. This collection of new essays examines how the Doctor’s engagement with history relates to Britain’s colonial past, nostalgia for village life, Norse myths, alternate history, and the impact of historical decisions on the present.

Free Download Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice Wong
English | April 30, 2024 | ISBN: 0593469739 | 384 pages | PDF | 21 Mb
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms.

Free Download Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity by Sable Yong
English | July 9, 2024 | ISBN: 0063236486 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 2.7 MB
Journalist and former Allure editor Sable Yong debuts with a sharp-toothed and hilarious essay collection about beauty and vanity, examining their stigmatization in the cultural zeitgeist, and how to shift the focus to use both for powerful tools for self-exploration, interpersonal connection, and cultural change.