Tag: Essays

Free Download Roy P. Mottahedeh, "In the Shadow of the Prophet: Essays in Islamic History"
English | ISBN: 0861545605 | 2023 | 640 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
Ranging from the Abbasid period in the eighth century to Islamic revival movements of the present day, the collected essays of lauded Harvard professor Roy Mottahedeh

Free Download Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Ronald G. Witt By Christopher S. Celenza, Kenneth Gouwens (eds.)
2006 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 9004149074 | PDF | 19 MB
This volume comprises original contributions from 17 scholars whose work and careers Ronald Witt has touched in myriad ways. Intellectual, social, and political historians, a historian of philosophy and an art historian: specialists in various temporal and geographical regions of the Renaissance world here address specific topics reflecting some of the major themes that have woven their way through Ronald Witt’s intellectual cursus. While some essays offer fresh readings of canonical texts and explore previously unnoticed lines of filiation among them, others present "discoveries," including a hitherto "lost" text and overlooked manuscripts that are here edited for the first time. Engagement with little-known material reflects another of Witt’s distinguishing characteristics: a passion for original sources. The essays are gathered under three rubrics: "Politics and the Revival of Antiquity"; "Humanism, Religion, and Moral Philosophy"; and "Erudition and Innovation.&quot

Free Download Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell, Elena T. Levy, "Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in Honor of David Mcneill"
English | 2007 | pages: 335 | ISBN: 9027228418 | PDF | 5,2 mb
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Free Download Marvin J. Heller, "Further Essays on the Making of the Early Hebrew Book "
English | ISBN: 900469319X | 2024 | 524 pages | PDF | 82 MB
Further Essays addresses Hebrew book arts, pressmarks and verses used to entitle books; the works of rabbis and scholars, once prominent but not well remembered today; several locations, once important, also not well remembered today; and articles on other book topics.

Free Download John Deigh, "From Psychology to Morality: Essays in Ethical Naturalism"
English | ISBN: 0190878592 | 2018 | 296 pages | EPUB | 1002 KB
The essays in this collection belong to the tradition of naturalism in ethics. The tradition goes back to the beginnings of moral philosophy in ancient Greek thought. Its program is to explain moral thought and action as wholly natural phenomena. Its aim, in other words, is to explain such thought and action without recourse to either a reality separate from that of the natural world or volitional powers that operate independently of natural forces. Its greatest exponent in ancient thought was Aristotle. In modern thought Hume and Freud stand out as the most influential contributors to the tradition. All three thinkers made the study of human psychology fundamental to their work in ethics. All three built their theories on studies of human desires and emotions and assigned to reason the role of guiding the actions that spring from our desires and emotions toward ends that promise self-fulfillment and away from ends that are self-destructive. The collection’s essays draw inspiration from their ideas.

Free Download John McKinnell, "Essays on Eddic Poetry (Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series "
English | ISBN: 1442615885 | 2014 | 392 pages | AZW3 | 1085 KB
Essays on Eddic Poetry presents a selection of important articles on Old Norse literature by noted medievalist John McKinnell. While McKinnell’s work addresses many of the perennial issues in the study of Old Norse, this collection has a special focus on the interplay between heathen and Christian world-views in the poems.

Free Download Susan M. Bernardo, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III, "Environments in Science Fiction: Essays on Alternative Spaces"
English | 2014 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 078647579X | EPUB | 0,4 mb
The all-new essays in this book respond to the question, How do spaces in science fiction, both built and unbuilt, help shape the relationships among humans, other animals and their shared environments? Spaces, as well as a sense of place or belonging, play major roles in many science fiction works. This book focuses especially on depictions of the future that include, but move beyond, dystopias and offer us ways to imagine reinventing ourselves and our perspectives; especially our links to and views of new environments.

Free Download Encountering Past In Nature: Essays In Environmental History By Timo Myllyntaus, Mikko Saikku, Alfred W. Crosby
2001 | 185 Pages | ISBN: 0821413589 | PDF | 4 MB
A collection of essays offering various approaches to environmental history. Issues covered range from the intellectual formation of environmental concepts to case studies of forest history and animal extinction. Most essays focus on the issue of wilderness and the use of forest resources.

Free Download Echoing Silence: Essays on Arctic Narrative By John Moss
1997 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0776604414 | PDF | 14 MB
The North has always had, and still has, an irresistible attraction. This fascination is made up of a mixture of perspectives, among these, the various explorations of the Arctic itself and the Inuk cultural heritage found in the elders’ and contemporary stories. This book discusses the different generations of explorers and writers and illustrates how the sounds of a landscape are inseparable from the stories of its inhabitants.

Free Download Cool, Calm & Contentious: Essays By Merrill Markoe
2011 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0345518918 | EPUB | 3 MB
In this hilarious collection of personal essays, New York Times bestselling author Merrill Markoe reveals, among other things, the secret formula for comedy: Start out with a difficult mother, develop some classic teenage insecurities, add a few relationships with narcissistic men, toss in an unruly pack of selfish dogs, finish it off with the kind of crystalline perspective that only comes from years of navigating a roiling sea of unpleasant and unappeasable people, and-voilà!-you’re funny!But in Cool, Calm & Contentious, Markoe also reveals something more: herself. This is by far her most personal, affecting collection yet-honest, unapologetic, often painful, but always shot through with the bracing, wicked sense of humor that has made her such a beloved and incisive observer of life, both human and canine. In Cool, Calm & Contentious, she goes there: from the anal-retentive father who once spent ten minutes lecturing Markoe’s forty-year-old, Ph.D.-wielding brother on how to fold a napkin, to the eternally aggrieved mother who took pleasure in being unpleasant to waiters and spent most of her life, Markoe says, in "varying degrees of pissed off"; from the way she surrendered her virginity as a freshman in college (to her, it was "something to be gotten rid of quickly, then never discussed again, like body odor"), to why, later in life, she ultimately came to find dogs so much more appealing than humans, Markoe holds nothing back. It’s all here, in all its messy, poignant glory, and told the way only Merril Markoe knows how-with honesty, wit, and bite. Cool, Calm & Contentious offers something for everyone-fans of humorous essays, fans of memoir, fans of great writing and finely drawn characters, fans of dogs, fans of talking dogs, and fans of reading about mothers who are so difficult and demanding they actually make you feel good about your own life. But most of all, this book is for the many fans of Merrill Markoe, who will finally get a chance to learn what makes her tick-and what makes her so funny and wise.