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Free Download Homer and His Iliad (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWGGJR2T | 2023 | 16 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 478 MB
Author: Robin Lane Fox
Narrator: Steve John Shepherd
A groundbreaking reassessment of the Iliad, uncovering how the poem was written and why it remains enduringly powerful. The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem-heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure? Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date, and a method for its composition-subjects of ongoing controversy-combining the detailed expertise of a historian with a poetic reader’s sensitivity. Lane Fox considers hallmarks of the poem; its values, implicit and explicit; its characters; its women; its gods; and even its horses. Thousands of listeners turn to the Iliad every year. Drawing on 50 years of listening and research, Lane Fox offers us a breathtaking tour of this magnificent text, revealing why the poem has endured for ages.

Free Download Michal Shapira, "Sigmund Freud and his Patient Margarethe Csonka: A Case of Homosexuality in a Woman in Modern Vienna "
English | ISBN: 1032403489 | 2023 | 130 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book provides a historical analysis of one of Sigmund Freud’s least-studied cases, published in 1920 as The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman.

Free Download Fazil Iskander, "Man and His Surroundings"
English |ASIN : B0BQLNRLNB | 2023 | 324 pages | PDF | 776 KB
Man and His Surroundings irreverently explores Soviet and post-Soviet identity, politics, and history. In what Iskander himself calls the book’s seminal novella, the narrator meets a man who believes himself to be Lenin, thawed out after decades of cryogenic storage. The narrator endures a phantasmagorical account of what "Lenin" thought and did during the October Revolution of 1917 and how another revolution is imminent. In another novella, the narrator tells of a nationally renowned fencer as the fencer sits at a neighboring table, discussing the impossibility of equality on earth, while his son pesters him for ice cream. The novellas enrapture the reader with their humor and impart a better intuitive understanding of the Soviet cultural heritage and mindset.

Free Download Clark, "Herder: His Life and Thought"
English | ISBN: 0520325230 | 2022 | 524 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.

Free Download Delphine Antoine-Mahut, "Condillac and His Reception "
English | ISBN: 1032369787 | 2023 | 294 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1065 KB + 3 MB
This volume explores the philosophy of Étienne Bonnot de Condillac. It presents, for the first time, English-language essays on Condillac’s philosophy, making the complexity and sophistication of his arguments and their influence on early modern philosophy accessible to a wider readership.

Free Download Giles E.M. Gasper, "Anselm of Canterbury and his Theological Inheritance"
English | ISBN: 0754639118 | 2004 | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Anselm of Canterbury is one of the most famous of medieval Christian thinkers, who left a considerable political and intellectual inheritance of his own. This book reveals that the theological and intellectual inheritance available to Anselm was more dynamic, broader and deeper than is traditionally thought and Anselm was influenced by more than just the works of St Augustine. Giles Gasper focuses particularly on the part played by the translated works of the Greek Fathers. Demonstrating how widely the writings of the Fathers of the Church were available in western libraries, Gasper goes on to compare key aspects of doctrine in Anselm’s thought with that of the notable Greek Fathers. Questioning the way in which Anselm and other authors have been described, this book moves away from well worn routes of interpretation and provides new perspectives on this most significant figure in the history of the church, the middle ages, and western thought.

Free Download Les Standiford, "Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles"
English | 2015 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0062251422 | EPUB | 6,1 mb
The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created-William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct-a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who’s vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.

Free Download Christine Woodhead, Metin Kunt, "Suleyman the Magnificent and His Age: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World"
English | 2013 | pages: 233 | ISBN: 0582038278, 1138836257, 0582038286 | PDF | 6,4 mb
Suleyman the Magnificent dominated the Ottoman and the eastern Mediterranean worlds – and the imaginations of his contemporaries. During his reign (1520-1566) the Ottoman Empire expanded hugely. The sultan ruled over territories from Algiers to Azerbayjan, from Budapest to Baghdad and Basra, and from the Crimea to Qatif in the Persian Gulf and Mocha in Yemen. He controlled three-quarters of the Mediterranean shores. His armies even besieged Vienna. But Suleyman was more than a conqueror: it was also as patron and legislator that he stamped his name on his age. He provides a fascinating comparison with his fellow sovereigns in the west, Charles V, Francis I and Henry VIII. Yet Suleyman and his world remain much less well known than these Renaissance rulers to historians and other readers today. This book is a welcome contribution to a wider understanding of the man and his times.

Free Download Tim Moore, "Spanish Steps: One Man and His Ass on the Pilgrim Way to Santiago"
English | 2004 | pages: 328 | ISBN: 0224062654 | EPUB | 0,7 mb

Free Download Jonathan Schneer, "Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet"
English | 2015 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 0465027911, 1780748329 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the King reluctantly appointed Prime Minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill’s reputation as one of the great twentieth-century leaders would be forged during the coming months and years, as he worked tirelessly first to rally his country and then to defeat Hitler. But Churchill – regarded as the savior of his nation, and of the entire continent – could not have done it alone.