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Free Download The Historical Landscape of Ancient Kalabría: Balkan and Aegean Linguistic Influences
by Francesco Lopez
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9004547762 | 207 Pages | PDF | 17.5 MB

Free Download The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics – Historical Analysis and Open Questions: Lecce, 1993 By L. Accardi (auth.), Claudio Garola, Arcangelo Rossi (eds.)
1995 | 452 Pages | ISBN: 9401040176 | PDF | 37 MB
In The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics – Historical Analysisand Open Questions, leading Italian researchers involved in different aspects of the foundations and history of quantum mechanics are brought together in an interdisciplinary debate. The book therefore presents an invaluable overview of the state of Italian work in the field at this moment, and of the open problems that still exist in the foundations of the theory. Audience: Physicists, logicians, mathematicians and epistemologists whose research concerns the historical analysis of quantum mechanics.

Free Download Joseph C. Salmons, Shannon Dubenion-Smith, "Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July – 5 August 2005"
English | 2007 | pages: 425 | ISBN: 9027247994 | PDF | 3,8 mb
This volume contains 22 revised papers originally presented at the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held August 2005 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The papers cover a broad range of languages, including well-studied languages of Europe but also Aramaic, Zoque and Uto-Aztecan, Japanese and Korean, Afrikaans, and the Pilbara languages of Australia. The theoretical approaches taken are equally diverse, often bringing together aspects of ‘formal’ and ‘functional’ theories in a single contribution. Many of the chapters provide fresh data, including several drawing on data from electronic corpora. Topics range from traditional comparative reconstruction to prosodic change and the role of processing in syntactic change.

Free Download Allen Stroud, "Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature "
English | ISBN: 1538166062 | 2023 | 578 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Fantasy is both old and new. In the ancient past, stories of magic, where supernatural creatures existed, the gods walked the earth and heroes saved their civilizations from the dark fate that awaited them were intermingled with history, religion, and fact. It is only in the last few hundred years that a conscious suspension of disbelief has allowed us to return to fantasy: the literature of the impossible and appreciate it for its craft and storytelling once more.

Free Download Anupama Roy, "Gendered Citizenship: Historical and Conceptual Explorations"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 8125052844, 8125027971 | EPUB | pages: 296 | 0.8 mb
historically, citizenship was constituted through a series of exclusion whereby large sections of people, (colonised societies, slaves, women and workers) were considered inadequate for it. Citizenship is therefore made up of multiple margins, but it also releases powerful new imaginaries and practices of citizenship.This revised edition of gendered citizenship;/em> (first published in 2005) examines the gendering of citizenship. In the context of resistance against the colonial rule, the language of citizenship that emerged in late colonial India was based on a gendered notion of the community National and political. pulling in arguments on how the Indian Constitution transformed the idea of citizenship, it teases out the plural sites of citizenship which existed at this moment, and traces the forms in which idioms of citizenship endure in contemporary times. It explores in particular the landscapes of new citizenship which have emerged in the form of flexible citizenship with graded entitlements, as distinguished from spaces of stable citizenship. It proposes that a concerted effort towards an interactive public space can congeal into shared bonds of citizenship.This book will be valuable for advanced students, researchers and scholars of political science, History, sociology and gender studies. It would also be helpful to those studying social exclusion and the general reader interested in debates over gender and citizenship.. historically, citizenship was constituted through a series of exclusion whereby large sections of people, (colonised societies, slaves, women and workers) were considered inadequate for it. Citizenship is therefore made up of multiple margins, but it also releases powerful new imaginaries and practices of citizenship.This revised edition of gendered citizenship;/em> (first published in 2005) examines the gendering of citizenship. In the context of resistance against the colonial rule, the language of citizenship that emerged in late colonial India was based on a gendered notion of the community National and political. pulling in arguments on how the Indian Constitution transformed the idea of citizenship, it teases out the plural sites of citizenship which existed at this moment, and traces the forms in which idioms of citizenship endure in contemporary times. It explores in particular the landscapes of new citizenship which have emerged in the form of flexible citizenship with graded entitlements, as distinguished from spaces of stable citizenship. It proposes that a concerted effort towards an interactive public space can congeal into shared bonds of citizenship.This book will be valuable for advanced students, researchers and scholars of political science, History, sociology and gender studies. It would also be helpful to those studying social exclusion and the general reader interested in debates over gender and citizenship..

Free Download Stephen J Shoemaker, "The Quest of the Historical Muhammad and Other Studies on Formative Islam"
English | ASIN : B0DC8Z8KX4 | 2024 | 174 pages | EPUB | 530 KB
The lead essay in this book is the first effort to approach the historical figure of Muhammad in a manner comparable to the investigations that biblical scholars have made in the effort to recover the historical figure of Jesus. Using comparable methods and approaches, this study demonstrates that despite a widely held belief that Islam was born "in the full light of history," we in fact know considerably less about both Muhammad and the beginnings of Islam than we do about the historical Jesus and the beginnings of Christianity. Also included are republications of four previously published essays dealing with such topics as the Qur’an’s status as a late ancient biblical apocryphon, the relation between the Jerusalem Temple and the Holy House revered by the Qur’an, and the imminent eschatology of the Qur’an and the early Islamic tradition.

Free Download Brian Balogh, Bruce J. Schulman, "Recapturing the Oval Office: New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0801456576, 0801453720 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 0.5 mb
Several generations of historians figuratively abandoned the Oval Office as the bastion of out-of-fashion stories of great men. And now, decades later, the historical analysis of the American presidency remains on the outskirts of historical scholarship, even as policy and political history have rebounded within the academy. In Recapturing the Oval Office, leading historians and social scientists forge an agenda for returning the study of the presidency to the mainstream practice of history and they chart how the study of the presidency can be integrated into historical narratives that combine rich analyses of political, social, and cultural history. The authors demonstrate how "bringing the presidency back in" can deepen understanding of crucial questions regarding race relations, religion, and political economy. The contributors illuminate the conditions that have both empowered and limited past presidents, and thus show how social, cultural, and political contexts matter. By making the history of the presidency a serious part of the scholarly agenda in the future, historians have the opportunity to influence debates about the proper role of the president today.

Free Download R.M. McDowall, "New Zealand Freshwater Fishes: an Historical and Ecological Biogeography"
English | 2010 | pages: 462 | ISBN: 9048192706, 9400732902 | PDF | 10,9 mb
In many ways, this book is the culmination of more than four decades of my exp- ration of the taxonomy, biogeography and ecology of New Zealand’s quite small freshwater fish fauna. I began this firstly as a fisheries ecologist with the New Zealand Marine Department (then responsible for the nation’s fisheries research and mana- ment), and then with my PhD at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA in the early-mid 1960s. Since then, employed by a series of agencies that have successively been assigned a role in fisheries research in New Zealand, I have been able to explore very widely the natural history of that fauna. Studies of the fishes of other warm to cold temperate southern lands have followed, particularly southern Australia, New Caledonia, Patagonian South America, the Falkland Islands, and South Africa and, in many ways, have provided the rather broader context within which the New Zealand fauna is embedded in terms of geography, phylogeny, and evolutionary history, and knowing this context makes the patterns within New Zealand all the clearer. An additional stream in these studies, in substantial measure driven by the beh- ioural ecology of these fishes round the Southern Hemisphere, has been exploration of the role of diadromy (regular migrations between marine and freshwater biomes) in fisheries ecology and biogeography, and eventually of diadromous fishes wor- wide.

Free Download Nature, Culture, and Inequality: A Comparative and Historical Perspective by Thomas Piketty, Willard Wood
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1915590884 | 94 pages | PDF | 6,3 Mb
"The most important economics book of the year―and maybe of the decade." -Paul Krugman, New York Times, on Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Free Download Susan Westhafer Furukawa, "The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan "
English | ISBN: 0674267915 | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 136 MB
Popular representations of the past are everywhere in Japan, from cell phone charms to manga, from television dramas to video games to young people dressed as their favorite historical figures hanging out in the hip Harajuku district. But how does this mass consumption of the past affect the way consumers think about history and what it means to be Japanese?