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September 16, 2024

The Predestination of Humans and Angels Augustinus, Tome III, Book IX

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Free Download Cornelius Jansen, Guido Stucco, "The Predestination of Humans and Angels: Augustinus, Tome III, Book IX"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0813235421 | PDF | pages: 336 | 10.2 mb
No other theological text polarized the early modern Catholic world as much as Cornelius Jansen’s Augustinus. In it the erudite bishop not only reconstructed St. Augustine’s teaching on grace and free will, but also boldly claimed that his views were in line with the Council of Trent and the Society of Jesus. For Jansen the latter had marginalized the Church Father’s doctrine on divine predestination by overemphasizing human free will. Published after his death in 1640, Jansen’s work drew a large crowd of followers and inspired an Augustinian reform movement. Its papal condemnation unintentionally spread this theology, but stifled an impassionate, academic engagement with the Augustinus. This first-ever translation of some of its central chapters enables historians, philosophers and theologians to finally engage with the founding text of Jansenism.

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September 15, 2024

Counting Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers

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Free Download Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers by Benjamin Wardhaugh
English | 18 July 2024 | ISBN: 0008436460, 0008436479 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 10.2 MB
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?

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September 13, 2024

These Potatoes Look Like Humans The contested future of land, home and death in South Africa

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Free Download Mbuso Nkosi, "These Potatoes Look Like Humans: The contested future of land, home and death in South Africa"
English | ISBN: 1776148401 | 2023 | 186 pages | PDF | 4 MB
These Potatoes Look Like Humans offers a unique understanding of the intersection between land, labour, dispossession and violence experienced by Black South Africans from the apartheid period to the present. In this ground-breaking book, Mbuso Nkosi criticises the historical framing of this debate within narrow materialist and legalistic arguments. His assertion is that, for most Black South Africans, the meaning of land cannot be separated from one’s spiritual and ancestral connection to it, and this results in him seeing the dispossession of land in South Africa with a perspective not yet explored.

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September 12, 2024

Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

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Free Download Thorsten Fögen, "Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity"
English | ISBN: 3110544164 | 2017 | 506 pages | EPUB | 40 MB
The seventeen contributions to this volume, written by leading experts, show that animals and humans in Graeco-Roman antiquity are interconnected on a variety of different levels and that their encounters and interactions often result from their belonging to the same structures, ‘networks’ and communities or at least from finding themselves together in a certain setting, context or environment – wittingly or unwittingly. Papers explore the concrete categories of interaction between animals and humans that can be identified, in what contexts they occur, and what types of evidence can be productively used to examine the concept of interactions. Articles in this volume take into account literary, visual, and other types of evidence. A comprehensive research bibliography is also provided.

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