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Martin Heidegger Theorist of space


Free Download Martin Heidegger: Theorist of space By Theodore R. Schatzki
2017 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 351511761X | PDF | 1 MB
Explaining Heidegger’s ideas on spatial phenomena simply and succinctly, this book will be provocative and invaluable to anyone interested in space and spatial theory. The author gives incisive, informative, and compelling analyses of Heidegger’s overall philosophy and of his changing ideas about space, spatiality, the clearing, places, sites, and dwelling. This study also charts the legacy of these ideas in philosophy, geography, architecture, and anthropology and includes a bibliography of selected works that examine or are influenced by Heidegger’s ideas on space.

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Martin Luther


Free Download John Schofield, "Martin Luther"
English | ISBN: 0752453904 | 2010 | 192 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Martin Luther was so angered by the sale of indulgences (pardons for sins granted by the Pope) that, in 1517, he nailed 95 arguments for reform of the Roman Catholic Church to the doors of the church and the castle at Wittenberg. This act began one of the most momentous periods of change in history: the Reformation. So much has been written on Luther that it’s difficult for a beginner to know where to start. This book is an introduction, succinct and readable, but substantial and not skimpy. It covers or summarizes Luther’s major works and the main events of his life, and it invites the reader to meet him at his study desk, in the lecture hall, in the pulpit, at the dinner table.

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Martin Van Buren The Little Magician


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English | ISBN: 1604567732 | 2012 | 232 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book portrays the life of Martin Van Buren, an active architect of the Democratic Party and eighth president of the American republic, who still remains in the public mind as an obscure, if not forgotten, figure of our history. It depicts his rise to legal then political prominence. Van Buren’s long-winding road to the White House was marked by the creation of his ‘Albany Regency’, a well-disciplined political machine that he effectively managed through the so-called spoils system and adroitly used to his own political advantage. Blessed with sound political acumen but despised for his constant political manoeuvring, he was know as ‘the Little Magician’ by his friends and enemies alike, with different motives. As president, Van Buren was beset with the Panic of 1837, a strong economic recession resulting mostly from his predecessor’s wrong choices, but for which he paid a strong political price. This book details his life and career.

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A Child Shall Lead Them Martin Luther King Jr., Young People, and the Movement


Free Download Rufus Burrow Jr., "A Child Shall Lead Them: Martin Luther King Jr., Young People, and the Movement"
English | ISBN: 1451484542 | 2014 | 150 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Half a century after some of its most important moments, the assessment of the Civil Rights Era continues. In this exciting volume, Dr. Rufus Burrow turns his attention to a less investigated but critically important byway in this powerful storythe role of children and young people in the Civil Rights Movement.

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The Luther Myth The Image of Martin Luther from Religious Reformer to Völkisch Icon


Free Download Patrick Hayden-Roy, "The Luther Myth: The Image of Martin Luther from Religious Reformer to Völkisch Icon"
English | ISBN: 0198930267 | 2025 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In the period from the close of the Napoleonic Wars up through the immediate post-World-War II era the image of Martin Luther was transposed in Germany from a religious reformer and advocate of freedom to a symbol of völkisch nationalist identity, such that with the seizure of power by the Nazis, Luther was used to portray a symbiosis between the new regime and the tradition of Protestant religiosity. The Luther Myth traces the evolution of this image within the environment of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German nationalist sentiment, looking particularly at how Protestant Germans styled Luther to affirm the essentialist racial identity politics of the Nazis, the cult of authoritarian leadership around Adolf Hitler, the drive to impose state control over all competing sources of authority, and the victimizing of German Jews. In doing so, it sheds new light on why Nazism was able to co-opt German Protestantism as a source for legitimizing its seizure of power despite the fact that the animating core of Nazi ideology was radically subversive in relation to traditional Christian piety.

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Lockheed Aircraft Cutaways The History of Lockheed Martin


Free Download Michael Badrocke – Lockheed Aircraft Cutaways: The History of Lockheed Martin
Barnes & Noble Books | 2001 | ISBN: 076072573X | English | 160 pages | PDF | 154.73 MB
This book contains BEAUTIFUL line-art illustrations of a host of Lockheed aircraft, past and present. The artwork was done by Mike Badrocke who is a recognized master at this craft. Bill Gunston is also a master aviation writer. Together they’ve produced a very beautiful book for the aviation enthusiast. You’ll see cutaways of the A-12, C-5, F-16, F-117, U-2, and even the F-22. There are civil aircraft cutaways such as the Constellation and L-1011. Helicopters, WW2 aircraft and before are all represented. It’s a wonderful book to help you "explore" the inner workings of these aircraft, and nobody does it better than Badrocke.

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