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Free Download The Mirror of Art: Painting and Reflection in Early Modern Visual Culture by Genevieve Warwick
English | November 30, 2024 | ISBN: 1009448803 | True PDF | 440 pages | 55.7 MB
One of the key pictorial developments of Renaissance art was a conceptualisation of painting as a mirror reflection of the visible world. The idea of painting as specular was argued in Renaissance art theory, demonstrated in art practice, and represented in painting itself. Both within the artist’s workshop and within pictorial representation, the mirror-image became the instrument, the emblem, and the conceptual definition of what a painting was.

Free Download Kevin Behan, "Your Dog Is Your Mirror: The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves"
English | ISBN: 1608680886 | 2022 | 246 pages | EPUB | 490 KB
In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion. The dog doesn’t respond to what the owner thinks, says, or does; it responds to what the owner feels. And in this way, dogs can actually put people back in touch with their own emotions. Behan demonstrates that dogs and humans are connected more profoundly than has ever been imagined; by heart; and that this approach to dog cognition can help us understand many of dogs’ most inscrutable behaviors. This groundbreaking, provocative book opens the door to a whole new understanding between species, and perhaps a whole new understanding of ourselves.

Free Download The Delta in the Rearview Mirror: The Life and Death of Mississippi’s First Winery by Di Rushing
English | January 25, 2024 | ISBN: 1496849299 | 208 pages | PDF | 3.35 Mb
After graduating from Mississippi State University in 1976, Di Rushing and her husband, Sam, found themselves back on their family farm near Merigold, Mississippi, with 350 acres and no real clue what to do. The couple decided to open the first winery in Mississippi, and with it, a successful business was born. Six years later, a small restaurant joined the Delta winery. Both businesses were thriving by 1990, with eight national award-winning wines, a beautiful vineyard, and a successful restaurant.

Free Download The Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell by K.J. Aiello
English | September 24, 2024 | ISBN: 1770417087 | 272 pages | PDF | 2.57 Mb
Revelatory memoir and cultural criticism that connects popular fantasy and our perceptions of mental illness to offer an empathetic path to compassionate care

Free Download Jurisprudence in the Mirror: The Common Law World Meets the Civil Law World
by Luka Burazin
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0192868683 | 532 Pages | PDF | 6 MB

Free Download The Mind’s Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D5KCFC6Z | 2024 | 7 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Daniela Rus, Gregory Mone
Narrator: Nan McNamara
An exciting introduction to the true potential of AI from the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Imagine a technology capable of discovering new drugs in days instead of years, helping scientists map distant galaxies and decode the language of whales, and aiding the rest of us in mundane daily tasks, from drafting email responses to preparing dinner. Now consider that this same technology poses risks to our jobs and society as a whole. Artificial Intelligence is no longer science fiction; it is upending our world today. As advances in AI spark fear and confusion, The Mind’s Mirror reminds us that in spite of the very real and pressing challenges, AI is a force with enormous potential to improve human life.

Free Download A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
English | July 12, 1987 | ISBN: 0345349571 | 784 pages | PDF | 21 Mb
A "marvelous history"* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August

Free Download Donna L. Sadler, "The Nun’s Cell as Mirror, Memoir, and Metaphor in Covent Life: Study of the Models of Nuns’ Cells from the Collection of"
English | ISBN: 2503601936 | 2023 | 242 pages | PDF | 14 MB
In the eighteenth through the early twentieth century, French nuns from various orders created miniature simulacra of the cells in which they slept, studied, and performed their devotions. Each diorama contains an effigy of the nun, a prie-Dieu, devotional objects such as a crucifix, handiwork, and artifacts to foster study and contemplation. This book examines the lives of the brides of Christ as depicted in these dioramas, proposing that the material objects found in the chambers trace the contours of the collective and individual identities of the nuns who created these cells. Viewed as a type of memoir, the cells furnish the sisters a stage upon which to rehearse the meaning of their lives. The dioramas create a tension between the private and public presentations of the self, between verisimilitude and self-fashioning, and between reality and representation. The book contextualizes the miniature cells within the larger discourse of gender, identity, self-representation, monastic devotion, and the power wielded by the aesthetics of scale.

Free Download Lola in the Mirror: A Novel by Trent Dalton
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 0063414740 | True EPUB | 512 pages | 27.7 MB
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, an irresistible novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies.

Free Download The Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell by K.J. Aiello
English | September 24th, 2024 | ISBN: 1770417087 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 1.72 MB
Revelatory memoir and cultural criticism that connects popular fantasy and our perceptions of mental illness to offer an empathetic path to compassionate care