Tag: Origins

Free Download Peter Atkins, "Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature"
English | ISBN: 0198813376 | 2018 | 208 pages | EPUB | 1073 KB
The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where did these laws and these constants come from? And why are the laws so fruitful when written in the language of mathematics?

Free Download Origins of the Ottoman Dynasty
by Kemal Silay;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1839992204 | pages | True EPUB | 121.88 MB

Free Download Brewing Barley Wines
by Foster, Terry;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1510766936 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 19.01 MB

Free Download Harvey Whitehouse, "Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World"
English | ISBN: 067429162X | 2024 | 368 pages | PDF | 3 MB
"An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanity’s evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species’ greatest successes and failures." ―Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens

Free Download Ian M. Crystal, "Self-Intellection and its Epistemological Origins in Ancient Greek Thought "
English | ISBN: 0754630579 | 2002 | 230 pages | EPUB | 13 MB
Can the intellect or the intellectual faculty be its own object of thought, or can it not think or apprehend itself? This book explores the ancient treatments of the question of self-intellection – an important theme in ancient epistemology and of considerable interest to later philosophical thought. The manner in which the ancients dealt with the intellect apprehending itself, took them into both the metaphysical and epistemological domains with reflections on questions of thinking, identity and causality. Ian Crystal traces the origins from which the concept of self-intellection springs, by examining Plato’s account of the epistemic subject and the emergence of self-intellection through the Aristotelian account, before the final part of the book explores the problem of how the intellect apprehends itself, and its resolution including Descriptioninus’ reformulation and the dilemma raised by Sextus Empiricus. Crystal concludes that Descriptioninus recasts the metaphysical structures of Plato and Aristotle in such a way that he casts the concept of self-intellection in an entirely new light and offers a solution to the problem.

Free Download Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, Dan Woren
English | March 20, 2012 | ISBN: B007MIXOEC | 17 hours and 55 minutes | MP3 64 kbps | 483 Mb
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?

Free Download Ronald Sanders, Karen Chilton (Narrator), "Lost Tribes and Promised Lands: The Origins of American Racism"
English | ISBN: 9781666670684 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~19:46:00 | 544 MB
THE COMPLETE ORIGINAL EDITION: An utterly revelatory work. Unprecedented in scope, detail, and ambition.
In Lost Tribes and Promised Lands, celebrated historian and cultural critic Ronald Sanders offers a compelling and ideology-shattering history of racial prejudice and myth as shaped by political, religious, and economic forces from the 14th Century to the present day. Written with clear-eyed vigor, Sanders draws on a broad history of art, psychology, politics, and religion to inform his striking and soundly reasoned assertions.
Lost Tribes and Promised Lands nimbly zig-zags through space and time, doggedly chipping away at the myopic history of discovery and righteous conquest that has been reiterated for decades by the same ideological forces responsible for centuries of mythological prejudice and racial strife. Placing 14th Century Spanish intolerance (specifically anti-Semitism) as the origins of American racism toward African and Native Americans, Sanders elegantly weaves complex threads of colonial economics, religious exceptionalism, and xenophobia into a heady and often-infuriating thesis on the history of racism.

Free Download Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL7HMKV8 | 2024 | 10 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 594 MB
Author: Harvey Whitehouse
Narrator: Harvey Whitehouse
Homo sapiens is a maker of unnatural history. For countless millennia, evolution has shaped our behaviour. But over just a few millennia, that behaviour has reshaped the world: building sprawling cities, global faiths, states, and empires. Nature made humanity, and humanity remade nature. Here, one of the world’s leading anthropologists reveals how our evolutionary past informed the birth and rise of global civilisation. Unveiling a visionary new way of studying human history – one that stunningly weaves together experimental psychology, anthropology and quantitative social science – Harvey Whitehouse uncovers the three evolutionary biases that shape our social behaviour: conformism, religiosity and tribalism. And he reveals how these biases were harnessed and extended to produce the greatest revolutions in human history, from the transition to agriculture to the rise of the first bureaucracies and organised religions. Above all, he argues that only by understanding our natural biases can we hope to survive the challenges of our unnatural present – from violent criminality to environmental meltdown. The result is a landmark study of the past and future of the world we made. It transforms our understanding of who we are and who we can be.

Free Download Ann Hartle, "Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0810129655, 0810129329 | PDF | pages: 239 | 1.2 mb
Montaigne’s Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle’s Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy argues that the essay is actually the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." Unpremeditated philosophy is philosophy made sociable-brought down from the heavens to the street, where it might be engaged in by a wider audience. In the same philosophical act, Montaigne both transforms philosophy and invents "society," a distinctly modern form of association. Through this transformation, a new, modern character emerges: the individual, who is neither master nor slave and who possesses the new virtues of integrity and generosity. In Montaigne’s radically new philosophical project, Hartle finds intimations of both modern epistemology and modern political philosophy.

Free Download Hubris: The Origins of Russia’s War Against Ukraine by Jonathan Haslam
English | September 12th, 2024 | ISBN: 1804548227 | 368 pages | True EPUB | 4.58 MB
On February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukraine conflict that began eight years earlier. But the roots of the conflict began long before that historic date.