Tag: Reasons

Free Download Talal Asad, Amir Abdullah (Narrator), "Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam"
English | ASIN: B0CQ12ZCVG | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:39:00 | 321 MB
In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept.
The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation-from totalitarian and socially repressive to private and relatively benign-is a familiar part of the story of secularization. It is often invoked to explain and justify the liberal politics and world view of modernity. And it leads to the view that "politicized religions" threaten both reason and liberty. Asad’s essays explore and question all these assumptions. He argues that "religion" is a construction of European modernity, a construction that authorizes-for Westerners and non-Westerners alike-particular forms of "history making."

Free Download Misfortune and Fame: 10 Reasons You Don’t Want to be Rich (or Famous) by Paul Berton
English | October 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1771623721 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 4.37 MB
Paul Berton, Canada’s antidote to the waste and excess of consumer culture, is back with another dose of satire at the expense of the rich, famous and totally miserable

Free Download Carolyn Hoyle, "Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission"
English | ISBN: 0198794576 | 2019 | 416 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1 + 27 MB
This book reveals what happens to applications for post-conviction review when those in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland who believe they are wrongfully convicted apply to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the only body that can refer a case back to the Court of Appeal once appellants’ opportunities for direct appeal are exhausted. While the Court is obliged to hear all such referrals, the Commission can only refer a case where it believes there is a ‘real possibility’ that the Court will quash the conviction. The first empirical study of all stages of decision-making within the Commission, this book starts from the premise that the test applied by the Commission (the ‘real possibility test’) is not inflexible. Though created by statute and refined through case law, it must be determined on a case-by-case basis, drawing too on cultural and structural variables, alongside fresh evidence gathered by the Commission.

Free Download Judith Suissa, "The Claims of Parenting: Reasons, Responsibility and Society (Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education, 4)"
English | 2012 | pages: 172 | ISBN: 9400736975, 9400722508 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Many sociological, historical and cultural stories can be and have already been told about why it is that parents in post-industrial, western societies face an often overwhelming array of advice on how to bring up their children. At the same time, there have been several philosophical treatments of the legal, moral and political issues surrounding issues of procreation, the rights of children and the duties of parents, as well as some philosophical accounts of the shifts in our underlying conceptualization of childhood and adult-child relationships. While this book partly builds on the insights of this literature, it is significantly different in that it offers a philosophically-informed discussion of the actual practical experience of being a parent, with its deliberations, judgements and dilemmas. In probing the ethical and conceptual questions suggested by the parent-child relationship, this unique volume demonstrates the irreducible philosophical richness of this relationship and thus provides an important counter-balance to the overly empirical and largely psychological focus of a great deal of "parenting" literature. Unlike other analytic work on the parent-child relationship and the educational role of parents, this work draws on first-person accounts of the day-to-day experience of being a parent in order to explore the ethical and epistemological aspects of this experience. In so doing it exposes the limitations of some of the languages within which contemporary "parenting" is conceptualized and discussed, and opens up a space for thinking about childrearing and the parent-child relationship beyond and other than in terms of the languages which dominate the ways in which we generally think about it today.

Free Download Greg Pembroke, "Reasons My Kid Is Crying"
English | 2014 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 0804139830 | EPUB | 114,7 mb
A glimpse into the tribulations of parenting that is part documentary, part therapy, and completely hilarious.

Free Download The Spirit of BMW
by Grylls, Vaughan;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1849948038 | 128 pages | True EPUB | 76.62 MB
Fifty glorious vintage photographs of classic BMW models teamed with lively text that explains why people love them.

Free Download Proof of Life After Life: 7 Reasons to Believe There Is an Afterlife (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C28Q6JH1 | 2023 | 7 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Raymond A. Moody, Paul Perry
Narrator: Phil Thron
A groundbreaking book that combines nearly fifty years of afterlife and near-death experience research to provide proof of the existence of the soul and life after death from psychiatrist and bestselling author Dr. Raymond Moody and New York Times bestselling author Paul Perry. After spending nearly five decades studying near-death experiences, Dr. Raymond Moody finally has the answer to humanity’s most pressing question: What happens when we die? In Proof of Life After Life, Moody and coauthor Paul Perry reveal that consciousness survives after the death of the body. Featuring in-depth case studies, the latest research, and eye-opening interviews with experts, Proof explores everything from common paranormal signs to shared-death experiences, and much more.