Tag: Stolen

Stolen Legacy The Egyptian Origins of Western Philosophy


Free Download Stolen Legacy: The Egyptian Origins of Western Philosophy by George J.M. James
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1635610575 | 202 Pages | PDF | 1.7 MB
In this bold and uncompromising book, George G. M. James argues that the "Greek philosophy" in which nearly all of Western culture has its roots actually originated in ancient Egypt Drawing on careful historical research and a radical rethinking of the conventional narrative of Greek history, James asserts that our celebration of the ancient Greeks as the creators of Western civilization and philosophy is misattributed.

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Stolen Innocence


Free Download Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall, Lisa Pulitzer
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0061734969 | 464 Pages | EPUB | 1.9 MB
Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007.

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The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century


Free Download A. Katie Harris, "The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha: Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century "
English | ISBN: 0271095350 | 2023 | 242 pages | PDF/epub | 6 MB
On the night of March 18, 1655, two Spanish friars broke into a church to steal the bones of the founder of their religious institution, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. This bookinvestigates this little-known incident of relic theft and the lengthy legal case that followed, together with the larger questions that surround the remains of saints in seventeenth-century Catholic Europe.

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