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Free Download Roger S. O. Tomlin, "The Uley Tablets: Roman Curse Tablets from the Temple of Mercury at Uley "
English | ISBN: 0192888625 | 2024 | 400 pages | PDF | 21 MB
The Uley Tablets is the first full publication of the eighty Roman lead writing-tablets found in the excavation of a Romano-British temple in the Cotswolds, the temple of the god Mercury at Uley, Gloucestershire, together with two from the nearby site of Tarlton. Like those found in the hot spring at Bath, they are ‘curse tablets’, so called because they seek divine intervention against the writer’s enemies, who are mostly thieves unknown. They complain of farm animals being stolen or bewitched, even a stolen beehive (the first document of bee-keeping in Britain), the theft of clothing such as gloves, cloaks and gaiters, woman’s underwear, the theft of rings and sums of money ranging from two ‘mites’ to a hundred thousand denarii. In formalised language they ask the god to recover their property and punish the thieves with ill health or the ‘greatest death’.

Free Download Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP4B7342 | 2024 | 13 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 389 MB
Author: Joshua Leifer
Narrator: Eli Schiff
From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in. Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. Formed in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the settled-upon pillars of American Jewish self-definition (Americanism, Zionism, and liberalism) have begun to collapse. The binding trauma of Holocaust memory grows ever-more attenuated; soon there will be no living survivors. After two millennia of Jewish life defined by diasporic existence, the majority of the world’s Jews will live in a sovereign Jewish state by 2050. Against the backdrop of national political crises, resurgent global antisemitism, and the horrors of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Leifer provides an illuminating and meticulously reported map of contemporary Jewish life and a sober conjecture about its future.

Free Download Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life by Joshua Leifer
English | August 20, 2024 | ISBN: 0593187180 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 1.4 MB
From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in.

Free Download Teach yourself visually Windows 8 tablets By McFedries, Paul
2012 | 321 Pages | ISBN: 1118374851 | EPUB | 32 MB
A visual guide to all the features of the new Windows 8 Tablet This must-have resource features visually rich, step-by-step instructions that show you how to get the most enjoyment from your Windows 8 tablet. Learn about the exciting new Metro UI, optimized specifically for touch devices. The most popular and commonly used apps and functions are covered too, along with the basics of syncing with a network, setting up e-mail, watching videos, listening to music, and common productivity tasks. This book provides all the guidance needed to enjoy all the best the new Windows 8 tablets have to offer. Includes information on Microsoft’s Windows 8 and the new Metro UI in a clear and easy-to-navigate visual manner Contains over 125 Windows tablet tasks, illustrated with full-color Offers clear, step-by-step instructions Consistent placement of information makes learning fast and efficient Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows 8 Tablet offers concise, step-by-step instruction that’s perfect for visual learners

Free Download In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP6DZYFW | 2023 | 10 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 314 MB
Author: Jessica L. Lamont
Narrator: Mary Helen Gallucci
In Blood and Ashes provides the first historical study of the development and dissemination of ritualized curse practice from 750-250 BCE, documenting the cultural pressures that drove the use of curse tablets, charms, spells, and other private rites. This book expands our understanding of daily life in ancient communities, showing how individuals were making sense of the world and coping with conflict, vulnerability, competition, anxiety, desire, and loss, all while conjuring the gods and powers of the Underworld. Bringing together epigraphic, literary, archaeological, and material evidence, Jessica L. Lamont reads between traditional histories of Archaic, Classical, and early Hellenistic Greece, drawing out new voices and new narratives to consider: here are the cooks, tavern keepers, garland weavers, helmsmen, barbers, and other persons who often slip through the cracks of ancient history. The texts and objects presented here offer glimpses of public and private lives across many centuries, illuminating the interplay of ritual and conflict-management strategies among citizens and slaves, men and women, pagans and Christians. Filled with new material and insights, Lamont’s volume offers a groundbreaking perspective on ancient Greek social history and religion, highlighting the role of ritual in negotiating life’s uncertainties.