Tag: Texts

Free Download Rupayan Mukherjee, "Popular Literature: Texts, Contexts, Contestations"
English | ISBN: 3838216660 | 2022 | 300 pages | EPUB, PDF | 717 KB + 3 MB
This volume offers a selection of critical essays on texts that can be broadly categorized as popular literature. The essays are inclined to question the idea of ‘the Canon’ and re-consider the divide between the canonical and the popular. As such, besides engaging in a serious critical reading of typical popular literary texts like The Jungle Book and The Hound of the Baskervilles, the book also considers populist tendencies in literary classics like Jane Eyre and Frankenstein. It will be of interest to young scholars and readers of popular literature, science fiction, detective fiction, genre studies, and culture studies.

Free Download Introduction to Nanophotonics (Oxford Graduate Texts)
by Henri Benisty, Jean-Jacques Greffet
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0198786131 | 670 Pages | PDF | 139 MB

Free Download Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) By Aristotle
2000 | 259 Pages | ISBN: 0521635462 | PDF | 2 MB
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, based on lectures that he gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE, is one of the most significant works in moral philosophy, and has profoundly influenced the whole course of subsequent philosophical endeavor. Topics covered include the role of luck in human wellbeing, responsibility, courage, justice, friendship and pleasure. This accessible new translation follows the Greek text closely and also provides a non-Greek reader with something of the flavor of the original. The volume also includes a historical and philosophical introduction and notes on further reading.

Free Download Iain Macleod Higgins, "The Book of John Mandeville: with Related Texts"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0872209350, 0872209369 | PDF | pages: 412 | 3.4 mb
A fictive traveler’s guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late-medieval best seller, more popular in its day than Marco Polo’s Travels. In addition to a fresh, vibrant translation-the first from the Middle French original since the fifteenth century―this edition of The Book of John Mandeville offers a succinct, broad-ranging Introduction to the work that touches on the question of authorship, the sources on which the text drew, and the transformation and reception of the work down to the present day.

Free Download Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies: Ancient and Early Modern Perspectives edited by Bobby Xinyue
English | January 11, 2024 | ISBN: 1350257222 | True EPUB/PDF | 288 pages | 0.7/5.4 MB
Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern literature, demonstrating that literary temporality continually intervenes in questions of ontology, hierarchy and politics.

Free Download The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures edited by James B. Pritchard
English | December 7, 2021 | ASIN: B09K4RKGD9, ISBN: 0691147264 | True AZW3 | 512 pages | 33.5 MB
Two classic illustrated anthologies, now combined in one convenient volume

Free Download Timbuktu Unbound: Islamic Texts, Textual Traditions and Heritage in West Africa
by Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031348230 | 172 Pages | True PDF | 4.4 MB

Free Download Mohammed Rustom, "Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation: Texts and Studies in Honor of William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata "
English | ISBN: 9004529020 | 2022 | 558 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation presents a diverse selection of studies, translations, and textual editions in honor of two of the most beloved and productive scholars in the field of Islamic Studies, Professors William Chittick and Sachiko Murata.

Free Download The Funerary Texts and Spells of Ancient Egypt: The History of the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, and Book of the Dead (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868701450 | 2023 | 2 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Victoria Woodson
In addition to being ubiquitous parts of daily life, Egyptian religion and mythology were also complex, and while Egyptian society was polytheistic like other ancient civilizations, that’s where the comparisons end. Religion was so pervasive that it heavily influenced funerary practices and the belief in an afterlife, and deities like Osiris and Isis (who are still well known today) had become so firmly ingrained that even the Ptolemaic pharaohs, who considered themselves purely Greek, embraced Egyptian deities and assimilated the Greek and Egyptian cultures. In fact, Cleopatra often had herself depicted as Isis. Given the abundance of funerary artifacts that have been found within the sands of Egypt, it sometimes seems as though the Egyptians were more concerned with the matters of the afterlife than they were with matters of the life they experienced from day to day.

Free Download The Founding Texts of Economics:
Reading Smith’s Wealth of Nations, Marx’s Capital and Keynes’s General Theory
English | 2024 | ISBN: 103264897X | 209 Pages | PDF (True) | 7.4 MB