Tag: Western

Free Download The Western Horse: A Popular History of the Wild and Working Animal by Randi Samuelson-Brown
English | September 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1493073842 | 210 pages | True EPUB | 4.17 MB
This book celebrates the history and culture of the western horse, its ability to capture the popular imagination, and the means by which it has come to symbolize the American West.

Free Download The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East by Christopher Harding
English | May 7, 2024 | ISBN: 0241434440 | 336 pages | PDF | 53 Mb
This various, rich and enjoyable book tells the story of the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of tangled, dynamic encounters

Free Download Analogy in Indian and Western Philosophical Thought By David B. Zilberman (auth.), Helena Gourko, Robert S. Cohen (eds.)
2006 | 286 Pages | ISBN: 1402033397 | PDF | 2 MB
This book is unusual in many respects. It was written by a prolific author whose tragic untimely death did not allow to finish this and many other of his undertakings. It was assembled from numerous excerpts, notes, and fragments according to his initial plans. Zilberman’s legacy still awaits its true discovery and this book is a second installment to it after The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought (Kluwer, 1988). Zilberman’s treatment of analogy is unique in its approach, scope, and universality for Western philosophical thought. Constantly compared to eastern and especially classical Indian interpretations, analogy is presented by Zilberman as an important and in many ways primary method of philosophizing or philosophy-building. Due to its universality, this method can be also applied in linguistics, logic, social analysis, as well as historical and anthropological research. These applications are integral part of Zilberman’s book. A prophetic leap to largely uncharted territories, this book could be of considerable interest for experts and novices in the field of analogy alike.

Free Download Mohamed Mansi Qandil, Barbara Romaine, "A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0815611099 | PDF | pages: 391 | 18.0 mb
Shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2010, this finely constructed epic traces the turbulent life of Aisha, an Egyptian girl raised in a Christian convent beyond the reach of a predatory uncle. With her English education, Aisha crosses paths with Lord Cromer, British consul-general of Egypt, and famed archaeologist Howard Carter, with whom she will trek to locate Tutankhamen’s tomb. Fate briefly favors Aisha when she falls in love with the Egyptian sculptor Mahmoud Mukhtar, until events conspire to move her life along adarker path. Part allegory, part magical realism, this novel is threaded with aspects of Egyptian antiquity, including semihistorical accounts of the excavations of ancient Egyptian relics and the tortured jealousies that accompanied them. A deftly written journey through momentous occasions in world history, A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore explores questions of Egypt’s identity and history, and the implications-for better or worse-of European exploitation of the treasures of pharaonic civilization. Novelist Qandil skillfully allows readers to encounter complex questions of colonialism, gender, and sectarianism-all through the symbolic lens of an unlikely Egyptian heroine.

Free Download S.J. Francis X. Clooney, "Western Jesuit Scholars in India Tracing Their Paths, Reassessing Their Goals "
English | ISBN: 9004424733 | 2020 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book collects fifteen essays and book sections written over thirty years, about the Jesuits in India. The volume looks back into this long missionary history, but asks as well, how ought interreligious learning take place in the 21st century?

Free Download Joshua Cole, "Western Civilizations "
English | ISBN: 1324042907 | 2023 | 704 pages | PDF | 36 MB
The bestselling Western Civ text helps students read and think critically.

Free Download Hunt Tooley, "The Great War: Western Front and Home Front"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1137471263, 1137471255 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 3.0 mb
This revised and updated introduction to World War One crosses the boundaries of national histories to examine the various connections between the 400-mile-long Western Front and the home fronts of the UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and the USA. Incorporating recent research, Hunt Tooley rethinks the patterns of war, society, culture and politics in the early twentieth-century.

Free Download Jonathan Jacobs, "Moral Agency in Eastern and Western Thought "
English | ISBN: 1032623810 | 2024 | 314 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for living well-lived lives. It draws on Eastern and Western philosophical and ethical traditions to formulate and address key issues concerning character development and moral agency.

Free Download Small Water Bodies of the Western Balkans by Vladimir Pešić
English | EPUB | 2022 | 449 Pages | ISBN : 3030864774 | 105.8 MB
The small water bodies such as headwater streams, springs, ditches, small lakes, and ponds are critical to maintaining freshwater biodiversity.

Free Download Peter Lowe, Herman Moeshart, "Western Interactions With Japan: Expansions, the Armed Forces and Readjustment 1859-1956"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138405698, 0904404846 | EPUB | pages: 118 | 0.2 mb
Remarkable insights into the profound Japanese concern ‘for defending the cherished Japanese values amid an era of fantastic change’, writes Peter Lowe.