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Free Download David Forsyth, "Eben Smith: The Dean of Western Mining"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1646421787 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 2.0 mb
David Forsyth recounts the life of Eben Smith, an integral but little-known figure in Colorado mining history. Smith was one of the many fortune seekers who traveled to California during the gold rush and one of the few who found what he sought. He moved to Colorado in 1860 with business partner Jerome Chaffee and over the next forty-six years was involved in mining in nearly every major camp in the state, from Central City to Cripple Creek, and in the development of mines such as the Bobtail, Little Jonny, and Victor. He was eulogized by the Denver Post and Denver Times as the "dean of mining in Colorado."

Free Download Colin McInnes, Nicholas J. Wheeler, "Dimensions of Western Military Intervention"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0714682489 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 0.5 mb
Military intervention to protect civilians in danger has emerged as a key challenge for the West. This book explores the West’s reaction to these challenges and some of the limits on its actions.

Free Download . Anon., "Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1473313880, 1015671292 | EPUB | pages: 330 | 1.3 mb
Originally published in 1915, this work gives a first hand account of what life was like for a front line nurse during the First World War. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world’s bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.

Free Download . Anon., "Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1473313880, 1015671292 | EPUB | pages: 330 | 1.3 mb
Originally published in 1915, this work gives a first hand account of what life was like for a front line nurse during the First World War. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world’s bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.

Free Download Piero Gilento, "Building Between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Lands: Construction Processes and Transmission of Knowledge from Late Antiquity to Early Islam"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9004516794 | PDF | pages: 318 | 63.7 mb
This edited volume examines the construction processes and the mechanisms of transmission of knowledge between the eastern and western Mediterranean lands from the late Roman period to the early centuries of Islam. The essays explore issues of material culture, craft techniques, technological and typological changes and cultural contacts in Syria, Jordan, North Africa and Spain. The volume includes case studies on prestigious architectural complexes, defensive systems and other structures located in major urban centres (Cyrrhus, Bosra, Jerash, Sousse, Kairouan and Cordoba), as well as minor sites and rural buildings. It offers a fresh contribution to the long-lasting historiographic debate on the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages and how Early Islamic architecture fostered the structural assumptions for new building experiences in many Mediterranean regions.

Free Download Nicholas Campion, "A History of Western Astrology Volume I"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1441127372 | PDF | pages: 410 | 14.0 mb
This is the first comprehensive examination of astrology’s origins and it examines the foundations of a major feature of popular culture in the contemporary west, one which has its origins in the ancient world. Campion explores the relationship between astrology and religion, magic and science, and explores its use in politics and the arts.

Free Download Stephen Trombley, "Very Short History of Western Thought"
English | 2012 | pages: 144 | ISBN: 0857896288, 0857898744 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
For the reader who has lain awake fretting over his tenuous grasp of the Aristotelian syllogism, or the ontological argument for the existence of God, or the nature of Kant’s categorical imperative; or who simply struggles to tell his Frege from his Feuerbach, his Saussure from his Sartre – help is finally at hand.

Free Download Mehmet Bulut, "The Ottoman World and the Western Economy: Civilization, Economics and Ethics"
English | ISBN: 1036404374 | 2024 | 171 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Ottomans were working to establish a stable economic system, while the Western capitalist world was developing an economic system that prioritized increased earning and consumption. Over time, this emphasis on maximizing earning and consumption became a central priority in Western capitalist nations while the Ottomans focused on balance and sustainability in society. The development of the different economic systems and mentalities between the Ottoman Empire and the Western world took a long time to unfold. The Ottoman Empire deliberately created economic and social systems that differed from those of modern capitalist nations. They allow us to draw comparisons between the altruistic human, considered the "most honorable of all creation," and the self-interested homoeconomicus, from the perspective of homoethicus. This book aims to encourage reflection on these issues and proposes the need for a new understanding of ethics, economy and civilization that considers both inner peace and prosperity for humanity.

Free Download Keith Ward, "The God Conclusion: God and the Western Philosophical Tradition"
English | 2010 | pages: 101 | ASIN: B017MYR0W2, B073BRPL33 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
This entertaining book posits the theory that philosophy, far from being the enemy of religion, has more often than not supported a non-materialist view of the universe. Keith Ward re-examines the works of western philosophy’s greatest thinkers – from Plato and Aquinas to Kant and Hegel – and suggests that the majority accepted ‘the God conclusion’: that there is a supreme spiritual reality which is the cause or underlying nature of the physical cosmos. Keith Ward was Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion in the University of London, and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a member of the council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. The God Conclusion is a revised and expanded version of his 2008 Sarum Lectures and 2007-8 Gresham College Lectures. US God and the philosophers (Fortress Press).

Free Download Xavier Zubiri, "The Fundamental Problems of Western Metaphysics"
English | ISBN: 0761848770 | 2009 | 244 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
This book introduces the profound reflections of Xavier Zubiri (1898-1983) on the history of philosophy to English-speaking audiences. As a philosopher who rethought much of philosophy and theology, Zubiri felt it necessary to be in continuous dialogue with earlier thinkers both to avoid past mistakes and to extract all that is valuable from them. The theme of the present book is the transcendental in Western philosophy and how a firm grasp of it reveals underlying unity in Western philosophy, but also fundamental problems that Zubiri believed require a complete rethinking of certain basic notions and theories. Zubiri develops this theme by analyzing the work of six major philosophers: Aristotle, St. Thomas, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel. To conclude, he sketches his own resolution of the problems of Western philosophy, a subject addressed in greater depth in his major work,