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Free Download Think to New Worlds: The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0226831485 | 394 Pages | PDF (True) | 27 MB
Flying saucers. Bigfoot. Frogs raining from the sky. Such phenomena fascinated Charles Fort, the maverick writer who scanned newspapers, journals, and magazines for reports of bizarre occurrences: dogs that talked, vampires, strange visions in the sky, and paranormal activity. His books of anomalies advanced a philosophy that saw science as a small part of a larger system in which truth and falsehood continually transformed into one another. His work found a ragged following of skeptics who questioned not only science but the press, medicine, and politics. Though their worldviews varied, they shared compelling questions about genius, reality, and authority. At the center of this community was adman, writer, and enfant terrible Tiffany Thayer, who founded the Fortean Society and ran it for almost three decades, collecting and reporting on every manner of oddity and conspiracy.

Free Download Slave Subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds: 16th-20th Centuries
by Ângela Barreto Xavier, Cristina Nogueira da Silva
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9004681418 | 340 Pages | PDF | 5.76 MB

Free Download Steven Nadler, "The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil"
English | ISBN: 0374229988 | 2008 | 320 pages | PDF | 16 MB
In the spring of 1672, the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris on a furtive diplomatic mission. That project was abandoned quickly, but Leibniz remained in Paris with a singular goal: to get the most out of the city’s intellectual and cultural riches. He benefited, above all, from his friendships with France’s two greatest philosopher-theologians of the period, Antoine Arnauld and Nicolas de Malebranche. The interactions of these three men would prove of great consequence not only for Leibniz’s own philosophy but for the development of modern philosophical and religious thought.

Free Download The Bridge Between Worlds: A Brief History of Connection by Gavin Francis
English | May 6, 2025 | ISBN: 180530013X | 288 pages | PDF | 19 Mb
In a world increasingly preoccupied by borders, bridges celebrate the possibility of connection, allowing the flow of goods, people and ideas. Bridges are among our grandest physical structures with the power of transforming lives and economies, but we also stand (or fall) upon the simple arch of bones in our feet. Text is a bridge between writer and reader, and conversation builds bridges of understanding between minds.

Free Download Blockchain in Gaming: Virtual Worlds and Token Economies
by Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
English | December 11, 2024 | ASIN: B0DQ7M6QFP | 195 pages | PDF | 97 Mb

Free Download The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days by Michael Kempe, translated by Marshall Yarbrough
English | November 12, 2024 | ISBN: 1324093943 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 10.5 MB
A biography of the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz told through seven critical days spanning his life and revealing his contributions to our modern world.

Free Download James T. Palmer, "Merovingian Worlds "
English | ISBN: 1108737595 | 2024 | 314 pages | PDF | 13 MB
The Merovingian Kingdoms (c. 450-751) dominated much of what is now France, Belgium, and Germany, and were the most powerful and long-lived of the states that transformed the inheritance of Rome after the Crisis of the Fifth Century. Yet they often remain representative of an imagined ‘Dark Age’, in which civility was eroded by migration, violence, illiteracy, superstition, and a retreat from globality. Through a deep exploration of manuscripts, charters, and burials, Merovingian Worlds offers a fresh account of the period, outlining its complexities, diversity and creativity. This was a world built on dynamic political, socio-economic, cultural, and religious interactions, and shaped by its wide-ranging connections from Britain and Ireland to Byzantium and beyond. The book provides a critical introduction to the rich source material and the modern debates that shaped our perception of Western Europe after the Fall of Rome.

Free Download Doing Worlds with Words: Formal Semantics without Formal Metaphysics By Jaroslav Peregrin (auth.)
1995 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 9048146186 | PDF | 8 MB
Doing Worlds with Words throws light on the problem of meaning as the meeting point of linguistics, logic and philosophy, and critically assesses the possibilities and limitations of elucidating the nature of meaning by means of formal logic, model theory and model-theoretical semantics. The main thrust of the book is to show that it is misguided to understand model theory metaphysically and so to try to base formal semantics on something like formal metaphysics; rather, the book states that model theory and similar tools of the analysis of language should be understood as capturing the semantically relevant, especially inferential, structure of language. From this vantage point, the reader gains a new light on many of the traditional concepts and problems of logic and philosophy of language, such as meaning, reference, truth and the nature of formal logic.

Free Download Festival & Game of the Worlds by César Aira, translated by Katherine Silver
English | July 23, 2024 | ISBN: 0811237303 | True EPUB | 192 pages | 0.9 MB
Oddly twinned masterpieces by one of the greatest fabulists of any age: past, present, or 40,000 years in the future

Free Download Amitav Acharya, "Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China (Great Transformations) "
English | ISBN: 0520390989 | 2023 | 333 pages | AZW3 | 8 MB
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