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 Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity By Susanna Elm 1996 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 019815044X | PDF | 17 MB Many of the institutions fundamental to the role of men and women in today's society have their origins in late antiquity. This revisionist study offers a comprehensive look at how Christian women of this time initiated alternative, ascetic ways of living, both with and without men. The author studies how these practices were institutionalized, and why they were later either eliminated or transformed by a new Christian Roman elite of men now thought of as the founding fathers.  English | 2021 | ISBN: 9811221553 | 232 pages | True (PDF EPUB) | 33.65 MB This is a book about Mathematics but not a book of Mathematics. It is an attempt, between the serious and facetious, of conveying the idea that a mathematical thought is the result of different experiences, geographical and social factors. Even though it is not clear when Mathematics had started, it is evident that it had been used at an early stage of human history and by ancient Babylonians and Egyptians who have already developed a sophisticated corpus of mathematical items, which were the workhorse tools in engineering, navigation, trades and astronomy. The book sweeps across the mathematical minds of the Greek and Arab traditions, concepts by Assyro-Babylonians, and ancient Indian Vedic culture. The mathematical mind has modeled the evolution of societies and has been modeled by it. It is now in the midst of a great revolution and it is not clear where it will bring us. The current new epoch needs new mathematical tools and, above this, a new way of looking at Mathematics. This book tells the tale of what went on and what might go on. [center]  Ukraine : What Everyone Needs to Know®, Second Edition by Serhy Yekelchyk English | 2020 | ISBN: 019753211X | 241 Pages | PDF | 8.24 MB  U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, Enemies and Empire By David Sylvan; Stephen Majeski 2009 | 337 Pages | ISBN: 041570135X | PDF | 6 MB What is the long-term nature of American foreign policy? This new book refutes the claim that it has varied considerably across time and space, arguing that key policies have been remarkably stable over the last hundred years, not in terms of ends but of means.Closely examining US foreign policy, past and present, David Sylvan and Stephen Majeski draw on a wealth of historical and contemporary cases to show how the US has had a 'client state' empire for at least a century. They clearly illustrate how much of American policy revolves around acquiring clients, maintaining clients and engaging in hostile policies against enemies deemed to threaten them, representing a peculiarly American form of imperialism. They also reveal how clientilism informs apparently disparate activities in different geographical regions and operates via a specific range of policy instruments, showing predictable variation in the use of these instruments.With a broad range of cases from US policy in the Caribbean and Central America after the Spanish-American War, to the origins of the Marshall Plan and NATO, to economic bailouts and covert operations, and to military interventions in South Vietnam, Kosovo and Iraq, this important book will be of great interest to students and researchers of US foreign policy, security studies, history and international relations.This book has a dedicated website at:www.us-foreign-policy-prespective.orgfeaturing additional case studies and data sets.  Trump and Us: What He Says and Why People Listen (Communication, Society, and Politics) by Roderick P. Hart English | February 14, 2020 | ISBN: 1108490816, 1108796419 | EPUB/PDF | 278 pages | 5.4/3.3 MB Why did 62 million Americans vote for Donald Trump? Trump and Us offers a fresh perspective on this question, taking seriously the depth and breadth of Trump's support. An expert in political language, Roderick P. Hart turns to Trump's words, voters' remarks, and media commentary for insight. ![Tides A Very Short Introduction [Repost]](https://i115.fastpic.org/big/2021/0812/82/8d935f8ed7a1797cdbab7660f2a2e382.jpeg) Tides: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by David George Bowers, Emyr Martyn Roberts English | February 1, 2020 | ISBN: 019882663X | EPUB | 168 pages | 3.77 MB The tide is the greatest synchronised movement of matter on our planet. Every drop of seawater takes part in tidal motion, driven by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. At the coast, we see the tide as a twice-daily rise and fall of sea level that moves the edge of the sea up and down a beach or cliff-face. In some places, the tide is small but at others it can rise in a few hours by the height of a three storey building; it then has to be treated with great respect by those who live and work by the sea.  English | 2021 | ISBN: 149208946X | 338 pages | True PDF | 18.47 MB If you know how to program, you're ready to tackle Bayesian statistics. With this book, you'll learn how to solve statistical problems with Python code instead of mathematical formulas, using discrete probability distributions rather than continuous mathematics. Once you get the math out of the way, the Bayesian fundamentals will become clearer and you'll begin to apply these techniques to real-world problems. Bayesian statistical methods are becoming more common and more important, but there aren't many resources available to help beginners. Based on undergraduate classes taught by author Allen B. Downey, this book's computational approach helps you get a solid start.
 L. W. C. van Lit, "The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy: Ibn Sina, Suhrawardi, Shahrazuri and Beyond " English | ISBN: 1474415857 | 2017 | 288 pages | PDF | 4 MB One of the most controversial issues that divided Islamic philosophers and theologians during the Middle Ages was whether human beings would have a spiritual or bodily existence after death. The idea of a world of image was conceived as a solution, suggesting that there exists a world of non-physical (imagined) bodies, beyond our earthly existence. This world may be reached in sleep, in meditation or after death.  The Wars of the Roses: The Conflict That Inspired Game of Thrones by Martin J. Dougherty English | May 1, 2015 | ISBN: 1782742395 | EPUB | 224 pages | 77.6 MB "Westeros is probably closer to medieval Britain than anything else." George R.R. Martin, creator of Game of Thrones  The Vertical Imagination and the Crisis of Transatlantic Modernism by Paul Haacke English | May 11, 2021 | ISBN: 0198851448 | EPUB/PDF | 384 pages | 2.95/3.25 MB Rethinks modernist discourse from the rise of the twentieth century to the post-1945 and post-9/11 periods |
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