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 Sergey Trostyanskiy, "The Mystical Tradition of the Eastern Church: Studies in Patristics, Liturgy, and Practice" English | ISBN: 1463240600 | 2020 | 260 pages | PDF | 3 MB This volume presents the work of contemporary Orthodox thinkers who attempt to integrate the theological and the mystical. Exciting and provocative chapters treat a wide variety of mysticism, including early Church accounts, patristics (including the seemingly ever-popular subject of deification), liturgy, iconography, spiritual practice, and contemporary efforts to find mystical sense in cyber-technologies and post-humanism.
 Mathew J. Bartkowiak, Yuya Kiuchi, "The Music of Counterculture Cinema: A Critical Study of 1960s and 1970s Soundtracks" English | 2015 | ISBN: 0786475420 | PDF | pages: 216 | 1.2 mb Films produced in late 1960s and early 1970s America-along with later films focusing on that period-continue to frame our understanding of the counterculture era. The popular and experimental music of the day is central to the counterculture narrative on film, from the utopian Monterey Pop (1968) to the disenchantment of Gimme Shelter (1970). But the musical side of the movement was not monolithic, and a study of contemporary film soundtracks reveals a great deal of complexity. The coinciding struggles to define collective and individual identities based on race, class, gender and generation are well documented in the music of counterculture cinema.  B. Fahs, M. Dudy, S. Stage, "The Moral Panics of Sexuality" English | 2013 | pages: 276 | ISBN: 1137353163, 1349469580 | PDF | 1,8 mb A provocative feminist analysis of the moral panics of sexuality, this interdisciplinary edited collection showcases the range of historical and contemporary crises we too often suppress, including vagina dentata, vampires, cannibalism, age appropriateness, breast cancer, menstrual panics, and sex education.  The Mindfulness Habit: Six Weeks to Creating the Habit of Being Present by Kate Sciandra English | January 8, 2015 | ISBN: 0738741892 | True EPUB | 216 pages | 1.6 MB Create a new way of living that reduces stress, increases productivity, improves mood, and enhances relationships. Using step-by-step instructions and exercises that incorporate habit-forming techniques, author Kate Sciandra helps you find everyday opportunities for making mindfulness an easy practice. In just six weeks, you can fully integrate this quick approach to living in the moment. Each week you'll learn аbout:  The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), "The Military Balance 2016" English | 2016 | pages: 501 | ISBN: 1857438353 | PDF | 11,3 mb The Military Balance is an authoritative assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 171 countries. Detailed A-Z entries list each country's military organisation, personnel numbers, equipment inventories, and relevant economic and demographic data.
 Douglas Comstock, "The Mental Toughness Advantage: A 5-Step Program to Boost Your Resilience and Reach Your Goals" English | 2019 | ISBN: 1982648767, 1641520531 | PDF | pages: 115 | 0.9 mb The Mental Toughness Advantage is an action-oriented, 5-step program to develop mental toughness and achieve your life goals.  Mira Bartok, "The Memory Palace: A Memoir" English | 2011 | ISBN: 1439183325, 1439183317 | EPUB | pages: 305 | 5.5 mb In the tradition of The Glass Castle, two sisters confront schizophrenia in this New York Times bestselling poignant memoir about family and mental illness. Through stunning prose and original art, The Memory Palace captures the love between mother and daughter, the complex meaning of truth, and one family's capacity for forgiveness.  The Making of Visual News: A History of Photography in the Press by Thierry Gervais, Gaëlle Morel, translated by John Tittenson English | October 5, 2017 | ISBN: 1474295207, 1474295193 | True EPUB | 248 pages | 34.6 MB The Making of Visual News sets out to show how photography has changed the way we read, report and sell the news.  The Luftwaffe: The History of Nazi Germany's Air Force during World War II by Charles River Editors English | May 12, 2015 | ISBN: 1512130087 | 86 pages | EPUB | 1.80 Mb *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of fighting between the Luftwaffe and the Allies *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "My Luftwaffe is invincible...And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?" - Hermann Goering, June 1940 The Third Reich's Luftwaffe began World War II with significant advantages over other European air forces, playing a critical role in the German war machine's swift, powerful advance. By war's end, however, the Luftwaffe had been decimated by combat losses and crippled by poor decisions at the highest levels of military decision-making, and it proved unable to challenge Allied air superiority despite a last-minute upsurge in German aircraft production. Given its unique strengths and distinctive weaknesses by the personal quirks of the men who developed it, the Luftwaffe initially overwhelmed the more conservative, outdated military aviation of other countries. Its leaders embraced such concepts as the dive-bomber, which proved both utterly devastating and extremely useful for supporting the sweeping, powerful movements of Blitzkrieg, while other martial establishments rejected dive-bombers as impractical or even impossible. Though the superb fighting qualities of highly trained and motivated German soldiers, and the Third Reich's technological superiority in tank and weapon design, also had crucial roles to play, the Luftwaffe represented the key element making the successes of all other branches possible. While the Luftwaffe enjoyed air superiority, the combat fortunes of the Third Reich continued to ride high. When control of the air passed decisively to the Allies, Germany's hopes of victory began accelerating into a spiral of defeat. Early in the war, prowling masses of Luftwaffe aircraft fatally hampered the attempts of hostile forces to maneuver. The omnipresent Stuka dive-bombers crisscrossing the skies pounced on any infantry or vehicles incautious enough to emerge from hiding during the day, except in foul weather that kept the airplanes grounded. The German forces, meanwhile, moved freely and rapidly, surrounding or bypassing their enemies again and again and thus compelling their surrender. The Luftwaffe's eventual loss of aerial domination exposed the Germans to precisely the same misfortunes on the ground as they had once relentlessly inflicted on the Poles and Russians. In the Falaise Pocket in Normandy, for example, the splendidly lethal Panthers, Tigers, and Tiger II tanks of the Nazi Panzer Divisions never had the opportunity to destroy the flimsily-armored, outgunned Sherman tanks of their American opponents. Instead, American fighter-bombers systematically annihilated them and their supporting infantry formations from the air, leaving the landscape strewn with flipped-over tank hulks and in places literally carpeted with the flesh of dead men. Some 10,000 Germans died and 50,000 surrendered to the western Allies at Falaise, due to Hitler's order to counterattack without air support. During its heyday, however, the Luftwaffe amply proved the leading role played by air power in the modern combined arms formula. It also produced a remarkable number of aces, whose exploits overshadowed the finest pilots of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, or the United States. The Luftwaffe: The History of Nazi Germany's Air Force during World War II looks at the role the German air force played during the war, from its origins to its near demise. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Luftwaffe like never before, in no time at all.  The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language by Mark Turner English | September 19, 1996 | ISBN: 0195104110, 019512667X | True EPUB/PDF | 208 pages | 2.2/9.7 MB We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's Fables or The Thousand and One Nights, for example, as exotic tales set in strange lands, with spectacular images, talking animals, and fantastic Descriptions-wonderful entertainments, often insightful, but well removed from logic and science, and entirely foreign to the world of everyday thought. But Mark Turner argues that this common wisdom is wrong. The literary mind-the mind of stories and parables-is not peripheral but basic to thought. Story is the central principle of our experience and knowledge. Parable-the projection of story to give meaning to new encounters-is the indispensable tool of everyday reason. Literary thought makes everyday thought possible. This book makes the revolutionary claim that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of literary thinking. |
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