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 John Kekes, "How Should We Live?: A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality" English | ISBN: 022663907X | 2019 | 264 pages | PDF | 957 KB What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know that these differ from person to person. Artists, scientists, social activists, farmers, executives, and athletes are guided by very different ideals. Nonetheless for hundreds of years philosophers have sought a single, overriding ideal that should guide everyone, always, everywhere, and after centuries of debate we're no closer to an answer. In How Should We Live?, John Kekes offers a refreshing alternative, one in which we eschew absolute ideals and instead consider our lives as they really are, day by day, subject to countless vicissitudes and unforeseen obstacles.
 History as Thought and Action: The Philosophies of Croce, Gentile, de Ruggiero and Collingwood By Rik Peters 2011 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 1845402448 | PDF | 3 MB This is the first book-length study of the relationship between Benedetto Croce (1866-1952), Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944), Guido de Ruggiero (1888-1948) and Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943). Though the relationship between these highly influential philosophers has often been discussed, it has never been studied comprehensively. On the basis of published and unpublished writings this study carefully reconstructs their debate on the relationship between thought and action, following their explorations of art, history, philosophy and action in the context of the First World War and the rise of Fascism and Nazism. This book unveils the hidden past of contemporary philosophy of history and divulges the last secret of Collingwood's Italian connection. Dr Rik Peters is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Groningen.  J. Blake Perkins, "Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks " English | ISBN: 0252041372 | 2017 | 296 pages | EPUB | 3 MB Long a bastion of antigovernment feeling, the Ozark region today is home to fervent strains of conservative-influenced sentiment. Does rural heritage play an exceptional role in the perpetuation of these attitudes? Have such outlooks been continuous?  Healthy Chicken Recipe Book: Discover Fresh ways to Cook Chicken by Heston Brown English | March 12, 2019 | ISBN: 1090264801 | 81 pages | EPUB | 2.76 Mb There is no doubt that chicken features regularly in our diet. There is no reason for it not to, anyway. It is relatively cheap and overflows with nutrients. Lots of people grew up on different kinds of tasty Chicken and Baked Chicken recipes, and they have come to love it. This cookbook is designed with that in mind, and the recipes in it are compiled to improve the output.  Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages By Patrick Heinrich, Shinsho Miyara, Michinori Shimoji 2015 | 723 Pages | ISBN: 1614511616 | PDF | 6 MB The UNESCO atlas on endangered languages recognizes the Ryukyuan languages as constituting languages in their own right. This represents a dramatic shift in the ontology of Japan's linguistic make-up. Ryukyuan linguistics needs to be established as an independent field of study with its own research agenda and objects. This handbook delineates that the UNESCO classification is now well established and adequate. Linguists working on the Ryukyuan languages are well advised to refute the ontological status of the Ryukyuan languages as dialects. The Ryukyuan languages constitute a branch of the Japonic language family, which consists of five unroofed Abstand (language by distance) languages.The Handbook of Ryukyuan Languages provides for the most appropriate and up-to-date answers pertaining to Ryukyuan language structures and use, and the ways in which these languages relate to Ryukyuan society and history. It comprises 33 chapters, written by the leading experts of Ryukyuan languages. Each chapter delineates the boundaries and the research history of the field it addresses, comprises the most important and representative information.  Governing the dead: Sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies By Finn Stepputat (editor) 2014 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0719096081 | PDF | 6 MB In most of the world, the transition from life to death is a time of intense presence of states and other forms of authority. Focusing on the relationship between bodies and sovereignty, Governing the dead explores how, by whom and with what effects dead bodies are governed in conflict and non-conflict contexts across the world, including an analysis of the struggles over 'proper burials'; the repatriation of dead migrants; abandoned cemeteries; exhumations; 'feminicide'; the protection of dead drug-lords; and the disappeared dead. Mapping theoretical and empirical terrains, this volume suggests that the management of dead bodies is related to the constitution and membership of states and non-state entities that claim autonomy and impunity. This volume is a significant contribution to studies of death, power and politics. It will be useful at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in anthropology, sociology, law, criminology, political science, international relations, genocide studies, history, cultural studies and philosophy. The research program leading to publication has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n° 283-617.
 Luca Valera, Juan Carlos Castilla, "Global Changes: Ethics, Politics and Environment in the Contemporary Technological World" English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030294420 | PDF | pages: 197 | 2.9 mb This book offers an authoritative analysis of the challenges that have arisen as a result of modern technologies. It covers several environmental problems,such as climate change, overexploitation of natural resources, loss of natural habitats, pollution and human population growth, and discusses practical scenarios for sustainable human dwelling of our planet. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the first part introduces "global changes", describing how they are happening in reality, and the challenges arising from them. The second part introduces methodological approaches borrowed from various disciplines, such as engineering, management science, philosophy and theology, which can help deal with the contemporary challenges resulting from global changes.  Geochemical Treasures and Petrogenetic Processes English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811947813 | 529 Pages | PDF (True) | 17 MB This book highlights various aspects of geochemical and geological processes. In brief, it facilitates to understand the geochemical behavior of major, trace and rare earth elements in rocks to identify the magmatic processes involved in present-day magma generation and their relation to global tectonic regimes as well as geothermal studies. Therefore, the book provides a comprehensive view of the generation of magma types (mafic to felsic in composition) and their role in the petrogenesis. The book also covers the development of new geosoftware to effectively process the geochemical data before its interpretation.  Francis Troyan, "Genre in World Language Education" English | ISBN: 0367336510 | 2020 | 282 pages | PDF | 3 MB Ideal for methods and foundational courses in world languages education, this book presents a theoretically informed instructional framework for instruction and assessment of world languages. In line with ACTFL and CEFR standards, this volume brings together scholarship on contextualized, task-based performance assessment and instruction with a genre theory and pedagogy to walk through the steps of designing and implementing effective genre-based instruction. Chapters feature step-by-step lesson designs, models of performance assessment, and a wealth of practical and research-based examples on how to make languages explicit to students through a focus on genre. Including sections on Arabic, French, Spanish, Italian, and other major world languages, this book demonstrates how to effectively teach and assess world languages in the classroom.  Jinhua Jia, Xiaofei Kang, Ping Yao, "Gendering Chinese Religion: Subject, Identity, and Body" English | 2014 | ISBN: 1438453078, 1438453086 | PDF | pages: 312 | 10.6 mb A gender-critical consideration of women and religion in Chinese traditions from medieval to modern times. |
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