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 Rewriting the Hero and the Quest: Myth and Monomyth in "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" by Louis de Bernières By Tatiana Golban 2014 | 120 Pages | ISBN: 3631654596 | PDF | 2 MB Although Louis de Bernières is a famous and important contemporary novelist, and his work Captain Corelli's Mandolin has been translated and sold all over the world as a best-seller, there are few academic studies that focus methodologically and theoretically on it. The book attempts to partially overcome this handicap by focusing on various thematic and structural aspects which have been practically ignored so far by this line of criticism. It targets experts and students in literary studies whose concerns are ancient myths and their contemporary revival and reimagining, and who are familiar with goals and methods of myth criticism and archetypal critical discourse, and especially with their current postmodern and postmodernist perspectives.  Revisiting The Educational Heritage Of India By Sahana Singh 2021 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 9390961084 | PDF | 4 MB Long before the first European universities appeared, India already had multi-disciplinary centres of learning that fuelled a knowledge revolution around the world. This book fills a dire need to chronicle the great educational heritage of India. It describes a unique ecosystem which ensured that Gurus and Acharyas handed the lamp of learning to generations of students. As the author puts it, "When swords quenched their thirst and famine ravaged the lands, Indians still held on to their truth that there was nothing more purifying than knowledge." She has collated information from oral history, local lore, travelogues, surviving literature, inscriptions, salvaged manuscripts and accounts of scholars and laity. Historically, the book covers a vast time span from ancient India's traditions to the deliberate destruction of its heritage. It also outlines steps that can be taken today to incorporate the most relevant aspects of ancient learning systems into the current structure of school and university education.  Joseph S. O'Leary, "Religious Pluralism and Christian Truth" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1498281451 | PDF | pages: 283 | 7.8 mb This is the second of three essays in fundamental theology-along with Questioning Back (1985) and Conventional and Absolute Truth (2015)-which attempt to reassess the status of Christian doctrinal language within the contemporary "regime of truth." Reflecting on the reality of religious pluralism as the governing horizon of theology today, it proposes that the very notion of religious truth needs to be rethought. In a dialogue with Derrida it argues that the effects of dissemination and différance have indeed unsettled any project of pinning down truth in a definitive, substantial way, while at the same time it defends the objectivity of concretely situated truth-judgments as more than merely an effect of the play of language. The Buddhist conceptions of emptiness, conventional truth, and skillful means-further explored in Philosophie occidentale et concepts bouddhistes (2011)-allow a positive religious significance to be found in this mutation in the status of Christian truth.
 Religion and Drama in Early Modern England: The Performance of Religion on the Renaissance Stage By Elizabeth Williamson, Jane Hwang Degenhardt (editor) 2011 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 1409409023 | PDF | 4 MB Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the ways in which religion and performance were inextricably linked in early modern England. Its readings extend beyond the interpretation of straightforward religious allusions and suggest new avenues for theorizing the dynamic relationship between religious representations and dramatic ones. By addressing the particular ways in which commercial drama adapted the sensory aspects of religious experience to its own symbolic systems, the volume enacts a methodological shift towards a more nuanced semiotics of theatrical performance. Covering plays by a wide range of dramatists, including Shakespeare, individual essays explore the material conditions of performance, the intricate resonances between dramatic performance and religious ceremonies, and the multiple valences of religious references in early modern plays. Additionally, Religion and Drama in Early Modern England reveals the theater's broad interpretation of post-Reformation Christian practice, as well as its engagement with the religions of Islam, Judaism and paganism.  Claudio Corradetti, "Relativism and Human Rights: A Theory of Pluralist Universalism" English | ISBN: 9402421327 | 2022 | 312 pages | PDF | 4 MB Preface second edition.- Introduction second edition.- Part I.- 1 Cognitive Relativism and Experiential Rationality.- 1.1 Beyond Cognitive and Linguistic Relativism.- 1.2 Epistemic Relativism Refuted.- 1.3 The Experiential Validity of the Cognitive System.- 1.3.1 Judgement and Truth.- 2 Beyond Moral Relativism and Objectivism.- 2.1 Forms of Moral Relativism.- 2.2 The Two Horns of the Dilemma: Relativism versus Objectivism.- 2.2.1 Harman's Inner-Judgments Relativism.- 2.2.2 The Limits of Nagel's Objectivism in Morality.- 2.3 Wong's Mixed Position: the Idea of Pluralistic Relativism.- 2.4 Discursive Dialectic of Recognition.-
 Reinvent Your Reality: A Positively Practical Guide to Revitalize Your Life & Work by Sally Anne Carroll English | April 25th, 2022 | ISBN: 9798985067149 | 186 pages | True EPUB | 1.00 MB What's next for you? If you're craving more fulfillment, more meaning and more sustainable success, it might be time for a reinvention.  Jack Gilbert, "Refusing Heaven: Poems" English | 2007 | ISBN: 037571085X, 1400043654 | PDF | pages: 120 | 3.4 mb More than a decade after Jack Gilbert's The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness, and sometimes surprising happiness of a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and shortcomings: "The days and nights wasted . . . Long hot afternoons / watching ants while the cicadas railed / in the Chinese elm about the brevity of life." Time slows down in these poems, as Gilbert creates an aura of curiosity and wonder at the fact of existence itself. Despite powerful intermittent griefs-over the women he has parted from or the one lost to cancer (an experience he captures with intimate precision)-Gilbert's choice in this volume is to "refuse heaven." He prefers this life, with its struggle and alienation and delight, to any paradise. His work is both a rebellious assertion of the call to clarity and a profound affirmation of the world in all its aspects. It braces the reader in its humanity and heart.  John B. Taylor, "Reform of the International Monetary System: Why and How? " English | ISBN: 0262536757 | 2019 | 152 pages | PDF | 1259 KB An argument that a rules-based reform of the international monetary system, achieved by applying basic economic theory, would improve economic performance.  Recycling in the Garden: Reusing Everyday Items by Angela Youngman English | 8 Nov. 2022 | ISBN: 1399001833 | True EPUB/PDF | 160 pages | 216/229 MB People are becoming more aware of the environment and their impact on it. Over the past decades we have become an increasingly consumerist based society. From a world in which recycling was common, single use became the norm. This throwaway society is unsustainable.
 Recipes to Ensure a Successful Fasting Period: Stay Fit and Healthy with These Fast-friendly Recipes! by Keanu Wood English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09F9V6KP7 | 82 pages | EPUB | 2.92 Mb When people read or talk about "fasting," quite a lot of people see it as an act of not eating at all. This is not the entire truth, as we have learned lately in our recipe curating mission that you can eat and fast. |
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