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 The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink English | February 1, 2022 | ISBN: 0735210659 | 366 pages | PDF | 3.95 Mb "The world needs this book." -Brené Brown, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead and Atlas of the Heart
 Simon Payaslian, "The Political Economy of Human Rights in Armenia: Authoritarianism and Democracy in a Former Soviet Republic" English | 2011 | pages: 430 | ISBN: 1848858116 | PDF | 3,0 mb Since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Armenia has experienced a reversal from democratization to a Soviet-style authoritarian regime and has been accused of repressive approaches to human rights. Here, Simon Payaslian juxtaposes a masterful survey of the history of the Armenian people from the nineteenth century through the first republic (1918-21), and Sovietization to the present, with the evolution of international human rights standards, and argues that a statist and authoritarian political culture has impeded political liberalization and institutionalization of human rights principles. Highlighting the clash between sovereignty on one side and human rights and democracy on the other, this comprehensive and in-depth analysis is essential for all those interested in human rights, democratization, political repression and the former Soviet republics.  Kate Kenski, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, "The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication" English | 2017 | ISBN: 0199793476, 0190090456 | PDF | pages: 1092 | 4.5 mb Since its development shaped by the turmoil of the World Wars and suspicion of new technologies such as film and radio, political communication has become a hybrid field largely devoted to connecting the dots among political rhetoric, politicians and leaders, voters' opinions, and media exposure to better understand how any one aspect can affect the others.  David K. Pettegrew, William R. Caraher, Thomas W. Davis, "The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology" English | 2019 | ISBN: 0199369046 | PDF | pages: 759 | 7.3 mb The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together expert work by leading scholars of the archaeology of Early Christianity and the Roman world in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The thirty-four contributions to this volume survey Christian material culture and ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in archaeological method, theory, and research. The essays emphasize the link between archaeological fieldwork, methods, and regional and national traditions in constructing our knowledge of the Early Church and Christian communities within the context of the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, and Europe.  Linda Kalof, "The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies" English | 2017 | ISBN: 0199927146 | PDF | pages: 689 | 3.0 mb Intellectual struggles with the "animal question"- how humans can rethink and reconfigure their relationships with other animals- first began to take hold in the 1970s. Over the next forty years, scholars from a wide range of fields would make sweeping reevaluations of the relationship between humans and other animals.  John F. Bayer, "The Omega Deception: A Novel" English | 2000 | ISBN: 0805419667, 0739411799 | PDF | pages: 328 | 33.7 mb Michael Jason Shaw is given the perilous assignment to masquerade as an SS officer in order to infiltrate the German military, stop production of the V-5 rocket, and prevent a Nazi scheme, the Omega Deception, to cripple the United States. Original.  Sandra Maria Van Opstal, "The Next Worship Bible Study " English | ISBN: 1514004003 | 2022 | 64 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Our destiny, Scripture reveals, is worshiping together as the multiethnic, multilingual, multinational family of God. Our worship here on earth should reflect, point to, and prepare for that ultimate experience.  Burt Hopkins, John Drummond, "The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy: Volume 13" English | 2014 | ISBN: 1138819905 | PDF | pages: 378 | 1.9 mb The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl's groundbreaking work and the extension of this work by such figures as Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer.  The New Foundations of Labour Law By Kerstin Ahlberg (editor), Niklas Bruun (editor) 2017 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 3631718500 | PDF | 3 MB This book explores the challenges of globalisation and digitalisation to labour law and social security under three headings. The first, «The changing foundations of labour law» focuses on the law itself. Here the authors discuss how a changing political setting influences the very foundations of contemporary labour law. The contributions in the second section, «Precarious work - the new normative model?», deal with the challenges that various new business models put to regulating working life and social welfare. The contributions in the final section, «New forms of labour mobility», treat the difficulties related to the protection of workers who move over borders between countries and continents. The book is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the future of labour law.
 The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire By Shadi Bartsch 2006 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0226038351 | PDF | 2 MB People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone-or oneself-was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element as well. In The Mirror of the Self, Shadi Bartsch asserts that theselinks among vision, sexuality, and self-knowledge are key to the classical understanding of the self.Weaving together literary theory, philosophy, and social history, Bartsch traces this complex notion of self from Plato's Greece to Seneca's Rome. She starts by showing how ancient authors envisioned the mirror as both a tool for ethical self-improvement and, paradoxically, a sign of erotic self-indulgence. Her reading of the Phaedrus, for example, demonstrates that the mirroring gaze in Plato, because of its sexual possibilities, could not be adopted by Roman philosophers and their students. Bartsch goes on to examine the Roman treatment of the ethical and sexual gaze, and she traces how self-knowledge, the philosopher's body, and the performance of virtue all played a role in shaping the Roman understanding of the nature of selfhood. Culminating in a profoundly original reading of Medea, The Mirror of the Self illustrates how Seneca, in his Stoic quest for self-knowledge, embodies the Roman view, marking a new point in human thought about self-perception. Bartsch leads readers on a journey that unveils divided selves, moral hypocrisy, and lustful Stoics-and offers fresh insights about seminal works. At once sexy and philosophical, The Mirror of the Self will be required reading for classicists, philosophers, and anthropologists alike. |
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