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 Bruce Caldwell, "Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950" English | ISBN: 0226816826 | 2022 | 824 pages | PDF | 8 MB A 2022 Economist Best Book of the Year.
 Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Contemporary Moment By Donald Moss (editor), Lynne Zeavin (editor) 2021 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 103210239X | PDF | 3 MB The kinds of hatreds that analysts have assumed make up part of the unspoken backdrop of Western civilization have now erupted into our daily foreground. This book, consisting of essays from eleven psychoanalysts, responds to that eruption.The five essays of Part 1, "Hating in the first person plural," take on the pervasive impact of structured forms of hatred -- racism, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia. These malignant forces are put into action by large- and small-group identifications. Even the action of the apparent "lone wolf" inevitably enacts loyal membership in a surrounding community. The hating entity is always "we." In Part 2, "The racialized object/the racializing subject," the essays' focus narrows to an examination of racist expressions of "hating, abhorring, and wishing to destroy." A particular focus is the state of excitement attached to this form of hatred, to its sadistic origins, and to the endless array of objects offered to the racializing subject. In Part 3, "This land: whose is it, really?," its two essays focus on symbolic and physical violence targeting the natural world. We expand the traditional field of psychoanalytic inquiry to include the natural world, the symbolic meaning of its "trees," and the psychopolitical meanings of its land. This book offers a psychoanalytically informed guide to understanding and working against hatreds in clinical work and in everyday life and will appeal to training and experienced psychoanalysts, as well as anyone with an interest in current political and cultural climates.  Handbook of Welding: Processes, Control and Simulation by Francisco Jos Gomes da Silva; English | 2021 | ISBN: 1536196851| 572 pages | True PDF | 36.92 MB  Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities by Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan English | April 10, 2022 | ISBN: 019886602X | 320 pages | PDF + EPUB | 5 + 1 MB This book is the first of its kind to examine the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change. It develops a novel analytical framework for studying environmental power in international relations, what counts as a great power in the environmental field, and what their special environmental responsibilities are. In doing so, the book connects International Relations (IR) debates on power inequality, great powers and great power management, with global environmental politics (GEP) scholarship.  Alexander Y. Hwang, Brian Matz, Augustine Casiday, "Grace for Grace: The Debates after Augustine and Pelagius" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0813226015 | PDF | pages: 336 | 1.5 mb The contributors to Grace for Grace focus on the debates on grace and free will inspired by Augustine's later teachings on grace and the various reactions to it. In both popular and scholarly literature, the conflict has been traditionally referred to as the "Semi-Pelagian Controversy." For several decades, scholars have distanced themselves from that overly-simplistic and inaccurate portrayal. This book intends to solidify a disparate movement of scholarly thought and offer a secure basis for renewed study of the persons, texts, and events of this critical period in the reception of Augustine in the Early Middle Ages. This volume brings together new perspectives, based on fresh study of a wealth of primary sources, from an international team of scholars to explore the intra- church debates over grace and free will, after Augustine and Pelagius. Contributors to this volume are: Rebecca Harden Weaver (Union Presbyterian Theological Seminary), Eugene Teselle (Vanderbilt University), Roland Teske S. J. (Marquette University), Alexander Y. Hwang (Saint Leo University), Raúl Villegas Marín (University of Barcelona), Jeremy Demulle (Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), Tommy Hump- hries (Saint Leo University), Boniface Ramsey (Saint Joseph's Church, NY), Augustine Casiday (Cardiff University), Francis X. Gumerlock (Providence Theological Seminary), Matthew Pereira (Loyola University Marymount), Ralph Mathisen (University of Illinois), Brian J. Matz (Carroll College), and Nestor Kavvadas (Univerity of Tübingen)  God's only daughter: Spenser's Una as the invisible Church By Kathryn Walls 2013 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0719090377 | PDF | 10 MB In this study, Kathryn Walls challenges the standard identification of Una with the post-Reformation English Church, arguing that she is, rather, Augustine's City of God - the invisible Church, whose membership is known only to God. Una's story (its Tudor resonances notwithstanding) therefore embraces that of the Synagogue before the Incarnation as well as that of the Church in the time of Christ and thereafter. It also allegorises the redemptive process that sustains the true Church. Una is fallible in canto I. Subsequently, however, she comes to embody divine perfection. Her transformation depends upon the intervention of the lion as Christ. Convinced of the consistency and coherence of Spenser's allegory, Walls offers fresh interpretations of Abessa (as Synagoga), of the fauns and satyrs (the Gentiles), and of Una's dwarf (adiaphoric forms of worship). She also reinterprets Spenser's marriage metaphor, clarifying the significance of Red Cross as Una's spouse in the final canto.  Matt Tomlinson, "God Is Samoan: Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific " English | ISBN: 0824880978 | 2020 | 182 pages | EPUB | 3 MB Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In this pathbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological conversation with the work of "contextual theologians," exploring how the combination of Pacific Islands culture and Christianity shapes theological dialogues. Employing both scholarly research and ethnographic fieldwork, the author addresses a range of topics: from radical criticisms of biblical stories as inappropriate for Pacific audiences to celebrations of traditional gods such as Tagaloa as inherently Christian figures. This book presents a symphony of voices―engaged, critical, prophetic―from the contemporary Pacific's leading religious thinkers and suggests how their work articulates with broad social transformations in the region.
 Go Solar With Confidence: How to buy a solar energy system that's right for you English | 2022 | ASIN: B0BRBXS38C | 160 Pages | PDF | 21 MB If you've been disappointed by confusing choices, unanswered questions, and endless solar sales people appearing on your digital or physical doorstep, you're not alone. Until recently, solar has been costly and hard to understand. Today, it's easier and more economical than ever before. In Go Solar With Confidence, independent solar consultant Carol Cole-Lewis provides you with all the information you need to make your own informed decision about solar.  Global Responses to Maritime Violence: Cooperation and Collective Action By Paul Shemella (editor) 2016 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0804792038 | PDF | 4 MB Global Responses to Maritime Violence is a full discussion of maritime security short of war that goes beyond the current literature in both scope and perspective. The chapters in this volume examine terrorism, piracy, armed robbery at sea, illegal maritime trafficking, illegal fishing, and other maritime crimes. Contributors uncover both threats and responses as a complex ecosystem that challenges even the strongest national and regional institutions. Managing this system is a "wicked problem" that has no ultimate solution. But the book offers strategic precepts to guide the efforts of any government that seeks to improve its responses to maritime violence. The bottom line is that maritime violence can be managed effectively enough to protect citizens and national economies that depend on the sea. Comprehensive in scope, the volume coheres around the premise that good governance in the maritime domain, though difficult, is worth the considerable resources required.  Myron Dueck, "Giving Students a Say: Smarter Assessment Practices to Empower and Engage" English | ISBN: 1416629807 | 2021 | 189 pages | EPUB | 1267 KB Assessment is an essential part of teaching and learning, but too often it leads to misleading conclusions-sometimes with dire consequences for students. How can educators improve assessment practices so that the results are accurate, meaningful, informative, and fair? |
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