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 The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France (The Curti Lectures) By Natalie Zemon Davis 2000 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0299168840 | PDF | 36 MB Must a gift be given freely? How can we tell a gift from a bribe? Are gifts always a part of human relations-or do they lose their power and importance once the market takes hold and puts a price on every exchange? These questions are central to our sense of social relations past and present, and they are at the heart of this book by one of our most interesting and renowned historians. In a wide-ranging look at gift giving in early modern France, Natalie Zemon Davis reveals the ways that gift exchange is crucial to understanding alliance and conflict in family life, economic relations, politics, and religion. Moving from the king's bounty to the beggar's alms, her book explores the modes and meanings of gift giving in every corner of sixteenth-century French society. In doing so, it arrives at a new way of considering gifts-what Davis calls "the gift register"-as a permanent feature of social relations over time. Gift giving, with its own justifications and forms in different periods, can create amity or lead to quarrels and trouble. It mixes the voluntary and the obligatory, with interested bribery at one extreme and inspired gratuitousness at the other. Examining gifts both ethnographically (through archives, letters, and other texts) and culturally (through literary, ethical, and religious sources), Davis shows how coercive features in family life and politics, rather than competition from the market, disrupted the gift system. This intriguing book suggests that examining the significance of gifts can not only help us to understand social relations in the past, but teach us to deal graciously with each other in the present.  Charles R. Embry, "The Eric Voegelin Reader: Politics, History, Consciousness" English | 2017 | ISBN: 0826221343, 0826222897 | EPUB | pages: 464 | 0.4 mb By the time Eric Voegelin fled Hitler's regime and made his way to the United States in 1938, he had already written four books criticizing Nazi racism, establishing what would be the focus of his life's work: to account for the endemic political violenceof the twentieth century. One of the most original political philosophers of the period, Voegelin has largely avoided ideological labels or categorizations of his work. Because of this, however, and because no one work or volume of his can do justice to his overall project, his work has been seen as difficult to approach.  Ellie Roscher, "The Embodied Path: Telling the Story of Your Body for Healing and Wholeness" English | ISBN: 1506482821 | 2022 | 255 pages | EPUB | 534 KB Our bodies have a story to tell. When we turn toward our bodies with curiosity and reverence, we honor those stories, embrace our inner dignity, and make space for more agency. Sharing our bodies' stories helps us feel seen so that, little by little, society's limiting master narratives can shift so that more bodies feel safe and beautiful and have a sense of belonging.  Richard Epstein, "The Dubious Morality of Modern Administrative Law" English | ISBN: 1538141493 | 2020 | 240 pages | EPUB | 479 KB Modern administrative law has been the subject of intense and protracted intellectual debate, from legal theorists to such high-profile judicial confirmations as those conducted for Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. On one side, defenders of limited government argue that the growth of the administrative state threatens traditional ideas of private property, freedom of contract, and limited government. On the other, modern progressives champion a large administrative state that delegates to key agencies in the executive branch, rather than to Congress, broad discretion to implement major social and institutional reforms. In this book, Richard A. Epstein, one of America's most prominent legal scholars, provides a withering critique of how the administrative state has gone astray since the New Deal.
 Thorsten Jelinek, "The Digital Sovereignty Trap: Avoiding the Return of Silos and a Divided World " English | ISBN: 9811984131 | 2023 | 107 pages | PDF | 7 MB This book is for policy-makers navigating the digital transformation. Global governance is needed to mitigate the disproportionate risks of artificial intelligence but is in a state of deep crisis. Revisiting the era of telecommunication monopolies, this book argues that today's return of sovereignty resembles the great reregulation, but of the entire digital economy. Breaking through the previous asymmetrical distribution of technology and institutional power, China threatens the United States' technology hegemony. The task is to avert from the straitjacket of hyperdigitalization without causing new silos.  Kathleen Stassen Berger, "The Developing Person Through Childhood" English | 2018 | ISBN: 1319061648 | PDF | pages: 893 | 41.5 mb Examine childhood and adolescent developement and get a stronger picture of this maturing area of study through the cross-cultural, real-life examples and research presented in Developing Person Through Childhood.
 Michelle Ward, "The Declaration of You!: How to Find It, Own It and Shout It From the Rooftops" English | 2013 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 1440324662 | EPUB | 26,0 mb Discover Your Purpose!
 Rachel Simmons, "The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence" English | 2010 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 014311798X | EPUB | 0,7 mb Bestselling author of Odd Girl Out, Rachel Simmons exposes the myth of the Good Girl, freeing girls from its impossible standards and encouraging them to embrace their real selves  The Cult of Alien Gods: H.P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture By Jason Colavito 2005 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 1591023521 | PDF | 40 MB Many Americans believe that so-called ancient astronauts (visitors from outer space) were responsible for historical wonders like the pyramids. This entertaining and informative book traces the origins of such beliefs to the work of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). The author takes the reader through fifty years of pop culture and pseudoscience highlighting such influential figures and developments as Erich von Däniken (Chariots of the Gods), Graham Hancock (Fingerprints of the Gods), Zecharia Sitchin (Twelfth Planet), and the Raelian Revolution. The astounding and improbable connections among these various characters are revealed, along with the disturbing consequences of Lovecraft's "little joke" for modern science and public knowledge.  Greg Vaughan, "The Cricket Pocket Bible" English | ISBN: 1907087141 | 2022 | 192 pages | EPUB | 417 KB The perfect gift for every cricket fan |
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