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 Joseph Boyle, "Natural Law Ethics in Theory and Practice: A Joseph Boyle Reader" English | ISBN: 0813232953 | 2020 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB Natural Law Ethics in Theory and Practice brings together a selection of essays of the late Joseph Boyle. Boyle was, with Germain Grisez and John Finnis, a founder and developer of the New Classical Natural Law Theory, arguably the most important development in Catholic moral philosophy of the twentieth century. While this theory is indebted to the work of St. Thomas Aquinas, it incorporates an understanding and assessment of that work that is different from that found in other statements of natural law. Boyle made crucial contributions to a wide variety of aspects of this theory, and the volume is divided into two parts.  Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka By Silva Wijeye De; Roshan De Silva Wijeyeratne 2013 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0415462665 | PDF | 5 MB Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka offers a new perspective on contemporary debates about Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka. In this book de Silva Wijeyeratne argues forcefully that 'Sinhalese Buddhism' in the period prior to its engagement with the British colonial State signified a relatively unbounded (although at times boundary forming) set of practices that facilitated both the inclusion and exclusion of non-'Buddhist' concepts and people within a particular cosmological frame. Juxtaposing the premodern against the backdrop of colonial modernity, de Silva Wijeyeratne tells us that in contrast modern 'Sinhalese Buddhism/nationalism' is a much more reified and bounded concept, one imagined through a 19th century epistemology whose purpose was not so much inclusion, but a much more radical exclusion of non-'Buddhist' ideas and people.In this insightful analysis modern Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism, then, emerges through the conjunction of discourse, power and knowledge at a distinct moment in the trajectory of the colonial State. An intrinsic feature of this modernist moment is that premodern categories (such as the cosmic order) were subject to a bureaucratic re-valuation that generated profound consequences for State-society relations and the wider constitutional/legal imaginary. This book goes onto explore how key constitutional and nation-building moments were framed within the cultural milieu of modern Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism - a nationalism that reveals the power of a re-valued Buddhist cosmic order to still inform the present.Given the intensification of the Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist project following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in 2009, this book is of interest to scholars of nationalism, South Asian studies, the anthropology of ritual, and comparative legal history.  Luke Parker, "Nabokov Noir: Cinematic Culture and the Art of Exile" English | ISBN: 150176652X | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 6 MB  NSU Ro80 - The Complete Story by Buckley, Martin; English | 2023 | ISBN: 0719841747 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 43.73 MB  Adam Knobler, "Mythology and Diplomacy in the Age of Exploration " English | ISBN: 9004324895 | 2016 | 164 pages | PDF | 848 KB In this work, Adam Knobler demonstrates the intimate connection between medieval mythologies of the non-Western world, and early modern European imperial expansion to Africa, Asia and the Americas.  Musical Theatre for Dummies by Rudetsky, Seth; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119889502 | 419 pages | True PDF | 30.9 MB  Music Education Research by Miksza, Peter;Shaw, Julia T.;Kapalka Richerme, Lauren;Hash, Phillip M.;Hodges, Donald A.; English | 2023 | ISBN: 0197639755 | 488 pages | True EPUB | 9.31 MB  Mobile Medicine : Overcoming People, Culture, and Governance by Sherri Douville English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032115645 | 340 Pages | True ePUB | 4.23 MB  Missing Links: The African and American Worlds of R. L. Garner, Primate Collector By Jeremy Rich 2012 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0820340596 | PDF | 2 MB Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R. L. Garner (1848-1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the Progressive Era, a critical time in the development of ideas about African wildlife, race, and evolution.Garner was a self-taught zoologist and atheist from southwest Virginia. Starting in 1892, he lived on and off in the French colony of Gabon, studying primates and trying to engage U.S. academics with his theories. Most prominently, Garner claimed that he could teach apes to speak human languages and that he could speak the languages of primates. Garner brought some of the first live primates to America, launching a traveling demonstration in which he claimed to communicate with a chimpanzee named Susie. He was often mocked by the increasingly professionalized scientific community, who were wary of his colorful escapades, such as his ill-fated plan to make a New York City socialite the queen of southern Gabon, and his efforts to convince Thomas Edison to finance him in Africa.Yet Garner did influence evolutionary debates, and as with many of his era, race dominated his thinking. Garner's arguments―for example, that chimpanzees were more loving than Africans, or that colonialism constituted a threat to the separation of the races―offer a fascinating perspective on the thinking and attitudes of his times. Missing Links explores the impact of colonialism on Africans, the complicated politics of buying and selling primates, and the popularization of biological racism.  Minding the Climate : How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis by Ann-Christine Duhaime English | 2022 | ISBN: 0674247728 | 332 Pages | True PDF | 17 MB |
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