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 Europe Through the Prism of Japan: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries By Jacques Proust 2002 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 0268027617 | PDF | 38 MB This work analyzes the image Europe presented to Japan, deliberately or otherwise, from the mid-16th century to the end of the 18th century. It covers developments in Japanese culture and civilization during 300 years of interaction between Japanese and Europeans, including Dutch merchants, Spanish Catholic missionaries, and German and Portuguese Jesuits. The author examines not only Europeans' influence on Japan but also the unique Japanese interpretation of European culture. This perspective offers a prism through which Europe may be viewed and frequently sheds light on facets of European civilization of which not even the Europeans, at the time, were aware. The text covers topics such as art history, theology, philosophy, political and social history, and even the history of medicine.  Ethos, Logos, and Perspective: Studies in Late Byzantine Rhetoric (Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies) by Florin Leonte English | March 10, 2023 | ISBN: 1032343362 | True PDF | 238 pages | 17.8 MB Ethos, Logos, and Perspective represents the first comprehensive study of late Byzantine court rhetorical praise as a general phenomenon surfacing in many types of rhetorical epideictic compositions dating from the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries: panegyrics, encomia, city descriptions, encomiastic verses, or letters.  Ethnobotany: Ethnopharmacology to Bioactive Compounds English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032348143 | 247 Pages | PDF (True) | 4.3 MB Ethnobotany: Ethnopharmacology to Bioactive Compounds comprises of carefully selected studies focusing on the importance of ethnobotanical data as an effective approach towards the discovery of novel ethnopharmacological properties and bioactive compounds that characterize herbal products, pharmaceutical drugs and medicinal plants. This book incorporates therapeutic, nutritional, phytochemistry and pharmacological properties of medicinal plants, mechanisms of action and clinical trials of bioactive compounds as well as the molecular basis of the bioactive compounds from the perspective of modern phytochemistry. This book will be useful for a diverse group of readers including students, botanists, pharmacists, chemists, herbalists and those researchers interested in ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology.  Essays in Social Pychcology By George H. Mead, Mary Jo Deegan (editor) 2011 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 1844253511 | PDF | 6 MB George H. Mead (1863-1931) is a central, founding figure of modern sociology, comparable to Karl Marx and Max Weber. Mead's early work, prior to his posthumous publications that appeared after 1932, is believed to be a series of articles contemporary scholarship defines as disconnected. A previously unknown, never published set of galleys for a book of essays by Mead, written between 1892 and 1910, unites these articles into a logical perspective. Essays in Social Psychology, Mead's "first" book, clearly locates him within a significantly different tradition and network than documented in his posthumous volumes. The discovery of this work is a major scholarly event.Instead of being abstract and unemotional, as some scholars argue, Mead's early scholarship focuses on the significance of emotions, instincts, and childhood as well as political issues underlying political problems in Chicago. During these early years, he was involved with the emerging Laboratory Schools at the University of Chicago, which was then the center of progressive education. These early topics, interpretations, and scholarly networks are dramatically different in these writings from those of Mead as a mature scholar. They demonstrate that he was clearly making a transition from psychology to social psychology at a time when the latter was in its infancy.Mary Jo Deegan, a world-renowned Meadian scholar has comprehensively edited this volume, footnoting now obscure references and authors. Her introduction explains how this previously lost manuscript affects contemporary Meadian scholarship and how it reflects the city and times in which he lived. Unlike the posthumous volumes assembled from lecture notes, Essays in Social Psychology is the only book actually written by Mead and challenges most current scholarship on him. The selections are highly readable, surprisingly timely yet historically significant. Psychologists, sociologists, and educators will find it immensely important.  Michael Dornbusch, Ulrich Christ, Rob Rasing, "Epoxy Resins" English | 2016 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 3866308876 | PDF | 3,7 mb Thanks to their excellent characteristics, epoxy resins belong to the most established binders within the coatings industry. This new book explains the basic principles of the chemistry of the epoxy group and imparts the use of epoxy and phenoxy resins in industrial coatings,such as anticorrosive coatings, floor coatings, powder coatings and can coatings, with the help of concrete formulations.  Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality English | 2022 | ISBN: 0192864351 | 224 Pages | PDF | 2 MB How much does rationality constrain what we should believe on the basis of our evidence? According to this book, not very much. For most people and most bodies of evidence, there is a wide range of beliefs that rationality permits them to have in response to that evidence. The argument, which takes inspiration from William James' ideas in 'The Will to Believe', proceeds from two premises. The first is a theory about the basis of epistemic rationality. It's called  Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity (Christianity in Late Antiquity) by Andrew S. Jacobs English | July 5, 2016 | ISBN: 0520291123, 0520385705 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 1.2 MB Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 C.E., was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century. Whereas his major surviving text (the Panarion, an encyclopedia of heresies) is studied for lost sources, Epiphanius himself is often dismissed as an anti-intellectual eccentric, a marginal figure of late antiquity.
 Enduring Shame : A Recent History of Unwed Pregnancy and Righteous Reproduction by Heather Brook Adams English | 2022 | ISBN: 1643362933 | 253 Pages | True PDF | 10 MB  Trent Reedy, "Enduring Freedom" English | ISBN: 1643750402 | 2021 | 352 pages | EPUB | 3 MB September 11, 2001  Verner D. Mitchell, "Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement" English | ISBN: 1538101459 | 2019 | 410 pages | EPUB | 14 MB The Black Arts Movement (BAM) encompassed a group of artists, musicians, novelists, and playwrights whose work combined innovative approaches to literature, film, music, visual arts, and theatre. With a heightened consciousness of black agency and autonomy-along with the radical politics of the civil rights movement, the Black Muslims, and the Black Panthers-these figures represented a collective effort to defy the status quo of American life and culture. Between the late 1950s and the end of the 1970s, the movement produced some of America's most original and controversial artists and intellectuals. |
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