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 Azar Gat, "War in Human Civilization" English | ISBN: 0199262136 | 2006 | 848 pages | MOBI | 2 MB In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the book generates an astonishing wealth of  Reid Mitenbuler, "Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age" English | ISBN: 0358468329 | 2023 | EPUB | 512 pages | 11 MB The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II.  Yasmine Ali, "Walk through Fire: The Train Disaster that Changed America" English | ISBN: 0806542187 | 2023 | EPUB | 272 pages | 2 MB The first book to examine the rarely-acknowledged Waverly Train Disaster of 1978 - the catastrophic accident that changed America forever and led to the formation of FEMA. Coinciding with the 45th anniversary of the event, WALK THROUGH FIRE is a tribute to the first responders, as well as an examination of the strengths and vulnerabilities in rural America.  Arni Bjornsson, "Wagner and the Volsungs: Icelandic Sources of Der Ring Des Nibelungen" English | 2003 | pages: 296 | ISBN: 0903521555 | PDF | 12,2 mb
 Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices By Lara Medina (editor), Martha R. Gonzales (editor) 2019 | 456 Pages | ISBN: 0816539561 | PDF | 5 MB Voices from the Ancestors brings together the reflective writings and spiritual practices of Xicanx, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx womxn and male allies in the United States who seek to heal from the historical traumas of colonization by returning to ancestral traditions and knowledge. This wisdom is based on the authors' oral traditions, research, intuitions, and lived experiences-wisdom inspired by, and created from, personal trajectories on the path to spiritual conocimiento, or inner spiritual inquiry. This conocimiento has reemerged over the last fifty years as efforts to decolonize lives, minds, spirits, and bodies have advanced. Yet this knowledge goes back many generations to the time when the ancestors understood their interconnectedness with each other, with nature, and with the sacred cosmic forces-a time when the human body was a microcosm of the universe. Reclaiming and reconstructing spirituality based on non-Western epistemologies is central to the process of decolonization, particularly in these fraught times. The wisdom offered here appears in a variety of forms-in reflective essays, poetry, prayers, specific guidelines for healing practices, communal rituals, and visual art, all meant to address life transitions and how to live holistically and with a spiritual consciousness for the challenges of the twenty-first century.  Sonya Huber, "Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto" English | ISBN: 1496231317 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB Though it is foundational to the craft of writing, the concept of voice is a mystery to many authors, and teachers of writing do not have a good working definition of it for use in the classroom. Written to address the vague and problematic advice given to writers to "find their voice," Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto recasts the term in the plural to give writers options, movement, and a way to understand the development of voice over time.  Virgilian Parerga: Textual Criticism and Stylistic Analysis By Gian Biagio Conte 2021 | 135 Pages | ISBN: 3110703955 | PDF | 1 MB Together with "Critical Notes on Virgil" (De Gruyter 2016), this volume offers an enlightening complement to the critical text of the Georgics and the Aeneid recently published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana. In "Virgilian Parerga: Textual Criticism and Stylistic Analysis" can be seen the progress owed to the insight of four of the finest scholars of the past (Heinsius, Heyne, Ribbeck and Sabbadini). The first chapters trace the steps of the arduous path that from the middle of the 17th century on led these outstanding erudites to free themselves from the uulgata and compose a new critical text for the works of Virgil. The later chapters tackle important questions of textual criticism and Virgilian style, and propose new answers to inveterate exegetic problems. The volume ends with an interesting theoretical discussion on the methodological principles that combine the rules of philology with those of law. Here the author questions the logical assumptions that dominate not only the philological process but also the judicial one.  Virgil's Cinematic Art: Vision as Narrative in the Aeneid by Kirk Freudenburg English | December 27, 2022 | ISBN: 0197643248 | True EPUB/PDF | 200 pages | 26.7/14 MB Virgil's Cinematic Art concerns the rhetoric of visual manipulation that provokes us to envision what is written on the page, treating visual details in ancient epic not as mere scene-setting information or enhancements to any given story, but as cues for performing specific imaginative processes. Through a series of close readings centered primarily on Virgil's Aeneid, Kirk Freudenburg shows that the experiential effects that Virgil puts into play do serious narrative work of their own by structuring lines of sight, both visual and emotive, and shifting them about in ways that move readers (interpellated as viewers) into and out of the visual and emotional worlds of the story's characters.
 Urban Crime Control in Cinema : Fallen Guardians and the Ideology of Repression by Vladimir Rizov English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031129776 | 234 Pages | True PDF | 4.34 MB  Carla E. Roland Guzmán, "Unmasking Latinx Ministry for Episcopalians: An Anglican Approach" English | ISBN: 1640651500 | 2020 | 240 pages | EPUB | 424 KB A look through a Latinx lens at how the Episcopal/Anglican church can minister to and with the Latinx community |
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