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 Free Download William Egginton, "The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality" English | ISBN: 0593316304 | 2023 | 368 pages | PDF | 3 MB A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe-the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind-and each in their own way uncovered a revelatory truth about our place in the world  Free Download Nancy O. Meyer, "The Real Israel Disembarked: The Phoenician Origins of Samaria " English | ISBN: 9042946857 | 2022 | 226 pages | PDF | 2 MB The quest for the historical Israel is fraught. But, by taking a closer look at the capitol of the Northern Kingdom some answers are possible. Through comparative analyses of archaeological sites in the Phoenician homeland and ancient texts, the Samaria's history comes into higher relief and its Phoenician origins are evident. Far from being part of the putative Davidic Kingdom and Judah's sister, Samaria was independent and worked with multiple groups up to the invasion of Assyria in 722BCE. Its ties to Phoenician cities are stronger than those to Judah. Shechem and Jezreel also reveal some interesting ties; those may be Israelite cities, but not in the traditional sense. Shaking up conventional ideas of the historical Israel, this volume also explores the importance of the Biblical text and the acts of mythopoesis that brought Samarians, Judaeans, and other groups under a new ethnic identity after Assyria's invasion and beyond, Israel.  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Revised and updated, this acclaimed study of Tolkien's achievement-previously released as Secret Fire in the UK-includes commentary on Peter Jackson's film adaptations and explores many of the fascinating stories and letters published after Tolkien's death.The spiritual intensity ofThe Lord of the Ringsis obvious to anyone who has read the trilogy or watched the films by Peter Jackson. Yet the majority of fans are still not aware that the authors was a devout Roman Catholic. In this book Stratford Caldecott reveals the deeper meanings of the text and films, drawing not only on the classic published works but also on Tolkien's writings unpublished during his lifetime.  Free Download David Godman, "The Power of the Presence" English | 2001 | ISBN: 0971137102 | PDF | pages: 378 | 35.5 mb Six more devotees of Sri Ramana Maharshi share their momentous and transforming experiences.  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The contributors demonstrate that the network society is the new form of social organization in the Information age, replacing the Industrial society. with social culture in different cultural and institutional contexts: the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Finland, Russia, China, India, Canada, and Catalonia. The topics examined include business productivity, global financial markets, cultural identity, the uses of the Internet in education and health, the anti-globalization movement, political processes, media and identity, and public policies to guide technological development. Taken together these studies show that the network society adopts very different forms, depending on the cultural and institutional environments in which it evolves. 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The nature of hate is neither hate in its weakened form, as in disliking or loving less, nor hate in its righteous form, as in "I hate hatred," rather hate in its primal form as told and conveyed in so many culturally influential Bible stories that are at the root of hatred as it manifests itself today. The hatred of nature is not only contempt for the natural world, but also the idea of nature hating in return, thus inspiring even more hatred of nature. While some chapters, such as the one dedicated to La Celestina, focus more on the nature of hate and the hatred of love, they do address the hatred of nature, as when Celestina conjures Pluto, who happens to be closer to nature than to Satan. Other chapters, such as the ones dedicated to the Latin American novels set in the jungle, focus more on the hatred of nature but ultimately turn to the nature of hatred by analyzing hatred and the descent into madness. 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