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 Free Download On Learning, Volume 3: Knowledge, Curriculum and Ethics by David Scott English | 2025 | ISBN: 180008787X | 268 Pages | True PDF | 3.3 MB  Free Download On Dialogue By Dmitri Nikulin 2005 | 299 Pages | ISBN: 0739158384 | EPUB | 1 MB Drawing from the works of Plato and more contemporary philosophers such as Bakhtin, Buber, Taylor, and Gadamer, On Dialogue explores the necessity of dialogue to being. Author Dmitri Nikulin argues that dialogue is not just a form of communication, but it is the very conditio humana. Nikulin provides a systematic account of dialogue and its role in philosophy, literature, and oral discourse.  Free Download On Creation: Quaestiones Disputatae de Potentia Dei, Q. 3 By Saint Thomas Aquinas, S.C. Selner-Wright (translator) 2010 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 0813217989 | PDF | 1 MB Thomas Aquinas wrote his Disputed Questions on the Power of God (Quaestiones Disputatae de Potentia Dei) in Rome in 1265-66. 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