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 Greek to Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World by John Davie English | January 6th, 2026 | ISBN: 1399424793 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 4.37 MB Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us 'hypocrite'; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that's before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our Midas Touch. And what about crocodile tears, which comes from the Greek's belief that crocodiles cried while eating their victims!  Alexander Kirichenko, "Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age" English | ISBN: 0192866702 | 2022 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB Greek Literature and the Ideal contends that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sense of purposeful structure. Alexander Kirichenko argues that Greek literature was a crucial factor in the cultural production of space, and Greek geography a crucial factor in the production of literary meaning. The book focuses on the idealizing images that Greek literature created of three spatial patterns of power distribution: a decentralized network of aristocratically governed communities (Archaic Greece); a democratic city controlling an empire (Classical Athens); and a microcosm of Greek culture located on foreign soil, ruled by quasi-divine royals, and populated by immigrants (Ptolemaic Alexandria). Kirichenko draws connections between the formation of these idealizing images and the emergence of such literary modes of meaning making as the authoritative communication of the truth, the dialogic encouragement to search for the truth on one's own, and the abandonment of transcendental goals for the sake of cultural memory and/or aesthetic pleasure. Readings of such canonical Greek authors as Homer, Hesiod, the tragedians, Thucydides, Plato, Callimachus, and Theocritus show that the pragmatics of Greek literature (the sum total of the ideological, cognitive, and emotional effects that it seeks to produce) is, in essence, always a pragmatics of space: there is a strong correlation between the historically conditioned patterns of political geography and the changing mechanisms whereby Greek literature enabled its recipients to make sense of their world.  Katarzyna Jażdżewska, "Greek Dialogue in Antiquity: Post-Platonic Transformations" English | ISBN: 0192893351 | 2022 | 312 pages | MOBI | 2 MB Greek Dialogue in Antiquity reexamines evidence for Greek dialogue between the mid-fourth century BCE and the mid-first century CE - that is, roughly from Plato's death to the death of Philo of Alexandria. Although the genre of dialogue in antiquity has attracted a growing interest in the past two decades, the time covered in this book has remained overlooked and unresearched, with scholars believing that for much of this period the dialogue genre went through a period of decline and was revived only in the Roman times. The book carefully reassesses Post-Platonic and Hellenistic evidence, including papyri fragments, which have never been discussed in this context, and challenges the narrative of the dialogue's decline and subsequent revival, postulating, instead, the genre's unbroken continuity from the Classical period to the Roman Empire. It argues that dialogues and texts creatively interacting with dialogic conventions were composed throughout Hellenistic times, and proposes to reconceptualize the imperial period dialogue as evidence not of a resurgence, but of continuity in this literary tradition.  Greatest American Generals of WW2: From Ruthless Architects to Fearless Commanders, How Results-Not Reputation-Shaped Allied Victory by Fiano Bramley English | 2026 | ASIN: B0GM6J5H8R | 41 Pages | PDF | 25 MB  Great Teams Have Great Teammates: Life and Spiritual Applications by Sue Ramsey English | February 3rd, 2026 | ISBN: 1636988059 | 150 pages | True EPUB | 3.19 MB Great teams don't just happen-they're built, one teammate at a time.  Gray is Beautiful: Confronting the Retreat of Democracy from the Radical Center English | 2026 | ISBN: 9633868610 | 221 pages | True PDF,EPUB | 2.19 MB With "the age of democracy" apparently coming to an end, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb offers hope against hopelessness, turning away from the canned political perspectives of the left, right, and center to recognize the beauty of the less than perfect and to emphasize the centrality of free public life. In Gray is Beautiful, he reflects on a lifetime of political engagement and scholarship, drawing upon experiences as a radical New Leftist, participant observer of the democratic opposition "behind the iron curtain," teacher in Afghanistan, and publisher of online public forums. Offering original insights, this book considers the promise rather than the problems of political uncertainty, uses Tocqueville's mistakes to understand the present state of democracy in America, and considers the ironies of collaboration. Goldfarb helps readers confront today's central challenges in fresh ways, demonstrating that the political gray is indeed beautiful and how this sensibility provides a way to confront the global retreat of democracy.  Graphics Design by James F Lawrence English | 2026 | ASIN: B0GHPWFZSK | 54 pages | pdf | 25 MB The blank canvas isn't a threat-it's an invitation. Stop fighting the future and start leading it.  Henning Fernau, "Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science: 51st International Workshop, WG 2025, Otzenhausen, Germany, June 11-13, 2025, Revised Selected Papers" English | ISBN: 3032118344 | 2026 | 477 pages | PDF | 18 MB This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 51st International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, WG 2025, which took place in Otzenhausen, Germany, during June 2025.  Greg Berman, "Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age" English | ISBN: 0197637043 | 2023 | 240 pages | MOBI | 846 KB A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change.  Google Gemini for Learning & Development: Design Training Content, Assessments, and Personalized Learning Paths with AI by Laurence Lars Svekis English | 2026 | ASIN: B0GL6NF3BR | 115 Pages | PDF | 48 MB |
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