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 Stephen R. Platt, "Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War" English | ISBN: 0307271730 | 2012 | 512 pages | MOBI | 2 MB A gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles-a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.  Primo Levi, "Auschwitz Testimonies: 1945-1986" English | ISBN: 1509513361 | 2017 | 220 pages | PDF | 10 MB In 1945, soon after the liberation of Auschwitz, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions they witnessed in Auschwitz. The result was an extraordinary testimony and one of the first accounts of the extermination camps ever written. Their report, published in a medical journal in 1946, marked the beginnings of Levi's life-long work as writer, analyst and witness.  Erik Kenyon, "Augustine and the Dialogue" English | ISBN: 110842290X | 2018 | 260 pages | PDF | 2 MB Contrary to the scholarly consensus, Augustine and the Dialogue argues that Augustine's dialogues, with their inconclusive debates and dramatic shifts in focus, betray a sophisticated pedagogical method which combines strategies for 'un-learning' and self-reflection with a willingness to proceed via provisional answers. By shifting the focus from doctrinal content to questions of method, Kenyon seeks to reframe scholarly discussions of Augustine's earliest surviving body of works. This approach shows the young Augustine not refuting so much as appropriating Academic skeptical practices. It also shows that the dialogues' few scriptural references, e.g. Wisdom 11:20's 'measure, number, weight', come at key structural points. This helps articulate the dialogues' larger project of cultivating virtue and their approach to philosophy as a form of purification. Augustine is shown to be at home with pluralistic approaches, and Kenyon holds up his methodology as an attractive model for thinking through problems of the liberal academy today.  Meghan Friedlander, "Audrey Hepburn in Paris: A Candid Reflection of The Iconic Hollywood Actress and her Time in France" English | ISBN: 0063135523 | 2024 | 208 pages | MOBI | 74 MB Introduction by Luca Dotti and Foreword by Giambattista Valli  Meghan Friedlander, "Audrey Hepburn in Paris: A Candid Reflection of The Iconic Hollywood Actress and her Time in France" English | ISBN: 0063135523 | 2024 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 82 MB Introduction by Luca Dotti and Foreword by Giambattista Valli  Barak Lurie, "Atheism Kills: The Dangers of a World Without God - And Cause for Hope " English | ISBN: 0999513907 | 2017 | 382 pages | MOBI | 609 KB In Atheism Kills, Barak Lurie exposes the horrors of a world without God. Contrary to the mantra we've heard time and time again that religion is responsible for more deaths than anything else, it is in fact the absence of God which has killed―in obscene numbers. Ever since atheism first assumed government control in the French Revolution, it has done nothing but kill. Atheism has killed through its many deputies: progressivism, eugenics, fascism, and communism. Lurie shows that it was the godlessness in each of these ideologies that killed hundreds of millions. But atheism doesn't just kill lives. It kills purpose, free will, beauty, compassion, a sense of the past and future, creativity, and freedom itself. Atheism offers only the horrors of chaos and totalitarianism. The world misplaces its focus on Radical Islam as the greatest threat to civilization. As horrible as it is, it is doing nothing and having no sense of self which are the true enemies. It was our will to fight and sense of mission that overcame fascism and communism. We must have these to keep Radical Islam at bay, too. This is why we must resist the growth of atheism. It was God that gave us our freedom. It was God who gave our sense of purpose that created civilization. Take those away, and there is nothing to fight for. In this way, Lurie shows that the lack of belief in God is our greatest danger. How does he know? Because like a hurricane, godlessness has only known how to destroy everything in its path. It has never created. Like there will always be fires, there will always be enemies that seek to destroy our civilization. But if we don't have fire stations with crew, and protocol in each city to deal with fires, those fires will consume us. Likewise, how we prepare ourselves to deal with horrific ideologies will be what saves us. That preparation can only come with our embrace of the centrality of God.  Casey Nelson Blake, "At the Center: American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century" English | ISBN: 1442226757 | 2019 | 358 pages | MOBI | 4 MB At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at "the center of world awareness," thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948 through 1963, they asked: What defined the essential character of "American culture"? Could permanent moral standards guide human conduct amid the flux and horrors of history? In what ways did a stable self emerge through the life cycle? Could scientific method rescue truth from error, illusion, and myth? Are there key elements to democracy, to the integrity of a society, to order in the world? Answers to such questions promised intellectual and moral stability in an age haunted by the memory of world war and the possibility of future devastation on an even greater scale. Yet other key figures rejected the search for a center, asserting that freedom lay in the dispersion of cultural energies and the plurality of American experiences. In probing the centering impulse of the era, At the Center offers a unique perspective on the United States at the pinnacle of its power.  Blythe Grossberg PsyD, "Aspergers and Adulthood: A Guide to Working, Loving, and Living With Aspergers Syndrome" English | ISBN: 1623156602 | 2015 | 114 pages | AZW3 | 397 KB From the bestselling author of Asperger's Rules! and Asperger's Teens comes Asperger's and Adulthood. Blythe Grossberg brings her 15+ years experience working with Asperger's patients to deliver this definitive guide for adults living with Asperger's syndrome.  Maureen Callahan, "Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed" English | ISBN: 0316276170 | 2024 | 400 pages | AZW3 | 10 MB INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER | 2025 Housatonic Book Award Finalist  Lindsay Allason-Jones, "Artefacts in Roman Britain: Their Purpose and Use" English | ISBN: 0521677521 | 2011 | 376 pages | PDF | 22 MB Roman Britain has given us an enormous number of artefacts. Yet few books available today deal with its whole material culture as represented by these artefacts. This introduction, aimed primarily at students and general readers, begins by explaining the process of identifying objects of any period or material. A series of themed chapters, written by experts in their particular area of interest, then discusses artefacts from the point of view of their use. The contributors' premise is that every object was designed for a particular purpose, which may have been to satisfy a general need or the specific need of an individual. If the latter, the maker, the owner and the end user may have been one and the same person; if the former, the manufacturer had to provide objects that others would wish to purchase or exchange. Understanding this reveals a fascinating picture of life in Roman Britain. |
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