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 Brett E. Maiden, "Cognitive Science and Ancient Israelite Religion: New Perspectives on Texts, Artifacts, and Culture " English | ISBN: 1108487785 | 2020 | 300 pages | PDF | 3 MB In this book, Brett Maiden employs the tools, research, and theories from the cognitive science of religion to explore religious thought and behavior in ancient Israel. His study focuses on a key set of distinctions between intuitive and reflective types of cognitive processing, implicit and explicit concepts, and cognitively optimal and costly religious traditions. Through a series of case studies, Maiden examines a range of topics including popular and official religion, Deuteronomic theology, hybrid monsters in ancient iconography, divine cult statues in ancient Mesopotamia and the biblical idol polemics, and the Day of Atonement ritual in Leviticus 16. The range of media, including ancient texts, art, and archaeological data from ancient Israel, as well theoretical perspectives demonstrates how a dialogue between biblical scholars and cognitive researchers can be fostered.  David Cordingly, "Cochrane the dauntless: the life and adventures of Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 1775 - 1860" English | ISBN: 074758088X | | pages | MOBI | 10 MB  Jean-Jacques Taylor, "Coach Prime: Deion Sanders and the Making of Men - Unprecedented Access to College Football's Most Innovative Leadership" English | ISBN: 0063306913 | 2023 | 304 pages | MOBI | 1174 KB An exclusive insider account with unprecedented access to Deion Sanders, his staff, and players, who are changing the culture of college football.  Kurt H. Piepenbrink, "Clostridioides difficile: Methods and Protocols " English | ISBN: 107165327X | 2026 | 255 pages | PDF | 20 MB This volume discusses the latest advancements on approaches used to characterize C. difficile physiology, including new methods for genetic modifications and novel models for studying host-pathogen interactions. The chapters in this book cover various topics such as FASTQ; CRISPR-AsCas12a and dAsCas 12a-mediated gene knockout and knockdown in Clostridioides difficile; preparation of spores with 70:30 method; measuring C. difficile adhesion to mucosal surfaces; and isolating C. difficile from animal samples. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.  Candice Delmas, "Civil and Uncivil Disobedience " English | ISBN: 1009659154 | 2026 | 75 pages | PDF | 1525 KB What is wrong with disobedience? What makes an act of disobedience civil or uncivil? Under what conditions can an act of civil or uncivil disobedience be justified? Can a liberal democratic regime tolerate (un)civil disobedience? This Element book presents the main answers that philosophers and activist-thinkers have offered to these questions. It is organized in 3 parts: Part I presents the main philosophical accounts of civil disobedience that liberal political philosophers and democratic theorists have developed and then conceptualizes uncivil disobedience. Part II examines the origins of disobedience in the praxis of activist-thinkers: Henry David Thoreau on civil resistance, anarchists on direct action, and Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. on nonviolence. Part III takes up the question of violence in defensive action, the requirement that disobedients accept legal sanctions, and the question of whether uncivil disobedience is counterproductive and undermines civic bonds.  Andrew Zimbalist, "Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup" English | ISBN: 0815726511 | 2015 | 174 pages | AZW3 | 677 KB Athletes compete for national honor in Olympic and World Cup games. But the road to these mega events is paved by big business. We all know who the winners on the field arebut who wins off the field?  Christopher Catherwood, "Churchill, Eisenhower, and the Making of the Modern World" English | ISBN: 1493050524 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 2 MB It is often said that the special bond between Britain and the USA was forged in war between Roosevelt and Churchill. But the closer link in many ways was that between Churchill and Eisenhower, since it existed both in wartime 1941-1945 but also again in very different circumstances between 1951 and 1955, when Churchill was Prime Minister and Eisenhower was briefly the first Supreme Allied Commander NATO before going back to the USA to win the 1952 Presidential race and overlap in the White House with Churchill's peacetime premiership from 1953-1955. And in 1945-1951 Churchill by his speeches and Eisenhower by his tenure as first ever Supreme Allied Commander Europe were continuing to create the new and stable global world order that held until now.  Nathan D. Howard, "Christianity and the Contest for Manhood in Late Antiquity: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Rhetoric of Masculinity" English | ISBN: 1316514765 | 2022 | 350 pages | PDF | 3 MB In this book, Nathan Howard explores gender and identity formation in fourth-century Cappadocia, where pro-Nicene bishops used a rhetoric of contest that aligned with conventions of classical Greek masculinity. Howard demonstrates that epistolary exhibitions served as 'a locus for' asserting manhood in the fourth century. These performances illustrate how a culture of orality that had defined manhood among civic elites was reframed as a contest whereby one accrued status through merits of composition. Howard shows how the Cappadocians' rhetoric also reordered the body and materiality as components of a maleness over which they moderated. He interrogates fourth-century theological conflict as part of a rhetorical battle over claims to manhood that supported the Cappadocians' theology and cast doubt on non-Trinitarian rivals, whom they cast as effeminate and disingenuous. Investigating accounts of pro-Nicene protagonists overcoming struggles, Howard establishes that tropes based on classical standards of gender contributed to the formation of Trinitarian orthodoxy.  Daniel A. Crane, "Christianity and Market Regulation: An Introduction " English | ISBN: 1108495109 | 2021 | 325 pages | PDF | 2 MB Historically, the Christian tradition has played an influential role in Western economic thought concerning the regulation of markets, but, with the fracturing of the Christian tradition following the Reformation, the decline of Christian influence in academia, and the increasing specialization of economic analysis, that influence has become increasingly opaque. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of prominent academic experts on market regulation from four different continents and various faith traditions to reconsider the impact of Christianity on market regulation. Drawing on law, economics, history, theology, philosophy, and political theory, the authors consider both general questions of market regulation and particular regulatory fields such as bankruptcy, corporate law, and antitrust from a Christian perspective.  Allen D. Hertzke, "Christianity and Freedom: Volume 2, Contemporary Perspectives " English | ISBN: 1107124727 | 2016 | 518 pages | PDF | 2 MB Volume 2 of Christianity and Freedom illuminates how Christian minorities and transnational Christian networks contribute to the freedom and flourishing of societies across the globe, even amidst pressure and violent persecution. Featuring unprecedented field research by some of the world's most distinguished scholars, it documents the outsized role of Christians in promoting human rights and religious freedom; fighting injustice; stimulating economic equality; providing education, social services, and health care; and nurturing democratic civil society. Readers will come away surprised and sobered to learn how this very Christian link to freedom often invites persecution. What are the dimensions of persecution and how are Christians responding to that pressure? What resources - theological, social, or transnational - do they marshal in leavening their societies? What will be lost if the Christian presence is marginalized? The answers to these questions are of crucial relevance in a world awash with religious extremism and deepening instability. |
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