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 Daniel W. Houck, "Aquinas, Original Sin, and the Challenge of Evolution" English | ISBN: 1108493696 | 2020 | 292 pages | PDF | 2 MB Is original sin compatible with evolution? Many today believe the answer is 'No'. Engaging Aquinas's revolutionary account of the doctrine, Daniel W. Houck argues that there is not necessarily a conflict between this Christian teaching and mainstream biology. He draws on neglected texts outside the Summa Theologiae to show that Aquinas focused on humanity's loss of friendship with God - not the corruption of nature (or personal guilt). Aquinas's account is theologically attractive in its own right. Houck proposes, moreover, a new Thomist view of original sin that is consonant with evolution. This account is developed in dialogue with biblical scholarship on Jewish hamartiology and salient modern thinkers (including Kant, Schleiermacher, Barth, and Schoonenberg), and it is systematically connected to debates over nature, grace, the desire for God, and justification. In addition, the book canvasses a number of neglected premodern approaches to original sin, including those of Anselm, Abelard, and Lombard.  Woody Allen, "Apropos of Nothing - Large Print Edition" English | ISBN: 1951627350 | 2020 | 498 pages | AZW3 | 572 KB The Long-Awaited, Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time-Now a New York Times, USA Today,  Susan Johnson, "Aphrodite's Breath" English | ISBN: 1760876569 | 2023 | 368 pages | MOBI | 2 MB What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly original, funny, and forensic examination of love and finding home from the author of From Where I Fell .  Patricia Southern, "Antony & Cleopatra: The Doomed Love Affair That United Ancient Rome & Egypt" English | ISBN: 1848683243 | 2009 | 189 pages | MOBI | 2 MB The tragic love affair of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is a staple of popular ancient history, immortalised by Shakespeare and Hollywood and mercilessly parodied in Carry on Cleo. In this dual biography Patricia Southern attempts to rescue both from the stereotypes, portraying their alliance as a mutually advantageous one, and both of them as capable political operators. Southern has a flair for this kind of narrative-history-with-argument, but she has already written extensively on both Antony and Cleopatra as well as Caesar, and for those who have read those earlier books there will be little new here.  Elizabeth Norton, "Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII's Obsession" English | ISBN: 1848680848 | 2008 | 232 pages | MOBI | 2 MB Alluring but not beautiful, Anne's wit and poise won her numerous admirers at the English court, and caught the roving eye of King Henry. Anne was determined to shape her own destiny, first through a secret engagement to Henry Percy, the heir of the Earl of Northumberland, and later through her insistence on marriage with the king, after a long and tempestuous relationship as his mistress. Their love affair was as extreme as it was deadly, from Henry's 'mine own sweetheart' to 'cursed and poisoning whore' her fall from grace was total.  Barbara Kingsolver, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life" English | ISBN: 0060852569 | 2008 | 400 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life-vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.  John Kantner, "Ancient Puebloan Southwest " English | ISBN: 0521783100 | 2005 | 338 pages | PDF | 41 MB John Kantner traces the evolution of Pueblo society in the American Southwest from the emergence of the Chaco and Mimbres in the AD 1000s through the early decades of contact with the Spanish in the sixteenth century. Based on a diverse range of archaeological data, historical accounts, oral history and ethnographic records, this introduction for students of the Pueblo Southwest is vital reading for any archaeologist concerned with the origins of early civilizations.  Ugo Zilioli, "Ancient Greek and Indian Buddhist Philosophers on Reality and Selfhood" English | ISBN: 1350460362 | 2026 | 290 pages | PDF | 3 MB Key areas and aspects of ancient philosophy in Greek and Indian Buddhist traditions are illuminated in this collection. Covering an extended period of time, from early (5th century BC), through Hellenism, to post-Hellenistic times (up to the 7th century AD) it begins by focusing on historical themes and methods in ancient Greece and India. This sketch of historical and philosophical connections between the regions, from Classical times to post-Hellenism, sets the ground for deeper exploration between these two traditions. Attention is placed on reality and selfhood. An international team of contributors deal with topics including consciousness, personal identity and personhood. They tackle metaphysical questions about composition and material constitution of things, shedding light on the challenges Greek and Buddhist thinkers faced. Converging analyses and shared themes are identified in a substantive introduction to the collection. This is an important contribution to the growing literature in ancient comparative philosophy.  David B. Small, "Ancient Greece: Social Structure and Evolution " English | ISBN: 0521895057 | 2019 | 284 pages | PDF | 40 MB This book examines the development of ancient Greek civilization through a path-breaking application of social scientific theories. David B. Small charts the rise of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations and the unique characteristics of the later classical Greeks through the lens of ancient social structure and complexity theory, opening up new ideas and perspectives on these societies. He argues that Minoan and Mycenaean institutions evolved from elaborate feasting, and that the genesis of Greek colonization was born from structural chaos in the eighth century. Small isolates distinctions between Iron Age Crete and the rest of the Greek world, focusing on important differences in social structure. His book differs from others on Ancient Greece, highlighting the perpetuation of classical Greek social structure into the middle years of the Roman Empire, and concluding with a comparison of the social structure of classical Greece to that of the classical Maya civilization.  Aleksandra Hallmann, "Ancient Egyptian Clothing: Studies in Late Period Private Representations: Volume 1 " English | ISBN: 9004501304 | 2024 | 778 pages | PDF | 6 MB Winner of the Erazm Majewski Award in archeological publications from the Division I: Humanities and Social Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences! |
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