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Tibetan Houses: Vernacular Architecture of the Himalayas and Environs by Peter Herrle, Anna Wozniak
2017 | ISBN: 3035610312 | English | 312 pages | True PDF | 84 MB
The region of the Himalayas and the adjoining Tibetan plateau is known for its unique and characteristic vernacular architecture and housing culture which is slowly but surely disappearing.The book analyses 21 traditional houses in the region that respond in diverse ways to the specifics of their location and local climate, and presents a comparative study of the construction elements using photographs and hand-drawn construction details.

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Three Minutes of Hope: Hugo Gryn on The God Slot by Hugo Gryn
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1441140352 | PDF | 288 pages | 3,4 MB
Hugo Gryn's death triggered a huge outpouring of grief, not just from the congregation at the West London Synagogue where hewas rabbi for 32 years, but from the much wider audience who had come to know him as a regular panellist on The Moral Maze and through his broadcasts on various 'God slots' for the BBC and Capital Radio.

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Thinking about the Prophets: A Philosopher Reads the Bible by Kenneth Seeskin
2020 | ISBN: 0827615051 | English | 176 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
Rethinking the great literary prophets whose ministry ran from the eighth to the sixth centuries BCE-Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Second Isaiah, and Job-Thinking about the Prophets examines their often-shocking teachings in light of their times, their influence on later Western and Jewish thinkers, and their enduring lessons for all of us. As a noted scholar of Jewish philosophy, Kenneth Seeskin teases out philosophical, ethical, and theological questions in the writings, such as the nature of moral reasoning, the divine persona, divine providence, the suffering of the innocent, the power of repentance, and what it means to believe in a monotheistic conception of God.

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Michael Harrington, "Thinking Upside Down: Yoga Philosophy for Your Studio Practice"
English | 2021 | ASIN : B08TSS4LH8 | 156 pages | AZW3, EPUB, PDF | 6 MB
Yoga philosophy belongs with you in your studio practice. The series of brief meditations in this book can change your experience of the poses you take on your mat. Each short chapter offers a single concept from the Indian and Chinese philosophical traditions. The chapter will show you how to use this concept in a pose drawn from the flowing styles of yoga practiced all over the world today. The core concepts are all here: attention and mindfulness, yin and yang, the sources of human suffering and the tools we use to suffer less. One chapter, one concept: profound enough to affect your entire practice but compact enough to read in the ten minutes before you start. Notes at the end of the book provide connections to contemporary philosophy of the body, suggestions for further reading, and technical commentary.

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There's a Boy In Here: A other and son tell the story of his emergence from the bonds of autism, Revised Edition by Sean Barron
English | July 6th, 2020 | ISBN: 1949177394 | 300 pages | True EPUB | 2.60 MB
Updated and Revised Edition! There's A Boy In Here provides an insightful view from inside the mind of a person with autism.

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Theory and calculations of electrical circuits By Charles Proteus Steinmetz
2010 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 1177254972 | DJVU | 12 MB
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill Publication date: 1917 Subjects: Electric currents Electric engineering Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

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The wines of Great Britain by Stephen Skelton
2019 | ISBN: 1905940696 | English | 320 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Great Britain is a premium wine-producing region, with around 650 vineyards in England and Wales covering some 2,750 hectares and producing sparkling and still wines. English and Welsh wines have won many prestigious awards recently and Stephen Skelton is the leading authority on the wines of the UK. The wines of Great Britain is a comprehensive survey of the history of UK wines, as well as of the current state of the wine industry and its future prospects. After a short introduction showing where UK wine is in 2019 and where it might go in the future Skelton considers the history of winemaking in the UK from King Alfred in the fifth century, through the medieval period to recent developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The wines of Great Britain then takes us on a tour of contemporary viticulture and winemaking, examining trends in plantings and vineyard layout, varieties, rootstocks and clones, vineyard sizes, modern wineries and styles of wine. Skelton considers regional identities as well as the branding of UK sparkling wines and their market position. A substantial part of this important book is the 21 detailed biographies of the most important, exciting and innovative producers and the wines they create. Wine businesses profiled in detail include Breaky Bottom, Chapel Down, Nyetimber, Oxney Organic Estate, Sixteen Ridges Vineyard and Yorkshire Heart Vineyard. Shorter entries on other significant or up-and-coming producers also feature.

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The science and philosophy of the organisms By Hans Driesch
2010 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 1177432986 | DJVU | 9 MB
This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: General Plan Of These Lectures Turning now to a sort of short outline of what is to be discussed in the whole of our future lectures, this summer and next, it seems clear, without further analysis, that biology as a science has its nomothetic and its systematic part also; respiration and assimilation, for instance, have proved to be types of natural laws among living phenomena, and that there is a " system" of animals and plants is too commonly known to require further explanation here. Therefore we might study first biological laws, and after that biological systematics, and in the third place perhaps biological history. But that would hardly correspond to the philosophical aims of our lectures: our chief object is not biology as a regular science, as treated in text-books and in ordinary university lectures; our chief object is the Philosophy of the Organism, as aided and supported by scientific biology. Therefore a general acquaintance with biology must be assumed in these lectures, and the biological materials must be arranged according to their bearing on further, that is on philosophical, analysis. That will be done, not, of course, to the extent of my regarding every one of my audience as a competent biologist; on the contrary, I shall explain most fully all points of biology proper, and even of the most simple and descriptive kind of biology, which serve as bases for philosophical analysis. But I shall do so only if they indeed do serve as such bases. All our biology will be not for its own sake, but for the sake of philosophy. Whilst regarding the whole of the biological materialwith such aims, it seems to me best to arrange the properly scientific material which is to be the basis of my discussions, not along the lines which biology as an independent science wou...

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The bounds of reason : game theory and the unification of the behavioral sciences By Herbert Gintis
2009 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 0691140529 | PDF | 2 MB
Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences--from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead complement other key concepts championed by the behavioral disciplines. Herbert Gintis shows that just as game theory without broader social theory is merely technical bravado, so social theory without game theory is a handicapped enterprise. Gintis illustrates, for instance, that game theory lacks explanations for when and how rational agents share beliefs. Rather than construct a social epistemology or reasoning process that reflects the real world, game theorists make unwarranted assumptions which imply that rational agents enjoy a commonality of beliefs. But, Gintis explains, humans possess unique forms of knowledge and understanding that move us beyond being merely rational creatures to being social creatures. For a better understanding of human behavior, Gintis champions a unified approach and in doing so shows that the dividing lines between the behavioral disciplines make no scientific sense. He asks, for example, why four separate fields--economics, sociology, anthropology, and social psychology--study social behavior and organization, yet their basic assumptions are wildly at variance. The author argues that we currently have the analytical tools to render the behavioral disciplines mutually coherent. Combining the strengths of the classical, evolutionary, and behavioral fields, The Bounds of Reason reinvigorates the useful tools of game theory and offers innovative thinking for the behavioral sciences.

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The art of the first shot for everybody: The Special Forces system by Samuel Greenberg
English | 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07T1NXJ2C | 123 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 1.25 Mb
Textbook of Special Forces on the art of the first shot for all

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