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Janet Levin, "The Metaphysics of Mind "
English | ISBN: 1108925073 | 2022 | 80 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Metaphysics of Mind presents and discusses the major contemporary theories of the nature of mind, including Dualism, Physicalism, Role-Functionalism, Russellian Monism, Panpsychism, and Eliminativism. Its primary goal is to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the theories in question, including their prospects for explaining the special qualitative character of sensations and perceptual experiences, the special outer-directedness of beliefs, desires, and other intentional states, and―more generally―the place of mind in the world of nature, and the relation between mental states and the behaviors that they (seem to) cause. It also discusses, briefly, some further questions about the metaphysics of mind, namely, whether groups of individuals, or entire communities, can possess mental states that cannot be reduced to the mental states of the individuals in those communities, and whether the boundaries between mind and world are as sharp as they may seem.

Lynne Kelly, "The Memory Code: The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments"
English | ISBN: 1681773252 | 2017 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
The discovery of a powerful memory technique used by our Neolithic ancestors in their monumental memory places―and how we can use their secrets to train our own minds

Michael Johnston, "The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches "
English | ISBN: 1107066190 | 2015 | 318 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
Traditional scholarship on manuscripts has tended to focus on issues concerning their production and has shown comparatively little interest in the cultural contexts of the manuscript book. The Medieval Manuscript Book redresses this by focusing on aspects of the medieval book in its cultural situations. Written by experts in the study of the handmade book before print, this volume combines bibliographical expertise with broader insights into the theory and praxis of manuscript study in areas from bibliography to social context, linguistics to location, and archaeology to conservation. The focus of the contributions ranges widely, from authorship to miscellaneity, and from vernacularity to digital facsimiles of manuscripts. Taken as a whole, these essays make the case that to understand the manuscript book it must be analyzed in all its cultural complexity, from production to transmission to its continued adaptation.

Dale Pinnock, "The Medicinal Chef: How to Cook Healthily: Simple techniques and everyday recipes for a healthy, happy life"
English | ISBN: 1849499535 | 2017 | 195 pages | MOBI | 7 MB
From TV's Eat Shop Save's resident chef and nutritionist, Dale Pinnock, comes the only book you will ever need to learn the basics of healthy cooking at home.

Lawrence Rothfield, "The Measure of Man: Liberty, Virtue, and Beauty in the Florentine Renaissance"
English | ISBN: 1538143364 | 2021 | 216 pages | MOBI | 24 MB
It was one of the most concentrated surges of creativity in the history of civilization. Between 1390 and 1537, Florence poured forth an astonishing stream of magnificent artworks. But Florentines did more during this brief period than create masterpieces. As citizens of a fractious republic threatened from below, without, and within, they also were driven to reimagine the political and ethical basis of their world, exploring the meaning and possibilities of liberty, virtue, and beauty.

Istvan Cselenyi, "The Maternal Face of God?: Explorations in Catholic Sophiology"
English | ISBN: 1621382427 | 2017 | 234 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Until relatively recently, sophiology was almost entirely ignored by Western theologians. The modern West learned about sophiology from the Russians, the influence of which is palpable in the theological aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar and in the Mariology of Louis Bouyer, to name only the most obvious examples. And yet, as this book shows, sophiology is at its core a Western phenomenon-and perhaps ironically, it was originally a Protestant phenomenon, as its fountainhead is the Silesian Lutheran cobbler Jakob Boehme. Indeed, Fr. Cselényi argues that Boehme's sophiology provides Catholic (and Orthodox) theology with a courageous and vigorous Mariology, a gift that has been for the most part left unopened.

Charlie Wetzel, "The Marvel Studios Story: How a Failing Comic Book Publisher Became a Hollywood Superhero "
English | ISBN: 1400216133 | 2020 | 192 pages | MOBI | 2 MB
What can you learn from the world's most successful companies? Marvel characters have been shaping pop culture for decades and when comic books were no longer keeping the company afloat, Marvel Studios was born.

Hugh Turley, "The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation"
English | ISBN: 1548077380 | 2018 | 329 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Seldom can one predict that a book will have an effect on history, but this is such a work. Merton's many biographers and the American press now say unanimously that he died from accidental electrocution. From a careful examination of the official record, including crime scene photographs that the authors have found that the investigating police in Thailand never saw, and from reading the letters of witnesses, they have discovered that the accidental electrocution conclusion is totally false. The widely repeated story that Merton had taken a shower and was therefore wet when he touched a lethal faulty fan was made up several years after the event and is completely contradicted by the evidence.Hugh Turley and David Martin identify four individuals as the primary promoters of the false accidental electrocution narrative. Another person, they show, should have been treated as a murder suspect. The most likely suspect in Descriptionting Merton's murder, a man who was a much stronger force for peace than most people realize, they identify as the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States government.Thomas Merton was the most important Roman Catholic spiritual and anti-warfare-state writer of the 20th century. To date, he has been the subject of 28 biographies and numerous other books. Remarkably, up to now no one has looked critically at the mysterious circumstances surrounding his sudden death in Thailand. From its publication date in the 50th anniversary of his death, into the foreseeable future, this carefully researched work will be the definitive, authoritative book on how Thomas Merton died.

Gabriel Zuchtriegel, "The Making of the Doric Temple: Architecture, Religion, and Social Change in Archaic Greece"
English | ISBN: 1009260103 | | pages | PDF | 19 MB
In this volume, Gabriel Zuchtriegel revisits the idea of Doric architecture as the paradigm of architectural and artistic evolutionism. Bringing together old and new archaeological data, some for the first time, he posits that Doric architecture has little to do with a wood-to-stone evolution. Rather, he argues, it originated in tandem with a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece. Zuchtriegel presents momentous architectural change as part of a broader transformation that involved religion, politics, economics, and philosophy. As Greek elites colonized, explored, and mapped the Mediterranean, they sought a new home for the gods in the changing landscapes of the sixth-century BC Greek world. Doric architecture provided an answer to this challenge, as becomes evident from parallel developments in architecture, art, land division, urban planning, athletics, warfare, and cosmology. Building on recent developments in geography, gender, and postcolonial studies, this volume offers a radically new interpretation of architecture and society in Archaic Greece.

Joseph P. McDermott, "The Making of a New Rural Order in South China: Volume 2, Merchants, Markets, and Lineages, 1500-1700"
English | ISBN: 1107048516 | 2020 | 497 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This volume is written for anyone who has wondered about the growth of Chinese businesses and their relation to Chinese family and government institutions. Making full use of its partner volume's findings on village institutions in the southern prefecture of Huizhou, this volume explains how late imperial China's key regional group of merchants emerged from this prefecture's village lineages. It identifies the strategies they deployed to overcome the serious obstacles to their domination of major financial transactions and commodity markets throughout much of China from 1500 to 1700. At the same time it describes how the commercial success enjoyed by these 'house firms' undermined their lineages' social stability, making them vulnerable to competition from popular religious cults back home. In recounting how rural and urban institutions interacted through state and economic development, McDermott provides a powerful new framework for understanding late imperial China's distinctive trajectory to social and economic transformation.