Roman Frigg, "Scientific Representation "
English | ISBN: 100900915X | 2022 | 80 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Abstract: This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the notion of scientific representation. It does so by focusing on an important class of scientific representations, namely scientific models.

Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years by Charles Coulston Gillispie
English | July 26, 2004 | ISBN: 0691115419 | True PDF | 752 pages | 8.2 MB
From the 1770s through the 1820s the French scientific community predominated in the world to a degree that no other scientific establishment did in any period prior to the Second World War. In his classic Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime, Charles Gillispie analyzed the cultural, political, and technical factors that encouraged scientific productivity on the eve of the Revolution. In the present monumental and elegantly written sequel to that work, which Princeton is reissuing concurrently, he examines how the revolutionary and Napoleonic context contributed to modernization both of politics and science.

Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime by Charles Coulston Gillispie
English | January 1, 1980 | ISBN: 0691082332, 0691118493 | True PDF | 601 pages | 37.7 MB
By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections.

Scars Of 1947: Real Partition Stories by Rajeev Shukla
English | May 1, 2022 | ISBN: 0670095672 | True EPUB | 192 pages | 1.8 MB
After more than seven decades, the burden of grief for those displaced and affected by the Partition of India in 1947 still bears heavy. The two pieces of land were carved by a mere stroke of ink on the surface of a map, but the resultant wounds ran way deeper, from one generation to the next.

Sappho: A New Translation by Sappho, translated by Mary Barnard
English | May 7, 2019 | ISBN: 0520305566 | True EPUB | 128 pages | 0.8 MB
These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct-the best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.

Gerry Bowler, "Santa Claus: A Biography"
English | ISBN: 0771016689 | 2007 | 304 pages | MOBI | 4 MB
An entertaining, often surprising look at the life of the world's most influential fictional character.

Sanskrit Astronomical Tables by Clemency Montelle
English | EPUB | 2019 | 311 Pages | ISBN : 3319970364 | 155.75 MB
This groundbreaking volume provides an up-to-date, accessible guide to Sanskrit astronomical tables and their analysis. It begins with an overview of Indian mathematical astronomy and its literature, including table texts, in the context of history of pre-modern astronomy. It then discusses the primary mathematical astronomy content of table texts and the attempted taxonomy of this genre before diving into the broad outlines of their representation in the Sanskrit scientific manuscript corpus.

Salsa and its Transnational Moves By Sheenagh Pietrobruno
2006 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 0739110535 | PDF | 8 MB
'Salsa and Its Transnational Moves' presents a brilliant critical analysis of salsa dancing in a major North American city. Drawing from a vast number of disciplines, author Sheenagh Pietrobruno focuses on the tension between the status of dance as a bodily expression of identity and its function as a cultural commodity within the economic life of modern day cities. This engaging work investigates the transnational movements of salsa by exploring the circulation of salsa within the Montreal dance scene, nourished by the continuous flow of a people, and examining the commodification of the Latino culture. Pietrobruno's analysis is singular in highlighting how the migration of a people and a dance represent displacements that are not always homologous. At the core of this work, Pietrobruno offers an extensive and intricate ethnography of the institutions and individuals involved in shaping the Montreal salsa scene that will appeal to academics and general audiences alike, who are interested in the study of anthropology, popular music, dance, gender, ethnicity, and culture.

Sacred Rites for Rejuvenation: A Simple, Powerful Technique for Healing and Spiritual Strength by Samael Aun Weor
English | May 1, 2013 | ISBN: 1934206792 | True EPUB | 106 pages | 1.7 MB
Ancient, Proven Exercises from Tibet, India, The Middle East, and Latin America

Pamela G. Smart, "Sacred Modern: Faith, Activism, and Aesthetics in the Menil Collection"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0292737580, 0292723334 | PDF | pages: 295 | 14.3 mb
Renowned as one of the most significant museums built by private collectors, the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, seeks to engage viewers in an acutely aesthetic, rather than pedagogical, experience of works of art. The Menil's emphasis on being moved by art, rather than being taught art history, comes from its founders' conviction that art offers a way to reintegrate the sacred and the secular worlds. Inspired by the French Catholic revivalism of the interwar years that recast Catholic tradition as the avant-garde, Dominique and John de Menil shared with other Catholic intellectuals a desire to reorder a world in crisis by imbuing modern cultural forms with religious faith, binding the sacred with the modern. Sacred Modern explores how the Menil Collection gives expression to the religious and political convictions of its founders and how "the Menil way" is being both perpetuated and contested as the Museum makes the transition from operating under the personal direction of Dominique de Menil to the stewardship of career professionals. Taking an ethnographic approach, Pamela G. Smart analyzes the character of the Menil aesthetic, the processes by which it is produced, and the sensibilities that it is meant to generate in those who engage with the collection. She also offers insight into the extraordinary impact Dominique and John de Menil had on the emergence of Houston as a major cultural center.