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A Hermit's Cookbook Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages

A Hermit's Cookbook Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages
A Hermit's Cookbook: Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages by Andrew Jotischky
English | August 4, 2011 | ISBN: 0826423930 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 3.7 MB
How did medieval hermits survive on their self-denying diet? What did they eat, and how did unethical monks get around the rules? The Egyptian hermit Onuphrios was said to have lived entirely on dates, and perhaps the most famous of all hermits, John the Baptist, on locusts and wild honey. Was it really possible to sustain life on so little food?

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A Friendship in Twilight Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life

A Friendship in Twilight Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life
A Friendship in Twilight: Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life by Mark C. Taylor, Jack Miles
English | July 5, 2022 | ISBN: 0231205945, 0231205953 | True EPUB | 456 pages | 59.6 MB
In a time of plague, fundamental questions become immediate and personal. The pandemic, droughts, floods, fire, political violence: the world has been grimly reminded of the proximity and inevitability of death. Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor―acclaimed public intellectuals and scholars of religion, one a Christian and the other an atheist, close friends for fifty years―have spent their lives grappling with questions of ultimate concern. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, locked down at home and facing an uncertain future, Miles and Taylor embarked on an extended conversation about living and dying in an imperiled world.

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A Factotum in the Book Trade

A Factotum in the Book Trade
A Factotum in the Book Trade by Marius Kociejowski
English | April 26, 2022 | ISBN: 1771964561 | True EPUB | 360 pages | 1.6 MB
The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it's because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires.

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A Critical Rationalist Aesthetics

A Critical Rationalist Aesthetics
Joseph Agassi, Ian Jarvie, "A Critical Rationalist Aesthetics."
English | 2008 | ISBN: 9042023678 | PDF | pages: 202 | 1.7 mb
This book is a first attempt to cover the whole area of aesthetics from the point of view of critical rationalism. It takes up and expands upon the more narrowly focused work of E. H. Gombrich, Sheldon Richmond, and Raphael Sassower and Louis Ciccotello. The authors integrate the arts into the scientific world view and acknowledge that there is an aesthetic aspect to anything whatsoever. They pay close attention to the social situatedness of the arts. Their aesthetics treats art as emerging from craft in the form of luxurious and playful challenge to the audience. In developing it they place emphasis on the number of questions and claims that can be settled by appeal to empirical facts; on the historical character of aesthetic judgements; and on the connection of aesthetic truth to true love and true friendship, i.e. fidelity and integrity, not to informative truth.

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A Concise Dictionary of Comics

A Concise Dictionary of Comics
A Concise Dictionary of Comics By Nancy Pedri
2022 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 1496838041 | PDF | 3 MB
Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, A Concise Dictionary of Comics guides students, researchers, readers, and educators of all ages and at all levels of comics expertise. It provides them with a dictionary that doubles as a compendium of comics scholarship. A Concise Dictionary of Comics provides clear and informative definitions for each term. It includes twenty-five witty illustrations and pairs most defined terms with references to books, articles, book chapters, and other relevant critical sources. All references are dated and listed in an extensive, up-to-date bibliography of comics scholarship. Each term is also categorized according to type in an index of thematic groupings. This organization serves as a pedagogical aid for teachers and students learning about a specific facet of comics studies and as a research tool for scholars who are unfamiliar with a particular term but know what category it falls into. These features make A Concise Dictionary of Comics especially useful for critics, students, teachers, and researchers, and a vital reference to anyone else who wants to learn more about comics.

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A Celtic Temperament Robertson Davies as Diarist

A Celtic Temperament Robertson Davies as Diarist
Robertson Davies, "A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist"
English | ISBN: 0771027648 | 2015 | 400 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Versatile and prolific, Robertson Davies was an actor, journalist and newspaper publisher, playwright, essayist, founding master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, and one of Canada's greatest novelists. He was also an obsessive, complex, and self-revealing diarist. His diaries, which he began as a teenager, grew to over 3 million words and are an astonishing literary legacy. This first published selection of his diaries spans 1959 to 1963, years in which Davies, in mid-life, experienced both daunting failure and unexpected success.

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99 Gretzky His Game, His Story

99 Gretzky His Game, His Story
Al Strachan, "99: Gretzky: His Game, His Story"
English | ISBN: 0771083297 | 2013 | 336 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Whether wearing his Edmonton oil-drop, the black and silver colours of L.A., or the famous Rangers sweater from New York, all hockey fans agree that Wayne Gretzky was the best hockey player of all time. His point totals, his puck control, and the manner in which he conducted himself both on and off the ice reflected the very best of the game.

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