David VanDrunen, "Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World"
English | ISBN: 0310108845 | 2020 | 400 pages | EPUB | 970 KB
For more than a millennium, beginning in the early Middle Ages, most Western Christians lived in societies that sought to be comprehensively Christian-ecclesiastically, economically, legally, and politically. That is to say, most Western Christians lived in Christendom. But in a gradual process beginning a few hundred years ago, Christendom weakened and finally crumbled. Today, most Christians in the world live in pluralistic political communities. And Christians themselves have very different opinions about what to make of the demise of Christendom and how to understand their status and responsibilities in a post-Christendom world.

Russell E. Gmirkin, "Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0367878364, 1138684988 | EPUB | pages: 338 | 2.0 mb
Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible for the first time compares the ancient law collections of the Ancient Near East, the Greeks and the Pentateuch to determine the legal antecedents for the biblical laws. Following on from his 2006 work, Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus, Gmirkin takes up his theory that the Pentateuch was written around 270 BCE using Greek sources found at the Great Library of Alexandria, and applies this to an examination of the biblical law codes. A striking number of legal parallels are found between the Pentateuch and Athenian laws, and specifically with those found in Plato's Laws of ca. 350 BCE. Constitutional features in biblical law, Athenian law, and Plato's Laws also contain close correspondences. Several genres of biblical law, including the Decalogue, are shown to have striking parallels with Greek legal collections, and the synthesis of narrative and legal content is shown to be compatible with Greek literature.

Margaret Cavendish, "Philosophical Letters, Abridged "
English | ISBN: 1624669735 | 2021 | 296 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
"Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) is a fascinating figure who is getting increasing attention by historians of philosophy these days, and for good reason. . . . She's an interesting advocate of a vitalist tradition emphasizing the inherent activity of matter, as well as its inherent perceptive faculties. She's also the perfect character to open students (and their teachers) up to a different seventeenth century, and a different cast of philosophical characters. This is

Shari Zook, "Peanut Butter and Dragon Wings: A Mother's Search for Grace"
English | ISBN: 1513807706 | 2021 | 208 pages | EPUB | 1379 KB
Longing for permission to be real about your own needs and struggles? Permission granted.

Walter Omar Kohan, "Paulo Freire: A Philosophical Biography"
English | ISBN: 1350195987 | 2021 | 296 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most widely read and studied educational thinkers of our time. His seminal works, including Pedagogy of the Oppressed, sparked the global social and philosophical movement of critical pedagogy and his ideas about the close ties between education and social justice and politics are as relevant today as they ever were. In this book, Walter Omar Kohan interweaves philosophical, educational, and biographical elements of Freire's life which prompt us to reflect on what we thought we knew about Freire, and also on the relationship between education and politics more broadly. It offers a new and timely reading of Freire's work and life.

Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses by Sarah Fay
English | March 29, 2022 | ISBN: 0063068680 | 271 pages | PDF | 2.08 Mb
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PUNK! Las Américas Edition (Global Punk Series) By Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa (editor), Rodrigo Quijano (editor), Shane Greene (editor)
2021 | 394 Pages | ISBN: 178938415X | PDF | 79 MB
A collective challenge to the global hegemonic vision of punk. This book interrogates the dominant vision of punk-particularly its white masculine protagonists and deep Anglocentrism-by analyzing punk as a critical lens into the disputed territories of "America," a term that hides the heterogeneous struggles, global histories, hopes, and despairs of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century experience. Compiling academic essays and punk paraphernalia (including interviews, zines, poetry, and visual segments) into a single volume, the book explores punk life through its multiple registers: vivid musical dialogues, excessive visual displays, and underground literary expression.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, "Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution"
English | ISBN: 0393866882 | 2022 | 368 pages | PDF | 5 MB
"Who can ask for better cosmic tour guides?" ―Michio Kaku

Elisabeth R. Anker, "Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 082235697X, 0822356864 | PDF | pages: 353 | 1.7 mb
Melodrama is not just a film or literary genre but a powerful political discourse that galvanizes national sentiment to legitimate state violence. Finding virtue in national suffering and heroism in sovereign action, melodramatic political discourses cast war and surveillance as moral imperatives for eradicating villainy and upholding freedom. In Orgies of Feeling, Elisabeth R. Anker boldly reframes political theories of sovereignty, freedom, and power by analyzing the work of melodrama and affect in contemporary politics. Arguing that melodrama animates desires for unconstrained power, Anker examines melodramatic discourses in the War on Terror, neoliberal politics, anticommunist rhetoric, Hollywood film, and post-Marxist critical theory. Building on Friedrich Nietzsche's notion of "orgies of feeling," in which overwhelming emotions displace commonplace experiences of vulnerability and powerlessness onto a dramatic story of injured freedom, Anker contends that the recent upsurge in melodrama in the United States is an indication of public discontent. Yet the discontent that melodrama reflects is ultimately an expression of the public's inability to overcome systemic exploitation and inequality rather than an alarmist response to inflated threats to the nation.

Stuart Warren, Paul Wyatt, "Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach, 2nd Edition"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0470712368, 0470712376 | 352 pages | EPUB | 9.1 MB
One approach to organic synthesis is retrosynthetic analysis. With this approach a chemist will start with the structure of their target molecule and progressively cut bonds to create simpler molecules. Reversing this process gives a synthetic route to the target molecule from simpler starting materials. This "disconnection" approach to synthesis is now a fundamental part of every organic synthesis course.