Philip J Ivanhoe, "Traditional Korean Philosophy: Problems and Debates "
English | ISBN: 1786601850 | 2016 | 270 pages | EPUB | 802 KB
This unique volume of original essays presents in-depth analyses of representative periods, problems, and debates within the long and rich history of Korean philosophy. It provides the reader with a sense of the problems that motivated thinkers within the tradition and the kinds of arguments that characterize their reflections. With contributions from some of the best and most significant contemporary Korean philosophers, this volume marks an important new stage in the Western-language study and appreciation of Korean philosophy. In order for philosophy to be understood and appreciated as philosophy it must at some point be presented and evaluated as the human effort to understand problems through a process of careful and sustained analysis and argument. This anthology offers Western readers the first opportunity to meet and engage with traditional Korean Buddhist and Confucian philosophy on these terms.

Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination By Robert T. Tally Jr
2019 | 226 Pages | ISBN: 0253037700 | PDF | 2 MB
What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place, and mapping, on the one hand, and literary criticism, history, and theory on the other. The book provides an introduction to spatial literary studies, exploring in detail the theory and practice of geocriticism, literary cartography, and the spatial humanities more generally. The spatial anxiety of disorientation and the need to know one's location, even if only subconsciously, is a deeply felt and shared human experience. Building on Yi Fu Tuan's topophilia (or love of place), Tally instead considers the notion of topophrenia as a simultaneous sense of place-consciousness coupled with a feeling of disorder, anxiety, and dis-ease. He argues that no effective geography could be complete without also incorporating an awareness of the lonely, loathsome, or frightening spaces that condition our understanding of that space. Tally considers the tension between the objective ordering of a space and the subjective ways in which narrative worlds are constructed. Narrative maps present a way of understanding that seems realistic but is completely figurative. So how can these maps be used to not only understand the real world but also to put up an alternative vision of what that world might otherwise be? From Tolkien to Cervantes, Borges to More, Topophrenia provides a clear and compelling explanation of how geocriticism, the spatial humanities, and literary cartography help us to narrate, represent, and understand our place in a constantly changing world.

Mark Ravina, "To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History"
English | ISBN: 0195327713 | 2017 | 328 pages | PDF | 14 MB
The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the new Meiji government took an opposite course. It copied best practices from around the world, building a powerful and modern Japanese nation with the help of European and American advisors. While revering the Japanese past, the Meiji government boldly embraced the foreign and the new. What explains this paradox? How could Japan's 1868 revolution be both modern and traditional, both xenophobic and cosmopolitan?

Time, Media, and Visuality in Post-Revolutionary France
by Iris Moon and Richard Taws
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1501348396 | 313 Pages | True PDF | 5.64 MB

Tiger Tracks - The Classic Panzer Memoir by Wolfgang Faust
English | March 4, 2015 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00UASW4GK | 140 pages | EPUB | 0.47 Mb
Wolfgang Faust was the driver of a Tiger I tank with the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer Battalions, seeing extensive combat on the Eastern Front in 1943-45. This memoir was his brutal and deeply personal account of the Russian Front's appalling carnage.

Tidy Finance with R
by Christoph Scheuch
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032389346 | 268 pages | True PDF | 13.13 MB

Dale Peterson, "Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant"
English | ISBN: 1595348662 | 2020 | 320 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Elephants have captivated the human imagination for as long as they have roamed the earth, appearing in writings and cultures from thousands of years ago and still much discussed today. In Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant, veteran scientific writer Dale Peterson has collected thirty-three essential writings about elephants from across history, with geographical perspectives ranging from Africa and Southeast Asia to Europe and the United States. An introductory headnote for each selection provides additional context and insights from Peterson's substantial knowledge of elephants and natural history.

Howard Rheingold, "They Have a Word for It: Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases"
English | 2000 | pages: 295 | ISBN: 096508079X | PDF | 11,9 mb
This book is meant to be fun. Open it at random and see if you don't find something that will amuse you, entertain you, titillate your curiosity, tickle your perspective. But you should know that reading this book might have serious side effects at a deeper level. Even if you read one page as you stand in a bookstore, you are likely to find a custom or an idea that could change the way you think about the world. It has to do with the insidious way words mold thoughts. It all started with a friendly lunch.Jeremy Tarcher is the kind of publisher a writer dreams about. He isn't likely to merge with a new multinational conglomerate every other week, as book publishers are wont to do, and he actually likes to sit down with authors and talk about ideas. During one of our brainstorming sessions,Jeremy mentioned his desire to publish a lexicon of "untranslatable words" that don't exist in English but would add a new dimension to our lives if we were somehow to import them from their original languages. Words that would open a window on the way other cultures encourage people to think and feel, and thus point out new ways for us to think and feel.

Vrasidas Karalis, "Theo Angelopoulos: Filmmaker and Philosopher "
English | ISBN: 1350245364 | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 10 MB
The cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is celebrated as challenging the status quo. From the political films of the 1970s through to the more existential works of his later career, Vrasidis Karalis argues for a coherent and nuanced philosophy underpinning Angelopoulos' work.

Anway Mukhopadhyay, "Thematizations of the Goddess in South Asian Cinema"
English | ISBN: 1527591220 | 2023 | 258 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This collection presents cross-disciplinary explorations of the tropes, themes and representational frameworks constellating around the figure of the Goddess in South Asian cinema. It critically approaches the Goddess theme in various genres of South Asian cinema, using analytical tools culled from gender studies, comparative cultural studies, and religious studies, as well as film semiotics. The films discussed here represent variegated thematizations of the Goddess across regions in South Asia, including Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and various geo-cultural locations in India. As the volume highlights the regional and politico-cultural differences and commonalities in representational schemes between South Asian films of different genres through the Goddess motif, it will appeal to scholars of film studies, South Asian studies and comparative religion, and will hold a special appeal for those interested in Goddess cultures and theology.