The Secrets to Drawing Sexy Anime Girls - Book 1: The Definitive Guide to Mastering Drawing Hot Manga Women by Tammy Ramos
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BHY2C63M | 116 pages | EPUB | 7.70 Mb
Are you a beginner that's stuck drawing plain-looking girls that have no character?

Esther Eshel, "The Scribe in the Biblical World: A Bridge Between Scripts, Languages and Cultures "
English | ISBN: 3110996685 | 2022 | 382 pages | PDF | 23 MB
In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu sämtlichen Gebieten der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die Hebräische Bibel, ihr Vor- und Nachleben im antiken Judentum sowie ihre vielfache Verzweigung in die benachbarten Kulturen der altorientalischen und hellenistisch-römischen Welt.

The Sacred Depths of Nature
by Goodenough, Ursula;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0197662064 | 289 pages | True PDF EPUB | 29.38 MB

The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367689243 | 447 Pages | PDF (True) | 7 MB
The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation offers an understanding of translation in Latin America both at a regional and transnational scale. Broad in scope, it is devoted primarily to thinking comprehensively and systematically about the intersection of literary translation and Latin American literature, with a curated selection of original essays that critically engage with translation theories and practices outside of hegemonic Anglo centers.

Kirsten Strom, "The Routledge Companion to Surrealism "
English | ISBN: 0367689235 | 2022 | 410 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealism's many achievements, but also its historical shortcomings, to illuminate its connections to the historical and cultural moment(s) from which it originated and to assess both the ways in which it still shapes our world in inspiring ways and the ways in which it might appear problematic as we look back at it from a twenty-first-century vantage point. Contributions from experienced scholars will enable professors to teach the subject more broadly, by opening their eyes to aspects of the field that are on the margins of their expertise, and it will enable scholars to identify new areas of study in their own work, by indicating lines of research at a tangent to their own.

Michael Kreutz, "The Renaissance of the Levant: Arabic and Greek Discourses of Reform in the Age of Nationalism "
English | ISBN: 3110631229 | 2019 | 196 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Since the Mediterranean connects cultures, Mediterranean studies have by definition an intercultural focus. Throughout the modern era, the Ottoman Empire has had a lasting impact on the cultures and societies of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean. However, the modern Balkans are usually studied within the context of European history, the southern Mediterranean within the context of Islam. Although it makes sense to connect both regions, this is a vast field and requires a command of different languages not necessarily related to each other. Investigating both Greek and Arabic sources, this book will shed some light on the significance of ideas in the political transitions of their time and how the proponents of these transitions often became so overwhelmed by the events that they helped trigger adjustments to their own ideas. Also, the discourses in Greek and Arabic reflect the provinces of the Ottoman Empire and it is instructive to see their differences and commonalities which helps explain contemporary politics.

Paul Johnson, "The Renaissance: A Short History"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0812966198 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.7 mb
The Renaissance holds an undying place in our imagination, its great heroes still our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern and producing the most astonishing outpouring of artistic creation the world has ever known. But what was it? In this masterly work, the incomparable Paul Johnson tells us. He explains the economic, technological, and social developments that provide a backdrop to the age's achievements and focuses closely on the lives and works of its most important figures. A commanding short narrative of this vital period, The Renaissance is also a universally profound meditation on the wellsprings of innovation.

The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids by Mark Lehner
English | January 11, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09NMPMJZQ | 467 pages | EPUB | 160 Mb
The inside story, told by excavators of the extraordinary discovery of the world's oldest papyri, revealing how Egyptian King Khufu's men built the Great Pyramid at Giza.

Carlos A. Segovia, "The Quranic Noah and the Making of the Islamic Prophet "
English | ISBN: 3110403498 | 2015 | 154 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 666 KB
Still in its infancy because of the overly conservative views and methods assumed by the majority of scholars working in it since the mid-19th century, the field of early Islamic and quranic studies is one in which the very basic questions must nowadays be addressed with decision. Accordingly, this book tries to resituate the Qur'ān at the crossroads of the conversations of old, to which its parabiblical narratives witness, and explores how Muhammad's image - which was apparently modelled after that of the anonymous prophet repeatedly alluded to in the Qur'ān - originally matched that of other prophets and/or charismatic figures distinctive in the late-antique sectarian milieu out of which Islam gradually emerged. Moreover, it contends that the Quranic Noah narratives provide a first-hand window into the making of Muhammad as an eschatological prophet and further examines their form, content, purpose, and sources as a means of deciphering the scribal and intertextual nature of the Qur'ān as well as the Jewish-Christian background of the messianic controversy that gave birth to the new Arab religion. The previously neglected view that Muhammad was once tentatively thought of as a new Messiah challenges our common understanding of Islam's origins.

Carlos Andrés Segovia, "The Quranic Jesus "
English | ISBN: 3110597640 | 2018 | 204 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
Is it possible to rethink the multilayered and polyvalent Christology of the Qur'ān against the intersecting of competing peripheral Christianities, anti-Jewish Christian polemics, and the making of a new Arab state in the 7th-century Near East? To what extent may this help us to decipher, moreover, the intricate redactional process of the quranic corpus? And can we unearth from any conclusions as to the tension between a messianic-oriented and a prophetic-guided religious thought buried in the document? By analysing, first, the typology and plausible date of the Jesus texts contained in the Qur'ān (which implies moving far beyond both the habitual chronology of the Qur'ān and the common thematic division of the passages in question) and by examining, in the second place, the Qur'ān's earliest Christology via-à-vis its later (and indeed much better known) Muhamadan kerygma, the present study answers these crucial questions and, thereby, sheds new light on the Qur'ān's original sectarian milieu and pre-canonical development.