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English | July 11th, 2023 | ISBN: 1250892139 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 2.81 MB
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Free Download Michael P. Kucher, "The Water Supply System of Siena, Italy: The Medieval Roots of the Modern Networked City "
English | ISBN: 1138986968 | 2016 | 242 pages | PDF | 63 MB
The book reviews scholarly literature and archival sources including maps and diagrams, to better situate Siena's achievement in urban history and broadens our understanding of medieval technology and urban life.
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Free Download A. J. Beck, "The Vitality of Evangelical Theology: Celebrating Etf Leuven at 40 "
English | ISBN: 9042948868 | 2022 | 271 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This volume presents the research activities of Evangelische Theologische Faculteit Leuven during the last four decades: a faculty with its location rooted in the heart of Europe and its nature connected to an international academic community. For 40 years now, ETF Leuven is a place where researchers from different cultural and denominational backgrounds and different parts of the world engage in evangelical theology. Through an Introduction and no fewer than eighteen chapters, this volume shows how ETF Leuven fosters a connection between academic research and faithful engagement with faith communities. Each of its six departments discusses past research activities and presents two samples of current research. Nevertheless, the different contributions do not just inform the reader about the essential mission of a theological faculty. This volume offers much more. Taken together, the contributions reflect the vitality of evangelical, and more broadly Christian theology as a benefit to both church and society, particularly in a time when academic theology seems to be vulnerable. The volume includes a foreword by Prof. Miroslav Volf, who interprets the narrative of ETF Leuven within the larger field of academic theology.
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Free Download The Uranium Club: Unearthing the Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program by Miriam E Hiebert, Timothy W Koeth
English | July 11th, 2023 | ISBN: 1641608625 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 6.53 MB
"Much as Marcel Proust spun out a lifetime of memories from the taste of a madeleine, The Uranium Club spins out the history of Nazi Germany's failed World War II atomic-bomb project by tracing the whereabouts of a small, blackened cube of Nazi uranium. It's a riveting tale of competing German ambitions and arrogant mistakes, a nonfiction thriller tracking teams of American scientists as they race to prevent Hitler from beating the United States to the atomic bomb." -Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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Free Download Martin Davis, "The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing, 3rd Edition"
English | ISBN: 0815384025, 1138502081 | 2018 | EPUB | 222 pages | 5 MB
The breathtakingly rapid pace of change in computing makes it easy to overlook the pioneers who began it all. The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing explores the fascinating lives, ideas, and discoveries of seven remarkable mathematicians. It tells the stories of the unsung heroes of the computer age - the logicians.
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Free Download Peeters Publishers, "The Psalter. PS 90-106: Book Four - PS 90-106 (4) "
English | ISBN: 9042948523 | 2022 | 281 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The composition of the fourth book is in no way inferior to that of the other four books already analysed. Its three major sections, each containing five psalms, are organised in a concentric fashion; they are linked by two short sections which constitute the focal points of the ellipse that the whole book draws. The extreme sections are related. The first section (Ps 90-94) describes "the fate of the children of Adam", the last one (Ps 102-106) "the fate of the children of Israel". All are subject to the law of human affliction. They are like the grass that flourishes in the morning and withers and dries up in the evening; and sin accompanies frailty. As the refuge of humanity from generation to generation, the Lord saves people by satisfying those who fear him for many days and by assuring his faithfulness to the children of their children, from age to age. Despite their repeated unfaithfulness, God does not grow weary of forgiving them. The central section (Ps 96-100) stands out from the rest of the book, which it overshadows. All peoples are called to come to Jerusalem to worship the King of the universe and to bless him who has saved the chosen people from among all the families of the earth. Carried by the promise of the one God and by the hope of the one people, this invitation is situated on the unattained, but always desired eschatological horizon. The focal points of the ellipsis (Ps 95 and Ps 101) are the key to reading the book. The first one focuses on a wish addressed to humans: "Today if you would only listen to his voice" (Ps 95:7). The second one poses a question to God: "When will you come to me?" (Ps 101:2). Therefore, the whole fourth book is captured in this tension between God's desire and human desire, each going to meet the other, in a "today" whose fragility places every human being between the morning when the grass flourishes and the evening when it dries up, between the time of the fathers, which the last section evokes at length, the time of sin and forgiveness, and the time of salvation and of the end, which the central section contemplates.
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Free Download Roland Meynet, "The Psalter Book Five: PS 107-150 "
English | ISBN: 904295017X | 2022 | 747 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Classical commentaries study each psalm on its own. However, there is a growing trend to look at the composition of the Psalter. The present commentary on the fifth and last "book" of psalms (Ps 107-150) carries out a systematic analysis of the composition of this set of forty-four psalms, at all levels of its organization: first each psalm on its own, followed by each subsequence formed of several psalms, then each sequence, each of the five subsections that constitute the fifth book, and finally the whole section, i.e., the book. The last five psalms (146-150) are, so to speak, outside the system, for they constitute the doxology that concludes not only the fifth book but also the entire Psalter. The composition is extremely elaborate. At the centre of the construction, Ps 119 which is a long meditation on the Law. It is preceded by the "Egyptian Hallel" which celebrates the exodus from the land of slavery (Ps 113-118) and followed by the "Psalms of Ascents" which sing and hope for the return from exile in Babylon (Ps 120-134). Finally, at the extremities, two subsections that correspond to each other: in the psalmist's own words, "From the mouth of deceit to the thanksgiving of the righteous" (Ps 107-112), "From the venom of the serpent to the praise of the righteous" (Ps 135-145). The interpretation of each group of psalms allows us to reach a greater meaning, which clearly exceeds the sum of the interpretations of each of the units that make it up.
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Free Download Joe Panzner, "The Process That Is the World: Cage/Deleuze/Events/Performances"
English | ISBN: 162892571X | 2015 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Process That Is the World grapples with John Cage not just as a composer, but as a philosopher advocating for an ontology of difference in keeping with the kind posited by Gilles Deleuze. Cage's philosophy is not simply a novel method for composition, but an extensive argument about the nature of reality itself, the construction of subjects within that reality, and the manner in which subjectivity and a self-creative world exist in productive tension with one another. Over the course of the study, these themes are developed in the realms of the ontology of a musical work, performance practices, ethics, and eventually a study of Cagean politics and the connection between aesthetic experience and the generation of new forms of collective becoming-together. The vision of Cage that emerges through this study is not simply that of the maverick composer or the "inventor of genius," but of a thinker and artist responding to insights about the world-as-process as it extends through the philosophical, artistic, and ethical registers: the world as potential for variance, reinvention, and permanent revolution.
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English | May 24, 2018 | ISBN: 2806291364 | 51 pages | EPUB | 1.73 Mb
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Free Download Eve Mayes, "The Politics of Voice in Education: Reforming Schools after Deleuze and Guattari "
English | ISBN: 1474451209 | 2023 | 264 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Engaging with the voices of students and educators and the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Eve Mayes crafts an account of what voice can and must do in education. The book works with the textures, tremors and murmurs of voice felt over ten years of ethnographic and participatory research in Australian schools - from research encounters with students and puppets, to school governance council meetings, to school reform evaluation processes, to students' political activism. It offers a timely critique of the liberal humanist and late capitalist logics of student voice in educational reform, entwined with an affirmation of other possibilities for transversal pedagogical relations in and beyond institutional sites of education.
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