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English | 2006 | pages: 354 | ISBN: 3039108794 | PDF | 75,1 mb
This book is an investigation of non-fatal injury and bloodspill in Homer's Iliad and demonstrates the crucial significance of these motifs in the epic. They are shown to be fundamental to defining heroic status and a powerful means for developing the narrative and thematic structures of the poem. The study offers a nuanced definition of the nature of mortality and immortality and shows how the motifs of injury and bloodspill explicate the Description of the poem and its ethical values. This work is the first to examine these motifs in a systematic and comprehensive investigation. Focusing exclusively on the Iliad, the book sheds new light on ideals of heroic conduct.
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English | 2019 | pages: 48 | ISBN: 1679683578 | PDF | 55,8 mb
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Free Download Johannes Zachhuber, "The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics: Patristic Philosophy from the Cappadocian Fathers to John of Damascus"
English | 2020 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0198859953, 0192885308 | PDF | 1,7 mb
It has rarely been recognized that the Christian writers of the first millennium pursued an ambitious and exciting philosophical project alongside their engagement in the doctrinal controversies of their age. The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics offers, for the first time, a full analysis of this Patristic philosophy. It shows how it took its distinctive shape in the late fourth century and gives an account of its subsequent development until the time of John of Damascus.
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English | May 31, 2022 | ISBN: 1523000678 | 148 pages | PDF | 2.17 Mb
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Free Download The Return of the Polis: The Use and Meanings of the Word Polis in Archaic and Classical Sources (Historia - Einzelschriften) by Mogens Herman Hansen
English | December 31, 2007 | ISBN: 3515090541 | 276 pages | PDF | 2.00 Mb
Polis, in plural poleis, is the word the ancient Greeks used to describe their principal type of state and community and the most common of all nouns in ancient Greek. In Archaic and Classical sources there are over 11,000 attestations of the word, and they show that it was used in two different senses: (1) town (sometimes including the hinterland) and (2) state (sometimes including the territory). Often it carries both senses simultaneously and denotes both the state and its urban centre. The Copenhagen Polis Centre (1993-2005) conducted a number of investigations into the use and meanings of the term polis in all Archaic and Classical sources to find out what the Greeks thought a polis was. The present volume is a thoroughly revised and updated comprehensive publication of all these studies, to which four new studies have been added. They show that the two different meanings of the word polis are connected through their reference: with very few exceptions every polis town was the urban centre of a polis state, and conversely: virtually every polis state had an urban centre called a polis in the sense of town.
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Free Download The Princely Court: Medieval Courts and Culture in North-West Europe, 1270-1380 by Malcolm Vale
English | February 14, 2002 | ISBN: 0198205295 | 442 pages | PDF | 14 Mb
In this engaging work, Malcolm Vale sets out to recapture the splendor of court culture in Western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Exploring the time between the death of St Louis and the rise of Burgundian power in the Low Countries, he illuminates a period in the history of princes and court life previously overshadowed by that of the courts of the dukes of Burgundy. The result is a fascinating evaluation of the nature and role of the court in European history, and a celebration of a forgotten age.
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English | 2018 | pages: 369 | ISBN: 0691182108, 0691160287 | PDF | 6,6 mb
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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031340019 | 407 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 8 MB
Today's middle-income countries tend to be locked in a middle-income trap, unable to transition to higher income levels due to rising costs and declining competitiveness. While there is a broad consensus that upgrading these economies towards innovation-led growth is imperative, countless institutional and political economy obstacles remain. This book brings together analytical perspectives from comparative political economy, innovation studies, and development economics for the study of technological upgrading. Its distinctive contribution is the development of an innovative theoretical framework, named upgrading regimes, combining and extending the comparative capitalism and innovation system perspectives. It explores the usefulness of this approach by providing an indepth assessment of the political economy of upgrading in Brazil under the Workers' Party governments. As the politics of technological upgrading will be one of the crucial research areas in the years to come, this book promises to become a key reference point in this debate.
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Free Download Susanne Heim, "The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933 1945: German Reich 1938 August 1939"
English | ISBN: 311052371X | 2019 | 911 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This 16-volume collection presents an extensive selection of primary sources on the persecution and murder of the European Jews under the German National Socialist regime. The documents illustrate the political and social background and developments that brought about this unprecedented mass crime in Germany and throughout Europe.The series is aimed at teachers, researchers, students, and anyone interested in learning about and reflecting on the history of the Holocaust. As well as providing a scholarly reference work, it seeks to contribute to the commemoration of the murdered Jews of Europe. Each volume comprises English translations of primary sources - most of them previously unpublished - that record events from the perspective of perpetrators, victims, and those not directly involved in the crimes. The documents are accompanied by explanatory annotations.
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Free Download A R Roberts, "The Omega Epiphanies"
English | 2018 | pages: 391 | ISBN: 1478793961, 1977201032 | PDF | 2,1 mb
The first apocalyptic visions of the end times were recorded two thousand years ago in the book of Revelation. Then in the 1970s, the little grey aliens began showing similar scenes of chaos and destruction to the thousands of people they abducted ... telling them that these things are going to happen. Do their warnings and Revelation's prophecies refer to the same thing? Will the earth be destroyed in a final catastrophic event that will render humanity extinct? Mass extinctions have occurred in the distant past and scientists agree that it will inevitably happen again. But what exactly is it that is going to happen? And when? And how would extraterrestrials or anyone two thousand years ago have advance knowledge of such a doomsday scenario? If what they predict is true, the big question is ... Will humanity survive, and might it be on another world? These and other related issues are thoroughly examined in this book. There are, however, clues in the UFO activity of today, and in the Bible, as to what the ultimate outcome will be. Putting aside the mystical, miraculous, and supernatural innuendos associated with many of the Bible's stories, when viewed in a logical context, there is an alien agenda designed to ensure the survival of the human species through a process of accelerated evolution. Technology exponentially advanced in the twentieth century when Tesla, Ford, Bell, and the Wright brothers, not to mention Einstein, von Braun, and others, appeared on the scene at the same time. These men created the technologies we rely on today: electric power and light, communications, transportation, and aerospace technology-the technologies that suddenly enabled us to send men to the moon. A logical evaluation of the biblical narrative sheds light on today's UFO activity, and likewise, today's UFO activity sheds light on extraterrestrial involvement during biblical times. The Omega Epiphanies is a journey through the biblical era from the creat
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