Free Download Owen Flanagan, "Against Happiness"
English | ISBN: 0231209487 | 2023 | 360 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The "happiness agenda" is a worldwide movement that claims that happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a thorough and powerful critique of this program, revealing the flaws of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on equality and justice.
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Free Download Temi Odumosu, "Africans in English Caricature 1769 - 1819: Black Jokes White Humour"
English | 2017 | pages: 202 | ISBN: 1909400505 | PDF | 39,1 mb
Between 1769 and 1819 London experienced an unprecedented growth in the proliferation of texts and images in the popular sphere, engaging learned citizens in discussion and commentary on the most pressing social and political issues of the day. From the repeal of the Stamp Act to the French revolution, the local Westminster election or the abolition of the slave trade, these prints, political pamphlets, plays, novels and periodicals collaborated (sometimes intentionally) in critique, praise and assessment of the country's changing socio-economic climate. African people were a critical aspect of this world of images, and their presence conveyed much about the implications of travel, colonialism and slavery on the collective psyche. Whether encountered on the streets of the city, in opulent stately homes, or in tracts describing the horrors of the slave trade, the British paid attention to Africans (consciously or not), and developed a means of expressing the impact of these encounters through images. Scholarship has begun to interrogate the presence of Africans in British art of this period, but very little has been written about their place in visual and literary humour created in a metropolitan context. This book fills this scholarly lacuna, exploring how and why satirical artists both mocked and utilized these characters as subversive comic weaponry.
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Free Download Admission Matters
by Springer, Sally P.;Morgan, Joyce Vining;Griesemer, Nancy;Reider, Jon;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119885736 | 402 pages | True PDF EPUB | 5.21 MB
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Free Download AI Chat GPT Orac Meets Einstein by Michael Mathiesen
English | June 8, 2023 | ISBN: 1088143334 | eISBN: 9781088143339 | 220 Pages | EPUB | 25 MB
Albert Einstein left this world under the firm belief that there was a SINGLE FORCE that unified all the other forces in Nature. He was unable to prove this theory and died very disappointed about the failure to prove it, because he knew in his gut, he had to be right.
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Free Download A Rich Young Man: A Novel Based on the Life of Saint Anthony of Padua By John E. Beahn
2013 | 348 Pages | ISBN: 1618902024 | EPUB | 1 MB
St. Anthony of Padua has been a friend to millions of Catholics asking his help to recover lost objects. But few seem to know much about his remarkable life. The son of a knight in the court of Portugal's king, he renounced his heritage of wealth and power to become a Franciscan priest. In the years to come, he earned international fame as a preacher, reformer, miracle worker, champion of the poor, and Doctor of the Church.A generation ago, the American Catholic novelist John Edward Beahn presented Anthony's life and legends in a biographical novel,A Rich Young Man: A Novel Based on the Life of St. Anthony of Padua, published in 1953. This imaginative re-telling of the saint s story, based on historical records and traditions, now comes to life again in the TAN Legend series of biographical fiction.The tale unfolds in the epic setting of medieval Europe of the thirteenth century. Monarchs, courtiers, churchmen, knights, nobles and serfs maneuver like chess pieces in an elaborate game of alliances and conflicts between Church and state, Christian and Muslim, Catholic and heretic. Anthony's story takes us from North Africa where divine providence saved the young friar from his mistaken zeal for martyrdom to Italy and France, where his extraordinary gifts and heroic passion for God blazed a path to the rescue and conversion of countless souls.This TAN Legend edition ofA Rich Young Man: A Novel Based on the Life of St. Anthony of Paduapaints a rich, fascinating portrait of an astonishing saint who turned the medieval Christian world upside down.
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Free Download A Man of Good Zeal: A Novel Based on the Life of Saint Francis de Sales By John E. Beahn
2013 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 1618902059 | EPUB | 1 MB
A generation ago, those who wanted to learn more about Francis de Sales' life could turn toA Man of Good Zeal: A Novel Based on the Life of St. Francis de Sales, published by American novelist John Edward Beahn in 1958. This imaginative re-telling of the saint's story, based on the historical records of his life and times, now comes to life again in the TAN Legend series of biographical fiction.St. Francis was born in 1567 in Savoy, a duchy of the western Alps whose fortunes were largely shaped by developments in neighboring France, Switzerland, and Italy. Military and political conflicts there were heightened and complicated by religious tensions between Catholics and Protestants, whose leader John Calvin had settled in nearby Geneva and won a following in some districts of Savoy as well. Francis aristocratic father had great plans to position him for rapid advancement in this turbulent setting: He sent the young man to law school, maneuvered for his appointment as a senator, and chose a noble heiress as his future wife-but God had other plans.This new edition ofA Man of Good Zeal: A Novel Based on the Life of St. Francis de Salestells the inspiring story of how Francis risked his life to win thousands back to the Catholic faith, transformed the Diocese of Geneva as its bishop, and wrote the spiritual classics that eventually led Rome to name him a Doctor of the Church.
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Free Download A Man Cleansed by God: A Novel Based on the Life of Saint Patrick By John E. Beahn
2013 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 0967597889 | EPUB | 1 MB
The story of St. Patrick's life is a dynamic tale of high drama and intense spiritual force. A generation ago, the American Catholic novelist John Edward Beahn retold that story as a biographical novel based onThe Confession, Patrick s famous autobiographical work.A Man Cleansed by God: A Novel on St. Patrick\'s Confessionwas published in 1959, a vivid narrative with intriguing speculations about the details of Patrick s experience that have been lost to history.St. Patrick s life was a series of heroic adventures: Captured as a young teen by pirates and taken from his comfortable life in ancient Roman Britain, he was sold as a slave in Ireland. Six years later he escaped and, after a long, arduous journey, he returned to his family-only to receive a call from God to go back to Ireland as a Christian missionary.Trained and ordained as a priest, and ultimately consecrated a bishop, he returned at last to Ireland. There, his bold preaching brought many thousands into the Christian fold and led to the establishment of numerous churches and religious communities.Yet even with such remarkable success, Patrick faced stiff opposition and persecution: He had to defend himself against the intrigues and false charges of both religious and political enemies, who on one occasion even went so far as to rob him of all he possessed, beat him severely, and put him in chains.A second generation of readers are sure to be delighted by this TAN Legend edition ofA Man Cleansed by God: A Novel Based on the Life of St. Patrick, an unforgettable portrait of the fifth-century saint who changed Ireland forever.
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Free Download A Man Born Again: A Novel Based on the Life of Saint Thomas More By John E. Beahn
2013 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0967597854 | EPUB | 1 MB
Status and wealth, power and fame: St. Thomas More had them all. As a wise and popular statesman, internationally recognized scholar, and Lord Chancellor of England, More was perhaps the most highly respected Englishman of his day until his conscience required that he lay down his life for his Catholic faith.A generation ago, the American Catholic novelist John Edward Beahn retold More's life story as a biographical novel,A Man Born Again: A Novel Based on the Life of St. Thomas More, published in 1954. Making ample use of the rich historical records of sixteenth-century England, Beahn lays out the convoluted political landscape of the period, which set the scene for the disastrous efforts of King Henry VIII to divorce his queen and marry his mistress-while demanding that the Church grant him sanction for his immorality.Alongside the political complexities, Beahn traces the development of More's interior landscape. Family conflicts, vocational perplexities, personal tragedies, and forthright acquaintances all played their part in shaping his soul. These influences, converging with the political developments that relentlessly pressed in on him, forged a remarkable character that combined brilliant intellect, moral integrity, and deep devotion to Christ and His Church.In the end, More chose to give his life rather than compromise his convictions under coercion from the state. No doubt a second generation of readers will welcome this TAN Legend edition ofA Man Born Again: A Novel Based on the Life of St. Thomas More, as twenty-first-century political trends call for heroic Catholic resistance to government assault upon the Church.
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Free Download A Holy Life: St. Bernadette of Lourdes By Patricia A. McEachern
2005 | 220 Pages | ISBN: 158617116X | EPUB | 1 MB
While the story of the apparitions of Our Lady to Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes in 1858 are well known, relatively few people are familiar with the saint's own spiritual insights and profound holiness.For the first time in English,this book presents a wide selection of St. Bernadette's thoughts, advice, sayings, and prayers through the touching words of her spiritual diary, notes, and letters to friends and family.After receiving the visions of Our Lady at the grotto in Lourdes, Bernadette eventually became a religious sister as a member of the Sisters of Charity. She lived a life of simplicity, charity, suffering and deep holiness, dying at the age of 35. When she was canonized a saint, her body was found to be incorrupt.In these beautiful writings of St. Bernadette, we learn the secrets of her holiness and happiness. Though she suffered greatly throughout her life, the heroic response of this humble, self-effacing nun transformed excruciating suffering into spiritual fruitfulness. Her letters and writings serve as a model for others passing through their own trials. Her writings reveal and intimate and profound love for God and neighbor. Anyone pursuing a deeper spiritual life will appreciate knowing Bernadette as she truly was, and the inspiring spiritual works of wisdom she offers to us all.
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Free Download Martin Klimke, "A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany"
English | 2010 | pages: 286 | ISBN: 0230104738, 023010472X | PDF | 52,2 mb
This moving and beautifully illustrated book, developed from an award-winning research project, examines the experience of African-American GIs in Germany since 1945 and the unique insights they provide into the civil rights struggle at home and abroad.
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