Free Download J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard and the Birth of Modern Fantasy By Deke Parsons
2014 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0786495375 | PDF | 2 MB
The birth of modern fantasy in 1930s Britain and America saw the development of new literary and film genres. J.R.R. Tolkien created modern fantasy with The Lord of the Rings, set in a fictional world based upon his life in the early 20th century British Empire, and his love of language and medieval literature. In small-town Texas, Robert E. Howard pounded out his own fantasy realm in his Conan stories, published serially in the ephemeral pulp magazines he loved. Jerry Siegel created Superman with Joe Shuster, and laid the foundation for perhaps the most far-reaching fantasy worlds: the universe of DC and Marvel comics. The work of extraordinary people who lived in an extraordinary decade, this modern fantasy canon still provides source material for the most successful literary and film franchises of the 21st century. Modern fantasy speaks to the human experience and still shows its origins from the lives and times of its creators.

Free Download Chronology of the Birth of Cinema 1833-1896 by Deac Rossell
English | October 18, 2022 | ISBN: 086196716X | True EPUB | 200 pages | 106 MB
Written from an international perspective, this account of the origins of the cinema begins in 1833 with the introduction of optical toys for reproducing movement and ends with a thorough examination of the first full year of projected moving pictures in 1896. Comprehensive and verifiable, with citations that support each individual entry, the book examines the events that culminated in the establishment of the moving picture world that was the dominant visual medium of the last century.

Free Download Anaximander: And the Birth of Science (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B623W8VV | 2023 | 5 hours and 42 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 156 MB
Author: Carlo Rovelli
Narrator: Roy McMillan
The bestselling author illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander. Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. His legacy includes the revolutionary ideas that the Earth floats in a void, that animals evolved, that the world can be understood in natural rather than supernatural terms, and that universal laws govern all phenomena. He introduced a new mode of rational thinking with an openness to uncertainty and the progress of knowledge. In this elegant work, the renowned theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli brings to light the importance of Anaximander's overlooked influence on modern science. He examines Anaximander not from the point of view of a historian or as an expert in Greek philosophy, but as a scientist interested in the deep nature of scientific thinking, which Rovelli locates in the critical and rebellious ability to reimagine the world again and again. Anaximander celebrates the radical lack of certainty that defines the scientific quest for knowledge.

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English | February 28, 2023 | ISBN: 0593542363 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 20 MB
The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander

The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences by Jason A. Josephson-Storm
English | May 18, 2017 | ISBN: 022640322X, 022640336X | True EPUB | 400 pages | 12 MB
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded. Even the human sciences have been more enchanted than is commonly supposed. But that raises the question: How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted?

The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences (Audiobook)
English | June 08, 2021 | ASIN: B095J2848D | M4B@64 kbps | 16h 9m | 459 MB
Author: Jason A. Josephson-Storm | Narrator: Chris MacDonnell
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded. Even the human sciences have been more enchanted than is commonly supposed. But that raises the question: How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted?
Josephson-Storm traces the history of the myth of disenchantment in the births of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, folklore, psychoanalysis, and religious studies. Ironically, the myth of mythless modernity formed at the very time that Britain, France, and Germany were in the midst of occult and spiritualist revivals. Indeed, Josephson-Storm argues, these disciplines' founding figures were not only aware of, but profoundly enmeshed in, the occult milieu; and it was specifically in response to this burgeoning culture of spirits and magic that they produced notions of a disenchanted world.

Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion By Melissa J. Wilde
2019 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0520303202 | PDF | 5 MB
Conservative and progressive religious groups fiercely disagree about issues of sex and gender. But how did we get here? Melissa J. Wilde shows how today's modern divisions began in the 1930s in the public battles over birth control and not for the reasons we might expect. By examining thirty of America's most prominent religious groups-from Mormons to Methodists, Southern Baptists to Seventh Day Adventists, and many others-Wilde contends that fights over birth control had little do with sex, women's rights, or privacy.Using a veritable treasure trove of data, including census and archival materials and more than 10,000 articles, statements, and sermons from religious and secular periodicals, Wilde demonstrates that the push to liberalize positions on contraception was tied to complex views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny among America's most prominent religious groups. Taking us from the Depression era, when support for the eugenics movement saw birth control as an act of duty for less desirable groups, to the 1960s, by which time most groups had forgotten the reasons behind their stances on contraception (but not the concerns driving them), Birth Control Battles explains how reproductive politics divided American religion. In doing so, this book shows the enduring importance of race and class for American religion as it rewrites our understanding of what it has meant to be progressive or conservative in America.

John Klaess, "Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City"
English | ISBN: 1478018879 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In Breaks in the Air John Klaess tells the story of rap's emergence on New York City's airwaves by examining how artists and broadcasters adapted hip hop's performance culture to radio. Initially, artists and DJs brought their live practice to radio by buying time on low-bandwidth community stations and building new communities around their shows. Later, stations owned by New York's African American elite, such as WBLS, reluctantly began airing rap even as they pursued a sound rooted in respectability, urban sophistication, and polish. At the same time, large commercial stations like WRKS programmed rap once it became clear that the music attracted a demographic that was valuable to advertisers. Moving between intimate portraits of single radio shows and broader examinations of the legal, financial, cultural, and political forces that indelibly shaped the sound of rap radio, Klaess shows how early rap radio provides a lens through which to better understand the development of rap music as well as the intertwined histories of sounds, institutions, communities, and legal formations that converged in the post-Civil Rights era.

Development of Iwasawa Theory - The Centennial of K. Iwasawa's Birth - Proceedings of the International Conference Iwasawa 2017 By Masato Kurihara (ed), Kenichi Bannai (ed), Tadashi Ochiai (ed), Takeshi Tsuji (ed)
2021 | 725 Pages | ISBN: 4864970920 | PDF | 39 MB
This volume is edited as the proceedings of the international conference 'Iwasawa 2017', which was held at the University of Tokyo from July 19th through July 28th, 2017, in order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Kenkichi Iwasawa's birth. In total 236 participants attended the conference including 98 participants from 15 countries outside Japan, and enjoyed the talks and the discussions on several themes flourishing in Iwasawa theory. This volume consists of 3 survey papers and of 15 research papers submitted from the speakers and the organizers of the conference. We also included 4 essays on memories of Iwasawa to celebrate the Centennial of Iwasawa's birth. We recommend this volume to all researchers and graduate students who are interested in Iwasawa theory, number theory and related fields.Published by Mathematical Society of Japan and distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co. for all markets except North America

The Tree Horoscope: Discover Your Birth-Tree and Personal Destiny by Daniela Christine Huber
English | October 19, 2021 | ISBN: 1644113228 | 144 pages | PDF (Converted) | 12 Mb
A full-color guide to the tree horoscope calendar-where 22 archetypal trees are associated with different dates throughout the year