Free Download Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought By Joel Kaye
1998 | 287 Pages | ISBN: 0521572762 | PDF | 2 MB
Intellectual developments pioneered by scholastic natural philosophers of the fourteenth century constituted a critical stage in the emergence of scientific thought. Beneath these technical developments lay a profound reconceptualization of nature. The purpose of this book is to analyze the components of this reconceptualization, and to speculate on the influences that shaped it. It argues that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c. 1260-1380 was strongly influenced by the rapid monetization of European society during the same period.

Free Download Andrew Pickering, "Cybernetics for the 21st Century Vol. 1: Epistemological Reconstruction "
English | ISBN: 9887026808 | 2024 | 274 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Cybernetics for the 21st Century Vol.1 is dedicated to the epistemological reconstruction of cybernetics, consisting of a series of historical and critical reflections on the subject - which according to Martin Heidegger marked the completion of Western metaphysics. In this anthology, historians, philosophers, sociologists and media studies scholars explore the history of cybernetics from Leibniz to artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as the development of twentieth-century cybernetics in various geographical regions in the world, from the USA to the Soviet Union, Latin America, France, Poland, China and Japan. The reconstruction shows the various paths of cybernetics and their socio-political implications, which remain unfamiliar to us today. It reveals more than what we thought we knew - and yet we hardly know - and allows us to understand where we are and to reflect on the future of technology, ecology and planetary politics.

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English | ISBN: 0857337203 | 2014 | 224 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Drawing on the Daily Mirror's outstanding archive and Haynes Publishing's wealth of experience, this book continues the successful 'Crimes of the Century' series. Claire Welch has been given access to thousands of hours of investigative journalism to create a comprehensive record of Home Front Killers from the heinous crimes of Gordon Cummins, the Blackout Ripper, to the pioneering work of Dr Keith Simpson, the first pathologist recognized by the Home Office and his secretary, Molly Lefebure, who recorded the details at crime scenes when foul play was evident.

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English | ISBN: 085733719X | 2014 | 224 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Drawing on the Daily Mirror's outstanding archive and Haynes Publishing's wealth of experience, this book continues the successful 'Crimes of the Century' series. Claire Welch has been given access to thousands of hours of investigative journalism to bring the stories of cannibal killers to light. Stories like that of Stephen Griffiths, the Crossbow Cannibal who killed three sex workers in 2010, Jeffrey Dahmer, the man responsible for the deaths of 17 young men and known as the Milwaukee Cannibal and Armin Meiwes, who advertised on the internet for a willing victim to be slaughtered and consumed in 2001.

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English | ISBN: 0857337181 | 2014 | 224 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Claire Welch has been given access to thousands of hours of investigative journalism to discover just how depraved some of the killers across the decades in Britain have been. This book takes a look at notorious murderers including Jack Huxley, who killed a family relative after watching hard core pornography for hours on end, Ian Huntley, the Soham murderer who killed two innocent schoolgirls and Robert Black, the serial killer who murdered many known, and many suspected victims, alongside other depraved killers.

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by Eveline G Bouwers
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367650975 | 374 Pages | True ePUB | 6.74 MB

Free Download Christina Ionescu, "Book Illustration in the Long Eighteenth Century: Reconfiguring the Visual Periphery of the Text"
English | ISBN: 1443825859 | 2011 | 620 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Hitherto relegated to the closets of art history and literary studies, book illustration has entered mainstream scholarship. The chapters of this collection offer only a glimpse of where a complete reconfiguration of the visual periphery of eighteenth-century texts might ultimately take us. The use of the gerund of the verb 'to reconfigure' in the subtitle of this collection, instead of the corresponding noun, underlines the work-in-progress character of this interdisciplinary endeavour, which aims above all to discern new vistas while charting or revisiting landmarks in the rich field of eighteenth-century book illustration. The specific interpretive lenses through which contributors to this collection re-evaluate the visual periphery of the text cover an array of disciplines and areas of interest; among these, the most prominent are book history and print culture, art history and image theory, material and visual culture, word and image interaction, feminist theory and gender studies, history of medicine and technology. This spectrum could have been even less restrictive and more colourful if it were not for pragmatic and editorial considerations. Nonetheless, its plurality of vision provides a framework for an inclusive and multifaceted approach to eighteenth-century book illustration. Perhaps these essays are most valuable in the practical models they provide on how to tackle the interdisciplinary challenge that is the study of the eighteenth-century illustrated book. The collection as such is the first formal step in an effort to rethink or reconfigure the visual periphery of eighteenth-century texts. It has become clear that the study of the illustrated book of the Age of Enlightenment has the potential of yielding multiple findings, perspectives and discourses about a society immersed in visual culture, skilled in visual communication and reflected in the visual legacy it left behind.

Free Download Arguing it out: Discussion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium By by Averil Cameron (Author)
2016 | 254 Pages | ISBN: 963386111X | PDF | 6 MB
The author's argument starts from a kind of literature that has not so far seemed important enough to be included in this new wave of publications on the literary and intellectual culture of the day. The study contends that Byzantium deserves its place in the broader development of Europe, even as it also reaches out to the vast territories of Anatolia and the Caucasus, and to the eastern Mediterranean. The long twelfth century from the seizure of the throne by Alexius I Comnenus in 1081 to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 is a period recognized as one of the most brilliant in Byzantine history in cultural terms, especially in terms of its literary production. The study focuses on the prose dialogues in Greek from this period―of very varying kinds―and on what they can tell us about the society and culture of the era when western Europe was itself developing a new culture of schools, universities, and scholars. Yet it was also one in which Byzantium felt the fateful impact of the Crusades, and which ended with the momentous sack of Constantinople in 1204. Despite revisionist attempts to play down the extent of this disaster, it was a blow from which arguably the Byzantines never fully recovered.

Free Download Hiroyuki Suzuki, "Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan: The Archaeology of Things in the Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Periods"
English | ISBN: 1606067427 | 2022 | 256 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan's rapid modernization.

Free Download Claudia Rankine, "American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics"
English | 2007 | pages: 416 | ISBN: 0819567272 | EPUB | 43,7 mb
The ideal introduction to the current generation of American poets