Free Download John C. Weaver, "Sorrows of a Century: Interpreting Suicide in New Zealand, 1900-2000 (Volume 40) "
English | ISBN: 0773542752 | 2014 | 476 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
In Sorrows of a Century, John Weaver describes how personal relationships, work, poverty, war, illness, and legal troubles have driven thousands to despair. His study is set in twentieth-century New Zealand where - in spite of high standards of living and a commitment to social welfare - citizens have experienced the profound losses and stresses of the human condition. Focusing on New Zealand because it has the most comprehensive and accessible coroners' records, Weaver analyzes a staggering amount of information to determine the social and cultural factors that contribute to suicide rates. He examines the country's investigations into sudden deaths, places them within the context of major events and societal changes, and turns to witnesses' statements, suicide notes, and medical records to remark on prevention strategies. His extensive survey of twelve thousand cases also provides an insightful assessment of psychiatry and psychology in the last century. In reviewing the motives and methods of suicide, Weaver points out the complications facing deterrence. Moving beyond the timeless present of the social sciences and the irrationality emphasized in psychology, Sorrows of a Century marshals testimony to highlight the historical context and rational conduct behind suicide.

Free Download Lucy R. Nicholas, "Roger Ascham and His Sixteenth-Century World "
English | ISBN: 9004382275 | 2020 | 372 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This edited volume offers a fresh and far-reaching survey of the life, career, intellectual networks, output and times of Roger Ascham (1515/16-1568).

Free Download Peters, "Nineteenth-Century Utopianism and the American Social Imaginary"
English | ISBN: 1433181975 | 2021 | 216 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 10 MB
Religious sectarianism played a significant role in the early settlement and social development of the United States. Although historians have minimized what these societies contributed to the creation of a uniquely American "social imaginary," this era of social experimentalism drew the attention of highly influential European writers including Goethe, Tolstoy, Marx, and Weber. More recent social thinkers like Benedict Anderson, Charles Taylor, and Robert Wuthnow emphasize the importance of discourses (familial, dynastic, religious) in the creation of community. They contend that literary analysis, in particular, is critical for understanding how "social imaginaries" develop, sustain, and transform themselves. Drawing on thinkers like Marx, Weber, Dawkins, and Goethe, Nineteenth-Century Utopianism and the American Social Imaginary

Free Download Anna Bohlin, "Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms and Emotions in the Baltic Sea Region The Production of Loss "
English | ISBN: 9004430385 | 2021 | 396 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This volume explores the production of loss in nationalist discourses during the long nineteenth century in the Baltic Sea region - how the notion of loss was charged with emotions in political writings, lectures, novels, paintings, letters and diaries.

Free Download Thomas Matthew Vozar, "Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century "
English | ISBN: 0198875940 | 2024 | 224 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 189 MB
No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton's sublimity has long been dismissed as an invention of eighteenth-century criticism. The poet himself, the story goes, could hardly have had any notion of the sublime, a concept that only took shape in the decades after his death with the advent of philosophical aesthetics. Such a narrative, however, fails to account for the fact that Milton is one of the first writers in English to refer to Longinus, the author traditionally associated with the Ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime. This book argues that Milton did have an idea of the sublime-one that came to him from Longinus but also from a larger classical tradition that offered a pre-aesthetic predecessor to the aesthetic concept of the sublime.

Free Download Renzo Caddeo, Athanase Papadopoulos, "Mathematical Geography in the Eighteenth Century: Euler, Lagrange and Lambert"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031095693, 3031095723 | PDF | pages: 437 | 10.6 mb
This volume presents the beautiful memoirs of Euler, Lagrange and Lambert on geography, translated into English and put into perspective through explanatory and historical essays as well as commentaries and mathematical notes. These works had a major impact on the development of the differential geometry of surfaces and they deserve to be studied, not only as historical documents, but most of all as a rich source of ideas.

Free Download Gijs Versteegen, "Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century Performing Splendour in Catholic and Protestant Contexts "
English | ISBN: 9004432647 | 2020 | 400 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe.

Free Download Dr Giuliano Mori, "Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy: Verisimilitude and Factuality in the Humanist Debate "
English | ISBN: 0198885938 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 715 KB + 2 MB
While humanists agreed on identifying the main requirement of the historical genre with truthfulness, they disagreed on their notions of historical truth. Some authors equated historical truth with verisimilitude, thus harmonizing the quest for truth with other ingredients of their histories, such as their political utility and rhetorical aptness. Others, instead, rejected the notion of verisimilitude, identifying historical truth with factuality. Accordingly, they sought to produce bare and exhaustive accounts of all the things that pertained to their historical explorations, often resorting to innovative disciplines, such as archeology, philology, and the history of institutions. The humanist historiographical debate is especially significant because the notion of verisimilitude encompassed crucial elements required for the development of methods of critical assessment. By perceiving verisimilitude and factuality as irreconcilable, Quattrocento humanists reached a critical impasse―those who were interested in factual truth mostly lacked the means to ascertain it, while those that developed embryonic notions of historical criticism were not eminently concerned with the factual account of the past. This critical weakness exposed humanists to considerable risks, including that of accepting non-verisimilar historical forgeries passed off as factual. Such forgeries eventually served as a testing ground for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scholars, who sought to restore factual truth by means of critical criteria grounded in verisimilitude, thus overcoming the humanist impasse.

Free Download Michael Berry, "HALF-CENTURY OF PHYSICAL ASYMPTOTICS AND OTHER DIVERSIONS, A: SELECTED WORKS BY MICHAEL BERRY"
English | ISBN: 9813221194 | 2017 | 724 pages | PDF | 101 MB
Michael Berry is a theoretical physicist who has contributed to a wide variety of areas in quantum mechanics, optics and related mathematics, linked by the geometrical aspects of waves, especially phase. This collection of his selected published and unpublished papers, reviews, tributes to other scientists, speeches and other works ranges from the technical to the popular. It is organized by the themes of his significant scientific contributions. Detailed introductions emphasize the rich connections between the different themes. An essential read for physicists, mathematicians, students and philosophers of science.

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English | ISBN: 9004457100 | 2021 | 356 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Coordinated by Julia Madajczak, Fragments of the Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Census from the Jagiellonian Library: A Lost Manuscript offers a critical edition of a sixteenth century Mexican census fragment―one of the earliest known Nahuatl texts―recently discovered at the Jagiellonian Library, Poland.