Free Download Philosophy as a Way of Life: Historical, Contemporary, and Pedagogical Perspectives (Metaphilosophy) by James M. Ambury, Tushar Irani, Kathleen Wallace
English | October 5, 2020 | ISBN: 1119746868 | 336 pages | MOBI | 0.88 Mb
In the ancient world, philosophy was understood to be a practical guide for living, or even itself a way of life. This volume of essays brings historical views about philosophy as a way of life, coupled with their modern equivalents, more prevalently into the domain of the contemporary scholarly world.Illustrates how the articulation of philosophy as a way of life and its pedagogical implementation advances the love of wisdomQuestions how we might convey the love of wisdom as not only a body of dogmatic principles and axiomatic truths but also a lived exercise that can be practicedOffers a collection of essays on an emerging field of philosophical researchEssential reading for academics, researchers and scholars of philosophy, moral philosophy, and pedagogy; also business and professional people who have an interest in expanding their horizons

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English | ISBN: 1978826532 | 2023 | 196 pages | PDF | 18 MB
Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the "problem" of reproduction, Shiamin Kwa's Perfect Copies reminds us that the mode of production and the manner in which we perceive comics are often quite similar to the stories they tell. Perfect Copies considers the dual notions of reproduction, mechanical as well as biological, and explores how comics are works of reproduction that embed questions about the nature of reproduction itself. Through close readings of the comics My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris, The Black Project by Gareth Brookes, The Generous Bosom series by Conor Stechschulte, Sabrina by Nick Drnaso, and Panther by Brecht Evens, Perfect Copies shows how these comics makers push the limits of different ideas of "reproduction" in strikingly different ways. Kwa suggests that reading and thinking about books like these, that push us to engage with these complicated questions, teaches us how to become better readers.

Free Download Sin Wen Lau, "Overseas Chinese Christians in Contemporary China Religion, Mobility, and Belonging "
English | ISBN: 9004438556 | 2020 | 166 pages | PDF | 1021 KB
Overseas Chinese Christians in Contemporary China offers a study into how overseas Chinese in Shanghai are changing the way they understand themselves in relation to China through their Christian faith.

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English | ISBN: 0198881053 | 2024 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1075 KB + 3 MB
Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing examines the tangled relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, Irish women's fiction has drawn widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, with a surprising number of these works being commended for their innovative redeployment of literary tactics drawn from early twentieth-century literary modernism. But this strategy is not a new one. Across more than a century, writers from Kate O'Brien to Sally Rooney have manipulated and remade modernism to draw attention to the vexed nature of female privacy, exploring what unfolds when the amorphous nature of private consciousness bumps up against external ordering structures in the public world. Living amid the tenaciously conservative imperatives of church and state in Ireland, their female characters are seen to embrace, reject, and rework the ritual of prayer, the fixity of material objects, the networks of the digital world, and the ordered narrative of the book. Such structures provide a stability that is valuable and even necessary for such characters to flourish, as well as an instrument of containment or repression that threatens to, and in some cases does, destroy them. The writers studied here, among them Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, Anna Burns, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Eimear McBride, employ the modernist mode in part to urge readers to recognize that female interiority, the prompt for many of the movement's illustrious formal experiments, continues to provide a crucial but often overlooked mechanism to imagine ways around and through seemingly intransigent social problems, such as class inequity, political violence, and sexual abuse.

Free Download Brian C. Brewer, "Martin Luther and the Seven Sacraments: A Contemporary Protestant Reappraisal"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0801049474 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 3.4 mb
This introduction to Martin Luther's sacramental theology addresses a central question in the life of the church and in ecumenical dialogue. Although Luther famously reduced the sacraments from seven to two (baptism and the Lord's Supper), he didn't completely dismiss the others. Instead, he positively recast them as practices in the church. This book explores the medieval church's understanding of the seven sacraments and the Protestant rationale for keeping or eliminating each sacrament. It also explores implications for contemporary theology and worship, helping Protestants imagine ways of reclaiming lost benefits of the seven sacraments.

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English | ISBN: 9004448276 | 2021 | 346 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Based on an in-depth investigation of different regions of China's vast countryside, Improving Village Governance in Contemporary China vividly describes rural governance mechanisms against the background of China's rapid urbanization.

Free Download Jerome (Yehuda) Gellman, "God's Kindness Has Overwhelmed Us: A Contemporary Doctrine of the Jews as the Chosen People "
English | ISBN: 1618111701 | 2012 | 120 pages | PDF | 628 KB
Jerome Gellman presents a new theology of the Jews as the Chosen People, addressing self-serving ethnocentric supremacy, cultural isolation, and defamation of religions other than Judaism. This book is traditional in taking chosenness and the truth of Judaism seriously, and in eschewing a theology of multiple covenants. At the same time, it is critical, rejecting previous concepts of chosenness, and innovative, offering for the twenty-first century a fresh way of seeing the Jews' place in the world. On this foundation, Gellman suggests a new approach to inter-religious understanding from a Jewish point of view, and examines the impact of his proposal on traditional Jewish liturgy.

Free Download Noel B. Reynolds, "Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0934893020 | EPUB | pages: 397 | 0.6 mb
This book takes a fresh look at the apostasy of the early Christian church. Most Latter-day Saint scholars and leaders previously based their understanding of the Christian apostasy on the findings of Protestant scholars who provided a seemingly endless array of evidences of apostasy in Christian history.

Free Download Critical Leadership and Management Tools for Contemporary Organizations by Tony Miller
English | October 16, 2023 | ISBN: 1637425201 | 146 pages | PDF | 3.91 Mb
A massive paradigm shift in the world of work and the way we manage people. What's changing - everything!

Free Download Contemporary Worship Classics: 10 Richly-Arranged Piano Solos by Mark Hayes by Mark Hayes
English | August 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1705154751 | 40 pages | EPUB | 14 Mb
(Piano Solo Songbook). Pianist/composer Mark Hayes puts his unique spin on ten contemporary classics for worship. These intermediate piano solos, infused with rich harmonic language and hints of jazz, will be welcome in both church and home. Songs include: Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) * Cornerstone * How Deep the Father's Love for Us * In Christ Alone * Living Hope * Lord, I Need You * Open the Eyes of My Heart * 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) * Yet Not I but Through Christ in Me * Your Name.