'The Taking Place of Language': Contemporizing the Debate about the Representation of Nation within Bhasa Writing and Indian Writing in English By Bipasha Som, Saswat Das
2013 | 113 Pages | ISBN: 3034309074 | PDF | 1 MB
This book seeks to critically engage with issues arising out of, and hotly debated within, Indian writing in English and its 'other': Bhasa writing. The central issue is the representation of nation in literary texts, which has divided these two literary traditions. At the heart of this book is a study of Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide, which mirrors the newfound love of Indian writing in English for cosmopolitanism. Similarly, Buddhadeb Guha's Bhasa text Kojagar (translated in English as The Bounty of the Goddess by John W. Hood), is a text encapsulating Bhasa writing's fascination with unitary perspectives and structural aesthetics. The interrogation of these two texts is first grounded in a broad survey of perspectives on the nation arising out of the West and India and an exploration of the ways in which the nation is represented across the corpus of Indian writing in English and Bhasa writing. This exploration sets the scene for the examination of the two texts, which stresses the performative and ludic dimension of language, thus breaking each text into multiple, opposing perspectives. The textual instability of the two texts which emerges indicates the limitation of texts in maintaining the diametric perspectives inherent in categorization.

Russell Jacoby, Naomi Glauberman, "The Bell Curve Debate"
English | 1995 | ISBN: 0812925874 | 720 pages | PDF | 22.7 MB
Russell Jacoby and Naomi Glauberman have edited a book on race, class, and intelligence that will stand for the foreseeable future as the authoritative guide to the extraordinary controversy ignited by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's incendiary bestseller, The Bell Curve. The editors have gathered together both the best of recent reviews and essays, and salient documents drawn from the curious history of this heated debate. The Bell Curve Debate captures the fervor, anger, and scope of an almost unprecedented national argument over the very idea of democracy and the possibility of a tolerant, multiracial America. It is an essential companion and answer to The Bell Curve, and provides scholarship and polemic from every point of view. It is a must-read for the informed citizen in search of all the views fit to print.

Matthew Harris, "The Founding Fathers and the Debate over Religion in Revolutionary America: A History in Documents"
English | ISBN: 0195326504 | 2011 | 206 pages | PDF | 975 KB
Whether America was founded as a Christian nation or as a secular republic is one of the most fiercely debated questions in American history. Historians Matthew Harris and Thomas Kidd offer an authoritative examination of the essential documents needed to understand this debate. The texts included in this volume - writings and speeches from both well-known and obscure early American thinkers - show that religion played a prominent yet fractious role in the era of the American Revolution.

The Week Junior The Big Debate – 04 July 2022
English | 134 Pages | PDF | 104.07 MB

William Lane Craig, "God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist "
English | ISBN: 0195166000 | 2004 | 176 pages | PDF | 816 KB
The question of whether or not God exists is profoundly fascinating and important. Now two articulate spokesmen-one a Christian, the other an atheist-duel over God's existence in an illuminating battle of ideas.

Christiaan Kappes, "The Epiclesis Debate at the Council of Florence"
English | ISBN: 0268106371 | 2019 | 418 pages | EPUB | 956 KB
The Epiclesis Debate at the Council of Florence is the first in-depth investigation into both the Greek and the Latin sides of the debate about the moment of Eucharistic transubstantiation at the Council of Florence. Christiaan Kappes examines the life and times of the central figures of the debate, Mark Eugenicus and John Torquemada, and assesses their doctrinal authority. Kappes presents a patristic and Scholastic analysis of Torquemada's Florentine writings, revealing heretofore-unknown features of the debate and the full background to its treatises. The most important feature of the investigation involves Eugenicus. Kappes investigates his theological method and sources for the first time to give an accurate appraisal of the strength of Mark's theological positions in the context of his own time and contemporary methods. The investigation into both traditions allows for an informed evaluation of more recent developments in the official teaching of the Roman Catholic Church in light of these historical sources. Kappes provides a historically contextual and contemporary proposal for solutions to the former impasse in light of the principles rediscovered within Eugenicus's works. This monograph speaks to contemporary theological debates surrounding transubstantiation and related theological matters, and provides a historical framework to understand these debates.

Louis B. Zimmer, "The Vietnam War Debate: Hans J. Morgenthau and the Attempt to Halt the Drift into Disaster"
English | ISBN: 0739137697 | 2011 | 430 pages | EPUB, PDF | 895 KB + 1294 KB
This book tells the story of how America's national leadership failed the nation and produced the greatest foreign policy disaster in American history to that time. It is foremost, however, the story of a great man who tried to halt his nation's drift into what became an American tragedy. It is also a story that has never before been told. As the war escalated, a variety of critics emerged to challenge the war policy and thus my book is about the national debate in which University of Chicago Professor Hans J. Morgenthau emerged as the chief opponent of the war. Morgenthau argued relentlessly in teach-ins around the country, in public debates and in hundreds of articles that Vietnam was never a threat to America's security and that the war should never have been fought. In the history of the national debate on Vietnam, it is Morgenthau who is the hero of the anti-war movement and the centerpiece of my study. Morgenthau had written the basic text on foreign policy, Politics Among Nations, and had established the field of international relations as an independent discipline of study. His arguments against the war derive from these earliest writings and are elaborated in this book, the principles of which remain valid today. The war ended in 1975 as North Vietnamese troops marched into Saigon after over 58,000 American servicemen and millions of Vietnamese had died in the fighting. The war could have been averted, Morgenthau was ignored, American policy-makers misunderstood the nature of the civil conflict in Vietnam. As Morgenthau told an interviewer in July, 1965, "What I have said recently I have been saying for years, without anybody paying any attention."

English | ASIN: B003X4R8FU | 2010 | 14 hours and 21 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 404 MB
Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you aren't shocked by quantum theory, you don't really understand it. For most people, quantum theory is synonymous with mysterious, impenetrable science. And in fact for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. In this tour de force of science history, Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly written account of this fundamental scientific revolution, focusing on the central conflict between Einstein and Bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of science. This revelatory book takes a close look at the golden age of physics, the brilliant young minds at its core, and how an idea ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the 20th century.

English | ASIN: B09LK1NSFC | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ~10:06:00 | 286 MB
Bo Seo (Author, Narrator), "Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard"

The Social Media Debate by Devan Rosen
pdf | 3.42 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 0367774135 | Author: MagazinesBB.com | Year: 2022