Free Download Paul Lynch, "Persuasions of God: Inventing the Rhetoric of René Girard "
English | ISBN: 0271097094 | 2024 | 220 pages | EPUB, PDF | 628 KB + 2 MB
The nations of the global north find themselves in a post-secular or post-Christian period, one in which the practice, expression, and effects of religion are undergoing massive shifts. In Persuasions of God, Paul Lynch pursues a project of "theorhetoric," a radical new approach to speaking about the divine.

Free Download Lynne Haney, "Inventing the Needy: Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary"
English | 2002 | pages: 353 | ISBN: 0520225716, 0520231023 | PDF | 1,9 mb
Inventing the Needy offers a powerful, innovative analysis of welfare policies and practices in Hungary from 1948 to the last decade of the twentieth century. Using a compelling mix of archival, interview, and ethnographic data, Lynne Haney shows that three distinct welfare regimes succeeded one another during that period and that they were based on divergent conceptions of need. The welfare society of 1948-1968 targeted social institutions, the maternalist welfare state of 1968-1985 targeted social groups, and the liberal welfare state of 1985-1996 targeted impoverished individuals. Because they reflected contrasting conceptions of gender and of state-recognized identities, these three regimes resulted in dramatically different lived experiences of welfare.

Free Download Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service Store by Lisa C. Tolbert
English | August 1, 2023 | ISBN: 082036441X | 364 pages | PDF | 45 Mb
Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was by far the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. Before 1940 it was the only self-service chain with a national distribution network, but it was neither the first nor the only version. Beyond Piggly Wiggly reveals the importance of Piggly Wiggly in the invention of self-service and goes beyond the history of a single firm to explore the role of small business entrepreneurs who invented the first self-service stores in a grassroots social process.

Free Download Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
by Antje Wessels and Jacqueline Klooster
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9004500146 | 229 Pages | True PDF | 1.88 MB

Free Download Karl A.E. Enenkel, "Re-inventing Ovids Metamorphoses Pictorial and Literary Transformations in Various Media, 14001800 "
English | ISBN: 900442489X | 2020 | 504 pages | PDF | 29 MB
This volume explores early modern recreations of Ovids Metamorphoses, focusing on the creative ingenium of artists and writers who freely handled the original text so as to adapt it to different artistic media and genres.

Free Download Inventing the New: History and Politics in Jean-Paul Sartre
by Luca Basso, Dave Mesing
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9004686967 | 263 Pages | True PDF | 2.38 MB

Free Download Mirela Ivanova, "Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople "
English | ISBN: 0198891504 | 2024 | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Few alphabets in the world are actively celebrated, and none more so than the Slavonic. Annually across Eastern Europe, the alphabet and its inventors, Cyril and Methodios, are celebrated with parades, concerts, liturgical services, and public addresses by presidents, ministers, and mayors. Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople offers a new reading of the invention of the Slavonic alphabet and its implications. Its premise is simple: namely, that the alphabet was not invented once, but that it continued to be contested and redefined in the century after its creation. However, Inventing Slavonic goes against the grain of modern scholarship and popular common sense, where a stable and fossilized story about Cyril, his brother and companion Methodios, and the alphabet still persists.

Free Download Edmund S. Morgan, "Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America"
English | 1989 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0393306232, 0393025055 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process." ―Michael Kamman, Washington Post

Free Download Inventing Bitcoin: The Technology Behind The First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained by Yan Pritzker, Nicholas Evans
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07MWXRWNB | 105 pages | EPUB | 1.26 Mb
Bitcoin may well be the greatest invention of our time, and most people have no idea what it is, or how it works. Walking through its invention step by step, this short two hour read is critical before you invest.

Free Download Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXFQS47W | 2023 | 8 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 231 MB
Author: Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
This major new manifesto offers a "clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society" and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the twenty-first century. Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms. This new edition includes a new chapter where they respond to their various critics.