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Free Download Luther H. Martin, "The Mind of Mithraists: Historical and Cognitive Studies in the Roman Cult of Mithras "
English | ISBN: 1472584198 | 2015 | 208 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Roman cult of Mithras was the most widely-dispersed and densely-distributed cult throughout the expanse of the Roman Empire from the end of the first until the fourth century AD, rivaling the early growth and development of Christianity during the same period. As its membership was largely drawn from the ranks of the military, its spread, but not its popularity is attributable largely to military deployments and re-deployments. Although mithraists left behind no written archival evidence, there is an abundance of iconographic finds. The only characteristic common to all Mithraic temples were the fundamental architecture of their design, and the cult image of Mithras slaying a bull. How were these two features so faithfully transmitted through the Empire by a non-centralized, non-hierarchical religious movement? The Minds of Mithraists: Historical and Cognitive Studies in the Roman Cult of Mithras addresses these questions as well as the relationship of Mithraism to Christianity, explanations of the significance of the tauroctony and of the rituals enacted in the mithraea, and explanations for the spread of Mithraism (and for its resistance in a few places).

Free Download The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Great Age of Polar Exploration by Simon Nasht
English | September 6, 2006 | ISBN: 1559708255 | 368 pages | EPUB | 1.09 Mb
In the tradition of The Ice Master and Endurance, here is the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary discovery. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer in history-no one saw with his own eyes more undiscovered land and sea. Largely self-taught, Wilkins became a celebrated newsreel cameraman in the early 1900s, as well as a reporter, pilot, spy, war hero, scientist, and adventurer, capturing in his lens war and famine, cheating death repeatedly, meeting world leaders like Lenin and Stalin, and circling the globe on a zeppelin.

Free Download James Ash, "The Interface Envelope: Gaming, Technology, Power"
English | ISBN: 162356459X | 2015 | 184 pages | PDF | 1344 KB
In The Interface Envelope, James Ash develops a series of concepts to understand how digital interfaces work to shape the spatial and temporal perception of players. Drawing upon examples from videogame design and work from post-phenomenology, speculative realism, new materialism and media theory, Ash argues that interfaces create envelopes, or localised foldings of space time, around which bodily and perceptual capacities are organised for the explicit production of economic profit. Modifying and developing Bernard Stiegler's account of psychopower and Warren Neidich's account of neuropower, Ash argues the aim of interface designers and publishers is the production of envelope power. Envelope power refers to the ways that interfaces in games are designed to increase users perceptual and habitual capacities to sense difference. Examining a range of examples from specific videogames, Ash identities a series of logics that are key to producing envelope power and shows how these logics have intensified over the last thirty years. In turn, Ash suggests that the logics of interface envelopes in videogames are spreading to other types of interface. In doing so life becomes enveloped as the environments people inhabit becoming increasingly loaded with digital interfaces. Rather than simply negative, Ash develops a series of responses to the potential problematics of interface envelopes and envelope power and emphasizes their pharmacological nature.

Free Download Jeff Malpas, "The Intelligence of Place: Topographies and Poetics"
English | ISBN: 1472588673 | 2015 | 296 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Place has become a widespread concept in contemporary work in the humanities, creative arts, and social sciences. Yet in spite of its centrality, place remains a concept more often deployed than interrogated, and there are relatively few works that focus directly on the concept of place as such. The Intelligence of Place fills this gap, providing an exploration of place from various perspectives, encompassing anthropology, architecture, geography, media, philosophy, and the arts, and as it stands in relation to a range of other concepts.

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English | August 30, 2023 | ISBN: 9356991448 | 277 pages | PDF | 1.31 Mb
After World War II, a consensus emerged that increased global trade, with fewer barriers, would be a key element in promoting peace and prosperity around the world.

Free Download Andrew Inkpen, "The Global Oil & Gas Industry: Management, Strategy and Finance"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1593702396 | PDF | pages: 599 | 37.7 mb
Despite its size and importance, a surprising lack of basic knowledge exists about the oil and gas industry.

Free Download Stanley Starosta, "The Case for Lexicase "
English | ISBN: 1474246729 | 2015 | 304 pages | PDF | 25 MB
Starosta describes the formal properties of lexicase theory and its historical and metatheoretical relations to other current grammatical frameworks. He argues that it is preferable to other grammatical frameworks, as it is constrained enough to have empirical content, simple enough to be tested and applied to enough languages to have a plausible claim to universality. Examples are drawn from English and various Asian, Pacific, Australian, and African languages.

Free Download D. Jason Slone, "The Attraction of Religion: A New Evolutionary Psychology of Religion "
English | ISBN: 147253462X | 2015 | 272 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Religion is an evolutionary puzzle. It involves beliefs in counterfactual worlds and engagement in costly rituals. Yet religion is widespread across all human cultures and eras. This begs the question, why are so many people attracted to religion?

Free Download Tim Davenport, "The American Exceptionalism of Jay Lovestone and His Comrades, 1929-1940: Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 1"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1608467562 | PDF | pages: 718 | 13.0 mb
Few figures in the history of the American Left can claim a more significant and yet contradictory legacy as Jay Lovestone.

Free Download Lynda Zwinger, "Telling in Henry James: The Web of Experience and the Forms of Reality"
English | ISBN: 150130898X | 2015 | 152 pages | PDF | 1030 KB
Telling in Henry James argues that James's contribution to narrative and narrative theories is a lifelong exploration of how to "tell," but not, as Douglas has it in "The Turn of the Screw" in any "literal, vulgar way." James's fiction offers multiple, and often contradictory, reading (in)directions. Zwinger's overarching contention is that the telling detail is that which cannot be accounted for with any single critical or theoretical lens-that reading James is in some real sense a reading of the disquietingly inassimilable "fictional machinery." The analyses offered by each of the six chapters are grounded in close reading and focused on oddments-textual equivalents to the "particles" James describes as caught in a silken spider web, in a famous analogy used in "The Art of Fiction" to describe the kind of "consciousness" James wants his fiction to present to the reader.