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Alain Daniélou, "The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series"
English | 1991 | ISBN: 0892813547 | 512 pages | PDF | 5.6 MB
The study of Hindu mythology explores the significance of the most prominent Hindu dieties as they are envisioned by the Hindus themselves. Referred to by its adherents as the "eternal religion," Hinduism recognizes for each age and each country a new form of revelation-and for each person, according to his or her stage of development, a different path of realization.

Simon Partner, "The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan "
English | ISBN: 0231182937 | 2020 | 320 pages | PDF | 11 MB
In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan's 1853 "opening" to the West, he witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, the civil war that followed, and the Meiji Restoration's reforms. The Merchant's Tale looks through Chūemon's eyes at the upheavals of this period.

The Masks of God: Creative Mythology by Penguin Books
English | November 1, 2017 | ISBN: 0140194401 | 1044 pages | EPUB | 6.24 Mb
Explore the power of myth as it exploded from medieval Europe into the modern world

The Making of the European Spatial Development Perspective: No Masterplan By Andreas Faludi, Bas Waterhout
2002 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0415272637 | PDF | 6 MB
The European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) is published in eleven official EU languages and so is the most international planning policy document that exists. This book is the only comprehensive account of the process of preparing, negotiating and adopting this document. It outlines the differing perspectives of the European member states and shows that the last thing its proponents wanted is a masterplan. The Making of the European Spatial Development Perspective is a unique book offering a snapshot of contemporary European spatial planning.

Sami Al-Daghistani, "The Making of Islamic Economic Thought: Islamization, Law, and Moral Discourses"
English | ISBN: 1108845754 | 2021 | 300 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Interrogating the development and conceptual framework of economic thought in the Islamic tradition pertaining to ethical, philosophical, and theological ideas, this book provides a critique of modern Islamic economics as a hybrid economic system. From the outset, Sami Al-Daghistani is concerned with the polyvalent methodology of studying the phenomenon of Islamic economic thought as a human science in that it nurtures a complex plentitude of meanings and interpretations associated with the moral self. By studying legal scholars, theologians, and Sufis in the classical period, Al-Daghistani looks at economic thought in the context of Sharī'a's moral law. Alongside critiquing modern developments of Islamic economics, he puts forward an idea for a plural epistemology of Islam's moral economy, which advocates for a multifaceted hermeneutical reading of the subject in light of a moral law, embedded in a particular cosmology of human relationality, metaphysical intelligibility, and economic subjectivity.

The Life and Twelve-Note Music of Nikos Skalkottas By Eva Mantzourani
2011 | 438 Pages | ISBN: 0754653102 | PDF | 5 MB
Nikos Skalkottas is perhaps the last great 'undiscovered' composer of the twentieth century. In the 1920s he was a promising young violinist and composer in Berlin, and a student of Schoenberg, who included him among his most gifted pupils. It was only after his return to Greece in 1933 that Skalkottas became an anonymous and obscure figure, working in complete isolation until his death in 1949. Most of his works remained unpublished and unperformed during his lifetime, and although he is largely known for his folkloristic tonal pieces, Skalkottas in fact concentrated predominantly on developing an idiosyncratic dodecaphonic musical language. Eva Mantzourani provides here a comprehensive study of this fascinating yet under-researched composer. The book, lavishly illustrated with musical examples, is divided into three parts. Part I comprises a critical biography that, by drawing extensively on his letters and other writings, reappraises the image of Skalkottas with which we are often presented. The main focus of the book, however, is on Skalkottas' twelve-note compositional processes, since these characterize the majority of his output, and are neither well-known nor fully understood. Part II presents the structural and technical features of his twelve-note technique, particularly the different types of sets and their manipulation, and his approach to musical forms. Part III consists of analytical case studies of several works, presented largely chronologically, which thus provide a diachronic framework within which Skalkottas' dodecaphonic compositional development can be more effectively viewed. This book underlines Nikos Skalkottas' importance as a composer with a distinctive artistic personality, whose work contributed to the development of twelve-note compositional practice, and who deserves a more significant position within the Western art music canon than that to which he is often assigned.

Anthony Bale, "The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms 1350-1500"
English | ISBN: 0521863546 | 2007 | 284 pages | PDF | 13 MB
This interdisciplinary study explores images of Jews and Judaism in late medieval English literature and culture. Using four main categories - history, miracle, cult and Passion - Anthony Bale demonstrates how varied and changing ideas of Judaism coexisted within well-known anti-semitic literary and visual models, depending on context, authorship and audience. He examines the ways in which English writers, artists and readers used and abused the Jewish image in the period following the Jews' expulsion from England in 1290. The texts are analysed in their manuscript and print contexts in order to show local responses and changing meanings. This important work opens up fresh texts, sources and approaches for understanding medieval anti-semitism and shows how anti-semitic stereotypes came to be such potent images which would endure far beyond the Middle Ages.

The Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science, and the State in the 1920s By Guy Alchon
2014 | 263 Pages | ISBN: 0691611521 | PDF | 27 MB
Guy Alchon examines the mutually supportive efforts of social scientists, business managers, and government officials to create America's first peacetime system of macroeconomic management.Originally published in 1985.

The Individual and Tradition: Folkloristic Perspectives By Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, Pravina Shukla
2011 | 560 Pages | ISBN: 0253223733 | PDF | 33 MB
Profiles of artists and performers from around the world form the basis of this innovative volume that explores the many ways individuals engage with, carry on, revive, and create tradition. Leading scholars in folklore studies consider how the field has addressed the connections between performer and tradition and examine theoretical issues involved in fieldwork and the analysis and dissemination of scholarship in the context of relationships with the performers. Honoring Henry Glassie and his remarkable contributions to the field of folklore, these vivid case studies exemplify the best of performer-centered ethnography.

Linda A. Chisholm, "The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1604695293 | EPUB | pages: 536 | 149.2 mb
The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens explores the key moments in garden design. Through profiles of 100 of the most influential gardens, Linda Chisholm explores how social, political, and economic influences shaped garden design principles. The book is organized chronologically and by theme, starting with the medieval garden Alhambra and ending with the modern naturalism of the Lurie Garden. Sumptuously illustrated, The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens is for garden designers and landscape architects, design students, and gardening enthusiasts interested in garden history.