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An Alchemist in Chains: The Case Against the Mystic Johann Konrad Dippel in Altona
by Frederik Stjernfelt
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3111479722 | 285 Pages | PDF | 136 MB

How could a pious, Christian mystic spread radical Enlightenment ideas and freedom of thought? Johann Konrad Dippel was a radical pietist, an alchemist, a philosopher, a medical doctor, a renegade, a firebrand. He was also one of the most-read authors of early eighteenth-century Europe.
Born at the Burg Frankenstein in the South of Germany, he was a truly cosmopolitan figure, straying between France, Berlin, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and various German states. From 1714-1719, he was in Altona near Hamburg, then the second city of Denmark-Norway. Here, a labyrinthine case was brought against him, terminating with his banishment to the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.
This book is the first to investigate in detail the Case Against Dippel in Altona, pitting him in a struggle against the strongest noble couple of Denmark-Norway, the Reventlows, presiding in Altona. It was a case involving libel, bribes, corruption, but also branching into blasphemy and gold-making.
The investigation of the Case Against Dippel is embedded in a narrative of what is known about his frantic life and defiant thought before and after his seven-years' incarceration. The whole story throws a new light upon the challenging question of the origin of Modernity and the clandestine connections between radical pietism and radical Enlightenment.

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Ancient Jewish Historians and the German Reich: Seven Studies
by Daniel R. Schwartz
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3110764830 | 201 Pages | PDF | 4.57 MB

Apart from an opening survey of modern study of ancient Jewish history, which emphasizes the foundational role of German-Jewish scholars, the studies united in this volume apply philological methods to the writings of four of them: Heinrich Graetz, Isaak Heinemann, Elias Bickerman(n), and Abraham Schalit. In each case, it is argued that some seemingly trivial anomaly or infelicity, in a publication about such ancient characters as Antiochus Epiphanes, Herod, and Josephus, points to the way in which the historian constructed, and revised, his understanding of the Jews' situation under Greeks or Romans in light of his perception of the Jews' situation under the Second or Third Reich. The collection also includes a study that focuses on a Jewish medievalist, Philipp Jaffé, and unravels the indirect but inexorable process that led from a scholarly feud about the editing of medieval Latin texts, in the 1860s, to the "Berlin Antisemitism Dispute" (Berliner Antisemitismusstreit) of 1879-1881, which is commonly viewed as the opening act of modern German antisemitism.

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Animal Industries: Nordic Perspectives on the Exploitation of Animals since 1860
by Taina Syrjämaa, Marja Jalava
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3110787296 | 281 Pages | PDF | 4.86 MB

This book examines an extremely topical phenomenon, the massive industrial exploitation of animals, from a previously neglected perspective. It explores the history and development of animal industries in Nordic countries from their establishment in the late nineteenth century to the present day. These countries are often considered to be progressive and advanced in animal protection, but consumption practices in this area are actually excessive in relation to planetary resources and are among the most unsustainable on a global scale. If we want to understand current problems, it is essential to be aware of long-term changes and continuities, as well as the diversity of animals that have been exploited. The purpose of this book is to explain these changes and provide new knowledge for scholars in human-animal studies, decisionmakers and the general public.

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Animal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka (German Jewish Cultures) by Joela Jacobs
English | March 4, 2025 | ISBN: 0253071976, 0253071984 | True EPUB | 285 pages | 0.5 MB
Animal, Vegetal, Marginal explores the oft-forgotten yet provocative German genre of die Groteske, or the literary grotesque. This short prose form challenges the norms of being human and being accepted as such by society in exaggerated and satirical ways. Between the Kaiser's and Hitler's Reichs, the genre's irreverent comedy and criticism sold out cabarets, drew droves of radio listeners, and created bestsellers.

Yet, because its authors were ruthlessly censored and persecuted, die Groteske is virtually unknown today and neglected by scholarship.
Joela Jacobs examines the development and influence of the genre on some of its leading exponents, including Oskar Panizza, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Salomo Friedlaender, and Franz Kafka.
Animal, Vegetal, Marginal is the first full-length study of the genre and shows how its portrayals of marginalized and nonhuman perspectives mounted resistance against the rise of the biopolitical structures underpinning nationalism, racism, and antisemitism.

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Anime + Chibi Art Class: A Complete Beginner Course in Drawing Manga Cuties + Their Chibis by Yoai Yoai
English | August 20, 2024 | ISBN: 163106990X | 160 pages | PDF | 20 Mb
The best of both worlds-learn how to draw anime characters and their cute, colorful, and expressive chibi counterparts from popular anime artist and instructor Yoai.

This follow-up to Chibi Art Class and Anime Art Class embraces the two styles for an all-in-one drawing book! A common artistic device within anime and manga is for the characters to morph into a chibi version of themselves for comic relief, especially when expressing emotion. In Anime + Chibi Art Class, popular anime artist Yoai teaches you how to draw characters big and little so you don't have to choose. It doesn't matter if you prefer drawing traditionally or digitally because both methods are welcome here!
With in-depth what-to-use and how-to guides at the front of the book, the tutorials are divided evenly between traditional and digital. Spanning from simple to advanced, each focuses on honing an area of drawing, such as basic body shapes, shading, and coloring. Say goodbye to art books that don't explain what they're doing and pick up this one today for detailed, easy-to-follow lessons.
Including all-new material, these 20 step-by-step tutorials will have you nailing that distinct anime style in an array of mediums, including:
Pencil drawingInking line artShading with colored pencilsColoring with markers and watercolorsScanning and printing to combine mediaand doing it all digitally!By the end, you will be a seasoned expert in the art of anime and chibi drawing and be ready to design your own expressive and cute characters.
Learn even more fun drawing techniques from Yoai with:Chibi Art Class, Mini Chibi Art Class, Anime Art Class, and Anime Art Class Sketchbook.

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Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics) by Rizvana Bradley
English | October 24, 2023 | ISBN: 1503637131 | 406 pages | PDF | 53 Mb
In Anteaesthetics, Rizvana Bradley begins from the proposition that blackness cannot be represented in modernity's aesthetic regime, but is nevertheless foundational to every representation. Troubling the idea that the aesthetic is sheltered from the antiblack terror that lies just beyond its sanctuary, Bradley insists that blackness cannot make a home within the aesthetic, yet is held as its threshold and aporia. The book problematizes the phenomenological and ontological conceits that underwrite the visual, sensual, and abstract logics of modernity.

Moving across multiple histories and geographies, artistic mediums and forms, from nineteenth-century painting and early cinema, to the contemporary text-based works, video installations, and digital art of Glenn Ligon, Mickalene Thomas, and Sondra Perry, Bradley inaugurates a new method for interpretation―an ante-formalism which demonstrates how black art engages in the recursive deconstruction of the aesthetic forms that remain foundational to modernity. Foregrounding the negativity of black art, Bradley shows how each of these artists disclose the racialized contours of the body, form, and medium, even interrogating the form that is the world itself. Drawing from black critical theory, Continental philosophy, film and media studies, art history, and black feminist thought, Bradley explores artistic practices that inhabit the negative underside of form. Ultimately, Anteaesthetics asks us to think philosophically with black art, and with the philosophical invention black art necessarily undertakes.

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Armageddon in Stalingrad: September-November 1942, The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2 (Modern War Studies) by David M. Glantz, Jonathan House
English | November 23, 2009 | ISBN: 0700616640 | 920 pages | EPUB | 24 Mb
The German offensive on Stalingrad was originally intended to secure the Wehrmacht's flanks, but it stalled dramatically in the face of Stalin's order: "Not a Step Back!" The Soviets' resulting tenacious defense of the city led to urban warfare for which the Germans were totally unprepared, depriving them of their accustomed maneuverability, overwhelming artillery fire, and air support-and setting the stage for debacle.

Armageddon in Stalingrad continues David Glantz and Jonathan House's bold new look at this most iconic military campaign of the Eastern Front and Hitler's first great strategic defeat. While the first volume in their trilogy described battles that took the German army to the gates of Stalingrad, this next one focuses on the inferno of combat that decimated the city itself.
Previous accounts of the battle are far less accurate, having relied on Soviet military memoirs plagued by error and cloaked in secrecy. Glantz and House have plumbed previously unexploited sources-including the archives of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) and the records of the Soviet 62nd and German Sixth Armies-to provide unprecedented detail and fresh interpretations of this apocalyptic campaign. They allow the authors to reconstruct the fighting hour by hour, street by street, and even building by building and reveal how Soviet defenders established killing zones throughout the city and repeatedly ambushed German spearheads.
The authors set these accounts of action within the contexts of decisions made by Hitler and Stalin, their high commands, and generals on the ground and of the larger war on the Eastern Front. They show the Germans weaker than has been supposed, losing what had become a war of attrition that forced them to employ fewer and greener troops to make up for earlier losses and to conduct war on an ever-lengthening logistics line.
Written with the narrative force of a great war novel, this new volume supersedes all previous accounts and forms the centerpiece of the Stalingrad Trilogy, with the upcoming final volume focusing on the Red Army's counteroffensive.

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Timothy Dawson, "Armour Never Wearies Scale and Lamellar Armour in the West, from the Bronze Age to the 19th Century"
English | ISBN: 0752488627 | 2013 | 128 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This is the first volume to bring together all the hitherto scattered evidence-archaeological, literary, and artistic-for the forms and uses of scale and lamellar armors in the region west of the Urals throughout the two thousand years during which these armors were used. Lamellar armor differs from the earlier scale armor in not needing a backing for the individual pieces of leather, iron, or bronze. The interpretation of this meticulous collection of data is informed by the author's decades-long practical experience as a maker of arms and armor, martial artist, and horseman. It offers systematic definitions and analysis of these often misunderstood forms of armor, along with detailed diagrams and instructions that will be of great use to any who wish to turn their hands to reconstruction. Along the way, this unique synthesis of evidence and interpretation debunks myths that have arisen in recent years.

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Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity
by Otto Latva, Heta Lähdesmäki
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3111212718 | 257 Pages | PDF | 97 MB

This book explores the human relationship to changing biodiversity by bringing together multidisciplinary insights into human-nature relations from the humanities. New animal and plant species arrive and previously existing ones may disappear. However, the historical and social perspectives of the changes have been understudied so far. This book approaches the human relationship with changing biodiversity from three different angles: belonging and non-belonging, emotions, and environmental policy. The question of belonging and non-belonging is crucial when it comes to changing biodiversity. The authors ask who decides where species can move and live and when invasive becomes native. Similarly, emotions have a big role in human-nature relations. The book shows why we grieve the loss of some species and hate some other species, and how our emotions change over time. The writers also aim to show how environmental policies, or the practice of governing species, are affected by societal discussion, emotions, scientific research, and topical concepts as well as how these policies shape biodiversity and our perceptions of different species. The authors provide fresh insights into human-nature relations and explain why we need multidisciplinary approaches in order to fully understand their complexity.

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Shin-ichiro Inaba, Makoto Kureha, "Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Philosophy"
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0BRXXMHKS | PDF | pages: 158 | 5.1 mb
This book is a collection of all the papers published in the special issue "Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Philosophy," Journal of Philosophy of Life, Vol.13, No.1, 2023, pp.1-146. The authors discuss a variety of topics

such as science fiction and space ethics, the philosophy of artificial intelligence, the ethics of autonomous agents, and virtuous robots. Through their discussions, readers are able to think deeply about the essence of
modern technology and the future of humanity. I hope that readers will enjoy these arguments on digital technology and its relationship with philosophy.
Contents
Introduction
: Descartes and Artificial Intelligence
Masahiro Morioka
Isaac Asimov and the Current State of Space Science Fiction
: In the Light of Space Ethics
Shin-ichiro Inaba
Artificial Intelligence and Contemporary Philosophy
: Heidegger, Jonas, and Slime Mold
Masahiro Morioka
Implications of Automating Science
: The Possibility of Artificial Creativity and the Future of Science
Makoto Kureha
Why Autonomous Agents Should Not Be Built for War
István Zoltán Zárdai
Wheat and Pepper
: Interactions Between Technology and Humans
Minao Kukita
Clockwork Courage
: A Defense of Virtuous Robots
Shimpei Okamoto
Reconstructing Agency from Choice
Yuko Murakami
Gushing Prose
: Will Machines Ever be Able to Translate as Badly as Humans?
Rossa Ó Muireartaigh

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John Norris, "Artillery"
English | ISBN: 0752461893 | 2012 | 256 pages | EPUB | 627 KB
A dynamic history showing the development and use of artillery since the first primitive weapons of the 11th century

Through detailed research, John Norris has traced the development of artillery through the ages and up to the dawn of the 21st century, to provide a fascinating study of this principal weapon of warfare. From its earliest recorded use in battle about a millennium ago, up to the recent Gulf War, Balkan, and Afghanistan conflicts, artillery has often been the deciding factor in battle; and yet its origins are somewhat vague. The Chinese had been working with gunpowder since the 10th century, yet it was another 200 years before the compound was used to propel a projectile from a long-barreled bamboo piece of apparatus. Not long after this, the use of artillery spread to Europe and changed the art of warfare. This book traces the development of artillery and its use in battle through the ages.
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As If We Were Prey: Stories By Michael Delp
2010 | 124 Pages | ISBN: 0814334776 | PDF | 1 MB
A dark, rollicking collection of stories about men prone to foolishness trying to make their way in a modern world.

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Authentic Nude Living: Embracing Freedom, Confidence, and Courage in Your Natural Naked State by Kristin Williams
English | August 21, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DDY56H4T | 44 pages | EPUB | 0.09 Mb
If you've ever felt that little spark inside you-the one that whispers there's more to life than squeezing into clothes that don't feel like you-then you're in the right place. This book is all about embracing freedom, confidence, and courage in your natural, naked state. It's about shedding more than just clothes; it's about letting go of societal expectations, self-doubt, and anything else that's been holding you back from living your most authentic life.

Why Authentic Nude Living?
Let's get real for a moment: how often have you felt completely at ease in your clothes? Not just comfortable, but truly free? If you're like most people, the answer is probably "not often enough." I used to be the same way-constantly adjusting, pulling, and tugging at my clothes, trying to find some semblance of comfort in layers that felt more like armor than anything else. But then, something amazing happened: I discovered the joy of being nude.
It all started on a lazy Sunday morning. I was home alone, with no plans and nothing urgent to do. I decided to ditch the clothes for the day, just to see what it would feel like. Let me tell you, it was liberating. As the day went on, I felt lighter, more relaxed, and more in tune with myself than I had in a long time. By the time the sun set, I knew this was something I wanted to explore further.
That first experience set me on a path to discover what it truly means to live authentically-without the layers, without the masks, and without the need to conform to what society tells us we should be. And now, I'm excited to share that journey with you.
Overcoming the Fear of Vulnerability
Nudity has a way of stripping away not just clothes, but also the insecurities that come with them. It forces you to confront yourself in the rawest form, but it also gives you the opportunity to embrace who you are without any filters. It's about being real with yourself and finding the courage to love your body exactly as it is.
In this book, we're going to dive deep into the feeling of freedom that comes from liberating your body from clothes. We'll talk about how nudity can boost your confidence by helping you own your natural beauty. We'll explore the courage it takes to be real with your insecurities and how that courage can transform your life in ways you never imagined.
What to Expect?
Here's what you can look forward to in the pages ahead:
* The Feeling of Freedom: We'll explore what it really feels like to liberate your body from the confines of clothing. You'll learn how nudity can help you experience life more fully and authentically.
* Confidence: We'll delve into how owning your natural beauty-flaws and all-can give you a confidence boost like nothing else. You'll discover practical tips for embracing your body and feeling great in your skin.
* Courage: We'll tackle the tough stuff-those insecurities that have been holding you back. You'll learn how to face them head-on with courage and grace, and how nudity can help you heal and grow.
* How To Be Nude More Often: You'll get practical advice on how to integrate nudity into your daily life in ways that feel natural and comfortable. From morning routines to bedtime rituals, you'll find plenty of tips to make nudity a regular part of your day.
* Creating and Finding Nude-Friendly Situations: Finally, we'll talk about how to create and find opportunities to be nude, whether you're at home, in nature, or even in social settings. You'll learn how to build a lifestyle that supports your nude living journey and connects you with others who share your values.
By the end of this book, my hope is that you'll feel empowered to embrace your natural, naked state with confidence, courage, and joy.

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Awakening From the Meaning Crisis: Part 1: Origins
by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1645011003 | 424 Pages | True ePUB | 2.64 MB

"Read their book and be illuminated; ignore it at your peril." - Jordan Peterson, New York Times bestselling author of 12 Rules for Life
"Provides a frame for lost souls." - Jonathan Pageau, renowned liturgical artist, writer, and public speaker
WE LIVE TODAY in the aftermath of what philosopher Charles Taylor described as the "great dis-embedding." While we once commonly understood our relationship to nature as being a part of the greater whole, we now find ourselves separate and isolated from its perpetual flow, desperately trying to inhabit an impossible Frankensteinian "view from nowhere."
Some claim we're above nature and capable of bending it to our will. Others diagnose our state as beneath nature, not worthy of participating in its cycles. They say we're a scourge, and the planet would be better off without us.
This paradoxical confusion about our species' role in the Cosmos has a common denominator.
After unknown thousands of years of faith in the inherent meaning in and of life, since the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment, a dark wave of nihilism has washed across our global village. We've mistaken part of life's complex experience, the problems, and waved away the greater emergent whole of their meaning.
How did this meaning crisis happen?
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis: Origins traces the history of what led to our contemporary malaise, offering scientific, spiritual, and philosophical interweaving threads that ground us in the troubling truth of our extraordinary evolution.
Impeccably sourced and written with a perfectly paced narrative flair, Vervaeke and Mastropietro's work is an indispensable sense-maker for our time.

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Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner
English | October 29, 2013 | ISBN: 0375415297, 1400031435 | True EPUB | 672 pages | 45.7 MB
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque-and occasionally so intemperate?

John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents' house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer's greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime's immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it, and explaining in wonderful detail the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects-and what it can tell us about Bach the man.
Gardiner's background as a historian has encouraged him to search for ways in which scholarship and performance can cooperate and fruitfully coalesce. This has entailed piecing together the few biographical shards, scrutinizing the music, and watching for those instances when Bach's personality seems to penetrate the fabric of his notation. Gardiner's aim is "to give the reader a sense of inhabiting the same experiences and sensations that Bach might have had in the act of music-making. This, I try to show, can help us arrive at a more human likeness discernible in the closely related processes of composing and performing his music."
It is very rare that such an accomplished performer of music should also be a considerable writer and thinker about it. John Eliot Gardiner takes us as deeply into Bach's works and mind as perhaps words can. The result is a unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists.

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