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Thinking about Stories: An Introduction to Philosophy of Fiction By Samuel Lebens, Tatjana von Solodkoff
2023 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 0367647559 | EPUB | 1 MB
Thinking About Stories is a fun and thought-provoking introduction to philosophical questions about narrative fiction in its many forms, from highbrow literature to pulp fiction to the latest shows on Netflix. Written by philosophers Samuel Lebens and Tatjana von Solodkoff, it engages with fundamental questions about fiction, like: What is it? What does it give us? Does a story need a narrator? And why do sad stories make us cry if we know they aren't real? The format of the book emulates a lively, verbal exchange: each chapter has only one author while the other appears spontaneously in pop-up boxes in the text along the way, raising questions and voicing criticisms, and inviting responses from their co-author. This unique format allows readers to feel like they are a part of the conversation about the philosophical foundations of some of the fictions in their own lives. Key Features Draws on a wide range of types of narrative fiction, from Harry Potter to Breakfast of Champions to Parks and Recreation Explores how fiction, despite its detachment from truth, is often best able to teach us important things about the world in which we live Concludes by asking in the final chapter whether we all might be fictions Includes illustrated text boxes, bibliographies, and annotated suggested reading lists in each chapter

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Thinking Sex with the Great Whore: Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation By Luis Menéndez-Antuña
2018 | 225 Pages | ISBN: 1138306991 | EPUB | 1 MB
Many scholars in Biblical and Revelation studies have written at length about the imperial and patriarchal implications of the figure of the Whore of Babylon. However, much of the focus has been on the links to the Roman Empire and ancient attitudes towards gender. This book adds another layer to the conversation around this evocative figure by pursuing an ideological critique of the Great Whore that takes into account contemporary understandings of sexuality, and in so doing advances a de-moralization of apparent sexual deviancy both in the present and in the past. Offering an emancipatory reading of Revelation 17-18 using Foucauldian, postcolonial and queer historiographies, this study sets out alternative paths for identity construction in Biblical texts. By using these alternative critical lenses, the author argues that the common neglect of the ethical and political impact of Biblical texts in the present can be overcome. This, in turn, allows for fresh reflection on the study of the Bible and its implications for progressive politics. Situated at the intersection of Revelation Studies, Biblical Studies and Hermeneutics, as well as Contextual/Liberationist Theologies and Queer and Postcolonial Criticism, this is a cutting edge study that will be of keen interest to scholars of Theology and Religious Studies.

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Thinking with Trees By Jason Allen-Paisant
2021 | 120 Pages | ISBN: 1800171137 | EPUB | 1 MB
Jason Allen-Paisant grew up in a village in central Jamaica. 'Trees were all around, ' he writes, 'we often went to the yam ground, my grandmother's cultivation Description. When I think of my childhood, I see myself entering a deep woodland with cedars and logwood all around. [...] The muscular guango trees were like beings among whom we lived.' Now he lives in Leeds, near a forest where he goes walking. 'Here, trees represent an alternative space, a refuge from an ultra-consumerist culture...' And even as they help him recover his connections with nature, these poems are inevitably political. As Malika Booker writes, 'Allen-Paisant's poetic ruminations deceptively radicalise Wordsworth's pastoral scenic daffodils. The collection racializes contemporary ecological poetics and its power lies in Allen-Paisant's subtle destabilization of the ordinary dog walker's right to space, territory, property and leisure by positioning the colonised Black male body's complicated and unsafe reality in these spaces.

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Thirteen Week Guitar Technique Bootcamp - Intermediate Level: 13 Powerful Practice Routines for Picking, Legato, Sweeping and Tapping Mastery
by Chris Brooks
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1789334330 | 112 Pages | True ePUB | 33 MB

Thirteen Weeks to Ultimate Guitar Technique
Are you looking for the perfect pathway to incredible guitar technique?
Are you struggling to organise your practice time or to know what to focus on?
Fortunately, rock guitar virtuoso Chris Brooks is here to guide your practice and turn you into a guitar prodigy in this highly structured guitar method.
Unleash Your Inner Guitar Virtuoso for Unparalleled Musical Mastery!
In this ground-breaking guitar technique guide you will master five essential disciplines:
Picking
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First you will get deep with detailed exercises, videos, and technique builders before every skill is combined into a comprehensive weekly practice routine.
In just three months you will be confidently tackling everything your musical life throws at you from devastating alternate-picked passages, to delicate legato phrases, to terrifying tapped arpeggios.
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This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light by Allison Holker
English | February 4, 2025 | ISBN: 1400248949 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 1.6 MB
In this candid and emotional memoir, Allison Holker opens up about her incredible dance career, her relationship with Stephen "tWitch" Boss, and the resilience that has carried her forward after his death.

Allison Holker was just eighteen when she found fame as a contestant on the reality TV show So You Think You Can Dance. Over the next several years, she had her first child, built a successful career as a professional dancer despite the industry being hostile to working moms, and fell in love with and married fellow dancer Stephen Boss, the former hype man and DJ of The Ellen DeGeneres Show known for his charisma and relentless positivity. Two more children and a wealth of professional opportunities for both Allison and Stephen followed, and the Bosses appeared to be one of the great Hollywood love stories.
Then, in December 2022, Stephen took his own life, leaving Allison to wrestle with unanswered questions, haunting what-ifs, and the heartbreaking realization that Stephen's infectious joy was hiding pain, addictions, and self-doubt deeper than anyone knew.
For the first time, Allison reveals how she has navigated the emotional and financial aftermath of Stephen's choice, guided their three children in their grief while managing the outpouring from a well-meaning public, and reopened herself to the next chapter in her professional and personal life. A beacon of hope and comfort for anyone experiencing grief-especially unexpected loss due to suicide-Allison's story is an honest reflection on the pain of looking back on a complicated life and the resilience required to move into the future.

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This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy
by Adewale Maja-Pearce
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1804291803 | 208 Pages | True ePUB | 1.2 MB

An uncompromising look at Nigeria's crisis of democracy by a renowned essayist and critic
In this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria's crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups, the most populous country in Africa was fabricated by British colonizers at the turn of the twentieth century. In the years since its independence in 1960, Nigeria spent an unbroken quarter century as a military dictatorship. Yet the blessings of today's democracy are unclear to many, especially among the more than half of the population living in extreme poverty. Buffeted by unemployment, saddled with debt, menaced by bandits and Islamic fundamentalists, Nigeria faces the threat of disintegration.
Maja-Pearce shows that recent mobilizations against police brutality, sexism, and homophobia reveal a powerful undercurrent of discontent, especially among the country's youth. If Nigeria has a future, he shows here, it is in the hands of young people unwilling to go on as before.

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Octavia Bright, "This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Remembering and Forgetting"
English | ISBN: 1838857494 | 2024 | 256 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
I kept putting myself in danger, and I couldn't make it stop. It rarely felt like a choice, though, of course, it was. It's only the death drive, my dear, Freud would likely tell me, if I lay my body down on his carpet covered couch. Everybody needs a little oblivion. Besides, what is the fantasy of the knight on a white charger if not an abandonment wish? A desire to be rescued from your own life by a story.

This Ragged Grace tells the story of Octavia's journey to recovery from alcohol addiction, and the parallel story of her father's descent into Alzheimer's. Looking back over this time, each of the seven chapters explores the feelings and experiences of the corresponding year of recovery, tracing the shift in emotion and understanding that comes with the deepening connection to this new way of life. Over the course of this seven-year period, life continues to unfold. Paths are abandoned, people fall ill, waters get choppy, seemingly impossible things are navigated without the old fixes.
As Octavia moves between London, the island of Stromboli, New York, Cornwall and Margate, each place offers something new but ultimately always delivers the same message: that wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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English | March 15, 2019 | ISBN: 1501732765, 1501781375 | True EPUB | 424 pages | MB


Neuberger's bold arguments and daring insights into every aspect of Eisenstein's work during this period, together with her ability to lucidly connect his wide-ranging late theory with his work on Ivan, show the director exploiting the institutions of Soviet artistic production not only to expose the cruelties of Stalin and his circle but to challenge the fundamental principles of Soviet ideology itself. Ivan the Terrible, she argues, shows us one of the world's greatest filmmakers and one of the twentieth century's greatest artists observing the world around him and experimenting with every element of film art to explore the psychology of political ambition, uncover the history of recurring cycles of violence and lay bare the tragedy of absolute power.

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Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989): Eine Psychographie By Oberlerchner, Herwig
2017 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 3896737309 | PDF | 1 MB
Thomas Bernhard überlebt. Er überlebt die Abtreibungsversuche, die Deprivation der ersten Lebensmonate, die schwarze Pädagogik in der Familie, wie auch in den nationalsozialistischen und katholischen Erziehungsanstalten, sein Schultrauma, er überlebt Bombenangriffe und Krieg, seine aus tiefster Einsamkeit, Überforderung und Verzweiflung resultierenden Suizidversuche, Tuberkulose und Armut. Er überlebt aber nicht unbeschadet, seine Persönlichkeit ist irritiert, verformt, er pendelt zwischen tiefer Depression und psychosenahem Erleben, gefangen in durch belastende Bindungserfahrungen verursachten, chronischen und alle Lebensbereiche durchdringenden Ambivalenzkonflikten.Thomas Bernhard ist (auch) ein Fall für die Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, aber nicht um ihn zu diagnostizieren und zu schubladisieren, sondern um ihn aus dem Wissen um die Psychodynamik aller zutiefst verletzten Menschen heraus, ehrfürchtig und voller Bewunderung zu begegnen, hat er doch für sich und für die Menschheit einen kreativen Weg gefunden, seine schwierige Biographie zu bewältigen und Weltliteratur zu schaffen.

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Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law By Kody W. Cooper
2018 | 342 Pages | ISBN: 0268103011 | EPUB | 1 MB
Has Hobbesian moral and political theory been fundamentally misinterpreted by most of his readers? Since the criticism of John Bramhall, Hobbes has generally been regarded as advancing a moral and political theory that is antithetical to classical natural law theory. Kody W. Cooper challenges this traditional interpretation of Hobbes in Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law. Hobbes affirms two essential theses of classical natural law theory: the capacity of practical reason to grasp intelligible goods or reasons for action and the legally binding character of the practical requirements essential to the pursuit of human flourishing. Hobbes's novel contribution lies principally in his formulation of a thin theory of the good. This book seeks to prove that Hobbes has more in common with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of natural law philosophy than has been recognized. According to Cooper, Hobbes affirms a realistic philosophy as well as biblical revelation as the ground of his philosophical-theological anthropology and his moral and civil science. In addition, Cooper contends that Hobbes's thought, although transformative in important ways, also has important structural continuities with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of practical reason, theology, social ontology, and law. What emerges from this study is a nuanced assessment of Hobbes's place in the natural law tradition as a formulator of natural law liberalism. This book will appeal to political theorists and philosophers and be of particular interest to Hobbes scholars and natural law theorists.

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Thomas Hobbes und die Person des Staates: Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Christian Neumeier By Skinner, Quentin
2017 | 68 Pages | ISBN: 3428152956 | PDF | 1 MB
Was bezeichnet der Begriff Staat und brauchen wir ihn heute noch als einen Ordnungsbegriff der politischen Theorie? Quentin Skinner geht dieser Frage in der zweiten Carl-Schmitt-Vorlesung nach, um zwei verbreitete Missverständnisse aus der Welt zu schaffen. Der Staat ist weder mit der Regierung gleichzusetzen noch ist er historisch obsolet geworden. Skinner analysiert zu diesem Zweck die erste und zugleich berühmteste Theorie der Unterscheidung von Staat und Regierung: Thomas Hobbes' Vorstellung des Staates als einer eigenen Person, die von Herrschern wie Beherrschten gleichermaßen unterschieden werden muss. Sie baut auf einer neuen Theorie politischer Repräsentation auf. Repräsentation ist danach nicht als Verhältnis von Ur- und Abbild zu denken, sondern als Autorisation des Souveräns durch die Subjekte. Skinner untersucht darüber hinaus die Rezeption von Hobbes' Theorie bei Pufendorf, Vattel und Blackstone und ihre vernichtende Kritik durch die Utilitaristen.Thomas Hobbes and the Person of the StateWhat do we mean when we refer to the state? Is the state a concept political theorists still need to concern themselves with today? Quentin Skinner explores these questions in the second Carl Schmitt Lecture to elucidate a common misunderstanding. When we talk about states, we do not simply mean governments. Skinner analyses the first and to the present day most famous theory to make such a claim: Thomes Hobbes' concept of the state as a person, distinct from both rulers and ruled.

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Brian Kilmeade, "Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History"
English | ISBN: 1591848067 | 2015 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
"Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edge-of-your-seat, page-turning thriller. You will love this book and also wonder why so few people know this story. No one captures the danger, intrigue, and drama of the American Revolution and its aftermath like Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger." -Brad Thor

This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation.
When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast routinely captured American sailors and held them as slaves, demanding ransom and tribute payments far beyond what the new country could afford.
Over the previous fifteen years, as a diplomat and then as secretary of state, Jefferson had tried to work with the Barbary states (Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco). Unfortunately, he found it impossible to negotiate with people who believed their religion justified the plunder and enslavement of non-Muslims. These rogue states would show no mercy-at least not while easy money could be made by extorting the Western powers. So President Jefferson decided to move beyond diplomacy. He sent the U.S. Navy's new warships and a detachment of Marines to blockade Tripoli-launching the Barbary Wars and beginning America's journey toward future superpower status.
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Thomas Reid and Scepticism: His Reliabilist Response By Philip De Bary; Philip de Bary
2004 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0415263395 | EPUB | 1 MB
This book bears witness to the current reawakening of interest in Reid's philosophy. It first examines Reid's negative attack on the Way of Ideas, and finds him to be a devastating critic of his predecessors. Turning to the positive part of Reid's programme, the author then develops a fresh interpretation of Reid as an anticipator of present-day 'reliabilism'. Throughout the book, Reid is presented as a powerful thinker with much to say to philosophers in the twenty-first century. The book will be of interest not only to Reid scholars and historians of philosophy, but also to specialists and students in contemporary epistemology.

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Thomas S. Szasz By Jeffrey A. Schaler (editor), Henry Zvi Lothane (editor), Richard E. Vatz (editor)
2017 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 141286514X | EPUB | 1 MB
As it entered the 1960s, American institutional psychiatry was thriving, with a high percentage of medical students choosing the field. But after Thomas S. Szasz published his masterwork in 1961, The Myth of Mental Illness, the psychiatric world was thrown into chaos.Szasz enlightened the world about what he called the "myth of mental illness." His point was not that no one is mentally ill, or that people labeled as mentally ill do not exist. Instead he believed that diagnosing people as mentally ill was inconsistent with the rules governing pathology and the classification of disease. He asserted that the diagnosis of mental illness is a type of social control, not medical science.The editors were uniquely close to Szasz, and here they gather, for the first time, a group of their peers―experts on psychiatry, psychology, rhetoric, and semiotics―to elucidate Szasz's body of work. Thomas S. Szasz: The Man and His Ideas examines his work and legacy, including new material on the man himself and the seeds he planted. They discuss Szasz's impact on their thinking about the distinction between physical and mental illness, addiction, the insanity plea, schizophrenia, and implications for individual freedom and responsibility. This important volume offers insight into and understanding of a man whose ideas were far beyond his time.

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Thomas Torrance's Mediations and Revelation By Titus Chung
2016 | 218 Pages | ISBN: 1409405702 | EPUB | 1 MB
Could a work of revelation be justified as a viable theological project today, especially in light of some modern sceptics questioning its validity as a doctrinal discipline? Engaging with the work of theologians such as Karl Barth, Paul Tillich and Colin Gunton, Chung explores and justifies revelation and mediation in the theology of T.F.Torrance and argues that Torrance's distinctiveness is able to contribute significantly to current debate and bring a fresh perspective to the theological landscape.

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