David Cave – Mircea Eliade’s Vision for a New Humanism Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0195074343 | 1993-01-28 | PDF | 232 pages | 2.92 Mb The influential scholar of religion Mircea Eliade envisioned a spiritually destitute modern culture coming into renewed meaning through the recovery of archetypal myths and symbols.

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How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself By Mark Collier, Bill Manley Publisher: University of California Press 1998 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0520215974 | PDF | 34 MB

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Helene A Shugart, Catherine Egley Waggone – Making Camp: Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S.

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George B. Ellenberg – Mule South to Tractor South: Mules, Machines, Agriculture, and Culture in the South, 1850-1950 Publisher: University Alabama Press | 2008-02-04 | ISBN: 0817315977 | PDF | 248 pages | 5.09 MB

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Ernst Cassirer, “The Myth of the State” Publisher: Yale University Press | 1946 | ASIN B000H85Q8G | PDF | 303 pages | 11.6 MB

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Yoram Bar Gal, “Propaganda and Zionist Education: The Jewish National Fund 1924 – 1947Education” Publisher: University of Rochester | 2003 | ISBN 1580461387 | PDF | 220 pages | 10.2 MB

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Philosophy of Language (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy) Princeton University Press 2010 | 200 | ISBN: 0691138664 | PDF | 1 Mb In this book one of the world’s foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field–its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts–such as truth, reference, and meaning–that are central to the philosophy of language and important to philosophy as a whole. The first part of the book describes how philosophers from Frege, Russell, Tarski, and Carnap to Kripke, Kaplan, and Montague developed precise techniques for understanding the languages of logic and mathematics, and how these techniques have been refined and extended to the study of natural human languages.

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Tony Judt, “The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century” Publisher: University Of Chicago | 2007 | ISBN 0226414191 | PDF | 204 pages | 11.3 MB

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Liberalism, Democracy and Development Cambridge University Press 2002 | 284 | ISBN: 0521004985 | PDF | 1 Mb 0521808839Sylvia Chan examines the claim that liberal democracy on the Western model is the paradigm to which developing countries should aspire to provide good governance and economic success. The success of some countries, notably in Asia, which do not conform to that model has led many to question that link. Chan argues that these successful developing nations have enjoyed the economic and social liberties necessary to encourage economic development, without the need to adopt the formal democratic institutions and cultural values of the West

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