Alan Wolfe, “Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation” Publisher: University of California Press | 1991 | ISBN 0520074262 | PDF | 452 pages | 10.3 MB This is a copiously referenced, reasoned, articulate exploration into the sources of societies’ guidelines for citizens in modern liberal democracies when responding to perceived obligations, both intimate and distant. Wolfe highlights the paradox of lessening agreement on authority for setting moral rules at a time when awareness of humanity’s reciprocal responsibilities is growing.

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Jeanne Rosier Smith, “Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Fiction” Publisher: University of California Press | 1997 | ISBN 0520206568 | PDF | 156 pages | 10.1 MB Writing Tricksters examines the remarkable resurgence of tricksters–ubiquitous shape-shifters who dwell on borders, at crossroads, and between worlds–on the contemporary cultural and literary scene. Depicting a chaotic, multilingual world of colliding and overlapping cultures, many of America’s most successful and important women writers are writing tricksters.

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Christopher Rocco, “Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity (Classics and Contemporary Thought, 4)” Publisher: University of California Press | 1997 | ISBN 0520204948 | PDF | 199 pages | 10.3 MB Weaving together ancient Greek texts and postmodernist theory, Christopher Rocco addresses the debate between modernity and postmodernity that dominates contemporary theory. Interpreting Greek drama within a critical framework informed by contemporary theorists Foucault, Habermas, Horkheimer and Adorno, Tragedy and Enlightenment makes a sophisticated argument for the continuing relevance of the classical past, focusing on the subject of democracy. The starting point for Rocco’s analysis is the impasse in contemporary political and cultural theory over the possibility and desirability of democracy in a postmodern world

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Ernst Cassirer, Paul Oskar Kristeller, John Herman Randall Jr., “The Renaissance Philosophy of Man: Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, Vives” University Of Chicago Press | 1948 | ISBN: 0226096041, 1436713188, 1432561731 | 413 pages | PDF | 28,7 MB

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Lance Hill, “The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement”. Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | english | ISBN: 0807828475 | edition: 2004 | PDF | 400 Pages | 12 Mb In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization–the Deacons for Defense and Justice–to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence. With their largest and most famous chapter at the center of a bloody campaign in the Ku Klux Klan stronghold of Bogalusa, Louisiana, the Deacons became a popular symbol of the growing frustration with Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent strategy and a rallying point for a militant working-class movement in the South.

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Marylu Antonelli, “Pottery in Alberta: The Long Tradition”. Publisher: The University of Alberta Press | english | ISBN: 0888640234 | edition: 1978 | PDF | 198 Pages | 16 Mb A history of the pottery industry in Alberta, which began around the turn of the century in Medicine Hat, where clay deposits and natural gas were abundant. This is a dramatic story of temperamental entrepreneurs who were fierce rivals and who had fires, world wars, a depression, high freight rates and cheap imports to contend with.

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Robert J. Buck, “A History of Boeotia (Classical)”.

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Enquiring Children, Challenging Teaching By Max De Boo Publisher: Open University Press 1999 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0335200966 | PDF | 2 MB

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Applied Grammatology BY Professor Gregory L. Ulmer The Johns Hopkins University Press | 652 pages | 1 Nov 1984 | ISBN 0801832578 | PDF | 11 MB

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