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Our Shoes, Our Selves by Bridget Moynahan, Amanda Benchley
Our Shoes, Our Selves: 40 Women, 40 Stories, 40 Pairs of Shoes by Bridget Moynahan, Amanda Benchley
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Overview: Ask any woman about her favorite pair of shoes, and you’re sure to get an answer that goes beyond their material design. In Our Shoes, Our Selves: 40 Women, 40 Stories, 40 Pairs of Shoes, actress Bridget Moynahan and journalist Amanda Benchley ask 40 accomplished women to recount the memories behind their most meaningful pair of shoes. This collection features stories from icons like Bobbi Brown, Danica Patrick, and Misty Copeland to intrepid reporters like Christiane Amanpour and Katie Couric to creative forces like Rupi Kaur, Maya Lin, and Gretchen Rubin.
Beautifully illustrated with a portrait of each woman and her chosen shoes, the stories explore what most women already know: that what we wear can have power and significance beyond merely clothing our bodies. Our Shoes, Our Selves reveals these remarkable journeys, and the steps these inspiring women have taken to get there, with the hopes of encouraging all women to forge their own paths.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
Taking Our Own Side by Michael I. Polignano +
Taking Our Own Side by Michael I. Polignano
Requirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 1.4MB
Overview: MICHAEL J. POLIGNANO first came to national attention in 2000 when, as an undergraduate at Emory University, he ignited a storm of controversy by writing in the school newspaper about the scientifically established fact that racial differences are largely genetic. TAKING OUR OWN SIDE is a collection of 45 short essays, editorials, reviews, and satires. These lucidly written, carefully reasoned essays are profound, poignant, and occasionally prophetic. They are also sometimes brutally frank and hilariously funny. Michael Polignano shows how to make the most radical positions seductively reasonable. TAKING OUR OWN SIDE establishes him as one of the most compelling and versatile writers in the North American New Right.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational > Politics
Big History: Our Incredible Journey From Big Bang To Now by DK+
Big History: Our Incredible Journey From Big Bang To Now by DK Publishing, David Christian
Requirements: .PDF reader, 122.1 MB
Overview: Featuring a foreword by the father of Big History, David Christian, and produced in association with the Big History Institute, Big History provides a comprehensive understanding of the major events that have changed the nature and course of life on the planet we call home. This first fully integrated visual reference on Big History for general readers places humans in the context of our universe, from the Big Bang to virtual reality.
Why does the universe work the way it does? Why are stars so big? Why are humans so small? What does it mean to be human? Big History blends geology, biology, physics, anthropology, sociology, and so much more to tell one coherent story, taking us right back to our origins and exploring how a unique series of events led to and then impacted human existence: how everything came to be, where we fit in, and even where we are going. Graphics, artworks, timelines, and at-a-glance overviews make the causes and effects of pivotal events and major thresholds in Big History instantly accessible, and evidence features explain how we know what we know. An additional 64-page reference section provides a more conventional account of events in human history.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch [Audiobook]
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch [Audiobook]
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The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place In …
Our Lord Don Quixote by Miguel de Unamuno
Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote by Miguel de Unamuno
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Overview: This comprehensive edition in English begins with a volume on the theme of Don Quixote, the greater part of which is devoted to The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, followed by sixteen essays on diverse aspects of the Quixote motif.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
Tundra (Our Living World)
Tundra (Our Living World)
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Our Caribbean Kin: Race And Nation In …
Coffins on Our Shoulders by Dan Rabinowitz +
Coffins on Our Shoulders: The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel by Dan Rabinowitz
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Overview: This highly original historical and political analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict combines the unique perspectives of two prominent segments of the Middle Eastern puzzle: Israeli Jews and the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Written jointly by an Israeli anthropologist and a Palestinian family therapist born weeks apart to two families from Haifa, Coffins on Our Shoulders merges the personal and the political as it explores the various stages of the conflict, from the 1920s to the present. The authors weave vivid accounts and vignettes of family history into a sophisticated multidisciplinary analysis of the political drama that continues to unfold in the Middle East. Offering an authoritative inquiry into the traumatic events of October 2000, when thirteen Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed by Israeli police during political demonstrations, the book culminates in a radical and thought-provoking blueprint for reform that few in Israel, in the Arab world, and in the West can afford to ignore.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
A Writer Of Our Time: The Life …
The Canons of Our Fathers by Bentley Layton
The Canons of Our Fathers: Monastic Rules of Shenoute (Oxford Early Christian Studies) by Bentley Layton
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Overview: This book is the first publication of a very early collection of Christian monastic rules from Roman Egypt. Designed for the so-called White Monastery Federation, a community of monks and nuns who banded together about 360 CE, the rules are quoted by the great monastic leader Shenoute of Atripe in his writings of the fourth and fifth century. These rules provide new and intimate access to the earliest phases of Christian communal (cenobitic) monasticism.
In this volume, Bentley Layton presents for the first time the Coptic text of the rules, amounting to five hundred and ninety-five entries, accompanied by a clear and exact English translation. Four preliminary chapters discuss the character of the rules in their historical and social context, and present new evidence for the founding of the monastic federation. From passing remarks in the rules, Layton paints a brilliant picture of monastic daily life and ascetic practice, organized around six general topics: the monastery as a physical plant, the human makeup of the community, the pattern of ascetic observances, the hierarchy of authority, the daily liturgy, and monastic economic life. The Canons of Our Fathers will be a fundamental resource for readers interested in Christian life in late antiquity, ascetic practices, and the history of monasticism in all its forms.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
Our Cosmic Ancestry in the Stars by Chandra Wickramasinghe +
Our Cosmic Ancestry in the Stars: The Panspermia Revolution and the Origins of Humanity by Chandra Wickramasinghe, Kamala Wickramasinghe, Gensuke Tokoro
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Overview: An exploration of how acceptance of panspermia will soon change history
• Offers extensive scientific proof of panspermia-that life arose on Earth via comets and that evolution is seeded by viruses arriving via comets and interstellar dust
• Explores the major philosophical, psychological, cultural, religious, and environmental ramifications of the acceptance of this new scientific worldview
Mainstream consensus is that life arose on Earth spontaneously out of "primordial soup." Yet this theory, as well as the Darwinian "survival of the fittest" concept as it relates to major steps in evolution, has no scientific basis or proof. Where, then, did life come from? As the authors show, with conclusive scientific evidence, life came from space-a concept known as "panspermia." We humans, and all other life on Earth, evolved over millennia in response to viruses that arrived via comets, and we continue to do so.
Exploring the philosophical, psychological, cultural, and environmental ramifications of the acceptance of panspermia,the authors show how the shift will be on par with the Copernican Revolution-when it was finally accepted that the Earth was not the center of the Universe. Explaining the origins of the panspermia theory in the work of the late Sir Fred Hoyle, the authors reveal the vast body of evidence that has accumulated over the past 4 decades in favor of the cosmic origins of life, including viral inserts found in DNA that have shaped our human genome over millions of years. They show how the tiniest of viruses, microscopic animals (tardigrades), and even seeds have been found to be natural cosmonauts. The authors also show how space-borne viruses play a crucial role in the positive evolution of life and that our entire existence on this planet is contingent on the continuing ingress of cosmic viruses.
Revealing how panspermia offers answers to some of humanity’s longstanding questions about the origins of life, the authors discuss the impact this shift in understanding will have on our relationship with the Earth and on culture, history, and religion. And perhaps the most dramatic ramification of all is that acceptance of panspermia means acceptance that Earth is not unique-that other life-filled planets exist and intelligent life is common in the Universe. Not only did we come from space, but we are not alone.
Genre: Non-Fiction – Faith, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality –
