The Dogma of Christ & Other Essays on Religion, Psychology & Culture book pdf download

Size of file : 2.06MB
Number of Pages : 200
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Department : literature
Auther : Eric Fromm
Language : English
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Section : Articles

Author: Eric Fromm

About the Author: German-American psychologist and humanist philosopher, born in Frankfurt – Germany on March 23, 1900. He immigrated to the United States of America in 1934 From his works: Fear of Freedom (1941) Psychoanalysis and Religion (1950) The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to Understanding Dreams, Fairytales, and Myths (1951) The Rational Society (1955) Sigmund Freud’s Letter: An Analysis of His Character and Influence (1959) The Psychoanalytic Crisis: Essays on Freud, Marx, and Social Psychology (1970) Anatomy of Man’s Destructive Propensity (1973) He also edited books, by various writers on Zen Buddhism Marx’s concept of man and others Fromm died on March 23, 1980.

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When he was 26, the great psychoanalyst and philosopher Erich Fromm abandoned Judaism, though he himself was descended from a long line of rabbis and the product of a devout Jewish upbringing. The title essay of this collection was first published in 1930, just four years after he made that first, decisive split. It was to point towards the future Fromm’s work, presenting the view that an understanding of basic human needs is essential to the understanding of society and mankind itself. The following essays too, show a man who would eventually establish himself as a major thinker, producing some of that era’s most influential and astute political works.

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New York Revisited book pdf download

Size of file : 12.2MB
Section : Articles
book quality : Good
Department : literature
Number of Pages : 77
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Auther : Henry James
Language : English

Author: Henry James

About the Author: Henry James is a British-American author. He is the founder and leader of the realism school of fiction, his brilliant work has led many academics to consider him the greatest master of the fiction style. He spent most of his life in England and his works became public news shortly before his death. Henry is particularly famous for a series of novels depicting the meeting between America and Europe, and his novels focus on personal relationships, the appropriate test of strength in such relationships. Raising ethical questions, and his method of writing from a personal point of view gave him the opportunity to explore the phenomenon of consciousness and concept. Which made his style of writing compared to the school of impressionism in painting.

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In New York Revisited, first published in Harper’s Monthly Magazine in 1906, Henry James describes turn-of-the-century New York in vivid detail. Although written in 1904-1905, when James returned to the U.S. after living abroad for more than 20 years, the essay is as pertinent today as it was 100 years ago. The text appears as it was originally published and is enhanced with period illustrations and photographs. Beautifully bound and with a spectacular view of the Flatiron building on the cover, this book is a literary treasure.

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Letters to Architects book pdf download

Language : English
Number of Pages : 234
Section : Articles
Department : literature
Size of file : 11.6MB
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Auther : Frank Lloyd Wright
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Author: Frank Lloyd Wright

About the Author: Born in 1869 in Richland Center, Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the leading and early architects of the first half of the twentieth century. So far, it is the most famous in American history and is still known to both the public and the specialists. He spent most of his childhood on the farm of his mother, the chief instigator, in addition to his creative talent in his architectural formation. In 1884, he joined the University of Wisconsin, where he wanted to specialize in architecture, but this major was not present at the University of Wisconsin and his financial conditions did not enable him to join another university, so he spent years From his life studying technical engineering, then he got tired of that and left it, so he headed to Chicago to look for work, and there he was fortunate to find a job with one of the largest construction companies for a salary of no more than eight dollars per week.

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We who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin always called him “Mr. Wright.” When he spoke to us, his apprentices, he addressed us by our first names, reflecting respect on the one hand and affection on the other. Because I knew him during the last ten years of his lifetime as Mr. Wright, it would now, some twenty-five years later, be impossible for me to refer to him, write about him, or speak of him, with any other name than that which I employed during my first decade at Taliesin.

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Creativity book pdf download

Department : literature
Number of Pages : 298
Size of file : 2.79MB
Language : English
Section : Articles
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
book quality : Good
Auther : Adam Grant

Author: Adam Grant

About the Author: Adam Grant is an American psychologist and author who is currently a Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology. He was born in West Bloomfield, Michigan on August 13, 1981 to a lawyer father and a teacher mother. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Grant has been involved in jump diving and aspires to become a growing professional basketball player. During his high school, he was named All-American in 1999 in diving. He secured an academic position at the age of 28, making him the youngest Wharton professor. He received a Bachelor’s degree. from Harvard College, MA. and Ph.D. Certificates from the University of Michigan in Organizational Psychology. He worked as a professional magician during college.

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Does your organization support creativity—or squash it? If you read nothing else on cultivating creativity at work, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you ignite the creative spark across your organization. This book will inspire you to: Discover the elements of creativity and learn how to influence them Harness the creative potential of a diverse team Encourage curiosity and experimentation Avoid breakdowns in creative collaboration Overcome the fear that blocks your innate creativity Bring breakthrough ideas to life

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Essays on the Quality of Life book pdf download

Number of Pages : 493
book quality : Excellent
Section : Articles
Language : English
Auther : Alex Michalos
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Department : literature
Size of file : 8.18MB

Author: Alex Michalos

About the Author: Alexandros Charles Michalos (born August 1, 1935) is a Canadian political scientist and philosopher known for his work in quality of life research. He is professor emeritus of political science and former chancellor at the University of Northern British Columbia, where he served as the founding director of the Institute for Social Research and Evaluation. Before joining the University of Northern British Columbia, he taught at the University of Guelph from 1966 to 1994. He served as senior research advisor to the Canadian Index of Wellbeing, and continues to serve as a member of their Canadian Research Advisory Group. He served as president of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies from 1999 to 2000. He is the founder or co-founder of seven peer-reviewed academic journals, and as of 2010, still served as editor-in-chief of one of them: the Journal of Business Ethics. He was named a member of the Order of Canada in 2010.

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Since initiating the journal Social Indicators Research in 1974, Alex C. Michalos has been a pioneer in social indicators and quality-of-life research. This collection of nineteen articles provides an overview of nearly 30 years of work, including papers drawn from diverse sources and papers never published before. Topics range over quality of life investigations connected to the problems of combining social, economic and environmental indicators, measuring the status of women in Canada, housing and migration, health and human well-being, older peoples’ well-being, leisure activities and health, impact of public services, police services, criminal victimization, feminism and ethnic relations on the quality of life. The final paper, on multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), is the author’s unique contribution to an empirically testable new foundation for theories of utility, satisfaction and happiness.

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Practical Tortoise Raising: and Other Philosophical Essays book pdf download

Auther : Simon Blackburn
Number of Pages : 175
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Section : Articles
Department : literature
book quality : Excellent
Size of file : 5.06MB
Language : English

Author: Simon Blackburn

About the Author: Simon Blackburn FBA is an English academic philosopher known for his work in metaethics, where he defends quasi-realism, and in the philosophy of language; more recently, he has gained a large general audience from his efforts to popularise philosophy. He retired as the professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge in 2011, but remains a distinguished research professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, teaching every fall semester. He is also a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a member of the professoriate of New College of the Humanities. He was previously a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford and has also taught full-time at the University of North Carolina as an Edna J. Koury Professor. He is a former president of the Aristotelian Society, having served the 2009–2010 term. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2002 and a Foreign Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2008.

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Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of various problems which arise when such familiar notions as representation, truth, reason, and assertion are applied in the sphere of practical thought. It is puzzling how our thinking gets to grip with such things as values and norms. Blackburn explores how we can try to understand what we say in terms of what we are doing when we say it. He investigates how propositions interact with linguistic expressions whose primary function is identified in terms of actions performed in expressing commitments with them, when those commitments are thought of in practical rather than descriptive terms. He broadens his investigation from semantic questions to wider issues of pluralism, pragmatism, philosophy of mind, and the nature of practical reasoning.

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Temptation in the Archives: Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture book pdf download

Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Language : English
Department : literature
Number of Pages : 162
Size of file : 1.42MB
Section : Articles
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Auther : Lisa Jardine

Author: Lisa Jardine

About the Author: Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) was a British historian of the early modern period. From 1990 to 2011 she was Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London. Since 2008 she was Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)] She was a Member of Council of the Royal Institution, but resigned from that post in September 2009. On 1 September 2012, She relocated with her research centre and its staff to University College London (UCL) to become the first director of its Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities.

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Temptation in the Archives is a collection of essays by Lisa Jardine, that takes readers on a journey through the Dutch Golden Age. Through the study of such key figures as Sir Constantjin Huygens, a Dutch polymath and diplomat, we begin to see the Anglo-Dutch cultural connections that formed during this period against the backdrop of unfolding political events in England. Temptation in the Archives paints a picture of a unique relationship between the Netherlands and England in the 17th century forged through a shared experience – and reveals the lessons we can learn from it today.

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Untimely Tracts book pdf download

Language : English
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Section : Articles
Department : literature
Auther : Roger Scruton
book quality : Excellent
Number of Pages : 283
Size of file : 25.4MB

Author: Roger Scruton

About the Author: Roger Scruton who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both inside and outside the academic world, he dedicated himself to nurturing beauty, “re-enchanting the world” and giving intellectual rigour to conservatism. He wrote more than 50 books, including perceptive works on Spinoza, Kant, Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy, and four novels, as well as columns on wine, hunting and current affairs, and was a talented pianist and composer. A member of the traditionalist-conservative Salisbury Group, he helped found the Salisbury Review, which he edited from 1982 to 2001. This quarterly, which was circulated in the Soviet bloc, often in samizdat form, was criticised in Britain for having retrograde attitudes. In 1984 it defended Ray Honeyford, the Bradford headteacher who had disputed the value of multicultural education. Consequent hostility from colleagues prompted Scruton to abandon in 1992 his professorship in aesthetics at what is now Birkbeck, University of London, where he had started as a lecturer in 1971. Though he felt this had scuppered his academic career, in the event it freed him for activities and adventures on a wider stage.

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The following articles, written for The Times over a period of four years, consist of reflections, outbursts and exhortations on subjects which, with two exceptions, I chose myself. (The two exceptions are the short essays on Sisson and Hayek, commissioned by the editor.) The purpose of a newspaper column is neither to argue from first principles nor to engage in debate, but to present, as briefly as possible, a distinct point of view. For a variety of reasons, the outlook expressed in these articles is unfashionable and could be made tolerable to its critics only by a long arid mild-mannered argument, of a kind that has no place in a daily newspaper. I do not deny the need for such an argument; but, in reprinting these untimely thoughts, I reaffirm the conviction that gave rise to them – namely, that opinions which are out of fashion may nonetheless be true. I am extremely grateful to the late editor of The Times, Charles Douglas-Home, for tolerating, and to the then features editor, Peter Stothard, for first commissioning, utterances which have been so widely disapproved. I am also grateful to the many readers who sent messages of encouragement and for whose sake I have prepared this volume for the press. The articles are reprinted by kind permission of Times Newspapers Limited.

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Confissões de um herético book pdf download

Number of Pages : 152
Language : Portuguese
Auther : Roger Scruton
Size of file : 1.72MB
Section : Articles
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
book quality : Excellent
Department : literature

Author: Roger Scruton

About the Author: Roger Scruton who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both inside and outside the academic world, he dedicated himself to nurturing beauty, “re-enchanting the world” and giving intellectual rigour to conservatism. He wrote more than 50 books, including perceptive works on Spinoza, Kant, Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy, and four novels, as well as columns on wine, hunting and current affairs, and was a talented pianist and composer. A member of the traditionalist-conservative Salisbury Group, he helped found the Salisbury Review, which he edited from 1982 to 2001. This quarterly, which was circulated in the Soviet bloc, often in samizdat form, was criticised in Britain for having retrograde attitudes. In 1984 it defended Ray Honeyford, the Bradford headteacher who had disputed the value of multicultural education. Consequent hostility from colleagues prompted Scruton to abandon in 1992 his professorship in aesthetics at what is now Birkbeck, University of London, where he had started as a lecturer in 1971. Though he felt this had scuppered his academic career, in the event it freed him for activities and adventures on a wider stage.

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Esta coletânea de artigos é fruto de uma década de engajamento com a cultura britânica e norte-americana. Alguns foram publicados em papel, outros na internet, outros ainda estão sendo apresentados ao público pela primeira vez aqui. Descrevo-os como confissões, uma que vez revelam aspectos de meu pensamento que, caso as palavras de meus críticos sejam levadas a sério, deveriam ter sido mantidos em segredo. Compilei material de cunho acadêmico e me esforcei para incluir somente artigos que lidam com assuntos que interessam a qualquer pessoa inteligente, nos tempos voláteis em que vivemos. Roger Scruton

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Confessions of a Heretic: Selected Essays book pdf download

Department : literature
Language : English
Auther : Roger Scruton
Size of file : 1.03MB
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
book quality : Excellent
Section : Articles
Number of Pages : 125

Author: Roger Scruton

About the Author: Roger Scruton who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both inside and outside the academic world, he dedicated himself to nurturing beauty, “re-enchanting the world” and giving intellectual rigour to conservatism. He wrote more than 50 books, including perceptive works on Spinoza, Kant, Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy, and four novels, as well as columns on wine, hunting and current affairs, and was a talented pianist and composer. A member of the traditionalist-conservative Salisbury Group, he helped found the Salisbury Review, which he edited from 1982 to 2001. This quarterly, which was circulated in the Soviet bloc, often in samizdat form, was criticised in Britain for having retrograde attitudes. In 1984 it defended Ray Honeyford, the Bradford headteacher who had disputed the value of multicultural education. Consequent hostility from colleagues prompted Scruton to abandon in 1992 his professorship in aesthetics at what is now Birkbeck, University of London, where he had started as a lecturer in 1971. Though he felt this had scuppered his academic career, in the event it freed him for activities and adventures on a wider stage.

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Hard-hitting essays by acclaimed social commentator and philosopher Roger Scruton, guaranteed to provoke lively debate A wide-ranging selection that includes essays on architecture and modern art, the environment, politics, and culture. Each “confession” reveals aspects of the author’s thinking that his critics would probably have advised him to keep to himself. Roger Scruton challenges popular opinion on key aspects of our society: What can we do to protect Western values against Islamic extremism? How can we nurture real friendship in the digital age of social media and Facebook? How should we achieve a timely death against the advances of modern medicine? How should environmental policies be shaped by the government? This provocative collection seeks to answer the most pressing problems of our age.

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