Nature and History in Modern Italy
Title | Nature and History in Modern Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Marco Armiero |
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2010-08-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0821419161 |
Marco Armiero is Senior Researcher at the Italian National Research Council and Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies, Universitat Aut(noma de Barcelona. He has published extensively on-Italian environmental history and edited Views from the South: Environmental Stories from the Mediterranean World. --
Amorum Emblemata
Title | Amorum Emblemata PDF eBook |
Author | Otto van Veen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
The introduction places the collection in the context of Veen's emblematic oeuvre, and considers the book's contribution to the Dutch love-emblem tradition.
Present Past
Title | Present Past PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Terdiman |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 405 |
Release | 2018-05-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 150171760X |
This book is about memory—about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cultural theories have sought to understand it, and have striven to represent its stresses.
Reformation of Islamic Thought
Title | Reformation of Islamic Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 905356828X |
After September 11, Islam became nearly synonymous with fundamentalism in the eyes of Western media and literature. However widely held this view may be, it is at odds with Islam’s rich political history. Renowned Egyptian scholar Nasr Abû Zayd here considers the full breadth of contemporary Muslim writings to examine the diverse political, religious, and cultural views that inform discourse in the Islamic world. Reformation of Islamic Thought explores the writings of intellectuals from Egypt to Iran to Indonesia, probing their efforts to expand Islam beyond traditional and legalistic interpretations. Zayd reveals that many Muslim thinkers advocate culturally enlightened Islam with an emphasis on individual faith. He then investigates the extent of these Muslim reformers’ success in generating an authentic renewal of Islamic ideology, asking if such thinkers have escaped the traditionalist trap of presenting a negative image to the West. A fascinating and highly relevant study for our times, Reformation of Islamic Thought is an essential analysis of Islam’s present and future.
My Friend Ché
Title | My Friend Ché PDF eBook |
Author | Ricardo Rojo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Guerrillas |
ISBN |
An Argentine lawyer, friend of the late Guevara, writes of his involvement in Latin American revolutions.
The Hermeneutical Spiral
Title | The Hermeneutical Spiral PDF eBook |
Author | Grant R. Osborne |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 625 |
Release | 2010-01-25 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830878777 |
In this revised and expanded edition, Grant Osborne provides seminary students and working pastors with the full set of tools they need to travel the hermeneutical spiral—moving from sound exegesis to the development of biblical and systematic theologies and to the preparation of sound, biblical sermons.
The Man Who Made Vermeers
Title | The Man Who Made Vermeers PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Lopez |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 0547247842 |
It's a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: A lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge Vermeers, one of which he sold to Hermann Goering in mockery of the Nazis. And it's a story that's been believed ever since. Too bad it isn't true. Jonathan Lopez has drawn on never-before-seen documents from dozens of archives to write a revelatory new biography of the world's most famous forger. Neither unappreciated artist nor antifascist hero, Van Meegeren emerges as an ingenious, dyed-in-the-wool crook--a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush. Lopez explores a network of illicit commerce that operated across Europe: Not only was Van Meegeren a key player in that high-stakes game in the 1920s and '30s, landing fakes with famous collectors such as Andrew Mellon, but he and his associates later cashed in on the Nazi occupation. The Man Who Made Vermeers is a long-overdue unvarnishing of Van Meegeren's legend and a deliciously detailed story of deceit in the art world.