Free DownloadRob Stone, "The Routledge Companion to World Cinema "
English | ISBN: 1138918806 | 2017 | 522 pages | AZW3 | 15 MB
The Routledge Companion to World Cinema explores and examines a global range of films and filmmakers, their movements and audiences, comparing their cultural, technological and political dynamics, identifying the impulses that constantly reshape the form and function of the cinemas of the world. Each of the forty chapters provides a survey of a topic, explaining why the issue or area is important, and critically discussing the leading views in the area. Designed as a dynamic forum for forty world-leading scholars, this companion contains significant expertise and insight and is dedicated to challenging complacent views of hegemonic film cultures and replacing outmoded ideas about production, distribution and reception. It offers both a survey and an investigation into the condition and activity of contemporary filmmaking worldwide, often challenging long-standing categories and weighted―often politically motivated―value judgements, thereby grounding and aligning the reader in an activity of remapping which is designed to prompt rethinking.
Free DownloadA Companion to Applied Philosophy of AI (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9781394238637 | 456 pages | PDF | 3.14 MB
Free DownloadLars Schmeink, "The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture "
English | ISBN: 1032083328 | 2021 | 474 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB
In this companion, an international range of contributors examine the cultural formation of cyberpunk from micro-level analyses of example texts to macro-level debates of movements, providing readers with snapshots of cyberpunk culture and also cyberpunk as culture.
Free DownloadAndrew Hofer OP, "The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Sermons "
English | ISBN: 1009073168 | 2025 | 364 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Augustine of Hippo is known for some of the greatest theological masterpieces in Christian history, notably, his Confessions, The Trinity, and The City of God. Over 900 of his sermons, a treasure trove of his insights into God, Scripture, and humanity, have also survived. Given the wide dissemination of many of these texts over the past 1600 years, Augustine is arguably the most influential preacher since the time of the apostles. In recent decades, scholars have paid more attention to his sermons, including those newly discovered, with the result that Augustine’s preaching has become increasingly accessible to a broad audience. The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Sermons furthers this work by offering essays from an international team of experts. It provides a reliable guide for scholars and students of early Christian biblical exegesis, liturgy, doctrine, social practices, and homiletics, as well as for those dedicated to the retrieval of early preaching for the Church today.
Free DownloadAkshaya Companion: Nothing Moves
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9798231529384 | 92 pages | EPUB (True) | 2.56 MB
The "Akshaya Companion: Nothing Moves" challenges our most fundamental intuitions about reality. Delving into modern physics and neuroscience, this book rigorously explores how Einstein’s General Relativity, a theory overwhelmingly supported by empirical evidence, implies a universe that is, at its core, utterly static. It explains how concepts like movement, change, and causality are reinterpreted as fixed geometric patterns within a four-dimensional spacetime block. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience from researchers like Anil Seth and Lisa Feldman Barrett, the book then unveils how the human brain, itself a static 4D structure, constructs our vivid subjective experience of a dynamic, flowing reality, including the illusions of time’s passage and apparent motion. This work offers a profound scientific enlightenment, meticulously distinguishing between objective, static reality and our intricately built perception.
