The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality by Angela SainiRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 301 MBOverview: A groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it. For centuries, prominent thinkers have treated male domination among humans as natural or inevitable. But how would our understanding of gender inequality—our […]
Patriarchs on Paper: A Critical History of Medieval Chan Literature, by Alan Cole (2016)Requirements: .PDF reader, 2.21mbOverview: The truth of Chan Buddhism—better known as “Zen”—is regularly said to be beyond language, and yet Chan authors—medieval and modern—produced an enormous quantity of literature over the centuries. To make sense of this well-known paradox, Patriarchs on Paper […]
Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination by Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. OnufRequirements: .MP3 reader, 394 MBOverview: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed teams up with the country’s leading Jefferson scholar, Peter S. Onuf, to present an absorbing and revealing character study that finally clarifies the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson.Tracing […]
Patriarchs and Prophets by Ellen Gould WhiteRequirements: .ePUB reader, 859 KBOverview: This book treats upon the themes of Bible history—themes not in themselves new, but so presented here as to give them a new significance. Beginning with the rebellion in heaven, the author shows why sin was permitted, why Satan was not destroyed, and why […]
Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination by Annette Gordon-Reed & Peter S. OnufRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 6.77 MBOverview: Thomas Jefferson is often portrayed as a hopelessly enigmatic figure—a riddle—a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible to know. Lauded as the most articulate voice of […]