The Lost Ark of the Covenant: The Remarkable Story of How the Fabled Ark Was Found by Tudor ParfittRequirements: .PDF reader, 3.5mbOverview: "The Lost Ark of the Covenant" is the real-life account of an astounding quest–professor Tudor Parfitt’s effort to recover the revered artifact that contained the Ten Commandments, sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.This […]
Reasons and Persons by Derek ParfitRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 798.7 MBOverview: Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us […]
Pursuing Happiness: A Bedford Spotlight Reader, Second Edition by Matthew Parfitt, Dawn SkorczewskiRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3 MBOverview: Pursuing Happiness: A Bedford Spotlight Reader explores questions around the central concept of what makes us happy: What is the psychology of happiness? Can we make or buy our own happiness? How should we question what makes us […]
The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Historiography, Resistance by Rose ParfittRequirements: .PDF reader, 5 MBOverview: That all states are free and equal under international law is axiomatic to the discipline. Yet even a brief look at the dynamics of the international order calls that axiom into question. Mobilising fresh archival research and drawing on […]
Hybrid Hate: Conflations of Antisemitism & Anti-Black Racism from the Renaissance to the Third Reich by Tudor ParfittRequirements: .ePUB reader, 15.6 MBOverview: Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked together for centuries as peoples apart from the […]