Вы используете устаревший браузер. Этот и другие сайты могут отображаться в нём некорректно. Вам необходимо обновить браузер или попробовать использовать другой.
Collection Download Ebooks Best Seller Updated Daily
Regenerative Design: New Contexts, New Visions, Emerging Practices and Perspectives
by Carlos Cobreros, Emanuele Giorgi
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031768892 | 493 Pages | True ePUB | 129 MB
This book aims to provide bases for reasoning on what opportunities the regenerative approaches to urban-architectural design and development can bring to our territories and living systems (environment, society, city and learning). It collects research, experiences and considerations from experts that present innovations from different contexts, especially from the Latin-Mediterranean context. The goal of this book is to provide the reader with case studies, analysis and guidelines, resulting from scientific research from academia and practice. The book collects research focused on topics that are nowadays crucial to understand how to intervene in the complicated contexts of socio-environmental emergencies. These studies are organized into seven sections, discussing from the importance of new narrative facing future environmental challenges, to the appropriate methodologies and approaches for regenerative culture with systemic view. The book closes with outputs, dreams and hopes of regenerative design: challenges and opportunities to rewrite our alliance with the environment and to move forward our relation with the socio-environmental capital.
Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi, "Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa: Five Decades of Misrule "
English | ISBN: 0415534089 | 2012 | 296 pages | EPUB | 467 KB
Bringing together scholars from a wide array of disciplines - including anthropology, economics, history, sociology, and political science - this volume addresses the problems of the regime change and state failure in Africa in the context of the global economy, but from a specifically African perspective, arguing that the underdevelopment of the African economy is linked to the underdevelopment of the continents' nation states.
Regulating Older Drivers : Are New Policies Needed? By David S. Loughran; Seth A. Seabury; Laura Zakaras
2007 | 39 Pages | ISBN: 0833041940 | PDF | 1 MB
Are older drivers posing an increasing risk to the public? If they are, what options should policymakers consider to mitigate that risk? This research offers a new perspective on these questions. Using an innovative approach to estimate the extent to which older drivers are on the road and their riskiness compared with drivers of other age groups, the study finds that older drivers (those 65 and older) are slightly (16 percent) likelier than drivers aged 25 to 64 to cause an accident and that they pose much less risk to the public than do drivers aged 15 to 24, who are nearly three times likelier than older drivers to cause an accident. However, because of their greater frailty, older drivers are much likelier than other drivers to be seriously injured or killed when involved in an accident. In light of these findings, the authors find little support for the idea that stricter licensing policies targeting older drivers would substantially improve traffic safety.
Rehearsing : Critical Connections for the Instrumental Music Conductor By John F. Colson
2015 | 231 Pages | ISBN: 144225078X | EPUB | 1 MB
Following on the heels of his Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble, John F. Colson takes students to the next level in conducting practice with Rehearsing: Critical Connections for the Instrumental Music Conductor. Colson draws together the critical connections for those seeking to become fully capable and self-assured instrumental music conductors. As he argues, too often conductor training programs treat the problems and challenges of the rehearsal--perhaps the single most critical element in any effort to achieve competency as a conductor--as secondary. Colson supplies the missing link for conductors looking for advice that allows them to complete their training for reaching complete competency as a conductor. He demonstrates throughout the specific connections that the advanced conductor must know and regularly employ--connections that few, if any, other works on the art of conducting address or bring together. One connection, for example, illustrates the joining of music imagery, inner singing, and conducting technique to score study. Throughout, these connections describe the nitty-gritty of what it really takes to stand up in front of an instrumental music ensemble and successfully rehearse in order to achieve its highest performance level. Also, Colson argues and demonstrates the pitfalls of the commonly mistaken assumption among instrumental music conductors that score study alone is sufficient to prepare them for the rehearsal process. This grave error is regularly belied by the fact that a number of other steps precede the actual rehearsal process, from the use of instrumental pedagogy during the rehearsal process to teaching through performance concepts. Colson's work addresses the entire rehearsing process thoroughly and authoritatively.
Reinforcement Learning for Trading: Build Intelligent Agents with Python and AI - A Comprehensive Guide for 2025 by James Preston, Reactive Publishing, Alice Schwartz
English | April 14, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0F51C5ZPK | 512 pages | EPUB | 0.73 Mb
Reactive Publishing
Step beyond traditional algorithmic trading-into the realm of true machine intelligence.
In this groundbreaking guide, James Preston empowers you to build trading agents that learn, adapt, and thrive in dynamic markets using Reinforcement Learning (RL). Whether you're a quant, data scientist, or ambitious retail trader, this book gives you the tools to implement cutting-edge AI that thinks like a trader-and evolves like one.Inside, you'll master:The foundations of RL: Q-learning, Policy Gradients, and Actor-Critic methodsDesigning trading environments with OpenAI Gym-style simulationsBuilding and training deep RL agents using TensorFlow & PyTorchReal-world market applications: position sizing, momentum strategies, and risk-aware decision-makingBacktesting RL agents vs. traditional algos for performance benchmarksOnline learning loops that adapt to changing volatility and macro regimesThis is more than theory. It's a practical blueprint for developing intelligent, autonomous trading strategies using the most powerful AI framework available today.
Whether you're developing institutional-grade systems or pioneering the frontier of retail automation-this book is your launchpad.
Reinventing Los Angeles : Nature and Community in the Global City By Robert Gottlieb
2007 | 441 Pages | ISBN: 0262072874 | EPUB | 1 MB
Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable city.
Relationship-Oriented Sustainability Marketing: Concepts, Challenges, and Opportunities
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031883489 | 383 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB
This book explores sustainability marketing through the lens of stakeholder relationship-related concepts, with a particular focus on stakeholders within global value chains, relationships with the public, and those affiliated with governmental entities. Addressing a perceived gap in the current literature, the chapters delineate contemporary challenges and propose potential solutions for each stakeholder group, prioritizing the strategic and cross-instrumental dimensions. Offering a comprehensive examination of relationship-oriented sustainability marketing in the contemporary landscape, this work will acquaint researchers with the challenges related to stakeholder engagement in sustainability marketing and advance scholarship on effectively managing stakeholder relationships.
Reliability Engineering and Computational Intelligence for Complex Systems: Design, Analysis and Evaluation (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 496) by Coen van Gulijk, Elena Zaitseva, Miroslav Kvassay
English | September 24, 2023 | ISBN: 3031409965 | 233 pages | MOBI | 19 Mb
This book offers insight into the current issues of the merger between reliability engineering and computational intelligence. The intense development of information technology allows for designing more complex systems as well as creating more detailed models of real-world systems which forces traditional reliability engineering approaches based on Boolean algebra, probability theory, and statistics to embrace the world of data science. The works deal with methodological developments as well as applications in the development of safe and reliable systems in various kinds of distribution networks, in the development of highly reliable healthcare systems, in finding weaknesses in systems with the human factor, or in reliability analysis of large information systems and other software solutions.
In this book, experts from various fields of reliability engineering and computational intelligence present their view on the risks, the opportunities and the synergy between reliability engineering and computational intelligence that have been developed separately but in recent years have found a way to each other. The topics addressed include the latest advances in computing technology to improve the real lives of millions of people by increasing safety and reliability of various types of real-life systems by increasing the availability of software services, reducing the accident rate of means of transport, developing high reliable patient-specific health care, or generally, save cost and increase efficiency in the work and living environment. Though this book, the reader has access to professionals and researchers in the fields of reliability engineering and computational intelligence that share their experience in merging the two as well as an insight into the latest methods, concerns and application domains.
Religion and Sustainability : Social Movements and the Politics of the Environment By Lucas F. Johnston
2014 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 1908049820 | EPUB | 1 MB
Sustainability is now key to international and national policy, manufacture and consumption. It is also central to many individuals who try to lead environmentally ethical lives. Historically, religion has been a significant part of many visions of sustainability. Pragmatically, the inclusion of religious values in conservation and development efforts has facilitated relationships between people with different value structures. Despite this, little attention has been paid to the interdependence of sustainability and religion, and no significant comparisons of religious and secular sustainability advocacy. Religion and Sustainability presents the first broad analysis of the spiritual dimensions of sustainability-oriented social movements. Exploring the similarities and differences between the conceptions of sustainability held by religious, interfaith and secular organizations, the book analyses how religious practice and discourse have impacted on political ideology and process.
Margee Ensign, "Religion in War and Peace in Africa"
English | ISBN: 0367465787 | 2020 | 100 pages | EPUB | 750 KB
Religion in War and Peace in Africa shows how "Religious extremism" transcends the realm of belief, analysing current armed conflicts in Africa with perpetrators claiming to act in accord with their religion and moral values.
Many African countries today are beset by armed conflicts carried out by different radical groups. In most such cases, religion has been used to incite extremism and to justify violence and exclusion. Perpetrators who seek to violently impose their "order" believe, or claim, that they are acting in accord with their religious and values. Scholars, peacemakers, Religious leaders, and Military officers explore peace initiatives and security managements. These rich, informative and path-breaking contributions in this book span the spectrum from the prevention of violence through peace initiatives and the analyses of the many complex historical, political, economic, demographic and ideological causes of violence to the role of traditional religions, and military intervention.
Read more
Kennet Granholm, "Religion, Media, and Social Change "
English | ISBN: 041574282X | 2014 | 222 pages | EPUB | 603 KB
In an era of heightened globalization, macro-level transformations in the general socioeconomic and cultural makeup of modern societies have been studied in great depth. Yet little attention has been paid to the growing influence of media and mass-mediated popular culture on contemporary religious sensibilities, life, and practice. Religion, Media, and Social Change explores the correlation between the study of religion, media, and popular culture and broader sociological theorizing on religious change. Contributions devote serious attention to broadly-defined media including technologies, institutions, and social and cultural environments, as well as mass-mediated popular culture such as film, music, television, and computer games. This interdisciplinary collection addresses important theoretical and methodological questions by connecting the study of media and popular culture to current perspectives, approaches, and discussions in the broader sociological study of religion.
Remixing the Church : Towards an Emerging Ecclesiology By Doug Gay
2014 | 151 Pages | ISBN: 0334043964 | PDF | 1 MB
Doug Gay seeks to identify and evaluate what goes on in the emerging church and how it relates to other developments of the twentieth and twenty-first century church.
Removing College Price Barriers : What Government Has Done and Why It Hasn't Worked By Michael Mumper
1995 | 257 Pages | ISBN: 0791427048 | PDF | 1 MB
Presents the political, economic, and demographic factors that interact to produce and perpetuate increasing college price barriers.The dream of college education is one of the central aspirations of American families and the cost of college is one of their central concerns. Removing College Price Barriers explores federal and state governmental efforts to achieve universal college affordability, and explains why those efforts have failed so badly. Mumper provides a comprehensive overview of trends in college finance from 1965 to the present. He chronicles how the creation of the federal student aid programs, coupled with increasing state support of higher education, substantially lowered college price barriers during the late 1960s and 1970s. Since 1980, however, the rising costs of providing a higher education have combined with stable state support to drive tuitions rapidly upward. Simultaneously, the federal government began shifting a larger portion of student aid funds away from grants to lower income students toward loans to middle and upper income students. The result is that students are forced to finance a greater portion of their larger college costs. This analysis concludes with an evaluation of several plans to reform the college finance system including the new direct lending program, high tuition/high aid funding strategies, and expanded repayment options, including national service. Drawing from the best of each of these ideas, the book outlines a plan to make the existing programs better achieve their original purpose by targeting more aid to the most needy students.Michael Mumper is Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio University.
Leander E. Keck, "Renewing New Testament Christology"
English | ISBN: 1506493769 | 2023 | 201 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Advocating New Testament Christology as a historically informed theological enterprise readily suggests the book's two-part structure: the treatment of the four Christologies in Part Two is warranted by the arguments in Part One, whose first chapter neither surveys nor summarizes the history of research but instead presents a historically informed argument about the impact of "history" on Christology. The second chapter provides a crisp formal statement of Christology's task as the clue to its nature. Christology's logic-its reasoning-is especially important, for it accounts for the way Jesus's religious significance is grounded in his relation to God.
In Part Two, the approach outlined in the second chapter of Part One is applied to two Gospels (Matthew and John) and two Epistles (Romans and Hebrews). These four chapters can be read in any sequence because their order is not part of the argument. Simply juxtaposing these chapters allows each voice to be heard in its own register. Part Two shuns talking of New Testament Christology's "unity" (sometimes a mischievous word) without thereby doubting that the New Testament's diverse Christologies also share certain ways of thinking, expressed in differing words.
Read more
Clare Rosoman, "Repairing Attachment Injuries in Close Relationships"
English | ISBN: 1032738766 | 2024 | 236 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
This book is an essential guide for those who have experienced an attachment injury in an important relationship and are struggling to process their hurt and betrayal or to imagine rebuilding the trust in this precious bond.
Dr Clare Rosoman guides readers on a path towards healing and recovery, informed by attachment science and emotionally focused therapy. Viewing close relationships as attachment bonds, this book examines betrayal and how these painful events can create an "attachment injury," which redefines the relationship bond as insecure. It offers strategies for healing relationships and restoring security in connection, and looks at many different types of attachment injuries including those that can happen in monogamous or non-monogamous relationships. As Rosoman suggests, relationships can emerge even stronger after being rocked by broken trust.
Read more
Repairing Attachment Injuries in Close Relationships: An Emotionally Focused Guide to Moving Beyond Betrayal
by Clare Rosoman
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032738766 | 237 Pages | True PDF | 18 MB
This book is an essential guide for those who have experienced an attachment injury in an important relationship and are struggling to process their hurt and betrayal or to imagine rebuilding the trust in this precious bond.
Dr Clare Rosoman guides readers on a path towards healing and recovery, informed by attachment science and emotionally focused therapy. Viewing close relationships as attachment bonds, this book examines betrayal and how these painful events can create an "attachment injury," which redefines the relationship bond as insecure. It offers strategies for healing relationships and restoring security in connection, and looks at many different types of attachment injuries including those that can happen in monogamous or non-monogamous relationships. As Rosoman suggests, relationships can emerge even stronger after being rocked by broken trust.
This book is a vital resource for therapists looking to facilitate healing and growth in their clients in individual, couple, or family therapy, as well as for individuals seeking an encouraging self-help resource.
Reproductive Acts : Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film By Heather Latimer
2013 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 0773541578 | EPUB | 1 MB
Forty years after Roe v. Wade, it is evident that the ideologies of "choices" and "rights," which have publicly framed reproductive politics in North America since the landmark legal decision, have been inadequate in making sense of the topic's complexities. In Reproductive Acts, Heather Latimer investigates what contemporary fiction and film can tell us about the divisive nature of these politics, and demonstrates how fictional representations of reproduction allow for readings of reproductive politics that are critical of the terms of the debate itself. In an innovative argument about the power of fiction to engage and shape politics, Latimer analyzes works by authors such as Margaret Atwood, Kathy Acker, Toni Morrison, Larissa Lai, and director Alfonso Cuaron, among others, to claim that the unease surrounding reproduction, particularly the abortion debate, has increased both inside and outside the US over the last forty years. Fictional representation, Latimer argues, reveals reproductive politics to be deeply connected to cultural anxieties about gender, race, citizenship, and sexuality - anxieties that cannot be contained under the rules of individual rights or choices. Striking a balance between fictional, historical, and political analysis, Reproductive Acts makes a compelling argument for the vital role narrative plays in how we make sense of North American reproductive politics.
Requiem, Rwanda By Laura Apol
2015 | 124 Pages | ISBN: 1611861586 | PDF | 1 MB
A marvelous, moving new collection of poems, "Requiem, Rwanda" has its roots in 2006, when Laura Apol made her first trip to Rwanda. Apol's initial goal was to develop, in conjunction with Rwandan and American colleagues, a project using narrative writing to facilitate healing among young survivors of the 1994 genocide. During the time she spent leading workshops, Apol felt moved to write her own poems, and after the writing-for-healing project ended, she returned to Rwanda several times to continue her creative work. The legacy of the genocide--on the people, on the land itself--makes its presence felt in many of the poems. The poems are also accounts of Apol's relationships with and understandings of people post-genocide--where their stories go, how they reenter their lives, and how a country that has been deeply wounded by its history continues on. These poems don't shy away from exploring the complications of being a white woman, a Westerner, and a witness in this setting: Apol relates her sense of compassion, privilege, horror, guilt, voyeurism, obligation, and love. This new collection is a rich testimonial to the strength of a nation and its people.
Donna Carlyle, "Researching Child-Dog Relationships and Narratives in the Classroom: Rhythms of Posthuman Childhoods "
English | ISBN: 1032434627 | 2025 | 186 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
This interdisciplinary book explores posthuman and psychological approaches to childhood education and well-being by examining 'animal-assisted' education, using qualitative approaches to understand the nuanced mechanisms which unfold in child-dog interactions.
Mapping the lives of children in a primary school setting and the relationships they share with their school and classroom dog, Ted, the book provides insight into everyday child-dog encounters, the importance of touch in middle childhood and how 'bodiment' offers a corporeal and compassionate means to understand the rhythm and musicality in interspecies communication. In doing so, the book uses the unique orientation of 'rhythmanalysis', a posthuman critical theory, and new materialist orientation in multispecies empathic childhood flourishing in the future. Reflecting contemporary interest in child-dog companionship, picture books, children's flourishing, and children's well-being, the book provides a nuanced multi-disciplinary overview of the field.
Read more
