Peter Hoyng, "Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology: A Primer "
English | ISBN: 9048171415 | 2006 | 306 pages | PDF | 15 MB
Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology offers a succinct and self-contained treatment of general relativity and its application to compact objects, gravitational waves and cosmology. The required mathematical concepts are introduced informally, following geometrical intuition as much as possible. The approach is theoretical, but there is ample discussion of observational aspects and of instrumental issues where appropriate.

Reimagining Money: Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution (Culture and Economic Life) by Sibel Kusimba
2021 | ISBN: 1503614417, 1503613518 | English | 238 pages | True PDF/EPUB | 6 MB/13 MB
Technology is rapidly changing the way we think about money. Digital payment has been slow to take off in the United States but is displacing cash in countries as diverse as China, Kenya, and Sweden. In Reimagining Money, Sibel Kusimba describes the rise of M-Pesa, and offers a rich portrait of how this technology changes the economic and social landscape, allowing users to create webs of relationships as they exchange, pool, borrow, lend, and share digital money in user-built networks. These networks, Kusimba argues, will shape the future of financial technologies and their impact on poverty, inclusion, and empowerment. She describes how urban and transnational migrants maintain a presence in rural areas through money gifts; how families use crowdfunding software to assemble donations for emergency medical care; and how new financial groups invest in real estate and fund weddings. The author presents fascinating accounts that challenge accepted wisdom by examining the notion of money as wealth-in-people-an idea long-cultivated in sub-Saharan Africa and now brought to bear on the digital age with homegrown financial technologies such as digital money transfer, digital microloans, and crowdfunding. The book concludes by proposing a new theory of money that can be applied to designing better financial technologies in the future.

New York University Stern School of Business, Viral V. Acharya, Thomas F. Cooley, Matthew P. Richardson, Ingo Walter, Myron Scholes, "Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0470768770 | 592 pages | EPUB | 3.04 MB
Experts from NYU Stern School of Business analyze new financial regulations and what they mean for the economy

Regions, Spatial Strategies and Sustainable Development (Regions and Cities) by David Counsell and Graham Haughton
English | December 31, 2003 | ISBN-10: 041531464X | 264 pages | PDF | 21,2 Mb
Focusing on recent regional policy and important planning debates across the English regions, this book analyzes the issues, disputes and tensions that have arisen in regional planning in the new millennium.

Erik Olin Wright, Andrew Levine, Elliott Sober, "Reconstructing Marxism: Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History"
English | 1992 | ISBN: 0860915549, 0860913422 | 202 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Reconstructing Marxism explores fundamental questions about the structure of Marxist theory and its prospects for the future. The authors maintain that the disintegration of the old theoretical unity of classical Marxism is in part responsible for what is commonly called the "crisis of Marxism." Only a reconstructed Marxism can come to terms with this disintegration.

Reconsidering American Political Thought : A New Identity
by Saladin Ambar
English | 2020 | ISBN: 113834172X | 187 Pages | PDF | 4.15 MB

Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy by Emma-Jayne Graham
2020 | ISBN: 1138282715 | English | 268 pages | EPUB/PDF (True) | 5 MB/22 MB
This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and communal experiences of the religious agency generated when ritualised activities caused human and more-than-human things to become bundled together into relational assemblages. Drawing upon broadly posthumanist and new materialist theories concerning the thingliness of things, it sets out to re-evaluate the role of the material world within Roman religion and to offer new perspectives on the formation of multi-scalar forms of ancient religious knowledge. It explores what happens when a materially informed approach is systematically applied to the investigation of typical questions about Roman religion such as: What did Romans understand 'religion' to mean? What did religious experiences allow people to understand about the material world and their own place within it? How were experiences of ritual connected with shared beliefs or concepts about the relationship between the mortal and divine worlds? How was divinity constructed and perceived? To answer these questions, it gathers and evaluates archaeological evidence associated with a series of case studies. Each of these focuses on a key component of the ritualised assemblages shown to have produced Roman religious agency - place, objects, bodies, and divinity - and centres on an examination of experiences of lived religion as it related to the contexts of monumentalised sanctuaries, cult instruments used in public sacrifice, anatomical votive offerings, cult images and the qualities of divinity, and magic as a situationally specific form of religious knowledge. By breaking down and then reconstructing the ritualised assemblages that generated and sustained Roman religion, this book makes the case for adopting a material approach to the study of ancient lived religion.

M. P. Hanaghan, "Reading Sidonius' Epistles"
English | ISBN: 1108429211 | 2019 | 246 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Sidonius Apollinaris' letters offer a vivid series of glimpses into an otherwise sparsely documented period. His rich anecdotes feature the events, characters, and moments that defined his life, ranging from the treason trial of Arvandus to the Visigothic raiding of Clermont, from the corrupt and vile Seronatus to the holy widow Eutropia, and the day-to-day incidents that confronted a Gallo-Roman poet, aristocrat, and bishop as the Late Roman West transitioned into the barbarian successor kingdoms. Like any good storyteller, Sidonius exploited a wide array of narratological tools, manipulating temporality for dramatic effect, sketching his heroes and villains in vivid detail, and recreating witty dialogue in a collection that is highly organised and carefully strategised. This book provides a fuller understanding of his contribution to Latin literature, as a careful arranger of his self-image, a perceptive exploiter of narrative dynamics, and an influential figure in Late Antique Gaul.

Reading Minds : How Childhood Teaches Us to Understand People
by Henry M. Wellman
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0190878673 | 201 Pages | PDF | 7.9 MB

Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology by Hopeton S. Dunn
English | PDF | 2021 | 390 Pages | ISBN : 3030541681 | 4.2 MB
"A unique, rich, and timely contribution to the growing literature in communication and media studies, directed at strengthening the voice and visibility of scholars from the Global South.