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Free Download Representations of SU(2,1) in Fourier Term Modules by Roelof W. Bruggeman , Roberto J. Miatello
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 217 Pages | ISBN : 303143191X | 30 MB
This book studies the modules arising in Fourier expansions of automorphic forms, namely Fourier term modules on SU(2,1), the smallest rank one Lie group with a non-abelian unipotent subgroup. It considers the "abelian" Fourier term modules connected to characters of the maximal unipotent subgroups of SU(2,1), and also the "non-abelian" modules, described via theta functions. A complete description of the submodule structure of all Fourier term modules is given, with a discussion of the consequences for Fourier expansions of automorphic forms, automorphic forms with exponential growth included.

Free Download Ryan G. Duns, "René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture "
English | ISBN: 1978710089 | 2021 | 266 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 3 MB
In René Girard, Theology, and Popular Culture, fifteen contributors consider how Girard’s mimetic theory can be used to uncover and probe the theological depths of popular culture. Creative and critical engagement with Girard’s theory enables the contributors to offer fresh and exciting interpretations of movies (The Devil Wears Prada, Mean Girls, Star Wars), television (Hoarders, Cobra Kai), classical literature and graphic novels, and issues ranging from anorexia to social media. The result is a volume that establishes Girard as an innovative interpreter of culture and shows him as an invaluable guide for theologically reflecting on desire, violence, redemption, and forgiveness. Written in fresh and lively prose, the contributors demonstrate not only that Girard provides a powerful lens through which to view culture but also-and more provocatively-challenge readers to consider what popular culture reveals about them. Readers looking for an accessible introduction to mimetic theory and exploring its theological application will find this a welcome resource.

Free Download Renewable Energy in the Service of Mankind Vol II: Selected Topics from the World Renewable Energy Congress WREC 2014 by Ali Sayigh
English | PDF (True) | 2016 | 988 Pages | ISBN : 3319182145 | 61.2 MB
This book provides insights on a broad spectrum of renewable and sustainable energy technologies from the world’s leading experts. It highlights the latest achievements in policy, research and applications, keeping readers up-to-date on progress in this rapidly advancing field. Detailed studies of technological breakthroughs and optimizations are contextualized with in-depth examinations of experimental and industrial installations, connecting lab innovations to success in the field. The volume contains selected papers presented at technical and plenary sessions at the World Renewable Energy Congress, the world’s premier conference on renewable energy and sustainable development. Held every two years, the Congress provides an international forum that attracts hundreds of delegates from more than 60 countries.

Free Download Renewable Energy Systems and Sources: Proceedings of International Conference on Renewable and Clean Energy (ICRCE) 2023 by Mohan Lal Kolhe
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 144 Pages | ISBN : 9819962897 | 4.2 MB
The book consists of selected and peer reviewed papers from 13th International Conference on Renewable and Clean Energy (2023), which aims to address and deliberate on the latest technical status and recent trends in the research and applications of renewable energy system and sources (RESSs), renewable energy sources include solar, wind, biomass, fuel cells, hydropower, hydrogen, nuclear, geothermal etc. The topics covered in the proceedings include energy transformation from renewable energy system (RES) to grid, novel energy conversion studies for RESs, power devices and driving circuits for RESs, control techniques for RESs, grid interactive systems used in hybrid RESs, performance analysis of RESs, hybrid RESSs, renewable energy research and applications for Industries, RESSs for electrical vehicles and components, artificial intelligence and machine learning studies for RESs and applications, computational methods for RESSs, smart grids and RESSs, safety and security of RESSs, renewable energy systems in smart cities. This book will be very useful for graduate students, researchers and practicing engineers working in the fields of renewable energy.

Free Download Renegotiating Contracts for the Energy Transition in the Extractives Industry by Victoria R. Nalule , Raphael J. Heffron , Damilola S. Olawuyi
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 109 Pages | ISBN : 3031462572 | 2.1 MB
This book focuses on renegotiating extractive contracts to align with the net-zero goals. It delves into extractive contract negotiations in four ways which collectively represent a major research gap in literature. It focuses on extractive contract provisions and examines their alignment with net zero goals, suggesting how these provisions could be re-negotiated to ensure an effective energy transition. Consequently, the book assesses how contractual provisions are responding to, or reflecting energy transition scenarios, and highlights areas to be included or strengthened that will be beneficial for all energy stakeholders. This book goes on to discuss the energy transition global landscape. Through the presentation of case studies from different countries, the book assesses the transition risks in extractive contracts, and it uniquely provides the negotiation tools and strategies to address these transition risks.

Free Download Remote Sensing Advances for Earth System Science: The ESA Changing Earth Science Network: Projects 2011-2013 by Diego Fernández-Prieto, Roberto Sabia
English | PDF (True) | 2016 | 152 Pages | ISBN : 3319169513 | 25.3 MB
This book presents cutting-edge remote sensing research, outlining the advanced use of European Space Agency (ESA) satellite data in the context of climate change. The ESA, through its Support to Science Element (STSE) Programme, funds a network of young post-doc scientists pursuing 2-year cutting-edge research projects in the field of remote sensing. This "Changing Earth Science Network" focuses on the exploitation of Earth Observation (EO) data to address major issues concerning the broader context of climate change in five scientific research domains: the oceans, atmosphere, cryosphere, land and solid earth.

Free Download Jason Jacobs, "Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives "
English | ISBN: 1438492235 | 2023 | 251 pages | EPUB, PDF | 738 KB + 1068 KB
Explores the figure of the detective as a pursuer of knowledge in four noir films.

Free Download Ralph Haeussler, "Religious Individualisation: Archaeological, Iconographic and Epigraphic Case Studies from the Roman World"
English | ISBN: 1789259657 | 2023 | 336 pages | PDF + EPUB | 14 + 8 MB
The Roman world was diverse and complex. And so were religious understandings and practices as mirrored in the enormous variety presented by archaeological, iconographic, and epigraphic evidence. Conventional approaches principally focus on the political role of civic cults as a means of social cohesion, often considered to be instrumentalized by elites. But by doing so, religious diversity is frequently overlooked, marginalizing ‘deviating’ cult activities that do not fit the Classical canon, as well as the multitude of funerary practices and other religious activities that were all part of everyday life. In the Roman Empire, a person’s religious experiences were shaped by many and sometimes seemingly incompatible cult practices, whereby the ‘civic’ and ‘imperial’ cults might have had the least impact of all. Our goal therefore is to rethink our methodologies, aiming for a more dynamic image of religion that takes into account the varied and often contradictory choices and actions of individual, which reflects the discrepant religious experiences in the Roman world. Is it possible to ‘poke into the mind’ of an individual in Roman times, whatever his/her status and ethnicity, and try to understand the individual’s diverse experiences in such a complex, interconnected empire, exploring the choices that were open to an individual? This also raises the question whether the concept of individuality is valid for Roman times. In some periods, the impact of individual actions can be more momentous: the very first adoption of Roman-style sculpture, cult practices or Latin theonyms for indigenous deities can set in motion long-term processes that will significantly influence people’s perceptions of local deities, their characteristics, and functions. Do individual choices and preferences prevail over collective identities in the Roman Empire compared to pre-Roman times? To examine these questions, this volume presents case studies that analyze individual actions in the religious sphere.

Free Download Walter Scott Stepanenko, "Religious Experience and Religious Lives: An Epistemology"
English | ISBN: 1666922013 | 2023 | 166 pages | EPUB, PDF | 332 KB + 3 MB
Religious Experience and Religious Lives: An Epistemology defends a moderate approach to religious experiences in which they can contribute to the justification of central religious beliefs, most importantly belief in God. Epistemologists of religion disagree about what evidential value religious experiences have. Some argue that religious experiences have no evidential value while others argue that religious experiences constitute proof of God’s existence. However, Walter Scott Stepanenko argues that religious experiences can contribute to these justificatory cases in several distinct ways and that several justificatory cases are philosophically viable. This book contends that this joint justificatory viability is best explained by the diversity and development of religious lives: as religious believers grow in a faith tradition, their access to an evidential base can develop and the contributory work religious experiences provide in defense of religious belief can change. This suggests that various epistemologies of religious experience implicitly emphasize different life stages or different prototypical religious believers and that a fully adequate epistemology of religious experience will be expansive, pluralistic, and responsive to the diversity of religious believers and their development in a religious tradition.

Free Download John Van Engen, "Religion in the History of the Medieval West "
English | ISBN: 0860789403 | 2004 | 344 pages | EPUB, PDF | 678 KB + 62 MB
These ten essays by John Van Engen situate religion in the history of medieval Western Europe: as an unavoidable presence in everyday life, as a conceptual framework for social and political life, as a force integral to its historical dynamics. Four of the essays are bibliographical and retrospective in nature, reviewing the field broadly, but also pointing toward a more dialectical approach to understanding the interaction of religion and society in the European middle ages. Other studies deal with large topics usually subsumed under the abstract term ‘Christianization’. They grapple with learned sources as well as those associated with ‘popular’ religion, and show what can be gained from an imaginative use of all that lawyers and theologians said about religion in their society. The essays, finally, look for the quality and dynamic of change, even inventiveness, released by religious action and conviction in medieval European society.