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This is the third book in the series Legal Issues of Services of
General Interest. The book focuses upon a set of research questions
on the recent developments in the emergence of services of general
interest (SGIs) as a distinct EU concept. This includes, inter
alia, the emergence of universal service obligations and the way
they are regulated in the EU in primary and secondary law, the
range of soft law communications adopted by the Commission to
create a distinctive EU concept of SGIs, the residual role of hard
law in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),
the special problems created by Social Services of General Economic
Interest and the interaction of procurement and state aid law with
SGIs. A new perspective is offered in this book: some of the issues
faced by the EU in accommodating SGIs into a regulatory framework
are found also in the policy of the WTO and in least developed
countries (LDCs).
Why do some things pass under the radar of our attention, but other
things capture our interest? Why do some religions catch on and
others fade away? What makes a story, a movie, or a book riveting?
Why do some people keep watching the news even though it makes them
anxious?The past 20 years have seen a remarkable flourishing of
scientific research into exactly these kinds of questions.
Professor Jim Davies' fascinating and highly accessible book,
"Riveted," reveals the evolutionary underpinnings of why we find
things compelling, from art to religion and from sports to
superstition. Compelling things fit our minds like keys in the
ignition, turning us on and keeping us running, and yet we are
often unaware of what makes these "keys" fit. What we like and
don't like is almost always determined by subconscious forces, and
when we try to consciously predict our own preferences we're often
wrong. In one study of speed dating, people were asked what kinds
of partners they found attractive. When the results came back, the
participants' answers before the exercise had no correlation with
who they actually found attractive in person We are beginning to
understand just how much the brain makes our decisions for us: we
are rewarded with a rush of pleasure when we detect patterns, as
the brain thinks we've discovered something significant; the mind
urges us to linger on the news channel or rubberneck an accident in
case it might pick up important survival information; it even
pushes us to pick up "People "magazine in order to find out about
changes in the social structure.Drawing on work from philosophy,
anthropology, religious studies, psychology, economics, computer
science, and biology, Davies offers a comprehensive explanation to
show that in spite of the differences between the many things that
we find compelling, they have similar effects on our minds and
brains.
The true story of an elite group of men who wrote a page in Naval
history. They patrolled the waterways in thirty-one foot river
patrol boats powered by Detroit diesel engines with water
jet-propulsion. Armed with machineguns and grenade launchers, as
well as sheer guts and determination, these sailors faced danger
around every bend in the river. Working together, they became one
of the finest weapons in Admiral Zumwalt's arsenal for turning back
the tide of communist infiltration into Saigon, taking control of
the inland waterways. These are true accounts of their bravery,
which they proved time and again by spearheading operations into
enemy controlled territory. United together in brotherhood, they
accomplished all their missions and won their part of the Vietnam
War. .
To be effective, data-intensive systems require extensive ongoing
customisation to reflect changing user requirements, organisational
policies, and the structure and interpretation of the data they
hold. Manual customisation is expensive, time-consuming, and
error-prone. In large complex systems, the value of the data can be
such that exhaustive testing is necessary before any new feature
can be added to the existing design. In most cases, the precise
details of requirements, policies and data will change during the
lifetime of the system, forcing a choice between expensive
modification and continued operation with an inefficient design.
Engineering Agile Big-Data Systems outlines an approach to dealing
with these problems in software and data engineering, describing a
methodology for aligning these processes throughout product
lifecycles. It discusses tools which can be used to achieve these
goals, and, in a number of case studies, shows how the tools and
methodology have been used to improve a variety of academic and
business systems.
We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious
shift in US history. It is greater than the First and Second Great
Awakening and every revival in our country combined but in the
opposite direction. Yet precious little rigorous study has been
done on the broad phenomenon of dechurching in America. Jim Davis
and Michael Graham have commissioned the largest and most
comprehensive study of dechurching in America by renowned
sociologists Dr. Ryan Burge and Dr. Paul Djupe. The Great
Dechurching takes the insights gleaned from this study to drill
down on how exactly people are dechurching with respect to beliefs,
behavior, and belonging. The Great Dechurching gives the church in
America its first ever deep dive into the dechurched phenomenon.
Readers will learn about the dechurched through a detailed sketch
of demographics, size, core concerns, church off-ramps, historical
roots, and the gravity of what is at stake. Then they will explore
what can be done to slow the bleed, engage the pertinent issues
winsomely and wisely, and hopefully re-church some of the
dechurched.
This comprehensive resource is an invaluable teaching aid for
adding a global dimension to students' understanding of American
history. It includes a wide range of materials from scholarly
articles and reports to original syllabi and ready-to-use lesson
plans to guide teachers in enlarging the frame of introductory
American history courses to an international view.The contributors
include well-known American history scholars as well as gifted
classroom teachers, and the book's emphasis on immigration, race,
and gender points to ways for teachers to integrate international
and multicultural education, America in the World, and the World in
America in their courses. The book also includes a 'Views from
Abroad' section that examines problems and strategies for teaching
American history to foreign audiences or recent immigrants. A
comprehensive, annotated guide directs teachers to additional print
and online resources.
Dickens loved the stage-he enjoyed thousands of evenings in the
theatre, and longed to write for it and to perform himself, an
ambition he eventually satisfied by touring alone with his
Readings. Victorian prejudice and his need to preserve his personal
image kept him from openly becoming a stage professional earlier in
his career, but all his work was informed by his dramatic
imagination. He found ways of circumventing these taboos by seeking
closer and closer contact over the staging of his work with
dramatic writers, admired actors, and trusted theatre managements.
In the later stages of his career these tacit collaborations
continued (as with Celine Celeste's staging of A Tale of Two
Cities), although the 1860s and, subsequent to Dickens's death, the
1870s also saw a number of more independent adaptations, often
celebrated for the quality of acting they inspired. This book
presents, for the first time, fully edited texts of some of these
later plays, ranging from Dion Boucicault's Dot (a version of The
Cricket on the Hearth) to J. P. Burnett's adaptation of Bleak House
(entitled Jo), as well as Jingle, a one-act farce adapted from
James Albery's dramatization of The Pickwick Papers.
During the eighteenth century, theatrical writing developed as a
genre. The publishing market responded to a seemingly insatiable
appetite for accounts of the personalities, social lives and
performances of celebrated entertainers. This series features
actors who were significant in their development of new ways of
performing Shakespeare.
During the eighteenth century, theatrical writing developed as a
genre. The publishing market responded to a seemingly insatiable
appetite for accounts of the personalities, social lives and
performances of celebrated entertainers. This series features
actors who were significant in their development of new ways of
performing Shakespeare.
This comprehensive resource is an invaluable teaching aid for
adding a global dimension to students' understanding of American
history. It includes a wide range of materials from scholarly
articles and reports to original syllabi and ready-to-use lesson
plans to guide teachers in enlarging the frame of introductory
American history courses to an international view.The contributors
include well-known American history scholars as well as gifted
classroom teachers, and the book's emphasis on immigration, race,
and gender points to ways for teachers to integrate international
and multicultural education, America in the World, and the World in
America in their courses. The book also includes a 'Views from
Abroad' section that examines problems and strategies for teaching
American history to foreign audiences or recent immigrants. A
comprehensive, annotated guide directs teachers to additional print
and online resources.
During the eighteenth century, theatrical writing developed as a
genre. The publishing market responded to a seemingly insatiable
appetite for accounts of the personalities, social lives and
performances of celebrated entertainers. This series features
actors who were significant in their development of new ways of
performing Shakespeare.
America's favorite cat is back with this new value-priced edition of three-in-one comic strips (contains: Garfield Feeds His Face [#64], Garfield Eats and Runs [#65], and Garfield Nutty as a Fruitcake [#66]) together for the first time in color and super-sized!
When one Garfield isn't enough--there's only one thing better than a Garfield collection: three Garfield collections!
GARFIELD FEEDS HIS FACE: "Eat early and often"--that's the credo of the furry fatso. Garfield fans who are gluttons for fun will want to indulge themselves in this meaty new collection of rib-tickling comics.
GARFIELD EATS AND RUNS: For Garfield, eating is a full-contact sport. Boasting an Olympic-sized appetite, the famished feline dives into each meal with the heart--and mouth--of a champion.
GARFIELD NUTTY AS A FRUITCAKE: What kind of house does Garfield live in? A nuthouse, of course! The Arbuckle home is located just around the bend, where Jon and his wacky pets display their mad skills for having fun!
This is the third book in the series Legal Issues of Services of
General Interest. The book focuses upon a set of research questions
on the recent developments in the emergence of services of general
interest (SGIs) as a distinct EU concept. This includes, inter
alia, the emergence of universal service obligations and the way
they are regulated in the EU in primary and secondary law, the
range of soft law communications adopted by the Commission to
create a distinctive EU concept of SGIs, the residual role of hard
law in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),
the special problems created by Social Services of General Economic
Interest and the interaction of procurement and state aid law with
SGIs. A new perspective is offered in this book: some of the issues
faced by the EU in accommodating SGIs into a regulatory framework
are found also in the policy of the WTO and in least developed
countries (LDCs).
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Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications - 13th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2010, Natal, Brazil, November 8-11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, Edition.)
Jim Davies, Leila Silva, Adenilso Simao
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R1,522
Discovery Miles 15 220
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the 13th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF
2010, held in Natal, Brazil, in November 2010. The 18 revised full
papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions.
The papers presented cover a broad range of foundational and
methodological issues in formal methods for the design and analysis
of software and hardware systems as well as applications in various
domains.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th
International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods, IFM 2007,
held in Oxford, UK in July 2007.
The 32 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited
paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The
papers address all aspects of formal methods integration, including
of a process of analysis or design application of formal methods to
analysis or design, extension of one method, based upon the
inclusion of ideas or concepts from others, informal or semi-formal
modelling languages, tools, or techniques, and semantic integration
or practical application.
Slang Across Societies is an introductory reference work and
textbook which aims to acquaint readers with key themes in the
study of youth, criminal and colloquial language practices.
Focusing on key questions such as speaker identity and motivations,
perceptions of use and users, language variation, and attendant
linguistic manipulations, the book identifies and discusses more
than 20 in-group and colloquial varieties from no fewer than 16
different societies worldwide. Suitable for advanced undergraduate
and postgraduate students working in areas of slang, lexicology,
lexicography, sociolinguistics and youth studies, Slang Across
Societies brings together extensive research on youth, criminal and
colloquial language from different parts of the world.
Be prepared to laugh out loud as GARFIELD leads you on a riotous romp through his hilarious haunts. It's a full-color ride of nonstop fun and thrills--with plenty of laughs (and snacks) along the way!
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Formal Methods and Software Engineering - 6th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2004, Seattle, WA, USA, November 8-12, 2004, Proceedings (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Jim Davies, Wolfram Schulte, Mike Barnett
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R3,097
Discovery Miles 30 970
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Formal engineering methods are changing the way that software
systems are - veloped.Withlanguageandtoolsupport,
theyarebeingusedforautomaticcode generation, and for the automatic
abstraction and checking of implementations. In the future, they
will be used at every stage of development: requirements,
speci?cation, design, implementation, testing, and documentation.
The ICFEM series of conferences aims to bring together those
interested in the application of formal engineering methods to
computer systems. Researchers and practitioners, from industry,
academia, and government, are encouraged to attend,
andtohelpadvancethestateoftheart.Authorsarestronglyencouraged to
make their ideas as accessible as possible, and there is a clear
emphasis upon work that promises to bring practical, tangible
bene?t: reports of case studies should have a conceptual message,
theory papers should have a clear link to application, and papers
describing tools should have an account of results. ICFEM 2004 was
the sixth conference in the series, and the ?rst to be held in
North America. Previous conferences were held in Singapore, China,
UK, A- tralia, and Japan. The Programme Committee received 110
papers and selected
30forpresentation.The?nalversionsofthosepapersareincludedhere,
together with 2-page abstracts for the 5 accepted tutorials, and
shorter abstracts for the 4 invited tal
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