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The quality of students' learning experiences is a critical concern
for all higher education institutions. With the assistance of
modern technological advances, educational establishments have the
capability to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of
their learning programs. Developing Effective Educational
Experiences through Learning Analytics is a pivotal reference
source that focuses on the adoption of data mining and analysis
techniques in academic institutions, examining how this collected
information is utilized to improve the outcome of student learning.
Highlighting the relevance of data analytics to current educational
practices, this book is ideally designed for researchers,
practitioners, and professionals actively involved in higher
education settings.
Hi there! We’re Mark Anderson and Ryan Fey, but you can call us
The Grill Dads, or the two idiots, or the magical wizards of all
things grilling. All three are correct. We live and cook by a very
simple mantra: We can literally make anything on the grill. F*ck
yeah. In our cookbook we show you how to ball out as hard as we do,
and make juicy, well-seasoned and perfectly cooked dishes on your
backyard grill or smoker. Here are just a few epic meals you’ll
find: • Little Red Bavette with Real Herby Chimichurri • Good
Mojo Picón Flank Steak • Petite Tender: The Steak Named After Us
• The Very Best Grilled Chicken Ever • Chicken Paillard So Thin
It Only Has One Side • Not Your Grandma’s Dry Turkey and
Stuffing • Jalapeño Popper Stuffed Pork Tenderloin •
Schnitzel, I Don’t Even Know Her • Pinkies Up Smashburger •
McActually McGood Rib Sandwich • Mark’s BBQ Oysters with West
Carolina Mignonette • Whip It Good Smoked Feta Dip Every recipe
shares our top-secret tricks for elevating each cook and making
your proteins sing. (Here’s a hint: For the love of god stop wet
brining your turkey.) We also walk you through the best practices
to use and not-abuse charcoal, gas and pellet grills, and how to
double each as a smoker, so you can make any recipe in this book no
matter your equipment. Sure, we like to have fun and make dick
jokes (sorry Mom & Dad), but at heart, we are backyard warriors
and culinary nerds, and we simply can’t wait to bring these
amazing grilled dishes to your homes and bellies.
Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Contracts is for anyone who
needs to understand, negotiate or draft commercial contracts. The
book includes: - A guide to the common legal issues in negotiating
and drafting contracts - An explanation of the structure and
content of a commercial contract - Good and bad practice in
drafting (and in using clear, modern English) - The meaning and use
of commonly-used words, phrases and legal jargon - The formalities
for creating and signing contracts - Guidance on the interpretation
of contracts - Steps to take, and what to check for in a contract
to eliminate errors (including lists of what to check for in
different situations) - Practical measures to protect documents
from unwanted alteration, to remove metadata and sensitive
information and to secure documents - Drafting and legal issues
when contracting with consumers It examines questions such as: -
How do I draft my contract clearly? - What will happen if my
contract is interpreted by the English court? - Where do I find key
English legislation on the enforceability of contracts? - When will
I be out of time for suing for breach of contract? - Why are
liability clauses so full of legal jargon? - Who should the parties
be, and who is authorised to sign? Fully updated to take account of
important court decisions regarding the interpretation of contracts
and changes in consumer legislation, the 5th edition also includes:
- New chapter on termination of contracts - New material on
administering of existing contracts and modern methods of executing
documents (eg DocuSign) - New and updated examples of contract
drafting techniques - Additional definitions of legal terms used in
contracts It is essential reading for commercial lawyers, contract
managers, and others who have to draft, negotiate or advise on
contracts.
Graph Theory and Its Applications, Third Edition is the latest
edition of the international, bestselling textbook for
undergraduate courses in graph theory, yet it is expansive enough
to be used for graduate courses as well. The textbook takes a
comprehensive, accessible approach to graph theory, integrating
careful exposition of classical developments with emerging methods,
models, and practical needs. The authors' unparalleled treatment is
an ideal text for a two-semester course and a variety of
one-semester classes, from an introductory one-semester course to
courses slanted toward classical graph theory, operations research,
data structures and algorithms, or algebra and topology. Features
of the Third Edition Expanded coverage on several topics (e.g.,
applications of graph coloring and tree-decompositions) Provides
better coverage of algorithms and algebraic and topological graph
theory than any other text Incorporates several levels of carefully
designed exercises that promote student retention and develop and
sharpen problem-solving skills Includes supplementary exercises to
develop problem-solving skills, solutions and hints, and a detailed
appendix, which reviews the textbook's topics About the Authors
Jonathan L. Gross is a professor of computer science at Columbia
University. His research interests include topology and graph
theory. Jay Yellen is a professor of mathematics at Rollins
College. His current areas of research include graph theory,
combinatorics, and algorithms. Mark Anderson is also a mathematics
professor at Rollins College. His research interest in graph theory
centers on the topological or algebraic side.
This book gives practical assistance to everyone who needs to
understand, negotiate or draft a confidentiality agreement. The
book is divided into three parts: a practical explanation of how
English law protects confidential information in a commercial
context a discussion of commercial practice in relation to
confidentiality agreements, including commentary on the provisions
of such agreements a selection of precedents for confidentiality
agreements (also provided on the accompanying CD). This 3rd edition
has been updated and expanded and now includes: a checklist of
things to consider before entering into a confidentiality agreement
additional precedents for such situations as confidentiality
undertakings by visitors to premises and a job applicants, a
confidentiality agreement where disclosure is restricted to a
particular person only in an organisation, and a confidentiality
agreement with prospective licensees of software additional
drafting notes throughout additional commentary on when
confidentiality obligations are implied (and the extent of the
implied obligations) in commercial situations.
It is commonly known that Plato is Nietzsche's bete noire among
philosophers, yet there is no full-length treatment in English of
their ideas in dialogue or debate. Plato and Nietzsche is an
advanced introduction to these two thinkers, with original insights
and provocative arguments interspersed throughout the text. Through
a rigorous exploration of their ideas on art, metaphysics, ethics,
and the nature of philosophy and explaining and analyzing each
man's distinctive approach, Mark Anderson demonstrates the many and
varied ways they play off against one another. This book provides
the requisite background to understand what, really, is at issue
between these two philosophers and to develop an awareness that
Nietzsche's stance on Plato is more nuanced and complicated than it
is sometimes presented as being. Mark Anderson provides anyone
approaching Nietzsche's work with an understanding of Plato, and
those interested in Plato with an exploration of Nietzsche's many
criticisms of Platonic philosophy.
Worldwide environmental crisis has become increasingly visible over
the last few decades as the full scope of anthropogenic climate
change manifests itself and large-scale natural resource extraction
has expanded into formerly remote areas that seemed beyond the
reach of industrialization. Scientists and popular culture alike
have turned to the term "Anthropocene" to capture the global scale
of environmental and even geological transformations that humans
have carried out over the last two centuries. The chapters in
Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America
examine the dynamics and interplay between local cultures and the
expansion of global capitalism in Latin America, emphasizing the
role of art in bearing witness to and generating awareness of
environmental and social crises, but also its possibilities for
formulating solutions. They take particular care to draw out the
ways in which local environmental crises in Latin American nations
are witnessed and imagined as part of a global system, focusing on
the problems of time, scale, and complexity as key terms in
conceiving the dimensions of crisis. At the same time, they
question the notion of the Anthropocene as a species-wide "human"
historical project, making visible the coloniality of natural
resource extraction in Latin America and its dire effects for local
people, cultures, and environments. Taking an ecocritical approach
to Latin American cultural production including literature, film,
performance, and digital artwork, the chapters in this volume
develop a notion of ecological crisis that captures not only its
documentary sense in the representation of environmental
destruction (the degradation of the oikos), but also the crisis in
the modern worldview (logos) that the acknowledgment of crisis
provokes. In this sense, crisis is also the promise of a turning
point, of the possibilities for change. Latin American
representations of ecological crisis thus create the conditions for
projects that decolonize environments, developing new, sustainable
ways of conceiving of and relating to our world or returning to old
ones.
Extensive exercises and applications. Flexibility: appropriate for
either a first course at the graduate level; or an advanced course
at the undergraduate level. Opens avenues to a variety of research
areas in graph theory. Emphasis on topological and algebraic graph
theory
For more than a century readers have found Herman Melville's
writing rich with philosophical ideas, yet there has been
relatively little written about what, exactly, is philosophically
significant about his work and why philosophers are so attracted to
Melville in particular. This volume addresses this silence through
a series of essays that: (1) examine various philosophical contexts
for Melville's work, (2) take seriously Melville's writings as
philosophy, and (3) consider how modern philosophers have used
Melville and the implications of appropriating Melville for
contemporary thought. Melville among the Philosophers is ultimately
an intervention across literary studies and philosophy that carves
new paths into the work of one of America's most celebrated
authors, a man who continues to enchant and challenge readers well
into the twenty-first century.
Worldwide environmental crisis has become increasingly visible over
the last few decades as the full scope of anthropogenic climate
change manifests itself and large-scale natural resource extraction
has expanded into formerly remote areas that seemed beyond the
reach of industrialization. Scientists and popular culture alike
have turned to the term "Anthropocene" to capture the global scale
of environmental and even geological transformations that humans
have carried out over the last two centuries. The chapters in
Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America
examine the dynamics and interplay between local cultures and the
expansion of global capitalism in Latin America, emphasizing the
role of art in bearing witness to and generating awareness of
environmental and social crises, but also its possibilities for
formulating solutions. They take particular care to draw out the
ways in which local environmental crises in Latin American nations
are witnessed and imagined as part of a global system, focusing on
the problems of time, scale, and complexity as key terms in
conceiving the dimensions of crisis. At the same time, they
question the notion of the Anthropocene as a species-wide "human"
historical project, making visible the coloniality of natural
resource extraction in Latin America and its dire effects for local
people, cultures, and environments. Taking an ecocritical approach
to Latin American cultural production including literature, film,
performance, and digital artwork, the chapters in this volume
develop a notion of ecological crisis that captures not only its
documentary sense in the representation of environmental
destruction (the degradation of the oikos), but also the crisis in
the modern worldview (logos) that the acknowledgment of crisis
provokes. In this sense, crisis is also the promise of a turning
point, of the possibilities for change. Latin American
representations of ecological crisis thus create the conditions for
projects that decolonize environments, developing new, sustainable
ways of conceiving of and relating to our world or returning to old
ones.
An updated guide, and expert analysis on, the legal issues relating
to common exemption clauses and unfair terms in legal contracts. It
covers the incorporation and construction of the key clauses, as
well as the relevant legislation. It will help you to understand: -
the circumstances when a term will be incorporated into a contract
- the modern approach to the interpretation of contracts by the
contracts (and with particular types of clauses, for example in
relation to negligence, entire agreement clauses, ‘fundamental
breach’, etc) - clause by clause consideration of UCTA, including
key concepts such as the meaning of the ‘requirement for
reasonableness’ - clause by clause consideration of the unfair
term provisions of the Consumer Rights Act 2015, and with paragraph
by paragraph consideration of the potentially unfair terms in
Schedule to the Act This edition includes coverage of: - Analysis
of how the courts now interpret exclusion and liability clauses and
other contract clauses, e.g.: --- after the decisions of the
Supreme Court in Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd, and Rainy
Sky SA and others v Kookmin Bank --- the treatment of 'stringent'
exemption clauses, in the decision of Goodlife Foods Ltd V Hall
Fire Protection Ltd --- the requirement for clear wording, such as
where parties wish to avoid liability for non-fraudulent,
pre-contract (mis)representations, e.g. in the decisions in AXA Sun
Life Services pc v Campbell Martin Ltd and BSkyB Ltd v HP
Enterprise Services UK Ltd -Coverage of the changes brought about
by the Consumer Rights Act 2015, including: --- recent case law
considering the effect and interpretation of unfair terms,
particularly concerning the 'core' exemption, in the decisions of
OFT v Abbey National plc and the later ECJ cases of Kásler and
Mattei --- consideration of the list of potentially unfair terms
found in Schedule 2 to the Act and the CMA analysis of them
Legislation covered includes: - Consumer Rights Act 2015 - Unfair
Contract Terms Act 1977 - Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act
1999 - Misrepresentation Act 1967 This title is included in
Bloomsbury Professional's Company and Commercial Law online
service.
Latin America represents one of the most dynamic business regions
in the world. Innovation Support in Latin America and Europe
explores the need for training innovation professionals, identifies
appropriate strategies and best practice for ensuring its delivery,
and reflects the outcomes of a major innovation and knowledge
transfer project. Academics, business professionals, policy makers,
and trade representatives, all contribute to review the literature
and existing practices of innovation, and explore the often
misunderstood and contested terrain that surrounds innovation
theory, policy and practice. In this book you will find a
comparative insight into Latin American and European approaches to
innovation management and innovation in practice, and an
examination of how innovative ideas are exploited for a
specifically Latin American context. With chapters which offer
insights from both academics and practitioners, the text offers a
refreshing, contemporary and trans-national perspective and a
clear, concise and enriching discussion on the interplay between
research, policy and practice. Innovation Support in Latin America
and Europe will appeal to academics and researchers, higher level
students, policy makers and business leaders, particularly those
with any interest in Latin America.
For more than a century readers have found Herman Melville’s
writing rich with philosophical ideas, yet there has been
relatively little written about what, exactly, is philosophically
significant about his work and why philosophers are so attracted to
Melville in particular. This volume addresses this silence through
a series of essays that: (1) examine various philosophical contexts
for Melville’s work, (2) take seriously Melville’s writings as
philosophy, and (3) consider how modern philosophers have used
Melville and the implications of appropriating Melville for
contemporary thought. Melville among the Philosophers is ultimately
an intervention across literary studies and philosophy that carves
new paths into the work of one of America’s most celebrated
authors, a man who continues to enchant and challenge readers well
into the twenty-first century.
From Boas to Black Power investigates how U.S. cultural
anthropologists wrote about race, racism, and "America" in the 20th
century as a window into the greater project of U.S. anti-racist
liberalism. Anthropology as a discipline and the American project
share a common origin: their very foundations are built upon white
supremacy, and both are still reckoning with their racist legacies.
In this groundbreaking intellectual history of anti-racism within
twentieth-century cultural anthropology, Mark Anderson starts with
the legacy of Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict and continues through
the post-war and Black Power movement to the birth of the Black
Studies discipline, exploring the problem "America" represents for
liberal anti-racism. Anderson shows how cultural anthropology
contributed to liberal American discourses on race that
simultaneously bolstered and denied white domination. From Boas to
Black Power provides a major rethinking of anthropological
anti-racism as a project that, in step with the American racial
liberalism it helped create, paradoxically maintained white
American hegemony. Anthropologists influenced by radical political
movements of the 1960s offered the first sustained challenge to
that project, calling attention to the racial contradictions of
American liberalism reflected in anthropology. Their critiques
remain relevant for the discipline and the nation.
Graph Theory and Its Applications, Third Edition is the latest
edition of the international, bestselling textbook for
undergraduate courses in graph theory, yet it is expansive enough
to be used for graduate courses as well. The textbook takes a
comprehensive, accessible approach to graph theory, integrating
careful exposition of classical developments with emerging methods,
models, and practical needs. The authors' unparalleled treatment is
an ideal text for a two-semester course and a variety of
one-semester classes, from an introductory one-semester course to
courses slanted toward classical graph theory, operations research,
data structures and algorithms, or algebra and topology. Features
of the Third Edition Expanded coverage on several topics (e.g.,
applications of graph coloring and tree-decompositions) Provides
better coverage of algorithms and algebraic and topological graph
theory than any other text Incorporates several levels of carefully
designed exercises that promote student retention and develop and
sharpen problem-solving skills Includes supplementary exercises to
develop problem-solving skills, solutions and hints, and a detailed
appendix, which reviews the textbook's topics About the Authors
Jonathan L. Gross is a professor of computer science at Columbia
University. His research interests include topology and graph
theory. Jay Yellen is a professor of mathematics at Rollins
College. His current areas of research include graph theory,
combinatorics, and algorithms. Mark Anderson is also a mathematics
professor at Rollins College. His research interest in graph theory
centers on the topological or algebraic side.
Garifuna live in Central America, primarily Honduras, and the
United States. Identified as Black by others and by themselves,
they also claim indigenous status and rights in Latin America.
Examining this set of paradoxes, Mark Anderson shows how, on the
one hand, Garifuna embrace discourses of tradition, roots, and a
paradigm of ethnic political struggle. On the other hand, Garifuna
often affirm blackness through assertions of African roots and
affiliations with Blacks elsewhere, drawing particularly on popular
images of U.S. blackness embodied by hip-hop music and culture.
"Black and Indigenous" explores the politics of race and culture
among Garifuna in Honduras as a window into the active relations
among multiculturalism, consumption, and neoliberalism in the
Americas. Based on ethnographic work, Anderson questions
perspectives that view indigeneity and blackness, nativist
attachments and diasporic affiliations, as mutually exclusive
paradigms of representation, being, and belonging.
As Anderson reveals, within contemporary struggles of race,
ethnicity, and culture, indigeneity serves as a normative model for
collective rights, while blackness confers a status of subaltern
cosmopolitanism. Indigeneity and blackness, he concludes, operate
as unstable, often ambivalent, and sometimes overlapping modes
through which people both represent themselves and negotiate
oppression.
Latin America represents one of the most dynamic business regions
in the world. Innovation Support in Latin America and Europe
explores the need for training innovation professionals, identifies
appropriate strategies and best practice for ensuring its delivery,
and reflects the outcomes of a major innovation and knowledge
transfer project. Academics, business professionals, policy makers,
and trade representatives, all contribute to review the literature
and existing practices of innovation, and explore the often
misunderstood and contested terrain that surrounds innovation
theory, policy and practice. In this book you will find a
comparative insight into Latin American and European approaches to
innovation management and innovation in practice, and an
examination of how innovative ideas are exploited for a
specifically Latin American context. With chapters which offer
insights from both academics and practitioners, the text offers a
refreshing, contemporary and trans-national perspective and a
clear, concise and enriching discussion on the interplay between
research, policy and practice. Innovation Support in Latin America
and Europe will appeal to academics and researchers, higher level
students, policy makers and business leaders, particularly those
with any interest in Latin America.
Pure: Modernity, Philosophy, and the One is an experimental work of
philosophy in which the author aspires to think his way back to a
"premodern" worldview derived from the philosophical tradition of
Platonism. To this end he attempts to identify and elucidate the
fundamental intellectual assumptions of modernity and to subject
these assumptions to a critical evaluation from the perspective of
Platonic metaphysics. The author addresses a broad range of
subjects - from ethics, politics, metaphysics, and science to the
philosophies of Plato, Plotinus, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche -
without losing sight of the single aim of formulating a premodern
perspective in opposition to modernity. The work culminates in a
series of essays on the practice of purification, a form of
intellectual and spiritual discipline acknowledged by ancient and
medieval philosophers alike to be a necessary preliminary to
metaphysical insight. Pure is informed throughout by rigorous
scholarship, but it is not an "academic" work. The author avoids
the plodding and professorial tone typical of contemporary
philosophical research in favor of a meditative and aphoristic
style. The book, in short, is learned without being pedantic.
Readers interested in the history of philosophy and the
intellectual roots of the crisis of modernity will find in Pure
substantial matter for reflection.
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access to any online entitlements included with the product.
Leverage your Oracle DBA skills on Microsoft SQL Server
2008Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration for Oracle DBAs shows
you how to use your experience as an Oracle DBA to get up to speed
quickly on the Microsoft SQL Server platform. Authors with
real-world expertise in both Oracle and SQL Server introduce you to
fundamental concepts, such as SQL Server architecture and core
administration, before guiding you through advanced techniques,
including performance optimization, high availability and disaster
recovery. Platform comparisons, on-the-job examples, and answers to
questions raised by Oracle DBAs learning the SQL Server environment
help build your skills. This practical guide shows you how to:
Identify the components of the SQL Server platform Understand SQL
Server architecture Install and configure SQL Server software and
client components Define and manage database objects Implement and
administer database security Monitor, identify, and resolve
performance issues Design and implement high availability, system
backup, and disaster recovery strategies Automate SQL Server using
built-in scheduling and alerting capabilities Import and export
data to and from SQL Server and other RDBMS platforms Upgrade
existing SQL Server installations and migrate Oracle databases to
SQL Server
From Boas to Black Power investigates how U.S. cultural
anthropologists wrote about race, racism, and "America" in the 20th
century as a window into the greater project of U.S. anti-racist
liberalism. Anthropology as a discipline and the American project
share a common origin: their very foundations are built upon white
supremacy, and both are still reckoning with their racist legacies.
In this groundbreaking intellectual history of anti-racism within
twentieth-century cultural anthropology, Mark Anderson starts with
the legacy of Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict and continues through
the post-war and Black Power movement to the birth of the Black
Studies discipline, exploring the problem "America" represents for
liberal anti-racism. Anderson shows how cultural anthropology
contributed to liberal American discourses on race that
simultaneously bolstered and denied white domination. From Boas to
Black Power provides a major rethinking of anthropological
anti-racism as a project that, in step with the American racial
liberalism it helped create, paradoxically maintained white
American hegemony. Anthropologists influenced by radical political
movements of the 1960s offered the first sustained challenge to
that project, calling attention to the racial contradictions of
American liberalism reflected in anthropology. Their critiques
remain relevant for the discipline and the nation.
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