“…In Athena Unbound, Peter Baldwin offers an up-to-date look at the ideals and history behind OA, and unpacks the controversies that arise when the dream of limitless information slams into entrenched interests in favor of the status quo. …”

“…Do you know where to get a policy or what to look for in one? Did you know more people will now qualify for free or subsidized healthcare? …”

“…This book is the first to provide strategies for effective advocacy and placement within the foster care and kinship care systems. It also takes a rare look at the dynamics of the foster and kinship relationship, not just among children and the agency workers and service providers who intervene on their behalf, but also between children and those who take in and care for them as permanency develops. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Supersymmetry; 10. A first look at supersymmetry breaking; 11. The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model; 12. …”

“…Theorises how people can judge and respond to their complicity in injustice and violenceAddresses the urgent challenge of how people can respond to widespread complicity in injustice, including phenomena such as racism, social inequality, and the destruction of the environmentCombines Hannah Arendt's account of political judgement and Margaret Archer's theory of social conditioning to throw new light on the problem of complicity from a critical theory and a moral-legal philosophical perspectiveProvides a case study of plastic pollution to illustrate what an improved way of judging complicity might look likeAnalyses the interviews and writings of Nobel Laureate Herta Müller, whose complex relationship with complicity during the Romanian dictatorship constitutes an example of good judgement on complicityHow can those profiting from inequality, racism, human rights violations and climate change respond to their complicity in injustice and violence? …”

“…A rare look at the role of special effects in creating fictional worlds and transmedia franchises From comic book universes crowded with soaring superheroes and shattering skyscrapers to cosmic empires set in far-off galaxies, today’s fantasy blockbusters depend on visual effects. …”

“…Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this edited volume brings together a diverse range of contributions to look beyond the strictly mathematical view of modelling and instead examine the social nature of models, their biases and responsibilities…”

“…These are used when implementing image processing for the system applications. You’ll then look at interfacing techniques and some of the challenges industrial vision systems encounter, such as lighting and camera angles. …”

“…This book abandons these transitological, sometimes one-dimensional, one-size-fits-all approaches by not reifying a priori defined categories but rather approaching it by long-term ethnographic fieldwork and thus the book takes a look behind the façade of a much-cited concept and allows for a deeper understanding of Russian society Die russische ‚Mittelschicht‘ ist ein seit dem Ende der Sowjetunion viel beachtetes Forschungsthema, was sich v. a. durch die ihr zugeschriebene gesellschaftspolitische Rolle als Katalysator demokratiepolitischer und marktwirtschaftlicher Transformationen im postsozialistischen Russland motiviert. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Making an Error Behave the Way You Want -- Part 2 Doing the Math -- Chapter 5 Calculating Loan Payments and Interest Rates -- Understanding How Excel Handles Money -- Going with the cash flow -- Formatting for currency -- Choosing separators -- Figuring Loan Calculations -- Calculating the payment amount -- Calculating interest payments -- Calculating payments toward principal -- Calculating the number of payments -- Calculating the number of payments with PDURATION -- Calculating the interest rate -- Calculating the principal -- Chapter 6 Appreciating What You'll Get, Depreciating What You've Got -- Looking into the Future -- Depreciating the Finer Things in Life -- Calculating straight-line depreciation -- Creating an accelerated depreciation schedule -- Creating an even faster accelerated depreciation schedule -- Calculating a midyear depreciation schedule -- Measuring Your Internals -- Chapter 7 Using Basic Math Functions -- Adding It All Together with the SUM Function -- Rounding Out Your Knowledge -- Just plain old rounding -- Rounding in one direction -- Leaving All Decimals Behind with INT -- Leaving Some Decimals Behind with TRUNC -- Looking for a Sign -- Ignoring Signs -- Chapter 8 Advancing Your Math -- Using PI to Calculate Circumference and Diameter -- Generating and Using Random Numbers -- The all-purpose RAND function -- Precise randomness with RANDBETWEEN -- Ordering Items -- Combining -- Raising Numbers to New Heights -- Multiplying Multiple Numbers -- Using What Remains with the MOD Function -- Summing Things Up -- Using SUBTOTAL -- Using SUMPRODUCT -- Using SUMIF and SUMIFS -- Getting an Angle on Trigonometry -- Three basic trigonometry functions -- Degrees and radians -- Part 3 Solving with Statistics -- Chapter 9 Throwing Statistics a Curve -- Getting Stuck in the Middle with AVERAGE, MEDIAN, and MODE -- Deviating from the Middle…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Corporate Game Plan: Be Mission-Driven and Collect Big Data -- What Common Core Can Teach Us (Even if It Didn't Teach the Kids) -- Chapter 5 The Continental Connection Drift -- A Tale of Two Childhoods -- And Then COVID Made Things Worse -- The Rot Goes Deeper -- We're Looking for Our Tribe, but Often Bowling Alone -- The United States of Screens -- Problems Within Problems -- Corporate America and the Attention Economy -- Fallout -- Nonprofits Remain Unspared -- How Corporations Overcame Atomization -- Radical Connection Is the Answer -- Shifting from the Transactional to the Relational -- Part II Our Solution -- Chapter 6 Decoding Generosity -- The Shaving Shellacking -- Aristotle Raised Questions We Can Now Answer -- Demystifying Giving -- Changing Minds Required -- Radical Connection Can Move Mountains -- Radical Connection in the Creator Economy -- Radical Connection with Everyone Is Impossible -- The Four Rules of Radical Connection -- How One Company Builds Radical Connections -- Unprecedented Precision -- Unprecedented Personalization -- One More Thing: Stop Looking at Companies as the Bad Guys -- Chapter 7 When Generosity Is Good for Business-and Society -- Turning Over a New Leaf at TD Ameritrade -- Insights -- Profit -- People -- Planet -- Why the Triple Bottom Line Matters -- Social Responsibility Forms Radical Connection -- Deep Connection -- Inducing Joy, Meaning, and Purpose -- How Something Can Become Part of Your Legacy -- Even So, Social Responsibility Must Be Done Right -- How to Keep Things Authentic -- Why Nonprofits Should Embrace Socially Responsible Companies -- But Never Forget the Employees -- Chapter 8 Making Generosity Personal -- Personally Gaining by Embracing Radical Connection -- Helping Ourselves-Through Helping Others -- It Leads to Personal Health Benefits -- It Builds and Strengthens Communities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Naming the factors affecting your use of retirement assets -- How Spending Really Changes in Retirement -- Managing Your Expenses -- Bigger-picture issues -- Taxes -- Housing -- Utilities and communication -- Food -- Transportation -- Personal care and fashion -- Travel and fun -- Healthcare -- Insurance -- Children and grandchildren -- Chapter 7 Guiding Investments and Distributions in Retirement -- Guiding Your Investments through Retirement -- Estimating your investment income -- Rebalancing your investments -- Looking Closer at Annuities -- Annuities: A retirement account and insurance combination -- Contributing in your working years -- Annuitizing in your retirement years -- Examining the newest annuity -- Choosing Your Pension Options -- Selecting between a lump sum or monthly payments -- Deciding among monthly payment options -- Eyeing Withdrawal Strategies for Your Investment Accounts -- Chapter 8 Making Important Housing Decisions -- Analyzing Moving -- Considering the pros and cons of moving -- Eyeing the options for where you can move -- Tapping Your Home's Equity: Reverse Mortgages -- Defining terms and costs -- Determining whether a reverse mortgage is right for you -- Searching for more information on reverse mortgages -- Looking at Tax Issues Regarding Your Housing Decisions -- Being aware of capital gains exclusion rules -- Converting your home to a rental: Yes or no? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Celebrating Palm Sunday or looking ahead on Passion Sunday -- 6. Maundy Thursday: Recalling the Last Supper -- 7. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Hunter Vaughan -- Hitchcock's 'good-looking blondes': first glimpses and second glances / Ian Scott Todd -- Family resemblances: (en)gendering Claire Denis, Nicole Garcia, and Agnès Jaoui's film titles / Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly -- Return of the female gothic: the career-woman-in-peril thriller / Monica Soare -- Mille genres: woman and women, horror film and horror films / Chuck Robinson -- A feminist theorization of Sofia Coppola's postfeminist trilogy / Amy Woodworth -- Laisse tomber les filles: (post)-feminism in Quentin Tarantino's Death proof / Jeremi Szaniawski -- Duras ravaged, ravished-- ravishing / Georgiana M.M. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…: 'what do you want from me?' -- Looking through the fantasy window -- The ethnic fantasy -- The ethics of fantasy -- -- After Zizek -- The curse of Jacques: limitations on the influence of Zizek -- Leftism -- Universal criticism -- The retroactive Zizek…”
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