Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reflections on TV : the most popular art / Horace Newcomb -- A cultural approach to television genre theory / Jason Mittell -- Television networks and the uses of drama / Christopher Anderson -- The changing face of children's television / Norma Pecora -- Five decades and three hundred sitcoms about class and gender / Richard Butsch -- Soap opera survival tactics / Ellen Seiter and Mary Jeanne Wilson -- Beyond genre : cable's impact on the talk show / Jeffrey P. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…THE NEGRO WANTS FIRST-CLASS CITIZENSHIP, -- by Rayford W. Logan -- 2. MY EVOLVING PROGRAM FOR NEGRO FREEDOM, -- by W. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Stearns -- Family and childhood -- The cute child and modern American parenting / Gary Cross -- Abduction stories that changed our lives: from Charley Ross to modern behavior / Paula Fass -- "If they have any orders, I am theirs to command": indulgent middle-class grandparents in American society / Linda W. …”

“…Intended primarily for students taking a first class in metaphysics, this lucid and well-written text would also provide an excellent introduction for anyone interested in knowing more about this important area of philosophy…”

“…The text also includes key terms and questions to ponder for every chapter, and concludes with an in-class learning activity that can be used to encourage students to explore the media–religion interface and review the essential ideas presented in the book…”

“…Identities in the Hispanic world are deeply intertwined with sociological concepts such as class and estate, with geographical-religious elements (i.e. the mixing of Spanish Catholics with converted Jews, Muslims, Dutch and German Protestants), and with issues related to the ethnic diversity of the world's first transatlantic empire and its various miscegenations. …”

“…As German bombs fall over London in 1940, working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible choice: they decide to send their eleven-year-old daughter, Beatrix, to America. …”

“…However, coalitions favoring quality reforms in education are usually weak because parents are dispersed, business is not interested, and much of the middle class has exited public education. In Routes to Reform, Ben Ross Schneider examines education policy throughout Latin America to show that reforms to improve learning--especially making teacher careers more meritocratic and less political--are possible. …”

“…During the period understudy, more than one hundred remarkably diverse utopian narratives writtenby women were published on both sides of the Atlantic: feminist and antifeminist,socialist and capitalist; placed in Kentucky, in London, at the North Pole,or on Mars; set in the past, present, future, or outside of time altogether.The value of these narratives is incalculable, for they provide insightinto how a homogeneous group of women (sharing an Anglo-Saxon heritageand middle-class status) at a particular historical moment imagined whatmen and women might be like if freed from the tyranny of custom and contemporaryvalues. …”

“…To find out, Denby sat in on a tenth-grade English class in a demanding New York public school for an entire academic year, and made frequent visits to a troubled inner-city public school in New Haven and to a respected public school in Westchester County. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The future is history : hip-hop in the aftermath of (post) modernity / Russell Potter ; Everyday people : popular music, race, and the articulation and formation of class identity / James Smethurst ; Gender as anomaly : women in rap / Gail Woldu -- The problems of place. …”

“…Paradoxically, government policies have reinvigorated working-class militancy, spawned local industrial clusters and re-embedded the economy in the spatial and social structure of the neighborhood…”
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“…In his bestselling book Shop class as soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. …”

“…Providing real-life examples of classrooms and schools that work towards championing child artists, this text arms teachers with the skills necessary to listen to their students and support them in presenting their ideas in class. Ultimately, Szekely challenges readers to focus the practice of art teaching on the student's creative process, rather than the teacher's presentation of art. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: New Features in C# 6.0 -- Introduction -- Creating your Visual Studio project -- String interpolation -- Null-conditional operator -- Initializers for auto-implemented properties and getter-only auto properties -- Index initializers -- The nameof expressions -- Expression-bodied functions and properties -- Using static -- Exception filters -- Await in catch and finally blocks -- Chapter 2: Classes and Generics -- Introduction -- Creating and implementing an abstract class -- Creating and implementing an interface -- Creating and using a generic class or method -- Creating and using a generic interface -- Chapter 3: Object-Oriented Programming in C# -- Introduction -- Using inheritance in C# -- Using abstraction -- Leveraging encapsulation -- Implementing polymorphism -- Single responsibility principle -- Open/closed principle -- Chapter 4: Composing Event-Based Programs Using Reactive Extensions -- Introduction -- Installing Rx -- Events versus observables -- Using LINQ to perform queries -- Using schedulers in Rx -- Debugging lambda expressions -- Chapter 5: Create Microservices on Azure Service Fabric -- Introduction -- Downloading and installing Service Fabric -- Creating a Service Fabric application with a stateless actor service -- Using Service Fabric Explorer -- Chapter 6: Making Apps Responsive with Asynchronous Programming -- Introduction -- Return types of asynchronous functions -- Handling tasks in asynchronous programming -- Exception handling in asynchronous programming -- Chapter 7: High Performance Programming sing Parallel and Multithreading in C# -- Introduction -- Creating and aborting a low priority background thread -- Increasing maximum thread pool size…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.7 Computer control; References and Further reading; Chapter 4. Topologies, classes and modes; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Germanium and early junctions; 4.3 Silicon transistors; 4.4 True symmetry: the sequel; 4.5 Introducing bridging; 4.6 Class-ification; 4.7 Introducing higher classes; 4.8 Beyond analogue; 4.9 Class summary; 4.10 Introducing modes of control; 4.11 Conclusions; References and Further reading; Chapter 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Puzzle 91: Serial Killer -- Puzzle 92: Twisted Pair -- Puzzle 93: Class Warfare -- Puzzle 94: Lost in the Shuffle -- Puzzle 95: Just Desserts -- A: Catalog of Traps and Pitfalls -- B: Notes on the Illusions -- References -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; A Historical Account; Pearson's Sum and Pearson-Fisher Test; 2.1 Pearson's chi-squared sum; 2.2 Decompositions of Pearson's chi-squared sum; 2.3 Neyman-Pearson classes and applications of decompositions of Pearson's sum; 2.4 Pearson-Fisher and Dzhaparidze-Nikulin tests; 2.5 Chernoff-Lehmann theorem; 2.6 Pearson-Fisher test for random class end points; Wald's Method and Nikulin-Rao-Robson Test; 3.1 Wald's method; 3.2 Modifications of Nikulin-Rao-Robson Test; 3.3 Optimality of Nikulin-Rao-Robson Test…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Philosophy of the Constitution -- Structure of Government at Union Level -- Power of the President -- Legislative Powers -- Administrative Powers -- Diplomatic Powers -- Military Powers -- Judicial Powers -- Emergency Powers -- Parliament -- Rajya Sabha -- Lok Sabha -- Functions of the Parliament (Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha) -- Parliamentary Committees -- Standing Committees -- Ad hoc Committees -- Decline of the Indian Parliament -- Prime Minister and Coalition Politics -- Judiciary -- Judicial Review -- Judicial Activism -- Judicial Corruption -- Judicial Accountability -- Structure of Government at State Level -- The State Legislature -- Local Government: The Third Tier of the Federal Structure -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Chapter 4: Power Structure in India: Institutional and Social (Caste, Dalit - Bahujan, Class, Patriarchy) -- Part 1 Caste System in India -- Varna and Jati -- Historical Perspective of Caste System -- Caste and politics in India -- The Politics of Reservation -- Caste in the Present Context -- Part 2 Class in India -- Class - Introduction -- Determinants of Class -- Caste Versus Class -- Caste Class Nexus in Indian Society -- Conclusion -- Part 3 Class and Patriarchy -- Patriarchy - Introduction -- Origin and Development -- Structures of Patriarchy -- Indian Patriarchy -- Empowerment of Women in India -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Chapter 5: Federalism in India in Comparative Perspective with Special Reference to Canada -- Understanding Federalism -- Meaning and Definitions -- General Features of Federalism -- Federal Features of the Indian Constitution -- Federal Features of the Canadian Constitution -- The Phases of Federalism in India and Canada -- Phase I: Indian Federalism Under One Party Dominance (1947-1967) -- Phase II: Under Indira Gandhi Administration (1967-1977)…”