“…As a sought-after speechwriter, Smith had a front-row seat at some of the most important events of the twentieth century, meeting with Robert Kennedy and Richard Nixon, advising Governor Ronald Reagan, writing for President Ford, serving as a campaign manager for a major U.S. senator's reelection campaign, and writing speeches for a contender for the Republican nomination for president. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Thinking interpretively : philosophical presuppositions and the human sciences / Dvora Yanow -- Contending conceptions of science and politics : methodology and the Constitution of the political / Mary Hawkesworth -- Generalization in comparative and historical social science : the difference that interpretivism makes / Robert Adcock -- Neither rigorous nor objective? …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The prayer of apostle Paul; The apocryphon of James; The gospel of truth; The treatise on the resurrection; The tripartitte tractate -- The apocryphon of John; The gospel of Thomas; The gospel of philip; The hypostasis of the Archons; On the origin of the world; The expository treatise on the soul; The book of Thomas the contender; The gospel of the Egyptians -- Eugnostos the blessed and the Sophia of Jesus Christ. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…An Overview of the 2013 Federal Election Campaign: Ruinous politics, cynical adversarialism and contending agendas; 2. The Battle for Hearts and Minds; 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; About the Editors; Introduction: International Politics and International Economics; CONTENDING PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY; State Power and the Structure of International Trade; The Political Economy of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff; Institutions and Economic Growth: A Historical Introduction; States, Firms, and Diplomacy; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES; The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe; International Trade, Domestic Coalitions, and Liberty: Comparative Responses to the Crisis of 1873-896…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Customer Feedback -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Big Data Science Ecosystem -- Introducing the Big Data ecosystem -- Data management -- Data management responsibilities -- The right tool for the job -- Overall architecture -- Data Ingestion -- Data Lake -- Reliable storage -- Scalable data processing capability -- Data science platform -- Data Access -- Data technologies -- The role of Apache Spark -- Companion tools -- Apache HDFS -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Installation -- Amazon S3 -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Installation -- Apache Kafka -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Installation -- Apache Parquet -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Installation -- Apache Avro -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Installation -- Apache NiFi -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Installation -- Apache YARN -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Installation -- Apache Lucene -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Installation -- Kibana -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Installation -- Elasticsearch -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Installation -- Accumulo -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Installation -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Data Acquisition -- Data pipelines -- Universal ingestion framework -- Introducing the GDELT news stream -- Discovering GDELT in real-time -- Our first GDELT feed -- Improving with publish and subscribe -- Content registry -- Choices and more choices -- Going with the flow -- Metadata model -- Kibana dashboard -- Quality assurance -- [Example 1 - Basic quality checking, no contending users] -- Example 1 - Basic quality checking, no contending users -- Example 2 - Advanced quality checking, no contending users -- Example 3 - Basic quality checking, 50% utility due to contending users -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Crisis of the Mantuan Succession -- 2. The Contenders…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Exposure; The response to risk: risk compensation; Homo prudens and free will; Risk: an interactive phenomenon; Problems of measurement; Varieties or uncertainty; 3 Patterns in Uncertainty; The world's largest industry; Patterns in uncertainty; Myths of human nature; Divergent perspectives on environmental threats: an example of the cultural construction of risk; The four rationalities as contending paradigms…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Future of ASEAN Sovereignty?; Contending explanations for sovereignty violation in Southeast Asia; Vanguard state theory; Dynamics of state interaction; ASEAN, intervention and the responsibility to protect; References; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…How Christ appeared to Him in the Shape of a Seraph, and taught Him how to Suffer ""; ""XLIV. How Firmly He must contend Who would win the Spiritual Prize ""; ""XLV. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Capturing the Consumer OpportunityCapturing the Infrastructure Opportunity; The New Agenda for Emerging-Market Growth; Chapter 9 What the West Doesn't Get about China; How Multinationals Should Navigate the Emerging China; Chapter 10 The African Challengers; A Fresh Perspective; African Contenders; Keys to Success; The Global Challenge; Looking Ahead; Part III Connected; Chapter 11 The Digital Manifesto; A Shifting Center of Gravity; The Internet Meets Main Street; A Digital Future; The CEO's Agenda: Building the Digital Balance Sheet; The Policy Maker's Agenda: Keeping the Internet Moving…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Object Database PitfallsTangram; Tangram CRUD: create, read, update, delete; Database Abstraction; Trivial Mapping; Class::DBI; Relationships; Class::DBI extensions; Other Contenders; Practical Uses in Web Applications; Class::DBI and the Template Toolkit; Maypole; Other Application Frameworks; Conclusion; Natural Language Tools; Perl and Natural Languages; Handling English Text; Pluralizations and Inflections; Converting Words to Numbers; Modules for Parsing English; Splitting Up Text; Stemming and Stopwording; Categorization and Extraction; Bayesian Analysis; Keyword Extraction and Summary…”

“…The Palm Pre offers features that make it a top contender in the smartphone market. Its webOS system is designed for a touchscreen-based graphical user interface that fa…”

“…Seeing as how it's relatively easy to create stunning presentations and visuals, Unreal has quickly become a strong contender in industries where this kind of software had been previously denied entry…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conceptualizing the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy / Frank Schimmelfennig -- EU actorness and the European Neighbourhood Policy / Arne Niemann and Nils Hoffmann -- The challenge of analysing the performance of the European Neighbourhood Policy / Dorina Baltag and Iulian Romanyshyn -- Power and leadership in the European neighbourhood: contending role concepts / Lisbeth Aggestam -- Realism and the European Neighbourhood Policy / Adrian Hyde-Price -- Constructivist approaches to the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy / Petr Kratochvil and Elsa Tulmets -- The study of the European Neighbourhood Policy through the lenses of critical approaches / Åsne Kalland Aarstad and Niklas Bremberg -- Methodological and theoretical challenges to the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy / Theofanis Exadaktylos -- Legal perspectives on the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy / Peter Van Elsuwege and Roman Petrov -- The construction and deconstruction of the EU's neighbourhood / Christopher Browning -- Of borders and boundaries. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating multiple threads -- Locking one thread until contended resources are available -- Invoking parallel calls to methods using Parallel.Invoke -- Using a parallel foreach loop -- Cancelling a parallel foreach loop -- Catching errors in parallel foreach loops -- Debugging multiple threads -- Chapter 8: Code Contracts -- Introduction -- Downloading, installing, and integrating code contracts into Visual Studio -- Creating code contract preconditions -- Creating code contract postconditions -- Creating code contract invariant -- Creating code contract Assert and Assume methods -- Creating code contract ForAll method -- Creating code contract ValueAtReturn method -- Creating code contract Result method -- Using code contracts on abstract classes -- Using contract abbreviator methods -- Creating tests using IntelliTest -- Using code contracts in extension methods -- Chapter 9: Regular Expressions -- Introduction -- Getting started with regex -- Matching a valid date -- Sanitizing input -- Dynamic regex matching -- Chapter 10: Choosing and Using a Source Control Strategy -- Introduction -- Setting up Visual Studio account management and determining which source control is best for you -- Setting up Visual Studio GitHub integration, checking in code for the first time, and checking in changes -- Working as a team using GitHub, and handling and resolving conflicts in code -- Chapter 11: Creating a Mobile Application in Visual Studio -- Introduction -- Installing Xamarin and other required components -- Creating an Android Visual Studio project using Apache Cordova -- Creating an iOS application using Xamarin Forms -- Chapter 12: Writing Secure Code and Debugging in Visual Studio -- Introduction -- Encrypting and storing passwords correctly -- Using SecureString in code -- Securing sensitive parts of App.config/web.config…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front cover -- Global Neoliberal Capitalism and the Alternatives: From Social Democracy to State Capitalisms -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Critiques of global capitalism -- The alternatives -- Neoliberalism and the alternatives -- Organisation of the book -- 2 Global Neoliberalism and What It Means -- The economic basis of neoliberalism -- Liberalism as a comprehensive ideology -- Maintaining stability and promoting progress -- The individual and society -- The rule of law -- The neoliberal social system -- Financialisation and speculation -- The regulatory role of the state -- Self- regulating markets -- Conclusion -- 3 Neoliberalism: A Critique -- Psychological subjectivism -- Catallaxy and the fulfilment of wants -- Economic outcomes are not optimal -- Ownership and control -- Global economic crisis -- Political power and possessive individualism -- Conclusion -- Part I Socialist Contenders and Their Demise -- 4 Socialist Visions -- Socialism as a normative order -- Socialism defined -- Marxism and socialism -- The state socialist alternative -- The planned economy: the theory -- Justification of a planned economy -- Embedding planning in society -- Conclusion -- 5 The State Socialist Challenge and Its Market Socialist Critics -- Building the basis of socialist society -- The rise of state socialism -- Economic and social consequences of modernisation -- Criticism of the planning system -- State socialism: an appraisal -- Market socialism in theory -- Participatory socialist planning -- The limits to reform under state socialism -- 6 The Decay of Social Democracy -- The social democratic post-Second World War alternative -- The statist credentials of the British Labour Party -- The transformation of Western social democracy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- BEYOND CYBERSECURITY -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- 1 Cyber‐attacks Jeopardize Companies' Pace of Innovation -- Risk of Cyber‐attacks Reduces the Value of Technology for Business -- Lower Frontline Productivity -- Less Money for IT Initiatives that Create Value -- Slower Adoption of New Technologies -- The Risks Are High for Everyone, Every where -- Companies Must Contend with a Wide Range of Risks and Threats -- The Risks Are Strategic -- Defenders Are Falling Behind Attackers -- Technology Changes Favor Attackers -- Attacker's Jurisdictional Advantage -- The Resources Available to State‐Sponsored Attackers -- State‐Level Capabilities Being More Widely Disseminated -- The Global Market for Cyber‐attacks -- Institutions Lack the Insights to Make Intelligent Cybersecurity Decisions -- Sector, Size, and Spend Make No Difference to Cyber‐risk Management Maturity -- 2 It Could Get Better-or 3 Trillion Worse -- Scenario Planning and Cybersecurity -- What's at Stake? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Junqueira, Tomas Huanca, Esther Conde -- "Not like it used to be": contending with the altered agricultural calendar in Andean Peru's Colca Valley / Eric Hirsch -- The colonial roots of climate vulnerability. …”