“…Experience the beauty of tree structures, binary search trees, and graphs, understanding their traversal and practical applications. Writing code is just half the battle. Understanding the efficiency and optimization of your code is paramount. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Preamble -- 1 Realism -- 1.1 Cosmic Zoom -- From Hardy to Spielberg -- The Powers of Ten -- NGC 4889 -- El Presente no Existe -- Software Zooms and Zoom Software -- Microscopy at the Movies -- 1.2 Blackfriars Bridge, 1896 -- Ancestors -- Hierarchies -- Victorian Anthropocene -- Ontology and Oblivion -- 1.3 The Remaining Tasks of Realism: Rue Cases-Nègres -- Scientific and Embodied Realism -- The Raw Materials of History Are Not Raw -- Realism and Communication -- Autonomy and Allonomy -- Histories of Reality -- 'The Look of a Room' -- Seven Tasks -- A Digression on Mermaids -- 2 Data Visualisation -- Space and time -- In C -- Temporealities, Temporamentalities and Chronoclasms -- River Monitoring -- Flash Crash: Instrument -- Seismography: Imagination -- Pandemic: From Disaster to Crisis -- A Digression on Angels -- 3 Glitch -- Solar Observatory -- A Disturbance of Memory -- Infernal Affairs: Non-identity and Integral Glitch -- The Departed: Gangster Economics -- Authenticity and Illusion -- Forgetting -- A Digression on Cats -- 4 Abstraction -- The Condition of Music -- De Stijl: Cosmos and Commodity -- QR and Unhappiness -- Mortality and Distribution -- 5 Coda -- Consideration -- Manifesto -- Notes -- References -- Links -- Index…”

“…Welcome to Understanding Organizations . . . Finally! For half a century, Mintzberg has been observing organizations, advising them, engaging them, and escaping them. …”

“…On average, organizations today have experienced at least five major company-wide changes in the last three years, and nearly 75% expect to increase the types of major change initiatives they will undertake in the next three years. But about half of change initiatives fail, while only 34% report clear success. …”

“…About the Software Architecture Superstream Series: This six-part series of half-day online events focuses on the hottest topics in software architecture, giving you the insights to keep pace with what's next while still accommodating legacy needs. …”

“…About the Strata Data Superstream Series: This recording of a four-part series of half-day online events gives viewers an overarching perspective of key topics that will help your organization maximize the business impact of your data…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Language matters / Vijay Agnew -- Memories of internment: narrating Japanese-Canadian women's life stories / Pamela Sugiman -- Wounding events and the limits of autobiography / Marlene Kadar -- Memoirs of a Sirdar's daughter in Canada: hybridity and writing home / Rishma Dunlop -- Ghosts and shadows: memory and resilience among the Eritrean diaspora / Atsuko Matsuoka and John Sorenson -- A diasporic bounty: cultural history and heritage / Vijay Agnew -- Diaspora and cultural memory / Anh Hua -- Gendered nostalgia: the experiences of new Chinese skilled immigrants in Canada / Izumi Sakamoto and Yanqiu Rachel Zhou -- "I fell like a Trini": narrative of a generation-and-a-half Canadian / Carl E. James -- The "Muslim" diaspora and research on gender: promises and perils / Haideh Moghissi -- The quest for the soul in the diaspora / Vijay Agnew…”

“…The first part analyzes both cognitive linguistics' challenge to standard theological depictions of metaphorical, analogous, symbolic, and literal language, and the discipline's promise for providing a more satisfactory account. The second half examines six case studies to illustrate how clarifying the conceptual mapping in God-talk and theological inferences provides a powerful tool for advancing religious understanding. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sahagún's education and Franciscan training in Spain -- Sahagún's intellectual origins : from early education to the university of Salamanca -- Sahagún's religious education : the Friary of San Francisco -- Sahagún and the spiritual conquest of New Spain -- The Imperial College of Santa Cruz in Santiago de Tlatelolco -- Sahagún's composition of linguistic and doctrinal works in Nahuatl -- Books on antiquities and geographical accounts -- Sahagún's intellectual models for the composition of Historia universal -- Sahagún and the encyclopaedic tradition -- The influence of Christian works on Historia universal -- Inquisitorial techniques as Sahagún's method of data collection -- The Inquisition in Spain and New Spain during the first half of the sixteenth-century -- Olmos and Sahagún's application of the inquisitorial techniques to the collection of indigenous data -- The origin of Sahagún's questions -- The composition of Historia universal : Sahagún, the respondents, and the assistants -- The Nahua respondents' role -- The Nahua assistants' role -- Sahagún's role…”

“…In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. …”

“…In neuroscience, like other forms of inquiry, the investigations are difficult, the fall downward from unreasonable expectation is too easy - a mere half neuron away. Disappointment is a real fact at all levels.We have known for over a thousand years that the brain underlies behavioral expression, but effective scientific study of the brain is only very recent. …”

“…Approximately half of the total UK population are in receipt of one or more welfare benefits, giving rise to the largest single area of government expenditure. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Florentine secretary -- A shadowy period : the first half of his life -- The relationship with Savonarola -- The activity in the Chancery -- The correspondence with functionaries of the domain -- Diplomatic activity -- The experience of the early missions -- Changes of fortune and the Ghiribizzi al Soderino -- The Florentine ordinance -- The Venetian defeat and the reconquest of Pisa -- The end of the republic and the return of the Medici -- Part II. …”

“…The public dimension of the body became paramount in the first half of the 20th century, when the image of the modern man, with his virile stereotypes, became a cliché, in strict connection with nation building first and totalitarian ideologies later. …”

“…Contributors outline Austria's political decline during the last half of the nineteenth century, Austrian inability to restore the monarchist system during the first republic, the slide of conservatives and socialists to National Socialism, reactions to National Socialism between 1938 and 1945, and the reconstruction of republicanism since 1945, with its emphasis on political conservatism. …”