Tabla de Contenidos: “…How the "Experts" Got It So Wrong; More Wrong Predictions; Predictions from Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson-We Trust These Officials with Our Economy; Where We Have Been Wrong; Chapter 3: Phase 1: The Bubbles Begin to Burst Pop Go the Housing, Stock, Private Debt, and Spending Bubbles; Bubbles "R" Us: A Quick Review of America's Bubble Economy; The Real Estate Bubble; The Stock Market Bubble; The Private Debt Bubble; The Discretionary Spending Bubble; The Dollar Bubble; The Government Debt Bubble…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Moving toward Student Engagement as the Center of Instructional ImprovementData Don't Tell Us Everything; Building Instructional and Data Use Knowledge and Skills: Challenges and Supports; Teacher Development; Systemic Support; To Sum Up; Chapter 6: Facing the Future with Data-Informed Leadership; Call #1: Use Data to Support a Culture of Inquiry and Continuous Improvement; Call #2: Use Knowledge of the Four Ps in Planning Reform Efforts; Call #3: Build Trust in the Process of Data Use; Call #4: Build Skills and Knowledge for Data Use…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…If You Don't Know Where You're Going; Developing a Challenging Influence Objective; The Value of Persistence; Chapter 9 Focus on the Relationship: Influence Works Both Ways; You, Me, and Us; The Importance of Balance; Studying History versus Being Condemned to Repeat It; Creating Your Influence Future; Chapter 10 Focus on the Context: The Individual; Influence Happens in the Other Person; Understanding Values, Needs, and Aspirations; Working with Personality, Interests, and Preferences; Examining Your Assumptions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- How Franchisors Make Money -- Finding a Responsible Franchisor Who Gets It -- Chapter 2 Special Advice for the First-Time Entrepreneur -- The Path of the 99% -- The Way of the 1% -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 3 Setting Your North Star -- Goal-Setting and Benchmarks -- Identifying Your Skills and Aptitudes -- Summary -- Chapter 4 Matching Your Skills and Aptitudes to Opportunities -- Understanding the Franchisor's Motives -- The KASH Model of Success -- Chapter 5 The Learning Curve and Lifecycle of a Franchisee -- Moving Through the Stages -- Three Modes of Franchisor KASH Distribution -- Stages of the Franchisee Learning Curve and Lifecycle Explained -- Summary -- Chapter 6 What Insiders Want You to Know About Franchising Before You Invest -- Franchising 1.0 -- Franchising 2.0 (Current Era) -- Franchising 3.0: The Era of Responsible Franchising (Evolving Now) -- Success Begins and Ends with Corporate Culture -- Chapter 7 Assessing the Skills and Viability of a Franchisor -- The Common Consumer Value Propositions of a Franchise Brand -- Summary -- Chapter 8 The Franchisor Landscape in the United States -- Dynamics Affecting the US Franchise Market -- Strong Franchise Brands Will Become Stronger -- Why Candidates Should Consider Avoiding Smaller Brands -- Opportunities and Risk Factors -- Chapter 9 Understanding Where Franchisors Are in Their Lifecycle and Learning Curve -- The FPG Franchise Brand Growth Curve -- Key Inflection Points…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Figueres -- Un punt de partida comú: Enric Prat de la Riba, Arthur Griffith i la independència de la Corona hongaresa / Enric Ucelay Da Cal -- Prat de la Riba: pensament i obra: una aproximació / Manuel Pérez Nespereira -- Enric Prat de la Riba i l'administració catalana / Agustí Colomines i Companys -- Prat de la Riba i la llengua / Josep Murgades -- Prat de la Riba i els intel·lectuals / Jordi Casassas i Ymbert -- L'interès d'Enric Prat de la Riba pel patrimoni i l'art / Mercè Vidal -- Prat de la Riba i l'equilibri territorial de Catalunya: una clara visió de país / Xavier Forcadell i Esteller -- Enric Prat de la Riba i Manuel Folguera i Duran: breu aproximació a dues concepcions del catalanisme / Lluís Duran -- Un dol nacional: malaltia, mort i enterrament del president de la Mancomunitat / Joan Safont i Plumed -- Josep Puig i Cadafalch, segon president de la Mancomunitat de Catalunya i president de l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans / Albert Balcells -- L'ús polític del cinquantenari de la mort de Prat de la Riba / Giovanni C. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…What Tests Can and Cannot Tell UsWhat to Test; Constructing Test Questions; Nontraditional Testing; Grading; Success and Failure; Assigning Final Grades; You Gotta Give Grades; 9 Evaluating Education; Measuring Variations; Types of Evaluations; Student Evaluations; Administrative Teacher Evaluations; Professional Development Plans; Designing Instruments for Evaluation; Evaluation of the Program; Program Reviews; An Assessment Rubric; Accreditation; 10 The Environment; Relationships; Students as People; Improvisation vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….; Organization; Preface; Organization; How This Book Was Written; About the Examples; Conventions Used in This Book; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments from Brett; Acknowledgments from David; Chapter 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Table of Contents; Preface; What This Book Is About; The Paranoid Penguin Connection; The Second Edition; Audience; What This Book Doesn't Cover; Assumptions This Book Makes; Organization of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Safari® Enabled; How to Contact Us; Using Code Examples; Acknowledgments; Threat Modeling and Risk Management; Components of Risk; Assets; Security Goals; Data confidentiality; Data integrity; System integrity; System/network availability; Threats; Motives; Financial motives; Political motives; Personal/psychological motives…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; How to Use This Book; A Note on Software; Using Code Examples; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; How to Contact Us; Got a Hack?; Consuming PDF; Read PDFs with the Adobe Reader; Read PDFs with Mac OS X's Preview; Read PDFs with Ghostscript's GSview; Speed Up Acrobat Startup; Unplugging Plug-Ins; Which Plug-Ins Do What?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari® Books Online; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari® Books Online; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Kurtosis (4th Moment)Choosing between Frequency Distribution and Standard Deviation; Probability of Achieving a Return; Standard Error; t-Statistic and Degrees of Freedom; STANDARDIZING RISK AND RETURN; Calculating Returns; Risk and Volatility; THE INDEX; Constructing an Index; Calculating the Net Asset Value-Indexing Returns; Leveraged Long or Short Index Funds; Cross-Market and Weighted Index; U.S. Dollar Index; STANDARD MEASUREMENTS OF PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY; Laws of Probability; Joint and Marginal Probability; Contingent Probability; Markov Chains; Bayes' Theorem; SUPPLY AND DEMAND…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; O'Reilly Online Learning Platform; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; 1. Revolution in the Cloud; The Creation of the Cloud; Buying Time; Infrastructure as a Service; The Dawn of DevOps; Nobody Understands DevOps; The Business Advantage; Infrastructure as Code; Learning Together; The Coming of Containers; The State of the Art; Thinking Inside the Box; Putting Software in Containers; Plug and Play Applications…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Table of Contents; Preface; Scope of This Handbook; How This Book Is Organized; How to Read This Book If You Already Know C; Font Conventions; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments for the First Edition; Acknowledgments for the Second Edition; Part I; What Is C++?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rails: Up and Running; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Platforms; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; 1. Zero to Sixty: Introducing Rails; Organization; The Web Server; nginx; Mongrel; WEBrick; Other web servers; Creating a Controller; Building a View; Tying Controller Data to the View; Under the Hood; What's Next?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; The American business cycle: the historical record; The Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) - a new target for the Federal Reserve; What is the future of the business cycle?; Chapter 5. Which US economic indicators really move the financial markets?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Organization; Software and Versions; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments from the First Edition; Chapter 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right, Second Edition; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Contents at a Glance; Contents; Introduction; Why This Book; Who Should Read This Book; How Sto Staring Is Organized; Part I: Getting to Know the Face; Chapter 1: Learning the Basics of Lip Sync; The Essentials of Lip Sync; Speech Cycles; Starting with What's Most Important: Visimes; The Simplest Lip Sync; Chapter 2: What the Eyes and Brows Tell Us; The Two Major Brow Movements; The Upper Lids' Effect on Expression; The Lower Lids' Effect on Expression; Eyelines: Perception vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Programming Jabber; Table of Contents; Preface; The History of Jabber; The Pre-Jabber History; Scratching an Itch; Along Came Jabber; IM System Features; What's Inside; Software Used in This Book; Java; Perl; Python; Where to Go for More Information; Conventions Used in This Book; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; I Getting Started with Jabber; 1 Introducing Jabber; Imaginary Jabber Conversation; A Simple Script; 2 Inside Jabber; XML-Based; Asynchronous Nature; Store and Forward; Queuing; Message Receipt; Messaging; Payload Carrier; Request/Response; Component/Service Architecture…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3 Renewable integration in Europe: Challenges and policy responses4 The story of three pioneers: History and future; 5 Trends & future outlook; References; Chapter 2 - Policies for Accommodating Higher Penetration of Variable Energy Resources: US Outlook and Perspectives; 1 Recent renewable deployment trends; 2 Technical challenges posed by wind generation for power system operation & planning; 3 Economic challenges associated with high wind energy: the potential for curtailment; 4 Transmission development for wind integration: challenges and success stories…”