“…He analyzes libertarian and autonomy-based arguments for legalization as well as the impact of key U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the debate. And he examines the history and evolution of laws and attitudes regarding assisted suicide and euthanasia in American society. …”

“…The rise to prominence of ecological issues, social changes generated by neoliberal globalization, and - most recently - one of the worst world economic crises ever, compels us to reflect urgently on the need for alternatives to the capitalist system. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: Little Houses On the Prairie and the Cultural Politics of White Colonial Settlement in the United States -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Little Houses and the U.S. Master Historical Narrative -- Walking in Laura's Footsteps: The Homesites' History -- Indigenous Resurgence, New Western Historiography, and Culture Wars -- Wilder's Stories and the New West Histories -- Little Houses in the Classroom and Library -- Wilder Homesites, the New West Histories, and Culture Wars -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 11 Popular Music Heritage in Ekaterinburg: From Seeking Authorisation and Nostalgia for Soviet Rock to Participatory Place-Making -- Popular Music Heritage Between Fan Communities and Cultural Economy -- Ekaterinburg -- Methodology -- Sverdlovsk Rock: Authorisation and Contested Memorial Sites -- Nostalgic Exploration of the City Through Soviet Rock Music History -- Celebrating Internationally Famous Musicians in Ekaterinburg -- Playful and Affective Practices: Paying Tribute, Performing, Taking Pictures -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 12 Negotiating Dark and Light Magic: Witch-Themed Tourism in Harz, Germany, in a Transcultural Context -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Witch-themed Tourism and Media of the Harz Region -- Witch-themed Tourism in Salem and a Critical Consideration of Dark Tourism -- Methodology -- Findings…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Enabling AMP -- Activating AMP on GPU -- AMP, show us what you are capable of! -- Quiz time! -- Summary -- Part 3: Going Distributed -- Chapter 8: Distributed Training at a Glance -- Technical requirements -- A first look at distributed training -- When do we need to distribute the training process? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.2.1 Cryptocurrency Exchanges -- 4.2.2 Bitcoin Debit Card -- 4.2.3 Bitcoin ATMs -- 4.2.4 Metal Pay -- 4.2.5 Peer-to-Peer Exchanges -- 4.3 Top Fiat Currencies for Bitcoin Transactions -- 4.3.1 US Dollar -- 4.3.2 Japanese Yen -- 4.3.3 Euro -- 4.3.4 Korean Won -- 4.3.5 Chinese Yuan -- 4.3.6 Indian National Rupee -- 4.4 Price Determination for Bitcoin in Transactions -- 4.4.1 Cost of Mining Bitcoin -- 4.4.2 Market Supply and Demand -- 4.4.3 Bitcoin Rewards -- 4.4.4 Exchanges -- 4.4.5 Competing Cryptocurrencies -- 4.4.6 Regulatory Provisions -- 4.4.7 Internal Governance -- 4.4.8 Value of Bitcoin -- 4.4.9 Can the Bitcoin Price Be Zero? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ja era hora, torna la política industrial, 6 de març de 2011Tot el poder per als que s'equivoquen, 27 de març de 2011; Segur que Islàndia i Finlàndia es poden negar a pagar?, (...); Digital, si us plau, 29 de maig de 2011; Qui està al volant dels grans reptes estratègics?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Opcions renovables; 8.5. Factor d'ús, cost i superfície; 8.6. Solucions: el mix energètic; 8.7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Terry Umbreit, Dogan Gursoy. The “THEM” and “US” syndrome Some opportunities and threats to be faced when teachers come from certain countries and students come from others... / Veronica Velo Roessl. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.2 Structure of limited partnership funds2.2.1 Role of general and limited partners; 2.2.2 Management and operation of the partnership; 2.2.3 Remuneration; 2.2.4 UK limited partnerships; 2.2.5 US limited partnerships; 2.2.6 Parallel funds; 2.2.7 Master/feeders; 2.3 Establishment of the fund; 2.3.1 Process; 2.3.2 Documentation; 2.4 Investing; 2.4.1 Investment objective and returns; 2.4.2 Investment strategy; 2.4.3 Investment period; 2.4.4 Term; 2.4.5 Fund borrowing; 2.4.6 Investment restrictions; 2.5 Commitments by investors; 2.5.1 Commitments/drawdowns; 2.5.2 Recycling; 2.5.3 Default…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Abundance and Toxicity in the U.S. Virgin Islands: Implications for Monitoring and Management of Ciguatera -- Isabel do Prado Leite, Khalil Sdiri, Angus Taylor, J ́erˆome Viallon, Hela Ben Gharbia, Luiz Laureno Mafra J ́unior, Peter Swarzenski, et al. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.4 XML Extensions and Technologies 3.5 XML and R in Practice 3.6 A Short Example JSON Document 3.7 JSON Syntax Rules 3.8 JSON and R in Practice Summary Further Reading Problems 4 XPath 4.1 XPath - a Querying Language for Web Documents 4.2 Identifying Node Sets with XPath 4.3 Extracting Node Elements Summary Further Reading Problems 5 HTTP 5.1 HTTP Fundamentals 5.2 Advanced Features of HTTP 5.3 Protocols beyond HTTP 5.4 HTTP in Action Summary Further Reading Problems 6 AJAX 6.1 JavaScript 6.2 XHR 6.3 Exploring AJAX with Web Developer Tools Summary Further Reading Problems 7 SQL and Relational Databases 7.1 Overview and Terminology 7.2 Relational Databases 7.3 SQL: a Language to Communicate with Databases 7.4 Databases in Action Summary Further Reading Problems 8 Regular Expressions and String Functions 8.1 Regular Expressions 8.2 String Processing 8.3 A Word on Character Encodings Summary Further Reading Problems Part Two A Practical Toolbox for Web Scraping and Text Mining 9 Scraping the Web 9.1 Retrieval Scenarios 9.2 Extraction Strategies 9.3 Web Scraping: Good Practice 9.4 Valuable Sources of Inspiration Summary Further Reading Problems 10 Statistical Text Processing 10.1 The running example: classifying press releases of the British government 10.2 Processing Textual Data 10.3 Supervised Learning Techniques 10.4 Unsupervised Learning Techniques Summary Further reading 11 Managing Data Projects 11.1 Interacting with the File System 11.2 Processing Multiple Documents/Links 11.3 Organizing Scraping Procedures 11.4 Executing R Scripts on a Regular Basis Part Three A Bag of Case Studies 12 Collaboration Networks in the U.S. Senate 12.1 Information on the Bills 12.2 Information on the Senators 12.3 Analyzing the network structure 12.4 Conclusion 13 Parsing Information from Semi-Structured Documents 13.1 Downloding Data from the FTP Server 13.2 Parsing Semi-Structured Text Data 13.3 Visualizing station and temperature data 14 Predicting the 2014 Academy Awards using Twitter 14.1 Twitter APIs: Overview 14.2 Twitter-based Forecast of the 2014 Academy Awards 14.3 Conclusion 15 Mapping the Geographic Distribution of Names 15.1 Developing a Data Collection Strategy 15.2 Web Site Inspection 15.3 Data Retrieval and Information Extraction 15.4 Mapping Names 15.5 Automating the Process 15.6 Summary 16 Gathering Data on Mobile Phones 16.1 Page Exploration 16.2 Scraping Procedure 16.3 Graphical Analysis 16.4 Data storage 17 Analyzing Sentiments of Product Reviews 17.1 Introduction 17.2 Collecting the data 17.3 Analyzing the Data 17.4 Conclusion References Bibliography Indices General Index Package Index Function Index …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; 2.14 Black Swan al Qaeda Attacks; 2.15 Black Swan Pandemic; 2.16 Risk and Resilience; 2.17 Exercises; References; Chapter 3 Theories of Catastrophe; 3.1 NAT; 3.2 Blocks and Springs; 3.3 Bak's Punctuated Equilibrium Theory; 3.4 TOC; 3.4.1 The State Space Diagram; 3.5 The U.S. Electric Power Grid; 3.6 POE; 3.6.1 The Great Recessions; 3.6.2 Too Much Money; 3.7 Competitive Exclusion; 3.7.1 Gause's Law; 3.7.2 The Self-Organizing Internet; 3.7.3 A Monoculture…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Research Response -- 15. ACTIV: A U.S. Public-Private Partnership Responds to COVID-19 -- 15.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Stolper, Bongshin Lee, Nathalie Henry Riche, and John Stasko / Analysis method and process ; Visualization-driven storytelling techniques : Communicating narrative and explaining data; Linking separated story elements; Enhancing structure and navigation; Providing controlled exploration ; Discussion and future work : Composing multiple techniques; Opportunities for authoring tools : Controlled reader interaction and experience; Smart, dynamic, data-driven annotations; Navigation through scrolling; Effectiveness-informed authoring -- Narrative design patterns for data-driven storytelling / Benjamin Bach, Moritz Stefaner, Jeremy Boy, Steven Drucker, Lyn Bartram, Jo Wood, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Yuri Engelhardt, Ulrike Köppen, and Barbara Tversky : Narrative patterns : Patterns for: Argumentation; Flow; Framing the narrative; Empathy and emotion; Engagement ; Use cases : U.S. debt visualized; Can you live on the minimum wage?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Home Theater Hacks; Credits; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; How to Use This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Got a Hack?; Disclaimer; 1. Buying Gear; 1. …”