“…With this book, you will: Understand Corda's value proposition and alignment with business strategies--particularly relevant to business executives and architects Dive deep into Corda's architecture and blockchain fundamentals Rapidly gain extensive knowledge of and hands-on experience with building Corda applications Compare and contrast Corda with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Hyperledger Effectively prepare for the Corda certification exam and job interviews involving blockchain Perform data analytics and machine learning on Corda nodes…”

“…Learn the key concepts of a microservices architecture Examine microservice advantages, including robustness, scaling, and ease of deployment Contrast microservices with single-process, modular, and distributed monoliths Explore enabling technologies such as containers and Kubernetes, streaming, public cloud, and serverless Understand microservice pain points: technology overhead, monitoring and troubleshooting, security, and data consistency Learn situations where microservices work well—and situations where they don’t…”

“…What can we learn from a comparison between two countries who stand in significant contrast to each other with respect to gender equality? …”

“…Discover how Lean focuses on people and teamwork at every level, in contrast to traditional management practices Approach problem-solving experimentally, by exploring solutions, testing assumptions, and getting feedback from real users Lead and manage large-scale programs in a way that empowers employees, increases the speed and quality of delivery, and lowers costs Learn how to implement ideas from the DevOps and Lean Startup movements even in complex, regulated environments…”

“…A number of contributors locate the theoretical discussion of affairs within the broader contemporary ordering of committed relationships, contrasting the liberating and empowering aspects of affairs with the damage they may inflict on society as a whole and on the lives of individuals and families. …”

“…What can we learn from a comparison between two countries who stand in significant contrast to each other with respect to gender equality? …”

“…The result is a vibrant cross-section of the contrasts and parallels between the practices of law and other areas of research, demonstrating which are the easiest for comparatists to grasp and implement, and which present obstacles for the application of non-legal methods. …”

“…Japan's unique experience is contrasted with the practices of today's developing countries. …”

“…Each chapter contains a list of short opinions or tenets, which are ascribed to an individual philosopher and/or school and usually arranged in sections that stress the variety and contrast of the teachings concerned. Designed as a multi-purpose resource, Placita long served as a manual of neatly packaged doxographic material on a wide variety of topics, to be used for study, as an aide-memoire, for displays of erudition, for persuasion in rhetorical or apologetic contexts, and for personal enlightenment, and it remains a valuable source for our knowledge of Presocratic and Hellenistic philosophy. …”

“…The book examines the knowledge and incentive problems associated with bureaucratic public administration while contrasting it with democratic governance. Aligica, Boettke, and Tarko argue that the focus should be on the diversity of opinions in any society regarding "what should be done" and on the design of democratic and polycentric institutions capable of limiting social conflicts and satisfying the preferences of as many people as possible. …”

“…Chapter authors follow a common format that allows readers to more seamlessly compare and contrast information across entries, guiding readers to apply this knowledge to their own classrooms, their curriculums and teaching strategies, and their teacher training programs…”

“…She explores how Orwell’s writing on free speech addresses the proliferation of “fake news” and the emergence of cancel culture, highlights his vivid critiques of capitalism and the oppressive nature of the British Empire, and, in contrast, analyzes his failure to understand feminism. …”

“…Our theological tradition has been shaped within the worldview of a static universe. By contrast, we are told today that the universe began with a cosmic explosion called the Big Bang, that we live in an expanding universe with galaxies rushing away from us at an enormous rate, that we human beings are part of an evolutionary movement on the earth, and that we are intimately linked with the health of delicately balanced life-systems on our planet. …”

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“…Barnett, Anglican Bishop of North Sydney, Australia, seeks to put Jesus back into the story of the early Church's development, in contrast to recent titles that discuss primitive Christianity with only a sociopolitical approach to its founder. …”

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“…The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg, argues Shane McCorristine, and there are a great many more mysterious stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, The Spectral Arctic reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who traveled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin's lost expedition. …”

“…In other cases, people report a more literal, conscious sharing of affective or somatic states and this has sometimes been described as representing an extreme form of empathy.By contrast, there appear to be some people who are limited in their ability to vicariously experience the states of others. …”

“…This book compares and contrasts publicly espoused security concepts in the Nordic region, and explores the notion of societal security. …”

“…Traditionally, therapies in brain augmentation have included electrical and pharmacological techniques. In contrast, some of the techniques discussed in this volume add specificity by targeting select neural populations. …”