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“…Dr Jean Rogers, founder of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, created the framework so that 'investors could compare performance on critical social and environmental issues, and capital could be directed to the most sustainable outcomes.' …”

“…As you progress to advanced techniques like zero-downtime deployments, you'll discover how to think in Terraform rather than just copying and pasting scripts. what's inside Cloud architecture with Terraform Terraform module sharing and the private module registry Terraform security in a multitenant environment Strategies for performing blue/green deployments about the audience For readers experienced with a major cloud platform such as AWS. …”

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“…What's Inside Implement and troubleshoot streaming systems Design streaming systems for complex functionalities Spot networking bottlenecks and resolve backpressure Group data for high-performance systems About the Reader No prior experience with streaming systems is assumed. …”

“…Python Concurrency with asyncio teaches you how to boost Python's performance by applying a variety of concurrency techniques. …”

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“…"Human Resource Champions" issues a challenge to HR professionals: define the value you create and institute measures for your performance, or face the inevitable outsourcing of your function. …”

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“…Deeply influenced by the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar, there has been an unprecedented rise in the number of fantastic texts in which the impossible is bound to space - space not as scene of action but as impossible element performing a fantastic transgression within the storyworld. …”

“…This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment. It argues that stories where famine is described through our own experience of dieting or or where solidarity with Africa translates into wearing a cool armband tell us about much more than the cause that they attempt to communicate. …”

“…Focusing on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, Laird demonstrates how adaptations performed the valuable cultural work of expanding the original novel's readership across class and gender divides, exporting the English novel to America, and commemorating the novelists through adaptations that functioned as virtual literary tourism. …”

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“…FIRST AMONG EQUALS speaks directly to those who have gone from focusing on their own performance to being a group manager in charge of leading others. …”

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“…This collection challenges common understandings of empathy, asking readers to question what it is, how it works, and who is capable of performing it. The authors reveal the exciting research on empathy that is currently emerging from literary studies while also making productive connections to other areas of study such as psychology and neurobiology. …”

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