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International Labour Organization and Global Social Governance

Springer, 2020

This open access book explores the role of the ILO (International Labour Organization) in building global social governance from multiple and mutually complementary perspectives. It explores the impact of this UN´s oldest agency, founded in 1919, on the transforming world of work in a global setting, providing insights...

The Rise and Decline of the State

Cambridge University Press, 1999

The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all moderninstitutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, either voluntarily or involuntarily, many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. Regardless of whether they fall apart or...

Learning Machine Translation (Neural Information Processing)

MIT Press, 2009

The Internet gives us access to a wealth of information in languages we don't understand. The investigation of automated or semi-automated approaches to translation has become a thriving research field with enormous commercial potential. This volume investigates how machine learning techniques can improve statistical machine translation, currently...

Types and Programming Languages

MIT Press, 2002

A type system is a syntactic method for automatically checking the absence of certain erroneous behaviors by classifying program phrases according to the kinds of values they compute. The study of type systems--and of programming languages from a type-theoretic perspective--has important applications in software engineering, language design,...

Nuke 101: Professional Compositing and Visual Effects

Peachpit Press, 2011

The Foundry’s Nuke is fast becoming the industry leader in compositing software for film and TV. Virtually all the leading visual effects studios—ILM, Digital Domain, Weta Digital, MPC, Framestore, The Mill, and Sony Pictures Imageworks—now use Nuke as their main compositing tool. This is not surprising, as Nuke offers...

Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity

Benjamin Cummings, 2000

A concise, direct examination of general relativity and black holes, Exploring Black Holes provides tools that motivate tools that motivate readers to become active participants in carrying out their own investigations about curved spacetime near earth and black holes. The authors use calculus and algebra to make general relativity...

The 25 Habits of Highly Successful Investors: How to Invest for Profit in Today's Changing Markets

Adams Media, 2012

The definitive guide to investing in today's market!

Especially after the wild ride that began in the fall of 2008, individual stock investing has become far more challenging. Think of a golf swing - hit it right and it goes long and straight, hit it wrong and you'll end up far off in the weeds. But - like much else in life...

Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source

Adobe Press, 2006

Part of the Adobe Training from the Source series, the official curriculum from Adobe, developed by experienced trainers. Using project-based tutorials, this book/CD volume is designed to teach the techniques needed to create sophisticated, professional-level projects. Each book includes a CD that contains all the files used in the lessons, plus...

Building Products for the Enterprise: Product Management in Enterprise Software

O'Reilly, 2018

If you’re new to software product management or just want to learn more about it, there’s plenty of advice available—but most of it is geared toward consumer products. Creating high-quality software for the enterprise involves a much different set of challenges. In this practical book, two expert product managers...

Getting Started with Your Mac and Mac OS X Tiger : Peachpit Learning Series

Peachpit Press, 2005

You bought your Mac OS X Tiger computer because you thought it would be easy to use-and it is! But if you've never used a computer before, never stared at a graphical user interface or clicked an icon to launch a program or open a file, getting going with your new machine can still be a daunting proposition. With this guide from...

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python

Green Tea, 2002

Benjamin Crowell, in "The Assayer", book reviews and discussion for the free-information renaissance
...There's ... emphasis on teaching computer science not just as a technical trade but as a mental discipline.

Guido van Rossum, creator of...

Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers: Shaping Doctrine in Nineteenth-Century England

Oxford University Press, 2009

John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman is generally known to have been devoted to reading the Church Fathers. In this volume, Benjamin King draws on archive as well as published material to explore how Newman interpreted specific Fathers at different periods of his life. King draws connections between the Alexandrian Fathers Newman was reading and the...

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