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Inside Australia's Anti-Terror Laws and Trials

Inside Australia's Anti-Terror Laws and Trials

Andrew Lynch; Nicola McGarrity; George Williams

NewSouth Publishing
2015
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A timely examination of the impact of Australia’s antiterror laws after September 11, and the new 2014 terror laws.Over ten years after Australia’s first national laws were enacted to combat the threat of terrorism, yet more antiterrorism laws were passed in the Australian Parliament in late 2014. Yet again, powers and sanctions once thought to lie outside the rules of a liberal democracy except during wartime, have become part of Australian law.Timely and piercing, this book asks whether Australia really needed to enact anti-terrorism laws in the first place, let alone add to them. Do the new laws pose increased threats to freedom of speech and freedomof the press? Has the first set of laws been effective in protecting the community? And most tellingly, the book asks whether seeing these anti-terror laws as normal is adanger in itself.
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Mastering Spark for Data Science

Mastering Spark for Data Science

Andrew Morgan; Antoine Amend; David George; Matthew Hallett

Packt Publishing Limited
2017
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Master the techniques and sophisticated analytics used to construct Spark-based solutions that scale to deliver production-grade data science products About This Book • Develop and apply advanced analytical techniques with Spark • Learn how to tell a compelling story with data science using Spark's ecosystem • Explore data at scale and work with cutting edge data science methods Who This Book Is For This book is for those who have beginner-level familiarity with the Spark architecture and data science applications, especially those who are looking for a challenge and want to learn cutting edge techniques. This book assumes working knowledge of data science, common machine learning methods, and popular data science tools, and assumes you have previously run proof of concept studies and built prototypes. What You Will Learn • Learn the design patterns that integrate Spark into industrialized data science pipelines • See how commercial data scientists design scalable code and reusable code for data science services • Explore cutting edge data science methods so that you can study trends and causality • Discover advanced programming techniques using RDD and the DataFrame and Dataset APIs • Find out how Spark can be used as a universal ingestion engine tool and as a web scraper • Practice the implementation of advanced topics in graph processing, such as community detection and contact chaining • Get to know the best practices when performing Extended Exploratory Data Analysis, commonly used in commercial data science teams • Study advanced Spark concepts, solution design patterns, and integration architectures • Demonstrate powerful data science pipelines In Detail Data science seeks to transform the world using data, and this is typically achieved through disrupting and changing real processes in real industries. In order to operate at this level you need to build data science solutions of substance –solutions that solve real problems. Spark has emerged as the big data platform of choice for data scientists due to its speed, scalability, and easy-to-use APIs. This book deep dives into using Spark to deliver production-grade data science solutions. This process is demonstrated by exploring the construction of a sophisticated global news analysis service that uses Spark to generate continuous geopolitical and current affairs insights.You will learn all about the core Spark APIs and take a comprehensive tour of advanced libraries, including Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, MLlib, and more. You will be introduced to advanced techniques and methods that will help you to construct commercial-grade data products. Focusing on a sequence of tutorials that deliver a working news intelligence service, you will learn about advanced Spark architectures, how to work with geographic data in Spark, and how to tune Spark algorithms so they scale linearly. Style and approach This is an advanced guide for those with beginner-level familiarity with the Spark architecture and working with Data Science applications. Mastering Spark for Data Science is a practical tutorial that uses core Spark APIs and takes a deep dive into advanced libraries including: Spark SQL, visual streaming, and MLlib. This book expands on titles like: Machine Learning with Spark and Learning Spark. It is the next learning curve for those comfortable with Spark and looking to improve their skills.
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The Origins of Happiness

The Origins of Happiness

Andrew Clark; Sarah Flèche; Richard Layard; Nattavudh Powdthavee; George Ward

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
2018
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What makes people happy? Why should governments care about people's well-being? How would policy change if well-being was the main objective? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what really matters to people. Drawing on a uniquely comprehensive range of evidence from longitudinal data on over one hundred thousand individuals in Britain, the United States, Australia, and Germany, the authors consider the key factors that affect human well-being. The authors explore factors such as income, education, employment, family conflict, health, childcare, and crime--and their findings are not what we might expect. Contrary to received wisdom, income inequality accounts for only two percent or less of the variance in happiness across the population; the critical factors affecting a person's happiness are their relationships and their mental and physical health. More people are in misery due to mental illness than to poverty, unemployment, or physical illness. Examining how childhood influences happiness in adulthood, the authors show that academic performance is a less important predictor than emotional health and behavior, which is shaped tremendously by schools, individual teachers, and parents. For policymakers, the authors propose new forms of cost-effectiveness analysis that places well-being at center stage. Groundbreaking in its scope and results, The Origins of Happiness offers all of us a new vision for how we might become more healthy, happy, and whole.
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The Origins of Happiness

The Origins of Happiness

Andrew Clark; Sarah Flèche; Richard Layard; Nattavudh Powdthavee; George Ward

Princeton University Press
2019
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A new perspective on life satisfaction and well-being over the life courseWhat makes people happy? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what really matters to people. Drawing on a range of evidence using large-scale data from various countries, the authors consider the key factors that affect human well-being, including income, education, employment, family conflict, health, childcare, and crime. The Origins of Happiness offers a groundbreaking new vision for how we might become more healthy, happy, and whole.
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A Glorious Revolution for Youth and Communities

A Glorious Revolution for Youth and Communities

George I. Whitehead; Andrew P. Kitzrow

Rowman Littlefield Education
2010
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A Glorious Revolution integrates the ideas of service-learning, positive youth development, and model communities into a book with a comprehensive message about making communities more democratic. Specifically, the book argues that through service-learning an educator can teach higher-order thinking, such as information literacy, problem-solving, and critical and creative thinking. Educators learn how to teach each of these skills. The book also argues that service-learning fosters skills for career success. The book also introduces a new way to think about what constitutes a model community. The authors use current and classical research, books, and web sites on the topics presented in the book and employ examples of how different communities currently engage their young people. The end of each chapter includes exercises designed to foster critical thinking.
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Leading Digital

Leading Digital

George Westerman; Didier Bonnet; Andrew McAfee

Harvard Business Review Press
2014
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Become a Digital Master--No Matter What Business You're In If you think the phrase "going digital" is only relevant for industries like tech, media, and entertainment--think again. In fact, mobile, analytics, social media, sensors, and cloud computing have already fundamentally changed the entire business landscape as we know it--including your industry. The problem is that most accounts of digital in business focus on Silicon Valley stars and tech start-ups. But what about the other 90-plus percent of the economy? In Leading Digital, authors George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, and Andrew McAfee highlight how large companies in traditional industries--from finance to manufacturing to pharmaceuticals--are using digital to gain strategic advantage. They illuminate the principles and practices that lead to successful digital transformation. Based on a study of more than four hundred global firms, including Asian Paints, Burberry, Caesars Entertainment, Codelco, Lloyds Banking Group, Nike, and Pernod Ricard, the book shows what it takes to become a Digital Master. It explains successful transformation in a clear, two-part framework: where to invest in digital capabilities, and how to lead the transformation. Within these parts, you'll learn: * How to engage better with your customers * How to digitally enhance operations * How to create a digital vision * How to govern your digital activities The book also includes an extensive step-by-step transformation playbook for leaders to follow. Leading Digital is the must-have guide to help your organization survive and thrive in the new, digitally powered, global economy.
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Eternal Letters

Eternal Letters

Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse; Romain Pingannaud; Dr Aïda El Khiari; Prof. Alain George

Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
2025
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Showcasing 1,300 years of Qur’anic calligraphy, this lavishly illustrated catalogue presents over 80 Qur’ans and Qur’an folios from a prominent private collection. For the specialist connoisseur and those new to the field of Islamic calligraphy alike, this publication presents a fresh perspective on this essential area of Islamic Art. The catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization. Arabic calligraphy, with its sinuous lines, is recognizable to nearly anyone anywhere today. Its aesthetic appeal transcends cultural boundaries, yet if one were to travel back in time and show it to the inhabitants of Arabia in the first century CE, they would not recognize it; for it simply did not exist. It would have beggared belief that a new alphabet from this part of the world would spread to the confines of the earth and become a major vehicle for the dissemination of knowledge over many centuries. Eternal Letters includes beautiful examples illustrating some of the calligraphic styles used in Qur’an manuscripts across the Islamic world, from the first century of Islam to the modern period. Undoubtedly highlights of the collection include folios from some of the earliest Qur’ans ever written; rare examples of Qur’anic calligraphy from Islamic Spain; a selection of early Qur’ans in cursive script from Central Asia and important manuscripts from the Mamluk, Safavid and Ottoman empires. Six chapters, arranged chronologically, follow the evolution of Islamic calligraphy from its infancy to the present day. Each chapter is accompanied by an introduction presenting the developments in style, technique and the cultural and historical backdrop against which this evolution occurred. Chapter 1 begins with examples of ‘Hijazi’ and Kufic scripts on parchment from the first centuries of Islam. Chapter 2 explores new styles in Qur’anic calligraphy, the legacy of legendary scribes and some of the earliest Qur’ans on paper. Chapter 3 illustrates the artistic links between the Iranian world and the Eastern Mediterranean after the Mongol invasions. In Chapter 4 attention is turned to North Africa and Al-Andalus, including some of the earliest known Qur’ans from Valencia. Chapter 5 discusses the Timurid influence on the imperial courtly styles of India, Iran and Turkey in the early modern period. Finally, Chapter 6 focuses on the Ottoman tradition of calligraphy, which forms the historic core of the Abdul Rahman Al Owais Collection.Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization November 2024 - April 2025 Published by Paul Holberton Publishing
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CXC Study Guide: Mathematics for CSEC

CXC Study Guide: Mathematics for CSEC

Andrew Manning; Ava Mothersill; Marcus Caine; Angella Finlay; Patricia George

Oxford University Press
2017
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Developed exclusively with the Caribbean Examinations Council, this Study Guide will provide you with the support to maximise your performance in CSEC Mathematics. Written by a team of experts in the syllabus and the examination, this Study Guide covers all the essential information in an easy-to-use double page spread format and with online support. Each topic begins with key learning outcomes and contains a range of features to enhance your study of the subject.
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Intelligent Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis for Engineering Systems

Intelligent Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis for Engineering Systems

George Vachtsevanos; Frank L. Lewis; Michael Roemer; Andrew Hess; Biqing Wu

John Wiley Sons Inc
2006
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Expert guidance on theory and practice in condition-based intelligent machine fault diagnosis and failure prognosis Intelligent Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis for Engineering Systems gives a complete presentation of basic essentials of fault diagnosis and failure prognosis, and takes a look at the cutting-edge discipline of intelligent fault diagnosis and failure prognosis technologies for condition-based maintenance. It thoroughly details the interdisciplinary methods required to understand the physics of failure mechanisms in materials, structures, and rotating equipment, and also presents strategies to detect faults or incipient failures and predict the remaining useful life of failing components. Case studies are used throughout the book to illustrate enabling technologies. Intelligent Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis for Engineering Systems offers material in a holistic and integrated approach that addresses the various interdisciplinary components of the field--from electrical, mechanical, industrial, and computer engineering to business management. This invaluably helpful book: * Includes state-of-the-art algorithms, methodologies, and contributions from leading experts, including cost-benefit analysis tools and performance assessment techniques * Covers theory and practice in a way that is rooted in industry research and experience * Presents the only systematic, holistic approach to a strongly interdisciplinary topic
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Hinterland

Hinterland

George Szirtes; Helen Szirtes; Anna Lachkaya; Dani Redd; Megan Holland; Steve Cushman; Andrew Menard

UEA Publishing Project
2019
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In Hinterland Issue 3 we publish, with huge pleasure, the pieces that won the Hinterland Prize 2019: Anna Lachkaya’s beautifully evoked account of immigrant girlhood, Megan Holland’s story of grief and becoming, and Dani Redd’s other-worldly roam across a remote Scandinavian island. Inside a stunning cover, created exclusively for Hinterland by artist Rebecca Pymar, is an outstanding line-up of new creative non-fiction plus all our great regular features, including the award-winning poet George Szirtes in conversation with his daughter Helen Szirtes.
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Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences

Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences

Alexander L. George; Andrew Bennett

MIT Press
2005
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The use of case studies to build and test theories in political science and the other social sciences has increased in recent years. Many scholars have argued that the social sciences rely too heavily on quantitative research and formal models and have attempted to develop and refine rigorous methods for using case studies. This text presents a comprehensive analysis of research methods using case studies and examines the place of case studies in social science methodology. It argues that case studies, statistical methods, and formal models are complementary rather than competitive. The book explains how to design case study research that will produce results useful to policymakers and emphasizes the importance of developing policy-relevant theories. It offers three major contributions to case study methodology: an emphasis on the importance of within-case analysis, a detailed discussion of process tracing, and development of the concept of typological theories. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences will be particularly useful to graduate students and scholars in social science methodology and the philosophy of science, as well as to those designing new research projects, and will contribute greatly to the broader debate about scientific methods.
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Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch

Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch

James Boswell; George Dempster; Andrew Erskine

Anson Street Press
2025
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Dive into the world of 18th-century literary criticism with "Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira," a collaborative critique penned by Mr. David Malloch (David Mallet), James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. This volume offers a fascinating glimpse into contemporary reactions to David Mallet's "Elvira," a subject of considerable debate in its time. Explore the nuances of dramatic literature through the sharp and insightful commentary of these influential figures. This historical text provides valuable insight into the critical landscape of the period, showcasing the intellectual discourse surrounding theatrical productions. A key resource for students and enthusiasts of literary criticism, especially those interested in English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh dramatic works, this book presents a meticulous examination of "Elvira" from multiple perspectives. Discover the enduring power of literary analysis and engage with the timeless questions of art and interpretation.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Children's Services

Children's Services

Malcolm Hill; Sir George Head; Andrew Lockyer; Barbara Reid; Raymond Taylor

Routledge
2016
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Childrens Services: Working Together brings together contributions from a number of authors in the field. The book covers policy, theory, research and practice relevant to students and professionals working with children in a wide range of roles. The emphasis on working collaboratively with other professionals, where appropriate, and the holistic approach to children make this a valuable resource to anyone working with children today.
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Unions and Economic Crisis

Unions and Economic Crisis

Peter Gourevitch; Andrew Martin; George Ross; Stephen Bornstein; Andrei Markovits; Christopher Allen

Routledge
2016
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First published in 1984. This book represents a major study of union responses to the economic crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. Abjuring governmental or managerial outlooks, it argues that unions, as representatives of essential producer groups, would be central to the renegotiation of the economic world. The work also stresses the importance of situating union responses to the crisis within the socio-historical evolution of their political economies during the rise and decline of the post-war economic boom. The Social Democratic affiliation of unions in Britain, West Germany and Sweden make them particularly comparable. This title will be of interest to students of politics and economics.
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Unions and Economic Crisis

Unions and Economic Crisis

Peter Gourevitch; Andrew Martin; George Ross; Stephen Bornstein; Andrei Markovits; Christopher Allen

Routledge
2018
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First published in 1984. This book represents a major study of union responses to the economic crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. Abjuring governmental or managerial outlooks, it argues that unions, as representatives of essential producer groups, would be central to the renegotiation of the economic world. The work also stresses the importance of situating union responses to the crisis within the socio-historical evolution of their political economies during the rise and decline of the post-war economic boom. The Social Democratic affiliation of unions in Britain, West Germany and Sweden make them particularly comparable. This title will be of interest to students of politics and economics.
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