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Secrets of the Deadly Dozen
by Peter BerryIn a world of angels, is there a devil in their midst? While Monica and Thomas prepare for a new beginning, the Deadly Dozen face their darkest case yet. A string of murders near Catherine&’s church leads to a chilling discovery: a Bible left open on the altar, each passage containing a twisted message from a killer who may be connected to the congregation. The two main suspects could not be more different—one, a charismatic and attractive young American, the other an awkward, introverted music teacher. It takes a ghost from Monica&’s past to help unravel the clues. As tragedy strikes and loyalties are tested, the Twelve unite across continents for one final, dramatic mission. But Monica&’s bold plan to stop a killer could cost them everything—even her own happy ending. Sinister, sharp, and unputdownable—Secrets of the Deadly Dozen is the final breathtaking instalment of the trilogy.
Unreconstructed: Slavery and Emancipation on Louisiana's Red River, 1820–1880 (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
by Carin Peller-SemmensCarin Peller-Semmens’s Unreconstructed grapples with the longstanding, systemic effects of white supremacist brutality in northwest Louisiana, highlighting the constancy of racial subjugation in one of the most violent areas of the South. Tracing the commitment of the region’s white slaveholders to racial violence from antebellum enslavement through to Reconstruction, Peller-Semmens unearths the durable ideology of mastery in the Red River region. She demonstrates that white supremacy and vigilante violence were slaveholding recloaked, and became effective, calibrated tools of political, social, and economic control during Reconstruction. White supremacist violence—demonstrative, controlling, and visceral—attempted to redress mastery and subjugate and subdue newly emancipated Black individuals, imposing parameters on freedom.Unreconstructed shows that white violence and racial control were foundational elements of the regional ideology and identity that Reconstruction galvanized. This ideology of mastery transcended class, creating a shared ethos steeped in racist behavior that remained crucial to postwar conceptions of white selfhood. Barbarity, harnessed boldly and overtly, formed the apex of a diversified campaign of persistent violence that chipped away at freedpeople’s experience of freedom and resulted in several seismic incidents of racial violence, including the massacres at Shady Grove, Colfax, and Coushatta.Peller-Semmens’s arguments concerning racial power structures speak to race issues prevalent in America today, contributing significantly to a vibrant discourse on the inheritances of slavery and Reconstruction. Indeed, the implications of Reconstruction violence in this region still reverberate nationwide, making this corner of the South integral to the larger narrative of southern racism, white supremacy, and segregation.
VFX Made Easy with Houdini: A mesmerizing journey into procedural modeling, simulations, visual effects, and rendering
by Alasgar HasanovDiscover the secret sauce to creating stunning VFX in Houdini with step-by-step projects that guide you through particles, smoke, fire, fluids, and destruction using clear procedural workflowsKey FeaturesLearn the fundamentals of Houdini with step-by-step guidanceExplore VFX workflows and best practices from the industryStreamline projects with expert tips on setup, caching, optimization, and rendering in SolarisPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionUnlock Houdini’s procedural power to create dynamic simulations and cinematic renders with expert guidance from Alasgar Hasanov, a VFX artist with more than a decade of experience crafting CGI and visual effects for films, television, and commercials. In this comprehensive guide, he demonstrates easy workflows for complex effects, teaches you how to think procedurally, and makes learning Houdini both fun and rewarding. Through step-by-step tutorials, real-world examples, and insider tips, you’ll master Houdini’s renowned node-based workflow. You’ll also learn how to control procedural forces to simulate natural phenomena and produce compelling, visually striking renders, giving you the tools to bring your creative visions to life. This book provides a solid foundation in Houdini FX fundamentals for beginners, while also helping more experienced artists push the boundaries of innovation. It is designed to be an indispensable companion on your journey to building a strong foundation for future growth as a Houdini artist. By the end of the book, you will be comfortable creating procedural setups, running simulations, and rendering your own creative effects in Houdini.What you will learnUnderstand Houdini's UI, node-based workflow, and procedural fundamentalsBuild and organize procedural models and flexible assetsDesign particle systems, from emitters and forces to simulation settingsCreate pyro FX, including smoke, fire, and explosionsSimulate rigid bodies, destruction, and FLIP fluids, such as water and splashesApply materials, textures, and shaders to light and render with KarmaImprove efficiency with best practices for workflow, optimization, and productionWho this book is forThis book is for beginner Houdini users, as well as FX artists, lighting artists, compositors, motion designers, 3D animators, and game artists looking to extend their digital art skills to Houdini. A basic understanding of digital content creation tools or 3D graphics software will help you make the most of this book.
Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader
by Sue William SilvermanThe essays in Selected Misdemeanors are unapologetic word grenades lobbed into an otherwise complacent forgetfulness. Throughout the collection, Sue William Silverman focuses on pivotal, often fleeting moments that defined the course of her life, such as a fraught family vacation; an evening watching the Chippendale dancers&’ extravaganza; a Pac-Man-and-whisky-fueled rumination on failed relationships; and the way melodramatic movies such as Rome Adventure shape an adolescent&’s idea of love. Ranging from short to flash to micro length, these emotionally courageous writings imbue minimalist forms with maximalist emotions and an unrepentant, no-holds-barred attitude. Each action explored in this collection produces the Butterfly Effect—seemingly quotidian events rippling into emotional tsunamis.
In a Riptide
by Ronna BloomFunny while serious, wise without being certain, full of feeling and yet rinsed of sentimentality.The characters in Ronna Bloom's new collection In a Riptide are tired, sick, old, fragile, baffled, worried, dying, dead, uncertain, snacking, happy, generous, preoccupied, horny, astonished, and sometimes free. Emily Dickinson and Bukowski show up in the same poem. The Buddha has a shower. And Sisyphus is released from his burdens. It's the hospital meets the circus. Here, humour, darkness, and ecstasy mingle, and the chaos doesn't stop. But there's breath in these poems. There’s life.
Unequal Access: Categorising Refugees in European Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Programmes (McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies)
by Natalie WelfensAs European states tighten their borders, refugees are regularly forced to take costly and highly dangerous routes to seek protection, sometimes with fatal consequences. The resettlement and humanitarian admission programmes that remain allow only a small number of migrants to enter directly from first countries of refuge.With less than 1 per cent of the world’s refugees resettled, such programs are extremely limited, forcing admission states and other actors to prioritize some groups and individuals over others. Unequal Access analyzes these dynamics and the complex boundaries of inclusion and exclusion they produce. Focusing on Europe and programs admitting people to Germany from Lebanon and Turkey, Natalie Welfens explores multilevel policy developments, from the national to the global. She follows the admission chain – from policy formulation, via refugee selection and pre-departure preparations, to refugee reception – and illustrates how policy categories transform based on intersecting social markers such as nationality, gender, and age.Unequal Access reveals the inequalities embedded in the categorization practices of resettlement and humanitarian admission programs, demonstrating how these practices profoundly shape access to protection for refugees.
History Of English Literature And Literary Forms
by Directorate Of Distance Education - Madurai Kamaraj UniversityThe book History of English Literature and Literary Forms, published by the Directorate of Distance Education, Madurai Kamaraj University, provides a comprehensive overview of English literary history from its origins to the modern era. It covers major literary periods, including the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Victorian, and Modern periods. Important authors and their significant works are analyzed to highlight their contributions to literary development. The book also introduces various literary forms such as poetry, drama, and prose, explaining their characteristics and evolution. This serves as a foundational guide for B.A. First Year English students to understand the growth of English literature and its key movements.
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
by Jackson CrawfordThis Expanded Second Edition of Jackson Crawford’s 2015 translation of the Poetic Edda offers a wider range of poems (now including the Eddic Old Norse poem “Svipdagsmal” and four related non-Eddic Old Norse poems, “Eiriksmal,” “Hakonarmal,” “Krakumal,” and “Lokrur”) as well as a revised translation and enhanced editorial apparatus. Set in a new page design, it also features samples from the Old Norse texts written in the Old Norse runic alphabet known as the Younger Futhark (in Jackson Crawford’s hand) along with original Old Norse-inspired Latin alphabet typographical ideograms (by E. L. Wilson).
Argonautica
by Apollonius of Rhodes"Anyone who's ever been fascinated by The Magnificent Seven or a Marvel Comics movie that brings together a team of great epic heroes for a noble cause will understand the archetype and the paradigm that animates Apollonius's version of the ancient myth of the Argo, in which an assemblage of highly charismatic pre-Trojan War heroes embarks on a daunting adventure. This new edition of the epic can play an invaluable role in any number of classes that involve ancient literature or that focus on heroic quests in literature of any period. Readers will be able to understand not only the story itself, but also the culture that produced it, and, further, the complicated and sometimes inconsistent values of heroism and nobility, which are both celebrated and challenged in Apollonius's great poem. "Lombardo and Polsley render the Argonautica in a poetic form (with helpful narrative rubrics and extended similes set off in italics) that allows the story to unfold powerfully but in a measured way, as only verse can. This allows the reader to pay attention to patterns of imagery and the fine crafting of character, personality, dialogue, and diction that somehow are blurred in prose translations that focus on exposition, information, and episode. The translation is ever clear, animated, direct, and dramatic, preserving the interested voice of Apollonius (one of the most self-consciously artful narrators in the epic canon), the not entirely disarming charms of Jason, and the ever-charismatic power of the bewitching Medea. It's hard to imagine a more accessible and relatable rendering of the story or one so well-paced and exciting. "Students will benefit from an excellent apparatus that includes Maps, a detailed Glossary, and a helpful Appendix with selections from Euripides, plus a masterful Introduction by Tara Welch that is also a first-rate literary essay on the poem's major themes. Among these, her ruminations on Jason's dubious leadership and wavering stature highlight the unique appeal and brilliance of this great adventure story."—Michael Calabrese, Professor of English, Cal State LA and translator of Piers Plowman: The A Version, revised edition (Catholic University of America Press)
Gilded Age Entrepreneur: The Curious Life of American Financier Albert Benton Pullman
by Simon CorderySimon Cordery's Gilded Age Entrepreneur illuminates the fascinating and chaotic business world of Albert Pullman. The influential but little-known older brother of George Pullman and the craftsman of the family, Albert designed the first luxurious Pullman railroad cars and hosted promotional trips to show them off. In those heady early days, he met national business and political leaders and hired the first Pullman porters. Albert and George made a formidable team, but as the Pullman Company grew, Albert's role shrank. He turned to his own investment portfolio, often with disastrous results. Beginning with the industrial laundry that cleaned sleeping-car linens, Albert appeared before the Supreme Court after a catastrophic insurance investment, ran afoul of federal banking regulations, and failed in an attempt to corner wheat futures. With evermore unsuccessful speculations, Albert was tempted by extralegal land sales and entered the silver-mining game. Finally, his own family in crisis and his relationship with George shattered, Albert Pullman launched into one last round of adventurous investments with mixed results.Gilded Age Entrepreneur demonstrates that Albert Pullman embodied the small-time investors who were legion after the Civil War. From banking and insurance to manufacturing and mining, a host of hopeful dreamers like Albert Pullman fueled the circulation of capital by forging political connections, creating and losing businesses, issuing shares, and longing for profit.
Walking Chicago's Coast: A 63-Mile Journey to the Indiana Dunes
by Michael McCollyBlending travelogue, memoir, and environmental reportage, Walking Chicago's Coast takes readers on an urban journey. Michael McColly begins his walk at his far–North Side Chicago apartment and proceeds for two long days along the shore of Lake Michigan to the Indiana Dunes National Park. As he walks, McColly reflects on the layers of history, the constructed magnificence, and the troubling divides in this polyglot mecca of the Midwest. From its descriptions of grand parks and architecture to packed sandy beaches to polluted neighborhoods called "sacrifice zones" along industrial waterways and rivers, Walking Chicago's Coast shows how such urban hiking lets one contemplate a city's grandeur and history, confront environmental and social realities, and trigger emotions and memories. Through Superfund sites, brownfields, scrapyards, and industrial ruins, McColly discovers the remarkable patterns of urban nature and the surprising beauty along his path.
Resurrecting the Past: France's Forgotten Heritage Mandate
by Sarah GriswoldIn Resurrecting the Past, Sarah Griswold shows how the Levant became a crucial front in a post-1918 fight over the French past—a contingent and contradictory but always hard-charging struggle over a forgotten "heritage mandate." Many scholars, clergy, pundits, politicians, and investors perceived the moment Allied forces entered Jerusalem in December 1917 to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand French influence, evoking the vision of a new colony in the territory: a French Levant. But what transpired for the French state in the Levant after World War I, and why does that ill-conceived venture still matter today?Resurrecting the Past investigates how heritage politics led to a new form of empire—a French mandate for Syria and Lebanon—and with it a tide of regional and international critique. Against such opposition, the heritage mandate leaned heavily on spectacle and science, generating a sprawling set of sites and objects—Ottoman mansions, crusader castles, Umayyad mosques, Roman arches, buried synagogues, and Sumerian ziggurats. As Griswold traces how French heritage efforts cycled through multiple ideal pasts in the Levant from 1918 to 1946, she reveals how each one, though grounded in realities, also complicated those constructs and the work of French heritage-makers. Resurrecting the Past offers a parable of how efforts in heritage politics aimed to construct a union of ideologies and objects deemed the best past for France's uncertain future but struggled as much as they succeeded. Eventually those same heritage politics ironically helped officials justify the end of the "French Levant."
The Work of Reform: Literature and Political Ecology from Langland to Spenser
by William RhodesThe Work of Reform interweaves literary, economic, and environmental history to trace the influence that William Langland's harsh vision of enforced agrarian labor in Piers Plowman had on later medieval and early modern thinking about land and improvement in Britain and Ireland, culminating with Edmund Spenser's colonial writing. William Rhodes brings together a rich poetic archive with agrarian husbandry manuals, prose polemics, and imperial tracts to connect conflicts over land and labor on the English manor to those of Tudor Ireland, offering a new eco-Marxist literary history of ecological transformation across the medieval-modern divide. In the aftermath of the Black Death, the depopulation of the countryside, and the beginnings of the Enclosure Movement, English poets imagined enforced labor as a panacea for social unrest precipitated by environmental catastrophe. Arguing that Piers Plowman established how poetry could envision religious and economic transformation based on agrarian production, The Work of Reform reveals that the Piers Plowman tradition's valorization of agrarian toil was open to appropriation by later writers developing totalizing, top-down colonialist projects.
Unbounding Europe: Bordering and the Politics of Mediterranean Solidarity in Sicily and Tunisia
by Ilaria GiglioliAt a time of global border fortification and rising nationalisms, Unbounding Europe analyzes the potential of Mediterranean borderlands to offer alternative models of belonging. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, Ilaria Giglioli writes about relations between Sicilians and Tunisians and how they negotiate relationships of proximity and difference in multiple arenas of life. She argues that histories of marginalization within the nation-state do not automatically make borderlands inclusive for migrants. Understanding the interplay of different degrees of marginality is key to identify how solidarity movements can emerge and be effective. Giglioli argues that depoliticized celebrations of cross-Mediterranean coexistence ignore longstanding inequalities and reinforce symbolic hierarchies between Sicilians and Tunisians. She stresses that recognizing and addressing these inequalities is key to developing a transformative politics of solidarity. Rather than idealize intermediate border spaces or subjects, Unbounding Europe asserts that it is more effective to reconstruct histories of material and symbolic boundary drawing to demonstrate the contingency and mutability of borders.
Reforming Social Services in New York City: How Major Change Happens in Urban Welfare Policies
by Thomas J. MainReforming Social Services in New York City examines efforts across six decades to respond to poverty, joblessness, and homelessness through the establishment and periodic restructuring of the city's Human Resources Administration (HRA) and related social welfare agencies.As Thomas J. Main shows through archival research and interviews with key figures, the HRA has been the focus of several mayoralties. The John Lindsay administration's creation of the HRA in 1966 was a classic liberal effort to fight poverty; Rudy Giuliani brought dramatic change by implementing work-oriented welfare reform; and the Bill de Blasio administration attempted to install a progressive social welfare agenda within the city's social service agencies to reduce inequality. Reforming Social Services in New York City tells the story of these efforts, assessing the strategies employed and the success of their outcomes, concluding that major nonincremental change in urban welfare policy is not only possible but has been effective.
The Medium Is Still the Message: Marshall McLuhan for Our Time
by Grant N. HaversThe Medium Is Still the Message presents Marshall McLuhan, history's foremost philosopher of media, as the indispensable guide for understanding the impact of technologies. McLuhan (1911-1980) shows that media are not simply tools of communication: they create new environments with transformational effects on politics, economics, culture, identity, religion, and nature. Grant N. Havers argues that McLuhan's key insight--"the medium is the message"--is even more relevant today as humanity grapples with the unintended effects of new media.As McLuhan demonstrated, a lack of understanding about the power of media technologies allows these entities to become idols that enslave their makers. At the same time, they encourage human beings to act like gods who can reinvent reality itself, all the while leading to the decline of literacy, the weakening of democracy, the resurgence of tribalism within the global village, and the elusive search for identity in cyberspace. The Medium Is Still the Message ultimately offers good news: using McLuhan's insights, human beings can escape the technological cave that they have fashioned for themselves.
The Gods of Egypt
by Claude TrauneckerThe Gods of Egypt, first published in France in 1992 and now in its third French edition, is a short, elegant, and highly accessible survey of ancient Egyptian religion. The clarity and brevity of Claude Traunecker's book make it especially valuable to readers seeking an authoritative introduction to this complex topic. The Cornell edition, the first English translation, is enhanced by 23 illustrations. Traunecker begins with an overview of the source materials and a discussion of the historiography of Egyptian religion, a subject relatively neglected by scholars. He then describes the actual and metaphysical worlds inhabited by the Egyptian deities and the role that humans played in the Egyptian universe. Focusing especially on the diversity and number of approaches used by Egyptians to explain their world, The Gods of Egypt offers a succinct and highly readable presentation of recent interpretations of Egyptian religion.
The Politics of Sanctuary
by Vojislava Filipcevic CordesThe Politics of Sanctuary examines sanctuaries as spaces where activists oppose what they see as an unjust restrictive regime trapping immigrants in conditions of legal liminality. Drawing on her fieldwork in New York City, Vojislava Filipcevic Cordes explores the politics of immigrant exclusions, and depicts how immigrants in sanctuary cities stake claims for their rightful presence. She argues for a more inclusive political life of expanded urban citizenship for undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees through the mechanisms of sanctuary practice. Blending a participant-observation case study of the immigrant-organized New Sanctuary Coalition with urban politics and theory, The Politics of Sanctuary also offers ideas for how ways sanctuary practices, supported by governance and social-service arrangements, can promote legitimate claims to immigrant urban membership and belonging.
In Those Days There Was No Coffee: Writings in Cultural History (Revised and Expanded)
by A.R. VenkatachalapathySince it was first published in 2006, this beloved volume of essays by A. R. Venkatachalapathy on the cultural history of colonial Tamilnadu has been enjoyed equally by scholars looking for rigorous history-writing and lay informed readers in search of a classic good read. The new expanded edition hopes to do more of the same.The author draws from sources as varied as poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, comments, advertisements, and notices to bring to life a rich and vibrant cultural history. As authoritative as they are captivating, the ten essays in the volume represent a valuable addition to the small corpus of history titles which also qualify as accomplished writing.
Economics and Finance Readings: Selected Papers from Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance, 2024
by Evan Lau Lee Ming Tan Jaime Moll de AlbaThis book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 2024 edition of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance (APEF), which is held annually in Singapore. It presents the latest research findings in economics and finance and discusses relevant issues in today's world. The book is a useful resource for readers who want access to economics, finance and business research that focusing on the Asia-Pacific region.
Risse in Gebäuden: Damit aus einer Fassade kein Ris(s)iko wird
by Frank FrösselDas Fachbuch setzt sich ganzheitlich und systemisch mit Rissen in der Fassade auseinander. Hierbei orientiert sich der Aufbau des Fachbuches an der so genannten Rissologie: Nach einer kurzen Einleitung werden die Grundlagen über die allgemein gültige Entstehung von Mikro- und Makrorissen sowie die verschiedenen Rissbilder und -arten in verschiedenen Baustoffen und Bauteilen beschrieben und ausführlich dargestellt. Anschließend werden die unterschiedlichen Untersuchungsmethoden im Rahmen der Riss-Diagnostik vorgestellt und eine Bewertung nach technischen, optischen und rechtlichen Aspekten vorgenommen. Des Weiteren erfolgt eine Rissklassifizierung nach Rissarten und Entstehungsursache: Baugrundbedingte Risse, konstruktiv bedingte Risse, untergrundbedingte Risse und putzbedingte Risse werden ausführlich beschrieben und anschaulich dargestellt. Den Abschluss des technischen Teils stellt die Instandsetzung der verschiedenen Rissarten dar. Ein Schwerpunkt des Fachbuches ist die objektive Beschreibung der Vor- und Nachteile sowie Anwendungsgrenzen verschiedener Sanierungssysteme. Die Rissologie wird abgerundet durch vorbeugende Maßnahmen, um Risse in Fassaden zu vermeiden. Den Abschluss des Fachbuches bildet eine rechtliche Betrachtung über Risse in Gebäuden. Hierbei werden die verschiedenen Rissarten, -ursachen und -auswirkungen sowie -instandsetzungen rechtlich bewertet. Ein Muss für alle Sachverständigen und Gutachter, Architekten und Planer sowie ausführende Fachbetriebe, Baustoffindustrie und -fachhandel sowie Fachanwälte für Bau- und Architektenrecht. Das Fachbuch eignet sich ebenfalls für die berufliche Aus- und Weiterbildung, da komplexe Sachverhalte einfach und verständlich vermittelt werden. Das Buch wird durch ein umfangreiches Glossar komplettiert.
Postcolonial Mythology and Ethnic Self-Canonization in Biafran Fiction and Activism (African Histories and Modernities)
by Abba AbbaPostcolonial Mythology and Ethnic Self-Canonization in Biafran Fiction and Activism explores the ways in which communities that have been marginalized in colonial discourses attempt to reconstruct their identities, histories, and narratives through the use of postcolonial myths. The deconstruction of stereotypes and creation of self-referential myths often play a crucial role in empowering marginalised communities to reassert their cultural identity and reclaim their cultural symbols with narratives of counter-history. Relying on the experience of the Igbo and the Nigeria-Biafra War event, the book demonstrates how ethnic groups in Africa articulate their resistance against subalternity. Through literary, historical, and archival analyses, it offers an unbiased reading of postcolonial mythologies and counter-mythologies in Biafran literature and activism and how they contribute to a broader understanding of colonialism, ethnic-minoritization and ethnic self-canonization. With its robust analysis, the book sets new benchmarks for scholars, researchers, teachers and students in humanities and social sciences, especially literature, history, political science and anthropology for re-reading ethnicity and rethinking the timeless value of inter-ethnic communication.
Falling for FinTech?: A Historical Institutionalist Account of France’s Approach to Financial Innovation After the Global Financial Crisis (Advanced Studies in Diginomics and Digitalization)
by Daphnée PapiasseThis book presents a unique in-depth case study, supported by interviews with French experts, of France&’s early embrace and regulatory leadership on FinTech in an uncertain EU post-2008 crisis regulatory context, with an extension of the discussion to implications on EU level. FinTech- the recent wave of technological innovation in finance – is no longer a buzzword but a mainstream development in financial services. Although it raises much hope, FinTech creates challenges to post-global financial crisis regulation which raises an important research question at the heart of this book: How do financial regulators manage uncertain technological innovations in the wake of a protracted systemic crisis? This book analyzes this critical question for political economy and public policy through a qualitative in-depth analysis of FinTech regulation in France, a country where the State has promoted financial innovation as a matter of industrial policy within an evolving regulatory space, supported generally by market-shaping principles.
EU-Journalismus: Ein Handbuch für Theorie und Praxis. Mit Beiträgen von EU-Korrespondent:innen (Journalistische Praxis)
by Michael GrytzDie EU ist als Organisation in der Welt einzigartig. Sie ist kein Staat, in dem eine demokratisch legitimierte Regierung mit ihren Mehrheiten Politik und Geschicke einer Gesellschaft bestimmt. Die EU ist ein Bund aus Staaten, die sich vertraglich aneinandergebunden haben, mit vielen verschiedenen Regierungen, kulturell und historisch höchst unterschiedlich geprägt. Der Autor beschreibt einen EU-Journalismus, der Verständnis für ein Aushandeln von Lösungen innerhalb der EU weckt und dabei die Unterschiedlichkeit der Interessen und Herkunft ihrer Mitgliedsstaaten berücksichtigt Zudem beleuchtet das Buch Fragen, wie etwa mit EU-Journalismus neue Zielgruppen erreicht werden. Bedeutet EU-Journalismus lediglich die Fortsetzung von innenpolitischer Berichterstattung? Oder kann es auch einen echten europäischen Journalismus geben? Das Handbuch beschreibt politische Prozesse und gibt praktische Hinweise und Tipps aus der Erfahrung eines langjährigen EU-Korrespondenten. Zudem liefert das Buch Erkenntnisse namhafter deutscher und internationaler Korrespondent:innen. Der Autor erklärt den "Arbeitsplatz Brüssel" und gibt Einblicke für Medienschaffende und Journalist:innen, aber auch für Bürger:innen, für Studierende, Newcomer:innen unter den Brüsseler Korrespondent:innen und auch sonst an der Vermittlung von EU-Prozessen Interessierten.
Project Management in Cloud and IoT Applications
by Naresh Kumar Sehgal Pramod Chandra Bhatt Richard CastroCloud Computing has been in use for several decades now, but the art and science of delivering Cloud based products is still shrouded in mystery. This book shines new light on how to deliver projects on time and within budget. The authors discuss the theory and practices of software engineering as applied to successful project execution for Cloud and IoT based products. The readers will find the following topics well covered. 1. Management of projects in general, and Clouds in particular, including budgeting. 2. Best practices in Software engineering, with emphasis on using Agile methodology. 3. IoT products, their deployment, including Cloud based support and management. 4. Regulatory compliance. 5. New value creation and future opportunities.