Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability : Comparative and International Perspectives. by Lessa, Francesca

Table of Contents: “…AN UPHILL STRUGGLE: CHALLENGING THE LEY DE CADUCIDAD, 1986-2011The "Voto Verde" Campaign; Under International Scrutiny; Fighting Impunity "at Home"; The First Interpretative Law; The Ballot Box Again?…”
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The Ultimate Book of Influence : the Ten Tools of Influence to Win in Business. by Helder, Chris

Table of Contents: “…Part IV: Selling and winning: certainty and simplicityChapter 9: Tool number 9: same, same but different; The whiteboard pen salesperson; Clients who have a negative perception of you; The selling process -- the important little things; Chapter 9 summary; Chapter 10: Tool number 10: move to the side; How move to the side works; The street-fight question; Switching hats; Chapter 10 summary; Summary of Part IV: Selling and winning -- certainty and simplicity; Appendix: How are you tracking?…”
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Death Is a Festival : Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. by Reis, Joo Jos

Table of Contents: “…Vapors or Specters? -- Fighting Other Bad Habits -- Reeducating the Senses: Smells and Sounds -- Defending the Dead -- Notes -- 9. …”
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The origins of the Baptist movement among the Hungarians : a history of the Baptists in the kingdom of Hungary from 1846 to 1893 by Kish, G. Alexander (George Alexander)

Table of Contents: “…Martial Law and the Bach Period, 1849-1859; 6.2. From the Patent Fight to the Eve of Dualism: Rottmayer's Renewed Cooperation with the Scottish Mission and the Baptisms of 1865; 6.3. …”
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Intelligent Automation and Systems Engineering by Ao, Sio-Iong

Table of Contents: “…Evidence Fusion for Real Time Click Fraud Detection and Prevention -- Biped Locomotion with Arm Swing, Based on Truncated Fourier Series and Bees Algorithm Optimizer -- Bio-inspired Pneumatic Muscle Actuated Robotic System -- Evaluation of an Orthopedic Surgical Robotic System Orthoroby on Bone Cadaver -- Natural Intelligence Based Automatic Knowledge Discovery for Medical Practitioners -- Design and Optimal Control of a Linear Electromechanical Actuator for Motion Platforms -- Design and Optimal Control of a Linear Electromechanical Actuator for Motion Platforms with Six Degrees of Freedom -- Parametric Identification of a Power-system Emulator -- Enhanced Adaptive Controller Applied to SMA Wire Control -- A Standalone System to Train and Evaluate Operators of Power Plants -- Lube Oil Systems Models for Real Time Executions Used on a Training Power Plant Simulator -- Stochastic Analysis and Particle Filtering of the Volatility -- Numerical Simulation of Finite Slider Bearings Using Control Volume Method -- Automated Production Planning and Scheduling System for Composite Component Manufacture -- Assessment Scenarios of Virtual Prototypes of Mining Machines -- A Framework for the Selection of Logistic Service Provider Using Fuzzy Delphi and Fuzzy TOPSIS -- Bee Algorithm for Solving Yield Optimization Problem for Hard  Disk Drive Component and Supplier’s Rating Constraints and Heuristic Performance Comparison -- Integrated Modelling of Functions and Requirements in Product Design and Factory Planning -- Towards a Strategy to Fight the Computer Science (CS) Declining Phenomenon -- Development of Power Plant Simulators and their Application in an Operations Training Center -- Benefits of Unstructured Data for Industrial Quality Analysis -- Evaluation: The Objectivity Measurement of Frequent Patterns -- Change-point Detection Based on SSA in Precipitation Times Series -- Non-linear Image Recovery from a Single Frame Super Resolution Using Pearson Type VII Density -- Research on the Building Method of Domain Lexicon Combining Association Rules and Improved TF*IDF -- Combining Multi-scale and Multidirectional Analysis for Edge Detection Using a Statistical Thresholding -- Soft Vector Quantization with Inverse Power-functions for Machine Learning Applications -- ANFIS-based P300 Detection Using Wavelet Feature Extraction on Blind Source Separated EEG Signals -- A Hyperbola-pair Based Road Detection System for Autonomous Vehicles -- Application of the Real-time Concurrent Constraint Calculus -- Teaching and Learning Routing Protocols Using Visual Educational Tools: The Case of EIGRP -- Relevance Features Selection for Intrusion Detection -- A Visual Application for Teaching and Learning the Advanced Concepts of the Diffusing Update Algorithm for EIGRP.    .…”
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Practical game AI programming : create game AI and implement cutting edge AI algorithms from scratch by DaGraça, Micael

Table of Contents: “…Going directly from A to B -- From point A to B with obstacles in the way -- Generating grid nodes -- Pathfinding implementation -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Crowd Interactions -- What is crowd interaction -- Video games and crowd interactions -- Assassin's Creed -- Grand Theft Auto (GTA) -- The Sims -- FIFA/Pro evolution soccer -- Planning crowd interactions -- Group fight -- Communication (attention zones) -- Communication (talking to other AI characters) -- Team sports -- Crowd collision avoidance -- Summary -- Chapter 9: AI Planning and Collision Avoidance -- Search -- Offensive search -- Predicting opponent actions -- Collision avoidance -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Awareness -- Stealth sub-genre -- About tactics -- About awareness -- Implementing vision awareness -- Basic vision detection -- Advanced vision detection -- Realistic field of view effect -- Summary -- Index.…”
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Metamorphoses : the New, Annotated Edition. by Ovid

Table of Contents: “…The Story of Pyramus and ThisbeThe Story of Mars and Venus; The Sun-God and Leucothoe; The Story of Salmacis; The End of the Daughters of Minyas; The Story of Athamas and Ino; The End of Cadmus; The Story of Perseus; BOOK FIVE; The Fighting of Perseus; Minerva Visits the Muses; BOOK SIX; The Story of Niobe; The Story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela; BOOK SEVEN; The Story of Jason and Medea; War Between Crete and Athens; The Story of Cephalus and Procris; BOOK EIGHT; The Story of Nisus and Scylla; The Story of Daedalus and Icarus; The Calydonian Boar; The Brand of Meleager.…”
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The German Revolution, 1917-1923 by Broué, Pierre

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Moscow CompromisePART THREE: FROM THE CONQUEST OF THE MASSES TO A DEFEAT WITHOUT A FIGHT -- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Unity Preserved With Difficulty -- Chapter Twenty-Nine: A New Start -- Chapter Thirty: The Rapallo Turn -- Chapter Thirty-One: For the United Front Against Poverty and Reaction -- Chapter Thirty-Two: The 'Mass Communist Party' -- Chapter Thirty-Three: The Workers' Government -- Chapter Thirty-Four: The Development of the Tactic -- Chapter Thirty-Five: The Occupation of the Ruhr -- Chapter Thirty-Six: Crisis in the KPD…”
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Edupreneur : unleashing teacher-led innovation in schools by Tait, Aaron, Faulkner, David

Table of Contents: “…-- Our school doesn't need to innovate -- Your why -- Check-in -- Dream big -- Start with your class -- Don't start with a solution -- Have a moan -- Focus your frustration -- Justin Matthys, edupreneur -- What future are you fighting for? -- The future you want to see in your school -- We believe -- Maybe later -- Have you got it? …”
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The boy who could change the world : the writings of Aaron Swartz by Swartz, Aaron, 1986-2013

Table of Contents: “…The book that changed my life ; The invention of objectivity ; Shifting the terms of debate : how big business covered up global warming ; Making noise : how right-wing think tanks get the word out ; Endorsing racism : the story of The Bell Curve ; Spreading lies : how think tanks ignore the facts ; Saving business : the origins of right-wing think tanks ; Hurting seniors : the attack on Social Security ; Fighting back : responses to the mainstream media ; What journalists don't : lessons from the Times ; Rachel Carson : mass murderer? …”


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Including a Symposium on Latin American Monetary Thought : Two Centuries in Search of Originality. by Fiorito, Luca

Table of Contents: “…Search for a Monetary Order: The Debate between Free Banking and a Legal TenderPolitical Fight of the Government Regenerator for Imposing the Legal Tender; A Final Comment; Notes; References; Primary; Serial Publications; Secondary; Francisco Barrera Lavalle: Early Twentieth-century Mexican Currency and Banking Specialist. …”
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Social housing and urban renewal : a cross-national perspective

Table of Contents: “…Officers' Views: Communities Fighting, Communities Built, Communities Lost?Daniel; Florence; Celia; Residents' Voices: Moving Out and Staying Put; Tina, North Peckham Estate; Stephanie and Keyla, Old Estate; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4 Gentrification as Policy Goal or Unintended Outcome? …”
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Activist New York : a History of People, Protest, and Politics. by Jaffe, Steven H.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- ACTIVIST NEW YORK A History of People, Protest, and Politics -- Copyright -- Title -- Director's Foreword -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- Colonial and Revolutionary New York: 1624-1783 -- Chapter One Let Us Stay: The Struggle for Religious Freedom in Dutch New Netherland -- Petitioning for Freedom in New Amsterdam -- Chapter Two The Zenger Case: Fighting for Freedom of the Press -- Educating the Enslaved in Colonial New York -- Chapter Three Leather Aprons & Silk Stockings: The Coming of the American Revolution in New York -- Quakers and Post-Revolutionary Reform…”
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Immigration by Issitt, Micah L.

Table of Contents: “…The American dreamers: the dreamers and DACA (2012-2018) -- 30. The fight for American ideology: the travel ban and American religious identity (2016-2018) -- 31. …”
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Software architecture patterns for serverless systems : architecting for innovation with event-driven microservices and micro frontends by Gilbert, John

Table of Contents: “…Shared database -- Service-oriented architecture -- Microservices -- Enabling autonomous teams with autonomous services -- Autonomous services -- creating bulkheads -- Asynchronous inter-service communication -- Fortified boundaries -- Event-first -- valuing facts -- Inversion of responsibility -- Events as first-class citizens -- Idempotence and ordered tolerance -- Serverless-first -- creating knowledge -- Self-service -- Disposable architecture -- Data life cycle -- fighting data gravity -- Micro frontends -- equalizing tiers -- Observability -- optimizing everything…”
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Shreds of War : With a Foreword by Olexy Haran. by Eperjesi, Ildikó

Table of Contents: “…It Is Helpful in the Fights in the Donbas" -- 26 "My Helmet Caught the Bullet Meant for Me. …”
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Plutarch's life of Alcibiades : story, text and moralism by Verdegem, Simon

Table of Contents: “…From Sparta to Sardis (Alc. 23.6-25.2) ; From Sardis to Samos (Alc. 25.3-26.9) ; Conclusions -- Fighting his way back (Alc. 27-31). A quest for glory (Alc. 27.1-2) ; The battle of Abydus (Alc. 27.3-6) ; In prison (Alc. 27.6-28.2) ; The Battle of Cyzicus (Alc. 28.2-10) ; Alcibiades and Thrasyllus (Alc. 29.1-5) ; The expedition against Chalcedon (Alc. 29.6-30.2) ; The capture of Selybria (Alc. 30.3-10) ; The Chalcedon-Treaty (Alc. 31.1-2) ; The capture of Byzantium (Alc. 31.3-8) ; Conclusions -- At the height of his glory (Alc. 32-34). …”
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Wild swans : three daughters of China by Chang, Jung, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…: The death of my father (1974-1976) -- Fighting to take wing (1976-1978).…”


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The view from the helm leading the American university during an era of change by Duderstadt, James J., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…-- Life as a university president -- The president's spouse -- The hired help -- A turn about the university calendar -- Lifestyles of the rich and famous -- On the road -- A matter of style -- Always some doubts -- Tilting with windmills -- Windmill no. 1: the privately supported public university -- Windmill no. 2: college sports -- Windmill no. 3: university governance -- The importance of fighting losing battles -- The endgame -- Survival instinct -- Putting it all on the line -- Wear and tear -- The two-minute warning -- Taking stock -- Fading away -- Years after a decade at the helm -- Whence and whither the university -- Some final thoughts on the university presidency -- Notes.…”
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New Labour/hard labour? : restructuring and resistance inside the welfare industry

Table of Contents: “…Social work today: a profession worth fighting for?; Introduction; Deskilling of social work…”
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