The Tropical Silk Road : The Future of China in South America. by Amar, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Rafael Correa's Administration of Promises and the Impact of Its Policies on the Human Rights of Indigenous Groups -- 4.3. China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation in the Tapajós River "Logistics Corridor": A Case Study of Socioenvironmental Transformation in Brazil's Northeast -- 4.4. …”
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Pytest Quick Start Guide : Write Better Python Code with Simple and Maintainable Tests. by Oliveira, Bruno

Table of Contents: “…Keyword expressions: -kStop soon: -x, -- maxfail; Last failed, failed first: -- lf, -- ff; Output capturing: -s and -- capture; Disabling capturing with -s; Capture methods with -- capture; Traceback modes and locals: -- tb, -- showlocals; -- tb=long; -- tb=short; -- tb=native; -- tb=line; -- tb=no; -- showlocals ( -l); Slow tests with -- durations; Extra test summary: -ra; Configuration: pytest.ini; Additional command-line: addopts; Customizing a collection; Cache directory: cache_dir; Avoid recursing into directories: norecursedirs; Pick the right place by default: testpaths.…”
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Childhood Epilepsy : Language, Learning and Behavioural Complications by Svoboda, William B.

Table of Contents: “…Language problems may underlie some learning and behavior problems of epilepsy -- The challenge -- REFERENCES -- 3 Speech, language, and communication -- Communication disorders -- Language disorders -- Speech disorder -- Other communicative disorders -- Hearing disorders -- Language processing -- Organization and language in the brain -- Localization -- Lateralization -- Right-handers -- Left-handers -- Language development -- Prenatal -- Infancy -- Early childhood -- Late childhood -- Damage versus plasticity -- Plasticity and function transfer -- Epilepsy -- REFERENCES.…”
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Leviathan. by Hobbes, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…V Of Reason, and ScienceReason What It Is; Reason Defined; Right Reason Where; The Use of Reason; Of Error and Absurdity; Causes of Absurditie; Science; Prudence & Sapience, with Their Difference; Signes of Science; VI Of the Interiour Beginnings of Voluntary Motions; Motion Vitall and Animal; Endeavour; Appetite; Desire; Hunger; Thirst; Aversion; Contempt; Good Evill; Pulchrum Turpe; Delightfull Profitable; Unpleasant Unprofitable; Delight Displeasure; Pleasure Offence; Pleasures of Sense; Pleasures of the Mind; Joy Paine Griefe; The Will; Formes of Speech, in Passion.…”
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Crip authorship : disability as method

Table of Contents: “…Digital Spaces and the Right to Information for Deaf People during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe / Lovemore Chidemo, Agness Chindimba, and Onai Hara -- 35. …”
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Gerotechnology : research and practice in technology and aging : a textbook and reference for multiple disciplines

Table of Contents: “…Tong Louie living laboratory: a unique facility for the research and development of assistive technology / James Watzke -- New participative tools in product development for seniors / Hans-Liudger Dienel, Alexander Peine, and Heather Cameron -- Ethical realities: the old, the new, and the virtual / Gari Lesnoff-Caravaglia -- Applications to aging are helping human factors and ergonomics to grow up right / James L. Fozard.…”
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Trauma-Related Problems : a Practitioner's Guide to Using Mindfulness and Acceptance Strat... by Walser, Robyn

Table of Contents: “…Some of What We Know About MindfulnessIntroducing Clients to Mindfulness; The Mindfulness Exercises in This Book; Preparing to Begin; Chapter Objectives; Therapist Orientation; Treatment Structure; Informed Consent; Session Structure; The Big Picture; Creative Hopelessness: Finding the Place Where Something New Can Happen; Session Format (1-2 Sessions); Opening with Mindfulness; Prior Session Review; Jump; The Usual Suspects; Creating Creative Hopelessness; When Solutions Aren't Solutions; Hopelessness About the Right Thing; Recognizing the Cost of Negative Change Efforts.…”
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Failing Our Fathers : Confronting the Crisis of Economically Vulnerable Nonresident Fathers. by Mincy, Ronald B.

Table of Contents: “…; Setting the Order; Self-Support Reserve, Low-Income Standards, and Minimum Orders: What's the Difference?; Getting It Right in the First Place; Imputing Income…”
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Real estate accounting made easy by Ebisike, Obioma Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 5 Accounting for Operating Property ExpensesLessee Measurement and Recording of Operating and Finance Leases; Contracts with Multiple Components; Lease Liabilities and Right-of-Use Assets; Initial Direct Costs; Lessee Journal Entries of Operating and Finance Leases; Lessee Accounting of Operating Lease; Lessee Accounting of Finance Lease; Lessor Operating Property Expenses; Operating Costs; Property Taxes; Cleaning; Security; Water, Electricity, HVAC; Payroll; Insurance; Repairs and Maintenance; Leasing Costs; Loan Closing Costs; Management Fee; Sales and Use Taxes…”
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American evil : the psychology of serial killers by Cullen, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Copyright and publication details -- Table of Contents -- Publisher's note -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Introduction -- The Perfect Storm -- The Demographics of Death -- First principle -- How serial killers are made -- Serial killer facts -- Some basic statistics -- Family abuse and fragmentation -- Mental, physical and emotional isolation and abuse -- A culture of violence -- Violence as entertainment -- Guns -- Whatever happened to right and wrong? -- Where does a conscience come from? …”
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"My greatest quarrel with fortune" : Major General Lew Wallace in the West, 1861-1862 by Beemer, Charles G., 1940-

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Madeline Hunter's Mastery Teaching : Increasing Instructional Effectiveness in Elementary and Secondary Schools. by Hunter, Robin

Table of Contents: “…Guide for Group Discussion or Individual StudyInterest; Knowledge of Results; Intrinsic-Extrinsic Motivation; Chapter 4 -- Getting Students Set to Learn; Guide for Group Discussion or Individual Study; Hooking Your Students' Interest During Prime Time; Cultivating Prime Learning; Chapter 5 -- Providing Information Effectively; Guide for Group Discussion or Individual Study; Three Principles of Effective Instruction; Taking the Steps to Success; Chapter 6 -- Teaching to Both Halves of the Brain; Guide for Group Discussion or Individual Study; Your Brain: The Left and Right of It…”
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The ultimate guide to college transfer : from surviving to thriving by Tyler, Lucia D., Henninger, Susan E.

Table of Contents: “…Scenario 2: When the Honeymoon Is OverReason to Transfer: Pay Attention, Parents; Scenario 1: Hovering Helicopters; Scenario 2: Their Lips Are Sealed; Scenario 3: When the Student Knows Best; 3 Determining What's Right for You; How Savvy Are You about Transfer?; Introduction to Transfer Pros and Cons; Pros and Cons Checklist; Family Financial Tic Tac Toe; Learning Environment Picture Quiz; Credit Transfer Self-Survey; 4 Hands-On Homework; Telling Parents; Parent Perspective; Telling Friends; What about a Gap Year?…”
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The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: The Third Decade and Further Explorations From the Mountains of Colorado to the Peaks of Mathematics by Soifer, Alexander

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Leonhard Euler and the Bernoullis : mathematicians from Basel by Tent, M. B. W. (Margaret B. W.), 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Euler becomes blind in his right eye -- 33. St. Petersburg loses Euler to Frederick the Great of Prussia -- 34. …”
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The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language. by Faust, Miriam

Table of Contents: “…; 19: Cognitive Neuroscience of Creative Language: The Poetic and the Prosaic; 20: The Brain Behind Nonliteral Language: Insights From Brain Imaging; 21: Thinking outside the Left Box: The role of the Right Hemisphere in Novel Metaphor Comprehension; Part V: The Multilingual Brain; 22: Word Recognition in the Bilingual Brain.…”
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Creative writing in the community : a guide by Thaxton, Terry Ann

Table of Contents: “…8 Doing Creative WritingRight to your life (and your voice); Why do creative writing?…”
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Loss Models Further Topics. by Klugman, Stuart A.

Table of Contents: “…4.9.7 Exercises -- 5 Analytic and related methods for aggregate claim models -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Elementary approaches -- 5.3 Discrete analogues -- 5.4 Right-tail asymptotics for aggregate losses -- 5.4.1 Exercises -- 6 Computational methods for aggregate models -- 6.1 Recursive techniques for compound distributions -- 6.2 Inversion methods -- 6.2.1 Fast Fourier transform -- 6.2.2 Direct numerical inversion -- 6.3 Calculations with approximate distributions -- 6.3.1 Arithmetic distributions -- 6.3.2 Empirical distributions -- 6.3.3 Piecewise linear cdf -- 6.3.4 Exercises…”
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Microsoft System Center 2012 configuration manager : administration cookbook. by Mason, Brian (Computer engineer)

Table of Contents: “…. ; Using multiple sites; Re-migrating objects; DP sharing; See also; Installing SQL the right way; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; Installing SQL with an unattend file; Setting some limits; SQL file layout; Helping SQL; See also; Managing Internet-facing clients.…”
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Mastering Spark for data science by Morgan, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Authors; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Customer Feedback; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Big Data Science Ecosystem; Introducing the Big Data ecosystem; Data management; Data management responsibilities; The right tool for the job; Overall architecture; Data Ingestion; Data Lake; Reliable storage; Scalable data processing capability; Data science platform; Data Access; Data technologies; The role of Apache Spark; Companion tools; Apache HDFS; Advantages; Disadvantages; Installation; Amazon S3; Advantages; Disadvantages.…”
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