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Legal Data and Information in Practice

How Data and the Law Interact

by Sarah A. Sutherland ...

Legal Data and Information in Practice provides readers with an understanding of how to facilitate the acquisition, management, and use of legal data in organizations such as libraries, courts, governments, universities, and start-ups.Presenting a synthesis of information about legal data that will furnish readers with a thorough understanding of the topic, the book also explains why it is ... Read more

$74.99 CAD

Legal Data and Information in Practice provides readers with an understanding of how to facilitate the acquisition, management, and use of legal data in organizations such as libraries, courts, governments, universities, and start-ups.Presenting a synthesis of information about legal data that will furnish readers with a thorough understanding of the topic, the book also explains why it is
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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

29th International Conference, TACAS 2023, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2023, Paris, France, April 22–27, 2023, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Natasha Sharygina ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2023, which was held as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2023, during April 22-27, 2023, in Paris, France.The 56 full papers and 6 short tool demonstration papers presented in this volume ... Read more

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This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2023, which was held as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2023, during April 22-27, 2023, in Paris, France.The 56 full papers and 6 short tool demonstration papers presented in this volume
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Advanced Analytics with Spark

Patterns for Learning from Data at Scale

by Sean Owen, Josh Wills, Sandy Ryza, Uri Laserson ...

In the second edition of this practical book, four Cloudera data scientists present a set of self-contained patterns for performing large-scale data analysis with Spark. The authors bring Spark, statistical methods, and real-world data sets together to teach you how to approach analytics problems by example. Updated for Spark 2.1, this edition acts as an introduction to these techniques and other ... Read more

$54.99 CAD

In the second edition of this practical book, four Cloudera data scientists present a set of self-contained patterns for performing large-scale data analysis with Spark. The authors bring Spark, statistical methods, and real-world data sets together to teach you how to approach analytics problems by example. Updated for Spark 2.1, this edition acts as an introduction to these techniques and other
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Beginning Django

Web Application Development and Deployment with Python

by Daniel Rubio ...

Discover the Django web application framework and get started building Python-based web applications. This book takes you from the basics of Django all the way through to cutting-edge topics such as creating RESTful applications. Beginning Django also covers ancillary, but essential, development topics, including configuration settings, static resource management, logging, debugging, and email. ... Read more

$47.99 CAD

Discover the Django web application framework and get started building Python-based web applications. This book takes you from the basics of Django all the way through to cutting-edge topics such as creating RESTful applications. Beginning Django also covers ancillary, but essential, development topics, including configuration settings, static resource management, logging, debugging, and email.
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New Metropolitan Perspectives

Transition with Resilience for Evolutionary Development

Edited by Carmelina Bevilacqua, Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Christina Kakderi, Vincenzo Provenzano ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This open access book conveys attention to the theme of transition towards resilience and sustainability and its evolutionary perspective that emphasizes the complexity and uncertainty that governments and society are called to address in response to the ongoing challenges. "New Metropolitan Perspective Post COVID Dynamics: Green and Digital Transition, between Metropolitan and Return to Villages’ ... Read more

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This open access book conveys attention to the theme of transition towards resilience and sustainability and its evolutionary perspective that emphasizes the complexity and uncertainty that governments and society are called to address in response to the ongoing challenges. "New Metropolitan Perspective Post COVID Dynamics: Green and Digital Transition, between Metropolitan and Return to Villages’
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Agile Processes, in Software Engineering, and Extreme Programming

17th International Conference, XP 2016, Edinburgh, UK, May 24-27, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Helen Sharp, Tracy Hall ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in May 2016.While agile development has already become mainstream in industry, this field is still constantly evolving and continues to spur an enormous interest both in industry and academia. To this end, the XP conference attracts a large number of ... Read more

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This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in May 2016.While agile development has already become mainstream in industry, this field is still constantly evolving and continues to spur an enormous interest both in industry and academia. To this end, the XP conference attracts a large number of
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Remaking Money for a Sustainable Future

Money Commons

by Ester Barinaga Martín ...

Series series Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Money is central to capitalism and to our many sustainability crises. Could we remake money so as to advance sustainable economies and fair societies? A growing number of scholars, politicians and activists think we can, and they are doing it from the bottom up.This book examines how grassroots groups, municipalities and radical crypto ... Read more

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EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Money is central to capitalism and to our many sustainability crises. Could we remake money so as to advance sustainable economies and fair societies? A growing number of scholars, politicians and activists think we can, and they are doing it from the bottom up.This book examines how grassroots groups, municipalities and radical crypto
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Cryptocurrency

A Beginner's Guide To Understanding And Winning With Fintech

by Eliot P. Reznor ...

Do you wish you start earning money today with cryptocurrency?... or do you see everyone else making money with cryptocurrency? Are you tempted to start learning finally see what the hype is all about? Do you feel ignorant, unclear about what cryptocurrency is, and why it can change your life?Are you terrified of ending up old having wasted years not taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime op. ... Read more

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Do you wish you start earning money today with cryptocurrency?... or do you see everyone else making money with cryptocurrency? Are you tempted to start learning finally see what the hype is all about? Do you feel ignorant, unclear about what cryptocurrency is, and why it can change your life?Are you terrified of ending up old having wasted years not taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime op.
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Hexagonal Architecture Explained

How the Ports & Adapters architecture simplifies your life, and how to implement it, Updated 1st Ed.

by Alistair Cockburn, Juan Manuel Garrido de Paz ...

Recommended by giants like Netflix and Amazon, the Hexagonal or Ports & Adapters architecture simplifies testing, protects against business logic leakage, supports changing technologies in long-running system, and lets you apply Domain Driven Design. In this definitive book on the subject, pattern author Dr. Alistair Cockburn and Juan Manuel Garrido de Paz lay bare all of the intricacies of the ... Read more

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Recommended by giants like Netflix and Amazon, the Hexagonal or Ports & Adapters architecture simplifies testing, protects against business logic leakage, supports changing technologies in long-running system, and lets you apply Domain Driven Design. In this definitive book on the subject, pattern author Dr. Alistair Cockburn and Juan Manuel Garrido de Paz lay bare all of the intricacies of the
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Legal, Regulatory and Ethical Non-binary Choices of the AI Act

by Tomasz Braun, Dominika Ewa Harasimiuk ...

Series series Routledge Research in the Law of Emerging Technologies
This book investigates the complex ethical dilemmas underpinning AI regulation, analysing the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in the context of the fundamental values and ambitious expectations that have accompanied it initially.This book posits a pioneering regulatory framework to ensure the ethical development and equitable deployment of AI technologies for societal benefit. The expanding ... Read more

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This book investigates the complex ethical dilemmas underpinning AI regulation, analysing the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in the context of the fundamental values and ambitious expectations that have accompanied it initially.This book posits a pioneering regulatory framework to ensure the ethical development and equitable deployment of AI technologies for societal benefit. The expanding
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Web Marketing for the Music Business

by Tom Hutchison ...

Interested in promoting, selling, and distributing music online? Have the website but not sure what to do next? Web Marketing for the Music Business is designed to help develop the essential Internet presence needed for effective promotion, sales, and distribution.Author Tom Hutchison provides instructions on how to set up a website, as well as how to use the Internet to promote you or your client ... Read more

$85.99 CAD

Interested in promoting, selling, and distributing music online? Have the website but not sure what to do next? Web Marketing for the Music Business is designed to help develop the essential Internet presence needed for effective promotion, sales, and distribution.Author Tom Hutchison provides instructions on how to set up a website, as well as how to use the Internet to promote you or your client
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Learn Generative AI with PyTorch

Build GANs, transformers, and diffusion models

by Mark Liu ...

Learn how generative AI works by building your very own models that can write coherent text, create realistic images, and even make lifelike music.Learn Generative AI with PyTorch teaches the underlying mechanics of generative AI by building working AI models from scratch. Throughout, you’ll use the intuitive PyTorch framework that’s instantly familiar to anyone who’s worked with Python data tools ... Read more

$65.99 CAD

Learn how generative AI works by building your very own models that can write coherent text, create realistic images, and even make lifelike music.Learn Generative AI with PyTorch teaches the underlying mechanics of generative AI by building working AI models from scratch. Throughout, you’ll use the intuitive PyTorch framework that’s instantly familiar to anyone who’s worked with Python data tools
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JavaFX 8: Introduction by Example

by Mark Heckler, Gerrit Grunwald, José Pereda, Sean Phillips, Carl Dea ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
JavaFX 8: Introduction by Example shows you how to use your existing Java skills to create graphically exciting client applications with the JavaFX 8 platform. The book is a new and much improved edition of JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Example, taking you through a series of engaging, fun-to-work examples that bring you up to speed on the major facets of the platform. It will help you to create ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

JavaFX 8: Introduction by Example shows you how to use your existing Java skills to create graphically exciting client applications with the JavaFX 8 platform. The book is a new and much improved edition of JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Example, taking you through a series of engaging, fun-to-work examples that bring you up to speed on the major facets of the platform. It will help you to create
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Musical Signal Processing

Edited by Curtis Roads, Stephen Travis Pope, Aldo Piccialli, Giovanni De Poli ...

Series series Studies on New Music Research
Compiled by an international array of musical and technical specialists, this book deals with some of the most important topics in modern musical signal processing. Beginning with basic concepts, and leading to advanced applications, it covers such essential areas as sound synthesis (including detailed studies of physical modelling and granular synthesis) ,control signal synthesis, sound ... Read more

$329.99 CAD

Compiled by an international array of musical and technical specialists, this book deals with some of the most important topics in modern musical signal processing. Beginning with basic concepts, and leading to advanced applications, it covers such essential areas as sound synthesis (including detailed studies of physical modelling and granular synthesis) ,control signal synthesis, sound
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Building the Future Internet through FIRE

a Research and Experimentation based Approach

Edited by Martin Serrano, Nikolaos Isaris, Hans Schaffers ...

The Internet as we know it today is the result of a continuous activity for improving network communications, end user services, computational processes and also information technology infrastructures. The Internet has become a critical infrastructure for the human-being by offering complex networking services and end-user applications that all together have transformed all aspects, mainly ... Read more

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The Internet as we know it today is the result of a continuous activity for improving network communications, end user services, computational processes and also information technology infrastructures. The Internet has become a critical infrastructure for the human-being by offering complex networking services and end-user applications that all together have transformed all aspects, mainly
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The Great Barrier Reef

AI Dreaming

by JOHN PATERSON ...

The complexity of coral reef ecosystems is not surprising given the great length of time that these ecosystems have been in existence. While the shallow water distribution of coral reefs has varied with the alternation of glacial and interglacial periods, in their broad biological form, coral reefs have existed since the Precambrian and reefs similar to present reefs have existed for around 50 ... Read more

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The complexity of coral reef ecosystems is not surprising given the great length of time that these ecosystems have been in existence. While the shallow water distribution of coral reefs has varied with the alternation of glacial and interglacial periods, in their broad biological form, coral reefs have existed since the Precambrian and reefs similar to present reefs have existed for around 50
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Haptics: Science, Technology, Applications

12th International Conference, EuroHaptics 2020, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 6–9, 2020, Proceedings

Edited by Ilana Nisky, Jess Hartcher-O’Brien, Michaël Wiertlewski, Jeroen Smeets ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2020, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in September 2020.The 60 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions. The were organized in topical sections on haptic science, haptic technology, and ... Read more

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This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2020, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in September 2020.The 60 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions. The were organized in topical sections on haptic science, haptic technology, and
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OS X Lion

L'essentiel de Mac OS X 10.7

by Agnosys ...

Series Book 052 - Mon Mac & Moi
« Back to the Mac » ou « Retour vers le Mac ». Tel est le thème choisi par Apple lors de la première présentation de son nouveau félin. Alors que Mac OS X a été à la base de iOS qui anime peut-être votre smartphone ou votre tablette, le constructeur californien a jugé quil était temps que les innovations de son système pour appareils mobiles profitent visiblement à ses ordinateurs. Les ... Read more

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« Back to the Mac » ou « Retour vers le Mac ». Tel est le thème choisi par Apple lors de la première présentation de son nouveau félin. Alors que Mac OS X a été à la base de iOS qui anime peut-être votre smartphone ou votre tablette, le constructeur californien a jugé quil était temps que les innovations de son système pour appareils mobiles profitent visiblement à ses ordinateurs. Les
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GUI Design for Android Apps

by Ryan Cohen, Tao Wang ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
GUI Design for Android Apps is the perfect—and concise—introduction for mobile app developers and designers. Through easy-to-follow tutorials, code samples, and case studies, the book shows the must-know principles for user-interface design for Android apps running on the Intel platform, including smartphones, tablets and embedded devices.This book is jointly developed for individual learning by ... Read more

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GUI Design for Android Apps is the perfect—and concise—introduction for mobile app developers and designers. Through easy-to-follow tutorials, code samples, and case studies, the book shows the must-know principles for user-interface design for Android apps running on the Intel platform, including smartphones, tablets and embedded devices.This book is jointly developed for individual learning by
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Simulation Science

Third International Workshop, SimScience 2025, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, May 7–9, 2025, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Nina Merkert, Alexander Herzog ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Simulation Science, SimScience 2025, which took place in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, during May 7–9, 2025.The 7 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. SimScience 2025 aimed to bring together researchers and practitioners from both industry and ... Read more

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This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Simulation Science, SimScience 2025, which took place in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, during May 7–9, 2025.The 7 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. SimScience 2025 aimed to bring together researchers and practitioners from both industry and
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Software Business

14th International Conference, ICSOB 2023, Lahti, Finland, November 27–29, 2023, Proceedings

Edited by Sami Hyrynsalmi, Jürgen Münch, Kari Smolander, Jorge Melegati ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2023, which was held in Lahti, Finland, during November 27–29, 2023. The special theme of ICSOB 2023 was Digital Agility: Mastering Change in Software Business and Digital Services.The 27 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and ... Read more

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This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2023, which was held in Lahti, Finland, during November 27–29, 2023. The special theme of ICSOB 2023 was Digital Agility: Mastering Change in Software Business and Digital Services.The 27 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and
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Product Research Rules

by C. Todd Lombardo, Aras Bilgen, Michael Connors ...

Digital product research doesn't have to be difficult, take a long time, or cost a lot of money. Nor should it be a job solely for scientists or expert researchers. In this practical book, Aras Bilgen, C. Todd Lombardo, and Michael Connors demonstrate how your entire team can conduct effective product research within a couple of weeks--easily, cheaply, and without compromising quality.Drawing from ... Read more

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Digital product research doesn't have to be difficult, take a long time, or cost a lot of money. Nor should it be a job solely for scientists or expert researchers. In this practical book, Aras Bilgen, C. Todd Lombardo, and Michael Connors demonstrate how your entire team can conduct effective product research within a couple of weeks--easily, cheaply, and without compromising quality.Drawing from
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The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Investing in Bitcoin

Your Step-By-Step Guide to Understanding and Investing in Bitcoin

by G.W. Hernandez ...

The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Investing in Bitcoin is your easy-to-understand roadmap into the world of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.Whether you're curious about how Bitcoin works, want to make your first investment, or are looking to safely grow your wealth, this guide simplifies everything for you.Packed with clear explanations and practical advice, you'll learn how to buy, store, and protect ... Read more

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The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Investing in Bitcoin is your easy-to-understand roadmap into the world of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.Whether you're curious about how Bitcoin works, want to make your first investment, or are looking to safely grow your wealth, this guide simplifies everything for you.Packed with clear explanations and practical advice, you'll learn how to buy, store, and protect
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Welcome to the Metaverse

Unlocking the Potential of Virtual Worlds

by David L. Shrier ...

A clear-eyed guide to the metaverse and how this powerful technology—along with advances in spatial computing, VR, and AR—will impact our economy, our lives, and our world.The metaverse. That term elicits a wide range of ideas and opinions. For many, it represents the next evolutionary phase of the internet—a fully immersive, digital universe where people can interact, work, and play in virtual ... Read more

$33.99 CAD

A clear-eyed guide to the metaverse and how this powerful technology—along with advances in spatial computing, VR, and AR—will impact our economy, our lives, and our world.The metaverse. That term elicits a wide range of ideas and opinions. For many, it represents the next evolutionary phase of the internet—a fully immersive, digital universe where people can interact, work, and play in virtual
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