This book examines the events of September 11, 2001, focusing on the attack on the World Trade Center when two passenger planes were flown into the WTC buildings, killing nearly three thousand people. It explores the events leading up to this horrific attack and the terrorist group responsible, as well as the attack itself and its long-lasting ramifications, including the war into which the United States entered shortly after the attack.

A feature-length documentary focusing on the history, impact and future of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, a global book gifting program. With guest narrator, actress and author, Danica McKellar and the music of Dolly Parton.

EVOLVING SOFTWARE PROCESSES The book provides basic building blocks of evolution in software processes, such as DevOps, scaling agile process in GSD, in order to lay a solid foundation for successful and sustainable future processes. One might argue that there are already many books that include descriptions of software processes. The answer is "yes, but." Becoming acquainted with existing software processes is not enough. It is tremendously important...

"Taste is a core concept for the social sciences and an orienting notion in everyday practice. It is of equal relevance to academics and laypeople alike. Theorizations of taste are frequently multi- disciplinary, bringing an opportunity to cross-fertilize ideas and concepts. At the same time, a reader, challenged by the diverse body and dispersed nature of theories on taste, needs guidance navigating the literature and framing areas of interest. Until...

Air Transport: A Tourism Perspective provides rigorous insights into the current complexities, synergies and conflicts within air transportation and tourism, presenting a balanced, comprehensive, contemporary, and global analysis that thoroughly examines the links between theory and practice. The book offers readers a multi-sector, global perspective on the practical implications of the link between air transport and tourism. By using a novel approach,...

Learn the essential skills for building an authentic federated learning system with Python and take your machine learning applications to the next level Key Features Design distributed systems that can be applied to real-world federated learning applications at scale Discover multiple aggregation schemes applicable to various ML settings and applications Develop a federated learning system that can be tested in distributed machine learning settings...

"This handbook provides a broad healthcare context for operational research/management science (OR/MS) researchers with an encyclopedic account of the most vexing international healthcare issues. In addition, the handbook features a practical guide for OR/MS researchers to learn the most important quantitative research tools in conducting healthcare research, including classical OR techniques enhanced with game theory (such as queuing games); classical...

Schritt für Schritt eigene Apps entwickeln Viel Spaß mit selbst programmiertem Code und Smartphone-Spielen Mit Fragen und Aufgaben am Ende jedes Kapitels Hattest du auch schon selbst einen tollen Geistesblitz für eine Smartphone-App, aber keinen blassen Schimmer, wie sich solch eine Idee in ein kleines Programm umsetzen lässt? »... für Kids«-Autor Hans-Georg Schumann programmiert in dieser aktualisierten Neuauflage zusammen mit dir lustige...

Tinkering is a way of learning through hands-on activity -- experimenting with materials and devices to see how they work, taking things apart, making small changes and improvements, exploring and inventing. Tinkering may seem like a form of play -- and it is -- but it is also a powerful way of discovering truths about science, engineering, and math. With this book, Curt Gabrielson follows up on his best-seller Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making Stuff...

What does it take to successfully launch and scale a startup in Asia? While much of modern business literature covers Silicon Valley and its founders, building a company in Asia-a world center of technology and innovation-is a vastly different journey, and not nearly as widely covered. This book aims to change that. Asian Founders at Work is an essential compilation of in-depth, incisive interviews with over 20 top technopreneurs from the region....