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  • Authors: Jonathan Gruber (2013)

  • The book quickly became the market-leading text for Public Finance and Public Policy courses, and the margin is growing. Thoroughly updated, this timely new edition gives students the basic tools they need to understand the driving issues of public policy today, including healthcare, education, global climate change, entitlements, and more.

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  • Authors: Melinda Whong (2013)

  • This book proposes that research into generative second language acquisition (GenSLA) can be applied to the language classroom. Assuming that Universal Grammar plays a role in second language development, it explores generalisations from GenSLA research. The book aims to build bridges between the fields of generative second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and language teaching; and it shows how GenSLA is poised to engage with researchers of second language learning outside the generative paradigm.

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  • Authors: Marion Grussendorf (2013)

  • English for Logistics teaches students the target vocabulary and commonly-used expressions that are essential for communication in a variety of logistics roles, including carriers, suppliers, hauliers, and couriers. English for Logistics is suitable for those working for a shipping agent, a customs broker, or a freight forwarder. The course is appropriate for employees working at a range of levels, from warehousing and administration positions, to management roles. The course covers a range of subjects associated with the logistics industry, including transport and shipping, warehouse and storage, and documentation and finance

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  • Authors: Lourdes Ortega (2013)

  • The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages --in the case of bilinguals-- have already been acquired. Understanding Second Language Acquisition offers a wide-encompassing survey of this burgeoning field, its accumulated findings and proposed theories, its developed research paradigms, and its pending questions for the future. The book zooms in and out of universal, individual, and social forces, in each case evaluating the research findings that have been generated across diverse naturalistic and formal contexts for second language acquisition. It assumes no background in SLA and provides helpf...

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  • Authors: Dan C. Marinescu (2013)

  • Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice provides students and IT professionals with an in-depth analysis of the cloud from the ground up. Beginning with a discussion of parallel computing and architectures and distributed systems, the book turns to contemporary cloud infrastructures, how they are being deployed at leading companies such as Amazon, Google and Apple, and how they can be applied in fields such as healthcare, banking and science. The volume also examines how to successfully deploy a cloud application across the enterprise using virtualization, resource management and the right amount of networking support, including content delivery networks and storage area networks. Developers will find a complete introduction to application development provided on a variety of platforms...

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  • Authors: N. Vlajic (2013)

  • Upon completion of this material, you should be able to: List the key managerial roles and the main types of managerial positions in an organization. • Describe the POLC project management model. • List and describe organizational/structural approaches to information security. • Explain the difference between security policy, standard and procedure. • Enlist different types of security policy that can be found in an organization

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  • Authors: Szigeti, Tim (2013)

  • This authoritative guide to deploying, managing, and optimizing QoS with Cisco technologies has been thoroughly revamped to reflect the newest applications, best practices, hardware, software, and tools for modern networks. This new edition focuses on complex traffic mixes with increased usage of mobile devices, wireless network access, advanced communications, and video. It reflects the growing heterogeneity of video traffic, including passive streaming video, interactive video, and immersive videoconferences. It also addresses shifting bandwidth constraints and congestion points; improved hardware, software, and tools; and emerging QoS applications in network security