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This practical bestseller from leading expert Richard Nelson-Jones introduces the essential counselling skills for the helping professions. Now in its fourth edition, it guides you through the key skills for helping work across a range of settings, such as counselling, nursing, social work, youth work, education and many more. It explores 17 key counselling skills, including:

-asking questions
-monitoring
-facilitating problem solving
-negotiating homework

Each chapter describes a particular skill, illustrates it using clear case examples across a range of settings and then helps you consolidate and practise what youve learned through a set of creative activities.

Further chapters cover professional issues including a new chapter on managing crises and chapters on ethical dilemmas, supervision, working with diversity and more.

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Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network

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In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstreamand how the commercialization of the Internet was by no means a foregone conclusion at its outset.

Shane Greenstein traces the evolution of the Internet from government ownership to privatization to the commercial Internet we know today. This is a story of innovation from the edges. Greenstein shows how mainstream service providers that had traditionally been leaders in the old-market economy became threatened by innovations from industry outsiders who saw economic opportunities where others didn'tand how these mainstream firms had no choice but to innovate themselves. New models were tried: some succeeded, some failed. Commercial markets turned innovations into valuable products and services as the Internet evolved in those markets. New business processes had to be created from scratch as a network originally intended for research and military defense had to deal with network interconnectivity, the needs of commercial users, and a host of challenges with implementing innovative new services.

How the Internet Became Commercial demonstrates how, without any central authority, a unique and vibrant interplay between government and private industry transformed the Internet.

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How Unaffiliated Parents Are Raising Their Children

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Examines how "Religious Nones" negotiate tensions with those who think they ought to provide their children with a religious upbringing

The fastest growing religion in America isnone! One fifth of Americans now list their religion as none, up from only 7 percent two decades ago. Among adults under 30, those poised to be the parents of the next generation, fully one third are religiously unaffiliated. Yet these Nones, especially parents, still face prejudice in a culture where religion is widely seen as good for your kids. What do Nones believe, and how do they negotiate tensions with those convinced that they ought to provide their children with a religious upbringing?

Drawing on survey data and in-depth personal interviews with religiously unaffiliated parents across the country, Christel Manning provides important demographic data on American Nones and offers critical nuance to our understanding of the term. She shows that context is crucial in understanding how those without religious ties define themselves and raise their families. Indeed, she demonstrates that Nones hold a wide variety of worldviews, ranging from deeply religious to highly secular, and transmit them in diverse ways. What ties them all together is a commitment to spiritual choicea belief in the moral equivalence of religions and secular worldviews and in the individuals right to chooseand it is that choice they seek to pass on to their children.

The volume weaves in stories from the authors interviews throughout, showing how non-religious parents grapple with pressure from their community and how they think about religious issues. Engagingly written and thoroughly researched, Losing Our Religion will appeal to scholars, parents, and anyone interested in understanding the changing American religious landscape.

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The Bahai Faith had its origins in nineteenth century Shiite Islam, but embraces Abraham, Krishna, Moses, Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammadamong othersas prophets, each seen as a divine messenger uniquely suited to the needs of his time. The Bahai community has spread to become the second most geographically widespread religion in the world. It has a 120 year history in the United States, where members have promoted their core belief that all people are created equal.

American Bahais have been remarkably successful in attracting a diverse membership. They instituted efforts to promote racial unity in the deep South decades before the modern civil rights movement, and despite lip service to fostering multi racial congregations among Christian churches, over half of American Bahai congregations today are multiracial, in comparison to just 5 to 7 percent of U.S. Christian churches. This level of diversity is unique among all religious groups in the United States.

As the story of a relatively new religious movement, the history of the Bahais in America in the 20th and early 21st centuries offers a case study of institutional maturation, showcasing the communitys efforts to weather conflict and achieve steady growth. While much scholarly attention has been paid to extremist religious movements, this book highlights a religious movement that promotes the idea of the unity of all religions. Mike McMullen traces the hard work of the Bahais leadership and congregants to achieve their high level of diversity and manage to grow so successfully in America.

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Latina/o Youth, JROTC, and the American Dream

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Since the 1990s, Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) programs have experienced unprecedented expansion in American public schools. The program and its proliferation in poor, urban schools districts with large numbers of Latina/o and African American students is not without controversy. Public support is often based on the belief that the program provides much-needed discipline for "at risk" youth. Meanwhile, critics of JROTC argue that the program is a recruiting tool for the U.S. military and is yet another example of an increasingly punitive climate that disproportionately affect youth of color in American public schools.

Citizen, Student, Soldier intervenes in these debates, providing critical ethnographic attention to understanding the motivations, aspirations, and experiences of students who participate in increasing numbers in JROTC programs. These students have complex reasons for their participation, reasons that challenge the reductive idea that they are either dangerous youths who need discipline or victims being exploited by a predatory program. Rather, their participation is informed by their marginal economic position in the local political economy, as well as their desire to be regarded as full citizens, both locally and nationally. Citizenship is one of the central concerns guiding the JROTC curriculum; this book explores ethnographically how students understand and enact different visions of citizenship and grounds these understandings in local and national political economic contexts. It also highlights the ideological, social and cultural conditions of Latina/o youth and their families who both participate in and are enmeshed in vigorous debates about citizenship, obligation, social opportunity, militarism and, ultimately, the American Dream.

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A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert

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Winner of the 2016 Religious Communication Association Book of the Year Award

In God Mocks, Terry Lindvall ventures into the muddy and dangerous realm of religious satire, chronicling its evolution from the biblical wit and humor of the Hebrew prophets through the Roman Era and the Middle Ages all the way up to the present. He takes the reader on a journey through the work of Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales, Cervantes, Jonathan Swift, and Mark Twain, and ending with the mediated entertainment of modern wags like Stephen Colbert.

Lindvall finds that there is a method to the madness of these mockers: true satire, he argues, is at its heart moral outrage expressed in laughter. But there are remarkable differences in how these religious satirists express their outrage.The changing costumes of religious satirists fit their times. The earthy coarse language of Martin Luther and Sir Thomas More during the carnival spirit of the late medieval period was refined with the enlightened wit of Alexander Pope. The sacrilege of Monty Python does not translate well to the ironic voices of Soren Kierkegaard. The religious satirist does not even need to be part of the community of faith. All he needs is an eye and ear for the folly and chicanery of religious poseurs.

To follow the paths of the satirist, writes Lindvall, is to encounter the odd and peculiar treasures who are Gods mouthpieces. In God Mocks, he offers an engaging look at their religious use of humor toward moral ends.

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Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity

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Joel Osteen, the smiling preacher, has quickly emerged as one of the most recognizable Protestant leaders in the country. His megachurch, the Houston based Lakewood Church, hosts an average of over 40,000 worshipers each week. Osteen is the best-selling author of numerous books, and his sermons and inspirational talks appear regularly on mainstream cable and satellite radio.

How did Joel Osteen become Joel Osteen? How did Lakewood become the largest megachurch in the U. S.?

Salvation with a Smile, the first book devoted to Lakewood Church and Joel Osteen, offers a critical history of the congregation by linking its origins to post-World War II neopentecostalism, and connecting it to the exceptionally popular prosperity gospel movement and the enduring attraction of televangelism. In this richly documented book, historian Phillip Luke Sinitiere carefully excavates the life and times of Lakewoods founder, John Osteen, to explain how his son Joel expanded his legacy and fashioned the congregation into Americas largest megachurch.

As a popular preacher, Joel Osteens ministry has been a source of existential strength for many, but also the routine target of religious critics who vociferously contend that his teachings are theologically suspect and spiritually shallow. Sinitieres keen analysis shows how Osteens rebuttals have expressed a piety of resistance that demonstrates evangelicalisms fractured, but persistent presence.

Salvation with a Smile situates Lakewood Church in the context of American religious history and illuminates how Osteen has parlayed an understanding of American religious and political culture into vast popularity and success.

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The complete guide to Excel 2016, from Mr. Spreadsheet himself Whether you are just starting out or an Excel novice, theA Excel 2016 Bible is your comprehensive, go-to guide for all your Excel 2016 needs. Whether you use Excel at work or at home, you will be guided through the powerful new features and capabilities by expert author and Excel Guru John Walkenbach to take full advantage of what the updated version offers. Learn to incorporate templates, implement formulas, create pivot tables, analyze data, and much more. Navigate this powerful tool for business, home management, technical work, and much more with the only resource you need, Excel 2016 Bible.  Create functional spreadsheets that work Master formulas, formatting, pivot tables, and more Get acquainted with Excel 2016's new features and tools Customize downloadable templates and worksheets  Whether you need a walkthrough tutorial or an easy-to-navigate desk reference, the Excel 2016 BibleA has you covered with complete coverage and clear expert guidance.

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Essential Strategies for Financial Services Compliance

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A fully updated edition of the definitive guide to financial regulation  In recent years, not only has the compliance field become firmly established, but it has seen staggering growth, thanks to never-ending changes in the regulatory environment. As regulation increases still further, the demand for clear guidance on navigating daily compliance issues is greater than ever. Now in its second edition, the highly successful Essential Strategies for Financial Services Compliance has been updated with the latest compliance strategies and regulatory information, making it indispensable for compliance officers, legal firms, and anyone else working with the financial services compliance function. Non-compliance represents a significant material risk for any financial services firm that fails to understand and appropriately apply regulatory standards. This Second Edition of Essential Strategies for Financial Services Compliance makes it easy to digest complex information on the regulatory framework. But this book is far from solely theoretical. A balanced approach means that both the concepts and their application are within reach. Annie Mills and Peter Haines deliver solid advice that can be applied on a day-to-day basis to manage any compliance issues that may arise. Read this book to:  Understand the conceptual basis of compliance and the current regulatory environment applicable to the financial services industry Quickly and thoroughly learn the accepted best practices for everyday compliance Get up to date information on the current financial regulatory environment with this new edition Reference detailed advice as issues arise in day-to-day operations  This update to the popular first edition of Essential Strategies for Financial Services Compliance will help eliminate non-compliance risk and ensure that your firm is entirely current on its ability to navigate the maze of financial services regulation.

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Das Lehrbuch bietet eine im deutschsprachigen Raum einmalige Ubersicht uber die verschiedenen aktuellen Perspektiven der Politikfeldanalyse. Alle Beitrage stammen von ausgewiesenen Experten fur die jeweiligen Ansatze. Der Band stellt die Grundlagen und historischen Wurzeln der Politikfeldanalyse, ihre wichtigsten Basiskategorien, ihre zentralen theoretischen und methodischen Werkzeuge sowie ihre politischen Anwendungsfelder vor.Ubersichten und textspezifische Fragen erleichtern die Anwendung in Lehrveranstaltungen sowie beim Selbststudium fortgeschrittener Studierender und interessierter Wissenschaftler.

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Mathematik mit Simulationen lehren und lernen

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Mathematik ist die Sprache von Physik und Technik. Es geht nicht um die Fertigkeit in der Kunst des Rechnens  das besorgt heute der Computer , sondern um Verstandnis von Zusammenhangen in Raum und Zeit - in praziser, eindeutiger und einsichtiger Formulierung. Verstandnis entsteht nur aus Einsicht, nicht durch muhsames Pauken von Fachausdrucken und Regeln. Wie kann das in der hoheren Mathematik erreicht werden, die auf so abstrakten Begriffen aufbaut wie komplexen Zahlen, reellen und komplexen unendlichen Folgen und Reihen, Infinitesimalrechnung, 2-, 3- und 4-dimensionalen Funktionen, konformen Abbildungen, Vektoren, linearen und nichtlinearen gewohnlichen und partiellen Differentialgleichungen? Der Autor packt die Aufgabe "Lernen durch Einsicht" auf ganz praktische Weise an. Er lasst die Studierenden mit Simulationsprogrammen arbeiten, unter Visualisierung und kreativer Mitgestaltung! Er setzt das volle Arsenal multimedialer Werkzeuge ein: der lehrbuchartig aufbauende Text ist mit zahlreichen interaktiven Rechenprogrammen verlinkt, mit denen mathematisch experimentiert wird. Wahlt man eines der jeweils vielen vorformulierten Beispiele aus und legt seine Parameter fest, wird das blitzschnell errechnete Ergebnis 2 oder 3- dimensional in seinem Zeitablauf graphisch dargestellt. Daruber hinaus konnen die konkret verwendeten Funktionen verandert oder auch nach Nutzerwunschen neu formuliert werden. Ein zunachst fur einer Potenzfunktion vierten Grades formuliertes Programm zur numerischen Berechnung der Nullstellen leistet dies z. B. auch fur eine beliebige andere, eingegebene Funktion. Jede Simulation wird begleitet von einer eingehenden Beschreibung, einer Bedienungsanleitung und zahlreichen Anregungen zum Experimentieren. Die mathematischen Simulationen basieren auf dem Programm Easy Java Simulation (EJS). Alle hiermit entwickelten Dateien sind vollig offen und transparent. Der Benutzer kann die Beispiele als Bausteine fur eigene Weiterentwicklungen benutzen. Im Anhang ist eine Kurzanleitung zu EJS enthalten. Das Werk wird durch eine nach Sachgebieten geordnete, umfangreiche Sammlung von physikalischen Beispielen des Open Source Physics Projektes und von kosmologischen Simulationen bereichert. Hier wird ein "experimentelles Praktikum der hoheren Mathematik" prasentiert. Es ist gedacht als systematische Methoden- und Materialsammlung fur Lehrende an Hochschule und Oberstufe der Gymnasien, und als Lehrgang fur Studierende von Physik und Mathematik, einschlielich engagierter Schulerinnen und Schuler. Die Druckversion enthalt den elektronischen Text und die Simulationen fur den lokalen Gebrauch. Bei Fragen zum Zugriff auf die Simulationen und deren Download wenden Sie sich bitte an service@degruyter.com.

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Die antike Stadt Rom kann als ein Ensemble von Monumenten begriffen werden, als Handlungsraum ihrer Bewohner, als literarische Konstruktion. Kommuniziert wurde in ihr, uber sie und durch sie, d.h. durch gezielte Ausstattung mit Bauten und Bildwerken. Die Beitrage des Sammelbandes untersuchen aus der Perspektive verschiedener altertumswissenschaftlicher Disziplinen die Zusammenhange zwischen den drei genannten Formen der Kommunikation um die Stadt Rom vom Beginn des Prinzipats bis zur Spatantike. Einen wichtigen Schwerpunkt innerhalb des Bandes bilden die Foren, ihre bauliche Gestaltung, ihre Darstellung in der Literatur und ihre Verwendung als Buhne fur den politischen Diskurs. Ein zweiter Schwerpunkt liegt auf der literarischen Darstellung kommunikativer Vorgange innerhalb der Stadt sowie - damit verbunden - der Kommunikation bestimmter Botschaften durch den Autor in rhetorischen, poetischen (v.a. Ovid), philosophischen und historiographischen Texten.

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Die Beitrage erfassen bildliche Ausdrucksformenprahistorischer, vorderasiatischer, minoischer undmykenischer, griechisch-romischer und sudamerikanischerKulturen als Bestandteile ihres architektonischen oder naturraumlichen Kontextes. Dabei stehen die gesellschaftlichenWirkungsmoglichkeiten des Mediums Bild im Mittelpunkt.Bildwerke sind keine bloen Objekte der Betrachtung; siebesitzen unmittelbaren Einfluss auf Wahrnehmungs- undHandlungsweisen. Als Elemente alltaglicher oder zeremoniellgegliederter Bewegungen gestalten sie Raume  privateRaume ebenso wie offentliche, Stadte, Hauser und Palasteebenso wie Landschaften. Ziel des Bandes ist es, diese Bild- und Raumkonzeptionen mit methodischen Ansatzen aus denBildwissenschaften zu analysieren.

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Ortwin Dally, Susanne Moraw, Hauke Ziemssen

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With just a rudimentary understanding of exposure and composition, one can capture fairly competent images of attractive subjects. But is that image remarkable in any way? Does it really say anything? How does one capture, edit, and share images that stand out from the crowd and express a distinct vision of the world? How do photographers develop and define their own voice?

In The Visual Palette: Defining Your Photographic Style, photographer Brian Matiash outlines and illustrates mindsets, approaches, and techniques that photographers can implement in order to apply their own unique stamp on their photos. Matiash concentrates on the ability to train oneself to see differentlywhether youre behind the camera, editing an image, or sharing your photo with othersand this book explores ways to help photographers do just that. Matiash examines his own path to creativity and personal style and then encourages readers to use that knowledge gained to forge their own paths.

What sets The Visual Palette apart is that Matiash considers the entire image-making process, including both image capture and post-processing, when discussing how to develop a photographic style and express ones vision. Throughout photographys history, astute photographers always knew there were two crucial opportunities to express oneself: during the capture and in the darkroom. As Ansel Adams said, The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. In that same spirit, The Visual Palette considers both image capture and post-processing as equal partners in the creation of the image and the expression of ones vision.

The book is organized into three sections: composition, post-processing (what Matiash calls Stylization and Editing), and sharing. Each chapter tackles a concept, such as compositional rules (and when to break them), then Matiash shares My Story, with a specific example of that concept in action in his own work. Finally, there is a Your Story segment where, with prompts and exercises, Matiash empowers and motivates the reader to examine their own work or practice a new technique in order to further develop their own photographic style.

Beautifully illustrated with Matiashs photographs, the book covers topics that range from fundamental to creative. The ideal reader is a beginning to intermediate photographer, including photography enthusiasts, hobbyists, advanced amateurs, and any and all photographers interested in landscape, nature, urban, and architectural genres of photography.

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Harry is a non-achiever, at least so far as his high-performing parents are concerned, but their talents don't extend much to parenthood or creating an idyllic marriage. Perhaps that's why Harry takes to sex for a living, turning a trick as a gay escort, the eponymous Young Lad on Old Street. It's a murky business in the course of which Harry meets Frank, a dubious entrepreneur from London's seedier side. Frank draws Harry into a world where he's swindling his best friend's widow, whose interests the naive Arthur is seeking to defend, and where they attract the attention of psychotic gangsters. Everyone's after a buck and Frank's after Harry too, but Harry is star-struck by the unfortunate Arthur. All this while everything's cratering at home. Can Harry come out unscathed?

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Winner, 2015 Queensland Literary Awards

Les Murray's new volume of poems  his first in five years  continues his use of molten language. From The Black Beaches to Radiant Pleats, Mulgoa, from High Speed Trap Space to The Electric, 1960, this is verse that renews and transforms our sense of the world.

Shortlisted, 2015 TS Eliot Poetry Prize

'No poet has ever travelled like this, whether in reality or simply in mind ... Seeing the shape or hearing the sound of one thing in another, he finds forms' Clive James, the Monthly

A profuse talent for image making and a capacity to fold syntax, sense, and sound into extraordinary verbal forms ... [Murray] is able to submit his consciousness to alien states and beings, inhabit them, and bring forth poems of startling originality in extraordinary language. Australian Book Review

Murrays best poems are distinguished by the fact that reading them feels solitary: an encounter not with a personality but with language itself: its work of discovering the world through its patterns of sound. Sydney Review of Books

This is Murray the revelator, master of the hidden away; his spade turns up so much truth its as though he were mining great seams of it, which of course he is, even when as here he is bottoming out on the bedrock of reticence deep in the bucolic soul ... Murray is the great mining baron of Australian literature  brash but also breathtakingly brilliant and often both at once  who, having strode like a colossus for decades over a vast empire of open-pits, has in his dotage turned leaf-whistling prospector, content with a glint in the pan. Weekend Australian

Les Murray's new book, Waiting for the Past, is not one that his numerous admirers will want to pass up ... it's a vintage collection. Sydney Morning Herald

No one writes like Murray: so truthful, nakedly emotional, wry, watchful. Hes set deep in the Australian landscape, writing about back roads, vertigo, sliced bread, old typewriters and the persistence of love. Murray is the holy fool of his own poems, and a hero of poetry. Guardian, Best Books of 2015

Les Murray lives in Bunyah, near Taree in New South Wales. He has published some thirty books. His work is studied in schools and universities around Australia and has been translated into several foreign languages.

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Build robust and highly scalable web applications with Google App Engine

About This Book

* Get an in-depth look at how Google App Engine works under the hood
* Design and model your application around Google's highly scalable distributed NoSQL datastore to unlock its full potential
* A comprehensive guide to ensure your mastery of Google App Engine

Who This Book Is For

If you have been developing web applications in Python or any other dynamic language but have always wondered how to write highly scalable web applications without getting into system administration and other plumbing, then this is the book for you. No experience in writing scalable applications is required.

What You Will Learn

* Scale and develop your applications with Google App Engine's runtime environment
* Get to grips with request handling mechanism and write request handlers
* Deep dive into Google's distributed NoSQL and highly scalable datastore and design your application around it
* Implement powerful search with scalable datastore
* Perform long-running tasks in the background using task queues
* Write compartmentalized apps using multi tenancy, memcache, and other Google App Engine runtime services
* Handle web requests using the CGI, WSGI, and multi-threaded configurations
* Deploy, tweak, and manage apps in production on Google App Engine

In Detail

Developing web applications that serve millions of users is no easy task, as it involves a number of configurations and administrative tasks for the underlying software and hardware stack. This whole configuration requires not only expertise, but also a fair amount of time as well. Time that could have been spent on actual application functionality.
Google App Engine allows you develop highly scalable web applications or backends for mobile applications without worrying about the system administration plumbing or hardware provisioning issues. Just focus writing on your business logic, the meat of the application, and let Google's powerful infrastructure scale it to thousands of requests per second and millions of users without any effort on your part.
This book takes you from explaining how scalable applications work to designing and developing robust scalable web applications of your own, utilizing services available on Google App Engine.
Starting with a walkthrough of scalability is and how scalable web applications work, this book introduces you to the environment under which your applications exist on Google App Engine. Next, you will learn about Google's datastore, which is a massively scalable distributed NoSQL solution built on top of BigTable. You will examine the BigTable concepts and operations in detail and reveal how it is used to build Google datastore. Armed with this knowledge, you will then advance towards how to best model your data and query that along with transactions. To augment the powerful distributed dataset, you will deep dive into search functionality offered on Google App Engine. With the search and storage sorted out, you will get a look into performing long running tasks in the background using Google App Engine task queues along with sending and receiving emails. You will also examine the memcache to boost web application performance, image processing for common image manipulation tasks. You will then explore uploading, storing, and serving large files using Blobstore and Cloud storage.
Finally, you will be presented with the deployment and monitoring of your applications in production along with a detailed look at dividing applications into different working modules.

Style and approach

This book is an in-depth guide where you will examine the problems in the context of highly scalable web applications. This book will take you through the libraries, services, and required configuration and finally puts everything together into a small web application that showcases all the capabilities of Google App Engine.

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Explore clustering algorithms used with Apache Mahout

About This Book

* Use Mahout for clustering datasets and gain useful insights
* Explore the different clustering algorithms used in day-to-day work
* A practical guide to create and evaluate your own clustering models using real world data sets

Who This Book Is For

This book is for developers who want to try out clustering on large datasets using Mahout. It will also be useful for those users who don't have background in Mahout, but have knowledge of basic programming and are familiar with basics of machine learning and clustering. It will be helpful if you know about clustering techniques with some other tool.

What You Will Learn

* Explore clustering algorithms and cluster evaluation techniques
* Learn different types of clustering and distance measuring techniques
* Perform clustering on your data using K-Means clustering
* Discover how canopy clustering is used as pre-process step for K-Means
* Use the Fuzzy K-Means algorithm in Apache Mahout
* Implement Streaming K-Means clustering in Mahout
* Learn Spectral K-Means clustering implementation of Mahout

In Detail

As more and more organizations are discovering the use of big data analytics, interest in platforms that provide storage, computation, and analytic capabilities has increased. Apache Mahout caters to this need and paves the way for the implementation of complex algorithms in the field of machine learning to better analyse your data and get useful insights into it.
Starting with the introduction of clustering algorithms, this book provides an insight into Apache Mahout and different algorithms it uses for clustering data. It provides a general introduction of the algorithms, such as K-Means, Fuzzy K-Means, StreamingKMeans, and how to use Mahout to cluster your data using a particular algorithm. You will study the different types of clustering and learn how to use Apache Mahout with real world data sets to implement and evaluate your clusters.
This book will discuss about cluster improvement and visualization using Mahout APIs and also explore model-based clustering and topic modelling using Dirichlet process. Finally, you will learn how to build and deploy a model for production use.

Style and approach

This book is a hand's-on guide with examples using real-world datasets. Each chapter begins by explaining the algorithm in detail and follows up with showing how to use mahout for that algorithm using example data-sets.

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A best-selling novel about haute couture and emotional survival in the Victorian wheatlands.

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"Snowplow Polka" is a humorous work of fiction describing the exploits of Millie and Ollie, two energetic polka loving senior citizens, who decide to go into the snowplowing business. The setting is northwest Wisconsin during the winter holiday season. Concerned relatives, eccentric neighbors and dangerous cabin robbers will all stand in their way, but the annual Christmas Polka Dance must go on.

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Ambrose McGuine, Kevin Cannon, Ann Delgehausen