China's New Silk Road

PDF | 3 MB | 196 pages | English | Edited by Carmen Amado Mendes | 2020

Much is being written about China’s new 'One Belt, One Road' initiative, but much of the writing focuses on China itself, on the destinations of the road – Europe and the Middle East – or on the countries through which the road passes, such as Central Asia. This book takes a different approach, assessing the views of East Asian and other countries on the Belt and Road Initiative, both from a transnational and multidisciplinary perspective. The book considers international visions and limitations of the New Silk Road as a new paradigm, explores economic and trade aspects, including infrastructure networks, financial mechanisms, and the likely impact for other countries and regions, and analyses the likely implications for regional and trans-regional cooperation and competition. Western and Asian regional perspectives on the New Silk Road, including from India, Pakistan, Southeast Asia and Japan are considered throughout the book.

 

PART I: The general context

1. New paradigms for the New Silk Road

2. Building a community of shared destiny: the Belt and Road. Initiative in the political speeches of Xi Jinping

3. Whose Silk Road? The Chinese, US, European Union and Russian strategic projects for regional integration in Central Asia

4. Sustainability implications of the New Silk Road: environmental and social planning

 

PART II: The economic dimension

5. The political economy of new multilateral initiatives in Pacific Asia

6. The New Silk Road: perspectives for EU–China economic cooperation

7. The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor: lessons for the New Silk Road

8. Sino-Pakistani axis of cooperation in China’s New Silk Road

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Project Management Metrics, KPIs, and Dashboards - A Guide to Measuring and Monitoring Project Performance (2nd Edition)

 

ZIP | 16.3 MB | 450 pages | English | Harold Kerzner Ph.D. | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | 2013

Harold Kerzner’s essential strategies on measuring project management performance

With the growth of complex projects, stakeholder involvement, and advancements in visual-based technology, metrics and KPIs (key performance indicators) are key factors in evaluating project performance. Dashboard reporting systems provide accessible project performance data, and sharing this vital data in a concise and consistent manner is a key communication responsibility of all project managers.

 1. The Changing Landscape of Project Management
 2. The Driving Forces for Better Metrics
 3. Metrics
 4. Key Performance Indicators
 5. Value-Based Project Management Metrics
 6. Dashboards
 7. Dashboard Applications
 8. Measurement-Driven Project Management

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Speed Reading 3-in-1 Bundle to Master Fast Reading Techniques, Reading Comprehension (Brain Training)

 

ZIP | 781 KB | 187 pages | English | 2021

Speed Reading - 3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Read Faster, How to Focus Your Mind and How to Learn Faster.

1) HOW TO READ FASTER:
7 Steps to Master Speed Reading Techniques, Reading Comprehension & Fast Reading.

YOU WILL LEARN:
• The fundamentals of speed reading.
• Factors that affect reading comprehension.
• Causes of reading difficulties in children and adults.
• Solutions which you can employ to combat reading difficulties.
• Benefits you can enjoy by learning to read fast.
• Main techniques to improve speed reading.
• Tips & tricks to improve your reading speed & comprehension.

2) HOW TO FOCUS YOUR MIND:
7 Steps to Master Concentration Techniques, Attention Management & Staying Focused.

YOU WILL LEARN:
• Why goals matter to build a foundation for focus.
• The way your environment impacts your ability to concentrate.
• How to enhance your mental prowess.
• Why it is energy management, not time, that matters.
• How to shut down distractions, enhance your attention, and more.

3) HOW TO LEARN FASTER:
7 Steps to Master Accelerated Learning Techniques, Learning Strategies & Fast Self-learning.

YOU WILL LEARN:
• The process of learning and how it happens.
• The essential elements for learning.
• The different learning styles which students prefer.
• The various learning difficulties affecting learners.
• 7 easy steps to improve your learning speed.

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China Report - April 2020

PDF | 83.05 MB | 68 pages | English
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Time International Edition – February 17, 2020

True PDF | 47 MB | Vol. 195, No. 6 | 56 pages | English


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Data Analysis with Microsoft Power BI

PDF | 38.23 MB | 544 pages | English | January 3, 2020
Explore, create, and manage highly interactive data visualizations using Microsoft Power BI

Extract meaningful business insights from your disparate enterprise data using the detailed information contained in this practical guide. Written by a recognized BI expert and bestselling author, Data Analysis with Microsoft Power BI teaches you the skills you need to interact with, author, and maintain robust visualizations and custom data models. Hands-on exercises based on real-life business scenarios clearly demonstrate each technique. Publishing your results to the Power BI Service (PowerBI.com) and Power BI Report Server are also fully covered.

Inside, you will discover how to:

•Understand Business Intelligence and self-service analytics
•Explore the tools and features of Microsoft Power BI
•Create and format effective data visualizations
•Incorporate advanced interactivity and custom graphics
•Build and populate accurate data models
•Transform data using the Power BI Query Editor
•Work with measures, calculated columns, and tabular models
•Write powerful DAX language scripts
•Share content on the PowerBI Service (PowerBI.com)
•Store your visualizations on the Power BI Report Server

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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

PDF | 6 MB | 432 pages | English | 2009
An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impact

The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed Germans for their "strange and foreign ways." Americans' anxiety over Irish Catholics turned xenophobia into a national political movement. Chinese immigrants were excluded, Japanese incarcerated, and Mexicans deported. Today, Americans fear Muslims, Latinos, and the so-called browning of America.

Forcing us to confront this history, America for Americans explains how xenophobia works, why it has endured, and how it threatens America. It is a necessary corrective and spur to action for any concerned citizen.

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Vocabulary Power for Business: 500 Words You Need to Transform Your Career and Your Life

EPUB | 0.3 MB | 208 pages | English | October 9, 2018
The author of the best-selling 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, Dan Strutzel, now puts his focus on communicating successfully in the business world!

Business is just like any sector or topic, with its own language, customs, codes, and terminologies. Different aspects of business can have their own distinctive terminology, which can also overlap. For instance, words and phrases from the realm of sales can also apply to management or finance under a variety of circumstances.

In Vocabulary Power for Business, Dan presents 500 words and short expressions from a variety of different business categories. Each section introduces approximately 25 words. Dan discusses each word or phrase and its definition. He then, reinforces the word and its meaning with another example in a sentence. There are four sections on banking and finance, four on marketing, and four on negotiation. Other sections focus on sales, entrepreneurship, human resources, e-business, and leadership. The book's intention is to be entertaining, informative, and inspiring.

As the world changes, language changes with it - and both are changing very fast. With Vocabulary Power for Business, you'll keep pace with those changes and watch your career benefit as a result!

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The Prog Collection - First Edition (2019)

PDF | 184.1 MB | 132 pages | English | 2019
The best stories from a decade of Prog magazine, featuring Pink Floyd, Yes, Marillion, Genesis, Rush, Steven Wilson, King Crimson, ELP and more!

Welcome to 10 Years Of Prog. It’s a special one-off celebration as Prog Magazine passes its first decade in existence. That’s right folks, we’ve been up and running for ten years, and this unique magazine – the first of its kind – celebrates some of the many highlights of our first decade. I’ve gone through every issue of Prog magazine (we hit issue 100 in July 2019, by the way) and selected what I think are the most memorable and magnificent features we’ve run over the past ten years.

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50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: Universe

EPUB | 1.51 MB | 208 pages | English | 2011
For millennia humanity has gazed in wonder at the night sky, tracked the motions of the planets and attempted to explain our place in the Universe. But only in our own time has the true scale, the astonishing variety and the remarkable strangeness of the cosmos come clearly into focus.

The pace and sophistication of recent scientific discovery has been breathtaking, but breakthroughs are often difficult to understand and their impact is hard to fully appreciate. In 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: Universe, Joanne Baker clearly and concisely explains all of the essential concepts, major discoveries and the very latest thinking in astrophysics, including: the basic principles of astronomy - from heliocentrism to Newton's theory of optics; the constituent parts of the Universe, its creation and evolution; the key concepts of cosmology including the theory of relativity, supermassive black holes and 'multiverses'; the very latest developments in our understanding of quasars, exoplanets and astrobiology.

From dwarf planets to dark energy; and from the Big Bang to the death of stars, this book is the perfect introduction to the cutting-edge science that is shaping our understanding of our place in the Universe and that could lead to the next great discovery - the detection of life beyond Earth.

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50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: The Future

EPUB | 1.1 MB | 250 pages | English | 2001
A dynamic insight into how science will shape human destiny over the coming century.

What will the world look like in 2020, 2030 or even 2100? How will progress in scientific research affect human life in the areas of health and lifestyle, energy and the environment, politics and conflict, space exploration and even the ultimate questions of existence? This book offers an electrifying trip through the wonders - and terrors - awaiting us over the next hundred years.

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50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know

EPUB | 20 MB | 208 pages | English | 2009
In a series of 50 accessible and lucidly written essays, Ben Dupre probes some of the most significant ideas in politics, philosophy, religion, economics, science and the arts. Some of these are unimpeachable (liberty, reason); others mind numbing (The Big Bang chaos); a few mysterious (fate, surrealism) or downright despicable (fascism, racism). What they have in common is that they all matter and have left a deep impression on human civilization. The full sweep of such ideas – from the beautiful and the wondrous to the ugly and the debased – is covered in this volume.

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NLP: Frame Control: Using the Mindset of Power to Get What You Want in Relationships, Business & Life

AZW3 | 0.6 MB | 62 pages | English | October 31, 2016
Do you wish that you had infallible confidence? Do you sometimes feel as if there is some secret key to social influence, and if you just knew what it was, you could be more successful, have more money, influence people more easily?

The key to increased success in all areas of life comes from gaining a higher degree of control over your psychology.

Learn what the most successful entrepreneurs, business leaders and politicians already know: That the key to success comes from a specifically formulated mindset.

Frame Control is about knowing what it takes to win - always. Frame Control is about finding your center: Knowing what influences you, so that you can influence others.

Stop being influenced and manipulated by people who already know this psychological secret - and instead learn to use it to your advantage!

Whether you are looking to land a big deal, convince your spouse to get on board with a decision, or pick up a hot date, Learn this Powerful NLP Concept & gain the upper hand in any social situation.

In this book you will learn:
✔ The core principle behind Frame Control, and the key to social authority
✔ The brain science behind how this phenomenon is constantly influencing all of your interactions
✔ The four characteristics of people with strong Frame Control
✔ The habits that you need to develop to stop being influenced, and start influencing others
✔ How to turn any situation to your advantage

This book is highly actionable, with step-by-step exercises and a Free Workbook included, to guide you on your journey of self-mastery.

After reading this book you will be able to:
✔ Techniques to make your Frame stronger than everyone else’
✔ Powerful language patterns to get people to look to you as an authority - automatically
✔ Using advanced Frame Control techniques such as humor to get what you want
✔ Look at the world in a whole new way that will allow you to get the most out of life

So if you can never seem to influence others, have trouble with confidence, or are looking

If any of these sound like you, don’t blame yourself - it could simply be the result of poor frame control. When you master this one simple concept, you will never look at the world the same way again!!

You could just continue what you are doing....Getting the same results, over an over. Trying different things that change the surface condition, while never really getting anywhere.

Or you could learn the secret behind this Mindset of Power and create powerful, lasting change in work, leadership, relationships & life.

Once you internalize this system of thought, you will always have an internal map to guide you through all social situations!

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Making Sense of Data III: A Practical Guide to Designing Interactive Data Visualizations

PDF | 5.47 MB | 408 pages | English | 2011
Focuses on insights, approaches, and techniques that are essential to designing interactive graphics and visualizations

Making Sense of Data III: A Practical Guide to Designing Interactive Data Visualizations explores a diverse range of disciplines to explain how meaning from graphical representations is extracted. Additionally, the book describes the best approach for designing and implementing interactive graphics and visualizations that play a central role in data exploration and decision-support systems.

Beginning with an introduction to visual perception, Making Sense of Data III features a brief history on the use of visualization in data exploration and an outline of the design process. Subsequent chapters explore the following key areas:

Cognitive and Visual Systems describes how various drawings, maps, and diagrams known as external representations are understood and used to extend the mind's capabilities

Graphics Representations introduces semiotic theory and discusses the seminal work of cartographer Jacques Bertin and the grammar of graphics as developed by Leland Wilkinson

Designing Visual Interactions discusses the four stages of design process—analysis, design, prototyping, and evaluation—and covers the important principles and strategies for designing visual interfaces, information visualizations, and data graphics

Hands-on: Creative Interactive Visualizations with Protovis provides an in-depth explanation of the capabilities of the Protovis toolkit and leads readers through the creation of a series of visualizations and graphics

The final chapter includes step-by-step examples that illustrate the implementation of the discussed methods, and a series of exercises are provided to assist in learning the Protovis language. A related website features the source code for the presented software as well as examples and solutions for select exercises.

Featuring research in psychology, vision science, statistics, and interaction design, Making Sense of Data III is an indispensable book for courses on data analysis and data mining at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. The book also serves as a valuable reference for computational statisticians, software engineers, researchers, and professionals of any discipline who would like to understand how the mind processes graphical representations.

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Making Sense of Data II: A Practical Guide to Data Visualization, Advanced Data Mining Methods and Applications

PDF | 9 MB | 298 pages | English | 2009
A hands-on guide to making valuable decisions from data using advanced data mining methods and techniques
This second installment in the Making Sense of Data series continues to explore a diverse range of commonly used approaches to making and communicating decisions from data. Delving into more technical topics, this book equips readers with advanced data mining methods that are needed to successfully translate raw data into smart decisions across various fields of research including business, engineering, finance, and the social sciences.

Following a comprehensive introduction that details how to define a problem, perform an analysis, and deploy the results, Making Sense of Data II addresses the following key techniques for advanced data analysis:

Data Visualization reviews principles and methods for understanding and communicating data through the use of visualization including single variables, the relationship between two or more variables, groupings in data, and dynamic approaches to interacting with data through graphical user interfaces.

Clustering outlines common approaches to clustering data sets and provides detailed explanations of methods for determining the distance between observations and procedures for clustering observations. Agglomerative hierarchical clustering, partitioned-based clustering, and fuzzy clustering are also discussed.

Predictive Analytics presents a discussion on how to build and assess models, along with a series of predictive analytics that can be used in a variety of situations including principal component analysis, multiple linear regression, discriminate analysis, logistic regression, and Naïve Bayes.

Applications demonstrates the current uses of data mining across a wide range of industries and features case studies that illustrate the related applications in real-world scenarios.

Each method is discussed within the context of a data mining process including defining the problem and deploying the results, and readers are provided with guidance on when and how each method should be used. The related Web site for the series (www.makingsenseofdata.com) provides a hands-on data analysis and data mining experience. Readers wishing to gain more practical experience will benefit from the tutorial section of the book in conjunction with the TraceisTM software, which is freely available online.

With its comprehensive collection of advanced data mining methods coupled with tutorials for applications in a range of fields, Making Sense of Data II is an indispensable book for courses on data analysis and data mining at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It also serves as a valuable reference for researchers and professionals who are interested in learning how to accomplish effective decision making from data and understanding if data analysis and data mining methods could help their organization.

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Making Sense of Data I: A Practical Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining

EPUB | 8.4 MB | 248 pages | English | Glenn J. Myatt | 2014
Making Sense of Data I: A Practical Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining (2nd Edition) by Glenn J. Myatt

A proven go-to guide for data analysis, Making Sense of Data I: A Practical Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining, Second Edition focuses on basic data analysis approaches that are necessary to make timely and accurate decisions in a diverse range of projects. Based on the authors’ practical experience in implementing data analysis and data mining, the new edition provides clear explanations that guide readers from almost every field of study.
In order to facilitate the needed steps when handling a data analysis or data mining project, a step-by-step approach aids professionals in carefully analyzing data and implementing results, leading to the development of smarter business decisions. The tools to summarize and interpret data in order to master data analysis are integrated throughout, and the Second Edition also features:

•Updated exercises for both manual and computer-aided implementation with accompanying worked examples
•New appendices with coverage on the freely available Traceis™ software, including tutorials using data from a variety of disciplines such as the social sciences, engineering, and finance
•New topical coverage on multiple linear regression and logistic regression to provide a range of widely used and transparent approaches
•Additional real-world examples of data preparation to establish a practical background for making decisions from data

Making Sense of Data I: A Practical Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining, Second Edition is an excellent reference for researchers and professionals who need to achieve effective decision making from data. The Second Edition is also an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in data analysis and data mining and is appropriate for cross-disciplinary courses found within computer science and engineering departments.

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Programming C# 8.0 - Build Cloud, Web and Desktop Applications

EPUB | 4.05 MB | 800 pages | English | November 26th, 2019
C# is undeniably one of the most versatile programming languages available to engineers today. With this comprehensive guide, you'll learn just how powerful the combination of C# and .NET can be. Author Ian Griffiths guides you through C# 8.0 fundamentals and techniques for building cloud, web, and desktop applications.

Designed for experienced programmers, this book provides many code examples to help you work with the nuts and bolts of C#, such as generics, LINQ, and asynchronous programming features. You'll get up to speed on .NET Core and the latest C# 8.0 additions, including asynchronous streams, nullable references, pattern matching, default interface implementation, ranges and new indexing syntax, and changes in the .NET tool chain.

• Discover how C# supports fundamental coding features, such as classes, other custom types, collections, and error handling
• Learn how to write high-performance memory-efficient code with .NET Core's Span and Memory types
• Query and process diverse data sources, such as in-memory object models, databases, data streams, and XML documents with LINQ
• Use .NET's multithreading features to exploit your computer's parallel processing capabilities
• Learn how asynchronous language features can help improve application responsiveness and scalability

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C# 8.0 Pocket Reference: Instant Help for C# 8.0 Programmers

EPUB | 2.28 MB | 248 pages | English | October 24th, 2019
When you need answers about using C# 8.0, this tightly focused and practical book tells you exactly what you need to know without long intros or bloated samples. Easy to browse, C# 8.0 Pocket Reference is ideal as a quick source of information or as a guide to get you rapidly up to speed if you already know Java, C++, or an earlier C# version.

All programs and code snippets are available as interactive samples in LINQPad. You can edit these samples and instantly see the results without needing to set up projects in Visual Studio.

Written by the author of C# 7.0 in a Nutshell, this pocket reference covers C# 8.0 without skimping on detail, including:
• C# fundamentals and features new to C# 8.0
• Advanced topics like operator overloading, type constraints, iterators, nullable types, operator lifting, lambda expressions, and closures
• LINQ: sequences, lazy execution, standard query operators, and query expressions
• Unsafe code and pointers, custom attributes, preprocessor directives, and XML documentation

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101 Amazing Facts about J.K. Rowling: ...and Harry Potter

EPUB | 1.35 MB | 26 pages | English | December 12th, 2019
We've all read - and loved - the adventures of Harry Potter and his friends in the Wizarding World. But what of the genius behind it all, J.K. Rowling? Was getting the first book published easy for her, or was it a long struggle? How did she come up with so many amazing ideas for the books? How did her own life influence the characters in the series, both good and bad? And what about her life away from magic and mystery?

This fascinating book reveals over one hundred amazing facts about the author, numbered and organised into easy-to-read categories. Whether you simply enjoy a good biography, or are the wor's most dedicated Harry Potter fan, this is the perfect book for you!

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C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build applications with C#, .NET Core, 4th Edition

MOBI | 136 MB | 737 pages | English | November 11, 2019
About
Learn the fundamentals, practical applications, and latest features of C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 from expert teacher Mark J. Price.

Key Features
Build modern, cross-platform applications with .NET Core 3.0
Get up to speed with C#, and up to date with all the latest features of C# 8.0
Start creating professional web applications with ASP.NET Core 3.0

Book Description
In C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 Modern Cross-Platform Development, Fourth Edition, expert teacher Mark J. Price gives you everything you need to start programming C# applications.

This latest edition uses the popular Visual Studio Code editor to work across all major operating systems. It is fully updated and expanded with new chapters on Content Management Systems (CMS) and machine learning with ML.NET.

The book covers all the topics you need. Part 1 teaches the fundamentals of C#, including object-oriented programming, and new C# 8.0 features such as nullable reference types, simplified switch pattern matching, and default interface methods. Part 2 covers the .NET Standard APIs, such as managing and querying data, monitoring and improving performance, working with the filesystem, async streams, serialization, and encryption. Part 3 provides examples of cross-platform applications you can build and deploy, such as web apps using ASP.NET Core or mobile apps using Xamarin.Forms. The book introduces three technologies for building Windows desktop applications including Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, as well as web applications, web services, and mobile apps.

What you will learn
Build cross-platform applications for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android
Explore application development with C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0
Explore ASP.NET Core 3.0 and create professional web applications
Learn object-oriented programming and C# multitasking
Query and manipulate data using LINQ
Use Entity Framework Core and build code-first databases
Discover Windows app development using the Universal Windows Platform and XAML
Build mobile applications for iOS and Android using Xamarin.Forms

Who This Book Is For
Readers with some prior programming experience or with a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) background, who want to gain a solid foundation with C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0.

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