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Peer-to-peer Programming on Groove

Peer-to-peer Programming on Groove

James Edwards

Provides the necessary background to enable an advanced beginner or intermediate programmer to produce and deploy peer-to-peer applications using Groove.
Peer teaching: to teach is to learn twice

Peer teaching: to teach is to learn twice

Neal Whitman

Describes the practice and benefits of using students as teachers. Explores different types of peer teaching, strategies for academic planning, specific peer groups, evaluation studies, and the psychological merits of peer teaching.
State, Economy and the Great Divergence: Great Britain and ...

State, Economy and the Great Divergence: Great Britain and ...

Peer Vries

This is a vital update to a key issue in global economic history and, as such, is essential reading for students and scholars interested in keeping up to speed with the on-going debates.
Ursprünge des modernen Wirtschaftswachstums: England, China ...

Ursprünge des modernen Wirtschaftswachstums: England, China ...

Peer Vries

Wie konnte ein kleiner Teil der Welt reich werden, während der größte Teil arm blieb?
Escaping poverty: The origins of modern economic growth

Escaping poverty: The origins of modern economic growth

Peer Vries

This book provides a systematic analysis of the most important of those answers by means of an analysis of possible explanations in terms of natural resources, labour, capital, the division of labour and market exchange, accumulation and ...
The neurotic organization

The neurotic organization

Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries

Corporate neurosis expert Manfred Kets de Vries analyzes dysfunctional organizational behavior in terms of accepted psychoanalytic types and arrives at some genuine insights into why some companies are healthier than others.
Peer to Peer and the Music Industry: The Criminalization of ...

Peer to Peer and the Music Industry: The Criminalization of ...

Matthew David

This is a landmark work in the sociology of popular culture and cultural criminology.
The Jan de Vries Guide to Health and Vitality

The Jan de Vries Guide to Health and Vitality

Jan de Vries

Packed full of useful tips and revealing new case studies, the book covers a wide range of issues and offers advice on how to: keep fit and healthy; give up common addictions such as alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and sugar; prevent allergies; ...
Skin Diseases

Skin Diseases

Jan de Vries

In this latest book in the 'By Appointment Only' series, Jan de Vries deals with the ever increasing problems of skin diseases.
The Five Senses

The Five Senses

Jan de Vries

As Jan de Vries says in his introduction, 'If you lose your senses you lose your sense of living'; this book will help you to live again.
Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom: How to Make Sure Your ...

Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom: How to Make Sure Your ...

Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries

In this book Manfred Kets de Vries, one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of leadership, and a pioneering practitioner in the field of psychodynamic executive coaching, draws on the format of traditional fairy tales and ...
Riding the Leadership Rollercoaster: An observer’s guide

Riding the Leadership Rollercoaster: An observer’s guide

Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries

In Riding the Leadership Rollercoaster Kets de Vries provides leaders and their coaches with the insights that can help them take some control of the ride.
Editorial Peer Review: Its Strengths and Weaknesses

Editorial Peer Review: Its Strengths and Weaknesses

Ann C. Weller

This book is the first to provide an in-depth analysis of the peer review process in scholarly publishing.
Organizational Paradoxes: Clinical Approaches to Management

Organizational Paradoxes: Clinical Approaches to Management

Manfred F. R Kets De Vries

Clinical Approaches to Management Manfred F. R Kets De Vries. PREFACE. It has been many years since I learned about Muhammad Tugh- luq. One cannot remain unaffected by his life story. This sultan of Delhi who ascended the throne in ...
Peer Pressure Gauge:

Peer Pressure Gauge:

Julia Cook

Teachers, parents, and kids alike will enjoy this imaginative story of how escalating peer pressure feels as they learn the skills necessary to triumph over the pressure to conform.
How to Survive PTSD and Build Peer Support

How to Survive PTSD and Build Peer Support

Sylvio A. Gravel

This book provides insightful techniques to address as well as build peer support.
Handbook of Research on Schools, Schooling and Human Development

Handbook of Research on Schools, Schooling and Human Development

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ANTHONY PELLEGRINI AND DANIELLE DUPUIS The psychologist interested in peer relations during middle childhood is hard pressed to find a venue to observe naturally occurring peer interactions.Oneofthefew, yetunderstudied,places ...
Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education

Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education

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16 STRADDLING BOUNDARIES Identity, Culture, and School PRUDENCE L. CARTER For teens, the peer group “rules.” Their attitudes toward school, activities and behaviors, friends, dress, and music choices are influenced by the peer ...
A Question of Order: Strongmen and Illiberal Democracies

A Question of Order: Strongmen and Illiberal Democracies

Basharat Peer

Peer, who was born in Kashmir and wrote with passion and intelligence about his native land in his acclaimed first book,Curfewed Night, reports from two of the world's largest democracies--Narendra Modi's India and Recep Tyyip Erdogan's ...
The Second Family: Dealing with Peer Power, Pop Culture, the ...

The Second Family: Dealing with Peer Power, Pop Culture, the ...

Ron Taffel

A leading child and family therapist and the author of Nurturing Good Children Now reveals why adolescents are searching for comfort in their peer groups in mass culture rather than their own families and gives parents advice on how to ...
Distributed Computing: 30th International Symposium, DISC ...

Distributed Computing: 30th International Symposium, DISC ...

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In: PODC, pp. 74–83 (2013) 5. Augustine, J., Pandurangan, G., Robinson, P., Roche, S., Upfal, E.: Enabling robust and efficient distributed computation in dynamic peer-to-peer networks. In: FOCS, pp. 350–369 (2015) 6. Avin, C., Koucký, M., ...
Peer Bedaux, architect

Peer Bedaux, architect

Hans Ibelings

Peer Bedaux: Architect ISBN 90-78088-06-0 / 978-90-78088-06-6 Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.75 in. / 168 pgs / 100 color and 8 duotones. / U.S. $45.00 CDN $54.00 August / Architecture
Bullying, victimization, and peer harassment: a handbook of ...

Bullying, victimization, and peer harassment: a handbook of ...

Joseph E. Zins

This thorough review of a wide spectrum of innovative, evidence-based practices targets the complex problems of victimization, peer harassment, and bullying in our schools.
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of ...

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of ...

Ori Brafman

Includes information on Alcoholics Anonymous, al Qaeda, Amazon, Animal Liberation Front, Apaches, eBay, General Motors, Goodwill Industries, Google, Grokster, Kazaa, music piracy, Napster, P2P (peer to peer) services, Quakers, record ...
Bullying, Peer Harassment, and Victimization in the Schools: ...

Bullying, Peer Harassment, and Victimization in the Schools: ...

Joseph Zins

Look beyond your work with individual students to address these problems in their larger context! This book presents enlightening empirical studies and reviews of the literature on peer harassment, bullying, and victimization.
The Annual, 1994

The Annual, 1994

J. William Pfeiffer

ORGANIZATIONAL-TYPE INVENTORY Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, Danny Miller, and Gaylord Reagan Organizations ... 1994 Annual: Developing Human Resources 167 Organizational-Type Inventory: ManfredF R Kets de Vries, Danny Miller, ...
Confidential Data-Outsourcing and Self-Optimizing ...

Confidential Data-Outsourcing and Self-Optimizing ...

Juenemann, Konrad

Di Wu, Ye Tian, and Kam-Wing Ng. Analytical study on improving dht lookup performance under churn. In Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2006. P2P 2006. Sixth IEEE International Conference on, pages 249–258, Sept 2006. Hazelcast Project  ...
Structural Information and Communication Complexity: 21st ...

Structural Information and Communication Complexity: 21st ...

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74–83. ACM (2013) 4. Augustine, J., Pandurangan, G., Robinson, P., Upfal, E.: Towards robust and efficient computation in dynamic peer-to-peer networks. In: ACM-SIAM, SODA 2012, pp. 551–569. SIAM (2012) 5. Avin, C., Koucký, M., Lotker, ...

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