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Broad and international in scope, Advanced Focus Group Research introduces a conceptual framework that can help researchers make informed decisions about how to plan and implement a focus group research project.
Who's it for? Intermediate and advanced classes of English (16+) as a foreign or second language (EFL, ESL), in any part of the world. How does it work? Students discuss questions, which are either in the form of a fun / factual quiz, or related to an authentic text / quotation. What's new? The questions and texts break with the approach typically used in ESL /EFL textbooks by presenting a new slant on some traditional topics, and also offering topics that have never been found before in a discussion book. Students will feel they are discussing something interesting, and that the language of discussion just happens to be in English. How controversial are the discussions? Unlike Volume 2 and Volume 3, this volume contains no particularly risky exercises in terms of subject matter. What preparation is involved for the teacher? In around 90% of the exercises, no preparation is required. Students simply turn to the right page, and away they go. Details are outlined in the Teachers Introduction and the Students Introduction. What's the duration of a typical exercise? Depending on the students' level of interest, some exercises can be used as 10-minute warm ups or lesson fillers, others may develop into full-blown 60-minute discussions. What else do I need to know? The table of contents indicates which exercises might not be suitable with certain classes, which require preparation by the teacher, and which have a key. Where can I find sample pages and the teacher's book? tefldiscussions.com
What if some impatient and busy engineer wants to master advanced networking on AWS to pass the certification exams, job interviews or simply succeed at work as a cloud arhcitect? WHAT'S INSIDE? Brief lessons based on the 2021 updates to various AWS features and services. Detailed sections dedicated to the reference architectures with easy-to-understand network diagrams. Over 250 mini-scenarios based on real-world use cases. Comprehensive answers to each question and scenario examples. A large case study on a fictitious enterprise dealing with cloud migration issues and corporate politics. Great focus on the three core areas of preparing for the AWS Advanced Networking exam, being successful at work as an architect and passing technical interviews. WHY THIS KICKSTART? From the back cover: "It's just routing, now in the cloud". Said the VP of infrastructure, denied the request for training and later turned out, he was wrong. The concept of network engineering in the cloud is widely referred to as one of the newest and most popular trends in modern day IT. But it is hardly similar to the traditional network engineering world and this makes it particularly difficult for the existing experts to upgrade themselves to senior and chief-level cloud architects. The new field covers a fair amount of routing especially with BGP but it also touches the details of services such as DNS and DHCP. Being an engineer or even architect, would require your automation skills but also expect you to know how the billing process works and how customers are charged in large-scale designs. It demands a fair amount of knowledge around load balancing, while security remains paramount to your success. Hence, this less explored and new field is absolutely unique in terms of both depth and breadth, from network engineering to systems, security, applications and DevOps. Although this combination makes it unusually challenging to pass the cloud network engineering job interviews, be successful at work and if needed, pass the AWS Advanced Networking exam, it also, with a solid preparation plan, creates a unique opportunity to uplift anyone's technical expertise in a short amount of time. The goal of this book is to use hundreds of real-world scenarios and brief lessons to show how to get all those things done as a traditional network engineer or architect in a reasonably short period of time. The book covers three main sections: short lessons based on the 2021 changes for the absolute impatient, over 250 mini-scenarios with comprehensive answers and last but not least, a full section on a fictitious large enterprise with all the politics and design challenges. I also included their daily correspondence and notes from the board of architects meeting. This will show you how people make mistakes and how the cloud architects should review design proposals and decide. Finally, the book extensively covers corner cases that might be interesting to technical interviewers or exam content developers. Let's beat them all together.
Voices from the Ancestors brings together the reflective writings and spiritual practices of Xicanx, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx womxn and male allies in the United States who seek to heal from the historical traumas of colonization by returning to ancestral traditions and knowledge. This wisdom is based on the authors’ oral traditions, research, intuitions, and lived experiences—wisdom inspired by, and created from, personal trajectories on the path to spiritual conocimiento, or inner spiritual inquiry. This conocimiento has reemerged over the last fifty years as efforts to decolonize lives, minds, spirits, and bodies have advanced. Yet this knowledge goes back many generations to the time when the ancestors understood their interconnectedness with each other, with nature, and with the sacred cosmic forces—a time when the human body was a microcosm of the universe. Reclaiming and reconstructing spirituality based on non-Western epistemologies is central to the process of decolonization, particularly in these fraught times. The wisdom offered here appears in a variety of forms—in reflective essays, poetry, prayers, specific guidelines for healing practices, communal rituals, and visual art, all meant to address life transitions and how to live holistically and with a spiritual consciousness for the challenges of the twenty-first century.
This book enables advanced level students to practise vocabulary in natural contexts. It is suitable for use in the classroom, for homework, or for self-study. The book develops an awareness of collocation, and prepares for gap-filling sections in examinations such as Cambridge CAE and CPE, as well as providing a rich source of stimulating reading material. Key features include: 24 authentic texts from quality newspapers and magazines, on stimulating contemporary topics; texts gapped for completion with 40-50 words listed separately and preliminary exercises which review pages after each group of six units. The With Key version contains an answer key.
Basic and Advanced Focus Groups illustrates both the different types of focus groups and how to decide among those options in order to produce the most effective focus groups possible. A variety of approaches to doing research with focus groups gives readers the tools to develop and examine their research designs, starting with the basics. Advanced coverage in each chapter takes an in-depth look at topics such as moderating focus groups, using mixed methods, and working with different sizes of groups. By taking a practical, applied approach, the author gives even novice students the knowledge and confidence to design and conduct effective focus group research, while simultaneously providing more advanced researchers with the tools and knowledge to refine their current practices.
An authorised reissue of the long out of print classic textbook, Advanced Calculus by the late Dr Lynn Loomis and Dr Shlomo Sternberg both of Harvard University has been a revered but hard to find textbook for the advanced calculus course for decades.This book is based on an honors course in advanced calculus that the authors gave in the 1960's. The foundational material, presented in the unstarred sections of Chapters 1 through 11, was normally covered, but different applications of this basic material were stressed from year to year, and the book therefore contains more material than was covered in any one year. It can accordingly be used (with omissions) as a text for a year's course in advanced calculus, or as a text for a three-semester introduction to analysis.The prerequisites are a good grounding in the calculus of one variable from a mathematically rigorous point of view, together with some acquaintance with linear algebra. The reader should be familiar with limit and continuity type arguments and have a certain amount of mathematical sophistication. As possible introductory texts, we mention Differential and Integral Calculus by R Courant, Calculus by T Apostol, Calculus by M Spivak, and Pure Mathematics by G Hardy. The reader should also have some experience with partial derivatives.In overall plan the book divides roughly into a first half which develops the calculus (principally the differential calculus) in the setting of normed vector spaces, and a second half which deals with the calculus of differentiable manifolds.
