# **Book Description**Build, secure, optimize, and manage high-performance web infrastructure with NGINX.**NGINX Masterclass** is a practical, step-by-step guide for developers, system administrators, DevOps learners, cloud engineers, and IT professionals who want to use NGINX confidently in real-world environments. Whether you are hosting a website, deploying backend applications, configuring HTTPS, building a reverse proxy, or setting up a custom load balancer, this book ...

Examining the legitimacy of the World Anti-Doping Agency, this book offers a critical analysis of the anti-doping system and the social and behavioural processes that shape policy, asking why the current system is failing.Featuring in-depth, contemporary case studies from around the world, including the whereabouts system; Lance Armstrong; therapeutic use exemptions; the Essendon Bombers; recreational drugs policy; and the Russian Olympic doping programme, this is the first text to...

Your students will reap the benefits of a comprehensive study of vocabulary and gain higher standardized test scores with Vocabulary Power Plus for the ACT series! Covering critical reading passages, essays, and questions based on testing format, each book focuses on crucial practice with sentence completion, reading comprehension, inference, root practice, and more to give your students a competitive test-day edge! Vocabulary Power Plus for the ACT will help you: Introduce students to ACT te...

In 2005, the SAT implemented major revisions, including: New reading sections Analogies removed Multiple-Choice Grammar and Usage Questions Modified Reading Questions. Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT addresses all of the revisions in the test without vocabulary studies. Students will benefit from: Focused prefix, suffix, and root practice Challenging inference exercises Detailed critical reading exercises New SAT-style writing and grammar exercises Recommended for grade 11. This book...

The work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has transformed the study of judgment and decision-making, and penetrated related disciplines such as economics, finance, marketing, law and medicine. In recognition of these achievements, Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2003. This special issue presents ongoing research inspired by both Kahneman and Tversky. It covers many of the central themes � the heuristics and biases of judgment and prediction, framing effects, assess...

After being wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, disgraced cop Al Palmer is released ten years later into a world that has left him behind, and a daughter who is estranged, burdened by the years she believed he was guilty. As Al and his daughter team up to uncover who framed him and killed her mother, they expose a far-reaching conspiracy involving white supremacist militias, political elites, and a monstrous criminal mastermind known only as The Boar. Told through a ...

In early 2004, filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond (Salam Iran, a Persian Letter) and author Fred A. Reed (Persian Postcards: Iran after Khomeini) returned to Iran after a two-year absence—on the eve of the parliamentary elections that were to seal the political defeat of the Reform movement. They had come to interview several of the men and women who had propelled Mohammad Khatami to the presidency in 1997, with a mission to rebuild a civil society in Iran under the banner of h...

***** Vet-developed calming soundscapes for peaceful homes, quiet nights, and calmer routines ***** Create a calmer environment for your pets with CALM PETS COLLECTION, a carefully curated set of relaxing music for dogs and cats designed for everyday soothing—at home, during rest, and in stressful moments. This collection is vet-developed (created with veterinary guidance) and shaped by principles used in successful pet-calming music programs: gentle, simplified arrangements, predictable r...

This third volume in the Japan Decides series remains the premier venue for scholarly research on Japanese elections. Putting a spotlight on the 2017 general election, the contributors discuss the election results, party politics, coalition politics with Komeito, the cabinet, constitutional revision, new opposition parties, and Abenomics. Additionally, the volume looks at campaigning, public opinion, media, gender issues and representation, North Korea and security issues, inequal...

They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it will frequently rhyme.However, what about crimes that get repeated? How are they similar to the original? How are they different? And why?The devil is in the details, after all.Come see what the syndicate members of MCM have done with crimes that riff off of events from the past.MCM. So Criminal, It's Good.

Pragmatist thought is central to sociology. However, sociologists typically encounter pragmatism indirectly, as a philosophy of science or as an influence on canonical social scientists, rather than as a vital source of theory, research questions, and methodological reflection in sociology today.In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the field and their historica...

In an era where most video games hold the player's hand with constant checkpoints, detailed tutorials, and adjustable difficulty settings, a strange counter-culture has emerged. Titles like "Getting Over It" and "Jump King" offer no safety nets, punishing a single mistake with the loss of hours of progress. Why do millions of people subject themselves to this digital torture? The popularity of these "rage games" baffles traditional market research. It challenges the assumption that enterta...