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Parallel Systems in the Data Warehouse
Discover why parallel computing offers an ideal foundation for enterprise-scale data warehousing - and how to make the right strategic and tactical decisions about these critical technologies. What are the right questions to ask? What aren't the vendors telling you? How do benchmarks relate to real-world results? Parallel Systems in the Data Warehouse evaluates all three major parallel hardware architectures, comparing scalability, performance and sustainable I/O bandwidth: symmetric multiprocessors (SMP), distributed memory (DM) or 'massively parallel' machines, and distributed shared memory (DSM) systems ('non-uniform memory access' machines). Consistently high throughput is critical to the success of data warehousing - and traditional techniques like normalization and indexing aren't enough anymore. Learn smarter table partitioning strategies, star schema and other powerful techniques to fully exploit the inherent scalability and high I/O bandwidth of parallel hardware. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461112988
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Step into a World A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature
Step Into A World 'Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears, and the fearlessness. Step into a World is a kaleidoscope into the world not bound by artificial constructs like nation. John Coltrane recorded ‘Giant Steps,’ which is a riff on the sight and sounds in his muse. Powell plays the computer with equal astuteness.' –Nikki Giovanni 'Those of us who pay attention were aware that the younger generation of black writers was being smothered by the anointment of talented tenth Divas and Divuses, and their commercial accommodationist ‘Fourth Renaissance. ’This anthology is indeed a breakthrough! It combines the boldness and daring of hip-hop with the intellectual keenness of a Michele Wallace or a Clyde Taylor.' –Ishmael Reed 'In a culture where videos, the Internet, and other high-tech communication is being consumed like the latest mind-altering drug, how does great literature grow and survive? These writers will answer that all-important question. This anthology provides a clue, a hint, as to where we might be going. They are resisting all this vacant, empty-minded nothingness. Read them. Listen to them. If you don’t, you do so at your peril.' –Quincy Troupe - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461115202
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The Concise Edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
Since 1900, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians has been the classic work of musical biography and the first choice of readers for factual accuracy, informative histories of the men and women of music, and critical insights into their work. For this concise edition, Nicolas Slonimsky, who has edited Baker's since 1958, has selected more than 5,000 enduring musical personalities, covering all the most influential figures in music past and present. A work of unrivaled scope and reliability, Baker's has been the source for accurate and enlightening information about composers, conductors, singers, and instrumental virtuosos as well as important philosophers, scholars, critics, teveryers, librettists, patrons, and impresarios from the distant past to the present day. All biographical entries are written in the witty, authoritative, and engaging style that has become a Baker's tradition. For this edition, Slonimsky has selected definitive biographies of hundreds of artists in jazz, rock, country, blues, and other forms of popular music, as well as a multi-cultural representation of modern and classical musicians. Now more than ever, Baker's is an invaluable sourcebook for anyone with an interest in music - students, teveryers, scholars, musicians, music lovers, record collectors, and concertgoers. All will find it enlightening, informative, and indispensable. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461504100
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ColdFusion MX The Complete Reference
Detailed resource provides complete coverage of all ColdFusion MX's new features and functionality and contains information on administration, optimization, and application development. Shows you how to expertly integrate ColdFusion into Flash applications. Softcover. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461505609
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Wendell Minor
This one-of-a-kind retrospective brings together a rich selection of pieces from Wendell Minor's extraordinary body of jacket art, coupled with lively commentary from authors and others in publishing on the relationship between a book's cover and what is inside. The volume includes over one hundred full-color reproductions of artwork from the jackets of best-selling books. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461507508
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Neurobiology of Diabetic Neuropathy
This volume of International Review of Neurobiology defines primary biochemical causation of diabetic complications, identifies cellular glucose transducers, balancing roles of protein kinase C and MAP kinases, and sets in context the role of apoptosis and the interactive roles of neurons and Schwann cells. It also defines the cell biology of autonomic neuropathy, considers the balanced needs of science, clinical practice, and economics in clinical trial design, provides the definitive evaluation of aldose reductase inhibitors, and explains the failure of nerve growth factor. One of the most successful series in the field of neuroscience continues its standard of excellence with this newest edition. Published since 1959, International Review of Neurobiology is a well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 458833413
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Thin Film Processes
This sequel to the 1978 classic, Thin Film Processes, gives a clear, practical exposition of important thin film deposition and etching processes that have not yet been adequately reviewed. It discusses selected processes in tutorial overviews with implementation guide lines and an introduction to the literature. Though edited to stand alone, when taken together, Thin Film Processes II and its predecessor present a thorough grounding in modern thin film techniques. Key Features * Provides an all-new sequel to the 1978 classic, Thin Film Processes * Introduces new topics, and several key topics presented in the original volume are updated * Emphasizes practical applications of major thin film deposition and etching processes * Helps readers find the appropriate technology for a particular application - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461111135
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Clinical Biology of Sodium
This book emphasises the limitations and pitfalls, as well as the bene fits of across-species extrapolation. In addition, a growing range of diseases, hitherto seeming to be unrelated, are linked by the underlyi ng involvement of abnormalities of sodium handling: these include such disparate conditions as osteoporosis, cystic fibrosis, urolithiasis a nd gastric cancer. The book also discusses drugs intended to alter sod ium balance, drugs whose mode of action depends on sodium transport an d the interactions with electrolyte physiology which underlie the effe cts of these and many other drugs. It should enable clinicians better to understand the rationale behind their clinical routines and, perhap s more importantly7, provide the flexibility to recognise the need for change. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461400476
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The Logic Of Conventional Implicatures
This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. H. Paul Grice first defined the concept. Since then his definition has seen much use and many redefinitions, but it has never enjoyed a stable place in linguistic theory. Christopher Potts returns to the original and uses it as a key into two presently under-studied areas of natural language: supplements (appositives, parentheticals) and expressives (e.g., honorifics, epithets). The account of both depends on a theory in which sentence meanings can be multidimensional. The theory is logically and intuitively compositional, and it minimally extends a familiar kind of intensional logic, thereby providing an adaptable, highly useful tool for semantic analysis. The result is a linguistic theory that is accessible not only to linguists of all stripes, but also philosophers of language, logicians, and computer scientists who have linguistic applications in mind. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461403923
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A New Science The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology
In this book, the author attempts to further the reader's understanding of the social sciences, in this case specifically sociology, and to do so by examining, historically, some aspects to its origins especially in relation to the humanities. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461114775
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Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis A Practical Approach
Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis: A Practical Approach is a unique compendium of expert advice, detailed methodology, and hints and tips for using PFGE in a wide range of research strategies. It is an invaluable lab-bench manual for all those researchers who use PFGE or who plan to do so. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461508589
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The Invisible God The Earliest Christians on Art
This study challenges a popular shibboleth, namely that Christianity came into the world as an essentially iconophobic form of religiosity, one that was opposed on principle to the use of visual images in religious contexts. It is argued here that this view misrepresents the evidence as we have it (consisting of both literary and archaeological fragments) - furthermore this misrepresentation is conscious and deliberate, designed to serve the interests of modern (and not so modern) confessional points of view. The picture presented here is of a religious minority, pre-Constantinian Christians, wrestling at the moment of their birth with questions of self-identity and seeking to submit themselves and their beliefs to open and public scrutiny. Only gradually over the course of the second century did Christians manage to formulate a definition of themselves as a distinct and separate religious culture. They began to draw visible boundaries and commenced the complicated process of endowing their communities with the marks of ethnic and cultural distinction. One of t - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461717737
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Crossing Swords Politics and Religion in Mexico
Based on a decade of field research, Crossing Swords is the first book-length, scholarly examination in English of the role of Catholicism in Mexican society from the 1970s to 1995, and the increasing political activism of the Catholic church and clergy. The book provides the first analysis of church-state relations in Latin America that incorporates detailed interviews with numerous bishops and clergy and leading politicians about how they see every other and how religion influences their values. Camp offers an inside look at the decision-making process of bishops at the diocesan level and draws on national survey research to examine prevailing Mexican attitudes toward religion, Christianity, and Catholicism both before, during, and after Mexico's constitutional changes on church-state relations. Incorporating comparative literature from the United States and Europe, Crossing Swords reveryes a number of challenging conclusions about the interlocking relationship between religion and politics, casting light on both general theoretical arguments and on the peculiarities of the Mexican case. A comprehensive and original look at a topic of importance well beyond Mexico, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of religion generally as well as those involved with Latin America. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461717773
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King Josiah of Judah The Lost Messiah of Israel
King Josiah of Judah is a figure of extraordinary importance for the history of Israel. Using synchronic and diachronic analyses of the Deuteronomistic History, Deuteronomy, and selected prophetic books, Marvin Sweeney reconstructs the ideological perspectives of king Josiah's program of religious and national restoration . - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461717821
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