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Professional XML Databases»rank: 914678by: Michael Brundage, Patrick Dengler, Jeff Gabriel, Andy Hoskinson, Michael Kay, Thomas Maxwell, Marcelo Ochoa, Johnny Papa, Mohan Vanmane
: :: In this book, we look at how to integrate XML into your current relational data source strategies. With the increasing amount of data stored in relational databases, and the importance of XML as a format for marking up data - whether it be for storage, display, interchange, or processing - you need to have command of four key skills: understanding how to structure, process, access, and store your data. By introducing guidelines for how to model your XML documents in relational databases and how to model relational database information as XML, we will establish structures that enable quick and efficient access, and make our data more flexible. We then look at ... |
Professional XML»rank: 1225218by: Mark Birbeck, Michael Kay, stev Livingstone, Stephen F. Mohr, Jonathan Pinnock, Brian Loesgen, Steven Livingston, Didier Martin, Nikola Ozu, Mark Seabourne, David Baliles
: :XML, otherwise known as eXtensible Mark Up language is the latest buzz-word on the Internet, but it's a rapidly maturing technology with powerful real-world applications, particularly for the management, display and organization of data. The book's scope is XML, XSL, and the whole Document Object Model. It also investigates SAX, WAP, XML linking, XML e-commerce, server to server XML and XML databases. This book is a broad compendium that investigates and describes how the total XML concept will work for programmers. Review:A serious look at how to use XML in sophisticated real-world Web applications, Professional XML goes beyond your run-of-the-mill tutorial by giving you practical examples and techniques. The book focuses ... |
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Reconstructing Behavior in the Primate Fossil Record (Advances in Primatology)»rank: 1366565from: Springer
: :This volume brings together a series of papers that address the topic of reconstructing behavior in the primate fossil record. Here is offered a review of broad issues related to reconstructing various aspects of behavior -- such as diet and social systems -- from very different types of evidence. For example: comparative analysis and adaptation, ontogenetic evidence, paleoenvironmental and paleo-community analysis, experimental functional analysis, and comparative socioecology. Hopefully, the reader will gain a perspective on the various types of evidence that can be brought to bear on reconstructing behavior, the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, and, perhaps, new approaches to the topic. Authors review not only the types of evidence that ... |
Clovis Blade Technology: A Comparative Study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas (Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series)»rank: 1296402by: Michael B. Collins, Marvin Kay
: : 'In this book, Michael Collins ... demonstrates why he is considered one of the leading researchers in the field of lithic analysis. The work offers a masterful review and synthesis of Clovis blade technology with lucid prose and lavish illustrations.... I recommend this book for all professional and avocational archaeologists interested in Paleoindian occupations of the New World.' —Illinois Archaeology 'This book makes an important contribution to a newly revived debate on the significance of the Clovis phenomenon and the timing and migration routes of the peopling of the New World more generally.' —SAS Bulletin Around 11,000 years ago, a Paleoindian culture known to us as 'Clovis' occupied much of North ... |
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History in Person : Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities (Advanced Seminar Series)»rank: 1156999by: Dorothy Holland;Jean Lave;Begoña Aretxaga;Steven Gregory;Michael Kearney;Daniel T. Linger;Liisa H. Malkki;Debra Skinner;Kay B. Warren ;Paul Willis
: : 'In this book, Michael Collins ... demonstrates why he is considered one of the leading researchers in the field of lithic analysis. The work offers a masterful review and synthesis of Clovis blade technology with lucid prose and lavish illustrations.... I recommend this book for all professional and avocational archaeologists interested in Paleoindian occupations of the New World.' —Illinois Archaeology 'This book makes an important contribution to a newly revived debate on the significance of the Clovis phenomenon and the timing and migration routes of the peopling of the New World more generally.' —SAS Bulletin Around 11,000 years ago, a Paleoindian culture known to us as 'Clovis' occupied much of North ... |
Researching with Children and Young People: Research Design, Methods and Analysis»rank: 1682244by: Kay Tisdall, John B. Davis, Michael Gallagher
: :Researching with Children and Young People covers every stage of the process of doing a research project, from research design and data collection, through to analysis, dissemination, and feedback. Providing an advanced discussion of current debates and methods in childhood research, the book is essential reading for anyone undertaking consultation, research, and evaluation activities with children and young people. The book is structured around five core areas covering: Introduction to research with children and young people Ethics Data collection and analysis Involving children and young people Dissemination and engagement These chapters are interspersed with case studies describing the methods used in eleven different research projects involving children and young people. Written by ... |
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Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775»rank: 2971391by: Marvin L. Michael Kay, Lorin Lee Cary
: :'The scope of research, the reach of learning, and the wisdom of interpretation in this book are enormous'. -- William S. Price Jr., North Carolina Division of Archives and History |
The Web Wizard's Guide to Flash»rank: 1206943by: Michael R. Kay
: : This book provides a basic introduction to Flash to readers who have minimal computing experience. After working with this book, readers will be able to add exciting Flash animations to their own websites. The author covers essential skills and techniques, quickly allowing readers to use Flash to incorporate attention grabbing animations, buttons, and sounds into their websites. Addison-Wesley's Web Wizard Series is a series of brief, introductory books written by instructors, and covering Internet and Web programming topics of interest to anyone who wants to create web pages. Each book includes an easy-to-read, full-color design featuring plenty of hands-on examples and exercises, and is written in a concise and practical manner ... |
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Essential Mathematical Methods CAS 3&4 with Student CD-Rom (Essential Mathematics)»rank: 1793578by: Michael Evans, Kay Lipson, Peter Jones, Sue Avery
: : This book provides a basic introduction to Flash to readers who have minimal computing experience. After working with this book, readers will be able to add exciting Flash animations to their own websites. The author covers essential skills and techniques, quickly allowing readers to use Flash to incorporate attention grabbing animations, buttons, and sounds into their websites. Addison-Wesley's Web Wizard Series is a series of brief, introductory books written by instructors, and covering Internet and Web programming topics of interest to anyone who wants to create web pages. Each book includes an easy-to-read, full-color design featuring plenty of hands-on examples and exercises, and is written in a concise and practical manner ... |
Discipline-Based Art Education: A Curriculum Sampler»rank: 1201748from: Getty Trust Publications: Getty Education Institut
: :Eight sample curricula that integrate aesthetics, art criticism, art history, and art production. |