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Relational Database Systems - Why and How

By: Ron Rogerson

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Relational Database Systems - Why and How

By: Ron Rogerson

Half a century after they were first described, relational database systems remain by far the most popular choice for the storage of large datasets. The book describes the practical and theoretical reasons why this is so, and goes on to show how to analyse a data requirement and use it to design and develop a database. Through a series of practical exercises, it teaches SQL using a freely downloadable database system (SAP SQL Anywhere(TM) for Windows 7 and above, MacOS 10.9 and above, and Linux) It is aimed principally at software engineers aiming to make a first move into SQL programming or database management, students of computing or computer science where an understanding of SQL/relational databases may be a prerequisite for the courses they are following or plan to follow, and technical managers needing a grasp of SQL/relational databases. The author taught the subject for more than two decades, as a course tutor for the UK Open University. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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0359518044

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The Short Stories of Ron Iddon ... The Murray River Collection

By: Ron Iddon

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The Short Stories of Ron Iddon ... The Murray River Collection

By: Ron Iddon

Eighteen stories of rural Australia - and it's all here - drama, adventure, humour, love lost and won - and just battling on with life. Ron Iddon's Murray River Collection is chock-full of characters that some would say could only be Australian. Here you find the country's greatest cricketer (but no-one knows of him), a Lothario who believes he has found his true love but who is met only with hostility, a young sheep station owner who gives his friend a day on the property that the visitor only just survives, an antiques dealer who has devoted half his working life to tracking down an iconic and immensely valuable piece of Australian heritage, a woman who has cleverly plotted to redeem the unjustly defamed reputation of her late husband, and a young man who befriends that mythic Australian bush creature, the Bunyip. Ron Iddon has 'got it down'; as a chronicler of the lives of those Australians who live outside the cities this man is at the top of his game.

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064656272X

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9780646562728

Defence Acquisition and Procurement

How (Not) to Buy Weapons

By: Ron P. Smith

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Defence Acquisition and Procurement

How (Not) to Buy Weapons

By: Ron P. Smith

The acquisition and procurement of major weapons systems is fraught with difficulties. They tend to be delivered late, over budget and unable to meet requirements. This Element provides an economic analysis of why this happens. Market structure, demand by the military and supply by the arms firms, shapes the conduct of the agents and generates the poor performance observed. The military are trying to counter an evolving threat, subject to a budget constraint, high R&D costs and new technologies. The interaction between a government made up of warring tribes and arms firms with considerable market and political power is further complicated by a set of what economists call 'principal-agent' problems, which are examined. While the poor performance has prompted many countries to propose reforms, the difficulty of the task and the institutional incentives faced by the actors mean that the reforms rarely solve the problem.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009195352

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9781009195355

The Mystery of Eve and Adam

A Prophetic Critique of the Monarchy

By: Ron Moe-Lobeda

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The Mystery of Eve and Adam

A Prophetic Critique of the Monarchy

By: Ron Moe-Lobeda

What if the story of Eve and Adam was not meant to be a story about creation and the origin of life? What if Eve and Adam were not personifications of all women and men? What if the curse on the woman had nothing to do with the physical pain of giving birth? What if working by the sweat of the brow was a description of the slavery that existed under the monarchy? What if being cast out of the garden of Eden was a metaphor for the deportation of people from Judah to Babylon? The author of this book takes readers on a journey of inquiry leading to the conclusion that the story of Eve and Adam was authored by the theological school of Jeremiah in order to dissuade the Judean people never to reinstate the monarchy after their return from Babylon--a monarchy that previously was responsible for so much infant mortality, subjugation of women, and enslavement of its own people. At the heart of this journey is the discovery that Eve and Adam actually are metaphors for Israel and Judah--two nations that chose to have a king like other nations and suffered the consequences.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1610976150

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9781610976152

Writing Reports to Get Results

Quick, Effective Results Using the Pyramid Method

By: Ron S. Blicq,Lisa A. Moretto

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Writing Reports to Get Results

Quick, Effective Results Using the Pyramid Method

By: Ron S. Blicq,Lisa A. Moretto

The professional's quick-reference handbook for writing business and technical reports Professionals in business, government, and technical fields often need help in organizing and writing reports for associates, clients, and managers. This simple tutorial handbook offers expert tips and useful ideas for organizing ideas, structuring reports, and adding spice to technical papers. Writing Reports to Get Results offers in-depth guidance for writing: short, informal reports, such as job progress reports and inspection reports semiformal reports, such as laboratory and medium-length investigation and evaluation reports formal reports, such as analytical and feasibility studies and major investigations technical and business proposals of varying complexity The authors use a simple pyramid method to help writers organize their information into the most convenient and simplest structure for any type of document-from single-page proposals to full-length presentations. Rounding out this easy, instructional handbook are helpful tips on a number of other topics, such as: constructing reference lists and bibliographies; the use of numbers, abbreviations, and metric symbols; preparing illustrations for insertion into a report; and working collaboratively as a member of a writing team.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471660884

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9780471660880

Islam Today

An Introduction

By: Ron Geaves

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Islam Today

An Introduction

By: Ron Geaves

This new introduction aims to present Islam through the lens of contemporary issues. Informed by research taken from lived religion, each chapter looks at Islam in a modern context, and explores issues relevant to the religion today. After an initial chapter providing an overview of the Islamic faith, its history and basic theological tenets, Ron Geaves moves through key contemporary themes: Islam and diversity, ethics and morality, gender, fundamentalism, and the relationship between Islam and the West. Concluding with a final section looking at the future for Islam, its relevance in modern times, the future for the religion in question and what it can contribute to society in terms of inter-religious dialogue and harmony between different communities.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441186468

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Contemporary Christian Travel

Pilgrimage, Practice and Place

By: Amos S. Ron,Dallen J. Timothy

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Contemporary Christian Travel

Pilgrimage, Practice and Place

By: Amos S. Ron,Dallen J. Timothy

This book is the first to examine the depth, complexity and uniqueness of global Christian pilgrimage, travel and tourism, and how they manifest in terms of both supply and demand. It explores the places and spaces of production and consumption of this increasingly important tourism phenomenon. The volume considers the foundational elements of the attractiveness of places according to Christian thinking – spirit of place, scriptural connections, art and architecture, contrived/themed environments, programmed events, volunteer travel opportunities, and visiting local communities by way of solidarity tourism and mission work. It includes a wide range of examples from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America and North America and will be of interest to researchers and students in religious studies, tourism, pilgrimage studies, geography, anthropology and Christianity studies.

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Channel View Publications

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184541666X

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Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction

A Study of News Discourse

By: Ron Scollon

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Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction

A Study of News Discourse

By: Ron Scollon

Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction makes an explicit link between media studies and social interactionalist discursive research where previously the two fields of study have been treated as separate disciplines. This text presents an integrated theory illustrated by ample concrete examples, bringing together the latest research in these two fields. It offers a critique to the sender-receiver model implicit in media studies, and argues for an analysis of media discourse as social interaction, on the one hand among journalists and newsmakers as a community of practice, and among readers and viewers as a spectating community of practice on the other. The book also argues for a coherent and interdiscursive methodology for the ethnographic study of the role of the news media in the social construction of identity and is based on a considerable body of ethnographic and textual analysis of both print and television news media. The theory of mediated discourse presented in this volume will be of great interest to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates studying media studies, sociology of language, discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication and applied linguistics. It will also be welcomed by scholars and professionals involved in research in these areas.

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Routledge

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1317881656

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Geography and Geographers

Anglo-American human geography since 1945

By: Ron Johnston,James D. Sidaway

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Geography and Geographers

Anglo-American human geography since 1945

By: Ron Johnston,James D. Sidaway

Geography and Geographers continues to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of human geography available. It provides a survey of the major debates, key thinkers and schools of thought in the English-speaking world, setting them within the context of economic, social, cultural, political and intellectual changes. It is essential reading for all undergraduate geography students. It draws on a wide reading of the geographical literature and addresses the ways geography and its history are understood and the debates among geographers regarding what the discipline should study and how. This extensively updated seventh edition offers a thoroughly contemporary perspective on human geography for new and more experienced students alike.

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1134065949

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9781134065943

Grassroots Leviathan

Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic

By: Ariel Ron

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Grassroots Leviathan

Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic

By: Ariel Ron

Looking at farmers as serious independent agents in the making, unmaking, and remaking of the American republic, Grassroots Leviathan offers an original take on the causes of the Civil War, the rise of federal power, and American economic ascent during the nineteenth century.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421439328

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9781421439327

RF and Wireless Technologies: Know It All

By: Bruce A. Fette,Roberto Aiello Ph.D.,Praphul Chandra,Daniel M. Dobkin,Dan Bensky,Douglas B. Miron,David Lide,Farid Dowla,Ron Olexa

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RF and Wireless Technologies: Know It All

By: Bruce A. Fette,Roberto Aiello Ph.D.,Praphul Chandra,Daniel M. Dobkin,Dan Bensky,Douglas B. Miron,David Lide,Farid Dowla,Ron Olexa

The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written to create hard-working desk references that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb. Guaranteed not to gather dust on a shelf! RF (radio frequency) and wireless technologies drive communication today. This technology and its applications enable wireless phones, portable device roaming, and short-range industrial and commercial application communication such as the supply chain management wonder, RFID. Up-to-date information regarding software defined RF, using frequencies smarter, and using more of the spectrum, with ultrawideband technology is detailed. - A 360-degree view from best-selling authors including Roberto Aiello, Bruce Fette, and Praphul Chandra - Hot topics covered including ultrawideband and cognitive radio technologies - The ultimate hard-working desk reference: all the essential information, techniques, and tricks of the trade in one volume

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Elsevier

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008094258X

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9780080942582

1100 Digital Stories in an Analog World

By: Ron Collins

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1100 Digital Stories in an Analog World

By: Ron Collins

Twelve stories from the pages of Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact Join bestselling and award-winning author Ron Collins as he takes you on a spectacular exploration of everything science fiction. A ride that covers everything from true time travel to quantum drive race cars, with pit stops in between that dabble in nanotechnology, the digital divide, and survival across the galactic spans of space and time. Might there be aliens among us? Will computers take over the world? If so, how would we tell? And will it even matter? The answers might change how you see the future. Also included are stories that eventually formed the backbone of Stealing the Sun, a nine-book, bestselling space-based series. As a special treat, each story is followed by an afterword that provides further insight or discussion on the work’s origins. If you’re a fan of science fiction, Ron Collins, and Analog, this collection is a must-have volume!

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Skyfox Publishing

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1946176796

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9781946176790

Starring Mandela and Cosby

Media and the End(s) of Apartheid

By: Ron Krabill

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Starring Mandela and Cosby

Media and the End(s) of Apartheid

By: Ron Krabill

During the worst years of apartheid, the most popular show on television in South Africa—among both Black and White South Africans—was The Cosby Show. Why did people living under a system built on the idea that Black people were inferior and threatening flock to a show that portrayed African Americans as comfortably mainstream? Starring Mandela and Cosby takes up this paradox, revealing the surprising impact of television on racial politics. The South African government maintained a ban on television until 1976, and according to Ron Krabill, they were right to be wary of its potential power. The medium, he contends, created a shared space for communication in a deeply divided nation that seemed destined for civil war along racial lines. At a time when it was illegal to publish images of Nelson Mandela, Bill Cosby became the most recognizable Black man in the country, and, Krabill argues, his presence in the living rooms of white South Africans helped lay the groundwork for Mandela’s release and ascension to power. Weaving together South Africa’s political history and a social history of television, Krabill challenges conventional understandings of globalization, offering up new insights into the relationship between politics and the media.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226451909

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9780226451909

Intercultural Communication

A Discourse Approach

By: Ron Scollon,Suzanne Wong Scollon,Rodney H. Jones

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Intercultural Communication

A Discourse Approach

By: Ron Scollon,Suzanne Wong Scollon,Rodney H. Jones

This newly revised edition is both a lively introduction and practical guide to the main concepts and challenges of intercultural communication. Grounded in interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, this work integrates theoretical principles and methodological advice, presenting students, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive and unified resource. Features new original theory, expanded treatment of generations, gender and corporate and professional discourse Offers improved organization and added features for student and classroom use, including advice on research projects, questions for discussion, and references at the end of each chapter Extensively revised with newly added material on computer mediated communication, sexuality and globalization

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470656409

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9780470656402

Growing a Soul on the Planet Earth

The Fourth Way & Esoteric Christianity, Techniques & Practices

By: Ron Levitan,Claire Levitan

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Growing a Soul on the Planet Earth

The Fourth Way & Esoteric Christianity, Techniques & Practices

By: Ron Levitan,Claire Levitan

Most of us think there are only two possible answers to the question: Do you have a soul? Either we have a soul, which will live beyond death, or there is no such thing as a soul, and when we die, nothing of us remains. But what if neither of those answers is correct? What if, instead, we are not born with a soul, but we have the possibility of growing one? Our potential for growing a soul was recognized by early gnostic Christians who practiced esoteric Christianity, which dates back to and originated in ancient pre-sand Egypt. It is a sacred science of being, a long hidden, esoteric teaching that G. I. Gurdjieff brought to the West early in the last century and is called the Fourth Way.How do we grow a soul? Gurdjieff tells us, The whole secret is that one cannot work for a future life without working for this one. We must learn how to be present to ourselves in each moment, to integrate body, senses, mind. The techniques and practices Gurdjieff brought in the Fourth Way can show us how. Is there life after death? Thats the primordial human question. Yes, you have a soul. How do you know? Isnt it just societal belief? If you have no soulokay, heres how to live after dying. (William Patrick Patterson, author of Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff: The Man, The Teaching, His Mission) For those who have felt the wish or recognized the need to grow in themselves something higher, the Levitans introduce Gurdjieffs authentic way of self-transformation to do so. They also explore other ways stemming from the same source, throughout centuries and millennia up to the present time, showing how Gurdjieff presented methods that completed what had been mostly lost, forgotten, or left out. (Mary Ellen Korman, author of A Womans Work with Gurdjieff, Ramana Maharshi, Krishnamurti, Anandamayi Ma & Pak Subuh) Essential reading conveying with unique clarity and directness a distillation of the deep spiritual ideas contained in Gurdjieffs Fourth Way teaching. Faced with the question of soul, Ron and Claire Levitan lead us to the deep esoteric meaning of that word and the responsibility it carries in giving significance to our lives, the Earth and beyond. Gurdjieffs language of neologisms, often inaccessible, is presented in a straightforward manner, explaining the direct path to higher consciousness and conscience. If youve ever wondered what soul is or what is meant by growing a soulthis is the book youve been waiting for. (Teresa Adams, instructor, Haida yoga, the Online Fourth Way School)

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Xlibris Corporation

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1543479901

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OpenGL Programming for Windows 95 and Windows NT

By: Ron Fosner

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OpenGL Programming for Windows 95 and Windows NT

By: Ron Fosner

Ron Fosner provides tips and teaches techniques enabling Windows programmers to optimize OpenGL performance on the Windows platform. Topics include model and view matrices, bitmaps and texturing, and manipulating OpenGL objects. Numerous programming examples in C are provided.

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