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Handbook on Architectures of Information Systems (International Handbooks on Information Systems) (International Handbooks on Information Systems)
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This volume offers a comprehensive overview of architectures, languages, methods, and techniques for analysing, modelling, and constructing information systems in organisations. Numerous approaches are surveyed coming from computer science, information systems, and business administration among others. With more than 30 contributions, the book is an authoritative source of information for professional researchers and graduate students. It also provides a reference source for problem solvers in business, industry, and government.
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The pioneering work for information architecture.......1999-09-10
This work is the essential handbook for the emerging role of the Information Architect and would-be architects of web information systems. This comprehensive guide describes the formal theory, techniques and knowledge base required for the creation of Information Systems Architecture.
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Active Labor Market Policies in Europe: Performance and Perspectives
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Measures of Active Labor Market Policy - such as training, wage subsidies, public employment measures, and job search assistance - are widely used in European countries to combat unemployment. Little, however, is known about what each country can learn from experiences in other countries. This study provides novel insight on this important policy issue by discussing the role of the European Commission's Employment Strategy, reviewing the experiences made in European states, and giving the first ever quantitative assessment of the existing cross-country evidence, answering the question "what labor market program works for what target group under what (economic and institutional) circumstances?". Using an innovative meta-analytical approach, the authors find that rather than contextual factors such as labor market institutions or the business cycle, it is almost exclusively the program type that matters for program effectiveness: While direct employment programs in the public sector appear detrimental, wage subsidies and "Services and Sanctions" can be effective in increasing participants' employment probability.
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From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy (Constitutional Conflicts)
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Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and legal scholars takes the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Brown to reconsider the history and legacy of that landmark decision. From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court juxtaposes oral histories and legal analysis to provide a nuanced look at how men and women understood Brown and sought to make the decision meaningful in their own lives.
The contributors illuminate the breadth of developments that led to Brown, from the parallel struggles for social justice among African Americans in the South and Mexican, Asian, and Native Americans in the West during the late nineteenth century to the political and legal strategies implemented by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (naacp) in the twentieth century. Describing the decision’s impact on local communities, essayists explore the conflict among African Americans over the implementation of Brown in Atlanta’s public schools as well as understandings of the ruling and its relevance among Puerto Rican migrants in New York City. Assessing the legacy of Brown today, contributors analyze its influence on contemporary law, African American thought, and educational opportunities for minority children.
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Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature
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The 20-cm (8-in) Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope is the most popular telescope in the world. This compact instrument revolutionized amateur astronomy and astrophotography, and more than ten thousand are purchased each year. Manly, a devotee and keen user of the Schmidt-Cassegrain, takes the telescope owner, in easy stages, through all aspects of using the telescope. He starts with techniques for viewing the Moon, then takes the observer through our planetary system, and on to the deep sky, where nebulae and galaxies are treated extensively. There are interesting projects to try, such as observing the nearest star and chasing eclipses. The book describes a full range of telescope accessories and detectors together with advice on their use. The 40-page appendix is packed with hard-to-find practical information. Peter Manly is the author of Unusual Telescopes (CUP, 1992).
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Lukewarm review.......2007-01-12
To me the title of this book, "The 20-CM Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope," suggested that it might be an after-market owner's manual. I was mistaken. Most of its content applies to the first time user of any amateur-class telescope. The only SCT-specific information it provides is: a brief history; a superficial treatment of its optics; principles of collimation; and pictures of an SCT with accessories attached. If you're looking for instrument-specific technical information of even the most meager variety, or maintenance, modification, and "accessorizing" tips, then find another book.
The author's discussion of polar alignment illustrates my point. He describes the use of a home made, 45 arc minute finderscope reticle. Nifty - just what I'm looking for! Alas, he fails to explain how to make one - not in detail, and not even in principle. So the whole discussion is nearly worthless. The author hits on most of the topics I find interesting, but I inevitably came away wanting more details. For example, the author discusses photography, photometry, spectroscopy, computers, image intensifiers and televideo. Impressive, right? But the whole of it is compressed into a mere 40 pages - and no single topic receives thorough treatment.
As suggested by the subtitle, "A practical observing guide," this book discusses the observational possibilities for an SCT owner. It is not a practicum on the use, maintenance, modification or technical aspects of any particular SCT.
These criticisms, however, reflect my own misapprehension of the book's intent. I hasten to say it adequately addresses the question, "What can I expect to do with an SCT?" The author's organizational skill and conversational writing make this 246 page book an interesting read. The narrative flow, however, suffers from the excessive use of footnotes (228 total) - of which the most relevant could have been thoughtfully worked into the text, and the least relevant left out entirely.
You can get a fairly good idea of the material covered by browsing the table of contents online. Be advised: this is a non-technical, non-mathematical, non-detailed, generic SCT oriented book. It is anybody's guess why the author chose such an approach for a geeky market like amateur astronomy. If you can buy it at a deeply discounted price, do so - you'll have a couple of hours of reading on a topic to which you can relate. Better yet, buy a used copy as it will probably not become a part of your permanent reference collection. Best of all, try to borrow a copy from your local library, which is where my discarded copy will eventually end up.
Excellent user's guide.......2004-04-05
As the author points out, the first economical 20 cm. S-C telescope by makers such as Celestron and Meade revolutionized amateur astronomy back in the 70's and 80's, and their influence is still being felt today. The telescope's design has many advantages over the competition, such as good portability, excellent control of optical distortions, and ease of use. The S-C telescope is distinguished by having a concave paraboloidal primary with a convex hyperboloidal secondary, compared to the Gregorian telescope with it's similarly paraboloidal primary but concave secondary, which produces an upright image, unlike the S-C which is inverted like most telescopes. The corrector plate on the front of the S-C corrects for spherical aberration.
This design is different from the little 3-inch Maksutov scopes from Questar. These use a hyperboloidal primary and secondary. The advantage to this arrangement is that the positive and negative surfaces act to cancel out various optical aberrations and distortions. My understanding is that the Celestron telescopes actually employ elliptical rather than paraboloidal optics, but anyway, tens of thousands of these scopes have proven their worth in the hands of new and experienced amateurs around the world for decades.
If you're an experienced amateur, many of the topics, especially on viewing various sky objects will already be familiar to you, but if you're a new amateur there is much good information here. The author starts out with a brief intro and history of the instrument and then proceeds to a discussion of how to get started in viewing using easy subjects such as the moon and planets, and then proceeds to more advanced and harder to locate subjects like nebulae, star clusters, double-stars, galaxies, and so on. For the intermediate and advanced amateur, there are chapters on special topics such as observing variable stars, asteroids, comets, and multiple Jovian eclipses.
The last half of the book has sections on some of the more modern accessories and topics aspects such as international networking, astrophotography, photometers, spectroscopy, televisions and image intensifiers. There is an extensive series of appendices on topics such as cleaning the corrector plate, how to align the polar axis, collimation of the S-C telescope, mount vibrations, a field operations packing checklist, astronomical nomenclature, and a list of dozens of the brightest stars and nearby stars.
The author's story about how he was the first person, using an amateur group of observers spread out over Arizona, to gather the necessary obsevational data to calculate the size of the asteroid Aglaja during it's occultation of a star, was interesting. And the section on astrophotography reminded me of my first experiences in that area in the early 70's using a 25 or 30-year old Exacta VX Thagee-Oresden camera. Overall this is an excellent user's and observer's guide that should be valuable to new and experienced observers alike.
Good Book, But Now Dated.......2002-12-02
This is a good introduction to the SC telescope, and when first published it helped to fill a great void. While most of the information in the book is still useful and valid, it needs an update to include the modern computer-enhanced SCT (GO TO scopes). I would love to see a new edition.
Good info., style takes some getting used to.......2001-03-14
There really are some genuine nuggets of wisdom in this book. One has to become accustomed, however, to the first-person narrative and the sometimes "I'm so cute" humor.
if you can look past the stylistic concerns, there's a lot here to like.
A good book.......2001-02-20
This is a very good book; at times humorous, and at times just plain warm-feeling! It deals with many aspects of SCT's , some chapters are a bit too thin for my tastes now.
Although I read it cover-to-cover already; I keep going back to it quite often..
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The concluding volume of what is now recognized as the most useful reference ever produced on the Flintlock Military Muskets of the United States. In this volume covering the second half of the flintlock era, learn the correct, and incorrect, configurations for these historical longarms. Study the markings and inspection stamps that separate rare muskets from run-of-the-mill examples. Based upon decades of research at the national Archives, this book follows a first volume that covered the years 1790 through 1815. While each books stands on its own, together they chronicle the most exciting story in firearms history, as our national arsenals and private contractors achieved interchangeability of parts and changed manufacturing forever. 373 pages, countless photos, deluxe hardcover, dustjacket, coated paper, 8.5x11 inches.
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This practical introduction focuses on how to build integrated solutions to industrial vision problems from individual algorithms. It gives a hands-on guide for setting up automated visual inspection systems using real-world examples and the NeuroCheck software package. This software is used for on-line visual inspection in many industrial production processes. Based on many years of experience in industries, the editors explain all the (mostly unpublished but essential) details encountered in the creation of real-world vision systems. With the original NeuroCheck software package and all the example images included on CD-ROM, readers can work their way through the described inspection tasks and carry out their own experiments.
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Five- to eight-year olds will experience history in the making as they travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific with circuit riding preachers, explorers Lewis and Clark, and Indian guide Sacagawea. Along the way, theyll feel the winds of revival, ride the currents on the wide Missouri, and jostle over troubled trails with covered wagon trains. Pencils, crayons, and active imaginations will turn these games, mazes, puzzles, and pictures into a window on Gods grand design for the land of the free.
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An interesting turn of events.......2005-02-19
This is supposed to close out the "insane Captain Marvel" story of the previous two volumes. In it, Genis is waaaaay over the edge and has found creative ways to use his new powers. Rick is still trapped in the Microverse and attempting to reach his former friend. In the end, the story tries its best to resolve itself while still leaving enough plot threads hanging to pull you into the next volume. While the whole concept was an interesting diversion, I wasn't really impressed with it. Peter David took the Captain Marvel (Junior) character and really drug him through the mud mentally. So much so that I actually lost any compassion for the guy and couldn't care less whether he got "fixed up" or not. Granted, the mind-wipe of the Punisher in volume 1 was cool, but not much else happened in these 3 volumes that couldn't have been told in a simple two-or-three issue arc. Recommended for the true fan only. The casual fan might not care for it.
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Nice boardbook for Easter.......2000-04-10
This is a sweet, simple tale of Peter Cottontail. The illustrations are colorful and well done, with pictures of animals and lots of other things to talk with your child about, and the opportunity to "hunt for eggs", even if it's raining outside!
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