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There are about 100,000 kinds of insects in North America, so obviously they can't have a field guide in the same way the 650 species of birds do: something both portable and complete. The National Audubon Society has produced a remarkably useful compromise. This guide has photographs and descriptions of 550 insect species and 60 kinds of spiders. Most of the families of arthropods on the continent are covered, as are all of the most common species. It's a very useful resource for any North American naturalist, and the best choice for an adult who is not an expert entomologist. --Mary Ellen Curtin
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Spiders, bugs, moths, butterflies, beetles, bees, flies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, and many other insects are detailed in more than 700 full-color photographs visually arranged by shape and color. Descriptive text includes measurements, diagnostic details, and information on habitat, range, feeding habits, sounds or songs, flight period, web construction, life cycle, behaviors, folklore, and environmental impact. An illustrated key to the insect orders and detailed drawings of the parts of insects, spiders, and butterflies supplement this extensive coverage.
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On par with all the Audobon Guides.......2007-08-30
Very informative like all the Audobon Guides, and lots of photos, which really helps. Only caveat is that I'd like to see them have several volumes to cover ALL insects in North America, as there are too many to cover in just this one guide. Although I am aware that they have separate guides for butterflies.
National AuddubonGuide ;to North American insects &Spiders.......2007-08-11
Absolutely wonderful !!! my dinnette has windows to the West and North, and every morning while having my coffee I find myself referring to it as the butterflies and bees and birds share my lovely flowering trees and bushes...along with the ground squirrels, chip monks, rabbits and multiple birds.....if people could only take their example, it could be a better world.
a good solid field guide.......2007-06-01
As with all the Audubon Field Guides, so with this one: The color photos are the best of the guides; the durable construction with leatherette cover is very good; and the information is generally accurate and descriptive. The index is organized to cross refererence the color plates with the descriptions - it's pretty straight forward when looking up a bug. Yet, the summaries, as in all the Audubon books, are just too brief; this may be the most glaring of its deficiencies. Any future edition could use a fleshing out on the details.
The Audubon books are better than the Stokes and Peterson guides. As a general all round guide, these books have a place in any naturalist's library.
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Good quality guide and colorful images.......2007-05-15
Good quality, very comprehensive book with great color pictures. It could benefit from telling you if the creatires pose any threat to humans or are poisonous, as that's why I bought it!
How to find a spider!.......2006-12-23
I bought this book to look up a particular spider that I get at my house each summer. The book gave me the name and I looked up poison information on the net. The pictures are great and I am very happy with it. This year, we got a different type of spider and this book did not list it, but as a guide to the major varieties, it is the best...
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This book is part of a series of guides designed for adolescents interested in natural history and nature. The books are an excellent introduction to the Rocks and Minerals, Birds, Wildflowers, and Insects for children aged 8-18. Each guide is appropriately sized to fit in a field vest pocket. Readers who remember previous versions of these field guides from the 1970s that were dull and overly detailed will be pleasantly surprised. These books are arguably the most beautifully photographed and laid out field guides yet published for young people. Each book has an introductory section filled with interesting facts, descriptions of early naturalists, definitions of many of the terms used in the book, and a guide to using the field guide portion of the book. (...)Each field guide features 50 common species with photos and brief descriptions of many more regionally occurring insects. Brief discussions of threatened and endangered species are particularly valuable. Great first guides for children and adults with limited natural history background.
The Insect guide has excellent photographs and descriptions of common species. The photographs are very detailed and show the beauty of insects, rather than their gruesome aspects. Good descriptions and warnings regarding poisonous species. --Merri Martz
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Excellent guide.......2006-08-30
This superb little 159-page guide includes 47 pages describing a bit about naturalists, the history of bugs, their different types, how to identify and distinguish them--and even a few pages on endangered bug species.
What follows are 101 gorgeous, illustrated pages describing the appearance, habits and environments of everything from flies and grasshoppers to katydids and aphids. Kids also learn about boll weevels, moths and butterflies, and common pests and parasites like mosquitoes and ticks.
The book also includes a two-page glossary, two page list of additional resources, and a four-page alphebetized index.
A great starter book for insect lovers of all ages, but especially kids.
For your bug enthusiast and for those who aren't so enthused.......2002-08-12
I love this book. Filled with VIVID photographs, this guidebook is compact and durable and begins with a short introduction (a few pages) devoted to teaching about anthropods in general. We use this book all of the time, from identifiying bugs on neighborhood walks, excursions to area parks, or just in the backyard (and sometimes in the house). I can also credit this book for curing my son's phobia of insects. When we saw a bug he was scared of, we'd grab this book and identify it. Looking at the bug and identifying its parts and then being able to call it by name did wonders in alleving his fears! I do wish that this book had more information associated with each insect...such as what it eats and what eats it. But, as a beginner guidebook, this one is exceptional!
Incredible!.......2002-07-09
This is THE best field guide for kids. It has excellent photographs and covers many different types of insects, including some regional ones. It is not only appropriate for young children who can only enjoy the pictures, it is also a great book for older children, up to about 12 or so. Any child who has an interest on learning about insects, spiders included, will enjoy this book and its wonderful pictures.
The kids love it.......2001-12-11
As a hmoe schooling mom this has been an excellent tool for the kids. They can look up all the bugs they find at anytime the decide to go bug hunting. It is simple and easy to use. a wonderful resource.
Exquisite photos make for a great field guide.......2000-04-06
This book (actually the whole series) is wonderful! I have a 4 year old who just loves to page through it and examine all the different kinds of insects. We use this one to identify all the different kinds of bugs that we run into on our walks. The photos alone are worth the purchase price, but the descriptions are also wonderful. I think these are the best field guides out there.
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Every cent generated by the 1983 Social Security tax increase—money ostensibly earmarked and saved for the retirement of the baby-boom generation—is gone, spent by our government. But most Americans are ignorant of the crime. The emptying of the Social Security Trust Fund is the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the American public, and acclaimed author and economist Allen W. Smith reveals how George W. Bush and Congress are pulling it off. While George W. Bush has repeatedly condemned “corporate wrongdoers,” he is guilty of fiscal mismanagement and outright deception that makes Enron and WorldCom pale in comparison. Smith explains the history of Social Security from its inception in 1935 to the present, including the enactment of the 1983 Social Security tax increase. Then, step by appalling step, he details how the government’s promise to the American people—a pledge to never spend the Social Security funds—was broken by every succeeding administration. Sadly, The Looting of Social Security quite simply reveals how George W. Bush has stolen more than $3 trillion of Social Security money to fund tax cuts for wealthy Americans while robbing many of their hard earned money and their rights.
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WHAT trust fund?.......2005-07-13
The Social Security Tax was challenged in the Supreme Court shortly after it was passed into law. The government's lawyers argued...
"These are true taxes," they stated, "their purpose simply being to raise revenue.... The proceeds are paid into the Treasury as internal revenue collections, available for the general support of the government."
They HAD to take that position, to keep the tax from being struck down on constitutional grounds.
The court ruled in favor of the government. In the summary, the court stated...
"The proceeds of both taxes (SS and unemployment) are to be paid into the Treasury like internal-revenue taxes generally, and are not earmarked in any way."
There is not, and never has been a true SS trust fund or "retirement account" to loot. Any excess funds are replaced by government bonds (IOU's) and the money deposited in the general spending account. That's the way the system was designed.
The problem started with the Kennedy-Johnson tax cuts.......2005-06-29
Smith is correct that counting the social security trust fund surplus as part of the federal government's general revenue ,in order to mask the size of the budget deficit, is dishonest .Although Smith correctly mentions that it was President Johnson who started this practice,he doesn't emphasize it sufficiently,in my opinion.Johnson implemented Kennedy's mistaken and misguided tax cut plan(similar to the error filled tax cut plan of Warren Harding and Andrew Mellon in 1922) of 1964 at precisely the same time that he was planning massive increases in federal spending to fight the Vietnam War and the War on Poverty.Johnson started the practice of including the social security surplus in the federal budget revenues to hide and mask from the American people the size of the budget deficits he was creating.[It will be noted her that J M Keynes was an opponent of deficit financing.Deficit financing is part of the functional finance approach of the American Keynesian-Neoclassical Synthesis economist Abba Lerner.Keynes expressed severe disagreement with Lerner's approach in 1944.Nor was Keynes in favor of income tax cuts.The only tax Keynes would cut would have been the social security tax for workers only].The Reagan and Bush presidencies have simply copied the approach of Kennedy-Johnson but on a much,much larger and much more damaging scale,increasing the national debt by a factor of 9.Smith should have stated the problem in the following fashion:The deficit finance problem of excessive tax cuts ,combined with excessive spending and borrowing,was started by Liberals and then greatly exacerbated by the Supplyside-Libertarianism of the Reagan and Bush Presidencies.It is time to return to the safe,sane,and sound fiscal and monetary policies of the Eisenhower Administration.
MISLEADING.......2005-05-21
Smith does very little to identify the entire story of social security. He fails to identify the ever increasing additions to the population that paid into the fund;(It originally included only blue colar workers, then as the fund got into financial trouble another category of workers were added to bolster the fund. The military was brought in in 1957 and federal workers in 1984 as the fund continued to get into financial trouble.) He puts all the blame on Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and attempts to give credit to Clinton for trying to salvage the ponzi scheme. He fails to identify other fiscal impacts that impacted the national budget deficits. Essentialy poorly researched and misleading.
Mostly I agree, but the terminology bites.......2004-07-26
This book, THE LOOTING OF SOCIAL SECURITY by Allen W. Smith, Ph.D., has a lot of facts right, but it is incredibly stupid to call something a gigantic fraud when everyone knows that it is going on, people are powerless to stop it, and people will vote for politicians who promise to give everyone tax cuts whenever it looks like the government will have some surplus. Smith knows that real surpluses are extremely rare; according to facts listed in the Social Security Chronology on pages xi through xiv, only two years since The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 made it illegal to include Social Security in calculating budget deficits and surpluses had an on-budget surplus. Those years were 1999 and 2000. Accounting trickery is not something that most people comprehend when it is applied to something larger than a lockbox, and the subtitle, How the Government is Draining America's Retirement Account, requires knowledge of quantities that are beyond comprehension, unlikely to be paid in any year in which they are due, because the only amount that is associated with that drain is the gigantic national debt, which had grown to more than 4 trillion dollars by the end of the first time a Bush had been president.
Smith is not fond of tax cuts, which he believes are likely to intentionally create a financial crisis to force benefit cuts that most people would not support. 1999 and 2000 were extraordinary years, at the peak of a business cycle and with the lowest unemployment in 30 years, and the national debt of more than 6 trillion dollars in 2001 was not actually growing, but would never shrink unless real budget surpluses and payroll taxes designated for social security funds could be used to reduce that debt. Some households in 1999 had already received a $40,000-plus average tax cut compared to the percentage of income the richest one percent paid in 1977, when rates were higher but incomes were actually lower, due to an almighty dollar that was losing value in the instability race with interest rates that dooms all comparisons eventually. $40,000 won't seem like much next year, but in 1999 the entire average before-tax income of the middle fifth of households was projected to be $38,700 per household. If most of those people aren't making more than that now, they are probably borrowing more money than ever, as the expansion of credit keeps the economy going, and they will really need more money when interest rates rise. That tax cuts are such a big issue politically tends to show that America is tending toward plutocracy, which you can look up in the dictionary or in the index of this book.
Smith even uses this point of view to explain Iraq. "President Bush talks of bringing democracy to Iraq and other countries. Is he really . . . Or is it plutocracy that he really wants to impose on foreign nations?" (p. 165).
More than a year ago, Peter G. Peterson, President of the Concord Coalition, was complaining about a $10 trillion projected deficit swing, when "right now the long-term deficit outlook is even worse than the 10-year outlook." (April 30, 2003, p. 167). Paul O'Neill is also mentioned on pages 149-150 in connection with a study that showed future deficits roughly equivalent to 10 times the publicly held national debt, four years of U.S. economic output or more than 94 percent of all U.S. household assets. O'Neill was fired in December 2002, and the study was in a New York Times article on May 29, 2003, so it shouldn't be surprising if more people lose their jobs before the government informs any papers about any crisis of a financial nature.
The Social Security fund is expected to take in more money than it pays out until 2018. Smith thinks it is possible that Congress will then pass huge increases in the debt ceiling to borrow enough money to pay off its debts to Social Security. This would increase the public debt, taking money from the global economy to pay off something which is now called a government IOU, so interest rates might be pushed up a bit to compete with other likely borrowers of real money. With the gigantic national debt that will be due then, amounts needed for social security will be enormous. When the IOUs run out in 2042, social security revenue might pay 72 percent of benefits due.
Smith has been a professor of economics and has written newspaper columns. Trying to tell Americans anything gets a good head start when the ideas are simple. "Apparently George W. Bush intends to impose his low-tax, low-service philosophy on all of the American people, whether they want it or not. He is trying to starve the government into turning its back on responsibilities it has held for decades." (p. 192). Against such an agenda, Smith can only whimper, "And I am one of those extreme radicals who believe that the wealthy should not be able to use their wealth to buy political power." (p. 193). Plutocracy has to be worse than the current state of the Bush Administration for wealthy people to agree with that one, but a few rock stars might be humble enough to keep from running for office if they ask their fans how many people would want to vote for them. Rock stars aren't even in this book, but Smith is poor enough to admit, "there is no Santa Claus for those of us beyond a certain age. But we so much want to believe in Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, and the Easter bunny . . ." (p. 194).
The disastrous impact of these cavalier practices.......2004-06-07
In The Looting Of Social Security: How The Government Is Draining America's Retirement Account, author Allen W. Smith draws upon his background in economics to reveal how ever single penny generated by the 1983 Social Security tax increase (specifically intended to deal with the anticipated social security financial shortfalls when the "babyboom" generation reaches retirement age) has been spent in a scandal that will make the Enron and Worlcom debacles look like a day at the beach. This wholesale pillaging of the Social Security Trust Fund is an horrific fraud that is the complicit result of actions taken by Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and collaborative members of the federal congress. Smith reveals what the disastrous impact of these cavalier practices will have on the retirement experiences for millions of Baby Boomers unless immediate and draconian actions are taken to abort the looting and restore fiscal soundness to this soon-to-be bankrupt fund. If you are a member of the baby boom generation, then you need to read Allen Smith's The Looting Of Social Security -- and do it before the November presidential elections come around again.
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Economics For Business: Competition, Macro-stability & Globalisation
Dermot McAleese
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This book is ideal for students of advanced undergraduate modules in HRM, masters programs in HRM, CIPD specialist electives and MBA and DMS students.
Starting from the premise that managing human resources strategically is crucial for long term organizational success this book is essential reading for both future line managers as well as specialist Human Resource Managers. The authors define 'human resources' as the capabilities and potential that people bring to work organizations.
They examine the process of negotiation, argument, conflict and resolution in all human resource exchanges within a range of management issues. Within this process, the authors suggest, organizational managers need to make a series of strategic choices among which a direct or an indirect, evolving human resource strategy is critical.
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REAL WOMEN DON'T PUMP GAS
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A whimsical and humorous look at the differences between 'real women' and 'gas pumpers.'
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Chet Atkins: Me and My Guitars is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive and enlightening book on Chet Atkins ever published. A friend of Atkins' for 40 years, Russ Cochran was privy to stories from Chet that even the most knowledgeable Chet fan would never know about. Chet tells it all in his own words about his childhood, his playing influences and early struggles to find work, along with insight into the guitars he used and endorsed along the way. The book includes full-color photos of Chet and his guitars, many only previously seen in a limited collector's edition. Photographer Wolf Hoffman manages to expertly capture the images of some very famous guitars played by Chet, including his first Sears Roebuck Silvertone, custom made D'Angelicos, the Gretsches, and the prototype models of the current Gibson Country Gentleman guitars. Over 60 guitars in Chet's private collection are photographed in Chet's home and his office on Music Row. Chet speaks about each of his important guitars - including the Gibson L-10 which his brother Jim gave him - telling the story of his career as seen through his guitars. More than just a pictorial review of his guitars throughout the years, it's a fascinating look inside the mind of history's greatest guitar player. This book will appeal to guitar collectors and Chet Atkins fans everywhere. Full-color and B/W photos throughout.
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A Chet Atkins Treasure!.......2006-03-17
As I Chet fan, I am always wanting more photos, information etc. on Chets's life, guitars, equipment and technique. This book is fantastic!! The book quality is superb and the photos are exquisite! I am very well pleased to have this book in my Chet collection.
Beautifully Illustrated With Engaging Narrative.......2004-01-09
Chet relates the story of his life and describes the guitars he owned and helped design in an easy-going, yet informative, manner in this book, which is lavishly illustrated with photographs of his guitars. As a country music enthusiast, I found Chet's story to be very interesting -- he had much more contact with some of the early artists (such as Karl Davis and Bill Carlisle) than I'd realised. Chet's narrative is characterised by his modesty and generosity to others: for example, he relates how Mother Maybelle Carter and her family fought some elements of the Nashville establishment to ensure he was permitted to play in Music City; and he is very complimentary of other guitarists (e.g. to Australia's Tommy Emmanuel).
I have no hesitation in recommending this book to any country-music enthusiast or country guitarist, though the book also has a much wider appeal.
BEAUTIFUL GUITAR PICTURES & STORIES.......2003-07-02
At first I just meant to thumb through a few pages but Chet's easy-going and enjoyable writing style sucked me in. The next thing it was 2 am and I'd finished most of the book. Although I suffered the next day at work I didn't mind it a bit.
If you like vintage guitars or Chet Atkins' playing I can't recommend this book strongly enough. It is full of beautiful color pictures and behind-the-scenes descriptions of the development of some very interesting and historic instruments. Chet's stories of the people he played with, the guitars he played and the music he made are wonderful and totally engrossing. Buy this book today!!
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This book provides an in-depth exploration of trains and train travel. Letherby and Reynolds have conducted extensive research with all those concerned with trains, from leisure travelers and enthusiasts to railway workers and commuters. Overturning conventional wisdom, they show that the train has a social life in and of itself and is not simply a way to get from A to B. The book also looks at the depiction of train travel through cultural media, such as music, films, books and art. Letherby and Reynolds consider the personal politics of train travel and political discussion surrounding the railways, as well as the relationship trains have to leisure and work. The media often paints a gloomy picture of the railways and there is a general view that that the romance of train travel ended with the steam locomotive. This book shows that this is far from the case.
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Historical Geography, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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- Critical Analysis of Daytime Talk
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The Talking Cure: TV Talk Shows and Women
Jane M. Shattuc
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The Talking Cure, critic Jane Shattuc takes a hard look at television talk shows, a TV genre that in many ways is for and about women. Tracing the genre from the four top nationally syndicated shows of the 1980s--Donahue, the The Oprah Winfrey Show, Geraldo and Sally Jessy Raphael--to the rise of the Ricki Lake phenonmenon of the 1990s, Jane Shattuc offers a new take on how talk shows and their audiences interact.
Much of talk show culture is grounded, Shattuc argues, in feminist politics, a stand that is not always the aim of the television industry. Analyzing programs as diverse as "Transsexuals: You're Not the Man I Married" and "Serial Killers: The Sunset Murders," she reveals how television as an institution needs to appeal to women, but also wants to channel female desires: the industry resorts to fears, sensations, and stereotypes so that its viewers will want what TV wants them to want. At their worst, these shows are television at its most exploitative, where socially marginal people are paraded for profit. Yet at their best, these same talk shows provide a rare public forum for working-class women and women of different sexual orientations. In many ways, these talk shows, by popularizing feminist identity politics, represent American TV at its most radical.
The Talking Cure looks at how these contradictory impulses work, offering a refreshingly complex view of one of the most controversial faces of popular culture. programming (Oprah garnering 19 million viewers per show). They serve as one of the few public forums where women from the working class and with different sexual orientations have a voice. In many ways, these talk shows represent American TV at its most radical as they popularize feminist identity politics.
Without adopting an overly naive view of the benevolence of corporate captialism,
Jane Shattuc examines the tension between talk's feminist politics and the television industry. In their need to appeal to women and channel the female desires, the television institution trades on sensation, stereotypes and fears in order to engender product consumption. However, this genre is not a simple, one way form of social interaction. The female audience complies and resists in a complex give-and-take, and it is this relationship which
The Talking Cure aims to understand and reveal.
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Interesting talk show book lacks excitement.......1998-12-04
The Talking Cure is a well researched and written book about talk shows and how they provide a platform for women's issues. Jane Shattuc does an excellent job using outside information and her own surveys and focus groups to provide the background and evidence that talk shows actually do more help than hurt to American society. Each chapter outlines a different aspect of a talk show, from the production to a study of who watches the programs. The book provides lots of information on talk shows in the early 1990's and Shattuc's critical analysis of the genre leaves the reader wondering what exactly he/she thinks about talk shows.
Critical Analysis of Daytime Talk.......1998-11-24
Jane Shattuc goes into detail analzying four major daytime talk shows of the early 1990's and how they reflect womens issues and ideas. She does extensive (not to mention exhaustive) research on how talk shows are made, who watches talk shows, and what talk show topics reflect in today's society. I found some of her analyzations a bit long (ex: a long chapter on Freudian psychology), but the undertones of each talk show topic (re: feminist ideals) and how talk shows were made did spark some interest. Shattuc's use of lots of quotes and facts does provide adequite information for one's own critical analysis of the talk show genre. The Talking Cure is a good book if you're looking for something that will make you think.
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If you want to see how your next database project can profit from object-oriented design, check out Database Design for Smarties, a lively and intelligent guide to using objects in databases.
The book begins with a tour of some underlying factors in modeling databases. Here, the author distinguishes between the external, conceptual, and internal models of database design.) Then it's on to data architectures, be they the traditional relational or the newer object-relational and object-oriented (OO) database types.
After discussing some of the pitfalls of gathering and implementing user requirements, the author looks at UML notation for use case diagrams. (His example here, a crime database for tracking Sherlock Holmes's stories, along with criminals and clues, is both intelligent and entertaining.)
The author's guide to UML class design is topnotch. He covers basic and advanced OO concepts such as inheritance, aggregation, composition, and polymorphism with clear and concise explanations. He also shows you how to model business rules using objects and UML class diagrams. The most valuable part of this book comes with the mapping of UML class diagrams onto three different kinds of databases: relational (on Oracle7), object-relational (on Oracle8), and object-oriented (on the POET platform). The author shows how to emulate object-oriented ideas successfully using stored procedures and triggers, even if you are not running on a "true" object-oriented platform.
Exceptionally well-written and clear, Database Design for Smarties offers consistently invaluable advice on how to take advantage of objects to create simpler and more maintainable database designs. --Richard Dragan
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Whether building a relational, object-relational, or object-oriented database, database developers are increasingly relying on an object-oriented design approach as the best way to meet user needs and performance criteria. This book teaches you how to use the Unified Modeling Language-the official standard of the Object Management Group-to develop and implement the best possible design for your database.
Inside, the author leads you step by step through the design process, from requirements analysis to schema generation. You'll learn to express stakeholder needs in UML use cases and actor diagrams, to translate UML entities into database components, and to transform the resulting design into relational, object-relational, and object-oriented schemas for all major DBMS products.
* Teaches you everything you need to know to design, build, and test databases using an OO model.
* Shows you how to use UML, the accepted standard for database design according to OO principles.
* Explains how to transform your design into a conceptual schema for relational, object-relational, and object-oriented DBMSs.
* Offers practical examples of design for Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, Object Design, POET, and other database management systems.
* Focuses heavily on re-using design patterns for maximum productivity and teaches you how to certify completed designs for re-use.
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Intro to UML.......2007-02-26
Perhaps I should have read more into the title, but this book is really just an intro to UML. I was looking for a DB architecture book to boost my design skills but instead I got a basic UML book that just happens to be applied to data modeling. If your looking for a book on database design, look elsewhere. If your looking for a book on understanding UML applied to databases, pick this one up.
UML and databases do live in the same world.......2003-06-24
Excellent intermediate text, but you should know at least the basic Universal Modeling Language symbols and have some knowledge of database architectures.
I read it when I'd been programming Oracle for a few months and wanted to learn UML as well as more about db design. What a deal, the same two topics in one book!
I came away with a deeper, and useful, understanding of both the structure of databases, and some practical uses for UML.
A cure for insomnia.......2001-12-21
This book is turgid and poorly written. I could not manage to get more than 1/2 way through the text as the concepts are poorly explained and the use of UML is surprisingly bad.
To summarise:
Poor use of UML
Concepts and ideas badly explained.
Difficult to read.
A colleague (an oracle DBA) did not even manage to get as far as I did before giving up!
Outstanding synthesis of UML, OOD, & RDB design.......2001-11-26
I always wondered where I was supposed to go next after I finished my object model and stood at the edge of the OO world; how I would get from there to the world of relational database design? Now I know! The world is indeed round, and OOA, OOD and UML actually lead you right through the land of RDB design. I've actually built large projects just feeling my way through this step, but now I know that this approach is valid, theoretically sound, and will even lead me to the nirvana of fifth normal form without pain!
lack summation for the UML symbols.......2001-03-25
The book does NOT give a good summary on the explanations for the symbols used for UML, and thus creates difficulties understanding those symbols quickly. The book has a lot more to improve for readability.
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mammals: (Revised and Expanded) (Audubon Society Field Guide)
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies (National Audubon Society Field Guide Series)
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region - Revised Edition
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