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By Johnson Beharry. 2006
Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, living in a two-bedroom hut, surviving on meagre meals of…
beans and rice and walking barefoot, three miles to school. At 13 Johnson Beharry quit school and worked as a decorator and labourer. In 1999 he scraped together the airfare for England and joined the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment. He served six months in Kosovo, three months in Northern Ireland and then went to Iraq. On 1 May 2004, Beharry helped assist a foot patrol caught in a series of ambushes. His vehicle was hit by multiple rocket propelled grenades but he drove through the ambush and extracted his wounded colleagues from the vehicle, all the time exposed to further enemy fire. He was cited on this occasion for 'valour of the highest order'. While back on duty on 11 June 2004, a rocket propelled grenade hit Beharry's vehicle incapacitating his commander and injuring several of the crew. Despite his very serious head injuries, Beharry took control of his vehicle and drove it out of the ambush area before losing consciousness. He required brain surgery for his head injuries, and he was still recovering when he was awarded the VC in March 2005.By Bernard Wheeler, Peter C. Boyd-Bowman, David Hecksel. 2012
Getting Started with Oracle Data Integrator 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial is a practical tutorial bursting with tips, illustrations and real-world…
best practices to get you on your way with ODI. If you are a software/ETL developer or database administrator who is new to Oracle Data Integrator but want to get hands-on with the product quickly, then Getting Started with Oracle Data Integrator 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial is for you. You should have some experience with databases, SQL and ETL technologies.By Edward J. Cody. 2010
This is a hands-on walkthrough, from gathering information to creating a report to the presentation sections. It helps you to…
get accustomed to the software and gives an in-depth understanding of how to easily unleash the powerful functionality of the software. As a result you will be able to use the powerful functionalities of Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11 to drive important business decisions. The style of the book allows you to use it as a guide to walk through each chapter or as reference material while you work with the software. This book is for all Oracle Hyperion Interactive reporting users from novice to advanced. If you find yourself struggling while using this tool or you are new to the tool, this book will guide you through and make the learning process incremental.By Enid A. Goldberg, Norman Itzkowitz. 2007
Loyalty meant nothing to Vlad Dracula, a Transylvanian prince who'd sacrifice anything to stay in power. He ruled with a…
thirst for blood so terrible that the most famous vampire in literature was named after him.By Ankur Moitra. 2018
This book bridges theoretical computer science and machine learning by exploring what the two sides can teach each other …
It emphasizes the need for flexible tractable models that better capture not what makes machine learning hard but what makes it easy Theoretical computer scientists will be introduced to important models in machine learning and to the main questions within the field Machine learning researchers will be introduced to cutting-edge research in an accessible format and gain familiarity with a modern algorithmic toolkit including the method of moments tensor decompositions and convex programming relaxations The treatment beyond worst-case analysis is to build a rigorous understanding about the approaches used in practice and to facilitate the discovery of exciting new ways to solve important long-standing problemsBy Gaston C. Hillar. 2010
This is a practical book with step-by-step guidelines to integrate Silverlight 4 applications in a SharePoint 2010 Server environment. This…
book focuses on the integration of the two technologies and is not a primer for any of the individual technologies. It offers clear examples to successfully perform the most important integration tasks. If you are an application developer who wants to implement Silverlight 4 applications within a SharePoint 2010 environment, this book is for you. We assume that the reader has prior knowledge of Silverlight and SharePoint 2010 and this book focuses more on the integration of Silverlight with SharePoint 2010.By Karen F. Parker. 2008
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleCrime in most urban areas has been falling since 1991. While the decline has been well-documented,…
few scholars have analyzed which groups have most benefited from the crime decline and which are still on the frontlines of violence--and why that might be. In Unequal Crime Decline, Karen F. Parker presents a structural and theoretical analysis of the various factors that affect the crime decline, looking particularly at the past three decades and the shifts that have taken place, and offers original insight into which trends have declined and why.Taking into account such indicators as employment, labor market opportunities, skill levels, housing, changes in racial composition, family structure, and drug trafficking, Parker provides statistics that illustrate how these factors do or do not affect urban violence, and carefully considers these factors in relation to various crime trends, such as rates involving blacks, whites, but also trends among black males, white females, as well as others. Throughout the book she discusses popular structural theories of crime and their limitations, in the end concentrating on today's issues and important contemporary policy to be considered. Unequal Crime Decline is a comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated look at the relationship among race, urban inequality, and violence in the years leading up to and following America's landmark crime drop.By Natasha Walter. 2011
I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of old-fashioned…
sexism in our culture to wither away. I am ready to admit that I was wrong.'Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, LIVING DOLLS is a straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity - today.By Shaul Magid. 2013
How do American Jews identify as both Jewish and American? American Post-Judaism argues that Zionism and the Holocaust, two anchors…
of contempoary American Jewish identity, will no longer be centers of identity formation for future generations of American Jews. Shaul Magid articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness. He discusses pragmatism and spirituality, monotheism and post-monotheism, Jesus, Jewish law, sainthood and self-realization, and the meaning of the Holocaust for those who have never known survivors. Magid presents Jewish Renewal as a movement that takes this radical cultural transition seriously in its strivings for a new era in Jewish thought and practice.By Antony Reynolds. 2010
This book is a comprehensive guide, split into three sections. The initial section of the book provides an introduction to…
the Oracle SOA Suite and its various components, and will give you an in-depth fast-paced hands-on introduction to each of the key components. The next section provides an in-depth best-practice guide to applying the various components of the SOA Suite to implement a real-world SOA-based solution; it illustrates this through the development of an auction site (oBay). The final section covers other considerations such as the packaging, deployment, testing, security, and administration of SOA applications. If you are a developer or a technical architect who works in the SOA domain, this book is for you. The primary purpose of the book is to provide you with a hands-on practical guide to using and applying the Oracle SOA Suite in the delivery of real-world composite applications. You need basic understanding of the concepts of SOA, as well as some of the key standards in this field, including web services (SOAP, WSDL), XML Schemas, and XSLT (and XPath).By Robertas Damaševičius, Vilma Mikašytė. 2017
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23nd International Conference on Information and Software Technologies ICIST 2017 …
held in Druskininkai Lithuania in October 2017 The 51 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 submissions The papers are organized in topical sections on information systems business intelligence for information and software systems software engineering information technology applicationsBy Angela Milligan. 2004
The small island state of Singapore is unique in the region. Not only is it a very young country- independence…
came in 1965- but it is a land of immigrants, in which people from three distinct backgrounds, Chinese, Malay, and Indian, live side by side in harmony. Culture Smart! Singapore introduces the Western visitor to the rich and varied cultures and customs of Singapore's communities. It shows what motivates people, how they interact with each other and with outsiders, and tells you what to expect and how to behave in unfamiliar situations. In doing so, it offers you a fuller, more rounded experience of this fascinating society.By Marc Girod, Tatiana Shpichko. 2011
This is a practical book with plenty of code examples for mastering ClearCase tools to monitor, analyze, and manage software…
configurations.If you are a developer who wants to use ClearCase for software development then this book is for you. This book is not for experts, but it will certainly challenge your technical skills.While ClearCase concepts and tools are presented for those unfamiliar with the tool, an ability to use the command line as well as some fluency with shell scripting will certainly be an advantage.By Leslie Vail. 2012
Written in a hands-on and friendly manner, Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications takes a practical approach to teaching you…
how to develop and customize ERP applications. If you are a Microsoft Dynamics GP developer, consultant, or power user who wants to create and customize applications, then this book is for you. A working knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics GP is required. A basic understanding of business management systems and reporting applications, such as Microsoft Excel and SQL Reporting Services, is highly recommended.By Mohan Iyer. 2012
This is a step-by-step functional guide to get you started easily with Oracle EBS Financials. If you are an Oracle…
E-Business Suite Financial consultant or an administrator looking to get a quick review on the capabilities of Oracle E-Business Suite and improve the use of the systems functionality, then this is the best guide for you. This book assumes that you have a fundamental knowledge of EBS Suite.By Enid A. Goldberg, Norman Itzkowitz. 2007
By Sankar K. Pal, David Zhang, B. Uma Shankar, Kuntal Ghosh, Deba Prasad Mandal, Shubhra Sankar Ray. 2007
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI 2007, held…
in Kolkata, India in December 2007. The papers are organized in topical sections on pattern recognition, image analysis, soft computing and applications, data mining and knowledge discovery, bioinformatics, signal and speech processing, document analysis and text mining, biometrics, and video analysis.By Jeremy Kashel, Tim Kent. 2011
This is a practical, step-by-step guide to managing and maintaining your master data and improving data quality with Microsoft SQL…
Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services, with practical examples on how to use each feature.If you are a business and systems analyst or database administrator who wants to manage and maintain your business master data and improve data quality with Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services, then this book is for you. A basic understanding of Microsoft SQL Server is required. However, knowledge of Master Data Services is not necessarily required.By Yakov Fain. 2011
A unique book-and-video package presented by Java guru Yakov Fain As one of the most popular software languages for building…
Web applications, Java is often the first programming language developers learn. The latest version includes numerous updates that both novice and experienced developers need to know. With this invaluable book-and-video package, Java authority Yakov Fain fully covers Java?s new features as well as its language extensions, classes and class methods, and the Swing Application Framework. For each lesson that he discusses in the book, there is an accompanying instructional video to reinforce your learning experience. Lessons include: Introducing Java Eclipse IDE Object-Oriented Programming Class Methods Back to Java Basics Packages, Interfaces, and Encapsulation Programming with Abstract Classes and Interfaces Introducing the Graphic User Interface Event Handling in UI Introduction to Java Applets Developing a Tic-Tac-Toe Applet Developing a Ping-Pong Game Error Handling Introduction to Collections Introduction to Generics Working with Streams Java Serialization Network Programming Processing E-Mails with Java Introduction to Multi-Threading Digging Deeper into Concurrent Execution Working with Databases Using JDBC Swing with JTable Annotations and Reflection Remote Method Invocation Java EE 6 Overview Programming with Servlets JavaServer Pages Developing Web Applications with JSF Introducing JMS and MOM Introducing JNDI Introduction to Enterprise JavaBeans Introduction to the Java Persistence API Working with RESTful Web Services Introduction to Spring MVC Framework Introduction to Hibernate Framework Bringing JavaFX to the Mix Java Technical Interviews Note: As part of the print version of this title, video lessons are included on DVD. For e-book versions, video lessons can be accessed at wrox. com using a link provided in the interior of the e-book. ?By Marie Scott, Thomas Duff. 2010
As a user, you will learn, using real-world scenarios and tasks, exactly how to use all the features of Sametime.…
Beginning with how to install Sametime, we've included step-by-step descriptions and screen prints for each topic area in a clear easy-to-follow format. Each chapter builds on what you learn in earlier chapters and guides you into using the more advanced features of Sametime, but if you only want to develop your skills in one particular area, each chapter acts as a stand-alone module. If you want to learn how to use IBM Lotus Sametime, then this book is for you. No matter if you're new to Sametime or want to become a Sametime power user, this book contains something for you. The focus is on using Sametime as a user and does not include information about development or administration of a Sametime environment; but any user of Sametime in an organization will be able to take this book, sit down at their computer, and learn how to use each feature of Sametime from start to finish.