Chris Date, one of the founders of the relational model, has updated and expanded his relational database dictionary to be current with over 900 terms. What you’ll learn

• Over 900 relational database terms defined
• Precise and concise definitions, unlike those found on Wikipedia and other sources
• Clear examples used where appropriate
• Hyperlinks included in the eBook for easy reference

Who is this book for?

People who need to know something about databases, although it is not their main line of work, people new to databases, and noncomputer people looking to be conversant in databases

About the Author

C. J. Date is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant, specializing in relational database technology (a field he helped pioneer). He is best known for his book, An Introduction to Database Systems (8th edition, 2004), which has sold over 750,000 copies and is used by several hundred colleges and universities worldwide. He is also author of many other books on relational database management, including most recently Logic and Databases: The Roots of Relational Theory (2007). He was inducted into the Computing Industry Hall of Fame in 2004.

On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders is an absorbing chronicle of the inventive, individualistic, and often cantankerous individuals who set the Internet free. Michael A. Banks describes how the online population created a new culture and turned a new frontier into their vision of the future.

This book will introduce you to the innovators who laid the foundation for the Internet and the World Wide Web, the man who invented online chat, and the people who invented the products all of us use online every day. Learn where, when, how and why the Internet came into being, and exactly what hundreds of thousands of people were doing online before the Web. See who was behind it all, and what inspired them.

You’ll also find these stories of people and events on the way to the Web:

• CIA agents in search of military hardware for sale online.
• The first online privacy scandal, three decades ago.
• The first instance of online censorship in 1979
• How in 1980 the FBI demanded the ID of a CompuServe user who tried to sell 3,000 M16 rifles online
• Early con artists
• Online romance scams
• Identify theft
• Who really created AOL. (Hint: it wasn’t Steve Case.)
• The wireless Internet that was built in 1978.
• Why the @ sign is used in email addresses.

Who is this book for?

On the Way to the Web is a book that will appeal to all readers, but one that computer enthusiasts will find especially interesting. Most readers will have played a part in the story it tells, and anyone who uses the Internet and Web on a day–to–day basis will find this book an absorbing read.

About the Author

Michael A. Banks is the author of more than 40 books, among them several titles that deal with Internet topics, including The eBay Survival Guide; Web Psychos, Stalkers, and Pranksters; The Modem Reference; PC Confidential; and Welcome to CompuServe. He is coauthor of CROSLEY: The Story of Two Brothers and the Business Empire that Transformed the Nation (Clerisy, 2006), the biography of twentieth–century industrialist/entrepreneur and communications magnate Powel Crosley, Jr. (This book made the New York Times extended bestseller list, the Wall Street Journal hardcover business book bestseller list, and the Business Week bestseller list. Having sold 45,000 copies during its first three months of existence, it received a full–page writeup in the February 12, 2007, issue of Publishers Weekly.)

Mootools is a light, modular JavaScript framework that makes adding Ajax, animations, and interactive elements to your site a breeze. But it’s more than fancy effects and shortcuts; Mootools enhances the JavaScript language and makes writing clean, object–oriented code almost pleasant. Unlocking the power of Mootools, and therefore JavaScript, isn’t that hard, but knowing where to start can be. Mootools Essentials aims to help you accomplish that task with the following:

• Illustrations of nearly every class and function in the library
• Real–world examples of how to use them
• Written by Mootools user/contributor and Mootorial author, Aaron Newton.

You can see how Mootools makes JavaScript more powerful.

What you’ll learn

• Access the complete reference to the Mootools library.
• See how to use the library and understand how JavaScript/Mootools is different from other programming languages.
• Get step–by–step code authoring examples.
• Explore real–world examples of how to accomplish common fundamental tasks.

Who is this book for?

This firstPress book is for web developers who want to learn an easier and productive way to develop/use JavaScript and Ajax.

About the Author

Aaron Newton is a product manager, developer, interface designer, and writer. He is a contributor to the Mootools Javascript framework where he writes code, the documentation, free online tutorials and the first Mootools book published by Apress. His experience includes founding music startup, Epitonic.com, launching CNET’s Download.com Music, and several years product managing application development for various projects at CNET Networks. His current startup, Iminta.com, launched this spring and is based in San Francisco.

Write to the Point is designed to provide practical, proven techniques for making writing for business both more effective and less stressful. All levels of business and technical personnel-whose writing skills are essential to job performance and productivity-will find this easy-to-read guide invaluable and immediately useful every day. Write to the Point will also benefit the general writer and those for whom English is a second language. You will learn proven techniques developed in Dr. Iacone's seminars that will enable you to write with greater ease, proficiency, and clarity. A conversational, instructional format walks you through the actual stages of the writing process-from planning and writing the first draft to editing and proofreading. Helpful guidelines to correct punctuation, lists of often-confused words, and step-by-step procedures for generating effective e-mail, memos, letters, and reports are also included in this invaluable handbook.

Despite the astronomical number of hours invested in developing websites for commercial and other uses, it is now clear that many websites are poorly designed and have floundered as a result.

There are four main aspects of website design that can affect a site's success: usability, content, navigation and aesthetics. The last three aspects all contribute in some way to the first. One possible solution to the problem of ineffective website design is to develop and follow a set of guidelines for designing usable websites.

One of the most important recent ideas in software development is that of design patterns. Design patterns are standard solutions to recurring problems, defined to help people discuss them easily and to share solutions to common design problems. This book introduces and details a pattern language that will help you to address all four aspects crucial to website design success.

As well as defining the 79 patterns that make up his pattern language, Ian Graham provides a handy reference to existing best practice, organized in a way that reflects the structure of a typical web design project. The book is lavishly illustrated with examples of good and bad websites to help you grasp clearly the essentials of successful website design. The full color pattern language is ready for you to apply to your own design projects.

This book:

• defines 79 web usability patterns linked into a comprehensive pattern language;
• will help designers write better sites and avoid errors of omission;
• covers everything from understanding requirements to detailed design guidelines.

A Pattern Language for Web Usability is a practical guide for web designers and managers of website development projects and can be used as a simple checklist to aid the design process and ensure that websites are usable and successful.

About the Author

Ian Graham is an industry consultant with over 20 years experience, and has been a practitioner in IT for over 25. He is internationally recognized as an authority on business modeling, object-oriented software development methods, software development processes, and expert systems. Ian is currently Principal Consultant with TriReme International Ltd. Previously he spent six years in senior management positions with Chase Manhattan Bank and the Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS Warburg). Ian is well known as a public speaker and writer on advanced computing and has published over 60 articles and papers. He is the author or editor of 13 books on the subject and has lectured in 16 countries across 4 continents.

DEVELOP THE MECHATRONIC SIDE OF YOUR GENIUS WITH 25 FUNTASTIC PROJECTS!

If you're fascinated by electronics and mechanics, this hands-on tour of the junction where they meet will bring you hours of fun and learning. Noted electronics author Newton Braga's Mechatronics for the Evil Genius guides you step by step through 25 complete, intriguing, yet inexpensive projects developed especially for this book.

You will build your own mechanical race car, combat robot, ionic motor, mechatronic head, light beam remote control, and 20 other entertaining learning projects that take you to the heart of mechatronics.

More than just hours of entertainment, these stimulating projects provide a solid grounding in mechatronics, the discipline at the core of robotics where electronics, mechanics, and other sciences merge. Each experiment builds on those before it so you develop a hands-on, practical understanding of mechatronics. You don't need to know electronics or mechanics to get started. But by the end, you'll be showing off your own exciting projects!

MECHATRONICS FOR THE EVIL GENIUS:

• Introduces you to mechatronics step-by-step -- you don't need to be a electromechanical whiz to get started, but you will be when you're finished
• Teaches all the skills you need for the projects, including how to solder, recognize components, and read schematics
• Provides complete lists of tools and parts -- all of them inexpensive and easily obtained
• Vividly explains the mechanics, electronics, and science underlying each project
• Gives you fully illustrated,step-by-step directions that build your skills, one small increment at a time
• Provides directions for 25 tantalizing projects, including a robotic arm, an electronic cannon, a coin tosser, an analog computer, and many more
• Helps you develop skills you can bring to other hobby projects, such as more sophisticated robots
• Encourages you to improvise with secondary components to devise your own unique creations
• Suggests related activities for customization and going steps beyond

About the Author

Newton Braga is one of the most famous electronics authors in the world. An educator and writer in computer science and related technologies, he has written over 90 books and contributed more than 2000 articles to magazines in Brazil, Spain, the Untied States, Portugal, Japan, Argentina, and other countries. He name is internationally synonymous with electronics, and McGraw-Hill is proud to add his name to the popular Evil Genius series.

The best-selling Evil Genius format provides hobbyists with a fun and inexpensive way to learn bionics via 25 complete projects. Once the focus of popular 70's TV, bionics (integrating mechanical and electronic materials with living matter) are being used more than ever to replace or repair physiological or anatomical functions or disorders.

THE EVIL GENIUS TACKLES BIONICS!

Step into the future -- (or the past, if you have a touch of Dr. Frankenstein in your soul) -- with these 25 incredibly cool bionic experiments! Demonstrating how life forms can be enhanced, combined, manipulated, and measured with electronic and mechanical components, these inexpensive projects from internationally renowned electronics guru Newton Braga provide hours of fun and learning.

Totally safe, Bionics for the Evil Genius guides you step by step through 25 complete, intriguing, yet low-cost projects developed especially for this book -- including an electric fish, a bat ear, a lie detector, an electronic nerve stimulator, a panic generator, and 20 other exciting bioelectric/mechanical projects!

BIONICS FOR THE EVIL GENIUS:

• Introduces you to bionics step-by-step -- you don't need to be a science whiz to get started, but you will be when you're finished
• Teaches all the skills you need, including how to solder, recognize components, and read schematics
• Provides complete lists of tools and parts for each project -- all of them inexpensive and easily obtained
• Vividly explains the biology, electronics, and mechanics underlying each project
• Gives you enjoyable step-by-step directions that build your skills, one small increment at a time
• Provides directions for 25 wild and wacky projects, including an electronic insect repellent, an animal conditioner, audio and visual biofeedback devices, white noise, and many more
• Helps you develop skills you can apply to other bionic and scientific projects
• Encourages you to go beyond the book's experiments -- they're intentionally designed to encourage your own unique creations
• Provides even more fun in the popular Evil Genius format

SUPER-COOL, INEXPENSIVE PROJECTS THAT TEACH BIONICS -- WHILE PROVIDING HOURS OF FUN!

About the Author

Newton C. Braga is one of the most famous electronics authors in the world. An educator and writer in computer science and related technologies, he has written over 70 books and contributed more than 2000 articles to magazines in Brazil, Spain, the United States, Portugal, Japan, Argentina, and other countries. His name is internationally synonymous with electronics, and McGraw-Hill is proud of his contributions to the popular Evil Genius series. Dr. Braga also wrote Mechatronics for the Evil Genius.

Transfer function form, zpk, state space, modal, and state space modal forms. For someone learning dynamics for the first time or for engineers who use the tools infrequently, the options available for constructing and representing dynamic mechanical models can be daunting. It is important to find a way to put them all in perspective and have them available for quick reference. It is also important to have a strong understanding of modal analysis, from which the total response of a system can be constructed. Finally, it helps to know how to take the results of large dynamic finite element models and build small MATLAB® state space models. Vibration Simulation Using MATLAB and ANSYS answers all those needs. Using a three degree-of-freedom (DOF) system as a unifying theme, it presents all the methods in one book. Each chapter provides the background theory to support its example, and each chapter contains both a closed form solution to the problem-shown in its entirety-and detailed MATLAB code for solving the problem. Bridging the gap between introductory vibration courses and the techniques used in actual practice, Vibration Simulation Using MATLAB and ANSYS builds the foundation that allows you to simulate your own real-life problems. Features · Demonstrates how to solve real problems, covering the vibration of systems from single DOF to finite element models with thousands of DOF · Illustrates the differences and similarities between different models by tracking a single example throughout the book · Includes the complete, closed-form solution and the MATLAB code used to solve each problem · Shows explicitly how to take the results of a realistic ANSYS finite element model and develop a small MATLAB state-space model · Provides a solid grounding in how individual modes of vibration combine for overall system response

The first edition of The Electronics Handbook was published in 1996. Between then and now, tremendous changes have occurred in electronics engineering. During this same period, the value of The Electronics Handbook has been recognized by thousands of readers all over the world, for which the editor and authors are very grateful.

The numerous changes in technology over the past few years have led to the publication of a second edition of The Electronics Handbook. This new edition builds upon the solid foundation of fundamental theory and practical applications of the original work. All chapters have been reviewed and updated as needed, and many new chapters have been added to explain new developments in electronics engineering.

The Electronics Handbook is intended for engineers and technicians involved in the design, production, installation, operation, and maintenance of electronic devices and systems. This publication covers a broad range of technologies with emphasis on practical applications. In general, the level of detail provided is limited to that necessary to design electronic systems based on the interconnection of operational elements and devices. References are provided throughout the handbook to direct readers to more detailed information on important subjects.

The purpose of The Electronics Handbook is to provide in a single volume a comprehensive reference for the practicing engineer in industry, government, and academia. The book is divided into 23 chapters that encompass the field of electronics. The goal is to provide the most up-to-date reference on subjects ranging from classical devices and circuits to emerging technologies and applications.

The fundamentals of electronics have evolved to include a wide range of knowledge, empirical data, and a broad range of practice. The focus of this handbook is on the key concepts, models, and equations that enable the engineer to analyze, design, and predict the behavior of complex electrical devices, circuits, instruments, and systems. The reader will find the key concepts of each subject defined, described, and illustrated; where appropriate, practical applications are given as well.

Updated from the highly successful first edition, this easy-to-use tutorial takes a light-hearted approach to creating and customizing Web pages-with ease. With the upcoming releases of Netscape and Internet Explorer, this book will be a must for new Web users.CD-ROM includes everything you need to create your own Web page: All HTML examples in the book, WS_FTP to transfer files on the Web, WinZip to compress and decompress files, and graphic conversion programs and sample images --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

The friendly, market-proven approach of The Complete Idiot's Guides combines solid instructions with a light-hearted style of wit and humor. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an HTML Web Page will provide users with the tools they need to create and customize their web page. This edition will cover HTML version 4.0 which includes HTML tags for Netscape Communicator 4 and the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 4.

The Upcoming new releases of Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape Communicator 4 will make it even easier for users to create their own Web pages, enabling casual users to create their own presence on the Internet and WWW

The second edition of the title has almost outsold the first edition (app. 19,000 net domestic units) in less than five months

The Book will include a CD-ROM that will be a "WebMaster's Tool Kit" containing everything the reader will need to create, publish, customize and manage their web page --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Paul McFedries is the president of Logophilia Limited. He has worked with (yelled at, kicked) computers since 1975, yet still manages to keep his sanity relatively intact. Paul is the author of more than 30 computer books that have sold nearly two million copies worldwide. Some of his titles include The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Windows® 98, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to MORE Windows 98, and The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Windows® 2000 Professional.

A representative of a major publishing house is on her way home from a conference in Singapore, excited about the possibility of a new book series. On the flight home to New York she opens her blackberry organizer, adding names of new contacts, and is disappointed to realize she may have caught the bug that was bothering her friend Alex at the caf´e near the conference hotel. When she returns home she will send Alex an email to see how she’s doing, and make sure this isn’t a case of some new dangerous flu.

Of course, the publisher is aware that she is part of an interconnected network of other business men and women and their clients: Her value as an employee depends on these connections. She depends on the transportation network of taxis and airplanes to get her job done, and is grateful for the most famous network today that allows her to contact her friend effortlessly even when separated by thousands of miles. Other networks of even greater importance escape her consciousness, even though consciousness itself depends on a highly interconnected fabric of neurons and vascular tissue. Communication networks are critical to support the air traffic controllers who manage the airspace around her. A supply chain of manufacturers make her book business possible, as well as the existence of the airplane on which she is flying.

Our experience of theworld leads us to conclude that many events are unpredictable and sometimes quite unexpected. These may range from the outcome of seemingly simple games such as tossing a coin and trying to guess whether it will be heads or tails to the sudden collapse of governments or the dramatic fall in prices of shares on the stock market. When we try to interpret such events, it is likely that we will take one of two approaches – we will either shrug our shoulders and say it was due to ‘chance’ or we will argue that we might have have been better able to predict, for example, the government’s collapse if only we’d had more ‘information’ about the machinations of certain ministers. One of the main aims of this book is to demonstrate that these two concepts of ‘chance’ and ‘information’ are more closely related than you might think. Indeed, when faced with uncertainty our natural tendency is to search for information that will help us to reduce the uncertainty in our own minds; for example, think of the gambler about to bet on the outcome of a race and combing the sporting papers beforehand for hints about the form of the jockeys and the horses.

Before we proceed further, we should clarify our understanding of the concept of chance. It may be argued that the tossing of fair, unbiased coins is an ‘intrinsically random’ procedure in that everyone in the world is equally ignorant of whether the result will be heads or tails. On the other hand, our attitude to the fall of governments is a far more subjective business – although you and I might think it extremely unlikely, the prime minister and his or her close advisors will have ‘inside information’ that guarantees that it’s a pretty good bet. Hence, from the point of view of the ordinary citizen of this country, the fall of the government is not the outcome of the play of chance; it only appears that way because of our ignorance of a well-established chain of causation.

This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of practice-based organizational learning and knowing.

* Based on the author's detailed study of safety practices in different corporate settings.

* The author uses this study to empirically describe how learning, knowing and organizing are practised.

* Centred on the concepts of "knowing in practice" and the "texture" of organizational knowledge.

* Gives a rich account of how organizations learn and how corporate practices and policies evolve.

Why has the issue of learning and knowledge in organizations been the subject of such lively debate over the last 20 years? This book furnishes an answer to this question, supported with arguments, and founded on data and examples from empirical research. The author uses her detailed study of safety practices in different corporate settings to ground her theories of organizational learning. She shows how safety can be interpreted as an organizational practice and, using this example, she empirically describes how learning, knowing and organizing are practised. Her account centres on the transformative concepts of "knowing in practice" and the "texture" of organizational learning. This book gives readers a rich account or how organizations learn and how corporate practices and policies evolve, and in this way makes an important contribution to our understanding of organizational knowledge.

About the Author

Silvia Gherardi is Professor of Organization and Management at the University of Trento.

As it is with building a house, most of the work necessary to build a data warehouse is neither visible nor obvious when looking at the completed product. While it may be easy to plan for a data warehouse that incorporates all the right concepts, taking the steps needed to create a warehouse that is as functional and user-friendly as it is theoretically sound, is not especially easy. That’s the challenge that Building and Maintaininga Data Warehouse answers.

Based on a foundation of industry-accepted principles, this work provides an easy-to-follow approach that is cohesive and holistic. By offering the perspective of a successful data warehouse, as well as that of a failed one, this workdetails those factors that must be accomplished and those that are best avoided.

Organized to logically progress from more general to specific information, this valuable guide—

· Presents areas of a data warehouse individually and in sequence, showing how each piece becomes a working part of the whole

· Examines the concepts and principles that are at the foundation of every successful data warehouse

· Explains how to recognize and attend to problematic gaps in an established data warehouse

· Provides the big picture perspective that planners and executives require

Those considering the planning and creation of a data warehouse, as well as those who’ve already built one will profit greatly from the insights garnered by the author during his years of creating and gathering information on state-of-the-art data warehouses that are accessible, convenient, and reliable.

Multimedia service provisioning is believed to be one of the prerequisites to guarantee the success of next-generation wireless networks. Examining the role of multimedia in state-of-the-art wireless systems and networks, Broadband Mobile Multimedia: Techniques and Applications presents a collection of introductory concepts, fundamental techniques, the latest advances, and open issues in this important area.

Divided into four sections, the volume begins with an introduction to various broadband wireless multimedia systems. Using video as an application example, it then focuses on the routing and cross-layer design issue of multimedia communication over multihop wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. The next section discusses issues related to multimedia communications over WLANs—a dominant part of today’s broadband wireless access networks. The book concludes with recent developments in quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning mechanisms and other enabling technologies, including middleware, mobility management, scheduling, and power control.

With numerous illustrative figures and extensive references, this useful technical guide gives in-depth treatments of basic topics, a solid overview of cutting-edge advances, and a representative sampling of important research outcomes.