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Oracle9i PL/SQL Programming
Scott Urman Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0072191473 |
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From the authorized Oracle Press comes a complete guide to developing robust PL/SQL applications. The book contains new information on development tools, datatypes, SQL commands and functions, and much more. The CD-ROM contains sample code plus a sampling of development environments covered in the book.Customer Reviews:
good book but the new edition is even better.......2006-11-15
Recommended if you are new to PL/SQL.......2005-08-03
A very helpful book to pass the exam........2004-04-10
One of the better IT books that I have seen.......2004-02-20
Only for newbies.......2003-12-31
But the subtittle of the book is definitely misleading. When it comes to advanced topics, the book simply copies from the online documentation from Oracle, but only the brief summery. Say, function DECODE, one of the most powful feature in PL/SQL, is covered in half a page! Just the official definition. Nothing to read about. If you bought Oracle 9i The Complete Reference, you'd find a whole chapter devoted to that function.
The author didn't do much work with this book. If you're a serious programmer, don't bother with this book.
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Safety And Security Engineering (Transactions on the Built Environment)
C. A. Brebbia , T. Bucciarelli , F. Garzia , and M. Guarascio Manufacturer: WIT Press (UK) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1845640195 |
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Nowadays, every process needs a safety analysis that must be, from the beginning, integrated in any design, construction or managerial process, to ensure the desired safety and security standards and to calculate the costs. Safety and Security Engineering, due to its special nature, represents an interdisciplinary area of research and applications that brings together, in a systemic view, many disciplines of engineering, from the traditional to the most advanced and novel This book contains most of the papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Safety and Security Engineering (SAFE 2005). The meeting provided a forum for the presentation and discussion of the most recent developments in the theoretical and practical aspects of Safety and Security Engineering.The contributions are divided under the following headings: Modelling and theoretical studies; Risk analysis, assessment and management; ARAMIS: an integrated risk assessment methodology; Novel techniques, systems and devices; Information and communication technologies; Integrated technological systems; Fire prevention and protection; Infrastructures protection; Transportation problems; Population protection; Environmental protection; Emergency and disaster prevention, control, management and recovery; Terrorism prevention and protection; Case studies; Forensic studies; and Industrial environment.
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The Built Environment: A Collaborative Inquiry Into Design and Planning
Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0470007524 |
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Drawing from the expertise of prominent academics in their respective fields, this collaborative work takes a sweeping view of the ways we build things, beginning at the scale of products and interiors, to that of regions and global systems. In doing so, The Built Environment answers questions on how we effect and are affected by our environment. More importantly, the book shows how the various components of what we make -- from products, buildings, landscapes, and cities -- are interrelated, and how designers and planners must consider these connections in their work.The Built Environment is a must-read for designers looking for a context for collaboration and for strategies to improve the overall quality of designed environments as well as for anyone interested in understanding the complex nature of the built environment and how it affects our lives.
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Identity and Power in the Ancient Andes: Tiwanaku Cities through Time (Critical Perspectives in Identity, Memory & the Built Environment)
John Wayne Janusek Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415946344 |
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The Tiwanaku state was the political and cultural center of ancient Andean civilization for almost 700 years. Identity and Power is the result of ten years of research that has revealed significant new data. Janusek explores the origins, development, and collapse of this ancient state through the lenses of social identities--gender, ethnicity, occupation, for example--and power relations. He combines recent developments in social theory with the archaeological record to create a fascinating and theoretically informed exploration of the history of this important civilization.
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Architecture Everywhere: Investigating the Built Environment of Your Community
Joseph A. Weber Manufacturer: Zephyr Press (AZ) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1569761078 |
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Written to introduce students to the built environment, this guide supplies educators with a program to teach architecture as a unit or as a topic with interdisciplinary connections to social studies, language arts, visual arts, media production, journalism, and more. Explorations of how modern homes and communities have been shaped by such forces as sense of place, historical and cultural connections to buildings, and ethnic traditions lead students to understand the modern man-made world. Rather than encouraging students to passively accept information, this guide encourages investigation through many different activities including carving, researching, drawing, designing, and interviewing.
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Ideal Cities: Utopianism and the (Un)Built Environment
Ruth Eaton Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0500341869 |
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This vast panorama spans more than two millennia of Western attempts to invent the perfect city, cradle of the ideal society. Embracing not only architecture and town planning but also art, literature, philosophy, and politics, the book takes us through the imaginary environments of a wide variety of fascinating and often controversial movements and figures, including Plato, Filarete, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas More, Thomas Jefferson, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Charles Fourier, Etienne Cabet, Robert Owen, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, Bruno Taut, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, the European Situationalists, the Japanese Metabolists, Archigram, Superstudio, and many more.The ideal cities in this richly illustrated book exist for the most part in the domain of ideas. Ruth Eaton explores the ability of ideal cities to stimulate reflection and change, and she suggests under what conditions they might continue to exercise their vital function in relation to the urban environment of the future. While it is true that notorious attempts to cross the border into reality have greatly discredited utopianism, it is good to recallwith the famous historian of cities, Lewis Mumfordthat "a map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at." 300 illustrations, 250 in color.
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Infrastructure for the Built Environment: Global Procurement Strategies
Rodney Howes , and Herbert Robinson Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0750668709 |
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Throughout the world there is a growing demand for high quality public services to support socio-economic development. Infrastructure is central to improving the level of public services and the quality of the built environment. But in key areas such as transport, energy, water, healthcare, education and communications, public resources are not sufficient to keep pace with this demand. As the public sector struggles to keep up, the private sector is increasingly involved in the procurement of economic and social infrastructure.
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Smart and Sustainable Built Environments
Peter Brandon , and Tony Sidwell Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1405124229 |
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This book brings together a group of international specialists to explore the current state of the art and future potential for encouraging, developing and implementing smart and sustainable built environment strategies.It covers a broad spectrum of issues, ranging from technological advancement, through the assessment of past experiences, to communication and education requirements and future strategies.
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The Owner-Built Log House: Living in Harmony With Your Environment
B. Allan Mackie Manufacturer: Firefly Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1552975487 |
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Log houses inspire fascination across most of North America. They evoke a simpler time - a tradition of independence and self-sufficiency missing in today's high-tech world. But a log house does not have to be a fantasy. Ownership is within the means of almost anyone reasonably handy with tools.
Allan Mackie believes - and demonstrates - that attitude is at least as important as carpentry skills. Given a will to learn and a desire to make something of one's own, the average person is more than capable of building a log house that will serve an individual, a couple or a family for years to come.
In this profusely illustrated book, the author takes the reader step-by-step through the building process - the selection of land, the purchase and preparation of the logs, the sharpening of tools and the cutting, lifting and fitting of logs, and all the other steps involved. With hundreds of photographs and detailed diagrams and drawings, The Owner-Built Log House is much more than a how-to guide. It is nothing less than a testament to the belief that where there is a will for self-reliance, there is the possibility of achieving it.
As a unique feature of the book, the author takes us through his current building project on a 100-acre wilderness site. The reader experiences the entire process - from buying land right up to moving in and spending that first winter.
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Great Book.......2005-02-06
From the original log home do it yourself guy!.......2002-07-13
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Greening the Built Environment
Nick Williams , Maf Smith , and John Whitelegg Manufacturer: Earthscan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1853834033 |
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A must-read for anyone interested in urban change........2001-11-13
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