Author: Graeme Simsion
Publisher: Technics Publications, LLC
Keywords: practice, theory, modeling, data
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $58.95
ISBN-10: 0977140016
ISBN-13: 9780977140015

DATA MODELING THEORY AND PRACTICE is for practitioners and academics who have learned the conventions and rules of data modeling and are looking for a deeper understanding of the discipline. The coverage of theory includes a detailed review of the extensive literature on data modeling and logical database design, referencing nearly 500 publications, with a strong focus on their relevance to practice. The practice component incorporates the largest-ever study of data modeling practitioners, involving over 450 participants in interviews, surveys and data modeling tasks. The results challenge

Authors:Graeme Simsion, Graham Witt,
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Keywords: third, essentials, modeling, data
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2004-11-18
List price: $70.95
ISBN-10: 0126445516
ISBN-13: 9780126445510

Data Modeling Essentials, Third Edition provides expert tutelage for data modelers, business analysts and systems designers at all levels. Beginning with the basics, this book provides a thorough grounding in theory before guiding the reader through the various stages of applied data modeling and database design. Later chapters address advanced subjects, including business rules, data warehousing, enterprise-wide modeling and data management. The third edition of this popular book retains its distinctive hallmarks of readability and usefulness, but has been given significantly expanded cov

Author: Graeme Lay
Publisher: Globetrotter
Keywords: map, travel, globetrotter, zealand, new
Published: 2008-04-15
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 1847730442
ISBN-13: 9781847730442

The highly successful "Globetrotter Travel Series", which includes "Travel Guides, Maps and Road Atlases", presently covers more than 80 destinations worldwide."The Globetrotter Travel Map of New Zealand" caters specifically for the needs of tourists who are new to a destination. Each map is attractively designed and features superb colour photographs. In addition to the main map of New Zealand, the following areas of special interest to visitors are shown in greater detail: Town Plans for - Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Invercargill, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Rotorua, and Wel

Author: Graeme Eva
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: perspectives, international, planning, cultural
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: $230.00
ISBN-10: 0415207312
ISBN-13: 9780415207317

From its ancient roots in the cities of classical Athenian, Roman and Byzantium empires, to the European Renaissance, public culture shows both a historic continuity and contemporary response to economic and social change. This work examines how and why the cultures have been planned and the extent to which cultural amenities have been considered in town planning.

Author: Graeme Lay
Publisher: Awa Press
Keywords: tales, south, pacific, travel, contest, tutti, frutti, miss
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0958250901
ISBN-13: 9780958250900

This marvelous collection of travel stories from the South Pacific reveals Paul Gauguin’s shocking Tahitian secrets, retraces the last tragic days of Robert Louis Stevenson, and recounts the author’s own haunting by Herman Melville, as well as his attempts to seduce the Slovenian Olympic ski team in the Cook Islands.

Author: Graeme Smith
Publisher: Frommer’s
Keywords: frommer, complete, beijing
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-03-06
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0471769908
ISBN-13: 9780471769903

This is a detailed, user-friendly, and up-to-the-minute guide to Beijing, China’s capital and its major gateway city. We’ll take you to the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, and the Great Wall, and show you how to plunge into the city’s shopping scene and discover the best local restaurants. It can be difficult for Western visitors to communicate and find their way around in such a vast, fast-paced, and bewildering city, but we’ve made it easy for you to explore on your own, with detailed directions, accurate maps, practical logistical advice, and etiquette tips. We

Author: Graeme J. Milne
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Keywords: business, making, world, port, mercantile, liverpool, traders, mid, victorian, trade
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0853236062
ISBN-13: 9780853236061

This book charts the development of Liverpool’s trade, shipping and business culture in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Using previously neglected evidence, it assesses the causes and consequences of major changes in the port’s economy, and considers the activities of the international trading community that had to work in this complex business environment. Shipowners and merchants confronted difficult choices, whether in adopting the new steamship technology, diversifying into new commodity trades, competing for government contracts, or managing their port through the elected