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<li>SOA is the most important initiative facing IT today and is difficult to grasp; this book demystifies the complex topic of SOA and makes it accessible to all those people who hear the term but aren't really sure what it means</li> <li>This team of well-respected authors explains that SOA is a collection of applications that enables resources to be available to other participants in a network using any service-based technology</li> <li>Examines how SOA enables faster and cheaper application development and how it offers reusable code that can be used across various applications</li> <li>Covers what SOA is, why it matters, how it can impact businesses, and how to take steps to implement SOA in a corporate environment</li> </ul>

Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies

Computers & Technology

Bloor, Robin

Baroudi, Carol

Kaufman, Marcia

Hurwitz, Judith

Software

For Dummies

The easy way to understand and implement cloud computing technology written by a team of experts Cloud computing can be difficult to understand at first, but the cost-saving possibilities are great and many companies are getting on board. If you've been put in charge of implementing cloud computing, this straightforward, plain-English guide clears up the confusion and helps you get your plan in place. You'll learn how cloud computing enables you to run a more green IT infrastructure, and access technology-enabled services from the Internet ("in the cloud") without having to understand, manage, or invest in the technology infrastructure that supports them. You'll also find out what you need to consider when implementing a plan, how to handle security issues, and more. <ul>
<li>Cloud computing is a way for businesses to take advantage of storage and virtual services through the Internet, saving money on infrastructure and support</li> <li>This book provides a clear definition of cloud computing from the utility computing standpoint and also addresses security concerns</li> <li>Offers practical guidance on delivering and managing cloud computing services effectively and efficiently</li> <li>Presents a proactive and pragmatic approach to implementing cloud computing in any organization</li> <li>Helps IT managers and staff understand the benefits and challenges of cloud computing, how to select a service, and what's involved in getting it up and running</li> <li>Highly experienced author team consults and gives presentations on emerging technologies</li> </ul>
Cloud Computing For Dummies gets straight to the point, providing the practical information you need to know.

Cloud Computing For Dummies

Hurwitz, Judith S.

Halper, Fern

Networking & Cloud Computing

This book was written to explain, as clearly and concisely as possible, how to discover meaning in Gurdjieff's masterpiece. The majority of readers of Beelzebub's Tales find it very difficult to read and many abandon the book as a consequence - perhaps not having appreciated that Gurdjieff spent more time writing this book than he did doing anything else. (The record indicates that the book took 7 years to write and involved a team of many people in addition to Gurdjieff himself to get to a "first draft" in 1931. After than Gurdjieff spent a further 18 years refining the book, which was eventually published following his death in 1949.) Clearly, if he did want the book to be read, he would not have devoted many years to writing it. Nevertheless he wrote it in such a way that very significant effort would be required to read it. The reader's problem is that this book cannot be read in the normal way. To Fathom The Gist was written to help the sincere reader of The Tales to improve their ability to read the book.

To Fathom the Gist: Volume 1 - Approaches to the Writings of G. I. Gurdjieff

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Karnak Press

There has never been a universal algebra of data. Mathematics has been widely employed by software in many ways: numerical analysis, statistics, algorithms, mathematical modeling, and so on, but it has never been used to formally define data in all its variety. This changed when mathematical research into data algebra—carried out for Algebraix Data Corporation by one of the authors of this book—matured and was tested in an extensive range of data management, data integration, and performance optimization contexts. The purpose of this book is to explain that data algebra. The book is undeniably and unashamedly a mathematics text. However, realizing that the readership would likely include many software developers and users as well as mathematicians, the book is written to be as accessible as possible to anyone with some mathematical skills. As such, this is not your grandfather’s mathematics text. Between the various set theory assertions, expressions, and equations flows a narrative that is both surprising and entertaining. The subtitle of the book, A Foundation for the Data Economy, is not hyperbole. The mathematical definition of data, and the various set theoretical operations and functions that can be applied to it, provide a new approach to data. It will, in time, become the natural foundation for the emerging data economy that is already growing swiftly.

The Algebra of Data: A Foundation for the Data Economy

Sherman, Gary

Computer Science

Bloor Group

The first volume of To Fathom the Gist provided techniques for reading and better comprehending the content of Gurdjieff's masterpiece. The second volume goes much further in its explanation and demonstration of these techniques. It examines in depth how Gurdjieff wrote Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, pursuing the idea that "if we know how he wrote the book, we will be better able to read and understand it." And it then proceeds to examine and discuss the three ways of reading the book that Gurdjieff describes and recommends. It gradually becomes clear that Gurdjieff provided extensive advice on how to read his book. The simple fact is that the reader usually ignores such advice, or fails to even see that it is provided. It gradually becomes clear that most of us need to learn how to read this book effectively. Remarkable though it may seem, we really do not know how to read well - and in order to truly appreciate The Tales we need to have that skill.In the course of the author's discussion and analysis of reading technique, insights into the meaning of different chapters or sections of Gurdjieff's book come into focus and are revealed, often as demonstrative examples and sometimes simply as incidental side notes.This volume also provides original perspectives on The Tales by examining the 1931 Manuscript (the earliest edition of The Tales) and comparing it to Gurdjieff's final version. In some areas of the book, the differences are revealing. And, it proceeds further to analyze the 1992 revision of The Tales in depth, providing what is likely to become the definitive analysis of that version of The Tales.Finally, the book investigates the Arch-absurd; Beelzebub's assertion that our Sun neither lights nor heats. The meaning of this assertion is examined in depth.

To Fathom the Gist: Volume II the Arch-Absurd

The third book in this series offers practical and illuminating insights into how to fathom the gist of Gurdjieff's masterpiece. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the first half of The Arousing of Thought, the first chapter of the book. It explains, applies and illustrates the array of techniques described by the author in the first two books of the series. Why does The Tales have two titles? Why is the "ALL" on the original cover of the book capitalized? Who were the Ancient Toulousites? Exactly what is that crazy lame goat, or the midwife's lozenge of cocaine for that matter? The suggested answers that this book provides are intriguing.?But perhaps of greater value to the reader is the author's explanation of Gurdjieff's grammar of associations-the grammar he employed to write the book in his "ignorance" of the "bon ton literary language of the intelligentsia."

To Fathom The Gist Volume III: The Arousing of Thought

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Gurdjieff clearly wanted his pupils to try to understand Objective Science. He left two accounts of it. One adorns the pages of In Search of the Miraculous; the other merges itself into the text of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson. He described its study as a necessity - one of five obligolnian strivings. And yet, most books about The Work steer clear of the topic. ?This book moves in the opposite direction. ?It grasps the nettle-exploring the principles of Objective Science and explaining why it cannot be reconciled with Modern Science in its current form. It then proceeds to provide a clear description of the fundamentals of Objective Science:?What are its methods? What does the Ray of Creation signify or imply? What are the Hydrogens and how are they derived? What are the implications of the Trogoautoegocrat? How are the elements formed? How does evolution happen? What is plasma and what is its role in the life of the whole cosmos? How do new planets form? Is the Moon really growing? Is the Earth itself growing? ?What is Man's place in the cosmos and how can we use the Step Diagram (see the front cover) to understand that? Is humanity really food for the Moon? If so, how?? The author accompanies you on a journey of revelation. It's an intellectual adventure and a wild conceptual ride.

Gurdjieff's Hydrogens Volume 1: The Ray of Creation

----- Table of Contents ----- - Foreword - Conference Program 2014 - Electrotherapy: Gurdjieff, Harharkh and Tesla, Poster Presentation: Debbie Elliott - Seminar Beelzebub’s Tales, “France,” chapter xxxvii - To Try and Fathom the Gist: Robin Bloor - On Objective Science in Beelzebub’s Tales and its - Meaning for Us: John Clarke - Compassion: Required in Order to Become Aware of Genuine Being-Duty: Russell Schreiber - Seminar Beelzebub’s Tales, “Religion,” chapter xxxvii - The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: Cynthia Bourgeault - Divided Attention and the Search for Self: Stephen Aronson - Hypnosis, Hanbledzoin and the Flu: Jack Cain - The Being-Obligolnian-Strivings as Practice: George Bennett - Seminar Meetings, “Professor Skridlov,” chapter x - Poetry: David Kherdian - Where do we go from here? - Index

The Proceedings of the 19th International Humanities Conference: All & Everything 2014

Cain, Jack

Clarke, John

Kherdian, David

Aronson, Stephen

BENNETT, George

Schreiber, Russell

Elliott, Debbie

Conference, A & E

Bourgeault, Cythina

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

----- Table of Contents ----- Foreword, Conference Program, Opening Remarks Seminar ~ Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, “Purgatory,”
Objective Conscience in Beelzebub and the Impulses of Faith, Hope, and Love ~ Lee van Laer
The Philology of The Tales – Gurdjieff’s Choice of Words in ALL and Everything ~ Robin Bloor
An Inquiry into the Peculiarities of ‘Omnipresent-Active-Element-Okidanokh,’ Part One: The First Peculiarity ~ ToddySmyth
Seminar ~ Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, “Purgatory,” continued Seminar ~ Meetings with Remarkable Men, “Bogachevsky,” chapter iv
Aiessirittoorassnian-contemplation ~ Joseph Azize
Role of Contradiction in the Work ~ Irv Givot
Gurdjieff on Hypnotism: Superstition, Magic, Religion, Hysteria, Prayer and Hypnosis in Work on Oneself ~ John Amaral
Seminars ~ Life Is Real Only Then, When “I Am,” Prologue
Remembering Gurdjieff ~ Stephen Grant
Exploring the Third State of Consciousness, or Conscious Laborand Voluntary Suffering ~ Ocke de Boer
Beelzebub’s Tales and the Grace from Above ~ Will Mesa
How We Block the First and Second Conscious Shocks ~ Russell Schreiber
Seminar ~ Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, “Purgatory,” continued Seminar ~ Meetings with Remarkable Men, “Professor Skridlov,” chapter iv
Gurdjieff, Ashiata and the Zoroastrian Connection ~ John Macpherson
The Aim of Group Work in the Gurdjieff Tradition: Applied Obligolnian Strivings ~ Jan Jarvis
Where do we go from here? Drawings ~ Kimberly Sheridan 
 ----- Foreword ----- Foreword
The Planning Committee would like to take this opportunity of thanking all the Presenters for their help in producing these Proceedings. We hope that this publication will lead to further creative interactions between those in the Work in the future.
The 21st International Humanities Conference — ALL and Everything 2016 convened on Wednesday, April 20th to Sunday, April 24th, 2016 at the Hawthorne Hotel, Salem, Massachusetts. The conference was attended by over 100 participants travelling from Argentina, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.
From the Conference’s inception, its members have worked toward making this “gathering of the Companions of the Book” to become more and more just that — a gathering of people from all over the world who come together for the purpose of “fathoming the gist” of Gurdjieff‘s writings, of sharing our insights and experiences, our questions, and our efforts to understand and grow into becoming remarkable men and women.
The final session of the conference on Sunday morning, traditionally entitled “Where do we go from here?,” provided an opportunity to discuss the achievements of the conference and the challenges facing its future editions.

The Proceedings of the 21st International Humanities Conference:: ALL and Everything 2016

Self-Help

Azize, Joseph

Grant, Stephen

Amaral, John

van Laer, Lee

Givot, Irv

Smyth, Toddy

De Boer, Ocke

Mesa, Will

Spiritual

Just as the Silk Road was once the world's greatest trade route, the e-Road is poised to become the trading highway of the 21st Century.

The Electronic Bazaar: From the Silk Road to the e-Road

Business & Money

UNKNO

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