Tried without success to learn French before? Can't find a learning style that suits you? Collins has teamed up with international best-selling author and inventor of Mind Maps(R) Tony Buzan to revolutionise the way language is learnt - forever. Collins Language Revolution is: Flexible - Whether you are a visual, auditory or tactile learner, you can learn in the way that works best for you, with audio and online resources. Fun and easy - All you need is your imagination, a sense of humour and coloured pens. It works - Mind Maps(R) are a system proven to successfully unlock your brain's potential for learning and memory, and are used by many of the world's most successful politicians, business leaders and educators.

Collins Language Revolution! French (French and English Edition)

Buzan, Tony

Lewis, Jonathan

Harper Uk

What is really involved in building effective Oracle database systems, and how do you approach the endeavor in a way that increases your chances for success? Practical Oracle8i offers a real-life approach to constructing Oracle databases--one that is geared toward solving important business problems. This book will help you devise an appropriate strategy for database design that takes into account Oracles technical underpinnings, hardware and user limitations, and tradeoffs between simplicity and efficiency. It discusses selecting the Oracle features needed to perform specific functions and shows you how to structure code most effectively for the features being implemented. Practical Oracle8i presents an overview of Oracle that clearly explains the central functions that are key to Oracles operation. In addition, the book presents the fundamentals of the system, covering the way in which data is stored, packed, and made visible, as well as the dynamic features involved in transactions and calculations. Specific topics covered include: *A discussion of why Oracle projects fail *Leveraging tablespaces *Partitioning *LOBs *Autonomous transactions *Row-level security for virtual privat

Practical Oracle8I: Building Efficient Databases

Computers & Technology

Software

Addison-Wesley Professional

"I hear the chorus, it is a grand opera, Ah this indeed is music―this suits me."―Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" America has had a love affair with opera in all its forms since it was first performed here in colonial times. This book―the first comprehensive cultural and social history of musical theater in the United States―includes vignettes of productions, personalities, audiences, and theaters throughout the country from 1735 to the present day. John Dizikes tells how opera, steeped in European aristocratic tradition, was transplanted into the democratic cultural environment of America. With a wealth of colorful detail, he describes how operas were performed and received in small towns and in big cities, and he brings to life little-known people involved with opera as well as famous ones such as Oscar Hammerstein, Jenny Lind, Gustav Mahler, Enrico Caruso, Milton Cross, Maria Callas, and Leonard Bernstein. He tells us about the often overlooked African American contribution to operatic history, from nineteenth-century minstrel shows to the work of Scott Joplin and Marian Anderson, and he discusses operetta and Broadway musicals, recognized everywhere in the world as one of the triumphs of American twentieth-century art. Dizikes considers the increasingly diverse operatic audiences of the twentieth century, shaped by records, radio, and television, and he describes the places where opera now flourishes―not only New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, but also St. Louis, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Santa Fe, Seattle, and elsewhere. Generously illustrated and engagingly written, the book is a fitting tribute to its subject―as grand and entertaining as opera itself.

Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table (Oaktable Press)

Hailey, Kyle

Millsap, Cary

Ensor, Dave

Gorman, Tim

Kolk, Anjo

McDonald, Connor

Morle, James

Nørgaard, Mogens

Ruthven, David

Programming

Apress

Reification and the Aesthetics of Music (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

This innovative study re-evaluates the philosophical significance of aesthetics in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of philosophy. Lewis's main argument is that contemporary conceptions of meaning and truth have been reified, and that aesthetics is able to articulate why this is the case, with important consequences for understanding the horizons and nature of philosophical inquiry. Reification and the Aesthetics of Music challenges the most emphatic and problematic conceptions of meaning and truth in both analytic philosophy and postmodern thought by acknowledging the ontological and logical primacy of our concrete, practice-based experiences with aesthetic phenomena. By engaging with a variety of aesthetic practices, including Beethoven's symphonies and string quartets, Wagner's music dramas, Richard Strauss's Elektra, the twentieth-century avant-garde, Jamaican soundsystem culture, and punk and contemporary noise, this book demonstrates the aesthetic relevance of reification as well as the concept's applicability to contemporary debates within philosophy.

Religion & Spirituality

Routledge

An account of one of this century's most terrifying and important figures, containing material gathered from recent visits to the USSR. Publication coincides with a three-part series for Thames Television. Stalinism is a word the world knows. It stands for a system of extraordinary inflexibility, cruelty and deceit. But it was more than that. How did it produce such a unique amalgam of despair and pride? Who was Stalin - the product of the Bolshevik Revolution which he helped to lead, or an aberrant reversion to an older Russian tradition? What was the sheer scale of his achievements and his crimes? And what is his legacy to the modern Soviet Union? To answer these questions the authors have travelled extensively in the Soviet Union, from Stalin's Georgian origins through the cradle of the Revolution in Leningrad, in the Arctic death camps, the killing fields of Minsk, the collective farms ravaged by famines in the Ukraine and the new industrial cities established east of the Urals, to the homes of survivors of Stalin's time wherever they can be found, from Moscow to Mexico. His family, his bodyguards and admirers mingle here as witnesses with the disillusioned, the critical and, poignantly, the lifelong victims of Stalin.

Stalin: A time for judgement

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Methuen in association with Thames Television International

Stalin: A Time for Judgement

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Random House Value Publishing

The war in the Pacific was not just between Japan and America; it was also Britain's forgotten war and one of the dirtiest conflicts in living memory. Hell in the Pacific is a revisionist examination of that conflict, tracing the use of horrific torture and propaganda, not only by the Japanese but, controversially, by the Americans and the Allies as well. Included are previously unheard eyewitness accounts, and stories of American troops collecting noses, ears, and skulls as trophies.

Hell in the Pacific: The War with Japan 1941-1945

History

Steele, Ben

Military

Macmillan, UK

I lived and worked in South East Asia for nine years. In that time, I saw things that were sacred and profane. Sometimes in the same scene, and with the same breath. It's a fascinating place. My boss at the time gave me the best advice on the culture that I could imagine. He said, "There is no why to what they do. There are 200 million of them, and one of you. Just go with it." I think you will see that here.

Asia Minor

Literature & Fiction

Paper Tigers Publishing

This innovative study re-evaluates the philosophical significance of aesthetics in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of philosophy. Lewis's main argument is that contemporary conceptions of meaning and truth have been reified, and that aesthetics is able to articulate why this is the case, with important consequences for understanding the horizons and nature of philosophical inquiry. Reification and the Aesthetics of Music challenges the most emphatic and problematic conceptions of meaning and truth in both analytic philosophy and postmodern thought by acknowledging the ontological and logical primacy of our concrete, practice-based experiences with aesthetic phenomena. By engaging with a variety of aesthetic practices, including Beethoven's symphonies and string quartets, Wagner's music dramas, Richard Strauss's Elektra, the twentieth-century avant-garde, Jamaican soundsystem culture, and punk and contemporary noise, this book demonstrates the aesthetic relevance of reification as well as the concept's applicability to contemporary debates within philosophy.

This book is an anthology of effective database management techniques representing the collective wisdom of the OakTable Network. With an emphasis upon performance―but also branching into security, national language, and other issues―the book helps you deliver the most value for your company’s investment in Oracle Database technologies. You’ll learn to effectively plan for and monitor performance, to troubleshoot systematically when things go wrong, and to manage your database rather than letting it manage you.

Expert Oracle Practices: Oracle Database Administration from the Oak Table (Expert's Voice in Oracle)

Green, Connie

Shamsudeen, Riyaj

Wood, Graham

MORTON, KAREN

Sands, Robyn

Litchfield, Niall

Gorbachev, Alex

Finnigan, Pete

Hooper, Charles

Geist, Randolf

Senegacnik, Joze

Shaft, Uri

Wilton, Jeremiah

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