Information Modeling and Relational Databases, Second Edition, provides an introduction to ORM (Object-Role Modeling)and much more. In fact, it is the only book to go beyond introductory coverage and provide all of the in-depth instruction you need to transform knowledge from domain experts into a sound database design. This book is intended for anyone with a stake in the accuracy and efficacy of databases: systems analysts, information modelers, database designers and administrators, and programmers. Terry Halpin, a pioneer in the development of ORM, blends conceptual information with practical instruction that will let you begin using ORM effectively as soon as possible. Supported by examples, exercises, and useful background information, his step-by-step approach teaches you to develop a natural-language-based ORM model, and then, where needed, abstract ER and UML models from it. This book will quickly make you proficient in the modeling technique that is proving vital to the development of accurate and efficient databases that best meet real business objectives.

Information Modeling and Relational Databases (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

Business & Money

Morgan, Tony

Halpin, Terry

Management & Leadership

Morgan Kaufmann

This book brings all of the elements of database design together in a single volume, saving the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases. It consolidates both introductory and advanced topics, thereby covering the gamut of database design methodology ? from ER and UML techniques, to conceptual data modeling and table transformation, to storing XML and querying moving objects databases. The proposed book expertly combines the finest database design material from the Morgan Kaufmann portfolio. Individual chapters are derived from a select group of MK books authored by the best and brightest in the field. These chapters are combined into one comprehensive volume in a way that allows it to be used as a reference work for those interested in new and developing aspects of database design. This book represents a quick and efficient way to unite valuable content from leading database design experts, thereby creating a definitive, one-stop-shopping opportunity for customers to receive the information they would otherwise need to round up from separate sources.

Database Design: Know It All (Morgan Kaufmann Know It All)

Computers & Technology

Simsion, Graeme

O'Neil, Patrick

O'Neil, Elizabeth

Schneider, Markus

Inmon, W.H.

Witt, Graham

O’Neil, Bonnie

Harrington, Jan L.

Lightstone, Sam S.

Teorey, Toby J.

Fryman, Lowell

Melton, Jim

Nadeau, Thomas P.

Buxton, Stephen

Güting, Ralf Hartmut

Networking & Cloud Computing

Shows IT professionals how to specify more precisely and more effectively what their systems need to do in order to succeed. Author provides a thorough introduction to business rules, as well as a practical framework for integrating them into information systems. Softcover.

Business Rules and Information Systems: Aligning IT with Business Goals

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Addison-Wesley Professional

Information Modeling and Relational Databases

Computer Science

Acclaimed church leader, blogger, founder and chief strategic officer of The Unstuck Group, Tony Morgan unpacks the lifecycle of a typical church, identifies characteristics of each phase, and provides practical next steps a church can take to move towards sustained health.
Think about your church for a moment. Is it growing? Is it diminishing? Is it somewhere in between? Acclaimed church leader, blogger, and founder and chief strategic officer of The Unstuck Group, Tony Morgan has identified the seven stages of a church's lifecycle that range from the hopeful and optimistic days of launch, to the stagnating last stages of life support.
Regardless of the stage in which you find your church, it carries with it the world's greatest mission—to "go and make disciples of all the nations . . ." With eternity at stake the Church should be doing most everything within its power to see lives changed forever. The Church should strive for the pinnacle of the lifecycle, where they are continually making new disciples and experiencing what Morgan refers to as "sustained health."
In The Unstuck Church, Morgan unpacks each phase of the church lifecycle, and offers specific and strategic next steps the church leader can take to find it's way to sustained health . . . and finally become unstuck.
The Unstuck Church is a call for honest an assessment of where your church sits on the lifecycle, and a challenge to move beyond it.

The Unstuck Church: Equipping Churches to Experience Sustained Health

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Thomas Nelson

Here are 99 topics church leaders need to know! Some say it's the little things that matter the most, but the little details are often what pastors dread the most. Easy-to-understand and humorous, Simply Strategic Stuff equips pastors to perform the administrative details of pastoring with ease, and enthusiasm. Pastors are encouraged to consider basic principles that will help them develop systems and structures for releasing growth, enabling churches to reach their communities and the world for Jesus Christ!

Simply Strategic Stuff: Help for Leaders Drowning in the Details of Running a Church

Stevens, Tim

Group Pub Inc

Stuck in a Funk? is Tony Morgan’s well-crafted new book explaining how leaders can reinvigorate their churches and congregations while making a bigger impact in their ministry. Morgan’s work is simple and is filled with practical, useful insights. The author seeks to help church pastors and other leaders to “get unstuck,” and remove any and all forms of clutter that might be blocking a new and better path for their ministry and congregation. The book is especially designed for the church that has been stuck for decades and is facing decline, or the church that has had a degree of success and strong impact in the recent past, yet somehow finds itself plateaued. Throughout the pages of Stuck in a Funk?, Morgan shares his desire to help churches to have a bigger, more effective impact on people's lives, as well as in the communities they serve. Morgan’s maverick, insightful strategies are not simply theory. Rather, they are time-tested ideas and methods that have been proven from his work with churches during his successful pastoral and consulting career. Additionally, the book has been designed to assist church leaders in their quest to engage with their own staff and volunteers. In terms of a broad, overarching theme that defines the author’s tactics for enhancing the quality of church leadership, Morgan prompts the reader to rethink their systems and strategies. He believes that one cannot hope to get different results without engaging a different approach. Of course, change can be frightening to some people and may even produce fear and anger. Yet, like an old friend, changing approaches and paradigms often yields fruit and helps people and organizations to escape a dead end, and to find new beginnings. Morgan does this by providing essential wisdom and application to help churches take their next steps. Based on four previously released e-books in the Leisure Suit series, Stuck in a Funk? examines why churches get “stuck,” how a church can move forward under a new vision, how leaders can best enact change, and how to communicate when change is needed. Since management is not leadership in Morgan’s view, he has organized the book to include guided self-assessment and a template for establishing an action plan. Stuck in a Funk? is designed to be read and discussed with a leadership team who can work together to enact positive change. Morgan uses the analogy of the leisure suit, which was popular in the 1970s, as a metaphor for the problems experienced by many churches these days. Just as the leisure suit, though popular at one time, eventually faded into obscurity as new, more fashionable alternatives grew to replace it, some church’s methods of reaching its congregation have lost their effect, but these churches are all too often unwilling to adapt to new societal needs of outreach. Or as Morgan writes, “Some churches are still wearing their leisure suits.” Through Stuck in a Funk?, church leaders will be able to meet the challenge of redefining their approaches to building and increasing the impact of their vital work.

Stuck in a Funk?

Tony Morgan Live, LLC

Entrepreneur, adventurer, adrenaline junkie come together on the pages of this story-telling, but factual book. If you have a bucket list, this man has probably completed it. Living the life of a small-town boy, Tony Morgan manages to work his 9 to 5 jobs while weaving tales of adventure and misadventure between the ordinary. Flanked on either side by friends who wish to take some risks and live out their own dreams, Tony takes you through their underwater, as well as their air born, victories and catastrophes. He journeys to interesting destinations both near and far, describing in detail some of his harrowing experiences which range from scuba diving into an ice-covered lake for the local sheriff's department to bungee jumping while on vacation in New Zealand. The stories are sprinkled with the humor and pranks that these characters share during their times together. His is not a life for the faint of heart, but for the heart that wishes to soar through life's journey without being halted by fear. Tony lives mindfully, and completely aware in the moment, to not only soar out of joy, but also out of necessity, because complacency in these adventures can kill you.

Complacency Can Kill You: A True Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

BookBaby

Product Description The Tudor period was notable for religious turmoil. Under Queen Elizabeth I, the slowly reforming Protestant Church of England finally gained a level of stability, but many people, from paupers to Lords, clung to Catholicism. Most crossed their fingers and attended Protestant services. Others, the ‘recusants’, remained defiant and refused to conform.This book takes a fresh look into the life and death of one prominent Catholic recusant, Margaret Clitherow, and the wider events which shaped her story and that of many others. In 1970, Margaret was made a saint, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. All suffered a similar fate.Elizabeth’s government faced threats from multiple directions - poor harvests, disease, attempts at invasion and plots to replace the Queen with a Catholic monarch. In York, friction was growing between the Council of the North and the city Corporation. But for much of the population, life went on as normal. One well-to-do family in the city celebrated the birth of a daughter. Brought up for a time as a Protestant, Margaret Middleton eventually married a butcher, John Clitherow. They set up home in the Shambles and raised a family. Margaret’s destiny changed when she embraced Catholicism.In 1586, Margaret’s stepfather was elected Lord Mayor of York. A few weeks later, Margaret was arrested for harboring Catholic priests. Coincidence, or something more sinister? What happened next was sensational. One woman taking on the northern authorities, the Church of England and assizes judiciary. Sentenced to death for refusing to make a plea in court, Margaret received a last-minute reprieve due to claims of her pregnancy, only for these to be rejected. Following Margaret’s brutal execution, Queen Elizabeth is said to have apologized to the people of York.With one martyr and no winner, Margaret’s story is examined as a microcosm of Tudor life, a family tragedy of faith and betrayal, set against a backdrop of political power games, treason and plot. About the Author Tony Morgan is an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds. Having lived near York for 30 years, he’s fascinated by the city’s history. He’s written three historical novels and delivers history talks about two of York’s most famous former residents, Guy Fawkes and Margaret Clitherow.

Power, Treason and Plot in Tudor England: Margaret Clitherow, an Elizabethan Saint

Community & Culture

Pen and Sword Military

READER COMMENTS: "Mr. Morgan, I read your book and was blown away. It was amazing." -- Physician, Mount Kisco, NY "Morgan's ability to meld the spiritual, historical, and fictional makes for a thought provoking page-turner." -- Editor, Cambridge, MA "I looked forward to picking it up every night. I never knew what was coming next." -- Book Club Reader, London, England "Incident combines history, love, murder, and family. It's got everything you look for in a super entertaining read." -- Realtor, Stamford, CT "Morgan is well-read, articulate and has a good sense of history. He delivers-which is what all authors hope to do." -- Quote, Danbury News-Times 11/08/08 "I read your book and enjoyed it, then I bought two more copies for friends." -- Former Rhodes Scholar, Washington, DC

Incident at Heidelberg

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Xlibris

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