Interiors: An Introduction offers an introduction to the elements, practice, and aesthetics of residential and nonresidential interior design. The text presents timeless design principles and elements and their application to interiors. In addition, the authors describe the numerous choices of materials, furnishings, and components used in interior design.

Interiors: text with Design CD-ROM

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Taylor, David A.

Nielson, Karla J.

Crafts & Hobbies

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Aims to provide easy access to NCR's full-scale enterprise computing system based on object-technology and to allow end users to get started quickly and to locate additional information as needed. It summarizes object technology and its advantages over conventional approaches to building software.

Transforming the Enterprise Through Cooperation: An Object-Oriented Solution

Business & Money

Shafer, Dan

Management & Leadership

PRENTICE/HALL

"The first edition set a standard of excellence that has eluded all followers, and I have recommended it to my clients for years. The new edition is a gift to the field and should be required reading for all managers." - Adrian J. Bowles, Ph.D., Vice President Giga Information Group
 "One of the most readable introductions you will find. The new edition offers vital insights into the effective use of objects in business." - Chris Stone, President Object Management Group
 The first edition of Object Technology: A Manager's Guide is widely viewed as the classic introduction to this powerful computing concept. Object technology offers increased agility, significant time-to-market reduction, and the opportunity to exploit the potential of the World Wide Web by deploying globally distributed business systems. At a time when many of the world's largest companies are making the transition to object technology, David Taylor has updated his book to address the important issues facing the growth of object technology and to provide a glimpse into the future of this evolving paradigm. In updating this seminal work, David Taylor has retained the signature conciseness and,clarity of discussion that made the first edition a best-seller.
 Object Technology: A Manager's Guide, Second Edition, covers the key terms, emerging concepts, and useful applications of objects. Managers, salespeople, engineers, software developers-anyone interested in understanding or implementing object technology-will find this a lucid introduction to the topic.
 Highlights of this new edition include: 
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<li>An explanation of how to use objects to create evolutionary software that rapidly adapts to changing business conditions, eliminating the need for most new application development. 
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<li>An introduction to Java, and an explanation of how its use of message interfaces enables a new generation of portable, mix-and-match, Internet-enabled business objects. 
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<li>An update on the state of object databases and extended relational databases, with guidelines for combining the two for optimal information storage. 
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<li>An introduction to the new generation of object engines and how they combine storage and execution capabilities for maximum software integration. 
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Object Technology: A Manager's Guide

Computers & Technology

Programming

Addison-Wesley Professional

Software developers and managers intrigued with the potential of object-oriented technology will find Objects in Action an exciting eye-opener. The 19 real-life applications showcased in this book prove unequivocally that object-oriented technology has finally moved from the realm of the theoretical to the world of full-scale, working applications. In a contest held in conjunction with the 1992 Object World Conference and sponsored by Computerworld and the Object Management Group, major companies submitted case studies describing how they had successfully put object-oriented technology to work. The top 19 entries form the basis for Objects in Action. Coming from a broad spectrum of businesses and industries, the applications featured here include, among others an object-oriented analysis simulator from Boeing Defense and Space Group; a smelter information system from Alumax; an executive concessions information system from United Artists Theatre; and a software engineering environment from Broussais University Hospital. Each case study provided a description of the application, the role object-oriented technology played in its formation, and practical information about the development process. Through introductions to the various categories of applications, the authors offer their insights, provide perspective, and reveal the common thread that ties these diverse applications together. This, impressive display of important object-oriented applications will prove an inspiration to readers and will stimulate further advancements in the practical application of object-oriented technology.

Objects in Action: Commercial Application of Object-Oriented Technologies

Harmon, Paul

Computer Science

Addison-Wesley

During the past twenty years, companies have reduced the time and cost of the manufacturing process. Now, they are attempting to streamline their supply chains in the same way, but they are struggling with this initiative. This shift in focus is quickly changing the nature of business competition. The battle is no longer company vs. company, it's supply chain vs. supply chain. The formula for winning this new battle is assembling a killer supply chain -- the one that, like those of Dell and WalMart, will let them deliver products to their customers faster, better, and cheaper than anyone else. Written by best-selling author David A. Taylor, this is a guide to understanding and solving the complex problems of supply chain management. Using Taylor's signature fast-track summaries, graphics, sidebars, and additional content and exercises on the CD-ROM and Web site, readers will easily grasp the critical insights into this demanding subject, and walk away knowing just what they need to know in order to contribute effectively to their company's supply chain success.

Supply Chains: A Manager's Guide

Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America

Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point. This particular handful of characters went from poverty to great things later, and included John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Studs Terkel. In the 1930s they were all caught up in an effort to describe America in a series of WPA guides. Through striking images and firsthand accounts, the book reveals their experiences and the most vivid excerpts from selected guides and interviews: Harlem schoolchildren, truckers, Chicago fishmongers, Cuban cigar makers, a Florida midwife, Nebraskan meatpackers, and blind musicians. Drawing on new discoveries from personal collections, archives, and recent biographies, a new picture has emerged in the last decade of how the participants' individual dramas intersected with the larger picture of their subjects. This book illuminates what it felt like to live that experience, how going from joblessness to reporting on their own communities affected artists with varied visions, as well as what feelings such a passage involved: shame humiliation, anger, excitement, nostalgia, and adventure. Also revealed is how the WPA writers anticipated, and perhaps paved the way for, the political movements of the following decades, including the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Right movement, and the Native American rights movement.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Trade Paper Press

All the ideas, examples and designs are drawn from the author's years of experience in designing object-oriented business models for Fortune 500 companies. This concise, practical book contains proven techniques on applying object technology for the design and analysis of business information systems (IS). Demonstrates how to overcome IS limitations in the re-engineering process.

Business Engineering with Object Technology

wiley

This volume offers information managers and business executives an overview of object technology. It explores the positive aspects of information systems, such as flexibility and ease of maintenance and modification.

Object-Oriented Information Systems: Planning and Implementation (Wiley Medical Publication)

John Wiley & Sons Inc 1992-07-30

A clear, precise presentation of object-oriented concepts for MIS managers/executives who are instrumental in the decision to adopt an object-oriented technology which will remain a leading design and programming application for many years to come. Includes such features as ``fast track'' which summarizes the context in the left hand margin plus an appendix of ``key concepts'' that pulls together essential ideas.

Object-Oriented Information Systems: Planning and Implementation (Wiley Professional Computing)

This revised edition of a classic work covers the history, design, construction, and use of traditional wooden inshore fishing boats in the small town of Winterton, on the shore of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Boatbuilding lore, especially the dynamics of boat design and construction, are seen from the perspective of the boat builders themselves, and are discussed within the context of the community's social, economic, and natural environments. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, archival images, drawings, and line plans, this book is a practical guide for boatbuilding enthusiasts and a valuable resource for scholars.

Boat Building in Winterton, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland (Mercury Series (0316-1854))

History

Americas

Canadian Museum of History

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