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Direct Action gives a short history of the worldwide anti-globalization movement and provides social activists with all they need to know about the key concepts and manifestos in this richly diverse mobilization of the people. It provides a veritable user's guide to the key debates going on in the movement and explains the array of tactics and actions people are using around the world to put pressure on the powerful in order to defeat free market capitalism and globalization. It emphasizes the political alternatives available and stresses the positive contribution activists can make.
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Building Alternatives Starts Here.......2005-09-05
Global Revolt is the best primer yet on the `alterglobalization' movements. Anyone who wants to become familiar with a brighter future will be greatly informed by this survey of forces that are writing the progressive pages of our history. The guide starts with a narrative of the rise of the movement of movements not with the Zapatistas or Seattle as told in the popular versions but quite compellingly in the 1980s. Starr is careful to note that even these early struggles in turn, drew on histories rooted in the previous 500 years of struggle against colonialism and imperialism. Starr moves onto the `one no, and many yeses' of the movements. No! to neoliberal and hegemonic proscriptions (structural adjustment programmes, privatizations, and `free trade') as imposed by international financial institutions and capitalist states of the Global North. Yes! to food sovereignty, sustainability, immigration and indigenous rights, `deglobalization', local autonomy, and participatory democracy (to name a few affirmatives). The many alternatives are not uncontested even within the movements themselves. The author explores these contestations presenting the positions carefully and drawing helpful inclusive conclusions. The final quarter of the work is a description and defense of various strategies (autonomous communities, DoItYourself, independent media et cetera), temporary groups (Tute Bianche, Pink Silver and Black Blocs), and actions (marches, lockdowns, occupations, reconnections, etc) for cultivating alterglobalization further. Whether you want to make another world possible or not, this is fine starting point for understanding all of us who do.
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Euros and Europeans: Monetary Integration and the European Model of Society
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The European Union: Dilemmas of Regional Integration
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The creation of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) marks a leap forward in European integration. Authority over monetary policy has moved from member states to the European Central Bank, an independent, supranational institution. This volume examines the ways in which the "European model of society", characterized by bargaining between "social partners"and relatively high taxes and transfers, has been affected by EMU. The book discusses the nature of the European model and explores change across Europe, showing how national governments have been constrained, even in their social and industrial policies.
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XML Databases and the Semantic Web
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ASIN: 0849310318 |
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Efficient access to data, sharing data, extracting information from data, and making use of the information have become urgent needs for today's corporations. With so much data on the Web, managing it with conventional tools is becoming almost impossible. New tools and techniques are necessary to provide interoperability as well as warehousing between multiple data sources and systems, and to extract information from the databases. XML Databases and the Semantic Web focuses on critical and new Web technologies needed for organizations to carry out transactions on the Web, to understand how to use the Web effectively, and to exchange complex documents on the Web. This reference for database administrators, database designers, and Web designers working in tandem with database technologists covers three emerging technologies of significant impact for electronic business: Extensible Markup Language (XML), semi-structured databases, and the semantic Web. The first two parts of the book explore these emerging technologies. The third part highlights the implications of these technologies for e-business. Overall, the book presents a comprehensive view of critical technologies for the Web in general and XML in particular. The semantic Web, XML, and semi-structured databases are still relatively new technologies that integrate many other technologies. As these technologies and integration of these advances mature, we can expect to see progress in the semantic web. The information contained in XML Databases and the Semantic Web is essential to the future success of effective e-business on the Web.
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Broad overview of XML and the semantic web.......2003-12-15
The author provides broad overview of the semantic web and XML. It gives a beginner some insights into the field. It does not go into depth on XML, but gives several references for the reader to find more information. It also takes a database perspective in discussing the semantic web rather than an artificial intelligence perspective. I find this aspect very interesting.
Very Interesting Book.......2003-11-08
I am new to the field of web and databases and found this to be an excellent book. It is very well written and very easy to read. It does not hype up the area like some other books do and provides a very realistic picture. I am now eager to learn more about the field.
Broad but very well written.......2003-07-07
This books covers a lot of topics very well. It starts with a discussion of web databases and semi-structured databases and then goes on to discuss XML, RDF and finally ties all the concepts together in a discussion of the semantic web. Semantic web is still evolving and the author clairifies the various concepts quite well. While this may not be at the right level for a technologist or a developer, this book will be quite appropriate for a manager or executive who wants to get q quick introduction to the semantic web and XML.
Broad but very well written.......2003-07-07
This books covers a lot of topics very well. It starts with a discussion of web databases and semi-structured databases and then goes on to discuss XML, RDF and finally ties all the concepts together in a discussion of the semantic web. Semantic web is still evolving and the author clairifies the various concepts quite well. While this may not be at the right level for a technologist or a developer, this book will be quite appropriate for a manager or executive who wants to get a quick introduction to the semantic web and XML.
1/4 mile wide - 1 inch deep.......2003-06-10
If you know anything at all about XML and the semantic web - DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS BOOK. This book covers nothing in depth. I just spent 3 nights reading this book - waiting for something to happen - it never does. The author does not go into any decent technical detail on anything. If you have ever worked with XML and want to learn something about RDF etc... this is not the book for you.
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Dictionary of XML Technologies and the Semantic Web (Springer Professional Computing)
Vladimir Geroimenko
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ASIN: 1852337680 |
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The emerging Second-Generation Web is based entirely on XML and related technologies. This new version of the Web introduces a multitude of novel concepts, terms, and acronyms. The goal of this dictionary is not just to define the meaning of new words but to develop a proper understanding of leading-edge Web technologies. It will be an invaluable reference for all Internet professionals and practitioners as well as students and ordinary Web users.
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- XML syntax and core technologies
- All the major members of the XML family of technologies
- Numerous XML-based domain-specific languages
- Concept and architecture of the Semantic Web
- Key Semantic Web technologies
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- Over 1,800 terms and definitions from a newly emerged area
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- Clear and accessible definitions and a unique writing style bridge the gap between definition and explanation
- Extensive cross-referencing of terms and a CD-ROM containing a fully searchable version of the dictionary
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the Second International Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases, SWDB 2004, held in Toronto, Canada in August 2004 as a satellite workshop of VLDB 2004.
The 14 revised full papers presented together with 2 papers by the invited keynote speakers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 47 submissions. Among the topics addressed are data semantics, semantic Web services, service-oriented computing, workflow composition, XML semantics, relational tables, ontologies, semantic Web algebra, heterogeneous data sources, context mediation, OWL, ontology engineering, data integration, semantic Web queries, database queries, and peer-to-peer warehouses.
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Journal on Data Semantics VII (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics. Based on the highly visible publication platform Lecture Notes in Computer Science, this new journal is widely disseminated and available worldwide.
The scope of the journal ranges from theories supporting the formal definition of semantic content to innovative domain-specific applications of semantic knowledge. The journal addresses researchers and advanced practitioners working on the semantic web, interoperability, mobile information services, data warehousing, knowledge representation and reasoning, conceptual database modeling, ontologies, and artificial intelligence.
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Journal on Data Semantics VI (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics. Based on the highly visible publication platform Lecture Notes in Computer Science, this new journal is widely disseminated and available worldwide.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2006, held in Luxembourg, Luxembourg in June 2006.
The 33 revised full papers presented together with 3 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 189 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on security, conceptual modelling, queries, document conceptualization, service composition, workflow, business modelling, configuration and separation, business process modelling, agent orientation, and requirements management.
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Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 10th International Conference, DASFAA 2005, Beijing, China, April 17-20, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10
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The 67 revised full papers and 15 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 302 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on bioinformatics, water marking and encryption, XML query processing, XML coding and metadata management, data mining, data generation and understanding, music retrieval, query processing in subscription systems, extending XML, Web services, high-dimensional indexing, sensor and stream data processing, database performance, clustering and classification, data warehousing, data mining and Web data processing, moving object databases, temporal databases, semantics, XML update and query patterns, join processing and view management, spatial databases, enhancing database services, recovery and correctness, and XML databases and indexing.
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Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 11th International Conference, DASFAA 2006, Singapore, April 12-15, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2006, held in Singapore in April 2006.
The 46 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 188 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on sensor networks, subsequence matching and repeating patterns, spatial-temporal databases, data mining, XML compression and indexing, xpath query evaluation, uncertainty and streams, peer-to-peer and distributed networks, performance and authentication, XML query processing, OLAP and data warehouse, Web and Web services, query processing, design: modeling and dependencies, labeling scheme and graph queries in XML, document retrieval, and industrial papers.
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Journal on Data Semantics IX (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics. Based on the highly visible publication platform Lecture Notes in Computer Science, this new journal is widely disseminated and available worldwide.
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Journal on Data Semantics VIII (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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Small Business Entrepreneurship: An Ethics and Human Relations Perspective
Lavern S. Urlacher
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Exceptionally how-to, hands-on, and real-world in approach, this guide to starting a small business walks readers step-by-step through a unique entrepreneurial model that fully integrates and explains the interrelationships of the functional areas of business with the human relationship elements. Features profiles of real entrepreneurs engaged in the challenges of starting and managing a variety of small businesses. Covers such topics as: Entrepreneurial Beginnings; Profiles in Entrepreneurship; Ethics a Foundation You Can Build On; Financing Your Business; The SBA Services and Loan Programs, Venture Capitalists, Owner Financing And Other Methods Of Creative Financing; Franchise and Franchise Opportunities; A Finance Supplement: Evaluating Financial Statements, Time Value of Money and Capital Budgeting; Marketing More than a Function, a Customer Information System; Opportunity Based Marketing, and Marketing Research; Accounting For Small Business; Federal and State Filing Forms; Management Information Systems; and The Environment We Operate In. For anyone interested in starting and/or managing a small business.
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