The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attit[...]
Emile Zola is a towering literary figure of the nineteenth century. His main literary achievement was his twenty-volume novel cycle, Les Rougon-Macquart (1870-93). In this series he combines a novelist's skills with those of the investigative journalist to examine the social, sexual and moral lands[...]
May 2015 sees the 250th anniversary of the launch of HMS Victory, the ship that is so closely associated with Nelson and his great victory at Trafalgar and which, still extant, has today become the embodiment of the great Age of Sail. Many books have been written about Victory but none like this, wh[...]
Complete coverage of all components of Oracle's Big Data platform-Oracle's integrated solution for acquiring, organizing, and analyzing unstructured data. Cowritten by members of the Big Data team at Oracle, The Oracle Big Data Handbook offers comprehensive coverage on Oracle's approach to Big Data[...]
Provides a guidance on the fundamentals of business law and how they should be integrated into ethical and effective business decisions. This title concentrates on legal principles and thereby is able to articulate the impact of global business law and its international applications.[...]
"Virtual worlds offer engaging, rich visual and auditory experiences to their users. In them, players guide computer-based avatars through virtual landscapes filled with realistic buildings, objects, characters, and the avatars of other players. In the commercial realm, games and online virtual comm[...]
One way to significantly improve the delivery of health care is to teach the health professionals who provide care to work together, to communicate with each other across professional boundaries, and to start to think and act like a team that has the patient at its center. The team-based care moveme[...]