Post takes a hands-on, applications-oriented--not a theory oriented--approach to DBMS focusing on teaching students how to evaluate a business situation and apply a solution by building a database application. The text contains in-depth coverage of two crucial topics for building databases: database design (normalization) and Structured Query Language-SQL (queries). Post includes many examples, exercises, and 2 sample databases to give students plenty of hands-on practice.

The period of 1460-1660 was one of the most dramatic and crucially formative in the emergence of the modern English state, language, and self-consciousness. Beginning with the Wars of the Roses and ending with the Civil Wars and Republic, this book argues for a creative unity in this 200-year period, and provides both an up-to-date narrative of the growth of the English state and a historiographical background to each major issue that will facilitate further study of the period. (view table of contents)

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Operating on the premise that Shakespeare's writings are a unified exploration of the human experience, Philip Edwards's new work stresses the continuity of all the works--plays and poems, early and late writings, comedies and tragedies. The achievement of the plays is examined in chapters which maintain the traditional categories of comedy, history, and tragedy, but Edwards makes an important contribution to the field with his analysis of "tragicomedy"--a genre which unites the middle "problem" comedies with the final enigmatic "romances."

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Product Description: This imprint is established to publish in paperback for an individual readership the Press's most outstanding original monographs. These are titles which would normally appear in specialist hardback editions only, but whose quality and general academic importance justify their special promotion in this prestige imprint...read more

Scholarly critical articles on the sources, imagery, themes, and protagonists of Macbeth are supplemented by photographs and reproductions of paintings