Giles Winterbowne suffers with the many tribulations of his selfless love for a woman above his station in this classic tale of the West country (view table of contents)

Product Description: Provides an evaluation of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan with an emphasis on the works in performance rather than as literature. Also covers biographical information, theatrical background to the operas, and changes in the style of performance.

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Product Description: Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's known writings providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. Widely acknowledged as an exceptional guide to Bakhtin and dialogics, this book now includes a new introduction, concluding chapter and a fully updated bibliography...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The SQL Server 2000 High Availability Planning Guide helps database designers and systems engineers design data centers that can achieve the level of availability needed for particular business environments. This guide discusses each barrier to achieving a highly available data center and analyzes the solutions to each of these barriers...read more

Describes how to build Web applications using XSQL, Oracle Text, XSLT, and Java. (view table of contents)

Describes how to build database applications with MySQL, covering such topics as installing, testing, and configuring the MySQL server; security and backup; and troubleshooting. (view table of contents)

Product Description: SQL Clearly Explained, Third Edition, provides an in-depth introduction to using SQL (Structured Query Language). Readers will learn not only SQL syntax, but also how SQL works. Although the core of the SQL language remains relatively unchanged, the most recent release of the SQL standard (SQL:2008) includes two sets of extensions: 1) support for object-relational databases and 2) support for XML...read more

Describes the basics of creating, managing, and deploying Microsoft SQL server 2000.

This comprehensive tutorial and reference covers all the basics of PHP 5, a popular open source Web scripting language, and MySQL 4.012, the most popular open source database engine Explores why users need PHP and MySQL, how to get started, how to add PHP to HTML, and how to connect HTML Web pages to MySQL Offers an extensive tutorial for developing applications with PHP and MySQL Includes coverage of how to install, administer, and design MySQL databases independently of PHP; exception and error handling; debugging techniques; PostgreSQL database system; and PEAR database functions The authors provide unique case studies of how and where to use PHP drawn from their own extensive Web experience

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Paul Monel's childhood and early manhood in the English midlands are deeply affected by his devotion to and concern for his dominating mother