Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)

Book Description

Web services are leading to the use of more packaged software either as an internal service or an external service available over the Internet. These services, which will be connected together to create the information technology systems of the future, will require less custom software in our organizations and more creativity in the connections between the services. This book begins with a high-level example of how an average person in an organization might interact with a service-oriented architecture. As the book progresses, more technical detail is added in a "peeling of the onion" approach. The leadership opportunities within these developing service-oriented architectures are also explained. At the end of the book there is a compendium or "pocket library" for software technology related to service-oriented architectures.

· Only web services book to cover both data management and software engineering perspectives, excellent resource for ALL members of IT teams
· Jargon free, highly illustrated, with introduction that anyone can read that then leads into increasing technical detail
· Provides a set of leadership principles and suggested application for using this technology.

Customer Reviews:

understandable explanations.......2006-03-09

Barry gives a readable, high level explanation of Web Services and their latest incarnation - SOA. He contrasts the latter with the pre-existing EDI, which might use CORBA or DCOM. SOA is presented as much easier to make modular, without any strange binary formats. The virtues of using XML as the underlying data exchange format should be apparent to the reader.

He suggests how a company might want to redesign its data functionality so as to use an SOA approach. This can be confined entirely within the company's machines, or perhaps to offer Web Services to outsiders.

Perfect Dosage of SOA.......2005-08-10

I found this book to be just right. It explains the value of SOA and the basic architecture. It skirts the technical stuff, which is fine for this kind of book. I think it's great for a manager or a consultant pitching SOA.

I give it 4 instead of 5 due to the overuse of force field analysis and the lack of a point in the later chapters. More than half of the book is extremely useful. It would get 5 if they chopped out the useless stuff and the excessive use of force field analysis.

No Perfect Answer.......2005-03-08

From the start, I was happy to see that Barry wasn't one of those old school guys who tried something 10 years ago that didn't work, and had sworn off a similar endeavor forever as impossible. He's been there - he just has moved on, just as computing and software technologies have changed and made a lot of our past experiences less relevant today.

Neither is this book a recipe for perfection requiring strict adherence. His regular admonition to build for flexibility and his willingness to point out the flaws in conventional beliefs is a welcome departure from most architectural guides.

I particularly enjoyed the discussion on middle-tier architectures and data caching. As service-oriented architectures mature, it's highly unlikely they will succeed if all data access occurs in the enterprise tier. An SOA will encourage new applications and more sophisticated services, which will place even more stress on data access and responsiveness. Plus, the SOA infrastructure itself will require non-enterprise data for state management, diagnostics, object mapping and other functions that must be stored in the middle tier. This is a topic that cannot be avoided for an SOA that fulfills its long-term promise to the business. Barry's book is the only one I have found that deals with this reality in a straightforward, unemotional way.

Given that most of the SOA failures are likely to occur in the planning and organiation of the team or teams involved, I'm happy to see this kind of book now, when most companies are in the early stages. Let's let the standards firm up and the early implementations guide the "best practices" books which will no doubt come soon.

WebServices: dangerous material for inexperienced mind.......2005-02-09

The Beef
I wish there were 0 stars reviews. I wish there was a "R" or "NR" rating for books that would reflect appropriateness for certain "age" in one's career. This book ("Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558609067) is dangerous in content as it is in its trumpeting up of the web services.

The Good Stuff
The only one good line out of the book is on p97: there is more money to be made on the services provided using web services than on the web services technology itself - yup you heard da-man: web services are NBYATP (nothing but yet another transport protocol) - pretty much since the dawn of geeks we witnessed healthy flow of trumpeted transport protocols that ended up at most as a 10 year fab - with TCP having the only staying power as the building block of our virtual lives. you know the the RPCs, the HTTPs, the DCOMs, the CORBAs, the IIOPs, the SOAPs, ...

Educator, Educate thyself
The author needs to get an education from "COM+ and battle for middle tier" (http://www.objectwatch.com/ and http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007FYHG) where master Sessions explains why the whole shebang about caching data in the middle tier, coding transaction coordination by hand, and using stateful services is a KOD (kiss of death) for systems where number of simultaneous users exceeds one's age.

The author also needs to read more from the anti-middle-tier-christ Tom Kyte (http://asktom.oracle.com/ and "Expert One on One" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590592433) and understand why one shouldn't try to do what databases do best - process massive sets of data, quickly.

Delusions
The dangerous chapters start around p127 (sure, stick your data inside a middle tier access rules so nobody other then your application can ever get to it) and totally enter delusions on page 175 referencing magical "50 times or more" improvement using caching in the middle tier (sure that works for magical systems where no updates take place - find ONE real system where this occurs).

Distributed Caching
the distributed caching problem hasn't been solved at the academic level, let alone implemented in any of the OOTB systems out there. The less-then perfect approaches have been implemented (e.g. Network File System, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Google File System) but with their own quirks and for their own domain. These implementations just prove that distributed caching product is an NP complete problem and will probably stay at least until the next generation.

Transaction Coordination
for those who think that web services architectures will solve the multi-source data update transaction coordination, boy are you in for a ride. Sure, you can pick up one of the standards that Roger Sessions artfully keeps spitting at in his monthly newsletter where he displays the Cassandra syndrome by telling the "big guys" that you can't cache the data in any non-authority tier (usually non-database tier), coordinate transaction with stateful services *and* provide large volume support at the same time. The experienced will tell you that the more data you cache in the middle tier, the less clients you can service. Stateful web services - eeeek - that's the screeching of my fingernails against the metal wall - find me one business that has one dedicated phonecall taking service rep per client - so why do you think that anyone can afford to have a single instance of web service for one client only?

Stateless is the king
the obvious answer is that stateless services are the king, but they bring unfriendly problems that you know and love from HttpSession days - one call one transaction, can't daisy-chain them unless there is a transaction processing monitor environment available, can't rollback after the call completes, etc etc etc.

Caveat - Open/XA
One thing I will concede - if you have Open/XA compliant data source under the hood exposed via WebServices spec that supports recoverable Open/XA-like stateless transaction protocol (business workflow coordination spec) - yes you can fix all that's wrong with web services - if you can afford decresed throughput (in any measurable sense) AND inability to perform set operations.

Row-by-row security
just try applying security to the underlying data source. did you ever try to implement a security based on iterative approach where each "row" of information is fetched, and security access check is perfomed? then you know this works for systems where you fetch a few rows. try doing a search across say 10-15 million rows and apply your row-by-row security policy and you'll see why I wouldn't leave home without Oracle and its Virtual Private Database technology in my pocket. I can swifth through 250,000 users, 1M+ discretionary access controls (DACs, a.k.a. ACL) and 1M+ mandatory access controls (MACs, or functional security), and 10M+ documents in under one second - and all of it transparently available to middle tier applications, Business Intelligence (BI) reporting systems, and command line interpreters. what are YOUR numbers Mr. row-by-row middle tier WebServices security?

Maybe, just maybe...
web services will always be relegated to systems where flexibility and data transformation capability trumps volume in terms of simultaneous users, transactions, and data volume (but then you can use XSLT, perl, awk, etc); in other words once the number of simultaneous users exceeds your age combined with transactions volume above number of your fingers per second, and you can say good night to your web services.

Anecdotal
as a good friend of mine once said: "These guys built an XML over TCP transaction processing platform. They proudly stated they can process 3 transactions per second. Our production system at the exchange written in C blasts through about 10,000 of the same transactions per second. who are they kidding?"

Closing Words of wisdom
and to paraphrase Tom Kyte and add to this conversation: "I can do about 3,000 logged (recoverable) transactions per second from 5,000 clients on my ***laptop*** using a Java-JDBC-Oracle 10g all-in-one combination and about 15,000 nonlogged (nonrecoverable)transactions per second using PL/SQL as a client. What kind of volume can you service your web service again?"

5 Stars from the author of _XML:A Manager's Guide_.......2003-08-19

As a fellow author of a book targeted at managers, I feel that I have a pretty good understanding of their needs. Doug has done an admirable job of meeting these needs for Web services. This is a book for managers that want to have sucessful Web services projects.

Doug starts by motivating the need for Web services with a utopian view of a near future business trip. Then he gives a thorough account of Web services technology basics at a level that even managers whose technical days are long in the past can understand. He ties this account back to the utopian business trip, showing how Web services overcome the technical obstacles to making it a reality.

This book really shines in its extensive treatment of how managers can make their Web services projects successful. As a technologist, I have a tendency to underestimate the impact of "soft" project management issues, but Doug has not made this mistake. His years of experience clearly show through in his thoughtful and comprehensive treament of the forces pushing managers to use Web services, the potential obstacles to project completion, and how to overcome them.

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Why are some artists and musicians held up as Great while others are merely considered good? Artistic Greatness examines the intimate details of the lives of three of the world s greatest artistic geniuses to provide an answer. What did these men have in common? Part history, part biography, and part sociological chronicle, Artistic Greatness is a work of art in itself.

Customer Reviews:

This Book Offers a Broad Spectrum of Appeal.......2000-04-19

Throughout his book, McBurney provides excellent contextual and personal information on three of the world's greatest artists, chosen primarily for of their pivotal positions in their areas of expertise. Especially with Claude Monet, it is as if the author followed the artist throughout his life, reporting on the facts occurring simultaneously with his writing, as did Boswell with Samuel Johnson.

But more importantly, this book is not only for lovers of great art. It has relevance for every reader who has aspirations toward greatness. Michelangelo, Beethoven, and Monet are among the many great people around whom we would profit from modeling our own lives. Readers can place themselves in the position of the artist to find out how they compare and what is needed if they are to succeed, as these artists certainly did.

In reporting the salient facts of the lives of his chosen artists, McBurney displays a grasp of the qualities that make for artistic greatness that belie his credentials as a businessman. It became apparent to this reader that the essential characteristics that the author concludes to be the requisites of great artists apply to other, perhaps even all, areas of endeavor, including business, which is, after all, the 'business of America'. For example, just as with great artists, business leaders require the physical and emotional stamina necessary to overcome hurtles and obstacles that stand in their way. Read the book to discover other traits, how the artists under the author's scrutiny applied them, and how you might apply them to achieve success, and perhaps even greatness, in your life.

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A Celebration of Ireland.......2007-02-26

This wonderful volume matches a gallery of photographs that truly capture the beauty of Ireland with a collection of blessings attributed to Irish saints, songwriters, poets, and Irish custom. The effect of the collection is both moving and comforting, especially to those who have been fortunate enough to experience Ireland first hand.

The photography heavily favors the wild and undeveloped Western part of Ireland; visitors may recognize scenes from the Dingle Peninsula and the Killarny area, among others. The blessings are a celebration of Irish spirituality; quotes from early Irish Christians mingle with customary blessings and songs and items from popular Irish writers. They together are an invocation to remember the simple and important things in life.

This book is highly recommended to the reader familar with Ireland and with its spirituality.

Beautiful and Charming.......2001-11-14

This is a Wonderful book! The pictures are very beautiful, vivid!
And the verses are lovely...I am just thrilled to have bought a copy. Our Public Library even ordered a copy after having looked through mine. Outstanding!! Truly.

A Photo Collection Of Great Interest.......2001-02-22

I lived in London for two years a decade ago and so had the opportunity to travel extensively through the stunning countryside of England and Scotland. I never made it to Ireland however and so purchased Irish Blessings in order to have a good look at what I missed. TOO MUCH!

This collection of photographs was taken from a number of different sources. It is a lovely, well-assembled collection indeed and many of the plates are of a very high quality. All are of interest.

The book is broken up into three distinct parts with the first concentrating on the land itself. The second part, "...Home And Hearth," includes numerous shots of both the interior of Irish dwellings and photographs of a diverse sampling of buildings, often in sumptuous settings. The final segment of Irish Blessings is devoted to means of travel about the country which includes photographs of boats by the sea, rivers, roads through the countryside, and the odd bicycle or two propped up against a wooden covered bridge or a village pub waiting to provide simple transport to their owners.

There are not many people represented in the collection but photographs of animals that are integral to Irish country life are ubiquitous . One photo of a dog lazily resting upon the back of a horse is devine. And a picture of a cow atop a wondrous stone wall abutting the sea offers a unique, special image.

The photographs in this portfolio are matched with Irish verse and song. That is a nice idea but I only wish that a bit of text which conveyed something about the locations depicted had been included as well. As it stands, there is no way to know where in Ireland each photograph was taken unless one was very familiar with the country beforehand. A small problem perhaps, in an offering of great beauty and spirit.

A Beautiful Coffee Table Book..........2000-06-17

I guess I'm partial to Irish things, but I think this is a beautiful book. Pages are split between pictures...landscapes, buildings, homes, and text... Irish blessings (May the road rise to meet you...etc.) and Irish poets. Not a book to read staight through, but a great display book for you and guests to thumb through during idle moments.

Irish Blessings A Photographic Celebration

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Irish Blessings A Photographic Celebration
Ashley Shannon
Manufacturer: Courage Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KBHCE6

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The latest addition to the Evan Dorkin Library of the Damned is the first-ever collection from the acclaimed humor anthology Dork.“Who's Laughing Now?” features 112 pages of densely-packed comic book craziness from Dork #1-5, all wrapped up in a sweet little package co-designed by Dorkin and his House of Fun partner in crime, Sarah Dyer. Dorkin's pop-culture drenched humor work has won him several Eisner Awards, as well as a Harvey and an Ignatz - and now you can find out why (or wonder how!) with this collection, which includes chapters devoted to The Murder Family, Generation Ecch!, Fisher-Price Theater and The DevilPuppet's Invisible College of Secret Knowledge! There's also a head-spinning 19-page “Fun” section (bursting at the seams with 133 gagstrips!), a selection of non-themed comics and a gallery of covers, editorial pages and rare art -- as well as an all-new batch of chapter heading pin-ups and strips. So, who's laughing now? You are, pal -- unless you're some kind of uptight, humorless pinko!

Customer Reviews:

What Do You Call A Dog With Wings?.......2002-08-14

For the answer, you'll have to read Evan Dorkin's hilarious, thought-provoking collection Dork: Who's Laughing Now? Aside from the hours of uproarious laughter that the book provided, I also had some "What The...?" moments as I realized that I was one of the people that Dorkin was making fun of at the moment...but that's cool, since Dorkin isn't too hip to make fun of himself as well. (No one is safe from his razor-sharp insights!) The book is split into sections, including The Murder Family, which would make a great sitcom, Devil Puppet, who gives glimpses of the hidden world around us, including the story of America's greatest songwriter (Milk, Milk, Lemonade....), and my favorites, the FUN strips, 20 pages with 7 strips per page.....get set for FUN!

I can't recommend this book enough. What are you waiting for??? BUY and ENJOY, already!!!!!

Greatness in Panel form.......2001-08-07

Evan dorkin is a genius, in my opinion. He creates strips that are bitingly funny with an underlying hint of Black Comedy. "Murder Family" is so sick it's good, "Fisher Price Theater" is sheer genius, and his collections of three-panel strips are simply hilarious. Check out "Phil the disco skinhead", " Myron the living Voodoo doll", "God: Private investigator" and "Kool-aid man in Rwanda". All great. He's a rare breed of comic book creator: one who can mock his own profession. Also, he knows when to make people think, as seen in his "Sad fact of life" strip( R.I.P, Jack Kirby ). I give this book the highest possible reccomendation. Buy it now, I say.

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DO NOT BUY IT!!!

NOT NECESSARY TO BUY

PACKED WITH GOOD INFORMATION AND IDEAS!

Pays for Itself and More!

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Bargain Buys for Baby's First Year
Leah Severson
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Binding: Paperback

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Brightly colored toys, tiny clothes, cases of formula and sturdy strollers all come with a hefty price tag.Even before a new baby arrives, the shopping begins - for necessities (car seat, crib, feeding equipment) and frivolities (fluffy booties, a flotilla of stuffed toys).Leah Severson knows what babies need and what parents desire, and she's done a thorough investigation of how to get the best for less -- in some cases even for free!Bargain Buys for Baby's First Year will save you up to 50% on: * baby furniture * clothing * formula * diapers * toys * books * safety equipment * and moreLearn money and time saving tricks like how to make your own baby wipes (faster than it takes to buy them at the store). Also discover which big-ticket items you and your baby can live without -- and which items are downright dangerous or unnecessary.Bargain Buys for Baby's First year is your best weapon against newborn sticker shock. AUTHORBIO: Leah Severson is a television news producer in central Indiana, and mom to her daughter, Emma.This is her first book.

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DO NOT BUY IT!!!.......2005-10-04

The book is not up to date. Web site is not working.
They tell you to send a self-addressed envelope for coupons, and after two weeks, the UPS return it to me with a note: the address is not longer valid. Do not give your money away!!!

NOT NECESSARY TO BUY.......2004-03-27

If you have the Baby Bargain book by Alan & Denise Fields, YOU REALLY DON'T NEED THIS BOOK. First, it's not as detail as Baby Bargain. Second, the information seems to be outdated because (1) copyright is 2000 and (2)I send in for some info. per author's instruction and I got a return to sender with NO FORWARDING ADDRESS. Third, these type of books should be updated annually since we are looking for the latest information. Companies form, merge, and go bankrupt annually. If the information is not updated, how is it a good guide? I got the book because of all the five stars review I read.

PACKED WITH GOOD INFORMATION AND IDEAS!.......2000-07-30

If you want creative ideas on cutting the expense of a new baby, take a look at this book! There are lots of clever substitutions (use puffy fabric paint on plain socks instead of buying the expensive non-skid kind!) as well as been-there-done-that advice on what NOT to buy in the first place. This book will pay for itself over and over, and will save you both time and money all through the first year. I highly recommend it for the kind of helpful advice you won't find in parenting books!

Pays for Itself and More!.......2000-07-24

If you want creative ideas on cutting the expense of a new baby, take a look at this book! There are lots of clever substitutions (use puffy fabric paint on plain socks instead of buying the expensive non-skid kind!) as well as been-there-done-that advice on what NOT to buy in the first place. This book will pay for itself almost instantly, and will save you both time and money all through the first year. I highly recommend it for the kind of advice you won't find in parenting books!

Christina Raley, Managing Editor...

Great Resource!.......2000-07-05

What a great resource for new and expectant parents! I saved hundreds of dollars on baby furniture and accessories by reading this book before I went shopping. You'll definitely save more than the cost of the book by following just some of the ideas in it. I also liked the information about shopping online. Who knew there were so many great places on the Internet to buy baby products? Every expectant and new parent should make the investment in this book - if not for the money-saving information, for the health and safety information that I didn't find anywhere else.

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Custer's wasn't the only one! A "last stand" remains one of the most compelling wartime scenarios, where outnumbered warriors fight on, hoping to defy the odds and win the day. This best-selling collection gathers 13 examples of such battles, which often influence entire campaigns. Alongside less well-known cases, appear some of the most unforgettable campaigns: Napoleon at Waterloo, the Alamo, Little Big Horn, Rorke's Drift, and Arnhem Bridge. "...part of the...Cassell Military Classics series...hair-raising stories of military skirmishes throughout history."--Library Journal.

Customer Reviews:

Great introduction to legendary battles!.......2005-02-13

This book contains thirteen brief chapters on some of the bloodiest battles in military history, and although the emphasis is clearly on Britain, there is also a good sampling of U.S. battles as well. I'm a little disappointed that no mention of Civil War battles was included, as there are plenty of examples of "last stands" (Fort Pillow, Sailor's Creek, Vicksburg, Nashville) that could easily fill a book. Also the editing (at least in the Castle edition I own) was a little sloppy in places. There was little about the Alamo, Custer's Last Stand, or Wake Island in this book that I didn't already know, but the chapters on Napoleon's Old Guard at Waterloo, the "demon" Legionnaires at Camerone, Rorke's Drift, and Arnhem Bridge were very gripping and informative. The maps in each chapter are outstanding and very helpful in giving the reader a visual picture of the battlefields. Much of the book focuses on World War Two battles while only one chapter describes World War One "last stands". So don't expect too much from a book this short. If you're looking for a good introduction to some of Great Britain's and the United States' hardest fought battles, this is a great place to begin.

Britain's Last Stand (with a little help from others).......2004-10-13

This is one of these compilation books that have been springing up lately, containing a collection of stories recounting various battles through history. This one purports to study what the author calls "last stands" where the one side or the other was pushed to the wall, and either defeated or so beaten down it was a miracle they survived. While the writing is alright, and the author seems to be reasonably skilled with the facts, there's no analysis or interpretation of what happened, really. Instead it's the thrilling you-are-there stuff that tells you what happened, but does almost nothing to explain why things happened the way they did.

Perrett takes a baker's dozen battles and recounts each of them in about 15 or so pages each. About half of them involve the British army, which the author, being British himself, as much as tells you is the best in the world. Given the length of the individual essays on the battles, there's little space for in depth analysis or discussions of the decisions made in the fighting. Then again, some of the battles (notably Camerone) were so small that such analysis is probably fruitless anyway. The author, then, makes a brief attempt in the "Conclusions" section, after the text, but only says that leadership, training, and morale are important in units if they're to perform like this. I could have told him that...

There's some good material here, and I don't want to be too negative. If you're looking for story-telling about military history, and you don't need or want the analytical part of things, this is probably a good book for you. Unfortunately, I want more from my military history these days than stories.

Last Stand: Bravery is Only Sometimes Enough.......2002-07-04

Conventional thinking to explain why certain groups of armed men are willing to fight to the last man and the last bullet usually revolve around the obvious: esprit de corps, Prussian style training and discipline, absolute loyalty to a charismatic commander, bitter hatred of the enemy, extreme altruism--the list goes on and on. What Bryan Perrett adds in LAST STAND to a mixture that rarely contains all the above is the small number of those willing to die for a cause. Surprisingly enough for the non-military historian is his claim that last stands historically did not involve elite units who presumably would be the most likely candidates for self-sacrifice. The case studies represent a sampling of bravery that ranges from the well-known massacres of Custer at the Little Big Horn to further massacres at the Alamo and to unexpected triumphs at Rorke's Drift. Perrett analyzes thirteen battles all of which involved soldiers willing to fight to the death, and in most of them, they did. Perrett's expertise in wartime tactics and his fluid prose style help to explain why some are willing to die for a belief even if most are not.

Backs to the Wall!.......2002-03-22

In this series of essays about last-ditch resistance on the battlefield, we are taken on a tour of military history from Waterloo to Big Horn to Zululand to Korea. Perrett's crisp style and sound military background combine with his empathy for the men who together squarely and faced, and usually met, death without flinching. With a few exceptions such as Rorke's Drift, most units making an heroic last stand will end up losing. Perrett makes that point that while some last-stands such as Arnhem Bridge, may have had incidental side-benefits (stalling the Germans long enough that other bridges might be held), others like the Foreign Legion at Camerone or the Imperial Guard at Waterloo, serve only as regimental glories. Yet others, like The Alamo or the American defense of Wake Island, featured gallantry that inspired the homefront towards total victory. Superb military history.

Great book, a must have for military amateur historians.......2001-10-06

This book is a series of short essays on famous last ditch battles fought through out history from Waterloo in 1815 through Imjin in Korea in 1952. While it does not cover every great last stand, by no means even a large number of them, it is still a very worthwhile book.

It covers about 10 such battles all over the world during this time period, and is written in a very easy to read format. The stories will keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time, and you will come away from it with a great deal of knowledge. Many of the stories are complete enough to shed light on a single individual involved, not just the whole unit involved.

If you like the underdog, or a fight against all odds, this book is for you.

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Filling a major gap in historical, literary, and post-colonial scholarship, Imperialisms examines early identity statements and nuances of dominance of the world's major imperialisms in various theatres of competition. Developed in collaboration with leading scholars in the field, this book balances historical essays and case studies, and encourages investigations of conversant and competing imperialisms, their practices, and their rhetoric of self-justification. Europe, India, the New World, Africa, and the Far East are among the imperialisms and their sites featured here, and which are analyzed in relation to intersecting debates on politics, religion, literature, nationalism, commerce, conversion, and race. Valuable for preliminary or advanced studies, Imperialisms provides multiple points of entry into and guidelines for a conversation both current and vigorous.

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Perspectives on General System Theory: Scientific-Philosophical Studies (The International library of systems theory and philosophy)
Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
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