Here is an invaluable overview of all the cutting-edge features of Oracle's latest database release, Oracle Database 10g. Includes expert commentary throughout from world-renowned Oracle guru Jonathan Lewis. This is an ideal resource for decision-makers and IT staff preparing for upgrades or migration.
Here is an invaluable overview of all the cutting-edge features of Oracle's latest database release, Oracle Database 10g. Includes expert comme...
Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. " I believe that observation to be entirely accurate. Someone else later observed that "any technologist with sufficient knowledge is indistinguishable from a magician. " With that in mind, what you have in your hands right now is a book on magic. However, for as long as I've known the author of this book, Jonathan Lewis (some 11 years according to my research on Google going back over the newsgroup archives), he has never been content to accept "magic. " He wants to know why something...
Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. " I believe that observation to be entirely ac...
This innovative study re-evaluates the philosophical significance of aesthetics in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of philosophy. Lewis's main argument is that contemporary conceptions of meaning and truth have been reified, and that aesthetics is able to articulate why this is the case, with important consequences for understanding the horizons and nature of philosophical inquiry. Reification and the Aesthetics of Music challenges the most emphatic and problematic conceptions of meaning and truth in both analytic philosophy and postmodern thought by acknowledging...
This innovative study re-evaluates the philosophical significance of aesthetics in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of philosophy....
