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Classic Christmas Stories

A Collection of Timeless Holiday Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte, L. M. Montgomery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Anthony Trollope ...

Narrated by Robin Sachs ...

Unabridged

4 hours 58 min

Catch the holiday spirit with this magical collection of beloved Christmas tales. Christmas favorites from Mark Twain, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte and others are lovingly recorded and presented here in one enchanting volume. ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Catch the holiday spirit with this magical collection of beloved Christmas tales. Christmas favorites from Mark Twain, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte and others are lovingly recorded and presented here in one enchanting volume.
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Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen ...

Narrated by Alan Cumming, Alan Cumming, Andrew Sachs, Andrew Sachs, Juliet Stevenson, Juliet Stevenson, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Davenport ...

Unabridged

3 hours 5 min

Download eight timeless audio tales from a magical storytellerThis enchanting collection, retold by writer and critic Naomi Lewis, contains eight of Hans Christian Andersen's magnificent fairy tales. It includes Thumbelina, a little girl no more than a thumb-joint high, The Emperor's New Clothes, the tale of a man who cares only for his appearance and The Little Mermaid, who longs to one day marry ... Read more

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Download eight timeless audio tales from a magical storytellerThis enchanting collection, retold by writer and critic Naomi Lewis, contains eight of Hans Christian Andersen's magnificent fairy tales. It includes Thumbelina, a little girl no more than a thumb-joint high, The Emperor's New Clothes, the tale of a man who cares only for his appearance and The Little Mermaid, who longs to one day marry
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Big Data Benchmarking

5th International Workshop, WBDB 2014, Potsdam, Germany, August 5-6- 2014, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Tilmann Rabl, Kai Sachs, Meikel Poess, Chaitanya Baru, Hans-Arno Jacobson ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking, WBDB 2014, held in Potsdam, Germany, in August 2014.The 13 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and cover topics such as benchmarks specifications and proposals, Hadoop and MapReduce - in the different context ... Read more

$40.49 USD

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking, WBDB 2014, held in Potsdam, Germany, in August 2014.The 13 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and cover topics such as benchmarks specifications and proposals, Hadoop and MapReduce - in the different context
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Expert Oracle Exadata

by Tanel Poder, Martin Bach, Frits Hoogland, Kristofferson Arao, Andy Colvin, Kerry Osborne, Randy Johnson ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Expert Oracle Exadata, 2nd Edition opens up the internals of Oracle's Exadata platform so that you can fully benefit from the most performant and scalable database hardware appliance capable of running Oracle Database. This edition is fully-updated to cover Exadata 5-2 and Oracle Database 12c. If you're new to Exadata, you'll soon learn that it embodies a change in how you think about and manage ... Read more

$80.99 USD

Expert Oracle Exadata, 2nd Edition opens up the internals of Oracle's Exadata platform so that you can fully benefit from the most performant and scalable database hardware appliance capable of running Oracle Database. This edition is fully-updated to cover Exadata 5-2 and Oracle Database 12c. If you're new to Exadata, you'll soon learn that it embodies a change in how you think about and manage
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Managing Data Using Excel

by Mark Gardener ...

Series series Research Skills
Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool that can transform the way you use data. This book explains in comprehensive and user-friendly detail how to manage, make sense of, explore and share data, giving scientists at all levels the skills they need to maximize the usefulness of their data.Readers will learn how to use Excel to:* Build a dataset – how to handle variables and notes, rearrangements and ... Read more

$36.89 USD

Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool that can transform the way you use data. This book explains in comprehensive and user-friendly detail how to manage, make sense of, explore and share data, giving scientists at all levels the skills they need to maximize the usefulness of their data.Readers will learn how to use Excel to:* Build a dataset – how to handle variables and notes, rearrangements and
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A Course in In-Memory Data Management

The Inner Mechanics of In-Memory Databases

by Hasso Plattner ...

Series series Business and Management (R0)
Recent achievements in hardware and software development, such as multi-core CPUs and DRAM capacities of multiple terabytes per server, enabled the introduction of a revolutionary technology: in-memory data management. This technology supports the flexible and extremely fast analysis of massive amounts of enterprise data. Professor Hasso Plattner and his research group at the Hasso Plattner ... Read more

$80.99 USD

Recent achievements in hardware and software development, such as multi-core CPUs and DRAM capacities of multiple terabytes per server, enabled the introduction of a revolutionary technology: in-memory data management. This technology supports the flexible and extremely fast analysis of massive amounts of enterprise data. Professor Hasso Plattner and his research group at the Hasso Plattner
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Components of a Canonical Data Model

by Lawrence L. Dunn ...

There is much discussion on the needs and benefits of a canonical data model to support a SOA initiative. However, many Data Management groups that are given the task to develop a canonical data model respond with the question : What is it? This white paper sheds light on the components that comprise a canonical data model and provides clear examples of what each component should look like. ... Read more

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There is much discussion on the needs and benefits of a canonical data model to support a SOA initiative. However, many Data Management groups that are given the task to develop a canonical data model respond with the question : What is it? This white paper sheds light on the components that comprise a canonical data model and provides clear examples of what each component should look like.
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Advances in Databases and Information Systems

21st European Conference, ADBIS 2017, Nicosia, Cyprus, September 24-27, 2017, Proceedings

Edited by Mārīte Kirikova, Kjetil Nørvåg, George A. Papadopoulos ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2017, held in Nicosia, Cyprus, in September 2017.The 26 regular papers presented together with one keynote paper and one keynote abstract were carefully selected and reviewed from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as conceptual modeling ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2017, held in Nicosia, Cyprus, in September 2017.The 26 regular papers presented together with one keynote paper and one keynote abstract were carefully selected and reviewed from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as conceptual modeling
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Semantic Technology

Third Joint International Conference, JIST 2013, Seoul, South Korea, November 28--30, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Wooju Kim, Ying Ding, Hong-Gee Kim ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2013, held in Seoul, South Korea, in November 2013.The 32 papers, included four tutorials and 5 workshop papers, in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections on semantic Web services, multilingual issues, ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2013, held in Seoul, South Korea, in November 2013.The 32 papers, included four tutorials and 5 workshop papers, in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections on semantic Web services, multilingual issues,
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Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

21st Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2017, Jeju, South Korea, May 23-26, 2017, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Jinho Kim, Kyuseok Shim, Longbing Cao, Jae-Gil Lee, Xuemin Lin, Yang-Sae Moon ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This two-volume set, LNAI 10234 and 10235, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2017, held in Jeju, South Korea, in May 2017.The 129 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 458 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: classification and deep learning; social ... Read more

$89.09 USD

This two-volume set, LNAI 10234 and 10235, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2017, held in Jeju, South Korea, in May 2017.The 129 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 458 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: classification and deep learning; social
... Read more
Databases Theory and Applications

28th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2017, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, September 25–28, 2017, Proceedings

Edited by Zi Huang, Xiaokui Xiao, Xin Cao ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2017, held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in September 2017.The 20 full papers presented together with 2 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The mission of ADC is to share novel research solutions to problems of today’s information society that fulfill the needs of ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2017, held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in September 2017.The 20 full papers presented together with 2 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The mission of ADC is to share novel research solutions to problems of today’s information society that fulfill the needs of
... Read more
Advances in Information Retrieval

38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, Padua, Italy, March 20-23, 2016. Proceedings

Edited by Fabio Crestani, Marie-Francine Moens, Josiane Mothe, Fabrizio Silvestri, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Claudia Hauff, Gianmaria Silvello, Nicola Ferro ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, held in Padua, Italy, in March 2016.The 42 full papers and 28 poster papers presented together with 3 keynote talks and 6 demonstration papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 284 submissions. The volume contains the outcome of 4 workshops as well as 4 tutorial papers in addition. ... Read more

$89.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, held in Padua, Italy, in March 2016.The 42 full papers and 28 poster papers presented together with 3 keynote talks and 6 demonstration papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 284 submissions. The volume contains the outcome of 4 workshops as well as 4 tutorial papers in addition.
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