Author: Terry Godlove File Type: epub Without Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) there would probably be no modern discipline of the philosophy of religion. Kants considerable influence has ensured that philosophers, in addressing religious questions, have focused on such issues as arguments for and against the existence of God the question of immortality the compatibility of human evil and transcendent goodness and the relationship between morality and the divine. Many books already explore the nature of his influence. But this one goes further. It argues that Kants theoretical philosophy, also called the critical philosophy, contains resources that have much wider implications than just for Christianity, or for those philosophical issues that relate only to monotheism and its beliefs. For Terry F Godlove, Kants insights run deeper, and properly applied can help rejuvenate our understanding of the general study of religious thought and its challenges. The author thus bypasses what is usually considered to be Kantian philosophy of religion, focusing instead on more fundamental issues on Kants account of experience, for example, and on his arguments that human perception of incomplete and finite concepts can nevertheless yield genuine knowledge and insight. Kant and Religion is a subtle and penetrating attempt, by a leading contemporary philosopher of religion, to redefine and reshape the contours of his own discipline through sustained reflection on Kants so-called humanizing project.**

Author: John Goodson File Type: pdf The Data Access HandbookAchieving Optimal Database Application Performance and ScalabilityJohn Goodson Robert A. StewardDrive breakthrough database application performance by optimizing middleware and connectivity Performance and scalability are more critical than ever in todays enterprise database applications, and traditional database tuning isnt nearly enough to solve the performance problems you are likely to see in those applications. Nowadays, 75-95% of the time it takes to process a data request is typically spent in the database middleware. Todays worst performance and scalability problems are generally caused by issues with networking, database drivers, the broader softwarehardware environment, and inefficient coding of data requests. In The Data Access Handbook, two of the worlds leading experts on database access systematically address these issues, showing how to achieve remarkable improvements in performance of real-world database applications.Drawing on their unsurpassed experience with every leading database system and database connectivity API, John Goodson and Rob Steward reveal the powerful ways middleware affects application performance and guide developers with designing and writing API code that will deliver superior performance in each leading environment. In addition to covering essential concepts and techniques that apply across database systems and APIs, they present many API examples for ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET as well as database system examples for DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase. Coverage includesullClearly understanding how each component of database middleware can impact performance and scalability llWriting database applications to reduce network traffic, limit disk IO, optimize application-to-driver interaction, and simplify queriesincluding examples for ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET llManaging connections, transactions, and SQL statement execution more efficiently llMaking the most of connection and statement pooling llWriting good benchmarks to predict your applications performance llSystematically resolving performance problemsincluding eight start-to-finish case-study exampleslulIf youre a software architect, system designer, or database application developer, The Data Access Handbook will be your most indispensable database application performance resource. Its the one book that focuses on the areas where you can achieve the greatest improvementswhether youre designing new database applications or troubleshooting existing ones.John Goodson is vice president and general manager of the DataDirect division of Progress Software, a leader in data connectivity and mainframe integration. For 20 years, he has worked with Sun, Microsoft, and others to develop database connectivity standards such as J2EE, JDBC, ODBC, and ADO. He served on the ANSI H2 committee that built the SQL standard and now participates in the JDBC Expert Group and Java Rowsets standards committees. Rob Steward, vice president of R&D at the DataDirect division of Progress Software, is responsible for the development, strategy, and oversight of the companys data connectivity products. Rob has spent the past 15 years developing high-performing database driver and data providers, including ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET.Both authors have spoken on database application performance at many industry events.Visit www.dataaccesshandbook.com to get the code examples presented in this book and other supplemental information for DB2, MicrosoftSQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase.**

Author: Jeff Allred File Type: pdf Photos filled with the forlorn faces of hungry and impoverished Americans that came to characterize the desolation of the Great Depression are among the best known artworks of the twentieth century. Captured by the cameras eye, these stark depictions of suffering became iconic markers of a formative period in U.S. history. Although there has been an ample amount of critical inquiry on Depression-era photographs, the bulk of scholarship treats them as isolated art objects. And yet they were often joined together with evocative writing in a genre that flourished amid the period, the documentary book. American Modernism and Depression Documentary looks at the tradition of the hybrid, verbal-visual texts that flourished during a time when U.S. citizens were becoming increasingly conscious of the life of a larger nation. Jeff Allred draws on a range of seminal works to illustrate the convergence of modernism and documentary, two forms often regarded as unrelated. Whereas critics routinely look to James Agee and Walker Evans Let Us Now Praise Famous Men as the sole instance of the modernist documentary book, Allred turns to such works as Richard Wrights scathing 12 Million Black Voices, and the oft-neglected You Have Seen Their Faces by Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White to open up the critical playing field. And rather than focusing on the ethos of Progressivism andor the politics and aesthetics of the New Deal, Allred emphasizes the centrality of Life magazine to the consolidation of a novel cultural form. **

Author: Kent Blansett File Type: pdf The first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leader in the Alcatraz takeover and the Red Power Indigenous rights movement A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose assassination in 1972 galvanized the Trail of Broken Treaties march on Washington, DC. The life of this pivotal Akwesasne Mohawk activist is explored in an important new biography based on extensive archival research and key interviews with activists and family members. Historian Kent Blansett offers a transformative and new perspective on the Red Power movement of the turbulent 1960s and the dynamic figure who helped to organize and champion it, telling the full story of Oakess life, his fight for Native American self-determination, and his tragic, untimely death. This invaluable history chronicles the mid-twentieth century rise of Intertribalism, Indian Cities, and a national political awakening that continues to shape Indigenous politics and activism to this day. **