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Modernizing Legacy Systems: Software Technologies, Engineering Processes, and Business Practices (SEI Series ...

3 reviews
Robert C. Seacord, Daniel Plakosh, ...

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003

A Legacy Migration Classic
If you have ever had the task of migrating legacy code and data to a new system you know how complex that task can be. "Modernizing Legacy Systems" covers all the bases of migrating a legacy system in wonderful detail without being overly wordy or obscure. System and software engineers will recognize and appreciate the fact that this book bases its advice on real world experience - the kind you ...

Modernizing the American War Department: Change And Continuity in a Turbulent Era, 1885-1920
Daniel R. Beaver

Kent State University Press, 2006

Not a simple, linear administrative history, "Modernizing the American War Department" is a unique study of the adjustment of nineteenth-century military organizations to the managerial, technological, and policy challenges of a new era. The story unfolds against a backdrop of massive industrial and technological changes, as the country moved from a traditional agricultural and market-based commercial system toward a modern organization ...

Modernizing the Provincial City: Toulouse 1945-1975
Rosemary Wakeman

Harvard University Press, 1998

Toulouse is one of the most striking examples of urban modernization both in France and in all of Europe. It exemplifies the unparalleled changes that transformed France into an urban nation after World War II. In Modernizing the Provincial City , Rosemary Wakeman examines the ways in which urban landscape and architecture, culture, and economic life were altered by public modernization programs designed to build "the new France." Her study is ...

Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal (Center for American Places - ...
Gabrielle Esperdy

University Of Chicago Press, 2008

An important part of the New Deal, the Modernization Credit Plan helped transform urban business districts and small-town commercial strips across 1930s America, but it has since been almost completely forgotten. In Modernizing Main Street , Gabrielle Esperdy uncovers the cultural history of the hundreds of thousands of modernized storefronts that resulted from the little-known federal provision that made billions of dollars available to shop ...

Modernizing China's Military: Opportunities and Constraints
Keith Crane

RAND Corporation, 2005

Projects future growth in chinese defense expenditures, evaluates the current and likely future capabilities of China's defense industries, and compares likely future defense expenditure levels with recent expenditures by the United States and the U.S. Air Force.

Modernizing Islam: Religion in the Public Sphere in the Middle East and Europe

Rutgers University Press, 2003

In recent years, Islam has become a more visible force, not only in North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, but also in Western Europe and the United States. Greater attention to religious observance has accompanied the creation of new institutions. Religiously inspired social and political movements have proliferated. Only a few decades ago, Muslims were virtually invisible in Europe and America. Today, increased immigration has changed ...

Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870-1970 (The Wiles Lectures)
Michael Bentley

Cambridge University Press, 2006

What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, Michael Bentley reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers the first full analysis of English historiography in this crucial period. Modernist historiography set itself the objective of going beyond the colourful narratives of 'whigs' and 'popularizers' ...

Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies)

6 reviews
David Shambaugh

University of California Press, 2004

Excellent Insight Into The PLA
I read this book for a graduate history class on Mao's China David Shambaugh's book is a well-written and extremely important resource to anyone who is interested in China's military development, and its implications for Sino-American relations. With China's recent burgeoning economy and explosive military budget, Shambaugh's book could not have come at a better time. Shambaugh's use of very ...

Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 (Worlds of Desire: The ...

2 reviews
Pablo Mitchell

University Of Chicago Press, 2005

Thought provoking & well done
This was a really great read - well researched, well written, and very thought provoking. Even if you are only generally interested in the history of race and ethnicity, this slice of New Mexican history will fascinate you. And for those of you with an interest in the Southwest, this will be a particularly good read.

Modernizing the Mind: Psychological Knowledge and the Remaking of Society
Steven C. Ward

Praeger Publishers, 2002

When did fidgety children begin to suffer from attention deficit disorder? How did frightened people come to be called "paranoid"? Why are we considered to have "emotional intelligence" and not simply caring personalities? While psychological knowledge began in the relative isolation of laboratories and universities, it has since permeated various professions, institutions, and everyday life. Society and our conceptions of self have ...

The Spread and Sustainability of Organizational Change: Modernizing Healthcare
D. A. Buchanan

Routledge, 2006

An exciting and important addition to organizational change and health care management literature, this topical book presents academically rigorous theory and a unique assessment of NHS change processes. Influenced by implementation methods, and also by the wider context, organization political issues and the nature of the changes themselves, the changes under consideration in this book are mostly large-scale, major, systemic, transformational, ...

Forest & Garden: Traces of Wildness in a Modernizing Land, 1897-1949
Melanie Louise Simo

University of Virginia Press, 2003

"In wildness is the preservation of the world, " wrote Henry David Thoreau. But how the wild and the managed or artificially arranged environments coexist has been a matter of intense debate among foresters and landscape professionals at least since the era of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. In Forest and Garden, Melanie L. Simo ranges through a period of landscape history that has been underexamined, between Olmsted and mid-twentieth-century ...

Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing the Japanese Garden

2 reviews
Christian Tschumi

Stone Bridge Press, 2005

Explores ten major Shigemori projects
Mirei Shigemori (1896-1975) was the imaginative creator of very special gardens and a scholar who was trained in painting, flower arranging, and the tea ceremony. Shigemori is still admired for his contemporary designs, the result of his life's objective to restore the evolution of the Japanese garden. In Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing The Japanese Garden, practicing landscape architect Christian ...

Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (Women and Change in the Developing World)

1 review
Valentine M. Moghadam

L. Rienner Publishers, 1993

Informative and thorough
This book presents a state-of-the-art comparative study of women's roles in the Middle East as of 1990. The author draws together a large number of statistics and research as she discusses how and why women's status varies across the region. The book can be succinctly summed up in the following quote: "Many studies on the Middle East and commentaries by Islamists themselves tend to understate ...

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