A solid introduction to the practices, plans, & skills required for developing a smart system architecture Information architecture combines IT skills with business skills in order to align the IT structure of an organization with the mission, goals, & objectives of its business. ...

The challenges of designing, building, & maintaining large-scale, distributed enterprise systems are truly daunting. This work helps you rise above the conflicts of new business objectives, new technologies, & vendor wars, allowing you to think clearly & productively about the particular challenges you face. ...

It would have been a Christmas like any other for little Lumie & her horrible, obnoxious, awful bully of a brother Billy. But then a funny little monster appeared & ate Billy right up! Now that things are looking up a little in her world, Lumie has to decide what to do with her new little monster friend, & what she's going to feed him. ...

With financial crisis, CFOs are always looking for ways to improve productivity by implementing new technology systems that increase revenue & decrease spending. This title addresses specific phases of implementation, such as scoping, planning, designing, & deploying. ...

In the 1950s, the US Navy encountered & destroyed a gigantic octopus that attacked shipping & wreaked havoc on the west coast of the United States. American forces killed the creature & ended the threat once & for all... or so they thought. They were wrong! Now, another monster is rising in the warm blue waters surrounding Taru Taru. ...

Classic Fifties sci-fi. Astronomer John Putnam (Richard Carlson) is intrigued when he observes what appears to be a meteor in the night skies of Arizona. However, when the object lands in the desert Putnam becomes convinced that it is no natural phenomenon. The locals are distrustful, seeing the astronomer as an eccentric intellectual, & refuse to listen to his theories. He then discovers that the UFO was in fact an alien spacecraft, whose occupants are now replacing the local community with exact doubles! ...

An eclectic & insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties & desires of their times. 1950s popular culture is analysed by leading scholars & critics such as Christopher Frayling, Mark Jancovich, Kim Newman & David J. Skal. ...