Goods Power History or Decision Support in the Data Warehouse

Goods, Power, History: Latin America's Material Culture

Author: Arnold J Bauer

This book is an original exploration into the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years with special attention to the categories of food, clothing, shelter, and the arrangement of public and private space. The practice of consumption is related to supply and demand but also to the importance of ritual and the scramble for identity within the ethnic and class arrangements imposed by colonial and postcolonial societies.

Table of Contents:

	List of Maps and Figures
	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	The Material Landscape of Pre-Columbian America	15
3	Contact Goods	46
4	Civilizing Goods	85
5	Modernizing Goods: Material Culture at the Crest of the First Liberalism	129
6	Developing Goods	165
7	Global Goods: Liberalism Redux	201
	Bibliography	221
	Index	235

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Decision Support in the Data Warehouse

Author: Hugh J Watson

Decision Support in the Data Warehouse demystifies data warehousing's technical jargon and provides a complete framework for building, maintaining, and using a data warehouse for decision support. This is the first book that integrates building and operating a data warehouse; developing decision support applications using the warehouse; and using the right warehouse tools. The book clearly describes the business and technical issues important to data warehousing success. They are brought to life with up-to-the-minute case studies drawn from today's leading organizations. Learn how to have a strategic business impact with your warehouse.

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Elucidating the new decision support environment of data warehousing, Gray (information science, Claremont Graduate U.) and Watson (business administration, U. of Georgia) present strategies, support tools, applications, products, services, and success stories. Includes "Codd's 12 rules for OLAP" (on-line analytical processing) and references. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.