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This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.

An integrated approach to developing and documenting the requirements, specification, and design of software driven systems. Makes a clear distinction between requirements and behavioral specification and describes the user's view of a system in terms of a user conceptual model. Validation, verification and testing are integrated into the development approach.

This bibliography provides ready access to the literature on the design of databases. Database design is one of the most important development areas of modern information technology; the literature is very diversified and often confusing. This classified and annotated bibliography brings order to this chaos, enabling the reader to identify the main sources and locate particular references quickly and conveniently. More than 200 references are classified according to the particular area of database design they address. The annotations describe the main concerns of each reference, indicating something of their scope and use. In addition to the references themselves, which are alphabetically-ordered by author's name, there is a list of subjects covered, together with a detailed directory of all references dealing with each subject, and an index of authors cited.

This book presents a unified collection of concepts, tools, and techniques that constitute the most important technology available for the design and implementation of information systems. The framework for this integration goal is the one offered by the relational model of data, its applications, and implementations in multiuser and distributed environments. This book attempts to develop an integrated methodology for the relational approach and various research and practical developments related to that approach.

The major topic of this book is the integration of data and programming languages and the associated methodologies. To my knowledge, this is the first book on modern programming languages and programming meth odology devoted entirely to database application environments. At the same time, it is written with the goal of reconciling the relational and object-oriented approaches to database management. One of the reasons that influenced my decision to write this book is my dissatisfaction with the fact that the existing books on programming methodology and the associated concepts, techniques, and programming language notation are largely based on mathematical problems and math ematically oriented algorithms. As such, they give the impression that modern program structures, associated techniques, and methodologies, not to speak of the formal ones, are applicable only to problems of that sort. Although important, such problems are of limited applicability and scale. This does not apply to books in which modem concepts, techniques, methodologies, and programming language notation are applied to systems programming. But, even so, this does not demonstrate that in entirely application-oriented problems-those in which modern computer tech nology is most widely used-modern programming methodology is just as important. This book is meant to be a step toward providing a more convincing support of such a claim and, thus, is based entirely on common, what one might call business-oriented, problems in which database technology has been successfully used.

In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small town to a global city against the backdrop of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Gilded Age economics, and American empire. It is a far-reaching transnational history, chronicling how Los Angeles boosters transformed the borderlands through urban and imperial capitalism at the end of the nineteenth century and how the Mexican Revolution redefined those same capitalist networks into the twentieth. Kim draws on archives in the United States and Mexico to argue that financial networks emerging from Los Angeles drove economic transformations in the borderlands, reshaped social relations across wide swaths of territory, and deployed racial hierarchies to advance investment projects across the border. However, the Mexican Revolution, with its implicit critique of imperialism, disrupted the networks of investment and exploitation that had structured the borderlands for sixty years, and reconfigured transnational systems of infrastructure and trade. Kim provides the first history to connect Los Angeles's urban expansionism with more continental and global currents, and what results is a rich account of real and imagined geographies of city, race, and empire.