Mark Russinovich

Alex Ionescu

David Solomon

Andrea Allievi

Drill down into Windows architecture and internals, discover how core Windows components work behind the scenes, and master information you can continually apply to improve architecture, development, system administration, and support. Led by three renowned Windows internals experts, this classic guide is now fully updated for Windows 10 and 8.x. As always, it combines unparalleled insider perspectives on how Windows behaves "under the hood" with hands-on experiments that let you experience these hidden behaviors firsthand. Part 2 examines these and other key Windows 10 OS components and capabilities: Startup and shutdown The Windows Registry Windows management mechanisms WMI System mechanisms ALPC ETW Cache Manager Windows file systems The hypervisor and virtualization UWP Activation Revised throughout, this edition also contains three entirely new chapters: Virtualization technologies Management diagnostics and tracing Caching and file system support

Windows Internals, Part 2

The Armageddon Stones are like an intricately devised jigsaw puzzle or rather collections of such puzzles, in which after the main component pieces have been put together to make a whole picture, there still remain elements unaccounted for which baffle the most ingenious attempts to fit them into a coherent whole. Armageddon conjures mystical images of prophecy, war, and fear. Almost everyone has heard of Armageddon as it is one of the most recognizable place names in all of history, but it is not a city. There is no metropolis there.Legends describe an unusual, destructive band of comet debris that periodically pummels our planet. The periodic fall of cosmic debris must have been an event so overwhelming in extent, so disastrous in its effect on human civilization. It became preserved in the imagery of myth known as the Apocalypse. The ancient story is hammered into cave walls, painstakingly laid out on papyrus, built into stone temples, and even immortalized in stellar mythology. Stories of massive consuming stones of fire and ice are inexorably intertwined with stories of world-ending wars, ancient prophecies of Apocalypse pointing to the final chapter of modern prophecies made by many. Armageddon Stones. With over forty-years of mythological and scientific research, I have come to the disquieting conclusion that ancient and modern prophecies point like the hands of a giant clock. This conclusion, rooted in physical evidence of past catastrophes, with scientific realities, cosmic theories, and ancient prophecies, shows it is decisive and worldwide in its distribution that the possibility of cometary or asteroid impact cannot be ignored. The Apocalypse stands waiting to be solved as the prophecy truly is; the periodic return of the celestial-serpent-dragon-comet-Armageddon Stones. The Armageddon Stones hint that two stellar locations, Leo and Orion, are the entry points for the Armageddon Stones army to bring a recurring world-destroying rain of ice, fire, and stone. It is not a matter if the Armageddon Stones will strike; it is a matter of when.

Armageddon Stones

Lowell Mauer

Sams Teach Yourself Transact-SQL in 21 Days, 2E will teach programmers how to develop Transact-SQL queries. There will be a focus on providing methods for improving productivity without a reducing performance. Specifically, the reader will:Learn Transact-SQL syntax Learn how to add, delete, and modifying data using Transact-SQL Understand coding standards Review variations from ANSI-standard SQL Be presented with basic server operations. Recognize performance issues with queries. This book will also include:Constructs such as CUBE, ROLLUP, CASE, and JOIN. Techniques to solve complex problems How the server uses indexes Methods to write (correctly) stored procedures and triggers. Templates of procedures and triggers (reference) Advanced Topics such as: Outer and self joins Temporary tables Sub-queries.

Sams Teach Yourself Transact-SQL in 21 Days

Solomon's Secrets

P.C. Lo

This book addresses the Confucian philosophy of common good and deals with the comparative philosophy on eastern and western understandings of common good. The common good is an essentially contested concept in contemporary moral and political discussions. Although the notion of the common good has a slightly antique air, especially in the North Atlantic discussion, it has figured prominently in both the sophisticated theoretical accounts of moral and political theory in recent years and also in the popular arguments brought for particular political policies and for more general orientations toward policy. It has been at home both in the political arsenal of the left and the right and has had special significance in ethical and political debates in modern and modernizing cultures. This text will be of interest to philosophers interested in Chinese philosophy and issues related to individualism and communitarianism, ethicists and political philosophers, comparative philosophers, and those in religious studies working on Chinese religion. ​

The Common Good: Chinese and American Perspectives

Ruiping Fan

Ping-cheung Lo

In the twentieth century, in both China and the West, ritual became marginalized in the face of the growth of secularism and individualism. In China, Confucianism and its essentially ritualistic comportment to the world were vigorously suppressed during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) under Mao Zedong. But de-ritualization already took place as a result of the Chinese Revolution of 1911 under Sun Yat-Sen. In the West, while the process of de-ritualization has been generally more gradual, it has been nonetheless drastic. In contrast to this situation, this volume investigates the crucial role ritual plays in constituting the human understanding of their place in the cosmos, the purpose of their lives, and imbues human existence with a more complete sense of meaningfulness. This volume presents the work of philosophers from both China and the West as they reflect upon the constitutive role that ritual plays in human life. They reflect not only on ritual in general but also on specific Confucian and Christian appreciations of ritual. This provocative volume is a beacon of warning to Western philosophers, who think they have graduated from the trappings of ritual, and a beacon of hope for Eastern thinkers, who wish to avoid cultural fragmentation. The Editors, both Eastern and Western, have together created a seamless work that not only introduces ritual, but advances an argument for the contribution that ritual makes to cultural renewal. This volume is a work of philosophical thinking about ritual doing, but challenges those who think to realize that the salvation of philosophical thinking rests in the particularity and contingency of ritual doing. Let us hope this volume is widely read, for it points to that which might renew the West. - Jeffrey P. Bishop, Saint Louis University

David Solomon

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