Philip Thomas

Dirk Heirbaut

Peter-Ben Smit

Emanuele Conte

Martin Schermaier

Harry Dondorp

Boudewijn Sirks

Aniceto Masferrer

Alain Wijffels

John Cairns

Louis Sicking

Wim Decock

Atsuko Fukuoka

Chris Lorenz

David Ibbetson

Sjoerd Faber

Bart Wauters

Hylkje de Jong

Orazio Condorelli

Daniel Visser

Emanuel van Dongen

Janwillem Oosterhuis

Laurent Waelkens

Viola Heutger

Niels De Bruijn

Jacques du Plessis

Ton Meijers

Dirk Jan Schoon

Eltjo Schrage

Konstantin Tanev

C. (Leon) van den Broeke

Tymen van der Ploeg

Guus van Nifterik

Maurice van Stophout

Tammo Wallinga

Laurens Winkel

***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Condorelli: Orazio Condorelli ist Professor für Kirchenrecht an der Universität Catania.

Essays in honour of Jan Hallebeek

De rebus divinis et humanis

Thomas Erl

David Chou

Andre Tost

Satadru Roy

Raj Balasubramanian

Thomas Plunkett

“An outstanding depth-and-breadth resource for IT architects and Java professionals to understand and apply the marriage of SOA and modern Java.” -- Antonio Bruno, Enterprise Architecture and Strategy, digitalStrom “A great self-contained book on SOA using flexible Java implementations....” -- Roger Stoffers, Hewlett Packard “Provides clarity on abstract concepts and is filled with concrete examples of implementing SOA principles in Java environments.” -- Sanjay Singh, Certified SOA Architect “...provides a holistic, comprehensive view on leveraging SOA principles and architecture for building and deploying performant Java services.” -- Suzanne D’Souza, KBACE Technologies “Thomas Erl’s series of books on services technology have shaped, influenced, and strengthened a whole community of enterprise and solution architects’ thinking and solution development, and the much awaited SOA with Java book is an excellent addition to the series. It is a must-read.” -- Lalatendu Rath, Wipro Technologies The Definitive Guide to Building Service-Oriented Solutions with Lightweight and Mainstream Java Technologies Java has evolved into an exceptional platform for building Web-based enterprise services. In SOA with Java, Thomas Erl and several world-class experts guide you in mastering the principles, best practices, and Java technologies you need to design and deliver high-value services and service-oriented solutions. You’ll learn how to implement SOA with lightweight frameworks, mainstream Java services technologies, and contemporary specifications and standards. To demonstrate real-world examples, the authors present multiple case study scenarios. They further demystify complex concepts with a plain-English writing style. This book will be valuable to all developers, analysts, architects, and other IT professionals who want to design and implement Web-based service-oriented architectures and enterprise solutions with Java technologies. Topic Areas Applying modern service-orientation principles to modern Java technology platforms Leveraging Java infrastructure extensions relevant to service-oriented solutions Exploring key concepts associated with SOA and service-orientation within the context of Java Reviewing relevant Java platforms, technologies, and APIs Understanding the standards and conventions that REST and SOAP services are built upon in relation to Java implementations Building Java Web-based services with JAX-WS and JAX-RS Applying the eight key principles of service-orientation design using Java tools and technologies Creating Java utility services: architectural, design, and implementation issues Constructing effective entity services: service contracts, messages, data access, and processing Constructing task services, including detailed guidance on service composition Using ESBs to support infrastructure requirements in complex services ecosystems

Realizing Service-Orientation with Java Technologies

SOA with Java

Martin Iddon

John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra is one of the seminal works of the second half of the twentieth century, and the centerpiece of the middle period of Cage's output. It is a culmination of Cage's work up to that point, incorporating notation techniques he had spent the past decade developing - techniques which remain radical to this day. But despite Cage's vitality to the musical development of the twentieth century, and the Concert's centrality to his career, the work is still rarely performed and even more rarely examined in detail. In this volume, Martin Iddon and Philip Thomas provide a rich and critical examination of this enormously significant piece, tracing its many contexts and influences - particularly Schoenberg, jazz, and Cage's own compositional practice - through a wide and previously untapped range of archival sources. Iddon and Thomas explain the Concert through a reading of its many histories, especially in performance - from the legendary performer disobedience and audience disorder of its 1958 New York premiere to a no less disastrous European premiere later the same year. They also highlight the importance of the piano soloist who premiered the piece, David Tudor, and its use alongside choreographer Merce Cunningham's Antic Meet. A careful examination of an apparently bewildering piece, the book explores the critical response to the Concert's performances, re-interrogates the mythology surrounding it, and finally turns to the music itself, in all its component parts, to see what it truly asks of performers and listeners.

John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra

A Doctor Looks Back

Explains how to simulate the dynamic behaviour of the major unit processes found in the chemical, oil, gas and power industries.

Simulation of Industrial Processes for Control Engineers

Patrick Bracken

Patrick J. Bracken

For most of us the words madness and psychosis conjure up fear and images of violence. Using short stories, the authors consider complex philosphical issues from a fresh perspective. The current debates about mental health policy and practice are placed into their historical and cultural contexts.

Mental Health in a Postmodern World

Postpsychiatry

"The book is a comprehensive examination of John Cage's seminal Concert for Piano and Orchestra. It places the piece into its many contexts, examining its relationship with Cage's compositional practice of indeterminacy more generally, the importance of Cage's teacher, Arnold Schoenberg, on the development of his structural thought, and the impact of Cage's (mis)understanding of jazz. It discusses, on the basis of Cage's sketches and manuscripts, the compositional process at play in the piece. It details the circumstances of the piece's early performances-often described as catastrophes-its recording and promotion, and the part it played in Cage's (successful) hunt for a publisher. It examines in detail the various ways in which Cage's pianist of choice, David Tudor, approached the piece, differing according to whether it was to be performed with an orchestra, alongside Cage delivering the lecture, 'Indeterminacy', or as a piano solo to accompany Merce Cunningham's choreography Antic Meet. It demonstrates the ways in which, despite indeterminacy, the instrumental parts of the piece are amenable to analytical interpretation, especially through a method which exposes the way in which those parts form a sort of network of statistical commonality and difference, analysing, too, the pianist's part, the Solo for Piano, on a similar basis, discussing throughout the practical consequences of Cage's notations for a performer. It shows the way in which the piece played a central role, first, in the construction of who Cage was and what sort of composer he was within the new musical world but, second, how it came to be an important example for professional philosophers in discussing what the limits of the musical work are"--

Ivan Leudar

Hearing voices is equated with madness in our society but Leudar & Thomas show that this has not always been the case and that it may be a normal experience.

Studies of Verbal Hallucinations

Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity

Records of people experiencing verbal hallucinations or 'hearing voices' can be found throughout history. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity examines almost 2,800 years of these reports including Socrates, Schreber and Pierre Janet's "Marcelle", to provide a clear understanding of the experience and how it may have changed over the millenia. Through six cases of historical and contemporary voice hearers, Leudar and Thomas demonstrate how the experience has metamorphosed from being a sign of virtue to a sign of insanity, signalling such illnesses as schizophrenia or dissociation. They argue that the experience is interpreted by the voice hearer according to social categories conveyed through language, and is therefore best studied as a matter of language use. Controversially, they conclude that 'hearing voices' is an ordinary human experience which is unfortunately either mystified or pathologised. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity offers a fresh perspective on this enigmatic experience and will be of interest to students, researchers and clinicians alike.

Philip Thomas

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