Violence Against Women: Classic Papers
Description This anthology highlights the original, classic works and critical writings in the field of violence against women. Each reading is an excerpt from a classic book or article that made a significant contribution to the field of violence against women. The anthology also highlights importance of each piece of literature to this field of study and is organized to cover three areas: sexual violence against women, physical violence against women, and interventions with perpetrators of violence against women. (Description from Amazon.com)
Classic papers in child abuse
Classic Papers in Child Abuse presents a selection of timeless core research into interdependent aspects of dealing with child maltreatment. This book is for advanced clinical students and professionals in a variety of disciplines whose work involves interdependent aspects of dealing with child maltreatment. In essence, a "mini-library" is made available for quick access to timeless core research vital to the assessment, management, treatment, and prosecution of current cases.
Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering
The Technical Committee on Data Engineering has held an election for a new TC Chair. The candidates for TC Chair were Betty Salzberg and Erich Neuhold. The new TCDE Chair is Betty Salzberg. Betty will begin her tenure as of January, 1998. I look forward to working with Betty to make this transition as seamless as possible. I would like to thank the people who made this election possible. This includes, of course, both Betty and Erich for agreeing to run. The members of our nominating committee were Amit Sheth (chair), Nick Cercone, and Ron Sacks-Davis. I thank them for their eeorts in planning and executing this election. I think it is also important to thank those TC members who took the time to vote in the election. Participation as voters is an important role that is too frequently not given suucient importance. Finally, I want to thank Rakesh Agrawal for serving over the last ve years as TCDE Chair. Without Rakesh's eeorts, there would not be a Technical Committee on Data Engineering. Rakesh revived an organization that was completely dormant. His eeorts resulted in the revival of the TC as a going concern. He recruited other members of the executive committee as well as myself as editor. Rakesh took the lead in this eeort and made it happen. This Issue Data reduction has become an area of increasing interest. Classically, the database community was interested in histograms to aid the optimization process. But more recently, OLAP and data mining have exploited it as a way of eeciently generating approximate answers to queries-in some cases making feasible queries that would have been prohibitive otherwise. The current issue is a report from an informal workshop held last summer in New Jersey. Hence the title of the sole paper in the issue. I agree with Joe Hellerstein that the issue is particularly timely as more and more people recognize the importance of data reduction to eeective exploitation of databases. I also want to thank Joe for his role as issue editor. This required a very active involvement by Joe in order to orchestrate the production of a report by the workshop participants. The report gives a very broad survey of the area in a readily digestible form. As I did last month, I continue to make changes to the editorial staa of the Bulletin as two-year terms for editors expire. The current …