Mark Levene Livres

Focusing on the intersection of climate change and human history, this collection of essays critiques the status quo while urging a reevaluation of our past. Contributors from various fields—including archaeology, literature, and sociology—explore how historical insights can inform our response to the current crisis. By challenging conventional approaches and emphasizing the potential of our collective experiences, the essays advocate for a transformative perspective that harnesses history as a vital resource in the fight for survival.

Most books on genocide consider it as a twentieth-century phenomenon. In The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide, Levene argues that this approach doesn't grasp its true origins. Genocide developed out of modernity and the striving for the nation-state, both essentially Western experiences. European expansion fuelled its pre-1914 emergence.

The role of massacre in history has been given little focused attention either by historians or academics in related fields. This is surprising as its prevalence and persistence surely demands that it should be a subject of serious and systematic exploration. What exactly is a massacre? When - and why - does it happen?

Explores the genocidal events of the period from 1912 to 1938, particularly focussing on the Balkans, the Great War, and the emergence of the Stalin and Hitler States, and seeks to integrate them into a single, coherent history.

The World Wide Web serves as a vital global tool for information retrieval, communication, distributed computation, and various activities like business and learning. Its dynamic nature, in terms of both content and volume, necessitates a deep understanding of its evolving size, topology, and content to harness its potential as an information repository. This understanding paves the way for innovative techniques to locate and retrieve information that can adapt to the Web's growth. Given the diverse user base accessing the Web through various devices and interfaces, personalized presentation and content delivery tailored to individual user needs and contexts are essential. Additionally, the Web is utilized by applications that require rapid detection and response to changes in information, particularly in fields like e-business and mobile computing. Traditional query-based methods for information retrieval may struggle to keep pace with the volume and frequency of events, highlighting the need for new push-based techniques that can efficiently manage the flow of information and events on the Web.

Addressing important extensions of the relational database model, including deductive, temporal, and object-oriented databases, this book provides an overview of database modeling with the Entity-Relationship (ER) model and the relational model. The book focuses on the primary achievements in relational database theory, including query languages, integrity constraints, database design, computable queries, and concurrency control. This reference will shed light on the ideas underlying relational database systems and the problems that confront database designers and researchers.