Big Brown Book Club - the BBBC

Ken Evans — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:31:52 GMT

Prompted by the recent post of MikeAgius, I'd like to announce the Big Brown Book Club or BBBC for short.

To become a member of the BBBC you must be a registered member of this website and meet three conditions:

A) You must own a copy of The Big Brown Book (aka Information Modeling and Relational Databases: Second Edition.)

If you bought the book after 30 May 2008, you should have bought it via the link from the image below.

B) You must have posted a review of the book on the Amazon.co.uk website

C) You must have posted at least one substantial comment on the book in a reply to this post.

Members of the BBBC are automatically entered in the ORM Foundation BBBC competition which will award PRIZES to contributors to this thread who, in the opinion of the registered members of this website, have made posts that are judged to be "The best two BBBC posters".

The "best " will be established by a voting mechanism that will be made available in this forum on 1 November 2008.
The two winners will be announced at the end of the ORM 2008 workshop on 14 November 2008.
The two prizes will be autographed copies of the Big Brown Book plus two accompanying cash prizes of £50 to pay for the un-autographed copy that you had to buy to become a member of the BBBC.

Let the posting commence!

Ken

The Stuff of Thought

Brian Nalewajek — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:58:40 GMT

Hi,

As the methods of Object Role Modeling rely as heavly on language, as they do on logic, I'd like to suggest an accessible book on the nature of language:

The stuff of thought : language as a window into human nature
Pinker, Steven, 1954-
"In this book, Steven Pinker explains how the mind works by examining the way we use words. Pinker takes on scientific questions - such as how language affects thought, and which of our concepts are innate - as well as questions from the headlines and everyday life,

Publisher:	Viking,
Pub date:	c2007.
Pages:	ix, 499 p. :
ISBN:	9780670063277

I haven't had a chance to read through the entire book, but have found the the content and style enjoyable and useful in considering the issues raised in Fact Based conceptual modeling.

BRN..

Books

Big Brown Book Club - the BBBC

The Stuff of Thought