Andrew Jordan Schmidt Books

An expert guide to the high-speed switching and routing options of today and tomorrow.Network Layer Switched Services provides advanced network planners with vital information on switched data services for all of the turn-of-the-century networks. This comprehensive, practical guide reveals what network planners should know about all of the current switching services in order to plan and implement successful transitions of enterprise, intranets, and inter-enterprise networks. It also presents a complete insider's overview of the advantages and costs of IP switching, as well as its impact on existing networks.Network Layer Switched Services covers the basic architectures and operations for six major emerging * LAN/Ethernet Switching (LANE) (at 100 Mbps or higher)* ATM and ATM Switching* LAN Emulation and Classical IP over ATM* Multiprotocol over ATM (MPOA)* Network Layer Switching (including IP and Tag Switching)* Fibre Channel.Network Layer Switched Services helps communications planners give their organizations' ever-increasing connectivity options, productivity gains, and support for a total transition to information-based economies and electronic commerce.Visit our website at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

Despite the attention that has already been paid to the theme of creation in the book of Sirach, scholarship has yet to provide a comprehensive analysis of Ben Sira's instruction regarding the cosmic order and its role in the divine bestowal of wisdom upon human beings. This book, which consists of two parts, fills a lacuna in scholarship by offering such an analysis. The first part of this study examines Ben Sira's three main treatments of the created world, thus providing a comprehensive description and synthesis of Ben Sira's doctrine concerning the created order of the cosmos. The second part of this work analyzes the place of human beings in general, and the Jewish people in particular, within the cosmic order. This second part includes an analysis of the role of the created order in Ben Sira's wisdom instruction in 1:1-10 and 24:1-34 as well as an elucidation of the way in which his treatments of various kinds of people—civic leaders, wives, doctors, manual laborers, scribes, and cultic personnel—are integral to Ben Sira's doctrine of creation. This study demonstrates that the created order is a fundamental category that Ben Sira relies upon in articulating his instructions about wisdom and wise behavior.