Addison-Wesley presents the For Mere Mortals^® Series

Series Editor: Michael J. Hernandez

The goal of the For Mere Mortals^® Series is to present you with information on important technology topics in an easily accessible, common-sense manner. The primary audience for Mere Mortals books is that of readers who have little or no background or formal training in the subject matter. Books in the Series avoid dwelling on the theoretical and instead take you right into the heart of the topic with a matter-of-fact, hands-on approach. The books are not designed to address all the intricacies of a given technology, but they do not avoid or gloss over complex, essential issues either. Instead, they focus on providing core, foundational knowledge in a way that is easy to understand and that will properly ground you in the topic. This practical approach provides you with a smooth learning curve and helps you to begin to solve your real-world problems immediately. It also prepares you for more advanced treatments of the subject matter, should you decide to pursue them, and even enables the books to serve as solid reference material for those of you with more experience. The software-independent approach taken in most books within the Series also teaches the concepts in such a way that they can be applied to whatever particular application or system you may need to use.

Titles in the Series:

Database Design for Mere Mortals^®, Second Edition: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design
Michael J. Hernandez. ISBN: 0201752840

SQL Queries for Mere Mortals^®: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL
Michael J. Hernandez and John L. Viescas. ISBN: 0201433362

UML for Mere Mortals^®
Robert A. Maksimchuk and Eric J. Naiburg. ISBN: 0321246241

For more information, check out the series web site at www.awprofessional.com/ForMereMortalsSeries.