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Oracle Performance Tuning (Nutshell Handbooks)

O'Reilly, 1996

The books in O'Reilly's Oracle series are authoritative -- they tell the whole story about complex topics, ranging from performance tuning to the use of packages in PL/SQL to new technologies like Power Objects. And they're independent; they're alternatives for readers who need to know how products and features really work....

Empire: A New History of the World

Pegasus Books, 2020

A dazzling new history of the world told through the ten major empires of human civilization.

Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire,...

Europe: I Struggle, I Overcome

Springer, 2009

Wilfried Martens - Europe: I Struggle, I Overcome Foreword by Angela Merkel

Wilfried Martens has devoted his entire life to politics: as student leader, youth activist, President of the Flemish Christian Democrats, Prime Minister of Belgium, President of the European People's Party and European statesman. In his autobiography...

Sexual Abuse Survivor's Handbook

Skylight Publishing, 2013

Sexual Abuse Survivor’s Handbook tells with an open heart the story of a tragic upbringing involving sexual and physical abuse at school and at home. The book is an interwoven moving and insightful memoir, a healing help-guide for abuse survivors and a practical handbook for those wishing to confront their perpetrators through the...

The Data Journalism Handbook

O'Reilly, 2012

When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and...

Pro Data Visualization using R and JavaScript

Apress, 2013

Pro Data Visualization using R and JavaScript makes the R language approachable, and promotes the idea of data gathering and analysis. You'll see how to use R to interrogate and analyze your data, and then use the D3 JavaScript library to format and display that data in an elegant, informative, and interactive way. You will learn...

Big Picture Economics: How to Navigate the New Global Economy

John Wiley & Sons, 2014

Navigate the economy with this insightful new book The world is awash with economic information. Governments release reports. Pundits give their interpretation on television. And the stock market may go its own way, confusing everyone. How can you better understand what it means for you? Big Picture Economics , a new book by award-winning...

May I Have Your Attention, Please : Build a Better Business by Telling Your True Story

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

How can I be sure that my influence on this world will improve
my life and the lives of those around me? This is a
question I ask myself every day. Every day I need to learn
and to grow in my personal and professional life. As this book explains,
returning to the basics of self-examination builds compelling,
influential...

African American Millionaires

Jossey-Bass, 2004

Meet the black Achievers who attained the American Dream--from the early years to modern times

"This wonderful book should be required reading for young people, who will learn how some of the nation’s most successful Black men and women became role models."
--Joyce Ladner, Ph.D.

Robert Sengstacke Abbott
...

The Handy Astronomy Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)

Visible Ink Press, 2008

Why do the stars shine? What happens when you fall into a black hole? What’s the Moon made of? Is Pluto a planet or not? Does extraterrestrial life exist? How old is Earth? Can humans live in outer space? What is a quasar? How did the universe begin? How will it end? When it comes to the cosmos, it seems like everyone has a thousand...

Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust

Counterpoint, 2019

A remarkable story of a forgotten seventeen–year–old Jew who was blamed by the Nazis for the anti–Semitic violence and terror known as the Kristallnacht, the pogrom still seen as an initiating event of the Holocaust

After learning about Nazi persecution of his family, Herschel Grynszpan...

No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Princeton Press, 2019

On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativity

In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein’s revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the...

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