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A heart-pounding ride through the perilous world of the modern gem trade, by the acclaimed author of Diamond.
The Baseball Stadium Tour is Re-loaded! We've added two chapters including a trip to New York to visit the new Yankee Stadium that featured a major moment in baseball history. With a newly designed cover, come join Todd, Matthew and Nick on their journey to 30+ baseball stadiums! Excerpt: The sun had set and it was pitch black in central Illinois farm country as I fumbled for my phone to call my two best friends - two of the biggest baseball fans I know, Matthew Hart and Sofoklis Nikiforos. No less than 10 minutes later I had both of them convinced that starting next spring, the three of us were headed on a three-man, no holds-barred, Baseball Stadium Tour.
Stop Hating the Middle, and Embrace What It's Secretly Doing for Your Company! Let's be honest: There's nothing we like more than beating up on middle managers. They have a reputation for being useless at best, and at worst, the resource-sucking noise that cripples a company. But recent studies have found that there's a secret sauce to great companies who get great results, and its not just great workers or great leaders. Instead, it's great middle management that is holding complicated, messy, sophisticated endeavors on track. From the characteristics of great middle managers to the work they must do to ensure successful results, Matthew Hart covers what it takes to be truly great at the Middlework.
In this explosive sequel to The Russian Pink, Alex and Lily are thrust into a murderous cat-and-mouse across the Arctic diamond fields, dodging Chinese assassins while at the same time struggling with the personal betrayals that torment their passionate affair. Alex Turner and his treacherous lover, the Russian diamond thief Slav Lily, are back on the hunt. An American prospector is murdered in the great diamond field of northern Canadaa magical landscape of pristine lakes and granite ridges and scarlet vegetation. The U.S. government fears that the Chinese billionaire twins who suddenly control the dead prospector's company are seeking a toehold for their government in this vital northern region. As we race across the globe with Alex and Lily, Hart keeps a heart-bounding pace with lethal plane chases across the diamond-rich Barrens and a battle between the scheming twins and Mitzi Angel, the murdered prospector's daughter. All the while, The Ice Angel delves into the dark realpolitik of America's strategy while untangling the Byzantine motives that drive the diamond trade. In this explosive sequel to the breakout The Russian Pink, Alex and Lily must struggle with the rivalry, and sometimes the deceit, that wraps their love in its coils.
SECOND HARVEST is the second book in a series called "The Last Iteration" that takes the reader on an exciting adventure. The series explores the intersection of different technologies and how they evolve subject to one another, and the intersection of science and faith.There are implicit thematic elements of Smart Cities,Internet of Things and a Connected World of Everything as well as biotechnology that are integrated from a point of view on sustainability.Blurb:Faced with the cold brutality of Ashion the Dark and his thugs, Dexter Maxwell did something no time shifter had ever done before: he traveled back in time permanently. Now he must live the same thirty days again. But with Ashion and the local warlord hunting him, will there be enough time to save his new-and old- friends?On Venus, Ashion can't stop the subterranean resistance led by the man they call Fuel. But to keep his tenuous position as Security Lead, he must keep Dexter Maxwell's true identity hidden. That puts his daring plot to escape the grip of the Ruling Families in jeopardy-and is making it even harder to protect the last two people on Venus he needs alive: the mysterious Prisoner Six and the young girl Kat.The clock is ticking: the Ruling Families of Venus have set the Second Harvest in motion. As their chilling plan unfolds, four hundred years of betrayals put Dexter and Ashion on a deadly collision course ... and unlock an ancient threat to civilization.
The Last Iteration Of Dexter Maxwell is the first book in a series that takes the reader on an exciting journey to find out who Dexter Maxwell really is. The novel explores the intersection of different technologies and how they evolve subject to one another, and the intersection of science and faith. There are implicit thematic elements of sustainability and balance, and on the influence of information technology.--Dex knows first-hand how tough it is living on the edge of a thoroughly technologized civilization in Grenver, Colorado. But it also has its perks. With his small league of street-smart outcasts, he's snarled the system with some of the most brazen stunts of the 22nd century. Not bad for an orphaned sewer rat that can't remember his childhood and will most likely end up iced for ages like any other criminal.No past, no future: no problem. As long as Dex has his friends and his mischief, he'll be alright.But after a botched stunt, Dex wakes up a foreigner in a brutal, bizarre underground city controlled by more than one shameless force-blind, a sword strapped to his back, and an old man telling him he's the vital component of the coming revolution. Dex can barely take in the reality of a new time before he's on the run, hunted by vicious assassins, and mixed up in a deadly plot a millennium in the making-and with the fate of two worlds at stake.--Start an action-packed journey with THE LAST ITERATION OF DEXTER MAXWELL to find out who Dexter Maxwell really is.ADVENTUROUS SCIENCE FICTION SEASONED WITH SUSTAINABILITY.
Written by the team at Oracle, this book provides undocumented tips and techniques and covers issues central to database administration, features of 9i and highlights issues specific to Windows 2000. Coverage includes tuning, backup and recovery, and clustering and standby databases.
The first comprehensive book covering Oracle's High Availability (HA) technologies written by insider Oracle experts!
Covers Oracle's Recovery Manager technology. This guide shows you how to take advantage of RMAN - the backup and recovery technology built into Oracle 10g. It covers RMAN features introduced in Oracle Database 10g including incremental backups, flash recovery area, and resetlogs.
A fully updated Oracle Press bestseller, covering Oracle Database 11g Release 2 RMAN.
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