Application Express, or APEX, is one of the most innovative products to come out of Oracle in years. APEX is an application development framework for developing database backed applications. It s easy enough to get started in that power users can quit storing data in random spreadsheets and instead centralize their data in the powerful Oracle ...
Cops are the people who see and hear it all. They work at one of the world's most dangerous jobs, but it's also one of the most entertaining. When their lives are at riskAand even when they aren'tAcops encounter constant weirdness and stupidity in human behavior. "The Funniest Cop Stories Ever" collects the strangest, most amusing stories about ...
According to the fifteen-hundred-year-old tradition of Oriyoki, monks of a Zen monastery receive their meals in three bowls. Though adhering to the Zen way of simplicity, the food they eat is anything but boring. Now authors David Scott and Tom Pappas bring the succulent pleasures of a Zen monastery kitchen to Western readers, offering one-hundred ...
Every stage in the design of a new web site is an opportunity to meet or miss deadlines and budgetary goals. Every stage is an opportunity to boost or undercut the site's usability. This book tells you how to design usable web sites in a systematic process applicable to almost any business need. You get practical advice on managing the project and ...
It begins here! The saga that literally remade the Marvel Universe of the 1990s is collected in chronological order across four volumes! The psionic force of nature known only as Onslaught sprang forth from the fractured psyche of mutant mentor Charles Xavier and the genetic terrorist called Magneto. Powered by his progenitors' rage, Onslaught ...
Providing a crunch-free programme, this manual utilises principles found in martial arts, gymnastics, interval training and yoga to develop the entire abdominal region. The result is a multifunctional approach which enhances core strength, flexibility and balance.
Finds the Outsiders facing a literal demon fron hell. Can even the extra help from Huntress, Captain Marvel Junior and Black Lightning be enough to stop this evil threat? And, if that weren't enough, the return of the Fearsome Five will wreak havoc on the team! Ages 12+.
In fiction, spaceships are either flying saucers or large, sleek aerodynamic bullets. In the real world, humanity's first true spacecraft was an unpresupposing cylinder, barely large enough to accommodate three astronauts. The Command and Service modules made up the Apollo spacecraft - an integration of more than 3 million precision components, ...
This is a management-level book for companies and organizations that are (orwill be) doing business in more than one country. This distinction applies toincreasing numbers of corporations because remaining competitive dependsupon supply chains, customers, and outsourced operations that routinely mapacross the globe. Written in three sections, the ...
The current debate about the best methods of European organization - central or regional - is influenced by an awareness of regional identity, which offers an alternative to the rigidities of organization by nation-state. Yet where does the sense of regionalism come from? What are the distinctive factors that transform a geographical area into a ...
This is an exciting new introductory textbook for anyone studying disability. As well as providing an excellent overview of the existing literature in the area, the book also develops an understanding of disability that has implications for both sociology and society.Over the last three decades our understanding of disability has changed ...
Every screenwriter needs to rewrite more than once, probably many times to make the story work and then to make a sale. And then again later on, to please producers, studios or stars. Tom Lazarus, author of "Stigmata", among other scripts, is a working screenwriter and instructor at UCLA extension. In this book, he's distilled his own experience ...
The arid American Southwest is host to numerous organisms described as desert-loving, or xerophilous. Extending this term to include the regions writers and the works that mirror their love of desert places, Tom Lynch presents the first systematically ecocritical study of its multicultural literature. By revaluing nature and by shifting literary ...
What we have sought in this collection of 'Top Tips' (how to do it) and 'Caveats' (how not to do it) is to compile the Pearls of Wisdom that have been passed down from colleagues all around the world. These are the small details of practice which we have come to rely on when the going gets tough. Most of them are too obscure or even downright ...
From Jerusalem to Bethany--everywhere Jesus went--people wanted to be with Him. What would it have been like to meet face to face with the Son of God? In this colorfully illustrated book, children can have fun looking for Jesus and His disciples while they get to know people and places from the New Testament. Includes 56 reusable stickers.
This book features a gay man's collection of tales that bring you up short with your own thoughts and words coming at you from the page - the day they called you 'Fag', the trick who relieved you of your meagre possessions, the discovery of those purple spots on your neck ...and the age-old excuse, The devil made me do it.
Magneto menaces the world once again - but while he threatens to spread war, the X-Men are trapped in Genosha! It's up to Phoenix to lead a new team to victory, but can she manage it? Can they? Guest-starring Dazzler, Northstar, Corsair of the Starjammers and more! Collects Uncanny X-Men No. 391-393 and X-Men No. 111-113.
"Indiana Cooks!" is much more than a cookbook. It is a tantalizing feast for the eyes as well as the tastebuds as it celebrates top restaurants and great Indiana chefs and their philosophies of contemporary cuisine. Christine Barbour, who writes a food column for Bloomington's "Herald Times", chose 15 restaurants throughout Indiana, interviewed ...
This anthology spans seven centuries of Scottish verse with poems by all the major Scottish poets including William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edwin Muir, Hugh MacDiarmid, Kathleen Raine, Norman MacCaig and George MacKay Brown. The editors have lain greater emphasis on verse written in Scots rather than English, ...
In the wake of Infinite Crisis, the magical heroes of the DC Universe have bended together as The Shadowpact -- a new super-team dedicated to protecting the world from any and all mystic threats! Written by Fables creator Bill Willingham, Shadowpact: The Pentacle Plot combines intrigue and action with humor. Join Nightmaster, Ragman, Nightshade, ...
Consisting of a number of well-known open source products, JBoss is more a family of interrelated services than a single monolithic application. But, as with any tool that's as feature-rich as JBoss, there are number of pitfalls and complexities, too. Most developers struggle with the same issues when deploying J2EE applications on JBoss: they ...
Now starring in Albion, the critically acclaimed graphic novel plotted by the legendary Alan Moore, come four of British comics' most loved - and most bizarre - characters! There's Tim Kelly, a boy who finds the Eye of Zoltec, a jewel which grants him fantastic power; Dolmann, a genius inventor with a legion of crime-fighting toys; occult ...
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