In the haunting Black Hills, ancient spirits and modern ambitions clash, threading a complex tale of environmental crisis and cultural survival. Visions of Samuel Dances and wisdom from elder turtle Crazy Horse foretell a toxic danger lurking below Yellowstone. Gustavus Yeats' Gaia Protocols and journalist Jena Li's investigations converge amidst political intrigue and the whispers of Thunderbirds. As ancestral guardians battle industrial foes, the fate of the Earth hangs in balance, with ...

CockroachDB is the distributed SQL database that handles the demands of today's data-driven applications. The second edition of this popular hands-on guide shows software developers, architects, and DevOps/SRE teams how to use CockroachDB for applications that scale elastically and provide seamless delivery for end users while remaining indestructible.Data professionals will learn how to migrate existing applications to CockroachDB's performant, cloud-native data architecture. You'...

Winner of the 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication AssociationWhen sports fans turn on the television or radio today, they undoubtedly find more women on the air than ever before. Nevertheless, women sportscasters are still subjected to gendered and racialized mistreatment in the workplace and online and are largely confined to anchor and sideline reporter positions in coverage of high-profile men’s sports. In On the Sidelines Guy Ha...

Use this fast and complete guide to optimize the performance of MongoDB databases and the applications that depend on them. You will be able to turbo-charge the performance of your MongoDB applications to provide a better experience for your users, reduce your running costs, and avoid application growing pains. MongoDB is the world’s most popular document database and the foundation for thousands of mission-critical applications. This book helps you get the best possible performance from M...

Meeting the psychological and spiritual needs of patients is vital to supporting their wellbeing in health care settings. To develop an effective, holistic and inclusive approach to care within predominantly medical health care models, practitioners across health care disciplines must work collaboratively to understand the complex, significant relationships between their patients' medical, therapeutic and spiritual requirements.Bridging the gap between care disciplines, the book pr...

"It’s not easy to find such a generous book on big data and databases. Fortunately, this book is the one." Feng Yu. Computing Reviews. June 28, 2016.This is a book for enterprise architects, database administrators, and developers who need to understand the latest developments in database technologies. It is the book to help you choose the correct database technology at a time when concepts such as Big Data, NoSQL and NewSQL are making what used to be an easy choice into a complex ...

In the astonishing follow-up to Agents of Change, the Agencies of Influence and Justice have been effectively rendered powerless, and the world, for the time being, is safe. While this turn of events remains unbeknownst to the human race, the agencies are none too happy about it. Left as the only soul imbued with the Arrowhead of the Seminole's power, Calvin Newsome has paid a heavy price for his heroics, but knows not of true suffering until now.Under the direction of their execut...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Confluence brings together twenty stories set along the rivers, ridge lines, and reservations of Alaska, Montana, and the Pacific Northwest, where the land feels alive—watchful, ancient, and never quite neutral. In these stories, a badger drags a snake bitten woman to safety and treats her wound, an elk hunter's bullet finds something that hasn't been human for years, an activist uses her musical gifts to protect a place that cannot pro...

In the haunting Black Hills, ancient spirits and modern ambitions clash, threading a complex tale of environmental crisis and cultural survival. Visions of Samuel Dances and wisdom from elder turtle Crazy Horse foretell a toxic danger lurking below Yellowstone. Gustavus Yeats' Gaia Protocols and journalist Jena Li's investigations converge amidst political intrigue and the whispers of Thunderbirds. As ancestral guardians battle industrial foes, the fate of the Earth hangs in balance, with ...

Newlyweds Joel and Sonnet have just wrapped up a housewarming party in Suburban Phoenix. Custom-built on the site of a meteor crash a half century ago, the young couple received everything they wanted in their dream house. Unfortunately, Joel and Sonnet also got what they didn't want: thousands of unwelcome, venomous guests. Despite a clean inspection report, the house is crawling with more scorpions than your average infestation, leaving husband and wife to avoid the pests' numbing and po...

How are we going to live meaningful and prosperous lives in a future radically transformed by Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computers, and other Information Technologies? Understanding technologies like AI, Blockchain, and quantum computing is not just beneficial—it's essential for those wishing to survive and thrive in our shared future.In this concise book aimed at technical and non-technical readers alike, software industry veteran Guy Harrison demystifies these complex techn...

Five figures gather round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken but the pact had been made. Their secrets would be buried, bound in blood…Years later, a headmistress is found strangled, the first in a spate of gruesome murders which shock the Black Country. But when human remains are discovered at a former children’s home, disturbing secrets are also unearthed.Detect...