When Lilly went to bed, she was probably thinking the next day would be just an average day.Boy was she wrong! She awoke to a whole new world in her back yard and started on an adventure with animal friends and surprises at every turn!

Learn everything you need to know about growing healing herbs with this “gem of a book” featuring profiles of 50 medicinal herbs and 200+ photographs (Nancy Phillips, author of The Herbalist’s Way).Now updated with new information about herb dryers and construction, soil fertility, growing cannabis, and more!In the first edition of The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer, authors Jeff and Melanie Carpenter presented a comprehens...

It's adventure time with 4 different stories, each involving fun animal friends and journeys to different places! Jump right in and use your imagination to play with the puppy, the birds or spend a day at the beach with the dolphin!

Do you love the ocean and some of its creatures? Have you ever found seashells on the beach? Where do seashells come from and how are they made?Dive right in to this 9-page story and find out how seashells are made. Follow the adventure of one of the creatures who makes her own seashell and find out what happens along the way of her incredible journey.

Enjoy six different stories that teach lessons to young readers, from being kind to others, to accepting everyone for who they are and to listening better to what Mom and Dad have to say about things. A few of the stories have animal adventures to add to the enjoyment of the messages being conveyed. So get started on a multi-story fun learning adventure!

A young girl and her best 4-legged friend embark on a hiking adventure to find an elusive trail that has a beautiful surprise waiting at the trail's end!

Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This revised third edition--updated for Cassandra 4.0 and new developments in the Cassandra ecosystem, including deployments in Kubernetes with K8ssandra--provides technical details and practical examples to help you put this database to work in a pr...

A new approach to growing local medicine, including information on geo-authenticity, wildcrafting, and developing a good business plan"[A] beautiful and informative book . . . A dirt-smudged copy should be within easy reach of every home gardener or farmer who grows—or wants to grow—medicinal plants."—Michael McGuffin, President, American Herbal Products AssociationBoth a business guide and a farming manual, The Organic Medicinal Herb F...

Is Kubernetes ready for stateful workloads? This open source system has become the primary platform for deploying and managing cloud native applications. But because it was originally designed for stateless workloads, working with data on Kubernetes has been challenging. If you want to avoid the inefficiencies and duplicative costs of having separate infrastructure for applications and data, this practical guide can help.Using Kubernetes as your platform, you'll learn open source t...

Look at this picture. Tell me what you see…The American South is rife with stories of a haunted past—especially its houses. In this eclectic and impressive collection, thirteen novelists were asked to build their tales around the photo of a dilapidated mansion. They were given two requirements—the house must appear in the story, and it should be a Southern Gothic tale. And they delivered.From childish demons to a mad novelist, from the Mississippi ...

A complete guide to understanding and fighting advanced persistent threats—today's most destructive risk to enterprise security Reverse Deception: Organized Cyber Threat Counter-Exploitation explains how to identify advanced persistent threats (APTs), categorize them according to risk level, and prioritize your actions accordingly by applying expert, field-tested private- and government-sector methods (NSA, FBI, and DOD). APTs cannot be seen, spread invisibly, and then ...

On the rolling Missouri River a riverboat of fur traders, a U.S. Senator and Prussian royalty are all heading to the Yellowstone from St. Louis. Preacher's onboard because the nation's fate depends on the passengers landing safe and sound. But it won't be easy. Two beautiful women make a play for Preacher. So does a killer. So does a band of river pirates. No sooner does Preacher beat back these threats than the riverboat lands in the middle of a blood-soaked Indian ambush--with a Prussian...