About This BookLearn to install and use Cassandra from the ground upDesign rich schemas that capture the relationships between different data types using compound primary keysMaster the advanced features available in Cassandra 2.0 through a step-by-step tutorial that builds a real-world application's database layer.Who This Book Is ForIf you're an application developer familiar with SQL databases such as MySQL or Postgres, and yo...

A FANG-tastically funny adventures series, perfect for 7+ readers and fans of Amelia Fang!"Full of hilarious, highly illustrated mayhem" Guardian"Loved it. Full of heart, laughs and adventure." Dermot O'Leary"Fearfully funny, and a book to get your teeth into! You'll be Kevin's biggest fang!" Danny WallaceIf Kevin the Vampire was already beside himself wit...

A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in art and art history.This myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through the lives of starving (and not so starving) artists, unusual exhibitions and painting blunders throughout history. In the intriguing, outrageous and often provoking worldof the visual arts, nothing is quite as it seems.From the world's first intance of photobombing in 1843 to the Damien Hirst spot painting that landed on Ma...

A highly entertaining read for anyone interested in English history and culture, this great myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through history and the national character. Think we're the land of Punch and Judy and Morris Dancing? Think again as both traditions started in southern Europe. Love Winston Churchill's wartime speeches? Well, they were recorded by an actor.Packed with details on real English history, the book explodes a range of national myths from bluebirds in D...

An indispensable companion to one of the most binged shows in streaming historyThe Big Bang Theory Pop Culture Reference Guideis an in-depth look at the thousands of topical references to people, places, movies, music, science, and events which make up many of the funniest lines on the enduringly popular television series The Big Bang Theory, bringing new and long-time fans alike in on the joke.It was 2007. The era of Must-See TV had ended...

WINNER, Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2022: Illustrated Travel Book of the Year. HIGHLY COMMENDED, British Cartographic Society Awards 2022.From Stephen King's Salem's Lot to the superhero land of Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels to Springfield in The Simpsons, this is a wondrous atlas of imagined places around the world. Locations from film, tv, literature, myths, comics and video games are p...

Is it better to prove our point? Or just try to love?Christians today are facing a crisis of influence. In our rush to speak truth to today’s tensions, cultural issues, and trending controversies, it becomes all too easy for us to focus on proving our points rather than extending God’s grace. Conversely, when we seek only to love but never proclaim a better way, we short-circuit God’s plan. As believers in Christ, we need to be known for both truth and love.In this Bible st...

Meet Carter Jakeman, a man in his late thirties suffering with bipolar disorder. He has resigned himself to just living in the background, frequenting bars too often and being generally miserable most of the time. The concoction of being unable to flourish in his life, combined with a dead end job and hampered relationships has only worsened his confidence and self esteem, leaving a broken and demoralised man, a man with a belief that he has no chance of happiness. Then a string of events ...

There are unexpected, beatific moments when Rev. Elijah Lovejoy Parish is swept up by the divine intrusion into the ordinary. Yet, he knows he cannot tarry there, for his calling also compels him to resume his shift as the traffic cop down at the intersection of Pathological and Whine. Told from the perspective of a deceased brother, freed from life's bondage to autism, Parish introduces you to the family of a young pastor and invites you to laugh and cry through the seasons of a year lace...

From out of nowhere there comes a sweeping onslaught of murder. A game of cat and mouse begins as DCI Henry Faulkner and DS Billy Cray are assigned to the case, leading the investigation into capturing this horrific serial killer. The murders begin, so grotesque in nature, mutilations that leave all involved stunned and riddled with fear. Tension mounts, as with each murder, no concrete evidence can be recovered. The pressure begins to cause ripples within the team. Faulkners boisterous an...

Ian Iansson is a little bit worried about his school trip. Firstly, Ian doesn't have any friends, plus, his mum has packed him ten pairs of pants for the two-day trip. But as it turns out, these are the least of Ian's problems Because when Ian's class arrives at the spooky old house, there's something very weird going on. Something that looks awfully like zombies, groaning, dribbling zombies who are just wandering about ... and no one but Ian seems to have noticed.

Mickey Doyle had the opportunity of a lifeti me. As an undersized minor pro soccer goalie from Liverpool, hed achieved as much as his body would let him. Then, on a fl uke, he discovered a new talent, and became the kicker for a professional football team in America. His journey took him overseas to a land more foreign than he had imagined, but in other ways it was very familiar. His inner journey wound through ambiti on, happiness, solitude, friendship, and love. But ulti mately, he cross...