You can't kidnap someone's hope.They were teachers, engineers, nurses, students, and artists from around the world who answered God's call to help Afghan refugees rebuild their lives following decades of war. But as international tensions reached inferno levels in 2001, extremists set out to rid Afghanistan of anyone who posed a threat to Islam and the influence of the Taliban.The Shelter Now International (SNI) humanitarian effort led by Christians from Western countries t...

Great journalism relies on a narrative arc to engage and inform the reader. Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Journalist Matt Tullis uses the material he gathered in the more than seventy-five interviews he conducted with the best narrative and literary journalists in the country through his podcast, Gangrey: The Podcast, to show how these professionals conceive and writesuch compelling stories.Thr...

Reflective practice is at the heart of probation training and the continuing professional development of practitioners. This edited collection provides practitioners with an opportunity to explore and develop their own reflective practice, considering diversity and organisational challenges, with real-world examples of reflection in the probation context.In addition to probation specialists, its contributors include those from prison, third-sector organisations and mental health pe...

Query and modify data effectively with the latest T-SQL featuresMaster Transact-SQL's fundamentals, and write correct, robust code for querying and modifying data with modern Microsoft data technologies, including SQL Server 2022, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Managed Instance. Long-time Microsoft Data Platform MVP Itzik Ben-Gan explains key T-SQL concepts, helping you apply your knowledge with hands-on exercises. Ben-Gan first introduces T-SQL's theory and und...

“As an author, editor, and publisher, I never paid much attention to the competition—except in a few cases. This is one of those cases. The UNIX System Administration Handbook is one of the few books we ever measured ourselves against.”—Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media“This edition is for those whose systems live in the cloud or in virtualized data centers; those whose administrative work largely takes the form of automation and con...

T-SQL insiders help you tackle your toughest queries and query-tuning problemsSqueeze maximum performance and efficiency from every T-SQL query you write or tune. Four leading experts take an in-depth look at T-SQL’s internal architecture and offer advanced practical techniques for optimizing response time and resource usage. Emphasizing a correct understanding of the language and its foundations, the authors present unique solutions they have spent years developing...

Features of Nevada Real Estate License Exam Prep (NV-RELEP):National Principles & Law Key Point Review (60 pages)Real Estate Math Key Formula Review & Practice (20 pages)Nevada-Specific Laws and Regulations Key Point Review (22 pages)National Practice Tests (500 questions)Nevada Practice Tests (140 questions)Nevada Simulation Exam (100 questions)We know the real estate licensing exam can be tough, and very nerve-wracking to prepare for. That...

Six men ride into the little town of Rook, in the Texas panhandle, and stopped in front of the bank. Six men known to be members of the vicious Lawrence gang. Moments later, all six lie dead in the street, the air filled with the smell of gunpowder and their blood oozing from multiple gunshot wounds apiece to mingle in the dirt.Into town a few days later rides Texas Ranger Ira 'Doc' Pearson. No one in the government or the rangers denies that the Lawrence Gang got what they deserved...

Texas Ranger Ira 'Doc' Pearson rides again to bring peace and justice to the Old West!Texas Ranger Ira Pearson is sent to Van Bent, a town in far west Texas, to try and avert a range war. Under cover as the town doctor, Ira finds that the whole area is simmering, seemingly just waiting to boil over. Still, as he investigates, Ira becomes convinced there is someone else egging on the fight. Ira is determined to find out who it is and stop them before a full-fledged war breaks out.

Use window functions to write simpler, better, more efficient T-SQL queriesMost T-SQL developers recognize the value of window functions for data analysis calculations. But they can do far more, and recent optimizations make them even more powerful. In T-SQL Window Functions, renowned T-SQL expert Itzik Ben-Gan introduces breakthrough techniques for using them to handle many common T-SQL querying tasks with unprecedented elegance and power. Using extensive code exa...

Texas Ranger Ira "Doc" Pearson rides into action with guns blazing!The Van Bent courthouse burns down and a body is found to have been stuffed into the floorboards years before, when the building was built. Ira Pearson is determined to discover the identity of the woman, but Sheriff Wood has little interest in the matter for he has more important matters on his hands--including a numbers runner and big city tough who came to Van Bent for some reason and promptly lost a thumb in an ...

Just the parts of SQL you need to know from simple data retrieval to the use of SQL joins, subqueries, stored procedures, cursors, triggers, and table constraintsDesigned for anyone interacting with databases, this SQL book methodically, systematically, and simply teaches you in lessons that each take 10 minutes or less to complete. Lessons includeSQL statements, including complex SQL statements using multiple clauses and operatorsData manag...