Leverage the power of real-time data access for designing, building, and tuning your GoldenGate EnterpriseKey FeaturesOrchestrate the rich features of GoldenGate 12c and exploit the performance-enhancing features and manageability in your Enterprise environmentMaster data integration techniques to empower your organisation's readiness to migrate to cloud technologies quickly and easilyAn easy-to-follow step-by-step guide full of hands-on exampl...

Design, install, and configure high-performance data replication solutions using Oracle GoldenGateKey FeaturesThe very first book on GoldenGate, focused on design and performance tuning in enterprise-wide environmentsExhaustive coverage and analysis of all aspects of the GoldenGate software implementation, including design, installation, and advanced configurationMigrate your data replication solution from Oracle Streams to GoldenGateD...

In 1940, for the first time since America’s founding, a sitting president sought a third term in office. But this was only one remarkable aspect of that year’s election, which was, as John Jeffries makes clear in his new book, one of the most interesting and important elections in American history.Franklin Roosevelt’s plan to pack the Supreme Court had failed; in the wake of a recent recession, his New Deal had hardened support and opposition among both parties; and the German adva...

This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is "likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography" ( The Historical Journal).Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchic...

Designed to give students a concise compass to probe the history of World War II America and to assess the war’s impact on American life, the new edition of Wartime America retains the framework of the original edition but adds new important focus on topics such as other home fronts, the lives of veterans, expanded coverage of World War II as the Good War, and the concept of “the Greatest Generation.”Jeffries paints a picture of a people emerging from the Great Depression and eager for a b...

Find your Happily Ever After with two feel-good stories of dogs unleashing romance in small-town settings.How to not fall in love!A Dog and a Diamond by Rachael JohnsBreaking an engagement with CEO Callum McKinnel is just another day at the office for Chelsea Porter. Her job as the "Breakup Girl" is to end relationships on behalf of her clients. But the "It's not you, it's her" speech is tough to del...

An award-winning historian’s revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations“A masterful synthesis of the prognostications of faith, knowledge, and politics on a global stage. Martin’s book illuminates one of the enduring themes that shaped the medieval and early modern world.”—Paula E. Findlen, Stanford UniversityIn this revelatory immersion into...

Bears are iconic animals, playing a variety of roles in human culture. They have been portrayed as gods, monsters, kings, fools, brothers, lovers, and dancers; they are seen as protectors of the forest; symbols of masculinity; a comfort for children; and act as symbols for conservation and environmental issues. They also symbolise wilderness, reinforcing and maintaining our connection to the natural world. And stories abound of cultures that gathered berries in the same fields as bears and...

As a dangerous killer stalks women on the streets of Toronto, a young schoolgirl is kidnapped in what appears to be an unrelated incident. But as Toronto Police Inspector John Sanders examines the evidence, he uncovers a disturbing web of false identities, drug trafficking, and worse, police corruption.Racing against time, can Sanders put all of the puzzle pieces together in time to protect those he cares about most?Murder on the Run is the first novel in the John ...

Ghost Fields is a short study of the life and love of a most remarkable man of Indian heritage growing up in the historic NC town of Hillsborough in the late 20th century. Ghost Fields is a coming-of-age story of John Blackfeather Jeffries, a member of the Occaneechi Tribe, a people in relative obscurity in the counties bordering the Virginia-North Carolina border, a people rising from resting in hibernation for centuries.The term 'Ghost Field' applies on 3 levels:1st it ap...

"In God We Trust?" The separation of church and state is a widely contested topic in the American political arena. Whether for or against, debaters frequently base their arguments in the Constitution and the principles of the American founding. However, Americans' perception of the founding has narrowed greatly over the years, focusing on a handful of eminent statesmen.By exploring the work of nine founding fathers, including often overlooked figures like John Carroll and George Ma...

When her former assistant—who happened to have run off with her then-boyfriend—contacts her out of the blue asking for help, architectural photographer Harriet Jeffries at first has no desire to become involved again with the people who broke her heart.But when her ex-boyfriend is found dead in her living room, Harriet and her current flame, Toronto Police Inspector John Sanders, have no choice but to get involved. Their search for Jane and a mysterious, deeply-coveted document tak...