The AI hype machine has a clear target: small business owners who don't have the time, budget, or technical background to separate useful tools from expensive distractions. Level the Field was written specifically for them. James Cooper, founder of C2A Digital, has spent years working with SMB owners navigating the gap between what AI vendors promise and what AI tools actually deliver. His conclusion: most small business owners aren't getting straight answers from anyone with something to ...

One famous evening last August, I met a woman in the Bois de Boulogne who was beautiful enough to be charming with an odd but seductive voice.After exchanging a few words about the place, I accompanied her home, where she kindly offered me her hospitality. As I was very sweaty and had plenty to change into, I accepted and took a hot shower at her place.What I didn't expect was that she asked me if I wouldn't mind joining her in the shower. I didn't want to be rude, so I agr...

Thorough and updated coverage of database design and SQL for DB2 are the focus of this guide for the relational database-management system used on IBM i computer systems. Suitable for classroom instruction or self-study, this book explains the most widely used database language and the way that language is implemented on a variety of computer platforms. Topics covered include database concepts, SQL inquiries, web applications, and database security, and the material is reinforced by numero...

The First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry was one of the oldest and most distinguished militia units in the United States, and during the Civil War, it played a significant role in various campaigns. The book recounts the troop's experiences in battle, their strategic importance in key military operations, and the challenges they faced in the midst of the war's chaos. Cooper's work offers detailed descriptions of the troop’s movements, the officers involved, and the broader military contex...

The history of the borders is filled with legends of the sufferings of isolated families, during the troubled scenes of colonial warfare. Those which we now offer to the reader, are distinctive in many of their leading facts, if not rigidly true in the details. The first alone is necessary to the legitimate objects of fiction.

The Writer felt it necessary, on a former occasion, to state, that, in sketching his marine life, he did not deem himself obliged to adhere, very closely, to the chronological order of nautical improvements. It is believed that no very great violation of dates will be found in the following pages. If any keen-eyed critic of the ocean, however, should happen to detect a rope rove through the wrong leading-block, or a term spelt in such a manner as to destroy its true sound, he is admonished...

Each year brings some new and melancholy chasm in what is now the brief list of my naval friends and former associates. War, disease, and the casualties of a hazardous profession have made fearful inroads in the limited number; while the places of the dead are supplied by names that to me are those of strangers. With the consequences of these sad changes before me, I cherish the recollection of those with whom I once lived in close familiarity with peculiar interest, and feel a triumph in ...

The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features an elderly Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo), Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton (whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper), and Elizabeth Temple (based on the author's sister, Hannah Cooper), daughter of the fictional Templeton. The story begins with an argument between the judge and Leatherstocking over who killed a buck. Through their discussion, Cooper reviews many of the c...

Notwithstanding there are so many striking and deeply interesting events in the early history of those from whom you derive your being, yet are there hundreds of other families in this country, whose traditions, though less accurately and minutely preserved than the little narrative you have submitted to my inspection, would supply the materials of many moving tales. You have every reason to exult in your descent, for, surely, if any man may claim to be a citizen and a proprietor in the Un...

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by Stringer and Townsend In the Clerk's office of the District Court for the southern district of New York.

The plan of this tale suggested itself to the writer many years since, though the details are altogether of recent invention. The idea of associating seamen and savages in incidents that might be supposed characteristic of the Great Lakes having been mentioned to a Publisher, the latter obtained something like a pledge from the Author to carry out the design at some future day, which pledge is now tardily and imperfectly redeemed.

Early in October 1832, a travelling-carriage stopped on the summit of that long descent where the road pitches from the elevated plain of Moudon in Switzerland to the level of the lake of Geneva, immediately above the little city of Vévey. The postilion had dismounted to chain a wheel, and the halt enabled those he conducted to catch a glimpse of the lovely scenery of that remarkable view.