Mastering material for dealing with DBA certification examsKey FeaturesPrepare yourself for the IBM C2090-600 certification examCover over 50 Db2 procedures including database design, performance, and securityWork through over 150 Q&As to gain confidence on each topicBook DescriptionIBM Db2 is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that helps you store, analyze, and retrieve data efficiently. This comprehensive book ...

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. Instant Magento Shipping How-To is a step-by-step guide to learn and understand the different shipping configurations and settings of Magento.This book is perfect for Magento store owners who wish to explore the possibilities of extending their shipping options for both themselves through order processing, and their customers through promotions and multiple shipping methods. It'...

This book is an easy-to-follow tutorial with best practices and advanced references which will help you to take full advantage of Magento with SEO. This book is aimed at both Magento developers and SEO specialists who wish to optimize search and end user elements such as click-through rates to ensure the design of their online shop sites effectively maximize sales. Magento store owners may also find large sections of this book useful in order to understand the larger impact small tweaks an...

Suicide is a very complex phenomenon that has psychosocial implications, still largely unexplored, but which kills more victims of armed conflicts every year, unfortunately, still occur. In this text we will investigate the various joints, the most obvious to the most recondite of this distressing phenomenon, focusing on the crucial points of the psychological dynamic.

Grab your spurs, saddle up, and hold on tight for a rollicking, rip roaring ride thru the Great State of Texas. Yore gonna be rode hard and put away laffin', larnin' Texan and Texas Towns frum A tuh Z. Giddy-yup. 340 pages of pure Texas Humor from the Great State of Texas. Well, partner, you may have thought that you just crossed a border or two, but you have entered a whole 'nuther country. You have ventured into the Great State of Texas and any resemblence between Texas a...

Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration offers a ray of hope in an increasingly gloomy scenario. This book is the first presentation of revolutionary new methods for restoring damaged marine ecosystems. It discusses new techniques for greatly increasing the recruitment, growth, survival, and resistance to stress of marine ecosystems, fisheries, and eroding shorelines, maintaining biodiversity and productivity where it would be lost. The book provides experimenta...

"The world of jellyfish is brought alive as you never imagined it could be by Lisa-ann Gershwin in this engaging, gripping, and often funny book." —Callum Roberts, author of The Ocean of LifeAs our oceans become increasingly inhospitable to life, there is one creature that is thriving in this seasick environment: the beautiful, dangerous, and now incredibly numerous jellyfish. As foremost jellyfish expert Lisa-ann Gershwin describes in Stung!, the ...

-a Henderson’s Ranch romance story-Freelance journalist Colleen McMurphy finds her Irish penname far more professional than the Kurva Baisotei her Japanese parents perpetrated upon her at birth. Her “itinerant writer” role fit her deliciously single lifestyle, until an assignment sent her to Montana’s Big Sky Country to write an article about Henderson’s Ranch.Raymond Esterling, summertime cowboy, gratefully forgets his life beyond the prairie, at least for those precious m...

Selected by Forbes.com as one of the 12 best books about birds and birding in 2016This much-anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Bird Biology is an essential and comprehensive resource for everyone interested in learning more about birds, from casual bird watchers to formal students of ornithology. Wherever you study birds your enjoyment will be enhanced by a better understanding of the incredible diversity of avian lifestyles. Arising from the ren...

Clint is one of the old reliables in Lake Wobegon - the treasurer of the Lutheran church and the auto mechanic who starts your car on below-zero mornings. For six years he has run the Fourth of July parade, turning what was once a line of pickup trucks and girls pushing baby carriages that hold their cats into a dazzling spectacle that has attracted the attention of CNN and prompted the governor to put in an appearance as well. The town is dizzy with anticipation.Until, that is, th...

This new edition of Biological Oceanography has been greatly updated and expanded since its initial publication in 2004. It presents current understanding of ocean ecology emphasizing the character of marine organisms from viruses to fish and worms, together with their significance to their habitats and to each other.The book initially emphasizes pelagic organisms and processes, but benthos, hydrothermal vents, climate-change effects, and fisheries all receive attention. T...

When Sandra Sinclair, recently widowed and the mother of twelve-year-old Jane, meets wealthy lawyer Joe Gillette, he wins her over with his kind and conscientious attitude. Falling in love faster than she ever thought possible, Sandra agrees to marry. But soon after they move into their new home, things begin to change, and Joe's controlling behavior causes her to question her decision. When her new husband becomes seriously abusive, Sandra decides that she and Jane must leave. When Joe ma...