In the haunting Black Hills, ancient spirits and modern ambitions clash, threading a complex tale of environmental crisis and cultural survival. Visions of Samuel Dances and wisdom from elder turtle Crazy Horse foretell a toxic danger lurking below Yellowstone. Gustavus Yeats' Gaia Protocols and journalist Jena Li's investigations converge amidst political intrigue and the whispers of Thunderbirds. As ancestral guardians battle industrial foes, the fate of the Earth hangs in balance, with ...

In the pulse-pounding conclusion to Guy Harrison's sci-fi action-thriller trilogy, Calvin Newsome and Elena Jimenez have uncovered the Agency of Influence's secret weapon in its quest to regain—or in this case, ensure that it never loses—its control of the powerful relic, the Arrowhead of the Seminole.Newsome and Jimenez travel back in time to the year 2000 to carry out two objectives meant to ensure a more peaceful civilization and turn the tables on the A of I: protect Calvin's t...

CockroachDB is the distributed SQL database that handles the demands of today's data-driven applications. The second edition of this popular hands-on guide shows software developers, architects, and DevOps/SRE teams how to use CockroachDB for applications that scale elastically and provide seamless delivery for end users while remaining indestructible.Data professionals will learn how to migrate existing applications to CockroachDB's performant, cloud-native data architecture. You'...

Winner of the 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication AssociationWhen sports fans turn on the television or radio today, they undoubtedly find more women on the air than ever before. Nevertheless, women sportscasters are still subjected to gendered and racialized mistreatment in the workplace and online and are largely confined to anchor and sideline reporter positions in coverage of high-profile men’s sports. In On the Sidelines Guy Ha...

Use this fast and complete guide to optimize the performance of MongoDB databases and the applications that depend on them. You will be able to turbo-charge the performance of your MongoDB applications to provide a better experience for your users, reduce your running costs, and avoid application growing pains. MongoDB is the world’s most popular document database and the foundation for thousands of mission-critical applications. This book helps you get the best possible performance from M...

"It’s not easy to find such a generous book on big data and databases. Fortunately, this book is the one." Feng Yu. Computing Reviews. June 28, 2016.This is a book for enterprise architects, database administrators, and developers who need to understand the latest developments in database technologies. It is the book to help you choose the correct database technology at a time when concepts such as Big Data, NoSQL and NewSQL are making what used to be an easy choice into a complex ...

Meeting the psychological and spiritual needs of patients is vital to supporting their wellbeing in health care settings. To develop an effective, holistic and inclusive approach to care within predominantly medical health care models, practitioners across health care disciplines must work collaboratively to understand the complex, significant relationships between their patients' medical, therapeutic and spiritual requirements.Bridging the gap between care disciplines, the book pr...

The implementation of stored procedures in MySQL 5.0 a hugemilestone -- one that is expected to lead to widespread enterprise adoption ofthe already extremely popular MySQL database. If you are serious aboutbuilding the web-based database applications of the future, you need toget up to speed quickly on how stored procedures work -- and how tobuild them the right way. This book, destined to be the bible of storedprocedure development, is a resource that no real MySQL programmer canafford t...

In the astonishing follow-up to Agents of Change, the Agencies of Influence and Justice have been effectively rendered powerless, and the world, for the time being, is safe. While this turn of events remains unbeknownst to the human race, the agencies are none too happy about it. Left as the only soul imbued with the Arrowhead of the Seminole's power, Calvin Newsome has paid a heavy price for his heroics, but knows not of true suffering until now.Under the direction of their execut...

How are we going to live meaningful and prosperous lives in a future radically transformed by Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computers, and other Information Technologies? Understanding technologies like AI, Blockchain, and quantum computing is not just beneficial—it's essential for those wishing to survive and thrive in our shared future.In this concise book aimed at technical and non-technical readers alike, software industry veteran Guy Harrison demystifies these complex techn...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Confluence brings together twenty stories set along the rivers, ridge lines, and reservations of Alaska, Montana, and the Pacific Northwest, where the land feels alive—watchful, ancient, and never quite neutral. In these stories, a badger drags a snake bitten woman to safety and treats her wound, an elk hunter's bullet finds something that hasn't been human for years, an activist uses her musical gifts to protect a place that cannot pro...

"...a fast-paced exploration of corruption and power...an exciting story packed with twists, disasters and suspense." — Emma Hunneyball, In PotentiaAn amiable corporate manager by day and a matchmaker whenever he can get around to it, Calvin Newsome's new dream job falls into his lap when he's recruited by a secret worldwide organization whose agents use uncanny abilities to empower and influence everyday downtrodden individuals. Disaster strikes, however, when an elaborate scheme ...