About This BookLearn to install and use Cassandra from the ground upDesign rich schemas that capture the relationships between different data types using compound primary keysMaster the advanced features available in Cassandra 2.0 through a step-by-step tutorial that builds a real-world application's database layer.Who This Book Is ForIf you're an application developer familiar with SQL databases such as MySQL or Postgres, and yo...

How to battle an evil TIME-TRAVELLING PIRATE:Jump 600 years into the future.Find out that MEGA-BADDY Gussage St Vincent is back from the dead... with a time-travelling PIRATE SHIP.Do battle to stop Gussage becoming OVERLORD OF THE UNIVERSE.Show him you're no COWARDY CUSTARD and make him eat pie.

A FANG-tastically funny adventures series, perfect for 7+ readers and fans of Amelia Fang!"Full of hilarious, highly illustrated mayhem" Guardian"Loved it. Full of heart, laughs and adventure." Dermot O'Leary"Fearfully funny, and a book to get your teeth into! You'll be Kevin's biggest fang!" Danny WallaceIf Kevin the Vampire was already beside himself wit...

How to become a super FUTURE AGENT RECRUIT IN TRAINING.Travel six hundred years into the future to join a TOP-SECRET ACADEMY.Discover that NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL AND MEGA-BADDY the Master of Time has escaped from prison - and he's after YOU...PANIC.Stop panicking and come up with a plan of UTTER GENIUS to save yourself, your best buddy... and of course THE WORLD. Fresh from saving the universe, Compton and Bryan are whisked off to the future to becom...

How to become the most POWERFUL BOY IN THE UNIVERSE.Leave cheese-and-pickled-egg SANDWICH in lunchbox for thirteen weeks.Open lunchbox to find that sandwich has turned into a TIME MACHINE.Accidentally wipe out the DINOSAURS with a packet of custard creams.Try to stop someone evil stealing the most POWERFUL SANDWICH of all TIME and changing the history of the universe FOR EVER.

How to get into the BIGGEST PICKLE ever.Create a TIME MACHINE SANDWICH.Accidentally let your evil older brother steal the sandwich and travel through time CHANGING ALL OF HISTORY.Set out to STEAL BACK the sandwich with the help of a secret agent FROM THE FUTURE.Save the world from TOTAL DESTRUCTION... (Probably.)

Ian Iansson is a little bit worried about his school trip.Firstly, Ian doesn't have any friends, plus, his mum has packed him ten pairs of pants for the two-day trip. But as it turns out, these are the least of Ian's problems.Because when Ian's class arrives at the spooky old house, there's something very weird going on. Something that looks awfully like zombies; groaning, dribbling zombies that no one but Ian seems to have noticed.

A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in art and art history.This myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through the lives of starving (and not so starving) artists, unusual exhibitions and painting blunders throughout history. In the intriguing, outrageous and often provoking worldof the visual arts, nothing is quite as it seems.From the world's first intance of photobombing in 1843 to the Damien Hirst spot painting that landed on Ma...

WINNER, Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2022: Illustrated Travel Book of the Year. HIGHLY COMMENDED, British Cartographic Society Awards 2022.From Stephen King's Salem's Lot to the superhero land of Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels to Springfield in The Simpsons, this is a wondrous atlas of imagined places around the world. Locations from film, tv, literature, myths, comics and video games are p...

A highly entertaining read for anyone interested in English history and culture, this great myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through history and the national character. Think we're the land of Punch and Judy and Morris Dancing? Think again as both traditions started in southern Europe. Love Winston Churchill's wartime speeches? Well, they were recorded by an actor.Packed with details on real English history, the book explodes a range of national myths from bluebirds in D...

Is it better to prove our point? Or just try to love?Christians today are facing a crisis of influence. In our rush to speak truth to today’s tensions, cultural issues, and trending controversies, it becomes all too easy for us to focus on proving our points rather than extending God’s grace. Conversely, when we seek only to love but never proclaim a better way, we short-circuit God’s plan. As believers in Christ, we need to be known for both truth and love.In this Bible st...

Drishya Samode has always loved building robots. So when Dreary Inkling Primary School gets some brand-new hi-tech vending machines that can walk, talk and have eyes, Drishya is VERY excited. But after a freak electrical surge hits the school, something strange seems to happen to the machines... Can whizz-kid Drishya step in to save the day, the school, and lunch?