When he died in 1983, Ross Macdonald was the best-known and most highly regarded crime-fiction writer in America. Long considered the rightful successor to the mantles of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald and his Lew Archer-novels were hailed by The New York Times as "the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American."Now, in the first full-length biography of this extraordinary and influential writer, a much fuller pictu...

"The two sides of Shaw…are at the center of…[this] compulsively readable biography." —Daniel Akst, Wall Street JournalDuring America’s Swing Era, no musician was more successful or controversial than Artie Shaw: the charismatic and opinionated clarinetist-bandleader whose dozens of hits became anthems for “the greatest generation.” But some of his most beautiful recordings were not issued until decades after he’d left the scene. He broke racial barriers by...

This is the most comprehensive book focusing on the law and practice of Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs), bringing together analysis of the recent case law and legislation in one volume. CVAs originated in the 1980s as a simple restructuring tool for small businesses, but are now used in a wide variety of contexts, including by companies with real estate leasehold liabilities. Many high profile businesses have sought to take advantage of the flexibility of the procedure, and this has ...

The Brilliance of Netezza will make all readers instant experts on the architecture of Netezza. With its clever design and “secret sauce” of FPGA Cards and Zone Maps, Netezza is quickly becoming a staple of all major enterprise data warehouses. This is a perfect opportunity to make yourself an invaluable asset to your company by obtaining the kind of knowledge that this book contains.

You are going to love this book because your confidence and knowledge will soar. V14 Certification: Teradata Basics has been designed to help you pass the test, but it is so much more. It is an incredible reference guide, learning tool, and foundation for passing all the tests and becoming a Teradata Certified Master.

The Aster Data SQL and MapReduce book shows you the fundamental architecture that will allow you to fully understand how Aster Data works. You will be able to create tables, perform partitioning, follow the best Aster modeling strategies, and have a great reference for Aster Data SQL. You will also elevate your knowledge immensely from the brilliant MapReduce portion of the books. You will have MapReduce examples, explanations, and workshops that are designed to make you a MapReduce wizard...

'This book will take you through Viewpoint, TASM, and actually setting up workloads. They are some of the most difficult to understand of the Teradata technologies but also the most important. It is a step by step guide that will make these very challenging subjects easy to master. The step by step process, similar to a cookbook, ensures that readers will not be confused. You will see material that you thought was impossible to learn, and you will master it.

This book will explain Aster Data so that users are instant experts. It will explain how things are set up, how things work, and all of the advanced analytics that Aster can provide. Like the other Genius Series books, it begins at a very basic level and gradually gets more and more detailed.

'This book will make every IT/Developer in your company a superstar. This book is designed to teach IT and developers everything they want to know about Teradata while leaving no stone unturned. They are going to see and understand Teradata at a level they’ve never understood it before. It is a brilliant way to explain what is happening in Teradata down to the most detailed levels. Like the rest of the Genius Series, it takes a building block approach to allow readers to continually see ho...

No matter what cases private eye Lew Archer takes on—a burglary, a runaway, or a disappeared person—the trail always leads to tangled family secrets and murder. Widely considered the heir to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Archer dug up secrets and bodies in and around Los Angeles.Here, The Archer Files collects all the Lew Archer short stories ever published, along with thirteen unpublished “case notes” and a fascinating biographical profile of Archer by Edgar Award finalis...

*2016 Edgar Award Finalist**2016 Anthony Award Finalist**2016 Macavity Award Finalist*In 1970, Ross Macdonald wrote a letter to Eudora Welty, beginning a thirteen-year correspondence between fellow writers and kindred spirits. Though separated by background, geography, genre, and his marriage, the two authors shared their lives in witty, wry, tender, and at times profoundly romantic letters, each drawing on the other ...

Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complicity by what they consider a crime, when the Great War begins in 1914 they hope to submerge their guilt by leaving for Europe to nurse the tides of young wounded. They head for the Dardanelles on the hospital ship Archimedes. Their education in medicine, valour and human degradation continues on the Greek island of Lemnos, then on the Western Front. Here, new outrages – gas, shell-shock...