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This self-study exam preparation guide for the Oracle Database 10g Database Administrator OCA certification exam contains everything you need to test yourself and pass the Exam. All Exam topics are covered and insider secrets, complete explanations of all Oracle Database 10g Database Administrator OCA subjects, test tricks and tips, numerous highly realistic sample questions, and exercises designed to strengthen understanding of Oracle Database 10g Database Administrator OCA concepts and p...

This self-study exam preparation guide for the SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 certification exam contains everything you need to test yourself and pass the Exam. All Exam topics are covered and insider secrets, complete explanations of all SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 subjects, test tricks and tips, numerous highly realistic sample questions, and exercises designed to strengthen understanding of SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 concepts and prepare you for exam s...

The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true account of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence; yet Hollywood's glittering ascend...

This self-study exam preparation guide for the MCDST Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician certification exam contains everything you need to test yourself and pass the Exam. All Exam topics are covered and insider secrets, complete explanations of all MCDST Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician subjects, test tricks and tips, numerous highly realistic sample questions, and exercises designed to strengthen understanding of MCDST Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technic...

New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder—the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history.The brutal murder of Elizabeth Short—better known as the Black Dahlia—in 1947 has been in the public consciousness for nearly eighty years, yet no serious study of the crime has ever been published.Short has been mischaracterized as a wayward sex work...

This self-study exam preparation guide for the CEH Certified Ethical Hacker certification exam contains everything you need to test yourself and pass the Exam. All Exam topics are covered and insider secrets, complete explanations of all CEH Certified Ethical Hacker subjects, test tricks and tips, numerous highly realistic sample questions, and exercises designed to strengthen understanding of CEH Certified Ethical Hacker concepts and prepare you for exam success on the first attempt are p...

This self-study exam preparation guide for the Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) certification exam contains everything you need to test yourself and pass the Exam. All Exam topics are covered and insider secrets, complete explanations of all Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) subjects, test tricks and tips, numerous highly realistic sample questions, and exercises designed to strengthen understanding of Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA)...

Esperanto Essentials gathers three classic interventions in the history, practice, and promise of Esperanto, the most influential of the planned international languages. Moving between lucid exposition, practical instruction, cultural advocacy, and reflection on linguistic reform, the volume situates Esperanto not merely as a grammar to be learned but as an experiment in transnational communication. Its varied texts illuminate the language's accessibility, its literary ambitions, and the e...

In "The Nootka Sound Controversy: A Dissertation," William R. Manning meticulously dissects the intricate geopolitical tensions surrounding the Nootka Sound dispute during the late 18th century, a pivotal moment that shaped North American maritime law and colonial politics. Combining rigorous historical analysis with a clear, analytical writing style, Manning delves into primary sources, including letters, treaties, and diplomatic exchanges, employing a narrative that interweaves legal the...

The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America's greatest and most influential families—the Roosevelts—exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic flair.Drawing on previously hidden historical documents and interviews with the long-silent "illegitimate" branch of the family, William J. Mann paints an elegant, meticulously researc...

New York Times Bestseller • Edgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime, and one of the nation's...

A survivor’s true account of death, despair, and heroism in Death Valley in the heat of the California Gold Rush.At the height of the California gold rush in 1849, a wagon train of men, women, children, and their animals stumbled into a 130-mile-long valley in the Mojave Desert while they were looking for a shortcut to the California coast. What ensued was an ordeal that divided the camp into remnants and struck them with hunger, thirst, and a terrible sense of bei...