Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express for Developers: From Novice to Professional
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SQL Server 2005 will increase your programming options, productivity, analysis, and database management. If you have some basic knowledge of relational databases and want to start a career as a developer using SQL Server, then this book is your ideal first step. It explains the core jobs and roles for developing a database in both SQL Server 2000 and 2005.
This book features practical steps to help you overcome issues you're likely to encounter. You'll learn to use SQL for querying, inserting, updating, and deleting data. You'll also learn how to back up and restore databases for basic administration in SQL Server. Further, you'll cover how to build a complete database, from the fundamentals of relational database design to table and index creation.
Additionally, you'll start to program in T-SQL, SQL Server's implementation (and extension) of the SQL programming language, and you'll come away with effective programming techniques using stored procedures and triggers.
Drive Time: Italian (Cassette): Learn Italian While You Drive
Now anyone can learn a foreign language while commuting to work, running errands, or even on a trip with the family. These audio programs feature four hours of recordings with lessons that cover all the essentials--vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and basic conversation. Includes a 64-page guide.
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Darkroom Basics: And Beyond by Roger Hicks, ISBN 1843400480
With the black-and-white developing techniques shown here, makeshift spaces will do. Diagrams and photos simplify the use of developers, fixers, graduates, timers, and thermometers. Sections on equipment cover enlargers, lenses, trays, tanks, drums, and safelights. Process negatives and turn out work prints, test strips, contacts, and proofs. Everything from cropping to vignetting to retouching is covered.
Darkroom Basics: And Beyond by Roger Hicks, ISBN 1843400480
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Keeping Pet Chickens
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KEEPING PET CHICKENS
When you're looking for fresh eggs, what could be better than going out to your backyard and collecting them, courtesy of your own home-bred chickens? Food doesn't come any fresher, and the good news is that keeping two or three chickens is easy. They don't require farmland or much special equipment, and today's modern chicken houses are designed so that anyone with even a little backyard or terrace space can keep poultry. But you will need some essential "must-know" information, which you can find in this easy-to-understand book. The authors provide all the advice you'll require, and the instructive captioned illustrations will show you exactly how to master every aspect of keeping and raising healthy and productive poultry.
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Unlocking Public Value: A New Model for Achieving High Performance in Public Service Organizations
A new approach to understanding and improving performance and public value
This book presents the Public Service Value Model-an innovative, rigorous approach to defining public outcomes and quantifying results-to help readers understand and improve public service delivery. Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, this guide will arm public service managers-whether in government, nonprofit, or even for-profit organizations-with a practical framework that can be used to define outcomes and manage trade-offs in public service delivery.
Martin Cole (Hartford, CT) is Group Chief Executive of Accenture's Government Operating Group. Greg Parston (London, UK) is Executive Director of the Accenture Institute for Public Service Value.
Unlocking Public Value: A New Model for Achieving High Performance in Public Service Organizations
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Lisa in the Jungle by Anne Gutman, ISBN 0375822542
Lisa is not one who likes to be outdone. When her classmates return from summer break with exciting stories about their vacations, Lisa decides to regale them with her own vacation story--a trip to the jungle to visit her Uncle Paul who raises panthers and leopards! Lisa enthralls her audience with tales from her amazing jungle adventure, until one of her classmates blows her cover when he asks her how he saw her at the community pool every day over the summer if she was in the jungle.
With a snappy text and irresistible illustrations, "Lisa in the Jungle is sure to charm anyone who ever wished they had a more exciting summer vacation.
Lisa in the Jungle by Anne Gutman, ISBN 0375822542
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Unlocking Public Value: A New Model for Achieving High Performance in Public Service Organizations
A new approach to understanding and improving performance and public value
This book presents the Public Service Value Model-an innovative, rigorous approach to defining public outcomes and quantifying results-to help readers understand and improve public service delivery. Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, this guide will arm public service managers-whether in government, nonprofit, or even for-profit organizations-with a practical framework that can be used to define outcomes and manage trade-offs in public service delivery.
Martin Cole (Hartford, CT) is Group Chief Executive of Accenture's Government Operating Group. Greg Parston (London, UK) is Executive Director of the Accenture Institute for Public Service Value.
Unlocking Public Value: A New Model for Achieving High Performance in Public Service Organizations
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Advanced Calculus by Gerald B. Folland, ISBN 0130652652
This book presents a unified view of calculus in which theory and practice reinforces each other. It is about the theory and applications of derivatives (mostly partial), integrals, (mostly multiple or improper), and infinite series (mostly of functions rather than of numbers), at a deeper level than is found in the standard calculus books. Chapter topics cover: Setting the Stage, Differential Calculus, The Implicit Function Theorem and Its Applications, Integral Calculus, Line and Surface Integrals--Vector Analysis, Infinite Series, Functions Defined by Series and Integrals, and Fourier Series. For individuals with a sound knowledge of the mechanics of one-variable calculus and an acquaintance with linear algebra.
Advanced Calculus by Gerald B. Folland, ISBN 0130652652
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Colonial Brazil by Leslie Bethell, ISBN 0521349257
Colonial Brazil is a selection of chapters from the Cambridge History of Latin America volumes 1 and 2 brought together to provide a continous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginning of the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The chapters cover early Portuguese settlement, political and economic structures, plantations and slavery, the gold rushes, the impact of colonial rule on Indian societies, imperial reorganization in the eighteenth century, and demographic and economic change during the final decades of the empire.
Colonial Brazil by Leslie Bethell, ISBN 0521349257
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