Are you a fan of American girl band Fifth Harmony? Have you followed the girls' success from auditioning as solo artists on The X Factor USA to the formation of Fifth Harmony and beyond? If you think you know all about Ally, Normani, Dinah, Lauren and Camilla, or would like to find out more about them, dip inside The Fifth Harmony Quiz Book. What song did Ally sing during her audition on The X Factor USA in 2012? When the group was formed by Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato, what was the band's original name? What award did Fifth Harmony win at the ‘People’s Choice Awards 2016’? The answers can all be found in this exciting new quiz book. With 100 questions and fascinating facts all about Fifth Harmony, including many personal details, you are certain to learn something new about this popular girl band. This is a must-have book for everyone who supported the girls on their The X Factor USA journey and who continue to enjoy the music of Fifth Harmony.
2024 update. This book teaches newcomers SQL, the language of databases, and includes examples for the most widely used database systems. In all its editions, this book has sold more than 150,000 copies and is popular with end users, students, data scientists, statisticians, epidemiologists, analysts, app developers, webmasters, and hobbyists. Thorough cross-referencing makes it a useful desktop reference for experienced SQL programmers. - Covers Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, IBM Db2 Database, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Standard SQL. - Hundreds of examples of varied difficulty encourage you to experiment and explore. - Download the sample database and SQL source code to follow along with the examples. - Organize your database in terms of the relational model. - Master tables, columns, rows, and keys. - Retrieve, filter, sort, and format data. - Use functions and operators to transform and summarize data. - Create, alter, and drop database tables. - Answer hard questions by using joins, subqueries, constraints, conditional logic, and metadata. - Create indexes that speed sorts and searches. - Use views to secure and simplify data access. - Insert, update, delete, and merge data. - Execute transactions to maintain the integrity of your data. - Avoid common pitfalls involving nulls. - Troubleshoot and optimize queries. - Learn advanced techniques that extend the power of SQL. Contents Introduction 1. Running SQL Programs 2. The Relational Model 3. SQL Basics 4. Retrieving Data from a Table 5. Operators and Functions 6. Summarizing and Grouping Data 7. Joins 8. Subqueries 9. Set Operations 10. Inserting, Updating, and Deleting Rows 11. Creating, Altering, and Dropping Tables 12. Indexes 13. Views 14. Transactions 15. Advanced SQL About the Author Chris Fehily is a statistician and author living in Carmel, California.
Are you a fan of American girl band Fifth Harmony? Have you followed the girls' success from auditioning as solo artists on The X Factor USA to the formation of Fifth Harmony and beyond? If you think you know all about Ally, Normani, Dinah, Lauren and Camilla, or would like to find out more about them, dip inside The Fifth Harmony Quiz Book. What song did Ally sing during her audition on The X Factor USA in 2012? When the group was formed by Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato, what was the band's original name? What award did Fifth Harmony win at the ‘People’s Choice Awards 2016’? The answers can all be found in this exciting new quiz book. With 100 questions and fascinating facts all about Fifth Harmony, including many personal details, you are certain to learn something new about this popular girl band. This is a must-have book for everyone who supported the girls on their The X Factor USA journey and who continue to enjoy the music of Fifth Harmony.
During the immediate period before World War Two, the RAF modified its command structure to rationalize for rapid expansion. Bomber Command was divided into six operational groups, each flying the same type of aircraft. In 1939 5 Group was flying the Handley Page Hampden, a fast, modern aircraft that carried a large payload. However, during the early daylight raids into enemy occupied Europe it suffered great losses due to its defensive armament leaving too many blind spots. The Group now turned to night bombing and mine-laying operations. During November 1940, the first Avro Manchesters entered service but were to prove dangerously unreliable. It was not until the Avro Lancaster began arriving in strength that the Group began its proud history of successful and often highly dangerous raids into the Reich, the most famous of which was No 617 Squadrons attack on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams.Between 1939 and 1945 the Group flew 70,351 sorties with the loss of 1,888 aircraft. This book contains a lengthy narrative of the groups operations and contains individual squadron statistics, their commanding officers, stations and aircraft losses. It provides a detailed reference for one of the RAFs most important and successful operational groups.
Are you a huge fan of Babylon 5? Do you know your Anla'Shok from your Entil'Zha, your Tenth Fane of Elleya from your Third Fane of Chudomo and your sleepers from your dust? If so, this is the perfect quiz book for you! With four hundred questions (and answers) covering the entire Babylon 5 universe, this ultimate quiz is ideal for testing your own knowledge or for playing along with friends. Topics covered include the various races, planets and systems, the characters and their relationships, individual plot points and fun sections such as anagrams and guess the season. So put on your best ceremonial dress, strap yourself into your Starfury and get ready for some awesome Babylon 5 quizzing fun!
“An outstanding roadmap . . . you’ll learn both the mechanics and the psychology of effective money management—how to build and maintain your money.” —Anthony Robbins, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Money: Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom What would your life be like if you were debt free? What if you had a way to create a simple plan for not only debt freedom, but financial independence as well? Simplicity is sustainability. The 5-Minute Debt Solution will help you create a simple plan for debt-free living and financial security for you and your family. With this book as your guide, financial success is as easy as one, two, three. “In finances, it’s hard to see the forest through the trees, but The 5-Minute Debt Solution gives you just that opportunity.” —Erin Brockovich, author of Take it From Me: Life’s a Struggle But You Can Win “This program is a required ritual for anyone who want to be wealthy.” —Tod Barnhart, author of The Five Rituals of Wealth and A Kick in the Assets
Astronomer and ufologist Chris A. Rutkowski has spent the past forty years investigating reports of UFOs and other strange phenomena. This collection of his writings about people's experiences with UFOs, alien abductions, and other unexplained events is perfect for enthusiastic fans everywhere, and includes startling evidence to make even the biggest skeptics believe. Includes: Abductions and Aliens: What's Really Going On Based on almost 25 years of investigation and research, science writer Chris Rutkowski looks critically at abduction stories. The Canadian UFO Report: The Best Cases Revealed A popular history of the UFO phenomenon in Canada, which has captured the imaginations of young and old alike. A World of UFOs UFOs and UFO encounters are truly global phenomena. What are some of the most interesting cases? Which ones seem most mysterious? And what can one of the worlds most active UFO researchers and investigators tell us about UFOs, from A to Z? Join Chris A. Rutkowski as he takes us on a tour of A World of UFOs. I Saw It Too! I Saw It Too! is the first collection of stories told by kids to document their UFO sightings. These accounts are real cases of UFOs they’ve seen or alien creatures they’ve encountered that were reported to government or military officials, UFO investigators, and journalists. The Big Book of UFOs The Big Book of UFOs is a compendium of his best and most disturbing UFO stories for enthusiastic fans everywhere, with startling evidence to make even the biggest skeptics believe. The renowned ufologist takes us on a tour of UFOs in Canada and around the world. He has studied UFOs, aliens, abductions, and even encounters reported by kids.
In History of the Pauline Corpus in Texts, Transmissions, and Trajectories, Chris S. Stevens uses Systemic Functional Linguistics to offer an entirely new analysis of the early life of the Pauline corpus with regard to text types, Christological scribal alterations, and textual trajectories.
La 4e de couverture indique : "In this book, Chris W. Lee provides a text-critical analysis of the divine death warning in Genesis 2:16-17 in its original context and traces the history of its reception and interpretation within biblical and non-biblical Second Temple Jewish Literature
A modern English translation of Henry de Sainct-Didier's 1573 fencing training manual. Sainct-Didier taught a style of swordsmanship informed by more than two decades as a soldier on the battlefields of France's Italian Wars. He demonstrates techniques which are straight forward and direct, without the niceties of the Italian and Spanish salles of the period. This is a textbook of lesson plans teaching basic cuts and thrusts, how to counter them, and the ways to respond to and defeat these defenses. It is written so that each action builds step by step into complex two-person drills in which initiative passes back and forth between the combatants. No interpretation of Sainct-Didier's text has been attempted, allowing his words to stand on their own merits.
What is a meteorite? Why can you find seashell fossils on Mount Everest? What are gemstones made of? In Focus: Rocks and Fossils has the answers! In Focus is a cool information series that's perfect for curious kids. These fun books feature modern, magazine-style pages, including top 10 lists, fast facts, and more! With pages packed with vivid photography and fun facts, kids will have fun learning about the world around them! Each In Focus book features a contents page, glossary, and index.
The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of early medieval archaeology has also transformed our source-base, but this has not been adequately integrated into analyses of documentary history in almost any country. In Framing the Early Middle Ages Chris Wickham combines documentary and archaeological evidence to create a comparative history of the period 400-800. His analysis embraces each of the regions of the late Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to Egypt. The book concentrates on classic socio-economic themes, state finance, the wealth and identity of the aristocracy, estate management, peasant society, rural settlement, cities, and exchange. These give only a partial picture of the period, but they frame and explain other developments. Earlier syntheses have taken the development of a single region as 'typical', with divergent developments presented as exceptions. This book takes all different developments as typical, and aims to construct a synthesis based on a better understanding of difference and the reasons for it.
A fictionalized account of the Tet Offensive beginning in October 1967, when the North Vietnamese Army crosses the border into South Vietnam, and ending when the Tet invasion erupts on January 30, 1968.
The C3 Corvette’s swooping fenders and unmistakable body style capture the imagination and make it an enduring classic. About a half-million Corvettes were sold between 1968 and 1982, and the unique combination of Shark style, handling, and V-8 performance is revered. Some early C3s, built between 1968 and 1974, are simply too rare and valuable to be modified, particularly the big-block cars. The later Corvettes, built from 1975 to 1982, came with low-compression engines that produced anemic performance. The vast majority of these Corvettes are affordable, plentiful, and the ideal platform for a high-performance build. Corvette expert, high-performance shop owner, and builder Chris Petris shows how to transform a mundane C3 into an outstanding high-performance car. Stock Corvettes of this generation carry antiquated brakes, steering, suspension, and anemic V-8 engines with 165 to 220 hp. He covers the installation of top-quality aftermarket suspension components, LS crate engines, big brakes, frame upgrades, and improved driveline parts. The book also includes popular upgrades to every component group, including engine, transmission, differential, suspension, steering, chassis, electrical system, interior, tires, wheels, and more. Whether you are mildly modifying your Corvette for greater comfort and driveability or substantially modifying it for vastly improved acceleration, braking, and handling, this book has insightful instruction to help you reach your goals. No other book provides as many popular how-to projects to comprehensively transform the C3 Corvette into a 21st-century sports car.
This invaluable monograph addresses the specific needs of audio-engineering students and researchers who are either learning about the topic or using it as a reference book on multichannel audio compression. This book covers a wide range of knowledge on perceptual audio coding, from basic digital signal processing and data compression techniques to advanced audio coding standards and innovate coding tools. It is the only book available on the market that solely focuses on the principles of high-quality audio codec design for multichannel sound sources. This book includes three parts. The first part covers the basic topics on audio compression, such as quantization, entropy coding, psychoacoustic model, and sound quality assessment. The second part of the book highlights the current most prevalent low-bit-rate high-performance audio coding standards-MPEG-4 audio. More space is given to the audio standards that are capable of supporting multichannel signals, that is, MPEG advance audio coding (AAC), including the original MPEG-2 AAC technology, additional MPEG-4 toolsets, and the most recent aacPlus standard. The third part of this book introduces several innovate multichannel audio coding tools, which have been demonstrated to further improve the coding performance and expand the available functionalities of MPEG AAC, and is more suitable for graduate students and researchers in the advanced level. Dai Tracy Yang is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Chris Kyriakakis is Associated Professor, and C.-C. Jay Kuo is Professor, all affiliated with the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California.
Parents of elementary school children are shown how to help their children express their ideas more precisely and deepen their understanding of what they read, hear, and see. This guide provides vocabulary exercises and activities frequently found on state tests.
The twenty-five papers in this volume cover diverse aspects of the material culture of the late Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the metalwork and enamel of these times. Individual papers include major reinterpretations of objects in the British Museum's Byzantine collections as well as essays devoted to the Museum's recent acquisitions in this field. The volume celebrates the retirement of David Buckton, for over twenty years the curator of the British Museum's Early Christian and Byzantine collections and the National Icon Collection.
Kevin and Cornelia are just beginning to sort out plans for the future when they become the target of a Machiavellian grab at the Lord family fortune. Now it's two very different people fron very different backgrounds against the world.
This best-selling introduction to econometrics is specifically written for finance students. The new edition builds on the successful data- and problem-driven approach of the first edition, giving students the skills to estimate and interpret models while developing an intuitive grasp of underlying theoretical concepts.
Hundreds of major leaguers--including the Hall of Fame's Hank Greenburg, Johnny Mize, Rod Carew, Carl Yastrzemski and Joe Morgan--got their starts in North Carolina, where baseball has been a fixture in the state for nearly 100 years--in Charlotte and Durham (whose Bulls were in the 1988 film Bull Durham) as well as Red Springs and Snow Hill. Following an historical statewide overview, year by year summaries and histories are provided for each of the 72 towns, from Albemarle to Zebulon. Notable players and club records are listed for each year, and the causes for the rise and fall of baseball in the different towns are discussed. Biographies of 20 prominent minor leaguers are included, as is an appendix of nearly 2,000 major leaguers who played for a North Carolina team. The state's Negro League and textile league histories are also related.
The Bar and Beverage Book explains how to manage the beverage option of a restaurant, bar, hotel, country club—any place that serves beverages to customers. It provides readers with the history of the beverage industry and appreciation of wine, beer, and spirits; information on equipping, staffing, managing, and marketing a bar; and the purchase and mixology of beverages. New topics in this edition include changes to regulations regarding the service of alcohol, updated sanitation guidelines, updates to labor laws and the employment of staff, and how to make your operation more profitable. New trends in spirits, wine, and beer are also covered.
Aimed at first-time users of Windows 95 or those who are responsible for training large numbers of personnel on Microsoft's operating system. This package offers readers a course in Windows 95.
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