Tom Filer's Books

Finding Mahmoud

By: Tom Filer

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Peggy Cambell, 27, meets Mahmoud Allam, 29, an Egyptian surgeon at a disco in London. They fall in love and sail off to make a new life in Zagazig, a provincial city on the Nile Delta. Peggy finds herself imprisoned in a world of hostile and hysterical women, deprived of her birthrights in the west. Learning ugly truths about Mahmoud’s past, she wants to leave but becomes involved with a commune of women weavers. Supporting Mahmoud’s mother and sisters in their attempts to achieve freedom, Peggy sets loose the force that even Mahmoud cannot stop. His nemesis, Sami, risks intimacy with Mahmoud’s mother. Though Mahmoud’s heart is in the future, one foot remains planted in the past.

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iUniverse

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0595174167

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9780595174164

Nutritional Biochemistry

By: Tom Brody

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Nutritional Biochemistry

By: Tom Brody

This "real-world" approach allows students to come away with a realistically informed view of the basis for much of our understanding of nutritional biochemistry.

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Academic Press

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0121348369

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9780121348366

IBM System Storage N series Software Guide

By: Roland Tretau,Christian Fey,Michael Klimes,Steven Pemberton,Tom Provost,Danny Yang,IBM Redbooks

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IBM System Storage N series Software Guide

By: Roland Tretau,Christian Fey,Michael Klimes,Steven Pemberton,Tom Provost,Danny Yang,IBM Redbooks

Corporate workgroups, distributed enterprises, and small to medium-sized companies are increasingly seeking to network and consolidate storage to improve availability, share information, reduce costs, and protect and secure information. These organizations require enterprise-class solutions capable of addressing immediate storage needs cost-effectively, while providing an upgrade path for future requirements. IBM® System Storage® N series storage systems and their software capabilities are designed to meet these requirements. IBM System Storage N series storage systems offer an excellent solution for a broad range of deployment scenarios. IBM System Storage N series storage systems function as a multiprotocol storage device that is designed to allow you to simultaneously serve both file and block-level data across a single network. These activities are demanding procedures that, for some solutions, require multiple, separately managed systems. The flexibility of IBM System Storage N series storage systems, however, allows them to address the storage needs of a wide range of organizations, including distributed enterprises and data centers for midrange enterprises. IBM System Storage N series storage systems also support sites with computer and data-intensive enterprise applications, such as database, data warehousing, workgroup collaboration, and messaging. This IBM Redbooks® publication explains the software features of the IBM System Storage N series storage systems. This book also covers topics such as installation, setup, and administration of those software features from the IBM System Storage N series storage systems and clients and provides example scenarios.

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IBM Redbooks

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0738439649

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9780738439648

Ravenswood

The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor

By: Tom Juravich,Kate Bronfenbrenner

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Ravenswood

The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor

By: Tom Juravich,Kate Bronfenbrenner

Since the late 1970s, Americans have seen their workplaces downsized and streamlined, their jobs out-sourced and often eliminated while their unions have seemed powerless to defend them. This text recounts how the United Steelworkers of America proved that organized labour can still win.

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Cornell University Press

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0801486661

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9780801486661

The researchED Guide to Literacy: An evidence-informed guide for teachers

By: James Murphy,Tom Bennett

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The researchED Guide to Literacy: An evidence-informed guide for teachers

By: James Murphy,Tom Bennett

researchED is an educator-led organisation with the goal of bridging the gap between research and practice. This accessible and punchy series, overseen by founder Tom Bennett, tackles the most important topics in education, with a range of experienced contributors exploring the latest evidence and research and how it can apply in a variety of classroom settings.In this edition, James Murphy examines the latest evidence surrounding student literacy, editing contributions from a wide range of writers.

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John Catt

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1913808041

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Architecture and the Public Good

By: Tom Spector

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Architecture and the Public Good

By: Tom Spector

Why has explaining the value of the architecture profession proven so difficult? The architecture profession can be well-defended by demonstrating the public good which results from its protected practice. Although the book believes in this approach, this approach immediately raises the thorny questions of just who is the public, and what is its good? To answer these questions, to explain why the profession has done a poor job explaining itself, and to propose a fresh perspective are the challenges set out in this book. The book dissects the internal weaknesses and external forces which have prevented architects from asserting their value to the public, explains how the concept of the public is itself widely misunderstood, investigates the shifting boundaries of the public and private realms, and proposes a series of measures by which we can assess and improve an architectural work’s publicness. Through a renewed focus on the public good that everyday architects are capable of as a profession, the book charts an ultimately optimistic program for the architecture profession’s renewal.

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Anthem Press

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1785277367

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I Have Lived in the Monster

Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Serial Killers

By: Robert K. Ressler,Tom Shachtman

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I Have Lived in the Monster

Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Serial Killers

By: Robert K. Ressler,Tom Shachtman

Donated by Nellie Lynn.

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Macmillan

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0312964293

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9780312964290

Beethoven's French Piano

A Tale of Ambition and Frustration

By: Tom Beghin

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Beethoven's French Piano

A Tale of Ambition and Frustration

By: Tom Beghin

In this book, Tom Beghin examines the French piano Beethoven famously acquired from the Erard firm in Paris in 1803. The Erard piano is one of only three extant instruments belonging to Beethoven and is housed in a museum in Austria. Beghin argues that the piano sonatas Beethoven composed between 1803 and 1810-including the "Waldstein" and the "Appassionata"-show the influence of the new French style of pianism and of the Erard in particular, specifically in the uses of tremolo, legato, and the "una corda" pedal, which softens dramatically the volume. Beghin shows that Beethoven was guided by a search for new sonorities and that the specific "touch" provided by the Erard's technology helped to point him toward new compositional horizons, especially at a time when he was forced to withdraw from performance due to his increasing deafness. The book combines informed historical analysis of the musical milieus in Vienna and Paris with the author's own experiments at the keyboard in order to reconstruct the specific techniques that Beethoven was exploiting and the ways they translated into his innovative piano writing"--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226818357

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9780226818351

How to Build Small-Block Ford Racing Engines HP1536

Parts, Blueprinting, Modifications, and Dyno Testing for Drag, Circle Track,Road , Off-Road, and Boat Racing. Covers All Small-Block Fords, 302/5.0L, and351W/5.

By: Tom Monroe

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How to Build Small-Block Ford Racing Engines HP1536

Parts, Blueprinting, Modifications, and Dyno Testing for Drag, Circle Track,Road , Off-Road, and Boat Racing. Covers All Small-Block Fords, 302/5.0L, and351W/5.

By: Tom Monroe

This guide for building a race-winning Ford engine includes chapters on parts and engines, cylinder block, cylinder heads, bottom-end modifications, exhaust systems, cooling systems, final engine assembly, dyno-tested performance combinations and more.

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Penguin

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1101188006

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Service Dogs

The Rescue and Training of Heroes

By: Tom Coleman,Julie Coleman, CPDT-KA

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Service Dogs

The Rescue and Training of Heroes

By: Tom Coleman,Julie Coleman, CPDT-KA

How unwanted dogs are rescued and then trained as service dogs to help people with disabilities. WINNER--2016 Midwest Book Award. All proceeds will go to the 501(c)(3) charity, Pawsitivity Service Dogs. "Simply astonishing in its volume, information, approach-ability, readability, transparency, experienced voice, helpfulness/usefulness and honesty. It's inspirational, as well as competent, realistic, transparent, practical'. Its tone is forthright but kind."--Dr. Beth Rausch, DVM, University of Wisconsin, River Falls "Our service dog is better than any medication. She has not just helped my daughter but the whole family. Millie is the best, most loving and loyal companion for my daughter. Tom and Julie of Pawsitivity are the kind of people that really care and just keep giving. I can not say thank you enough."--James Artisensi, father of a child with a Pawsitivity service dog

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0998546429

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IBM Real Time Compression Appliance Application Integration Guide

By: Roland Tretau,Misa Miletic,Steven Pemberton,Tom Provost,Teddy Setiawan,IBM Redbooks

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IBM Real Time Compression Appliance Application Integration Guide

By: Roland Tretau,Misa Miletic,Steven Pemberton,Tom Provost,Teddy Setiawan,IBM Redbooks

Continuing its commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technologies, IBM® is introducing the IBM Real-time Compression Appliances for NAS, an innovative new storage offering that delivers essential storage efficiency technologies, combined with exceptional ease of use and performance. In an era when the amount of information, particularly in unstructured files, is exploding, but budgets for storing that information are stagnant, IBM Real-time Compression technology offers a powerful tool for better information management, protection, and access. IBM Real-time Compression can help slow the growth of storage acquisition, reducing storage costs while simplifying both operations and management. It also enables organizations to keep more data available for use rather than storing it offsite or on harder-to-access tape, so they can support improved analytics and decision making. IBM Real-time Compression Appliances provide online storage optimization through real-time data compression, delivering dramatic cost reduction without performance degradation. This IBM Redbooks® publication is an easy-to-follow guide that describes how to design solutions successfully using IBM Real-time Compression Appliances (IBM RTCAs). It explains best practices for RTCA solution design, application integration, and practical RTCA use cases. This is a companion book to Introduction to IBM Real-time Compression Appliances, SG24-7953.

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0738436798

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Inside the Ropes with Jesse Ventura

By: Tom Hauser

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Inside the Ropes with Jesse Ventura

By: Tom Hauser

A reporter offers a revealing chronicle of the remarkable rise of Minnesota's unconventional governor, former wrestler Jesse Ventura. This is a political story that will leave readers feeling that truth really is stranger than fiction.

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0816641870

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Issues In Setting Standards

Establishing Standards

By: Tom Christie

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Issues In Setting Standards

Establishing Standards

By: Tom Christie

The contributions in this book highlight a topical common educational theme - the model of outcomes-orientated standards in education. The authors share their experience and knowledge on the global preoccupation with quality control models that deal

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Routledge

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1135791791

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The Practice of System and Network Administration

By: Thomas A. Limoncelli,Tom Limoncelli,Christina J. Hogan,Strata R. Chalup

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The Practice of System and Network Administration

By: Thomas A. Limoncelli,Tom Limoncelli,Christina J. Hogan,Strata R. Chalup

Shares the six key principles of site design and support practices: simplicity, clarity, generality, automation, communication, and basics first. This book provides advice on topics which include the key elements your networks/systems need that will make all other services run better, and building and running reliable, scalable services.

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Pearson Education

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0321492668

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9780321492661

Waiting for the Sunset

A Little Bit of This, That, and Other Things

By: Tom McCollough

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Waiting for the Sunset

A Little Bit of This, That, and Other Things

By: Tom McCollough

This book is volume three of McCollough's memoir. Ever since joining a writers' group at the Saratoga Retirement Community in 2006 he has enjoyed writing these short pieces of memoir and commentary. But, this is the final book in the series. He will continue to write and comment, but not for publication.

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iUniverse

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1475912412

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9781475912418

Laughing Shall I Die

Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings

By: Tom Shippey

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Laughing Shall I Die

Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings

By: Tom Shippey

Laughing Shall I Die explores the Viking fascination with scenes of heroic death. The literature of the Vikings is dominated by famous last stands, famous last words, death songs, and defiant gestures, all presented with grim humor. Much of this mindset is markedly alien to modern sentiment, and academics have accordingly shunned it. And yet, it is this same worldview that has always powered the popular public image of the Vikings—with their berserkers, valkyries, and cults of Valhalla and Ragnarok—and has also been surprisingly corroborated by archaeological discoveries such as the Ridgeway massacre site in Dorset. Was it this mindset that powered the sudden eruption of the Vikings onto the European scene? Was it a belief in heroic death that made them so lastingly successful against so many bellicose opponents? Weighing the evidence of sagas and poems against the accounts of the Vikings’ victims, Tom Shippey considers these questions as he plumbs the complexities of Viking psychology. Along the way, he recounts many of the great bravura scenes of Old Norse literature, including the Fall of the House of the Skjoldungs, the clash between the two great longships Ironbeard and Long Serpent, and the death of Thormod the skald. One of the most exciting books on Vikings for a generation, Laughing Shall I Die presents Vikings for what they were: not peaceful explorers and traders, but warriors, marauders, and storytellers.

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Reaktion Books

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1780239505

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9781780239507

Poetic Acts & New Media

By: Tom O'Connor

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Poetic Acts & New Media

By: Tom O'Connor

Poetic Acts & New Media advances the fields of literary and new media studies by clarifying boundaries between competing genres and media through the creation of a new artistic genre, "media poetry." This aesthetic mode of expression/becoming seeks to transform mass culture (our codes of communication) by self-consciously acknowledging how textual, audio, and/or visual signs are constructed according to their simulation and not their representation. This study draws heavily upon literary media theories that intersect with Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of 'Sense' as a simulated power of sensory transformations. Media poetry becomes a complex power of 'Sense' by blending conventional mass-media codes with poetic simulations that provide alternative forms of creating meaning. Poetic Acts & New Media specifically examines the works of several poets that exemplify this multi-sensory approach to printed-text poetry, especially: -Langston Hughes -Tony Medina -David Wojahn -John Kinsella -David Trinidad. It also analyzes several contemporary films that embody the multi-modal logic of media poetry: -David Lynch's Mullholland Drive -Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky -Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich. In addition, this study interprets two influential primetime TV shows as exemplars of media poetry: Twin Peaks and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. All media poetry, regardless of genre or medium, allows readers/viewers to envision "reality production" as a rewriteable and poetic enterprise that can productively remediate any transparent abstraction or common-sense realism.

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University Press of America

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0761836306

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9780761836308

Excellence in Ministry

Best Practices for Successful Catechetical Leadership

By: Tom Quinlan

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Excellence in Ministry

Best Practices for Successful Catechetical Leadership

By: Tom Quinlan

Catechetical leadership is at its best when it builds on the shoulders of those who have gone before while at the same time creating innovative approaches for an ever-changing ministry. This fifth volume of The Effective Catechetical Leader will share both time-tested and new skills and strategies that will allow catechetical leaders to not only be successful in the week-to-week particulars of running a parish catechetical program, but also to fulfill the ultimate goal of animating a faith community to grow in authentic discipleship to Jesus Christ. A few of the best practices covered in this book include planning the catechetical year, selecting catechetical resources, promoting the catechetical program to the parish community and beyond, how to honestly evaluate your program, and so much more. The Effective Catechetical Leader series, developed in conjunction with the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership and written by some of the top catechetical leaders in the country, is the only series to encompass all the various aspects of catechetical leadership. This series provides the practical skills, strategies, and approaches that ensure successful parish faith formation in an evangelizing manner, which leads directly to a vibrant Church. From best practices to new approaches for proclaiming God’s word in a rapidly changing world, this groundbreaking series will empower catechetical leaders to excel at everything from administrative duties to effectively catechizing people of all ages within our diverse Church.

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Loyola Press

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0829445331

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9780829445336

Places of the Underground Railroad

A Geographical Guide

By: Tom Calarco,Cynthia Vogel,Kathryn Grover,Rae Hallstrom,Sharron L. Pope,Melissa Waddy- Thibodeaux

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Places of the Underground Railroad

A Geographical Guide

By: Tom Calarco,Cynthia Vogel,Kathryn Grover,Rae Hallstrom,Sharron L. Pope,Melissa Waddy- Thibodeaux

This up-to-date compilation details the most significant stops along the Underground Railroad. Places of the Underground Railroad: A Geographical Guide presents an overview of the various sites that comprised this unique road to freedom, with entries chosen to represent all regions of the United States and Canada. Where most works on the Underground Railroad focus on the people involved, this unique guide explores the intricacies of travel that allowed the "conductors" to carry out the tasks entrusted to them. It presents an accurate picture of just where the Underground Railroad was and how it operated, including routes and itineraries and connections between the various Railroad locations. Through information about these locations, the book takes readers from the beginnings of organized aid to fugitive slaves during the period following the American Revolution up to the Civil War. It delineates the possible routes fugitive slaves may have taken by identifying the rivers, canals, and railroads that were sometimes used. And it shows that a network, though decentralized and variable over time and place, truly was established among Underground Railroad participants.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Cooperation in Groups

Procedural Justice, Social Identity, and Behavioral Engagement

By: Tom Tyler,Steven Blader

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Cooperation in Groups

Procedural Justice, Social Identity, and Behavioral Engagement

By: Tom Tyler,Steven Blader

This important new book explores the psychological motives that shape the extent and nature of people's cooperative behavior in the groups, organizations and societies to which they belong. Individuals may choose to expend a great deal of effort on promoting the goals and functioning of the group, they may take a passive role, or they may engage in behaviors targeted towards harming the group and its goals. Such decisions have important implications for the group's functioning and viability, and the goal of this book is to understand the factors that influence these choices.

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Psychology Press

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1134948298

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Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

Storage and Analysis at Internet Scale

By: Tom White

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Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

Storage and Analysis at Internet Scale

By: Tom White

Get ready to unlock the power of your data. With the fourth edition of this comprehensive guide, youâ??ll learn how to build and maintain reliable, scalable, distributed systems with Apache Hadoop. This book is ideal for programmers looking to analyze datasets of any size, and for administrators who want to set up and run Hadoop clusters. Using Hadoop 2 exclusively, author Tom White presents new chapters on YARN and several Hadoop-related projects such as Parquet, Flume, Crunch, and Spark. Youâ??ll learn about recent changes to Hadoop, and explore new case studies on Hadoopâ??s role in healthcare systems and genomics data processing. Learn fundamental components such as MapReduce, HDFS, and YARN Explore MapReduce in depth, including steps for developing applications with it Set up and maintain a Hadoop cluster running HDFS and MapReduce on YARN Learn two data formats: Avro for data serialization and Parquet for nested data Use data ingestion tools such as Flume (for streaming data) and Sqoop (for bulk data transfer) Understand how high-level data processing tools like Pig, Hive, Crunch, and Spark work with Hadoop Learn the HBase distributed database and the ZooKeeper distributed configuration service

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1491901705

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9781491901700

ECM Technology

What You Need to Know

By: Tom Jenkins,Hartmut Schaper

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ECM Technology

What You Need to Know

By: Tom Jenkins,Hartmut Schaper

« Enterprise Content Management (ECM) describes a critical new segment in Information Technology. ECM is about the management of words-words that make up more than 90 percent of information in organizations today. Businesses are turning to ECM as the next major software productivity tool to effectively manage the explosion of digital content. This book discusses unlocking digital content. It focuses on the quality controls and productivity enhancements realized when secure Internet technology is used to deploy an ECM solution. The book considers current and future trends in ECM including corporate governance and regulatory compliance. A must-read for executives interested in managing content to achieve compliance, improve productivity, and foster innovation and future growth. »--

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Open Text Corporation

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0973066253

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9780973066258

Hospitality and Translation

An Exploration of How Muslim Pupils Translate their Faith in the Context of an Anglican Primary School

By: Tom Wilson

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Hospitality and Translation

An Exploration of How Muslim Pupils Translate their Faith in the Context of an Anglican Primary School

By: Tom Wilson

What is the experience of Muslim pupils in an Anglican Primary School? Not the conflict or controversy that might at first be imagined. Combining analysis of two years of fieldwork in an Anglican Primary School where the majority of pupils are Muslim with detailed engagement with the writings of Tariq Ramadan and the recommendations of the Muslim Council of Britain, Hospitality and Translation demonstrates the positive relationships that are possible between Muslims and Christians in Anglican schools.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443875015

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For the Love of Rescue Cats

The Complete Guide to Selecting, Training, and Caring for Your Cat

By: Tom Colvin,Carol Griglione,Mick McAuliffe

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For the Love of Rescue Cats

The Complete Guide to Selecting, Training, and Caring for Your Cat

By: Tom Colvin,Carol Griglione,Mick McAuliffe

· The perfect resource to read in preparation for bringing home a rescue cat · Learn personality traits, tips on training, best ways to care for them, and more · Includes over 250 pictures of cute cats · Great gift for cat-lovers

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Fox Chapel Publishing

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1620083639

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Whoever Fights Monsters

My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

By: Robert K. Ressler,Tom Shachtman

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Whoever Fights Monsters

My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

By: Robert K. Ressler,Tom Shachtman

LEARN THE TRUE STORY OF ONE OF THE FBI PROFILERS WHO COINED THE PHRASE "SERIAL KILLER" Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran Robert K. Ressler learned how to identify the unknown monsters who walk among us -- and put them behind bars. In Whoever Fights Monsters, Ressler—the inspiration for the character Agent Bill Tench in David Fincher's hit TV show Mindhunter—shows how he was able to track down some of the country's most brutal murderers. Ressler, the FBI Agent and ex-Army CID colonel who advised Thomas Harris on The Silence of the Lambs, used the evidence at a crime scene to put together a psychological profile of the killers. From the victims they choose to the way they kill to the often grotesque souvenirs they take with them—Ressler unlocks the identities of these vicious killers. And with his discovery that serial killers share certain violent behaviors, Ressler goes behind prison walls to hear bizarre first-hand stories from countless convicted murderers, including Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy; Edmund Kemper; and Son of Sam. Getting inside the mind of a killer to understand how and why he kills is one of the FBI's most effective ways of helping police bring in killers who are still at large. Join Ressler as he takes you on the hunt for the world's most dangerous psychopaths in this terrifying journey you will not forget.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250084997

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9781250084996

B for Berea

The Amazing Story of Berea College Basketball in the Words of the Men Who Played It

By: Tom Chase

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B for Berea

The Amazing Story of Berea College Basketball in the Words of the Men Who Played It

By: Tom Chase

Intercollegiate basketball began at Berea, flourished, and then struggled to remain competitive. This book talks about the era of the dynamic coaches who built the Berea program: Waldemar Noll, Oscar Gunkler, Roger Clark, and C H 'Monarchy' Wyatt.

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The Overmountain Press

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1570721548

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9781570721540

Designing Storage Area Networks

A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs

By: Tom Clark

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Designing Storage Area Networks

A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs

By: Tom Clark

This is a complete revision of Clark's bestseller "Designing Storage Area Networks." The new book provides guidelines for implementing SANs to solve existing networking problems in large-scale corporate networks.

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0321136500

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IBM System Storage N series Clustered Data ONTAP

By: Roland Tretau,Christian Fey,Michal Klimes,Steven Pemberton,Tom Provost,Youn-Ho Yang,IBM Redbooks

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IBM System Storage N series Clustered Data ONTAP

By: Roland Tretau,Christian Fey,Michal Klimes,Steven Pemberton,Tom Provost,Youn-Ho Yang,IBM Redbooks

IBM® System Storage® N series storage systems offer an excellent solution for a broad range of deployment scenarios. IBM System Storage N series storage systems function as a multiprotocol storage device that is designed to allow you to simultaneously serve both file and block-level data across a single network. These activities are demanding procedures that, for some solutions, require multiple, separately managed systems. The flexibility of IBM System Storage N series storage systems, however, allows them to address the storage needs of a wide range of organizations, including distributed enterprises and data centers for midrange enterprises. IBM System Storage N series storage systems also support sites with computer and data-intensive enterprise applications, such as database, data warehousing, workgroup collaboration, and messaging. This IBM Redbooks® publication explains the software features of the IBM System Storage N series storage systems with Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT) Version 8.2, which is the first version available on the IBM System Storage N series, and as of October 2013, is also the most current version available. cDOT is different from previous ONTAP versions by the fact that it offers a storage solution that operates as a cluster with flexible scaling capabilities. cDOT configurations allow clients to build a scale-out architecture, protecting their investment and allowing horizontal scaling of their environment. This book also covers topics such as installation, setup, and administration of those software features from the IBM System Storage N series storage systems and clients, and provides example scenarios.

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The Motley Fool Personal Finance Workbook

A Foolproof Guide to Organizing Your Cash and Building Wealth

By: David Gardner,Tom Gardner,Motley Fool, Inc

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The Motley Fool Personal Finance Workbook

A Foolproof Guide to Organizing Your Cash and Building Wealth

By: David Gardner,Tom Gardner,Motley Fool, Inc

A guide to personal finance in uncertain economic times provides advice on how to develop a customized appraoch to handling money, covering everything from investment and savings to spending, insurance, and estate planning.

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Blood Justice

By: Tom Henderson

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Blood Justice

By: Tom Henderson

In 1991, flight attendant Nancy Ludwig checked in to an airport hotel near Detroit. The next morning she was found gagged, raped, and tortured. Her husband Arthur never gave up hope that the future would bring enough evidence to close the case.In 1985, fifty-five-year old Margarette Eby, a music professor, met the same grisly death at her cottage in Flint, Michigan. The case went cold-until six years later when the victim's son Mark came upon the story of Nancy Ludwig's slaying. With nothing to go on but intuition, he called authorities, certain that the same fiend committed both crimes. A cunning sting operation yielded irrefutable DNA evidence, and authorities were led to the home of respected navy veteran Jeffrey Gorton living quietly with his wife and two children. But his cold-blooded secrets were only beginning to come to light leaving fears that there were more victims yet to be found....

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0312990871

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A Guide to Better Teaching

Skills, Advice, and Evaluation for College and University Professors

By: Leila Jahangiri,Tom Mucciolo

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A Guide to Better Teaching

Skills, Advice, and Evaluation for College and University Professors

By: Leila Jahangiri,Tom Mucciolo

A Guide to Better Teaching is a self-help book that provides anyone teaching a college course with a thorough understanding of what it takes to be an effective teacher. Derived from the authors' extensive research, several interactive assessment tools are included that measure levels of effectiveness according to learner preferences. Each chapter is filled with detailed explanations, relevant stories, and action-driven tables that help them in understanding and applying skills. This book aims to enhance teaching skills by offering critical perspectives, practical suggestions, and techniques for improvement. Whether a new teacher, an adjunct faculty, or a seasoned professor, this comprehensive information can be used to analyze effectiveness or the effectiveness of others. The suggestions and the assessment tools are applicable to the entire spectrum of organizational leaders and managers, in education, government or industry whose work requires giving presentations or communicating in a public forum. To access the free skills assessment tools, please click here.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442208929

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Liberal Peace and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Africa

By: Patrick Tom

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Liberal Peace and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Africa

By: Patrick Tom

The book makes theoretical and empirical contributions to recent debates on hybrid forms of peace and ‘post-liberal’ peace. In applying concepts of power, hybridity and resistance, and providing different kinds of hybridity and resistance to explore post-conflict peacebuilding in Sierra Leone, the author makes an original contribution to existing literature by providing various ways in which power can be exercised not just between locals and internationals, but also among locals themselves and the nature of peace that is produced. This volume provides various ways in which hybridity and resistance can be manifested. A more rigorous development of these concepts not only offers a better understanding of the nature of these concepts, but also helps us to distinguish forms of hybridity and resistance that are emancipatory or transformatory from those that result in people accommodating themselves to their situation. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, International Relations and African Studies, and practitioners of peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction.

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1137572914

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Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff

An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor

By: Tom Zaniello

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Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff

An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor

By: Tom Zaniello

The revised and expanded edition of Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff offers 350 titles compared to the original edition's 150. The new book is global in scope, with examples of labor films from around the world. Viewers can turn to this comprehensive, annotated guide for films about unions or labor organizations; labor history; working-class life where an economic factor is significant; political movements if they are tied closely to organized labor; production or the struggle between labor and capital from a "top-down"—either entrepreneurial or managerial—perspective. Each entry includes a critical commentary, production data, cast list, MPAA rating (if any), suggested related films, annotated references to books and websites for further reading, and information about availability of films for rental and/or purchase. This edition addresses both historical and contemporary films and features many more documentaries and hard-to-find information about agitprop and union-financed films.Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor features fifty-eight production stills and frame enlargements. It also includes a greatly expanded Thematic Index of Films. Two new sections will help the reader discover labor films in chronological order or by nationality or affiliation with certain cinematic movements. To read Tom Zaniello's blog on the cinema of labor and globalization, featuring even more reviews, visit http://tzaniello.wordpress.com.Praise for the earlier edition—"Zaniello has created a useful and far-reaching guide with abundant information.... These are the sorts of films that prove what James Agee wrote in these pages nearly fifty years ago: 'The only movies whose temper could possibly be described as heroic, or tragic, or both, have been made by leftists.'"—The Nation"Zaniello has done a monumental job identifying the films that should be included in this genre.... Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff is sorely needed and long overdue."—Cineaste"An engaging and opinionated book.... Even though mining, trucking, Jimmy Hoffa, and class warfare are the book's major themes, what holds the project together is Zaniello's sense of fun and wit. [Zaniello is] a better writer than most major film critics."—Village Voice Literary Supplement

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Cornell University Press

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1501711199

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Darker than Night

The True Story of a Brutal Double Homicide—and an 18-Year-Long Quest for Justice

By: Tom Henderson

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Darker than Night

The True Story of a Brutal Double Homicide—and an 18-Year-Long Quest for Justice

By: Tom Henderson

A chilling account of the murders of two hunters in rural Michigan—a mystery that haunted a community and baffled the police for two decades. In the bitter cold of 1985, two buddies from Detroit embark on a hunting trip to the Michigan wilderness, unaware they will soon become the hunted. The eerie silence surrounding their sudden disappearance is broken after nearly two decades when a relentless investigator inspires a terrified witness to break her silence. The witness narrates a haunting scene that had unfolded years back, pointing fingers at the prime suspects—the Duvall brothers. With no bodies unearthed, the justice system is riveted by the startling revelations during an electrifying trial in 2003. The brothers, Raymond and Donald Duvall, had bragged about the murders, evocatively explaining how they dismembered their victims and fed them to pigs. Despite the shocking confession, the case holds its ground purely on a single witness’s account, taking the courtroom through a labyrinth of dark secrets and sinister acts. This gripping thriller presents a vivid tale of crime that reveals the devastating power of evil.

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1429997087

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Bone Wars

The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

By: Tom Rea

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Bone Wars

The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

By: Tom Rea

Foreword by Matthew C. Lamanna New Afterword by Tom Rea Less than one hundred years ago, Diplodocus carnegii—named after industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie—was the most famous dinosaur on the planet. The most complete fossil skeleton unearthed to date, and one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered, Diplodocus was displayed in a dozen museums around the world and viewed by millions of people. Bone Wars explains how a fossil unearthed in the badlands of Wyoming in 1899 helped give birth to the public’s fascination with prehistoric beasts. Rea also traces the evolution of scientific thought regarding dinosaurs and reveals the double-crosses and behind-the-scenes deals that marked the early years of bone hunting. With the help of letters found in scattered archives, Tom Rea recreates a remarkable story of hubris, hope, and turn-of-the-century science. He focuses on the roles of five men: Wyoming fossil hunter Bill Reed; paleontologists Jacob Wortman—in charge of the expedition that discovered Carnegie’s dinosaur—and John Bell Hatcher; William Holland, imperious director of the recently founded Carnegie Museum; and Carnegie himself, smitten with the colossal animals after reading a story in the New York Journal and Advertiser. What emerges is the picture of an era reminiscent of today: technology advancing by leaps and bounds; the press happy to sensationalize anything that turned up; huge amounts of capital ending up in the hands of a small number of people; and some devoted individuals placing honest research above personal gain.

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082298847X

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Fire on the Island

Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu

By: Tom Bratrud

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Fire on the Island

Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu

By: Tom Bratrud

In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision’. However, it ended dramatically when two men believed to be sorcerers and responsible for much of the society’s problems were hung by persons fearing for the island’s future security. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork on Ahamb between 2010 and 2017, this book investigates how upheavals like the Ahamb revival can emerge to address and sometimes resolve social problems, but also carry risks of exacerbating the same problems they arise to address.

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1800734654

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Commentary and Other Stuff

And Even More Fragments of Memory

By: Tom McCollugh

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Commentary and Other Stuff

And Even More Fragments of Memory

By: Tom McCollugh

This book is volume two of McColloughs memoir. Once the VIN YETS machine was churning out vignettes like a sausage factory, no one told him to stop writing. They were written to be read aloud at the Writers Group at the Saratoga Retirement Community. If well received by relatives and friends, Tom might publish, The Best of COMMENTARY AND VIN YETS. Tom McCollough is a retired business man who worked for Ross Laboratories, the nutrition division of Abbott Laboratories. He was also a fellow in the National Program for educational Leadership. He and his wife Marian moved from Columbus Ohio to the Saratoga Retirement in Saratoga, California in 2005.

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1462014860

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