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  Database Management for...

  Daniel Garfield

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  "Database Management for Beginners" provides a clear and concise introduction to the fundamentals of managing and manipulating data. With a focus on practicality and accessibility, this book takes you on a step-by-step journey, empowering you to organize, retrieve, and optimize your data efficiently. 
  Beginning with an exploration of the core concepts of databases, you'll gain a solid understanding of database structures, components, and different types of database management systems. You'll then dive into the practical aspects of database management, learning how to plan, design, and create databases that meet your specific needs. 
  With a strong emphasis on hands-on learning, this guide equips you with the essential skills to manipulate data effectively. You'll discover how to insert, query, update, and delete data using SQL, the universal language for interacting with databases. You'll also explore techniques for sorting, filtering, and optimizing data retrieval. 
  Data integrity and security are paramount, and this book provides you with the knowledge to ensure your databases are reliable and protected. You'll learn how to implement data validation rules, enforce constraints, and secure your databases through user authentication and permissions. Additionally, you'll gain insights into backup and recovery strategies to safeguard against data loss. 
  As you progress, you'll delve into advanced concepts such as performance optimization, normalization techniques, and database administration. You'll explore indexing, database tuning, and troubleshooting common issues to ensure your databases operate at peak efficiency. Optional chapters also introduce you to advanced topics like transactions, stored procedures, replication, and data warehousing. 
  Embark on your journey into the world of database management today and gain the skills you need to thrive in the digital era. 
   

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  The New World on Mars - What We...

  Robert Zubrin

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  When Robert Zubrin published his classic book The Case for Mars a quarter century ago, setting foot on the Red Planet seemed a fantasy. Today, manned exploration is certain, and as Zubrin affirms in The New World on Mars, so too is colonization. 
   
   
   
  We will settle on Mars, and with our knowledge of the planet, analyzed in depth by Dr. Zubrin, we will utilize the resources and tackle the challenges that await us. What we will we build? Populous Martian city-states producing air, water, food, power, and more. Zubrin's Martian economy will pay for necessary imports and generate income from varied enterprises, such as real estate sales—homes that are airtight and protect against cosmic space radiation, with fish-farm aquariums positioned overhead, letting in sunlight and blocking cosmic rays while providing fascinating views. Zubrin even predicts the Red Planet customs, social relations, and government that will overcome traditional forms of oppression to draw Earth immigrants. 
   
    
   
  With all of this in place, Zubrin's Red Planet will become a pressure cooker for invention, benefiting humans on Earth, Mars, and beyond. We can create this magnificent future, making life better, less fatalistic. The New World on Mars proves that there is no point killing each other over provinces and limited resources when, together, we can create planets.

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  Borders of Care - Immigrants...

  Beatrix Hoffman

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  Probes the relationship between the immigration and health care systems in the United States. For the roughly ten million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, federal health care coverage is out of reach. Barred from Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act, most rely on hospital emergency rooms when they get sick, or clinics that don’t inquire about immigration status. Further obstacles to health care, including discrimination and the fear of deportation, mean that immigrants, undocumented or not, seek and receive less medical attention than any other population in the country. Yet immigrants haven’t always been ostracized from health care in the United States—providers and activists have for over a century worked to make medical services available to newcomers and migrants, including, at times, the undocumented. Drawing together stories from diverse communities from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Borders of Care examines how health care in the United States has both included and excluded immigrants. Beatrix Hoffman analyzes both the health and immigration systems, adding to our understanding of why these structures, and the policies that support them, have resisted reform. Moreover, she shows that immigrants, often scapegoated as burdens on the health-care system, have strengthened it through their responses to systemic exclusion. By creating hospitals and clinics, serving as practitioners, fighting for safer workplaces, filing lawsuits, organizing and protesting, immigrants and migrants have improved medical access for everybody and advanced the idea of health care as a universal right. As accessible as it is authoritative, Hoffman’s survey could not be more timely.

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  Walking with Spring

  Earl V. Shaffer

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  In 1948, the Appalachian Trail had been a continuous, 2,000-mile footpath for eleven years, but no one had walked its length alone in a continuous journey—until Earl Shaffer, a quiet Pennsylvanian, became a hiking legend and the first of what is now more than 5,500 A.T. "thru-hikers," walking from Georgia to Maine as spring arrived to each area. In 1998, he hiked again as a 50th-anniversary celebration, to far greater publicity. This is the lyrical account of his fabled 1948 walk. 
   
   
   
  Written soon after the first of his three thru-hikes, Walking with Spring chronicles Shaffer's adventures along a path that at the time was showing neglect of the war years and has since been rerouted significantly to its permanent location. His simply stated story has served as an inspiration for more than 9,000 men and women who have since followed in his footsteps . . . and many more who have tried.

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  Birth of Modern Astronomy The:...

  Editors Charles River

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  As interesting as the stories about Tycho Brahe are, chances are he wouldn’t be remembered if not for the important work he did, especially in the realm of astronomy. He lived in an era when the intellectual worldview of most in northern Europe was medieval in nature, influenced mostly by spirituality, mysticism, religion, and metaphysics. Brahe, however, was far-thinking in his outlook, taking advantages of the latest technological ideas and practicing empiricism to revolutionize the field of science. This work eventually led Brahe to cross paths with Johannes Kepler, whose laws on planetary motion would change everything.  
  Trying to define a man who had the qualities of a mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, inventor, and astrologer can prove difficult. But all of that can be ascribed to Johannes Kepler, one of the giants of his era who ushered in the Scientific Revolution and is often considered the first modern scientist. Kepler stood at a moment in time when the intellectual worldview of most in northern Europe was medieval in nature. Kepler, however, was far-thinking in his outlook. 
  	In his lifetime, Galileo straddled the epochs of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution, and it was his work and technological advances that helped usher in a brand new understanding of the solar system and the scientific method. Stephen Hawking himself has asserted, “Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science." Of course, part of what made Galileo such a monumental figure was the fact that he was ahead of his time, and that he mostly refused to conform to the accepted dogmas of contemporary society.  
  In 1676, Sir Isaac Newton wrote in a letter, “If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.” By the time he died, Newton had become science’s greatest giant, and every scientist who has followed him has stood on his shoulders. 

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  Product Owner Training - Agile...

  Jimmy Mathew

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  Detailed training for Product Owner Role in Agile software development with Scrum. This book discusses different responsibilities and activities performed by product Owners, a quick discussion on Product Owner skills and a detailed discussion on different techniques used by Product Owners in managing requirements during Agile software development using Scrum. 
  This covers all major aspects of managing requirements in agile software development using Scrum framework. Learn how to create and maintain user stories, user story mapping, breaking, ordering etc. How Prescribed events and activities in scrum processes these requirements. 
  This is for anyone who wish to learn about “Product Ownership” in Agile software development. This course is helpful for anyone who is playing the role of product owner in agile software development or anyone who wish to become a product owner in agile software development using Scrum framework. 
  The course starts with topics on Agile software development and Scrum framework. Then it discusses the Product Owner role, activities and skills. 
  Then there is a detailed discussion on managing requirements, which is one of the main responsibilities of a Product Owner. This includes topics like, writing User Stories, User Story Mapping, Methods for splitting and ordering User Stories, Release planning, etc. 
  In the last module there is a discussion on Product Owner role during prescribed events in Scrum. 
  Updated as per the latest Scrum Guide. We have updated the course content as per the changes made in the latest version of the scrum Guide(TM)

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