John D Drake: 4 books

Book cover of Downshifting

Downshifting

How to Work Less and Enjoy Life More

by John D. Drake
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2000

Who has never wished to step off the ever-accelerating treadmill of work, just to gain some kind of balance in life? Downshifting is a practical, hands-on guide that actually shows how to move from the fast track to a more satisfying, healthier, less work-focused lifestyle. John Drake, himself a former...
Book cover of How to Drop Five Strokes Without Having One

How to Drop Five Strokes Without Having One

Finding More Enjoyment in Senior Golf

by John D. Drake
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011

Ten years ago I could easily have cleared that pond. Im okay until about the fourteenth hole; then I can feel myself getting tired. Ive had to shorten my backswing; otherwise, my old back will keep me up all night. Sound familiar? As much as we may hate to admit it, at sixty-plus were different from...
Book cover of Practical PostgreSQL
by Joshua D. Drake, John C. Worsley
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2002

Arguably the most capable of all the open source databases, PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system first developed in 1977 by the University of California at Berkeley. In spite of its long history, this robust database suffers from a lack of easy-to-use documentation. Practical...
Book cover of Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction

Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction

A Century of Science Fiction

by Robert A. Heinlein, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Samuel Butler
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
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