Paul Rogers: 35 books

Get up to speed with Apache Drill, an extensible distributed SQL query engine that reads massive datasets in many popular file formats such as Parquet, JSON, and CSV. Drill reads data in HDFS or in cloud-native storage such as S3 and works with Hive metastores along with distributed databases such...

Running Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation! Running is widely recognized as one of the best exercises for losing weight and getting in shape. Once starting a running program, the benefits often come quickly and dramatically, encouraging runners to run more. Unfortunately, running is a high...

Are These Diets Trying To Help You Lose Weight, Or Trying To Make You Sick? The Atkins and Paleo diets are two of the more popular fad diets of the current weight loss genre. While there are aspects of each which are admirable and could potentially lead to weight loss, of more concern should...

Dithering. Decisions that turn out wrong. Decisions that people sabotage or don't know how to implement. If your company's experiencing these problems, it's not alone. Most organizations don't know how to make and execute good decisions. And they're paying a high price-as profitability and competitiveness...

Have you ever been blamed for something you didn't do? if so, you'll know how Jamie feels when he's accused of breaking other people's toys. But if it's not Jamie who's breaking them, who is it? Is it a child at all? Jamie is baffled. Throughout the town, toys are being broken - teddies' eyes...

If the rise of Islamic State can overthrow powerful states in a matter of weeks, what kind of a secure future can the world expect? After more than a decade of the war on terror, security specialists thought that Islamist paramilitary movements were in decline; the threat from ISIS in Syria and Iraq,...

The war on terror is a lost cause. As the war heads towards its second decade, American security policy is in disarray – the Iraq War is a disaster, Afghanistan is deeply insecure and the al-Qaida movement remains as potent as ever with new generations of leaders coming to the fore. Well...

Is international terrorism really the single greatest threat to world security? Since the 9/11 attacks, many Western governments assume terrorism to be the greatest threat we face. In response, their dangerous policies attempt to maintain control and keep the status quo by using overwhelming...

This book (NLP) is part of a series of 5 books, and will introduce you to the fundamentals of Nutrition, Lifestyle & Psychology a branch of Natural Medicine (NM) also known as Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM). NLP will help you to understand how to treat and prevent health conditions....

A beautiful and evocative memoir based on the author’s summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman in the wake of World War II—“the most romantic memoir you’re likely to read in a lifetime” (New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand). Pulitzer Prize–winning...

23 very well-known people from the arts, sport, and business worlds talk about how dyslexia affected their childhood, how they were able to overcome the challenges and use the special strengths of dyslexia to achieve great success in adulthood. Darcey Bussell CBE, Eddie Izzard, Sir Richard Branson,...

The phrase "in-the-wild" is becoming popular again in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI), describing approaches to HCI research and accounts of user experience phenomena that differ from those derived from other lab-based methods. The phrase first came to the forefront 20-25 years...

The adventures of America's elite soldiers continue in issues #71-80 of G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero! Completely remastered and collected into trade paperback for the first time!

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing**1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789. Broad coverage of writers...