Books by James Fox

Compares and contrasts the platform architectures and shows how to perform everyday database administrator tasks. This book includes screenshots, script examples, and step-by-step labs. It teaches dual skills using real-world examples and explains how to perform everyday database... admin tasks on SQL Server.
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An autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards.

The subject of this book is mankind's extraordinary relationship with colour. It is composed of a series of voyages, ranging across the world and throughout history, which reveal the meanings that have been attached to the colours we see around us and the ways these have shaped o...ur culture and imagination. It takes seven primary colours - black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple and green - and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances or properties so rudimentary as to be common to all societies. The book traces these meanings to show how they changed and multiplied, the role that they have played in our culture and history, and how understanding them allows us to see many of the milestones in the history of art - from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein - in a new way. It proceeds by stories, which cumulatively tell another, larger one- a history of the world from the black nothing which preceded existence to the birth of our red-blooded species; the gilded gods who animated the world in antiquity to the blue horizons which framed the Age of Discovery; the pristine aspirations of Enlightenment, the technicolour innovation which fuelled the Industrial Revolution and the colour which most embodies the environmental crisis which now faces us.
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Three's a crowd. At least that's what I've heard, and I've definitely come to learn that it's true. My best friend's new girlfriend is a complete pain in the ass, and if it wasn't for me being on my last warning at Gilford High, I'd definitely do something about it.The consequenc...es of my doing so aren't just your usual slap on the wrist kind of punishments. When strange things begin to happen, and my eyes start to freaking GLOW, I'm whisked away to...you guessed it...the Winterwood Academy for the 'Gifted'.I don't feel very gifted. In fact, I feel like the biggest freak in an entire school of freaks. As the hottest guy at the Academy would say, I'm the Queen of Freaks , but coming from him, it's actually kind of sweet.Oh, and did I forget to mention that not only am I having strange encounters with a Goddamn Goddess, I'm also hearing voices in my head, and there's a book in the Academy library that's actually TALKING to me!They say that only a true Winterwood Witch is capable of opening that book, so why the hell does it want anything to do with me?
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This book is the first ever devoted to the basic biology of gastric cancer. Not only does it fully cover the history of clinical gastric cancer research, it also discusses cutting edge concepts in cancer stem cells, tumor microenvironment, chronic inflammation and genetic suscept...ibility.
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