Bøger af Matthew Hart

A heart-pounding ride through the perilous world of the modern gem trade, by the acclaimed author of Diamond.

The Baseball Stadium Tour is Re-loaded! We've added two chapters including a trip to New York to visit the new Yankee Stadium that featured a major moment in baseball history. With a newly designed cover, come join Todd, Matthew and Nick on their journey to 30+ baseball stadiums! Excerpt: The sun had set and it was pitch black in central Illinois farm country as I fumbled for my phone to call my two best friends - two of the biggest baseball fans I know, Matthew Hart and Sofoklis Nikiforos. No less than 10 minutes later I had both of them convinced that starting next spring, the three of us were headed on a three-man, no holds-barred, Baseball Stadium Tour.

Stop Hating the Middle, and Embrace What It's Secretly Doing for Your Company! Let's be honest: There's nothing we like more than beating up on middle managers. They have a reputation for being useless at best, and at worst, the resource-sucking noise that cripples a company. But recent studies have found that there's a secret sauce to great companies who get great results, and its not just great workers or great leaders. Instead, it's great middle management that is holding complicated, messy, sophisticated endeavors on track. From the characteristics of great middle managers to the work they must do to ensure successful results, Matthew Hart covers what it takes to be truly great at the Middlework.

In this explosive sequel to The Russian Pink, Alex and Lily are thrust into a murderous cat-and-mouse across the Arctic diamond fields, dodging Chinese assassins while at the same time struggling with the personal betrayals that torment their passionate affair. Alex Turner and his treacherous lover, the Russian diamond thief Slav Lily, are back on the hunt. An American prospector is murdered in the great diamond field of northern Canadaa magical landscape of pristine lakes and granite ridges and scarlet vegetation. The U.S. government fears that the Chinese billionaire twins who suddenly control the dead prospector's company are seeking a toehold for their government in this vital northern region. As we race across the globe with Alex and Lily, Hart keeps a heart-bounding pace with lethal plane chases across the diamond-rich Barrens and a battle between the scheming twins and Mitzi Angel, the murdered prospector's daughter. All the while, The Ice Angel delves into the dark realpolitik of America's strategy while untangling the Byzantine motives that drive the diamond trade. In this explosive sequel to the breakout The Russian Pink, Alex and Lily must struggle with the rivalry, and sometimes the deceit, that wraps their love in its coils.

Written by the team at Oracle, this book provides undocumented tips and techniques and covers issues central to database administration, features of 9i and highlights issues specific to Windows 2000. Coverage includes tuning, backup and recovery, and clustering and standby databases.

The first comprehensive book covering Oracle's High Availability (HA) technologies written by insider Oracle experts!

Covers Oracle's Recovery Manager technology. This guide shows you how to take advantage of RMAN - the backup and recovery technology built into Oracle 10g. It covers RMAN features introduced in Oracle Database 10g including incremental backups, flash recovery area, and resetlogs.

A fully updated Oracle Press bestseller, covering Oracle Database 11g Release 2 RMAN.