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'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour, drawing together stories from the histories of art and humanity to illuminate the meanings it has been given over the eras and around the globe. Showing how artists, scientists, writers, philosophers, explorers and inventors have both shaped and been shaped by these wonderfully myriad meanings, James Fox reveals how, through colour, we can better understand their cultures, as well as our own. Each colour offers a fresh perspective on a different epoch, and together they form a vivid, exhilarating history of the world. 'We have projected our hopes, anxieties and obsessions onto colour for thousands of years,' Fox writes. 'The history of colour, therefore, is also a history of humanity.'

Just before 3am on January 24th, 1941, when Britain was preoccupied with surviving the Blitz, the body of Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick, at a road intersection some miles outside Nairobi, with a bullet in his head. A leading figure in Kenya's colonial community, the Earl had recently been appointed Military Secretary, but he was primarily a seducer of other men's wives. Sir Henry Delves Broughton, whose wife was Erroll's current conquest, had an obvious motive for the murder, but no one was ever convicted and the question of who killed him became a classic mystery, a scandal and cause celebre. Among those who became fascinated with the Erroll case was Cyril Connolly who joined up with James Fox for a major investigation of the case in 1969 for the Sunday Times magazine. After his death James Fox inherited the obsession and a commitment to continue in pursuit of the story both in England and Kenya in the late 1970s. One day, on a veranda overlooking the Indian Ocean, Fox came across a piece of evidence that seemed to bring all the fragments and pieces together and convinced him that he saw a complete picture...

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Leverage your Oracle DBA skills on Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration for Oracle DBAs shows you how to use your experience as an Oracle DBA to get up to speed quickly on the Microsoft SQL Server platform. Authors with real-world expertise in both Oracle and SQL Server introduce you to fundamental concepts, such as SQL Server architecture and core administration, before guiding you through advanced techniques, including performance optimization, high availability and disaster recovery. Platform comparisons, on-the-job examples, and answers to questions raised by Oracle DBAs learning the SQL Server environment help build your skills. This practical guide shows you how to:

Identify the components of the SQL Server platformUnderstand SQL Server architectureInstall and configure SQL Server software and client componentsDefine and manage database objectsImplement and administer database securityMonitor, identify, and resolve performance issuesDesign and implement high availability, system backup, and disaster recovery strategiesAutomate SQL Server using built-in scheduling and alerting capabilitiesImport and export data to and from SQL Server and other RDBMS platformsUpgrade existing SQL Server installations and migrate Oracle databases to SQL Server

Leverage your Oracle DBA skills on Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration for Oracle DBAs shows you how to use your experience as an Oracle DBA to get up to speed quickly on the Microsoft SQL Server platform. Authors with real-world expertise in both Oracle and SQL Server introduce you to fundamental concepts, such as SQL Server architecture and core administration, before guiding you through advanced techniques, including performance optimization, high availability and disaster recovery. Platform comparisons, on-the-job examples, and answers to questions raised by Oracle DBAs learning the SQL Server environment help build your skills. This practical guide shows you how to:

Identify the components of the SQL Server platformUnderstand SQL Server architectureInstall and configure SQL Server software and client componentsDefine and manage database objectsImplement and administer database securityMonitor, identify, and resolve performance issuesDesign and implement high availability, system backup, and disaster recovery strategiesAutomate SQL Server using built-in scheduling and alerting capabilitiesImport and export data to and from SQL Server and other RDBMS platformsUpgrade existing SQL Server installations and migrate Oracle databases to SQL Server

'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour, drawing together stories from the histories of art and humanity to illuminate the meanings it has been given over the eras and around the globe. Showing how artists, scientists, writers, philosophers, explorers and inventors have both shaped and been shaped by these wonderfully myriad meanings, James Fox reveals how, through colour, we can better understand their cultures, as well as our own. Each colour offers a fresh perspective on a different epoch, and together they form a vivid, exhilarating history of the world. 'We have projected our hopes, anxieties and obsessions onto colour for thousands of years,' Fox writes. 'The history of colour, therefore, is also a history of humanity.'

This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music,from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz, vernacular, electronic, and non-Western influences. Featuring classic essays by Stravinsky, Stockhausen, and Reich, as well as writings by lesser-known but equally innovative composers such as Jack Beeson, Richard Maxfield, and T. J. Anderson, this collection covers a broad range of styles and approaches. Here you will find Busoni's influential "Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music" Partch's exploration of a new notation system Babbitt's defence of advanced composition in his controversial "Who Cares If You Listen?" and Pauline Oliveros's meditations on sound. Now updated with fifteen new composers including Michael Tippet, György Ligeti, Gunther Schuller, Ben Johnston, Sofia Gubaidulina, and William Bolcom, this important book gathers together forty-nine pieces,many out of print and some newly written for this volume,which serve as a documentary history of twentieth-century music, in theory and practice. Impassioned, provocative, and eloquent, these writings are as exciting and diverse as the music they discuss.

The Dictionary of International and Comparative Law offers clear, concise definitions of terminology found in the practice of international and comparative law. Created by a professor of law after years of assisting both students and faculty with their difficulties in researching topics of international law, this expanded edition includes many entries not found in any other source. With over 2,100 entries - 20% of them revised or enhanced - this new edition boasts nearly 500 completely new entries recognizing the influence of world events, terminology arising from acts of terrorism and the subsequent escalating focus on the war on terrorism.

As someone who has spent nearly half his life wondering about the relationship between Helicobacter and gastric cancer, I find this textbook on the subject exciting and timely. In fact, I am not aware of any other volume that has been able to distil so much new knowledge into such a comprehensive account of a poorly understood field. Taking my own view, as a scientist placed in the middle of the spectrum between basic science and clinical medicine, I can see that the editors, Jim Fox, Andy Giraud, and Timothy Wang, provide a broad mix of expertise, which ensures that the subject is treated with the right balance. From clinicopathologic observations in humans, to epidemiology, through animal models, to molecular and cell biology, this team has hit the mark for most readers. Fox is a well-known leader in animal models with broad expertise. He pioneered the field with observations on Helicobacter species in animals, from the time when only one spiral gastric bac- rium was known, “Campylobacter pyloridis. ” Fox partners with Wang, whose team recently announced a dramatic advance in the field of carcinogenesis—the obser- tion that bone marrow–derived stem cells participate in the changes that become cancer. To this nice mix has been added Andy Giraud from my own country, who brings to the table some remarkable genetic models of gastric cancer based on alterations in the gp130/stat3-signaling pathway.

As someone who has spent nearly half his life wondering about the relationship between Helicobacter and gastric cancer, I find this textbook on the subject exciting and timely. In fact, I am not aware of any other volume that has been able to distil so much new knowledge into such a comprehensive account of a poorly understood field. Taking my own view, as a scientist placed in the middle of the spectrum between basic science and clinical medicine, I can see that the editors, Jim Fox, Andy Giraud, and Timothy Wang, provide a broad mix of expertise, which ensures that the subject is treated with the right balance. From clinicopathologic observations in humans, to epidemiology, through animal models, to molecular and cell biology, this team has hit the mark for most readers. Fox is a well-known leader in animal models with broad expertise. He pioneered the field with observations on Helicobacter species in animals, from the time when only one spiral gastric bac- rium was known, “Campylobacter pyloridis. ” Fox partners with Wang, whose team recently announced a dramatic advance in the field of carcinogenesis—the obser- tion that bone marrow–derived stem cells participate in the changes that become cancer. To this nice mix has been added Andy Giraud from my own country, who brings to the table some remarkable genetic models of gastric cancer based on alterations in the gp130/stat3-signaling pathway.

“A funny, tender, poignant debut with a believable,sympathetic protagonist.” - The Guardian“Tender, truthful and touching.”- The Times“A really lovely book,so tender and truthful.” - Jacqueline Wilson, bestsellingauthor of The Story of Tracy Beaker“Foxwrites with great warmth and humour: his triumphis to turn this story of modern domestic strife into an upliftingread, with plenty of surprises en route.” - Daily Telegraph“An urgent, nuanced book...[James Fox writesa] deceptively breezy tale of austerity and mental illness withdeft compassion; would that real kids in Solo's battered shoe shouldbe so lucky” - Observer“Addressingcomplex real-world issues (the cost-of-livingcrisis, mental health, friendship problems...) with honesty, clarityand compassion.” - Teach Primary“Expectto have your heart broken and mended in onereading of this must-read novel.” - Belfast Telegraph“Atender, moving story beautifullycapturing life in all its light and shade” - HannahGold, author of Waterstones Children's Book Prize Winner TheLast Bear“It is a beautiful, heartfeltgem of a book, I loved it.” - Tom Vaughan, authorof Hercules“This story is fullto the brim with heart” - Helen Rutter, author of TheBoy Who Made Everyone Laugh“Honest, funny and touching, Solo's story willstay with you long after the last page.” - Lisa Williamson“Amoving...and thought-provokingstory” - Cath Howe, author of Ella on the Outside“Heart-wrenching and heart-warming.”- Editor's choice, The School LibrarianIt's not easy to fit in when you're the boy in the suit...Ten-year-old Solo - embarrassingly, that isn't short for anything- just wants to be normal.He wants a name that doesn't stand out. He wishes he had a properschool uniform that fitted him. He dreams about a mumwho doesn't get the Big Bad Reds, like his mumMorag.But most of all he longs to stop crashing funerals for the freefood.But when Solo and Morag crash the funeral of a celebrity and getcaught, the press are there to witness their humiliation. Thenext day it's splashed across the papers. Before Solo knows it, hebecomes a viral sensation, and life may neverbe normal again.Solo's uphill pursuit of security, community and connection willbreak your heart and then mend it. Page-turning, moving, but ultimately life-affirming, this storyis perfect for fans of The Boy at the Back of the Class, TheGoldfish Boy, Wonder and Jacqueline Wilson.A sensitive, empathetic, timely portrayal of a family strugglingduring the cost of living crisis.This extraordinary debut will make you laugh and cry.

A funny, relatable, moving story about online fame vs reality.“A timely book about what social media doesto people.” - The ObserverMeet Ethan Lacey, online vlogging sensation alongside hismum, dad and big brother Mason.They film and upload everydaylife for their million subscribers to enjoy - the pranks,the cosy family time, the perks like going to the opening ofan epic new theme park. They are the perfect family... aren'tthey? But reality is not all fun and freebies. Mum and Dadhave been arguing a lot recently and Mason has been picking onEthan. When the cracks start to show, can Ethan persuade his familyto fix the real world, not fixate on the online one? The second book by multi-award-shortlisted (including the WaterstonesChildren's Book Prize) author James Fox. Told with James' trademark blend of observational humour andglorious heart, with an utterly relatable and loveable main characterand a smart, nuanced take on Instagram/YouTube vs Reality.The message is about being present and enjoying the everydaymoments of life in an authentic, happy way.

The author of the bestseller White Mischief tells the story of the beautiful Langhorne sisters, who lived at the Pinnacle of high and powerful society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. Making their way across two continents, they left in their wakes rich husbands, fame, adoration, and scandal. Lizzie, Irene, Nancy, Phyllis, and Nora were born in Virginia to a family impoverished by the Civil War. Their father remade his fortune by collaborating with the Yankees and building rail-roads; the sisters became southern belles and northern debutantes. James Fox draws on unpublished correspondence between the sisters and their husbands, lovers, children, and the powerful and glamorous of their day to construct a plural topography with the scope of a grand novel and the pace of a historical thriller. At its center is the most famous sister, Nancy, who married Waldorf Astor, one of the richest men in the world. Heroic, hilarious, magnetically charming, and a bully, Lady Astor became Britain''s first female MP, championing women''s rights and the poor. The beautiful Irene married Charles Dana Gibson and was the model for the Gibson Girl. The author''s grandmother, Phyllis, married a famous economist, one of the architects of modern Europe. Fox has written an absorbing and spirited, intimate and sweeping account of extraordinary women at the highest reaches of society, their adventures set against the background of a tumultuous century.

The First World War is usually believed to have had a catastrophic effect on British art, killing artists and movements, and creating a mood of belligerent philistinism around the nation. In this book, however, James Fox paints a very different picture of artistic life in wartime Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he examines the cultural activities of largely forgotten individuals and institutions, as well as the press and the government, in order to shed new light on art's unusual role in a nation at war. He argues that the conflict's artistic consequences, though initially disruptive, were ultimately and enduringly productive. He reveals how the war effort helped forge a much closer relationship between the British public and their art - a relationship that informed the country's cultural agenda well into the 1920s.

The First World War is usually believed to have had a catastrophic effect on British art, killing artists and movements, and creating a mood of belligerent philistinism around the nation. In this book, however, James Fox paints a very different picture of artistic life in wartime Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he examines the cultural activities of largely forgotten individuals and institutions, as well as the press and the government, in order to shed new light on art's unusual role in a nation at war. He argues that the conflict's artistic consequences, though initially disruptive, were ultimately and enduringly productive. He reveals how the war effort helped forge a much closer relationship between the British public and their art - a relationship that informed the country's cultural agenda well into the 1920s.

This text provides a streamlined and accessible introduction to statistics for students in sociology, criminal justice, political science, social work, and other social sciences. This edition of the text offers an essential and accessible overview to the introduction to social statistics. Clearly written with detailed step-by-step illustrations of statistical procedures, the text provides clear and logical explanations for the rationale and use of statistical methods of social research. Numerous end-of-chapter questions in every chapter reinforce key concepts to students.

The First World War is usually believed to have had a catastrophic effect on British art, killing artists and movements, and creating a mood of belligerent philistinism around the nation. In this book, however, James Fox paints a very different picture of artistic life in wartime Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he examines the cultural activities of largely forgotten individuals and institutions, as well as the press and the government, in order to shed new light on art''s unusual role in a nation at war. He argues that the conflict''s artistic consequences, though initially disruptive, were ultimately and enduringly productive. He reveals how the war effort helped forge a much closer relationship between the British public and their art - a relationship that informed the country''s cultural agenda well into the 1920s.

The First World War is usually believed to have had a catastrophic effect on British art, killing artists and movements, and creating a mood of belligerent philistinism around the nation. In this book, however, James Fox paints a very different picture of artistic life in wartime Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he examines the cultural activities of largely forgotten individuals and institutions, as well as the press and the government, in order to shed new light on art''s unusual role in a nation at war. He argues that the conflict''s artistic consequences, though initially disruptive, were ultimately and enduringly productive. He reveals how the war effort helped forge a much closer relationship between the British public and their art - a relationship that informed the country''s cultural agenda well into the 1920s.

As someone who has spent nearly half his life wondering about the relationship between Helicobacter and gastric cancer, I find this textbook on the subject exciting and timely. In fact, I am not aware of any other volume that has been able to distil so much new knowledge into such a comprehensive account of a poorly understood field. Taking my own view, as a scientist placed in the middle of the spectrum between basic science and clinical medicine, I can see that the editors, Jim Fox, Andy Giraud, and Timothy Wang, provide a broad mix of expertise, which ensures that the subject is treated with the right balance. From clinicopathologic observations in humans, to epidemiology, through animal models, to molecular and cell biology, this team has hit the mark for most readers. Fox is a well-known leader in animal models with broad expertise. He pioneered the field with observations on Helicobacter species in animals, from the time when only one spiral gastric bac- rium was known, “Campylobacter pyloridis. ” Fox partners with Wang, whose team recently announced a dramatic advance in the field of carcinogenesis—the obser- tion that bone marrow–derived stem cells participate in the changes that become cancer. To this nice mix has been added Andy Giraud from my own country, who brings to the table some remarkable genetic models of gastric cancer based on alterations in the gp130/stat3-signaling pathway.

Just before 3am on January 24th, 1941, when Britain was preoccupied with surviving the Blitz, the body of Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick, at a road intersection some miles outside Nairobi, with a bullet in his head. A leading figure in Kenya's colonial community, the Earl had recently been appointed Military Secretary, but he was primarily a seducer of other men's wives. Sir Henry Delves Broughton, whose wife was Erroll's current conquest, had an obvious motive for the murder, but no one was ever convicted and the question of who killed him became a classic mystery, a scandal and cause celebre. Among those who became fascinated with the Erroll case was Cyril Connolly who joined up with James Fox for a major investigation of the case in 1969 for the Sunday Times magazine. After his death James Fox inherited the obsession and a commitment to continue in pursuit of the story both in England and Kenya in the late 1970s. One day, on a veranda overlooking the Indian Ocean, Fox came across a piece of evidence that seemed to bring all the fragments and pieces together and convinced him that he saw a complete picture...

Speculation abounds in regards to the premise that each of us has an identical twin; somewhere on earth a carbon copy living and breathing. If that being the case then why not the devil as well?Join us now as we follow once again Fathers Luke and Roy along with Numomo as a new enigma unfolds. As The Map of the Carpenter concluded with Levis al Natas trapped beneath the icy lake in Maine, Christmas Eve brings a new twist: the demon has a brother a twin brother who is out to avenge his death. But there is a new journey to follow a new map that will surface and identify a Bible unlike any read before. This is the demons brothers Black Bible written in his own words!So come now if you are curious or perhaps tempted to believe that all which are facts are mere fabrications conjured by the demons twin brother.

This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. Each chapter examines artistic responses to a particular discipline of knowledge, from quantum theory and theosophy to cybernetics and ethnic futurisms. The authors argue that art’s incursion into other intellectual disciplines is a defining characteristic of both modernism and postmodernism. Throughout, the volume poses a series of larger questions: is art a source of knowledge? If so, what kind of knowledge? And, ultimately, can it contribute to our understanding of the world in ways that thinkers from other fields should take seriously?

This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. Each chapter examines artistic responses to a particular discipline of knowledge, from quantum theory and theosophy to cybernetics and ethnic futurisms. The authors argue that art’s incursion into other intellectual disciplines is a defining characteristic of both modernism and postmodernism. Throughout, the volume poses a series of larger questions: is art a source of knowledge? If so, what kind of knowledge? And, ultimately, can it contribute to our understanding of the world in ways that thinkers from other fields should take seriously?

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2026**SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO NON-FICTION BOOK AWARD 2025**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025**A BBC RADIO 4 AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK*Connect with Britain’s extraordinary heritage and be awakened to the beauty all around you with this Sunday Times bestselling journey to Craftland – by award-winning historian and broadcaster James Fox.‘Inspiring’ Sunday Times‘Wonderful’ Michael Morpurgo‘Enchanting’ Amol RajanFor generations, what we made with our hands shaped who we were. The skills and knowledge passed down to us built our communities and defined our regions. And if you know where to look, they still do.In Craftland, James Fox seeks out Britain’s last great craftspeople – those who are keeping our vanishing trades and traditions alive. Through them, we witness not only the living past but a deeper, more connected way of living today: one that is not yet lost and might still shape our future.This soul-stirring journey shows that Britain is still a craft land, if only we have eyes to see it.‘Brimming with fresh news and seasoned with hope … I read it in two gulps with delight’ Andrew Marr‘This extraordinary book will leave you awestruck and inspired’ Xand van Tulleken‘Superb … I read the book with admiration not only for the remarkable subjects individually, but also the human spirit that unites them all’ New Statesman‘If you want to know about Britain and yourself, read this book … tremendous’ Spectator‘Beautiful, eye-opening and surprisingly moving – a treat to treasure’ Lucy Worsley‘Superbly written and completely absorbing’ Tracy Chevalier‘A book that shimmers with love for a dwindling world’ Guardian‘A joy’ Edmund de Waal‘A richly satisfying read’ Times Literary Supplement

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2026**SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO NON-FICTION BOOK AWARD 2025**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025**A BBC RADIO 4 AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK*Connect with Britain’s extraordinary heritage and be awakened to the beauty all around you with this Sunday Times bestselling journey to Craftland – by award-winning historian and broadcaster James Fox.‘Inspiring’ Sunday Times‘Wonderful’ Michael Morpurgo‘Enchanting’ Amol RajanFor generations, what we made with our hands shaped who we were. The skills and knowledge passed down to us built our communities and defined our regions. And if you know where to look, they still do.In Craftland, James Fox seeks out Britain’s last great craftspeople – those who are keeping our vanishing trades and traditions alive. Through them, we witness not only the living past but a deeper, more connected way of living today: one that is not yet lost and might still shape our future.This soul-stirring journey shows that Britain is still a craft land, if only we have eyes to see it.‘Brimming with fresh news and seasoned with hope … I read it in two gulps with delight’ Andrew Marr‘This extraordinary book will leave you awestruck and inspired’ Xand van Tulleken‘Superb … I read the book with admiration not only for the remarkable subjects individually, but also the human spirit that unites them all’ New Statesman‘If you want to know about Britain and yourself, read this book … tremendous’ Spectator‘Beautiful, eye-opening and surprisingly moving – a treat to treasure’ Lucy Worsley‘Superbly written and completely absorbing’ Tracy Chevalier‘A book that shimmers with love for a dwindling world’ Guardian‘A joy’ Edmund de Waal‘A richly satisfying read’ Times Literary Supplement