The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women's participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of this century.[...]

Presents basic SQL commands in the context of a running case in which a business uses SQL to manage orders, parts, customers, and sales reps. This book covers the fundamentals of SQL programming. It features examples from the databases: Oracle 11g, Access 2007, and MySQL.[...]

Introduce your students to the new generation of Microsoft Office with the new generation of "Shelly Cashman Series books!" For the past three decades, "The Shelly Cashman Series" has effectively introduced computer skills to millions of students. With Access 2010, we're continuing our history of in[...]

"Tim Pratt's "The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl" is a two-fisted meta-fiction of old west mythos and modern day--sharp writing, cool characters, fascinating ideas, and the courage to have fun."--Jeffrey Ford, author of "The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque."[...]

The chief sorcerer of Felport, Marla Mason has become the target of a renegade assassin who specializes in killing his victims over a long period of time, a situation that worsens as she and her partner Rondeau deal with a knife-wielding killer and a troubled psychic, capable of reweaving the very f[...]

Creating a sensation with her risque nightclub act and strolls down the Champs Elysees, pet cheetah in tow, Josephine Baker lives on in popular memory as the banana-skirted siren of Jazz Age Paris. In Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe," Matthew Pratt Guterl brings out a little known side of the [...]

This is the completely revised edition of the essential field guide to the birds of New Guinea. The world's largest tropical island, New Guinea boasts a spectacular avifauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, cuckoos, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as an exceptiona[...]