Sequel to the Smarties Award-winning title, The Wind Singer, read by the author.

The people of Aramanth have been enslaved by the army of the Mastery. If they disobey their masters, a member of their community is burned in an iron cage before their eyes.

Fifteen-year-old Bowman uses his newly-discovered powers to join with his twin sister Kestrel in an attempt to liberate their people from the "beautiful but cruel" civilization which has enslaved them.

Leverage the power of Redis 4.x to develop, optimize and administer your Redis solutions with ease Key Features Build, deploy and administer high performance and scalable applications in Redis Covers a range of important tasks - including development and administration of Redis A practical guide that takes your understanding of Redis to the next level Book Description Redis is considered the world's most popular key-value store database. Its versatility and the wide variety of use cases it enables have made it a popular choice of database for many enterprises. Based on the latest version of Redis, this book provides both step-by-step recipes and relevant the background information required to utilize its features to the fullest. It covers everything from a basic understanding of Redis data types to advanced aspects of Redis high availability, clustering, administration, and troubleshooting. This book will be your great companion to master all aspects of Redis. The book starts off by installing and configuring Redis for you to get started with ease. Moving on, all the data types and features of Redis are introduced in detail. Next, you will learn how to develop applications with Redis in Java, Python, and the Spring Boot web framework. You will also learn replication tasks, which will help you to troubleshoot replication issues. Furthermore, you will learn the steps that need to be undertaken to ensure high availability on your cluster and during production deployment. Toward the end of the book, you will learn the topmost tasks that will help you to troubleshoot your ecosystem efficiently, along with extending Redis by using different modules. What you will learn Install and configure your Redis instance Explore various data types and commands in Redis Build client-side applications as well as a Big Data framework with Redis Manage data replication and persistence in Redis Implement high availability and data sharding in Redis Extend Redis with Redis Module Benchmark, debug, fine-tune and troubleshoot various issues in Redis Who this book is for This book is for database administrators, developers and architects who want to tackle the common and not so common problems associated with the different development and administration-related tasks in Redis. A fundamental understanding of Redis is expected to get the best out of this book.

If you are not already one of the 4 million plus users of the MySQL database, you will want to become one after reading this book. MySQL Administrator's Guide is the official guide to installing, administering and working with MySQL 5.0 and MySQL databases. Starting with the basics, you will learn to store, manage and retrieve data in a MySQL database and to eventually manipulate the code behind MySQL 5.0 to customize your database. With the clear examples and tips provided in this comprehensive learning guide, you can become a MySQL expert in no time.

When a man or a woman decides to enter a relationship in which he or she surrenders his or her will to another person, there is automatically the potential for exploitation and even abuse. This can actually go both ways. A major way of preventing one side from taking unfair and even dangerous advantage of the other side is to establish not just rules but also an elaborate code of behavior or protocol that specifies the exact rights of each party. This is formally done with a master-slave contract. It may seem strange that a slave has rights, but this is a voluntary enslavement, which means this person continues to be safeguarded by the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution (1865), which abolished involuntary servitude.

Fifteen-year-old Bowman uses his newly-discovered powers to join with his twin sister Kestrel in an attempt to liberate their people from the "beautiful but cruel" civilization which has enslaved them.

This cookbook presents solutions to problems in the form of recipes. Each recipe provides the reader with easy step-by-step descriptions of the actions necessary to accomplish a specific task. Example values and code samples are used throughout the recipes, which makes adaptation for individual needs easy. This book is for ambitious MySQL users as well as professional data center database administrators. Beginners as well as experienced administrators will benefit from this cookbook and get fresh ideas to improve their MySQL environments. Detailed background information will enable them to widen their MySQL horizon. It does not cover SQL basics, how to install MySQL servers, or how to design a relational database schema. Readers are expected to have a basic understanding of the SQL language and database concepts in general.

This comprehensive tutorial and reference covers all the basics of PHP 5, a popular open source Web scripting language, and MySQL 4.012, the most popular open source database engine Explores why users need PHP and MySQL, how to get started, how to add PHP to HTML, and how to connect HTML Web pages to MySQL Offers an extensive tutorial for developing applications with PHP and MySQL Includes coverage of how to install, administer, and design MySQL databases independently of PHP; exception and error handling; debugging techniques; PostgreSQL database system; and PEAR database functions The authors provide unique case studies of how and where to use PHP drawn from their own extensive Web experience