Learn the secrets of tracking from an SAS expert. Track animals, humans and vehicles in all conditions and terrains. Use time frames to eliminate misleading signs. Understand how weather affects tracks, and discover how innovations such as drone technology impact tracking. Bob describes the skills of observation, memory and analysis that are invaluable for search and rescue teams, scouts, youth and outdoor pursuit leaders, bird-watchers, ramblers, farmers and game keepers, as well as military and law enforcement agencies. This book contains a mass of fascinating facts and true anecdotes that will enable you to make detailed observations and assumptions about your surroundings. At the very least, individual family walks will become a lot more fun.

Text and drawings explain how to identify wild animals by the tracks and other signs they leave.

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Discover how to track and stalk any living thing in any environment, including woodland, marsh, jungle and desert. The reader will learn how to: Interpret animal, human and vehicle signs. Preserve night vision. Use time frames to eliminate misleading signs. Detect quarry when they backtrack or circle around. Understand how time and weather affect signs. Spot intentionally misleading signs. The skills of observation, memory and analysis that a tracker employs are essential not only for the military and law enforcement agencies but are also invaluable for search and rescue teams, scouts, youth leaders, outdoor pursuit teachers, bird-watchers, ramblers, farmers, livestock owners and game keepers.

The Complete Track and Field Coaches' Guide to Conditioning for the Throwing Events will put you on the path to make steady improvement in throwing. This informative book with bonus 107-minute DVD is ideal for coaches and athletes at all levels of play. Chapters include: Important Concepts in Exercise Science, Strength Development at the Track, Developing Special Strength and Speed in the Ring, Developing a Resistance-Training Program, Chronic and Acute Variables, Resistance-Training Program Design, Detection, Prevention, and Treatment of Injuries, Nutrition and Ergogenic Aids, Putting a Training Program Together, and Psychological Preparation: Getting Into the Flow. The book also includes an appendix with sample training programs and a glossary of throws training terminology. Large format with dozens of diagrams and illustrations.

An updated and revised edition of the most highly recommended guide to learning to be a private investigator-or just using the tools PIs do to understand what goes on in your local courthouse, find information in public records, and perform searches to save you time and money. Among the changes for this edition- Completely new chapters on skip tracing Up-to-date information on how to make money by understanding your local courthouse and finding not-so-hidden gems in public records Under-the-radar databases you need to know about Completely new-and hot-chapters on due diligence searches, including pre-employment and tenant screening investigations and adoption searches

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Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This revised third edition--updated for Cassandra 4.0 and new developments in the Cassandra ecosystem, including deployments in Kubernetes with K8ssandra--provides technical details and practical examples to help you put this database to work in a production environment. Authors Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt demonstrate the advantages of Cassandra's nonrelational design, with special attention to data modeling. Developers, DBAs, and application architects looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof an application will learn how to harness Cassandra's speed and flexibility. Understand Cassandra's distributed and decentralized structure Use the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) and cqlsh (the CQL shell) Create a working data model and compare it with an equivalent relational model Design and develop applications using client drivers Explore cluster topology and learn how nodes exchange data Maintain a high level of performance in your cluster Deploy Cassandra onsite, in the cloud, or with Docker and Kubernetes Integrate Cassandra with Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Solr, and Lucene

"Since shortly after its original release in 2008, Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches has been the most popular book on the sport of weightlifting in the world and has become the standard text for learning and teaching the snatch and clean & jerk. The book presents a complete progression for athletes and coaches starting with foundational elements such as breath control and trunk stabilisation, squatting, balance and weight distribution, warming-up, and individual variation. It moves on to complete learning and teaching progressions for the snatch, clean and jerk; covering training program design extensively, including assessment for recruiting and new lifters, and 16 sample training programs; technical error correction, supplemental exercises, nutrition, bodyweight manipulation, and mobility. It includes a thorough section on competition to prepare both lifters and coaches."--Provided by publisher.

Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This expanded second edition—updated for Cassandra 3.0—provides the technical details and practical examples you need to put this database to work in a production environment. Authors Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt demonstrate the advantages of Cassandra’s non-relational design, with special attention to data modeling. If you’re a developer, DBA, or application architect looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof your application, this guide helps you harness Cassandra’s speed and flexibility. Understand Cassandra’s distributed and decentralized structure Use the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) and cqlsh—the CQL shell Create a working data model and compare it with an equivalent relational model Develop sample applications using client drivers for languages including Java, Python, and Node.js Explore cluster topology and learn how nodes exchange data Maintain a high level of performance in your cluster Deploy Cassandra on site, in the Cloud, or with Docker Integrate Cassandra with Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Solr, and Lucene