Beach: 230 books

Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services is written specifically for Windows professionals who already know PowerShell and want to learn to host Windows workloads in the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) cloud service. The cloud offers information technology workers significant cost savings and agility...

Everyone loves a story about well-muscled retrievers barreling after thrown balls or elegant, longhaired cats commanding the attention of all in a room. But what about those less fortunate companion animals, whose experiences have robbed them of the wholeness of their “perfect” pet peers?...

On days when you feel completely lost, with no idea what to do next, there’s a part of you that knows what to do. In those moments when you’re so paralyzed by fear that you can’t possibly move forward, within you there’s a strength that’s courageous and capable.There’s a light within you...

Conscription' is the obligatory enlistment of folks in a few type of national facility, nearly all frequently army facility. Conscription dates back to age and resumes in a few nations to the here and now day under different designations. The contemporary configuration of near-universal national conscription...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Quilters job, or to apply for a better job. What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that...

Such a blasphemous bastardisation of a word, Commonwealth. Common meaning of, or to, everyone regardless of place or estate and wealth meaning relating to weal wholeness, prosperity, health and success. The Puritans calling the theological tyranny of all aspects of England after the regicide the Commonwealth...

In a world where everyone has gone to war, not choosing sides is not an option. Lord Simon Montcalm goes to war in 1066 not just because he must be true to his oath to his overlord Duke William of Normandy upon threat of destitution or death for refusal, but because there is great profit to be had....

The remoteness and isolation of North Carolina's northern Outer Banks has shaped both early settlers and relative newcomers into tough and independent souls. Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists may have mysteriously disappeared from Roanoke Island, but the enterprising homesteaders who followed managed...

While Sweden is often viewed as a benchmark for equality within education, this book examines this assumption in greater depth. The author argues that Sweden’s education system – even prior to the global spread of neoliberalism in education, meta-policies and privatization – was never particularly...

The train from Palermo was late. Already long, shadowy fingers were reaching down the valleys across which the railroad track meandered. Far to the left, out of an opalescent sea, rose the fairy-like Lipari Islands, and in the farthest distance Stromboli lifted its smoking cone above the horizon. On...

The love between Harper and Julian, growing for years, blossoms as the two prepare for college, Harper for her senior year and Julian for his freshman year. Their parents, Sarah, Matt, and Mama Fred, approve. This vignette forms part of a sequel, a work-in-progress, to "Sarah's Honeymoon."...