Whether youre just a bit nosy or you want to launch a full-scale investigation of your neighbours this handbook teaches you everything you need to know. There are practical sections on codes ciphers invisible ink & signalling as well as guidance on drops & safe houses. The handbook teaches you how to spot when somebody is lying & how to lie effectively youself. There are sections on successful disguise & how to structure a spy ring including pyschological recruitment strategies psychic surveillance & spotting moles. There is also technical advice about constructing bugging devices & setting traps. Herbie Brennan interlaces the facts with anecdotes about real-life spies making this handbook an entertaining armchair read as well as an essential tool for any budding (or currently serving) MI6 operative. ...

After Dunkirk the British Army was broken the country isolated & invasion imminent. German Military Intelligence was sat the task of recruiting collaborators from among Welsh nationalists to sabotage military & civilian installations ahead of the landing. Strategic deception was one of the few weapons left. To fool the Germans into believing Britain was ready & able to repel invaders when in fact it had only the weapons salvaged from Dunkirk MI5 invented an imaginary cell of Welsh saboteurs led by a retired police inspector. ...

Learn SQL the fun & easy way -- no programming experience needed! SQL For Dummies 7th Edition shows programmers & web developers how to use SQL to build relational databases & get valuable information from them. This book covers the core features of the SQL language. Topics covered include how to use SQL to structure a DBMS & implement a database design; secure a database; & retrieve information from a database. This edition will be revised to reflect the new enhancements of SQL/XML:2008. The latest update of the perennial bestselling SQL For Dummies which has sold more than 210 000 units in six editions. SQL is the most popular database language in the world Covers creating accessing manipulating maintaining & storing information in relational database management systems (DBMS) such as Access Oracle SQL Server & My SQL.

Includes:: new content on using SQL with XML to power data-driven web sites & using SQL with Access 2010 Whether you're daunted by database development or a system admin star SQL For Dummies 7th Dummies will have you working your web site in no time at all.

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For programmers analysts & database administrators SQL in a Nutshell is the essential reference for the SQL language used in today's most popular database products. This new edition clearly documents every SQL command according to the latest ANSI standard & details how those commands are implemented in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Oracle 11g & the My SQL 5.1 & Postgre SQL 8.3 open source database products. You'll also get a concise overview of the Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) model & a clear-cut explanation of foundational RDBMS concepts -- all packed into a succinct comprehensive & easy-to-use format. This book provides: * Background on the Relational Database Model including current & previous SQL standards * Fundamental concepts necessary for understanding relational databases & SQL commands * An alphabetical command reference to SQL statements according to the SQL2003 ANSI standard * The implementation of each command by My SQL Oracle Postgre SQL & SQL Server * An alphabetical reference of the ANSI SQL2003 functions as well as the vendor implementations * Platform-specific functions unique to each implementation Beginning where vendor documentation ends SQL in a Nutshell distills the experiences of professional database administrators & developers who have used SQL variants to support complex enterprise applications. Whether SQL is new to you or you've been using SQL since its earliest days you'll get lots of new tips & techniques in this book. ...

For programmers & database administrators who use SQL in their day-to-day work this popular pocket guide is the ideal on-the-job reference. It uses numerous examples to address the languages complexity & covers key aspects of SQL used in Oracle DB2 SQL Server My SQL & Postgre SQL. That

Includes:: the syntax for querying managing transactions & making changes to data as well as SQL functions type conversion functions & formats & regular expression syntax. The third edition covers important database changes including: * Oracles support of the recursive WITH syntax & addition of PIVOT & UNPIVOT operators * Functions new to Oracle such as LISTAGG NTH_VALUE & more * Postgre SQLs support of recursive WITH & some window functions * DB2 syntax & datatypes some for compatibility with Oracle * My SQL features such as the TIMESTAMP type & the TO_SECONDS function

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The Squad have been summoned to the deadly & frozen land of the Arctic Circle by the British Prime Minister who has heard of their growing reputation as brilliant young spies. An unknown criminal is trying to hijack a world conference about the precious & much fought-over fuels that lie below the arctic ice. To prevent an international war breaking out Lily Lesh Hatty Adnan & Kester go undercover to find out who it is & stop them. But the beauty of the icy mountains & deep fjords hide some dangerous secrets & someone will do anything to make sure that the Squad dont discover them... ...

Tommy Broom was one of the RAF's most legendary & popular heroes of World War II. He joined the service at eighteen years of age in 1932 & after service in the Middle East he first saw action against Germany in a Fairey Battle during 1939 with No 105 (B) Squadron. He continued to serve with 105 Squadron until November 1940 a period that included the disastrous Battle of France & the low-level attacks on the Channel ports to destroy the invasion barges in both of which actions the squadron suffered severe losses. Having completed more than his share of front-line flying he was transferred to 13 Operational Training Unit at Bicester to teach the influx of newly-trained navigators the additional skills required for combat situations. He returned to 105 (B) Squadron in January 1942 to complete a further tour. In August of the same year he was again posted to the educational role this time at 1655 Mosquito Training Unit where he stayed until May 1944. He then returned to front-line flying until the end of the war belonging to numbers 571 (B) 128 (B) & 163 (B) Mosquito Squadrons. Tommy completed 83 operations during the war & teamed up with a namesake as his pilot Ivor Broom
- they became known as the ' Flying Brooms' & completed 57 operations together. The citation for one of his Distinguished Flying Crosses reads: ' Flight Lieutenant Broom DFC was a navigator in a Mosquito aircraft of 128 Squadron detailed to place a 4000 lb bomb up to the mouth of a railway tunnel in the region of Kaiserslautern on the morning of the 1st of January 1945. This operation required great skill determination & the utmost precision. By hisassistance to his pilot this attack was carried out most successfully. Flight Lieutenant Broom has completed 73 operations against German targets the majority of which were heavily defended & including 15 against Berlin. He has at all times shown consistent keenness & skill.' During 1942 his aircraft crashed into an electricity pylon near Antwerp at over 250mph. Both he & his pilot miraculously escaped back to the UK. This book is full of exciting flying & dangerous escapes but the good nature & quite confidence of this brilliant navigator has drawn praise from the pilots he flew with & those he trained. Tom Evans lives in the small West-country town of Portishead near Bristol & is a firm friend of Tommy Broom. This book was first published in 1999 as 'A Posset Lad' & was printed privately for a mostly local readership.
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If the financial City of London is her heart & the parks her lungs then Londons squares must be her soul. The London square is quintessentially English. Residential or commercial historical or architecturally ground-breaking the square is one of the capitals most familiar & loved features. Square London endeavours to investigate the history of the London square from its oldest
- Covent Garden & Bloomsbury to its most recent
- Canada & Highbury. The focus is not on architectural value or style but on the life of the square its occupants past & present significant events of national importance & the dark secrets of individual buildings & their tenants. Each square featured in this book has its own unique story whether through buildings which still exist or have sadly disappeared characters both past & present or events of tremendous public joy or deep shock & horror. What becomes apparent is the role the London square has played in the history of this great nation. The squares of London mirror the capitals highs & lows from the celebrations in Trafalgar Square when Britain was awarded the 2012 Olympic games to the loss & devastation on July 7th when terrorists killed 52 innocent people
- 13 of them in Tavistock Square. It has been over 100 years since the publication of a book about Londons squares & this book seeks to address the void of past historical neglect & link the London square to events of national & international importance.


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Adapted from the 2-million-copy U.S. bestseller All New Square Foot Gardening this new edition brings the proven principles easy system & guaranteed outcomes to British gardeners. Thoroughly redesigned & converted to the metric system plant selections have been adjusted for British & Northern European climates & growing seasons. The language has been Anglicized to communicate in a precise & natural way with British gardeners while still retaining the inspirational 'can-do' attitude that has made Mel Bartholomew such a gardening phenomenon in his home country. Particularly suited for beginners or those with poor soil this is the perfect system for getting huge yields in a small space. ...

There are some books we publish which from the outset you know are going to be special. This was true of the first book from Philip Howard: a collection of recipes from his restaurant The Square. We knew we wouldn't be able do the recipes justice in one volume so it became two
- a first volume The Square: The Cookbook Volume 1: Savoury followed by The Square: The Cookbook Volume 2: Sweet (due in June 2013). We knew we couldn't limit it to the conventional two pages per recipe & food photo so they each became either 4 or 6 pages. We knew we couldn't illustrate anything less than every one of those recipes so one of the world's finest food photographers Jean Cazals did just that. & yet these measures which bring this colossal first volume of Philip Howard's recipes in at 528 pages are only a small part of why this book is so special. It is special because it represents a collection of recipes from 21 years of one of the country's finest & most consistently fine restaurants. Special because the chef who has been at the helm of that restaurant for all of those years is recognised as one of the very best of his generation. But most of all it is special because that chef has that rare ability to translate a genius in the restaurant kitchen into the words of a book. This was evident from the day we received the first written recipe & with it Phil's fiercely intelligent vision for how the book
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- should be structured. It is also manifest in the dozen or so essays that weave throughout that show a profound consideration & passion for every aspect of his craft & industry. The Square: The Cookbook Volume 1: Savoury is a landmark publication & a must-have book for every chef & for every serious foodie without question. Yet it will not also fail to impress & inspire anyone with a desire for cooking & a thirst for food knowledge. It will be recognised as nothing less than an incredible achievement & a book of truly unbounded culinary ambition.


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