Most Popular Books by Michael Harrison

This is just a reprint of the previous paperback (0-19-276134-X) with a new cover.

Use this fast and complete guide to optimize the performance of MongoDB databases and the applications that depend on them. You will be able to turbo-charge the performance of your MongoDB applications to provide a better experience for your users, reduce your running costs, and avoid application growing pains. MongoDB is the world’s most popular document database and the foundation for thousands of mission-critical applications. This book helps you get the best possible performance from MongoDB. MongoDB Performance Tuning takes a methodical and comprehensive approach to performance tuning that begins with application and schema design and goes on to cover optimization of code at all levels of an application. The book also explains how to configure MongoDB hardware and cluster configuration for optimal performance. The systematic approach in the book helps you treat the true causes of performance issues and get the best return on your tuning investment. Even when you’re under pressure and don’t know where to begin, simply follow the method in this book to set things right and get your MongoDB performance back on track. What You Will Learn Apply a methodical approach to MongoDB performance tuning Understand how to design an efficient MongoDB application Optimize MongoDB document design and indexing strategies Tune MongoDB queries, aggregation pipelines, and transactions Optimize MongoDB server resources: CPU, memory, disk Configure MongoDB Replica sets and Sharded clusters for optimal performance Who This Book Is For Developers and administrators of high-performance MongoDB applications who want to be sure they are getting the best possible performance from their MongoDB system. For developers who wish to create applications that are fast, scalable, and cost-effective. For administrators who want to optimize their MongoDB server and hardware configuration.

An anthology of famous, well-loved poems.

Welcome to the horror papers of Detective Billy Blanchard. Step inside File 1 and follow Detective Blanchard and his partner as the area where they live becomes the target of witches, vampires, werewolves, serial killers, and all manners of ghosts and goblins. This series of short, interconnected stories will have the reader experience the horror that unfolds as characters from an unfortunate town become the victims of the supernatural. Will the detectives solve the inhuman mystery and discover the source of evil before it is too late?

In his first collection of original poems, Michael Harrison writes about haircuts, dead ends, magic handbags, hating teachers, walking to the moon, the end of the world, and how to recognize rude words. There are also various pieces of junk mail to Miss Muffett (fron the Rent-a-Spider company), to Prince Charming (from the Fitter foot Firm), and to Humpty Dumpty (from the Wallsend China Company). There''s also a poem to a real junk male.

A catalog of an exhibition by contemporary artists Max Guy that uses The Wizard of Oz as a way to ask questions about society and culture. This book accompanies Max Guy''s exhibition "But tell Me, is it a civilized country?," an installation of new works centered on The Wizard of Oz. The title is drawn from a conversation between the Witch of the North and Dorothy in which the Witch defines "civilized" as not including magic. Anchored in Chicago--where L. Frank Baum''s novel was written and first published, and home to enduring monuments to Oz fandom--the exhibition and book bridge the parallel universes of the Emerald City and its birthplace, drawing out the traces each carries of the other. A number of latent currents course underneath the work: critical perspectives on modernist urbanism, the peculiar products of fan culture, and the transformative power of storytelling and other acts of world-making. This catalog features essays by artist and writer Brit Barton and the exhibition''s curator, Michael Harrison, as well as a transcription of a conversation between Guy and artist and writer Irena Haiduk. The book will also include a new artist project made specifically for the book in the form of an annotated bibliography created by Guy of writings and images that relate to and inspire his practice.

Scheduled to work on Christmas Eve, a patrol cop is delighted to be relieved of working his beat by Sergeant Kringle making it possible for the policeman to be with his family at midnight.

Oskar fährt mit seinem Freund Fabio ins Zeltlager. Dort verschwinden Geld und Wertgegenstände. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass der Dieb Serdal ist, Oskars Zeltgenosse ...

Who is Bobby Timmons? An Alien? A spy? He''s certainly unlike any other thirteen year-old boy. Dottie Brown senses evil in him, can she trust her feelings and avoid marrying a devil-boy? Find out in the first installment of The Timmons Chronicles.

''Catch Me If You Can'' meets ''The Big Short'' - the charming sociopath financier who ran away with millions.

Malangone''s story offers an unvarnished look into the Yankee organization and a young athlete''s struggle with memories of a childhood tragedy.

James knows all about stranger danger. But surely his own mother doesn''t count - even if he has never met her before.So when Julia turns up out of the blue to take him on holiday, he goes along with her. But he soon starts to realize her behaviour is strange and erratic. First she whisks him off to France, along with Beth, a girl they''ve only just met. Then she starts skipping out of hotels without paying, makingfriends with English tourists and bamboozling them into paying for things for her, writing cheque that she knows are sure to bounce....James is desperate to get back home, but can he really just walk away? Julia is his mother, after all...

More than 100 poems, old and new, to celebrate the Christmas season.

Um velho fidalgo espanhol adora ler histórias de cavalaria. De tão influenciado por elas, enlouquece e sai em busca de aventuras memoráveis com Sancho Pança, seu fiel escudeiro.

Michael Harrison (1640-1729) was a faithful Puritan Minister of the Gospel and a powerful Reformed Presbyterian preacher.Is the doctrine of justification important for today''s church? Assuredly and emphatically, YES. Harrison covers this topic in six points beginning with his main text of Isaiah 45:24-25, "Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength," etc. He covers, 1. Who are the people that shall be made partakers of this blessed privilege of justification? 2. The nature of justification; what it is? 3. What that righteousness is, for, and by which we are justified at God''s judgment seat. 4. The time when God''s children are made partakers of this blessed privilege. 5. How are we justified by faith? 6. Objections against the doctrine of justification answered. And finally he gives the reader an application. Harrison felt the critical need for his congregation to understand that the righteousness, by and for which, we are esteemed righteous at God''s judgment seat is only available through Jesus Christ. He biblically proves that it is the active and passive obedience of Jesus Christ, performed by him in our stead, imputed to us, and received only by faith, that gives us the privilege of the doctrine of justification. Harrison''s work is a breath of theological fresh air, and it should be to every true believer who ponders the biblical nature of this most important doctrine. If you stand, on the Day of Judgment, before the judgment seat of God, in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, you will have wrapped around you the saint''s surest and only plea for pardon and eternal life.This is not a scan or facsimile, has been updated in modern English for easy reading and has an active table of contents for electronic versions.

James Wilson''s life is an entry point into the events of the latter half of the 18th century and the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment on American society, discourse, and government. Previous research has focused, primarily, on his tenure as a member of the first Supreme Court of the United States and his time teaching law at the University of Pennsylvania. This work is not an attempt to present a complete biography, instead, it examines several key points in his life and afterwards. The year 1768 is pivotal to any reassessment of James Wilson''s contributions. He worked with William White on The Visitant. This series provides insights into the literature culture of 1760s Philadelphia and how it fits within the larger framework of the Enlightenment. In the latter half of 1768, Wilson wrote, "Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament." Though groundbreaking, it was not published until 1774. This hesitation will be explained within the broader context of his career and social relations. His contributions to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and time as a Supreme Court Justice will be examined. As a federal justice riding circuit, Wilson and his colleagues were the face of the new federal government for many Americans. In the early years of the twentieth century, James Wilson''s ideas were resurrected by leaders, particularly President Theodore Roosevelt and industrialist Andrew Carnegie, to justify expansion of federal powers. The attention garnered by the movement of Wilson''s remains from Edenton to Philadelphia in November of 1906 is singularly unique for a founding father and demands further attention. Further, a new Wilson/Roosevelt Doctrine of interpretation of the Constitution appeared in legal and political science textbooks until the New Deal. James Wilson''s story had no Hollywood ending. His is a very human story of a Scottish immigrant who experienced success and acclaim for his public activities, but in his personal affairs, and particularly financial life, he experienced great successes and deep lows worthy of a Greek tragedy. His quest for financial security led to land speculation, debt, and pursuit by his creditors.