Learn about the distributed resource scheduler (DRS) in VMware vSphere and prepare for the VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV) exam. VMware vSphere is everywhere. To stay relevant, you must understand vSphere. Perhaps you’re also preparing to take the VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV) exam. In this series of courses, Rick Crisci, a VMware Certified Instructor, walks you through over...

Learn to address common issues sales people face—like anxiety, rejection, burnout, motivation—while continuing to work and sell in a healthier manner. Mental well-being is a subject not often addressed within the sales profession, but ignoring it can be detrimental to both your health and your sales performance. Salespeople want to appear strong, confident, and in total control of their lives, businesses, and selling abilities. However, without...

Get the data for analysis and reporting by writing your own SQL code. Learn how to write basic queries, sort and filter data, and join results from different tables and data sets. Do you rely on IT to get you the data you need? Do you wish you could retrieve it yourself? SQL for Data Reporting and Analysis teaches you how to get the data you want by writing a bit of SQL code. You won't just be able to pull data out of the database; you'll be able...

Explore what happens in your body when you experience compassion— from your brain, to your heart, to your nervous system, and beyond. How would you describe what compassion feels like? To some, there’s an idealized notion of what compassion is. It can feel calm, pleasant, and peaceful. Often, however, you practice compassion in the most unpleasant of moments, like when you have to give someone devastating, life-changing news. Compassion can often...

Explore the past, present, and future of typography on the web. Get the information you need to create stylish websites and avoid performance issues. The style and arrangement of text matters. Whether you're perusing a hardback encyclopedia or a Wikipedia page, typography impacts the way that you interpret written material. And on the web, font choice can also impact a reader's experience by affecting how quickly your site loads. If you're ever been...

Emma ambushed Itsuomi at school and dragged him to the arcade, where he was brutally honest about his lack of romantic interest in her. What Itsuomi didn't realize is that Oushi happened to see them go in together. He also doesn't know that Oushi confronted Yuki, giving her an embrace that spoke louder than his words ever have, and that left Yuki feeling a sinking guilt. This haze of unrequited feelings seems to threaten Yuki and Itsuomi's still-tender...

"Thanks to his claim by lineage, the attackers surrounding Jomsborg want Thorfinn to be their leader, but it is a mantle he intensely rejects. When the battle for leadership over the powerful Jomsvikings reaches a stalemate, Thornfinn must make a critical decision. With Gudrid held captive within the fortressed city, walking away will not be an option. He must infiltrate Jomsborg to break her out, and the ensuing battle will leave the greatest mercenary...

"Their elaborate schoolroom deception at an end, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his peerless manservant, Sebastian, finally hit upon the truth behind the incident of the vanished students at Weston College. Just what tragic steps did the elites of the school, spurred on by their overwhelming sense of justice, take to stamp out the bullying running rife in the halls of their institution?! What began as a seemingly simple case of missing persons goes round...

"At last, Demiurge's schemes in the Kingdom begin to bear fruit. With the appearance of a powerful fighter that skillfully controls insects and the engimatic Jaldaboath, the beleaguered humans must rely on none other than the Blue Roses!"--Provided by publisher.

"Thorfinn's travels have taken him from Iceland to England, Denmark, the distant trading posts of the Byzantine Empire, and back home again. On the journey, he has amassed scars, losses, and sins to atone for, but also found strength in his friends, in his new wife, and in the dream that he's never let go, of a new land free of brutality and slavery. At last, the moment has come to set foot on Vinland--not the misty ideal he has carried there, but...