“What do you think a hero is? It’s just the right person in the right place making the right choice at the right time. Heroes aren’t born. They’re made.”A demonic assassin. A half-orc boxer. A ratman necromancer. Though they take many different shapes and forms, there are heroes all around us.Bravery can be found in the most unexpected places: a subterranean dwarven city; the sands of a temple courtyard in Ancient Egypt; a besieged castle, a Victorian brothel, a go...

An atmospheric memoir of the season of change from the no. 1 bestselling novelist Kate Mosse'A beautifully written exploration of nature, memory and life itself. Wonderfully mellow, a golden read' MATT HAIG'Profoundly captivating, a beautiful book that lingers in the mind.' ELIF SHAFAK'When the leaves turn to copper and there is dew on the grass in the early morning, I still have that same spike of expectation a...

An atmospheric memoir of the season of change from the no. 1 bestselling novelist Kate Mosse'A beautifully written exploration of nature, memory and life itself. Wonderfully mellow, a golden read' MATT HAIG'Profoundly captivating, a beautiful book that lingers in the mind.' ELIF SHAFAK'When the leaves turn to copper and there is dew on the grass in the early morning, I still have that same spike of expectation a...

SQL Server Integration Services Design Patterns is newly-revised for SQL Server 2014, and is a book of recipes for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Design patterns in the book help to solve common problems encountered when developing data integration solutions. The patterns and solution examples in the book increase your efficiency as an SSIS developer, because you do not have to design and code from scratch with each new problem you face. The book's team of expert authors ...

Speech-act theory is the interdisciplinary study of the wide range of things we do with words. Originally stemming from the influential work of twentieth-century philosophers, including J. L. Austin and Paul Grice, recent years have seen a resurgence of work on the topic. On one hand, a new generation of linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists have made impressive progress toward reverse-engineering the psychological underpinnings that allow us to do so much with language. Meanwh...

This ground-breaking book advances the fundamental debate about the nature of addiction. As well as presenting the case for seeing addiction as a brain disease, it brings together all the most cogent and penetrating critiques of the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA) and the main grounds for being skeptical of BDMA claims.The idea that addiction is a brain disease dominates thinking and practice worldwide. However, the editors of this book argue that our understanding of addic...