This book guides the student through the transition from passive learner to active researcher. Covering everything from choosing and refining a research topic to writing the actual report, the book shows students how to manage their workload, and how to approach the viva. Key areas covered include:personal time managementaims and objectivesworking towards successcommon problemsthe final report and publishing your resultsthe vi...

There are more than 42 million survivors of sexual abuse in America. 90% of child sexual abuse victims know the perpetrator in some way.Missing Pieces is a true story about the effects of leaving trauma unhealed and finding the courage to fight for your life.At five-years-old, author Andi Hunt was changed forever. It would take three decades to understand why she struggled constantly with the darkness that had entered her world at such a young and vulnerable age. P...

There are more than 42 million survivors of sexual abuse in America. 90% of child sexual abuse victims know the perpetrator in some way.Missing Pieces is a true story about the effects of leaving trauma unhealed and finding the courage to fight for your life.At five-years-old, author Andi Hunt was changed forever. It would take three decades to understand why she struggled constantly with the darkness that had entered her world at such a young and vulnerable age. P...

A standalone enemies to lovers, fake dating hockey romance.I’ve been secretly in love with Wilhelmina Reddi-Grinst since the third grade.I should be the one taking her to our small-town high school reunion. The prom king finally gets his chance with the valedictorian.Except she hates me.To the world, I’m a pro hockey player with a million dollar smile.To Hemi, I’m the menace who (accidentally) sank her bike to the bottom of the lake....

The first time I met Winter Marks, I almost took her out with my Jeep.To be fair, she came out of nowhere.I flirted with her, and she flipped me off and disappeared into the woods on her bike.But she left me a souvenir: a single hockey skate.Seemed to me that divine intervention shouldn’t be ignored.She was my icy Cinderella, and I would be her Prince Not-So-Charming.Winter was more than just a sassy, badass hockey-playing ho...

The Pragmatic Programmers classic is back! Freshly updated for modern software development, Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java 8 With JUnit teaches you how to write and run easily maintained unit tests in JUnit with confidence. You'll learn mnemonics to help you know what tests to write, how to remember all the boundary conditions, and what the qualities of a good test are. You'll see how unit tests can pay off by allowing you to keep your system code clean, and you'll learn how to ha...

These are the proven, effective agile practices that will make you a better developer. You'll learn pragmatic ways of approaching the development process and your personal coding techniques. You'll learn about your own attitudes, issues with working on a team, and how to best manage your learning, all in an iterative, incremental, agile style. You'll see how to apply each practice, and what benefits you can expect. Bottom line: This book will make you a better developer.

Provides an introduction to the nature, synthesis and transformation of sound which forms the basis of digital sound processing for music and multimedia. Background information in computer techniques is included so that you can write computer algorithms to realise new processes central to your own musical and sound processing ideas. Finally, material is inlcuded to explain the way in which people contribute to the development of new kinds of performance and composition systems.Key ...

New York Times bestselling author of Shacking Up and I Flipping Love You, Helena Hunting mixes humor and heart in this scandal-filled romantic comedy, Handle With Care.HE WANTS TO LOSE CONTROLBetween his parents’ messed up marriage and his narcissistic younger brother, Lincoln Moorehead has spent the majority of his life avoiding his family. After the death of his father, Lincoln finds hi...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Helena Hunting comes an evocative small-town romance about family loyalty, finding oneself, and falling in love.When Dillion Stitch left her hometown, she had no intention of going back. But when her brother gets into trouble, Dillion reluctantly agrees to return home to take her place at the family business.Being back in Pearl Lake after all these years feels familiar but also brings a ...

I don’t do one-night stands, but I just served my ex divorce papers.When my paddleboard floats into a gorgeous stranger’s dock and I subsequently accidentally pull him into the lake with me, I take it as a sign that maybe I should bend my rules.What better way to celebrate than get under a man who makes superheroes look like they need to put more effort in at the gym?He’s everything a woman could ask for: unbearably sexy, attentive and oh-so-giving ...

**"**Narrators Muffy Newtown and Jacob Morgan will make listeners blush and laugh their way through this Las Vegas-based romantic comedy in which the sin extends beyond the city...Newtown is great at emphasizing character individuality and sneaking humor into her delivery. Morgan, with his swoon-inducing, even-toned, perfectly paced voice, is everything listeners want in a hero." — AudioFile MagazineA new standalone, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy by New York T...