Shivers of excitement shot up my spine. It was time to draw a line under the past and find a new me.By forty, I thought I’d be living my best life. When my idiot husband gambles away our savings, I divorce him and try not to kick him in the nuts when he fights me for custody of my cat. I throw myself into teaching English and survival skills to anyone unlucky enough to land in my night class in godforsaken London.That is, until my mum dies in a car crash an...

Missing everything but the point: visual poetry celebrating excitement!The exclamation point is much maligned. It’s bad style. It’s like laughing at your own joke. It screams, it yells, it’s hysterical, it’s maybe even embarrassingly obsequious.Nasser Hussain disagrees! What’s so bad about expressing enthusiasm? What if you really need to scream? The prescriptions of ‘style’ can feel like an artificial limit placed on our language, insist...

The Software Engineering industry often evaluates engineers based on how many lines of code they write, how many years of experience they have, or how many features they ship. But I think a more powerful metric is the number of bugs they encountered, reproduced, traced to their root cause and fixed. Those experiences shape an engineer far more than raw output or time served in my opinion, let me elaborate.Bugs hinder the stability of software, which affects the user experience. You...

ALL RECIPES NATURALLY GLUTEN FREE'Scrummy recipes from a brilliant new book to improve gut health, boost energy levels and make you feel younger.' THE DAILY MAIL"Your gut will love you for getting this book."Dr Rupy Aujla, The Doctor's Kitchen"An enlightening and practical read that demystifies fibre nutrition with precision and warmth. Packed with smart, science-backed advice you can put into practice immedi...

In a hospital for children with disabilities, there are kids who have wheelchairs, while others are missing a limb or two, at the same time there is one kid named Elon, a very crafty character who wishes to show that he can overcome his situation, by turning his disability into an asset, however for Elon, painting a pretty picture is not on his list, for a kid like Elon has other plans in mind with greater ambitions, using clever tactics and mischief, he puts a group of kids together and t...

Power Systems Modelling and Fault Analysis: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, focuses on the important core areas and technical skills required for practicing electrical power engineers. Providing a comprehensive and practical treatment of the modeling of electrical power systems, the book offers students and professionals the theory and practice of fault analysis of power systems, covering detailed and advanced theories and modern industry practices. The book describes relevant advance...

Popular science readers embrace epics—the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social. And the appeal is understandable: in writing these works, authors such as E. O. Wilson or Steven Weinberg deliberately seek to move beyond particular disciplines, to create a compelling story weaving together natural historical events, scientific endeavor, human discovery, and contemporary existential concerns.In A

A nuanced portrait of one of the most complex figures of the Middle East, Gamal Abd al-Nasser.More than fifty years after his death, Gamal Abd al-Nasser remains a towering figure in the Arab world. As one of the young officers who overthrew British-backed King Farouk in Egypt in 1952, Nasser rose to prominence as a charismatic visionary who challenged foreign dominance. At just thirty-six years old, he became the undisputed leader of Egypt in a presidency that woul...

When I was growing up in Morocco, I remember opening the Qur’an and feeling a little overwhelmed. The words were beautiful, but the lessons felt so big, so deep, and sometimes so hard to understand as a child. I wished someone would just sit beside me and explain those stories in a way my young mind could actually connect with… gently, simply, and with warmth.That’s exactly what this bookwas created to do.Inside, your child will discover meaningful Qur’anic stories brought ...

In 2006, Dave and Christie Nasser welcomed a Great Dane puppy into their lives - the runt of a litter of thirteen who won over the hearts of his new owners with his soulful blue eyes. They named him George and he swiftly changed their lives. In February 2010 George was officially crowned tallest dog ever by the Guinness Book of World Records. Standing at almost five feet tall and seven feet long, George has come to dominate the Nassers' home. He has grown from a quivering misfit into a goo...

Nasser is a definitive and engaging portrait of a man who stood at the center of this continuing clash in the Middle East.Since the death of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970 there has been no ideology to capture the imagination of the Arab world except Islamic fundamentalism. Any sense of completely secular Arab states ended with him and what we see today happening in the Middle East is a direct result of Western opposition to Nasser's strategi...

CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2023In his follow-up to SKY WRI TEI NGS, Nasser Hussain tackles the absurdity of the English language through a modern take love poemsThe term “Love Language” can be read at least three ways: as an imperative, as the signoff to a letter, and as a contemporary way of talking about relationship styles. None of these would be wrong in this book.Love Language l...