Sometimes life falls apart. Sometimes it's worth running away; running to something, however, is far better. Inspired by the likes of Donald Miller, John Steinbeck, and Jack Kerouac, Tom Zuniga hit the road in his Mitsubishi Galant, criss-crossing the continent in search of "home" — an elusive concept unrealized since his youth. After publishing his first book of "messy memoirs," Tom received countless emails from readers around the world saying two things: "me too" and "come visit." He se...

Techniques on how to gain greater fluidity of movement while playing to improve the quality of the experience are offered in this manual for serious piano players. This book encourages musicians to develop a broader understanding of the involvement of the entire body in playing—and the strains playing places on the body—by focusing on body mapping to increase awareness of the body's function, size, and structure. Ways in which piano, organ, harpsichord, clavichord, and digital keyboard pla...

A hot summer. The countryside around Manchester is ablaze. Ethan Mallam is fresh out of prison and finds his old gang locked in a brutal civil war. Against his wishes, he is quickly drawn into a hellish world of fire, blood, greed, and Billy Bear Ham. Trevor Mark Thomas's follow up to the sensational, and sensationally gripping, The Bothy.

A revised new version of the WJEC/Eduqas Computer Science student book, specifically written for AS Level. This student book helps student build their knowledge and master underlying computing principles and concepts, and develops computational thinking, programming and problem-solving skills.

An illustrated, practical guide to everything you need to know about using knives in the kitchen.As the number of gourmet home kitchens burgeons, so does the number of home cooks who want to become proficient users of the professional-caliber equipment they own. And of all kitchen skills, perhaps the most critical are those involving the proper use of knives.Norman Weinstein has been teaching his knife skills workshop at New York City's Institute of Culinary ...

Scotland, 1585. Lord Warden is leading a troop of his clansmen back home. Pursued by Lord Maxwell, a battle of survival is about to commence. Meanwhile, Lady Margaret and her son, James eagerly await, looking out over the battlements of Lochwood Castle.The ensuing battle leads to a sequence of events that would reverberate down the ages through history. Referred to previously as border clans, The Border Reivers would be used throughout the world as mercenary soldiers because of the...

"It's a lovely wall, we've got no complaints there."Allan Ripke wakes on the bank of a tranquil river, surrounded by cheerful strangers, quaint shops, and a towering wall that encloses everything.He doesn't know who he is. He doesn't know how he got there. But no one seems to think that's strange—not even when names change overnight, newspapers print impossibilities, and fog rolls in thick and unnatural. The residents smile, nod, and tell him what a lovely wall it is.

Tom is grieving for his girlfriend. Her powerful family, convinced he is responsible for her death, place a bounty on his head. On the run, Tom seeks refuge in the Bothy, a dilapidated moorland pub run by ageing gangster Frank. Tom tries to keep the bounty a secret, but news travels fast, even in the middle of nowhere.Trevor Mark Thomas's first novel is a tense, violent drama involving desperate characters with little to lose apart from their lives. Amid moments of black humour and...

Create a more robust service management system using the best of ITIL®, ISO 20000-1, COBIT®****and CMMI®-SVC.Although ITIL’s popularity as a framework for IT service management (ITSM) continues to increase, a number of organisations have realised that its approach is sometimes not quite enough on its own. Many are already working towards compliance with ISO 20000-1 — the international standard for ITSM — but, with the likes of COBIT 5 and CMMI-SVC to consider as we...

If you see me on the watershed, I'll probably be smiling. Come over and say hello. I won't bite.George Tripko, long-time leader of the family crime and business empire, has just died, and there isn't nearly as much money in the estate as there should be. Surviving organization members realize they are victims of a complex fraud, and openly suspect each other. But they are also certain that the family arsonist and enforcer, Peter Jarry, mus...

Ray Holt launders money for a Manchester criminal gang. He is also stealing from them – and has talked himself into believing that makes him the hero.When discovery becomes inevitable, Holt's solution is Knott: a hitman found via a business card on a pub toilet floor, professional in the way that a blunt instrument is professional, and not entirely sane.What follows is a darkly comic, pitilessly plotted thriller about a man who believes he is one smart move ahead of everyon...

"Love's Cup Of Kisses" is a treasury of love songs that expresses the deep feelings and desires a man has for the woman he loves. These love songs are created with kisses that combine to make a song that the woman responds to with her deep feelings and desires.There are melody, duet and trinity cups of kisses that a man thirsts for in his love for the woman. There are 12 melody, 144 duet and 1296 trinity cups of kisses on each area of a woman's face for a total of 1452 kisses. What...