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Practical techniques for writing code that is robust, reliable, and easy for team members to understand and adapt.SummaryIn Good Code, Bad Code you’ll learn how to:Think about code like an effective software engineerWrite functions that read like well-structured sentencesEnsure code is reliable and bug freeEffectively unit test codeIdentify code that can cause problems and improve itWrite code that is reusa...

Latin America Confronts the United States offers a new perspective on US-Latin America relations. Drawing on research in six countries, the book examines how Latin American leaders are able to overcome power asymmetries to influence US foreign policy. The book provides in-depth explorations of key moments in post-World War II inter-American relations - foreign economic policy before the Alliance for Progress, the negotiation of the Panama Canal Treaties, the expansion of trade through the ...

A complete guide for how small states can be strikingly successful and influential--if they assess their situations and adapt their strategies. Small states are crucial actors in world politics. Yet, they have been relegated to a second tier of International Relations scholarship. In A Small State's Guide to Influence in World Politics, Tom Long shows how small states can identify opportunities and shape effective strategies to achieve their foreign policy goals. ...

Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them?Why is addiction “perfectly logical” to an addict?Why does love change so quickly from passion to disinterest?Why are some people diehard liberals and others hardcore conservatives?Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times—and so good at figuring them out?The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain:

North American Regionalism problematizes “North America” as an important region in its own right, breaking with the area-studies convention that divides the Global North and Global South portions of the Western Hemisphere at the US-Mexican border. By cutting across this division, the theoretically sophisticated essays in this volume yield new insights about politics, society, and the economy of North America, opening dialogues with the New Regionalism approach and the literature o...

THE TAROT HAS AWAKENED…The Tarot, a powerful divination artifact, has appeared in the Sixth World. It works its will on anyone who finds one of its mystical cards, from runners surviving on the street to corp executives battling in the boardroom. And not just people’s lives will be changed, for the Awakened Tarot deck is more than just a formidable magic item, it has an agenda all its own, and will use those it comes in contact with to set its pla...

STORIES FROM ACROSS THE UNIVERSE…Comprising hundreds of solar systems and thousands of planets, the Inner Sphere is a vast realm of human exploration, achievement…and conflict. Among those achievements, of course, is the pinnacle of 30th century military technology, the BattleMech.Tales of the Inner Sphere is a collection of BattleTech stories that were published on the Catalyst Game Labs website in 2025, with each story only appearing for a single month. C...

From USA Today bestselling author L.J. Shen comes a witty romance about a woman desperate to marry into money…and her fake marriage to a (real) billionaire reluctant to commit even to a zip code.Riggs Bates may be a billionaire, but he knows money can’t buy happiness. He keeps his financial status a secret and takes his women the same way he takes his meals—a different one three times a day. That’s until he’s caught sleeping with a married newswoman by non...

An expansion of the discipline of ethics demonstrates that Aquinas's "infusing of virtue" makes better sense of the moral life than finding a method to guide actionWhile teaching ethics is universally applauded, how one goes about it is much more difficult and contested than is often recognized.On Teaching and Learning Christian Ethics addresses what it means to teach and learn ethics through a thorough comparison of two ethicists, Henry Sidgwick a...

It's dark...You're tired. Not thinking straight. It's the worst time of all for you to make decisions, and maybe that's why you take a… WRONG TURN.In this new anthology offered by Blunder Woman Productions, you'll take a trip down twisty roads into forests, back alleys, and even across the border between life and death. Together these tales are funny, creepy, weird, contemplative, traditional, and speculative. This is a perfect collection for dark ...

Featured on The Next Big Idea Club’s April 2025 Must-Read BooksDopamine, “the molecule of more,” makes it easy to get stuck in a cycle of never being truly satisfied. It promises happiness, but can never deliver. That part is up to us.A more fulfilling life begins with training your brain to overcome the dopamine chase—and it’s easier than you think.From Michael E. Long, coauthor of the life-changing book The Mo...

DOWN THESE DARK STREETS…Most folks see Puyallup as the worst Seattle’s got to offer; a tangled mess of metahumanity and greed, poverty and slums, vice and corruption, where crime is more organized than the government. They call it a Barrens, an armpit, a cesspool.Jimmy Kincaid, though, calls it home. Walking the line between shadows and the desperate light, semi-legit like only a local brat and former cop can be, he insists Puyallup has a heart and a soul, ...