“A deeply stylish, astute, and illuminating portrait of a fascinating writer.”—Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An AfterlifeA spiky and delicious new literary portrait of the great twentieth-century British author of beloved novels such as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Girls of Slender Means“She was, if you believe what you read in the papers: a genius, a survivor, a bad mother, a fickle friend, a...

FALL IN LOVE WITH THIS HILARIOUSLY ROMANTIC STORY ABOUT A SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE . . .'Charming, funny and very relatable!' JOSIE SILVER'Made me laugh out loud, cry my heart out and put a big grin on my face' 5***** Reader Review'Utterly adorable and romantic. I feel uplifted!' GIOVANNA FLETCHER________It's love . . . what could go wrong?When Josh propos...

'This is a deeply stylish, astute and illuminating biography of a fascinating writer' FRANCESCA WADE, author of Square Haunting 'Utterly charming. A book as elegant, sharp-witted and mischievous as its subject' CLARE POLLARD, author of Delphi'She was, if you believe what you read in the papers: a genius, a survivor, a bad mother, a fickle friend, a closeted lesbian, a tyrant, a loner, an eccentric, a recluse, a goss...

James Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In desperate search of an answer, he decided to write to luminaries from all fields and ask one simple question: What is the meaning of life?Then he waited.Slowly but surely their responses arrived through his letterbox.From entrepreneurs and environmentalists, to artists, authors and adventurers, this book gathers a kaleidoscope of perspectives on what it means to be human. With ov...

Fall in love with the hilarious and heart-warming new novel of long lost loves and second chances, from the author of The Flip Side'Chances are you will fall in love with this rom-com packed with wit, long lost love and second chances' COSMOPOLITAN'S BEST NEW BOOKS IN JUNE'A charming story filled with wit and romance. I loved it' OLIVIA BEIRNE'I literally couldn't put it down, beautifully w...

"Romcom fans will fall in love with the cheeky charm and wry wit of . . . a delightfully bloke-centered counterpart to Bridget Jones and her diary." — BooklistTo coin a phrase, Josh is suffering a quarter-life crisis. He just broke up with his long-term girlfriend, lost his job, and moved back home with his parents (shudder). Welcome to rock bottom in Bristol. As Josh starts questioning all his life choices, he has a mad thought: Maybe he would just be bet...

James Bailey's form of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was as bizarre as it was unbearable. He was obsessed by a fear of drugs and their effects, believing himself to be in constant danger of becoming insanely high through people spiking his food, or even by just touching a photograph of a marijuana leaf.The treatment programme he went through at a specialist American clinic was challenging, to say the least. He was asked to shake hands and mingle with the local junkies, fighti...

This two-volume set, LNAI 9651 and 9652, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 20th Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2016, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in April 2016.The 91 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 307 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: classification; machine learning; applications; novel methods and algorithms; opinion mining and sentiment analysis; clustering;...

Archodial Bragen is in trouble with the truth. A truth related to bones found in a cave on Apollis, a planet on the edge of the galaxy. This truth unravels everything Synthons know about the past, putting Bragen’s life in jeopardy. With the help of an old mentor, zie begins a journey through time that takes zam from zas own dystopian otherworld to a time when children were more than fables. Avoiding lidscans and thought watchers, Bragen races back and forth through time, in the process fin...

A vast and desolate region, the Texas–New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings—never more so than in the lawless early days of cattle trafficking and trade among the Plains tribes and Comancheros. This book takes us to the borderlands in the 1860s and 1870s for an in-depth look at Union-Confederate skullduggery amid the infamous Comanche-Comanchero trade in stolen Texas livestock.In 1862, the Confederates abandoned New Mexico Territor...

A Fruitful Field for Researching Data Mining Methodology and for Solving Real-Life ProblemsContrast Data Mining: Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications collects recent results from this specialized area of data mining that have previously been scattered in the literature, making them more accessible to researchers and developers in data mining and