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Shawnie
"It's Shawnie Brewer's 13th birthday and her Ma Lisa is on the White Lightning; her psychopath of a dad behind bars. It's left to Jason, her ruffneck brother to tell her, 'I loves you Shawnay.' She loves him too, with a love that's badly messed up. That summer Cockney wide-boy Steve settles into the household on Lurgan Walk and their lives get nastier still. It's not long before Lisa's too far gone with drink and despair to hold any appeal and Jason is on the rampage - bloodthirsty, cunning, wild. Shawnie's doing her best to keep the family in order, but they have other plans for their 'little superstar'."--BOOK JACKET.
Extreme Programming Refactored
Stephens and Rosenberg examine XP in the context of existing methodologies and processes such as RUP, ICONIX, Spiral, RAD, DSDM, etc – and show how XP goals can be achieved using these existing processes.
Sky Swimming
'Late afternoon. An isolated lagoon, water glassy, teeming with birdlife—black swans, ducks, a pelican. Sunset begins to tint the sky. I point the camera at the water to catch the clouds reflected there just as a solitary duck swims into view. Everything in the photograph is familiar yet the effect is entirely strange. The duck is swimming across the sky...' The reflections in Sky Swimming can be read as meditations on the enigmas of love, family, ageing, memory, home and belonging. At its heart is a mudbrick house built by two women on an ancient lava flow in the Warrumbungle Mountains, circling back to a childhood filled with music in Melbourne and an early career in the theatre. It fans out across the world to a family mystery in The Netherlands of the 1950s and a friendship in Montreal in the 1990s. Reflections on the process of writing feminist biography are included and the women from Martin’s biographies thread their way through the narrative alongside the people who have helped shape her life, often in unexpected directions.
Farewell Bergerac
Franois Dufy is dragged into the war effort when he rescues a young Jewish girl from the Nazi Security Police. She breathes life into his world and gives him a reason to go on. A sniper in the Great War, he begins a path of revenge on the occupying Germans. As the invaders hunt down the partisans in the deep woodland, nothing works out as Dufy had hoped.
Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UMLTheory and Practice
Diagramming and process are important topics in today’s software development world, as the UML diagramming language has come to be almost universally accepted. Yet process is necessary; by themselves, diagrams are of little use. Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML - Theory and Practice combines the notation of UML with a lightweight but effective process - the ICONIX process - for designing and developing software systems. ICONIX has developed a growing following over the years. Sitting between the free-for-all of Extreme Programming and overly rigid processes such as RUP, ICONIX offers just enough structure to be successful.
The Engagement Revolution
How engaged are your employees, really? Companies talk about 'employee engagement' and they accept its importance, yet strangely, they adopt out-dated methods when analysing and measuring this engagement. A leading engagement expert offers a new framework for taking the genuine pulse of a company - so that leaders and management can truly understand how their people are feeling and know what actions to take that result in better performance. Based on making results instantly and transparently available, and then determining with employees the real factors that lie within their feelings, managers can more easily assess the way they need to approach an issue. If, as the cliché goes, 'people are a company's greatest asset', then ensuring their close engagement is essential for any company. This book argues powerfully for a radical new approach to employee engagement, based on understanding the minds and emotions of the people who work in organizations.
Design Driven Testing
The groundbreaking book Design Driven Testing brings sanity back to the software development process by flipping around the concept of Test Driven Development (TDD)—restoring the concept of using testing to verify a design instead of pretending that unit tests are a replacement for design. Anyone who feels that TDD is “Too Damn Difficult” will appreciate this book. Design Driven Testing shows that, by combining a forward-thinking development process with cutting-edge automation, testing can be a finely targeted, business-driven, rewarding effort. In other words, you’ll learn how to test smarter, not harder. Applies a feedback-driven approach to each stage of the project lifecycle. Illustrates a lightweight and effective approach using a core subset of UML. Follows a real-life example project using Java and Flex/ActionScript. Presents bonus chapters for advanced DDTers covering unit-test antipatterns (and their opposite, “test-conscious” design patterns), and showing how to create your own test transformation templates in Enterprise Architect.
2nd Strike
Meg and Charlie Schock return for another intriguing case. This one hiding a secret that could wreck Charlie’s life. The newborn son of popular D.C. morning show host Carl Havers and his wife was kidnapped fifteen years ago. Charlie Schock, then an FBI agent, solved the open-and-shut case, returning Ethan to his parents. Now, the young man shows up at Schock Investigations with a DNA test proving Charlie got it wrong—he’s not the Havers’ son. His parents are still out there…so is the real Ethan Havers…and he wants to find them, no matter what. Did she get it wrong all those years ago? Charlie won’t stop until she’s solved the case all over again, regardless of the personal cost. The mystery takes her and Meg on an investigation steeped in deception, danger, and possible redemption. Will their combined skills be enough to bring a lost boy home?
Schock Sisters Mysteries Box Set, Books 1 & 2
**The first two complete novels in the Schock Sisters Mystery Series! Two very different sisters. One killer team. Meet Meg and Charlie Schock, two sisters who run Schock Investigations and specialize in missing persons and cold cases. Their claim to fame is taking on the cases law enforcement has failed to solve, often risking their own lives in the process. “A briskly paced, chilling thriller with superbly developed characters.” ~ Reader review This special boxed collection includes the first two full-length mysteries – 1st Shock & 2nd Strike – perfect for fans who love cold cases, serial killers, and dynamic family relationships. This collection will keep you reading late into the night, enthralled from beginning to end! ★★★★★ “…will hook you from the beginning and make you wish you could work alongside the sisters to solve this mystery!” ~ Goodreads reviewer Books in the series: 1st Shock, Schock Sisters Mystery Series, Book 1 2nd Strike, Schock Sisters Mystery Series, Book 2 3rd Tango, Schock Sisters Mystery Series, Book 3
Agile Development with ICONIX Process
*Describes an agile process that works on large projects *Ideal for hurried developers who want to develop software in teams *Incorporates real-life C#/.NET web project; can compare this with cases in book
