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By T. J. Blackley. 2022
Devante Miller, a grad student studying library science, is ready to try and make things work with fellow student Preeda…
as they both rocket toward graduation. Certainly their friend Mike wants them together, from how much he keeps pushing Devante about it. But then Devante meets Michael Lopez, an out-and-proud, up-and-coming figure skater, and all of Devante’s plans -- and Devante himself -- go head over heels.Michael is like no one Devante’s ever met before, and Devante finds himself falling into Michael’s orbit. But loving Michael comes with its own complications. Devante has to figure out how to come out to his father, for one, on top of launching his own career and supporting Michael’s skating. And why is one of their friends so threatened by their budding relationship?By Holly Day. 2022
Teo Solace has worked hard to achieve his dream of owning a house. But he didn’t know he would become…
next-door neighbor to werewolves or that refusing the pack’s demand to sell the house to them would end with being kidnapped.Jerico Franklin left his pack sixteen years ago, and he never planned to return. By refusing to mate with the female his father picked for him, he believed he was doomed to live the rest of his life as a lone wolf. He didn’t expect to wake up in a dark cellar with a human by his side. Jerico shouldn’t care about the human, but when he learns his former pack intends to kill Teo to take over his house, he knows he has to find a way to get them out of there before he loses control of his wolf.Teo never believed he’d care for a wolf, but spending days in the dark with nothing but Jerico’s voice to cling to shifts his perspectives. Humans are a dime on a dozen. One more or less shouldn’t matter, but Jerico would’ve lost himself in the dark if it wasn’t for Teo. For how long will Jerico be able to keep Teo safe from the pack? For how long can he keep him safe from himself?By Eve Morton. 2022
Jack Morris simply needs to keep the lights on. That's why he starts to write erotica online. After his boyfriend…
of seven years leaves him alone in a crappy apartment and with limited income, it seems like the best way to pass his time and soothe his aching heart. Everything works out well enough until writer's block happens. Then Jack simply doesn't know what to do next.A tour at a local bookstore for inspiration yields him an avid reader named John. Though John's never read any of Jack's material before, he's definitely more than ready to be of help for some creative problem solving, and maybe, some practical experience, too.By Katia Vega, Hugo Fuks. 2016
The increasing advances in electronics allows smaller and more powerful devices bringing wearable computing closer to reality …
However most wearable computers are very distinguished and placed on clothes and accessories This book tries to tackle this phenomenon by introducing a new wearable computing subfield called beauty technology By using the body s surface as an interactive platform the integration of technology into beauty products is explored and can be applied directly to ones skin fingernails and hair adding new functionality to beauty products using technology in a personal seamless and fashionable way An interdisciplinary approach is taken exploring the design of Beauty Technologies such as Conductive Makeup Tech Nails Hairware and FX e-makeup in order to create novel interfaces for Human Computer InteractionBy Lynn A. Coleman, Rachel Hauck. 2004
ELIZABETH LAMBERT IS ON THE FAST TRACK TO SUCCESS. Too bad she gets knocked off that track by one dashing…
young forest ranger named Kavan Donovan. It seems the entire town of White Birch is pulling for Elizabeth and Kavan, but her goals don't include falling in love. She fights her attraction to Kavan, even as friends and family urge her to forget her dream of graduate school. "YOUNG MEN, IN THE SAME WAY BE SUBMISSIVE TO THOSE WHO ARE OLDER. ALL OF YOU, CLOTHE YOURSELVES WITH HUMILITY TOWARD ONE ANOTHER, BECAUSE, 'GOD OPPOSES THE PROUD BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.' " —I Peter 5:5 Though problems at work prove distracting, Kavan is nevertheless captivated by Elizabeth. His heart has a mind of its own. Is the Lord telling Elizabeth to let go of prideful ambitions? Might His direction lead to marriage instead of graduate school? Can Kavan convince Elizabeth that love is the finestBy Elaine L. Shulte. 1990
Green with envy--that’s Ginger! Life with her new “combined family" has just begun to feel natural when Ginger’s mom and…
stepdad make an announcement: a new baby is on the way! They sure are happy about it, but Ginger doesn’t know what to think. It’s clear that her stepbrother, Joshua, is anything but pleased--and for some reason, the news seems to make him grouchier than ever with Ginger. Together Ginger’s family discovers how God’s love can conquer even feelings of resentment and jealousy.By Elaine L. Shulte. 1989
Love Your Neighbor? October brings two new people into Ginger’s life--and they couldn’t be more different from each other. Ginger…
looks forward to her Wednesday afternoon job of “baby-sitting” Aunt Alice. She may be elderly and ill, but she's cheerful and fun to be with. At school, however, Ginger is stuck trying to befriend grouchy Robin Lindberg, who never misses an opportunity to be nasty. Ginger knows that “love your neighbor” includes the Robins as well as the Aunt Alices... but knowing doesn’t make it easy....By Elaine L. Schulte. 1989
God, if You’re really there... Stop Mom’s wedding! Ginger's world is falling apart. Her mom has recently become a Christian…
and, even worse, has fallen in love with Grant Gabriel. Ginger can't stand the thought of leaving their little house near the beach... moving in with Grant and his two children... trading in her “brown cave of a bedroom” for a yellow canopied bed. Ginger will try anything to fight the changes she knows are coming--green fingernails, salt in the sugar bowl, a near disaster at the beach. But she finds that change can happen inside her, too, when she meets the Lord her mom has come to trust.By Anne Emery. 1967
The summer between high school graduation and freshman year of college looms long and boring for Paula Page, however, she…
secures a job as hotel waitress at one of the resorts on Wisconsin's Lake Geneva. During this three month interlude, Paula will make new friends, find romance, and help to solve a mystery!By Monica Kulling, Teresa Flavin. 2000
An easy-to-read, page-turning account of Harriet Tubman's life--from her childhood in slavery to her years as a conductor on the…
Underground Railroad to her later work as a suffragette and as a spy in the Civil War. This remarkable true story brings to life one of America's greatest female role models.By Susan M. Benner, Joan Grim. 2013
Assessment of Young Children with Special Needs, Second Edition helps prepare teachers for the task of evaluating the skills of…
infants, toddlers, and preschool children with developmental delays and those considered at risk to experience developmental delays or difficulties. A child's environment is a critical consideration when focusing on assessment, and authors Susan Benner and Joan Grim explore the important issues of family resources, health, multidimensional environmental influences, economic deprivation, and domestic violence on infant and child development. This textbook conveys a sense of respect for parents, the powerful influence assessment results can and do have in the lives of young children with special needs, and an understanding of the complexity of child development, progression, and measurement. This book sets the tone for important values and beliefs to honor throughout one's professional life. This fully revised edition addresses recent legislation, updated versions of assessment, and the newest assessment tools that teachers will come across. The popular full-length case studies of the first edition have been updated, and vignettes of other cases are fully integrated across chapters, bringing the text alive with meaning. Assessment of Young Children with Special Needs, Second Edition now includes expanded discussion on progress monitoring and response to intervention, functional behavioral analysis, pros and cons of norm-referenced testing, web-based gathering tools, ELL students, and screening for autism.By Daniel T. Larose, Chantal D. Larose. 2019
Learn data science by doing data science! Data Science Using Python and R will get you plugged into the world’s…
two most widespread open-source platforms for data science: Python and R. Data science is hot. Bloomberg called data scientist “the hottest job in America.” Python and R are the top two open-source data science tools in the world. In Data Science Using Python and R, you will learn step-by-step how to produce hands-on solutions to real-world business problems, using state-of-the-art techniques. Data Science Using Python and R is written for the general reader with no previous analytics or programming experience. An entire chapter is dedicated to learning the basics of Python and R. Then, each chapter presents step-by-step instructions and walkthroughs for solving data science problems using Python and R. Those with analytics experience will appreciate having a one-stop shop for learning how to do data science using Python and R. Topics covered include data preparation, exploratory data analysis, preparing to model the data, decision trees, model evaluation, misclassification costs, naïve Bayes classification, neural networks, clustering, regression modeling, dimension reduction, and association rules mining. Further, exciting new topics such as random forests and general linear models are also included. The book emphasizes data-driven error costs to enhance profitability, which avoids the common pitfalls that may cost a company millions of dollars. Data Science Using Python and R provides exercises at the end of every chapter, totaling over 500 exercises in the book. Readers will therefore have plenty of opportunity to test their newfound data science skills and expertise. In the Hands-on Analysis exercises, readers are challenged to solve interesting business problems using real-world data sets.By Eben Hewitt, Jeff Carpenter. 2022
Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how the Cassandra database…
management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This revised third edition--updated for Cassandra 4.0 and new developments in the Cassandra ecosystem, including deployments in Kubernetes with K8ssandra--provides technical details and practical examples to help you put this database to work in a production environment.Authors Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt demonstrate the advantages of Cassandra's nonrelational design, with special attention to data modeling. Developers, DBAs, and application architects looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof an application will learn how to harness Cassandra's speed and flexibility.Understand Cassandra's distributed and decentralized structureUse the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) and cqlsh (the CQL shell)Create a working data model and compare it with an equivalent relational modelDesign and develop applications using client driversExplore cluster topology and learn how nodes exchange dataMaintain a high level of performance in your clusterDeploy Cassandra onsite, in the cloud, or with Docker and KubernetesIntegrate Cassandra with Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Solr, and LuceneBy Jackie Pool. 2021
This innovative book sets out practical guidance for people with dementia, their families and carers on reducing the symptoms of…
Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Applying a 'rementia' based approach to dementia care, Jackie Pool shows how therapeutic cognitive rehabilitation techniques can be used to reduce symptoms of dementia and ultimately improve quality of life for people living with dementia.Covering topics such as nutrition, stress, communication, memory and sleep, it provides all the tools and information necessary to build a personalised and flexible self-care plan which will improve and sustain quality of life. By clearing away the myths and stigma surrounding dementia, this book creates room for cooperation, creativity and hope.By Megan Kennedy-Woodard, Dr Patrick Kennedy-Williams. 2022
It's hard to watch the news, scroll through social media, or listen to the radio without hearing or seeing something…
disturbing about the climate emergency. This can trigger all sorts of emotions: worry, anger, sadness, guilt, and even grief but also often over-looked positive emotions like motivation, connection, care, and abundance that support mental health and climate action for sustainable longevity.Written by psychologists with extensive experience in treating people with eco-anxiety, this book shows you how to harness these emotions, validate them, and transform them into positive action. It enables you to assess and understand your psychological responses to the climate crisis and move away from unhealthy defence mechanisms, such as denial and avoidance.Ultimately, it shows that the solution to both climate anxiety and the climate crisis is the same - action that is sustainable for you and for the planet - and empowers you to take steps towards this.By Hayley Berman, S. J. Langer, Georgina Evans, Eleni Tsolka, Wabriya King, Sarah Turneaux-Blick, Jaspal Kaur Lotay, Kairo Maynard, Naomi Rowe, Gillian Datlen, Charlotte Ellston, Noa Yeheskel, Sejal Chad. 2022
Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapies advocates for contextualising of clinical thinking and experience within a social and political framework that…
acknowledges the importance of intersectionality. Bringing reflections on their own identity and their professional knowledge to the work, creative therapists address both practical work with clients and the theory behind these therapeutic practices. A call to reflexivity allows the reader to consider their own position as a practitioner. These chapters will challenge and develop thinking on intersectional identities. Beyond the individual, the book demonstrates the need to embed knowledge of intersectionality in the profession at large. Experienced practitioners write from diverse perspectives across the arts psychotherapies, exploring how structures of power, privilege and prejudice influence practice and outcomes.By Barbara Herlihy. 2019
Learn the A&P you’ll really use in practice! The Human Body in Health and Illness, 6th Edition uses hundreds of…
illustrations, colorful cartoons, and an easy-to-read approach to simplify Anatomy & Physiology concepts. Organized by body system, this resource shows how each organ is designed to work by including clear, step-by-step explanations, clinical examples, and online animations. It also demonstrates what happens to the body when a system does not function properly. Written by well-known author and educator Barbara Herlihy, this resource makes it easier and more fun to learn A&P concepts — and gives you the basic background you need to begin a healthcare career.Disfruta ahora en un pack exclusivo los ebooks de Cincuenta sombras de Grey y de la nueva novela…
Grey Compara las dos visiones de esta sensual historia a trav s de los ojos de cada uno de sus protagonistas Totalmente adictiva te obsesionar te poseer y quedar para siempre en tu memoria Cincuenta sombras de Grey Cuando la estudiante de literatura Anastasia Steele recibe el encargo de entrevistar al exitoso y joven empresario Christian Grey queda impresionada al encontrarse ante un hombre atractivo seductor y tambi n muy intimidante La inexperta e inocente Ana intenta olvidarle pero pronto comprende cu nto le desea Grey est atormentado por sus propios demonios y le consume la necesidad de controlarlo todo aunque a su vez se ve incapaz de resistirse a la serena belleza de Ana a su inteligencia y a su esp ritu independiente Debe admitir que la desea pero bajo ciertas condiciones Cuando la pareja inicia por fin una apasionada relaci n las peculiares pr cticas sexuales de Grey desconciertan a Ana al tiempo que ella descubre los l mites de sus propios y m s oscuros deseos Grey E L James nos ofrece una nueva perspectiva de la historia de amor que ya ha seducido a millones de lectores en todo el mundo contada ahora en primera persona por Christian Grey Christian necesita tenerlo todo bajo control Su mundo es puro orden y disciplina aunque en el fondo est vac o hasta el d a en que Anastasia Steele aterriza de bruces en su despacho hecha una mara a de largo pelo casta o y esbeltas piernas l intenta olvidarla pero muy al contrario se ve inmerso en una tormenta de emociones que no consigue controlar y a la que no puede resistirse A diferencia de todas las mujeres que ha conocido la t mida e inexperta Ana parece capaz de ver m s all del exitoso empresario y la lujosa vida que le rodea y descubrir el coraz n fr o y lastimado de ChristianBy Stacy Connelly, Jules Bennett, Christy Jeffries. 2019
Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about…
life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes:The Maverick’s Summer SweetheartMontana Mavericksby Stacy ConnellyGemma Chapman is on her honeymoon—alone! But when she befriends a little girl staying at the same hotel, Gemma suddenly finds herself spending lots of time with the girl’s father: Hank, a rough-around-the-edges cowboy who might be able to give her the feeling of belonging she’s always craved. It Started with a PregnancyFurever Yoursby Christy JeffriesAnimal rescue director Rebekah Taylor isn’t a pet person—or the family type. But now she’s pregnant and a newbie parent to an adventure-loving stray dog nobody can catch, kind of like Grant Whitaker, her baby’s father. Except he’s sticking around. Can Grant persuade Rebekah to trust in himFor Their Child’s Sake Return to Stonerockby Jules BennettTwo years ago, Sam Bailey lost the two people who mattered most. Now his daughter needs him. Despite their still-powerful attraction, Tara isn’t ready to trust her estranged husband. But Sam is taking this chance to fight for their future, to redeem himself in Tara’s eyes—so they can be a family again.By Stacy Connelly, Michelle Major, Christy Jeffries. 2019
Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about…
life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes:ANYTHING FOR HIS BABYCrimson, Coloradoby Michelle MajorPaige Harper wants her inn, and Shep Bennett—the developer who bought it out from under her—needs a nanny. But Paige is quickly falling for little Rosie and is finding Shep more and more attractive by the day…THE SEAL’S SECRET DAUGHTERAmerican Heroesby Christy JeffriesWhen former SEAL Ethan Renault settles in Sugar Falls, Idaho, the last thing he expects to find on his doorstep…is his daughter? He’s desperate for help—and librarian Monica Alvarez is just the woman for the job. But Ethan soon realizes his next mission might be to turn their no-strings romance into forever!NOT JUST THE GIRL NEXT DOORFurever Yoursby Stacy ConnellyZeke Harper has always seen Mollie McFadden as his best friend’s sister. He can’t cross the line, no matter how irresistible he finds the girl next door. Until Mollie makes the first move! Now Zeke wonders if this woman who opens her life to pets in need can find a place for him in her heart.