Mick's Buried Treasure
Author :
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1782025103
Mick's Buried Treasure
Author : Michele Jakubowski
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 2016-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1496531787
Book Description
Astrid, Rowan, Quinn, and Jace hear about a local legend involving a buried treasure, then work to determine its location.
Trove
Author : Sandra A. Miller
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1941932142
Book Description
• Gold-medal winner of the Nautilus Book Award for memoir (2020) • Gold-medal winner of the National Indie Excellence Award for memoir (2020) • Featured on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books podcast. (2020) "A stirring memoir that beautifully and humorously captures the pain of unresolved loss.” — Kirkus Reviews The true story of a woman whose life is up-ended when she begins an armchair treasure hunt—a search for $10,000 worth of gold coins buried in New York City, of all places—with a man who, as she points out, is not her husband. In this eloquent, hilarious, sharply realized memoir, Sandra A. Miller grapples with the death of her difficult mother and the regret and confusion that so often accompanies middle age. In a very real way, Miller has spent her life hunting for buried treasure. As a child, she trained herself to find things: dropped hair clips, shiny bits of broken glass, discarded lighters. Looking to escape from her volatile parents and often-unhappy childhood, Miller found deeper meaning, and a good deal of hope, in each of these objects. Now an adult and facing the loss of her last living parent—her mother who is at once cold, difficult, and wildly funny—Miller finds herself, as she so often did as a little girl, pressed against a wall of her own longing. Her search for gold, which soon becomes an obsession, forces her to dredge up painful pieces of her past, confront the true source of her sorrow, and finally discover what it is she has been looking for all these years. "Trove is the treasure. It's the kind of story that gives you a new best friend in a narrator. Your get to travel with her on an emotional journey with laughs and tears. I am happy to be shut in with this wonderful story that has taken me to so many places." — Meredith Goldstein, advice columnist and entertainment reporter for The Boston Globe.
Beta Testing for Better Software
Author : Michael R. Fine
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0471427861
Book Description
Implement, operate, and use beta testing immediately with this hands-on guide to the best practices Beta testing is a complex process that, when properly run, provides a wealth of diverse information. But when poorly executed, it delivers little or no data while wasting time and money. Written by a leading expert in the field, this book will help you reach the full potential that beta testing has to offer. Michael Fine compiles the best practices to date so you can effectively bring beta testing into your company's process to improve product quality. Using real-world case studies, this book begins by clearly explaining what a beta is and why you need one. Fine then explores the beta test procedure and walks through the best processes to use when implementing a test. He concludes by detailing the steps you should take after completing a test in order to take full advantage of the results. With this book, you'll gain a better understanding of what beta testing is, why every company needs a beta test program, and how to get the most from a test. Fine will help you: * Understand all the steps involved in beta testing using real-world case studies * Implement a beta test using best- known practices * Produce better products based on the results of well-run beta tests * Apply beta testing across many platforms and many technologies * Improve on existing processes and identify critical issues
Strange Capers
Author : Joan Smith
Publisher : Belgrave House
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 34,54 MB
Release : 2011-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1610845412
Book Description
Constance Pethel had become accustomed to Lady Savage’s “economies” and begging letters to Lord Aiglon to provide money to refurbish his falling-down manor that they occupied. Arriving to discover this deceit, Aiglon decided to put the property on the market, depriving them of their home. But Constance learned that Aiglon was more interested in a stolen shipment of British arms—and herself. Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett Crest
The Lost Treasure Restored
Author : William Chauncey Brookshire
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 1912
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Joe Strummer and the Legend of the Clash
Author : Kris Needs
Publisher : Plexus Publishing
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0859657035
Book Description
Joe Strummer and the Legend of The Clash provides a personal insight into the life of Joe Strummer, lead singer of pivotal punk band The Clash. Since his untimely death in 2002 Joe Strummer has been mourned as a rock'n'roll icon. The enormous sense of loss felt at his death reinforced the importance of The Clash. As time goes by the band just seem to grow in terms of influence and impact; they changed the shape of music and established a benchmark for how exciting a rock band can be. In Joe Strummer and the Legend of The Clash, author and journalist Kris Needs tells the story of The Clash with a special focus on Joe Strummer - his life history, his personal passions and his politics. Kris Needs combines his own anecdotes and press reports, plus exclusive interviews with Joe's closest friends, who include Mick Jones, his songwriting partner in The Clash and Don Letts the punk filmmaker, to breathe life into the legend that was Joe Strummer and The Clash. As a young journalist on tour with all of punk's biggest names, Kris forged life-long friendships with all the scene's key figures, while witnessing their unbelievable exploits first-hand. One of the first journalists to see The Clash live, Kris championed the band from the start, becoming close friends with Joe Strummer and the rest of the group, accompanying them on many major tours, and being present at pivotal moments in their career. Weaving in his own material from the era, with a wealth of biographical detail, Needs illuminates Joe's story with accounts of life-changing gigs, on-the-road antics and the recording sessions that produced classic music. Needs looks at Joe's motivations and passions, by drawing on his own experiences with him throughout their friendship, providing an insight into the beliefs and ideals that resonate in The Clash's music. Joe Strummer and the Legend of The Clash conveys the white-hot excitement of their gigs and the intense emotions their music caused, while providing an account of the life and times of Joe Strummer, a true punk pioneer.
Goodnight Princess
Author : Michelle Robinson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0723280185
Book Description
The perfect bedtime book from Nick East and Michelle Robinson - Goodnight Princess As a little girl says goodnight to her dressing up clothes and dolls she is transformed into a princess in a magical realm. A beautiful rhyming text is accompanied by atmospheric illustrations which will delight and soothe all little girls as they snuggle up in bed. A follow-up to the wonderful Goodnight Tractor and Goodnight Digger, this is the perfect bedtime book. Michelle Robinson has always wanted to be an author like her hero Roald Dahl, but all they had in common was the same birthday and a love of chocolate. Now at last, Michelle is a real author too. She lives in Frome, Somerset with her husband, son and daughter. Visit her at www.michellerobinson.co.uk. Nick East has been working as a museum designer for the past 16 years but has always been a storyteller, whether as a child, filling sketchbooks with quirky characters, or as a designer displaying a collection of ancient artifacts. Nick lives near York with his wife and two children and, when he isn't drawing, he is out riding bikes and spending time with his family.
Pirate Treasure
Author : Justin Spelvin
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781599611587
Book Description
Although at first two separate pirate bands, Uniqua, Austin, Pablo, and Tyrone decide to work together to find the buried treasure.
The Palgrave Handbook of Security, Risk and Intelligence
Author : Robert Dover
Publisher : Springer
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137536756
Book Description
This handbook provides a detailed analysis of threats and risk in the international system and of how governments and their intelligence services must adapt and function in order to manage the evolving security environment. This environment, now and for the foreseeable future, is characterised by complexity. The development of disruptive digital technologies; the vulnerability of critical national infrastructure; asymmetric threats such as terrorism; the privatisation of national intelligence capabilities: all have far reaching implications for security and risk management. The leading academics and practitioners who have contributed to this handbook have all done so with the objective of cutting through the complexity, and providing insight on the most pressing security, intelligence, and risk factors today. They explore the changing nature of conflict and crises; interaction of the global with the local; the impact of technological; the proliferation of hostile ideologies and the challenge this poses to traditional models of intelligence; and the impact of all these factors on governance and ethical frameworks. The handbook is an invaluable resource for students and professionals concerned with contemporary security and how national intelligence must adapt to remain effective.
