Demonstrates how software practitioners can realize the benefits of refactoring. This book shows you where opportunities for refactoring typically can be found, & how to go about reworking a bad design into a good one. It provides a catalog of more than seventy proven refactorings with helpful pointers that teach you when to apply them. ...

If you have a Wild, Unruly, or Undisciplined Daugher, two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter & Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst' When Amy & Effie Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on an inheritance, they place this advertisement in The Morning Post & hire themselves out as professional chaperones. Vowing to prepare even the most difficult misses for marriage, the Tribble sisters will spend a London season on each client, educating them in their School for Manners. Felicity Baronsheath, their first assignment, turns out to be more of a challenge than they could have ever imagined. Not only is Felicity indifferent to the idea of marriage, she is also a spoilt brat! & when, despite their best endeavours, Felicity insists on remaining unrefined & hoydenish, the Tribbles begin to fear that her season
- & their new business venture
- will end in disaster. This book has 186 pages & is 19.7cm x 12.6cm x 1.3cm

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Gideon Cross. As beautiful & flawless on the outside as he was damaged & tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn't stay away. I didn't want to. He was my addiction... my every desire... mine. My past was as violent as his, & I was just as broken. ...

Many people are fascinated by the idea of reincarnation, yet it is important to live fully in the here & now. This book's intention is not only to promote an escape from reality but rather to show how memories from past lives can actually help us to walk the path of our current life. ...

When an old lover reappears, it has far-reaching consequences for those in Portcowl…

Beth Tresalie has been happily

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I'm finally at a point in my life where I can see a little more clearly. Writing is such a personal process & between these pages

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Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, this novel tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous & flirtatious wife, Leonora. ...

Ruth Silvestre & her husband returns to Bel-Air de Grezelongue, their much-loved home in the Lot-et-Garonne region of south-west France. In 1976 their dreams of purchasing a peaceful summer home came true when they stumbled across this derelict farmhouse surrounded by fields & orchards, & saw what it could become. ...

Contributors reflect on statistics & attempt to develop a clearer image of where the field may be heading in terms of teaching. To identify the key areas for consideration for children & adolescents learning statistics, there are four themes: content, teaching, learning, & assessment. ...

Presenting a scathing attack on the French revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property & religion, this work makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights & established customs. It argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary change, & deplores the influence the revolution might have in Britain. ...