For a growing number of British holidaymakers Cuba is a Caribbean paradise but it is also a land of cutbacks & economic instability. Stephen Smith comes to live on the island & his search for the real Cuba inevitably becomes a search for Fidel Castro too. Before meeting his quarry Smith travels extensively through the land of miracles in an old American automobile. His highly-personalised account features a bloody initiation into a voodoo-like cult dining on giant rat & checking into the Love Hotel. & he goes on manoeuvres in the Everglades with armed but not especially competent Cuban exiles dreaming of a second Bay of Pigs. With disarming wit & considerable insight Stephen Smith investigates a country where communism & voodoo coexist & where the influence of its leader of forty years continues to throw a long shadow. ...

Marco Polo maps feature completely up-to-date digitally generated mapping. The high quality cartography with distance indicators & scale converters aid route planning. Contains 6 city maps: Playas del Este Varadero La Habana Cienfuegos Camaguey & Santiago de Cuba. A fold-out overview map is ideal for route planning & 7 self-adhesive Marco Polo mark-it stickers can be used to pin-point a destination or route for future reference. Scenic routes & places of interest are highlighted
- ideal for touring holidays. Comprehensive index booklet. The map scale is 1: 1 000 000.
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Cuba is often perceived in starkly black & white terms
- either as the site of one of Latin Americas most successful revolutions
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When Dot Mc Cann playing with her pals decides to hide in Butcher Rathbone's almost empty dustbin she overhears a conversation which could send one man to prison & the other to the gallows
- & suddenly finds herself in possession of stolen goods. Dot lives with her aunt & uncle the cuckoo in the nest abandoned to these relatives after her parents died. She feels very alone until she meets up with Corky who has run away from a London orphanage. They join forces with Emma whose jeweller's shop has been burgled & with Nick a handsome young newspaper reporter who is investigating the crime. The four of them begin a plot to catch the thieves. But Dot & Emma have been recognised & soon both are in very real danger... Set in Liverpool in the 1920s The Cuckoo Child is vintage Katie Flynn the beloved author of saga fiction with over two million books sold nationwide.
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When Elsie & Bert Jones move with their children Ann & Arthur to Candle Lane a modest street in Battersea they miss their comfortable house in Wimbledon. But the move is the right thing to do as it will enable Bert to finance his new removal business. They are a warm-hearted family & Elsie soon makes friends with her less fortunate neighbour Ruth & her daughter Sally. But before long Elsie realises that all is not well in the house next door... ...

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However her brother has his doubts & calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. Strike is a war veteran
- wounded both physically & psychologically
- & his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world the darker things get
- & the closer he gets to terrible danger.. .A gripping elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London
- from the hushed streets of Mayfair to the backstreet pubs of the East End to the bustle of Soho
- The Cuckoo's Calling is a remarkable book. Introducing Cormoran Strike this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.




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When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However her brother has his doubts & calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. Strike is a war veteran
- wounded both physically & psychologically
- & his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world the darker things get
- & the closer he gets to terrible danger.. .A gripping elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London
- from the hushed streets of Mayfair to the backstreet pubs of the East End to the bustle of Soho
- The Cuckoo's Calling is a remarkable book. Introducing Cormoran Strike this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.




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Your customers want rock-solid bug-free software that does exactly what they expect it to do. Yet they cant always articulate their ideas clearly enough for you to turn them into code. The Cucumber Book dives straight into the core of the problem: communication between people. Cucumber saves the day; its a testing communication & requirements tool
- all rolled into one. Well show you how to express your customers wild ideas as a set of clear executable specifications that everyone on the team can read. Youll learn how to feed those examples into Cucumber & let it guide your development. Youll build just the right code to keep your customers happy & not a line more. The first part of the book teaches you how to use the core features of Cucumber. Youll learn how to use Cucumbers Gherkin DSL to describe-- in plain language
- the behavior your customers want from the system. Youll learn how to write Ruby code that interprets those plain language specifications & checks them against your application. In Part 2 youll consolidate the knowledge you just gained with a worked example. Although it was born in the Ruby community you can use Cucumber to test almost any system from a simple shell script or a Perl script to enterprise PHP or a Java web application. In Part 3 youll find a selection of recipes for some of the most common situations youll encounter using Cucumber in the wild. Youll learn how to test Ajax-heavy web applications with Capybara & Selenium REST web services Ruby on Rails applications comm&-line applications legacy applications & lots more! Written by the creator of Cucumber & one of its most experienced users & contributors The Cucumber Book is an authoritative guide that will give you & your team all the knowledge you need to start using Cucumber with complete confidence. What You Need: Windows Mac OS X (with XCode) or Linux Ruby 1.9.2 & upwards

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You can test just about anything with Cucumber. We certainly have & in Cucumber Recipes well show you how to apply our hard-won field experience to your own projects. Once youve mastered the basics this book will show you how to get the most out of Cucumber--from specific situations to advanced test-writing advice. With over forty practical recipes youll test desktop web mobile & server applications across a variety of platforms. This book gives you tools that you can use today to automate any system that you encounter & do it well. The Cucumber Book showed you how your team can work together to write executable specifications--documents that tell a clear story & also happen to be working test code. Well arm you with ready-rolled solutions to real-world problems: your tests will run faster read more clearly & work in any environment. Our first tips will help you fit Cucumber into your workflow. Powerful filters will tame tables full of test data transforming them into the format your application needs. Custom output formatters will generate reports for any occasion. Continuous Integration servers will run your Cucumber tests every time the code changes. Next youll find recipes tailored to the platform youre running on. Ever wanted to know how to test a Grails app from Cucumber? Need to put a Windows program through its paces? How about a mobile app running on Android or i OS? Well show you how to do all of these. Throughout the book youll see how to make Cucumber sing as you interoperate with different platforms languages & environments. From embedded circuits to Python & PHP web apps Cucumber has something for you. What You Need: Youll need basic working knowledge of Cucumber & Ruby. Individual recipes may have additional requirements; for example a recipe on Windows automation might pull in an open source GUI driver. Weve written the recipes for compatibility with Ruby 1.9.3 & 1.8.7 plus Cucumber 1.1.4. Other versions may work as well but these are the ones we test with. ...

Spot all the cuddly friends around the home in this fun & interactive book. The chunky index tabs make it easy to turn the pages & the shiny finish on every page is sure to engage little ones. A fun & interactive early learning book. With chunky tabs & a shiny finish on every page for children to touch & explore Children will love joining in with the catchy rhyming text ...