Keep your enemies close your family less so... Last year Nat found herself with nowhere to live. She considered sleeping on the bus & washing in the rain but inevitably ended up on her parents doorstep. It was only for a month she assured them if that. She repeated this phrase a lot over the next six months while the housing market stagnated like a spoilt kids fish tank & her life followed suit. While her friends pursued normal adult lives Nat was taking packed lunches to gigs & being treated to lectures on Why Its Nice When All The Tins Face Forwards In The Cupboard. (So we can see what they all are at a glance!) Nat wouldnt say she & those like her were the real victims of the recession but it would be nice if you did. Then she would do a tiny brave smile. A book for anyone whos been forced back to the family nest parents who cant shake off their adult kids or anyone whos ever excused themselves from a family gathering for a quick scream into a pile of towels. ...

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. ...

Dudley is so lovely & cuddly that his brothers & sisters just can't leave him alone
- even when he wants some time to himself.
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Fleeing from the evil Sir Philip Morton Peter Brownrigg finds himself on the wrong side of the law. On the run to London he meets Kit & the two decide to stick together. But a chance discovery endangers their lives & soon Peter is deep in murderous plots secrets & even treason. Set in the turbulent days of Elizabeth I this classic story of danger & intrigue conjures up a world of mystery twists & turns & thrilling action. ...

Salami goulash marmalade-filled crepes & many other specialities: this is the best of Hungarian cuisine! From hearty casseroles meat dishes & sweet baked goods all the way to the most exquisite culinary pleasures the Danube Republic has to offer Hungarian cooking offers a wealth of possibilities. The richness of the countrys culinary palette is no accident: the Orient & the Occident are combined in many typical Hungarian recipes that inspire gourmets to wax lyrical about the wonders of Hungarian cuisine. This volume is far more than just a cookbook however. Commentaries describe the tradition of Hungarian wine culture introduce Tokaj the king of Hungarian wines & relate the fiery history of the pepper. The texts range across the wide plains of the puszta the cosmopolitan Danubian metropolis Budapest & the Hungarian landscape with its sandy plains mountains & wild romantic forests. Colourful pictures invite readers to participate in a peasant wedding as well as Easter & Christmas feasts & to try the refined recipes for themselves. ...

Behind the new & modern design of this unique cookbook lies a world of culinary pleasure that will carry you off to the regions of sunny Spain. The scent of ripe oranges mouth-watering lamb stew fresh crawfish or the bouquet of a fruity red wine are characteristic of the countrys diversity with its unique variety of landscapes & regions that have much more to offer than just paella & sangria. A beautiful book that is as diverse & tasteful as a table lavishly laden with delicious tapas. ...

In Culinary Artistry... Dornenburg & Page provide food & flavor pairings as a kind of steppingstone for the recipe-dependent cook... Their hope is that once you know the scales you will be able to compose a symphony."a Molly O' Neil in The New York Times Magazine. For anyone who believes in the potential for artistry in the realm of food Culinary Artistry is a must-read. This is the first book to examine the creative process of culinary composition as it explores the intersection of food imagination & taste. Through interviews with more than 30 of America's leading chefsa including Rick Bayless Daniel Boulud Gray Kunz Jean-Louis Palladin Jeremiah Tower & Alice Watersa the authors reveal what defines "culinary artists " how & where they find their inspiration & how they translate that vision to the plate. Through recipes & reminiscences chefs discuss how they select & pair ingredients & how flavors are combined into dishes dishes into menus & menus into bodies of work that eventually comprise their cuisines." ...