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 ...

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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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." ...

From Amara Dulcis to Yarrow All-Heal to Vipers Bugloss Culpepers Complete Herbal & English Physician Enlarged offers remedies for all ills known to Seventeenth century society. Together with the alphabetical section on herbs their provenance & properties there is The English Physician & Family Dispensary which provides an astrologo-physical discourse of the human virtues in the body of man. Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) studied at Cambridge & became an apothecary physician & astrologer in London. Whilst only the imprudent would follow his dictates today without question the Herbal remains a fascinating historical treatise & stands as a monument to botanical & medical science. ...

No this isnt a book about joining some fringe cult. Its a book by LEGO (r) fans for LEGO fans & you & your kids will love it. In The Cult of LEGO Wireds Geek Dad blogger John Baichtal & Brick Journal founder Joe Meno take you on a magnificent illustrated tour of the LEGO community its people & their creations. The Cult of LEGO introduces us to fans & builders from all walks of life. People like professional LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya; enigmatic Dutch painter Ego Leonard (who maintains that he is in fact a LEGO minifig); Angus Mac Lane a Pixar animator who builds Cube Dudes instantly recognizable likenesses of fictional characters; Brick Testament creator Brendan Powell Smith who uses LEGO to illustrate biblical stories; & Henry Lim whose work

Includes:: a series of models recreating M.C. Escher lithographs & a full-scale functioning LEGO harpsichord. Marvel at spectacular LEGO creations like: * A life-sized Stegosaurus & an 80 000-brick T. Rex skeleton * Detailed microscale versions of landmarks like the Acropolis & Yankee Stadium * A 22-foot long 350-pound re-creation of the World War II battleship Yamato * A robotic giant chess set that can replay historical matches or take on an opponent * A three-level remote-controlled Jawa Sandcrawler complete with moving conveyor belt Whether youre a card-carrying LEGO fanatic or just thinking fondly about that dusty box of LEGO in storage The Cult of LEGO will inspire you to take out your bricks & build something amazing. Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award IPPY" for Pop Culture Silver Medal 2012 Fore Word Book of the Year Awards for Crafts & Hobbies Grand Prize 2012 San Francisco Book Festival Selected for the Communication Arts 2012 Design Annual Praise for The Cult of LEGO "I defy you to read & admire this book & not want to doodle with some bricks by the time youre done." -Gareth Branwyn online editor-in-chief MAKE Magazine " This fascinating look at the world of devoted LEGO fans deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone whos ever played with LEGO bricks." -Chris Anderson editor-in-chief Wired "A crazy fun read from cover to cover this book deserves a special spot on the bookshelf of any self-respecting nerd." -Jake Mc Kee former global community manager the LEGO Group " An excellent book & a must have for any LEGO enthusiast out there. The pictures are awesome!" -Ulrik Pilegaard author of Forbidden LEGO " Were all members of the Cult of LEGO-the only membership requirement is clicking two pieces of plastic together & wanting to click more. Now we have a book that justifies our obsession." -James Floyd Kelly blogger for Geek Dad.com & The NXTStep.com"

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