The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked her way thro...

This bestselling guide has already helped over a million people find a fulfilling career—and now it’s your turn!Finding a job that you’re passionate about can be incredibly difficult … but it doesn’t have to be! With Do What You Are—fully revised and updated for today’s workforce—you’ll utilize your personality type to find your ideal career path.With the global economy’s ups and downs, the advent of astonishing new technologies, and the migration ...

Bestselling Programming Tutorial and Reference Completely Rewritten for the New C++11 StandardFully updated and recast for the newly released C++11 standard, this authoritative and comprehensive introduction to C++ will help you to learn the language fast, and to use it in modern, highly effective ways. Highlighting today’s best practices, the authors show how to use both the core language and its standard library to write efficient, readable, and powerful code.

An English orphan's psychic ability launches her into a shadowy world of intrigue and danger in this gothic romance by a New York Times bestseller.A penniless yet strikingly beautiful orphan, Marianne Ransom's indomitable spirit enables her to survive a cruel life on the backstreets of Victorian London. But it is her gift of second sight that carries her into the world of money and privilege—a power brought on by a strange twist of fate. In the opulent home...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Resolution is uplifting in its messages of self-acceptance, self-confidence, and self-awareness. It is a fun and inspirational book for the classic New Year's resolution season and all year.Everyone makes resolutions—for New Year's, for big birthdays, for new school years. In fact, most of us are so good at resolutions that we make the same ones year after year. This collection of great true stories covers topics such as losin...

Years ago, Captain Jack Endicott's half-sister vanished after a carriage accident. He now sets out to honor his father's dying wish and find her. Jack plans to open a lavish gaming parlor and hire only beautiful ladies to deal cards, possibly finding his sister. All he needs is a little luck. Instead he finds prim schoolteacher Allie Silver, who needs a guardian for one of her most precocious pupils. With such an unlikely duo, all bets are off in a wild game of romance.

"Barbara Freethy is one of my favorite authors! She creates amazing characters and stories, with a lot of love, friendship and mystery that make her books always very, very good." Cinthia - GoodreadsMolly Trent is an adventurous, free spirit whose turbulent childhood has driven her to a new mission in life—to make people feel better. Unfortunately, a series of burglaries at her wellness shop puts her in the path of a cynical and suspicious detective, who t...

For fans of Chanel Cleeton’s Next Year in Havana, a real-life story of how a young woman’s five-day trip to Cuba, her mother’s birthplace, completely changed her view of herself as a second-generation American.When Barbara Caver was growing up in South Carolina, her Cuban roots were as mysterious as the embargoed island her mother had been born on but left in 1959. For Barbara, Cuba represented a heritage that she’d never understood and couldn’t fully embr...

Harlequin® Romance brings you four new titles for one great price, available now! Experience the rush of falling in love! This Harlequin® Romance box set includes:WINTER WEDDING FOR THE PRINCE Royal House of Corinthiaby Barbara WallaceCrown Prince Armando enlists royal assistant Rosa Lamberti to help him find a suitable wife, but a surprise kiss under the mistletoe awakens feelings he thought long buried! Rosa is shocked to realize she yearns...

BROODING BILLIONAIRE, IMPOVERISHED PRINCESSBillionaire Alex Matthews has set his sights on ‘ice’ Princess Serina of Montevel – and, before long, she can feel her heart begin to thaw! But this mysterious Prince Charming may have won her under false pretences…BEAUTY AND THE BILLIONAIREBillionaire Hunter Osland’s steamy one-night stand has just become his employee. Sinclair may be keen to stay professional, but the chemistry is undeniable… and Hunter’s determined to se...

A novelette in the Winterlands series, 18,000 words. John Aversin and Jenny Waynest are summoned by a succession of hideous prophetic dreams about a monster... only there's no monster in sight when they reach the targeted realm of Teruvar. And, moreover, there's supposedly a supernatural Guardian there already to prevent such things... So in that case, reasons John, why expend all that energy calling us? And what do those dreams have to do with the ancient legends of the Night Gods, or the...

All of London knows the story of the vanished Lady Charlotte Endicott and the handsome reward that will accompany her safe return. Scores of blond-haired, blue-eyed impostors have tried their luck at Jack Endicott's casino claiming to be the girl, only to be turned away-but Queenie Dennis just might be the one. Fate takes a turn when she returns to London posing as a dressmaker fresh from France. Queenie quickly becomes the talk of the town, catching the eye of the handsome Lord Harkness. ...