Gail Anderson-Dargatz Bücher

Ein langer, heißer Sommer geht zu Ende: Waldbrände bedrohen das von Hügeln umschlossene Tal, Vögel fliegen panisch gegen die Fensterscheiben, buttergelbe Schmetterlinge umschwirren das Haus. Frustriert von einer Ehe, die durch die Krankheit ihres Partners auf den Prüfstand gestellt wird, kehrt Kat an den Ort ihrer Kindheit zurück. Fieberhaft wühlt sie in alten Erinnerungen, während sich das Feuer unaufhaltsam auf das Haus zubewegt. Und inmitten von verblichenen Fotos, verstaubten Büchern und vergessenen Träumen stößt sie auf ein sorgsam gehütetes Familiengeheimnis.

Auf einer Farm in British Columbia lebt die 15jährige Beth Weeks. Trotz harter Arbeit, Isolation und Angst vor sichtbaren und unsichtbaren Verfolgern bleibt sie empfänglich für die Wunder der Natur und die Schönheiten des Lebens. Dieser erste Roman einer jungen kanadischen Autorin spielt in der Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs.

The book explores the intersection of biological factors with social, psychological, and environmental influences on criminal behavior. It presents updated research and studies that examine how biological perspectives can be integrated with mainstream theories of criminality, providing a comprehensive understanding of the complexities behind criminal behavior.

A complete introduction for beginners to Sun's powerful JavaFX scripting language JavaFX is a scripting language which provides built-in properties for manipulating objects within a 2D coordinate system. A competing technology to Microsoft's Silverlight, JavaFX provides the tools to fill and pen stroke colors, and create special effects, shapes and lines. It also manipulates images and play videos and sound and defines animations that affect objects over time. This complete introduction for any level doesn't bury you with details. It starts quickly with an introduction to the power of JavaFX key features--scene node graphs, nodes as components, the coordinate system, layout options, colors and gradients, custom classes with inheritance, animation, binding, and event handlers. It then shows step-by-step how these features could be used in a real JavaFX application and will help an application look

Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts from letterpress to slab serifs and beyond play in contemporary graphic design.Written and compiled by the worlds leading graphic-design historian, the book provides hundreds of examples, as well as informed texts that will entertain, edify and inspire a new generation of students and practitioners to appreciate that the past contains typographic riches for the future.

Thirteen-year-old Mark navigates the challenges of adjusting to life in a small town while living with his grandmother. The story captures his experiences, including the long school bus rides that become a backdrop for his personal growth and new friendships. This engaging narrative is tailored for middle readers, offering relatable themes of adaptation and resilience.

In-depth study of the C shell as a command interpreter and the gateway to other programs and utilities running under UNIX.

National Bestseller If the man you love went missing, how far would you go to find him? Someone is watching Piper, and she thinks she knows who it is: the bushman. But there's more than one danger lurking in this temperate rainforest. Poachers are taking down old growth trees and jeopardizing plans for a park, a project Piper is passionate about. When she pressures her husband, Ben, a natural resources officer, to identify the culprits, he takes his drone into the wilderness to track them down. And then, just as a snowstorm hits, he goes missing. Refusing to believe her husband is gone, Piper begins a desperate search for him, one that continues long after the rescue team has given up. But as she begins to uncover what really happened to Ben, Piper is pursued by a stalker who may have taken her husband's life and now threatens to take hers.

This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good design. Broken into sections covering the fundamental elements of design, key works by acclaimed designers serve to illustrate technical points and encourage readers to try out new ideas. Themes covered include form, narrative, color, type and image, ornament, simplicity, and wit and humour. The result is an instantly accessible and easy to understand guide to graphic design using professional techniques.