Amanda: 3099 books

Have you been set the task of running the recruitment process to fill a job, but you're not sure where to start? This guide is written for the occasional recruiter - the small business owner, or the manager delegated with the task of 'sorting it out'. All too often this incredibly important exercise...

“We have fun and we enjoy each other’s company, so why shouldn’t we just move in together?”—Lauren, from Cohabitation Nation Living together is a typical romantic rite of passage in the United States today. In fact, census data shows a 37 percent increase in couples who choose to...

Building on both cutting-edge research and professional learning practice, Amanda Datnow and Vicki Park explore how professional collaboration can support deeper learning for students and teachers alike. While many schools and systems support teacher collaboration, they often fall short of their intended...

The decision to have a child is seldom a simple one, often fraught with complexities regarding emotional readiness, finances, marital status, and compatibility with life and career goals. Rarely, though, do individuals consider the role of the law in facilitating or inhibiting their ability to have...

Feature engineering is a crucial step in the machine-learning pipeline, yet this topic is rarely examined on its own. With this practical book, you’ll learn techniques for extracting and transforming features—the numeric representations of raw data—into formats for machine-learning models. Each...

Working on an offshore drilling rig is something most people will never get to experience in their lifetime. It is like no other workplace in the world and only those who have worked offshore can appreciate the diversity of people, cultures and roles that are represented in their remote “office”.Offshore...

"Ashley should be on your must-buy list." --RT Book Reviews "A master of her craft." --Maggie Shayne For beautiful heiress Sheree West, vampires are more than a fantasy. They are an obsession. Night after night, she dresses in black and immerses herself in L.A.'s...

‘That’s what it all hinged on, what was the Scarecrow really?’ In the Fallout Fields of Deathdefy a towering scarecrow watches over the town. Ray is the son of the strict Marshall who keeps everyone in line and makes sure they are all out of the way for the Scarecrow’s toxic nightly fog. Ray watches as the townsfolk begin to resent their hard life and its enforcer: the Scarecrow.

Roxanne didn't know what to expect when she started her new school. However, what she didn't expect was a new boyfriend. Luke was gorgeous but came with baggage, otherwise known as the Elites. Why did they worry her so much? She will soon discover that the Elites are a secret coven of witches. Roxanne...

Gwen has finally found a way to make both lives work. The love she never knew could exist has found her, and happily ever is around the corner. Until the call comes in. Everything quickly unravels when Gwen is assigned to spy on Christopher Black. Mission details include collecting intel and getting...

In The Still Of The Night The city is in a panic. In the still of the night, a vicious killer is leaving a trail of mutilated bodies drained of blood. A chilling M.O. that puts ex-vampire hunter Regan Delaney on the case, her gun clip packed with silver bullets, her instincts edgy. But the...

Georgina di Amanda Mariel Georgina deve fare la sua scommessa: aprire di nuovo il suo cuore o rischiare di perdere tutto. Una donna determinata... Spericolata e senza freni, Lady Georgina Seton ha un piano per il suo futuro. Mossa dal dolore di una delusione d'amore farà qualunque...

Save the princess. Save the world. Charlie knew it would be one of those days. Saturdays were always crowded at the mall's virtual reality arcade, but she never imagined it would end in being kidnapped by fairies and bitten by a vampire. A pair of mischievous pixies have decided that...

Erisín is a haunted city, and her specters are hungry. When demons prowl the streets of Oldtown, preying on the poor and the weak, a young actor must face the ghosts of his past and of his family to protect his new home.