Barbara Davis

Want to spark your little girl's passion in the field of STEM? The exciting world of science and technology is for everyone to explore--careers in STEM welcomes all curious and innovative minds. Brilliant champions, regardless of their gender, were once young dreamers who aimed to know how the world works and its secrets.The responsibility of fostering the interest of little girls in the sciences is a collective effort. Parents, teachers, and communities play a vital role in inspiring young women--whether they want to become scientists or champions of future's technology.Introduce your kid to the exciting world of software engineering with Barbara Davis' Caprice Helps Design the Software Barbara Davis is an author, mother, and an expert in software projects. Her years of experience in the field of computers and information technology taught her that women are more than capable of becoming contributors, pioneers, and leaders of their chosen fields.Caprice uses hercreativity and passion for helping people to design software for a company thatsells fancy juices from around the world to run its stores. From working with a finicky cash register to putting bottles on shelves, Caprice creates more than a little chaos around the store as she learns all thejobs the new software will do. Join Caprice in her adventure as she designs andprograms new software for the store. Let her show your child a world of ingenuity as she solves real-world problems in the field of STEM.In this book, you'll find: ✅ Programming for girls (STEM) activity book✅ Engaging and motivating narrative to encourage little girls to become innovators and pioneers of technology✅ A story about a creative and persevering role model for young women Unleash your child's potential and affinity for science and tech. Add Caprice Helps Design the Software to your cart TODA

From the author of The Wishing Tide comes a stunning new novel about two summers, one journal, and the secrets that can break and open our hearts.... Pragmatic, independent Lily St. Claire has never been a beachgoer. But when her late father leaves her a small house on Hideaway Key--one neither her mother nor she knew he owned--she's determined to visit the sleepy spit of land along Florida's Gulf Coast. Expecting a quaint cottage, Lily instead finds a bungalow with peeling shutters and mountains of memorabilia. She also catches a glimpse of the architect who lives down the beach.... But it's the carton of old journals in the front room that she finds most intriguing. The journals were written by her mother's sister, an infamous beauty whose name has long been banned from the St. Claire home. The journals tell a family tale Lily has never heard, of her mother and her aunt as young girls in Tennessee and the secrets that followed them into adulthood. As she reads, Lily gains a new understanding: about her family and about herself. And she begins to open her heart--to this place, these people, and the man next door. But can she ever truly learn to trust, to believe that love is not a trap but a harbor? And is it true that hearts, even broken ones, can be forged anew?

From the acclaimed author of When Never Comes comes a novel about the pull of the past and the power of love. As offseason begins on the Outer Banks, a storm makes landfall, and three unlikely strangers are drawn together... Five years ago, Lane Kramer moved to Starry Point, North Carolina, certain the quaint island village was the place to start anew. Now the owner of a charming seaside inn, she's set aside her dreams of being a novelist and of finding love again. When English professor Michael Forrester appears on Lane's doorstep in the middle of a storm, he claims he's only seeking a quiet place to write his book. Yet he seems eerily familiar with the island, leaving Lane wondering if he is quite what he appears. Meanwhile, Mary Quinn has become a common sight, appearing each morning on the dunes behind the inn, to stare wistfully out to sea. Lane is surprised to find a friendship developing with the older woman, who possesses a unique brand of wisdom, despite her tenuous grip on reality. As Lane slowly unravels Mary's story and a fragile relationship between Lane and Michael blooms, Lane realizes the three share a common bond. But when a decades-old secret suddenly casts its shadow over them, Lane must choose between protecting her heart and fighting for the life--and the love--she wants. Conversation Guide Included

Every year technology projects face hard decisions about how to mitigate risk and address challenges as teams work on creating useful solutions to deliver promised business value. Those decisions impact scope at every step and help to evolve it until the final product is delivered and implemented. Scope can longer be set in stone!This book will help project teams understand how and when scope changes and evolves as a part of a living-development process by answering the ultimate question: ""Are we doing the right things the right way?"" Going Beyond the Waterfall explains how to define scope at the outset of a project. It provides a solid model for predicting and managing solution scope across a project life cycle where the decisions and actions of every team member contribute to that evolutionary process. In addition, it identifies the impacts that key tasks and activities will have on scope and how each can be managed effectively to prevent unnecessary scope creep and reduce run-away projects.

When a young woman returns to North Carolina after a thirty-year absence, she finds that the once grand tobacco plantation she called home holds more secrets than she ever imagined. Though Peak Plantation has been in her family for generations, Leslie Nichols can't wait to rid herself of the farm left to her by her estranged grandmother Maggie--and with it the disturbing memories of her mother's death, her father's disgrace, and her unhappy childhood. But Leslie isn't the only one with a claim to Peak. Jay Davenport, Peak's reclusive caretaker, has his own reasons for holding onto the land bequeathed to him by Leslie's grandmother. Before she died, Maggie hinted at a terrible secret surrounding Adele Laveau, a lady's maid who came to Peak during the 1930s and died under mysterious circumstances. Jay is haunted by Maggie's story, yet the truth eludes him--until Leslie uncovers a cryptically marked grave on the property. As they delve into the mystery of Adele's death, Leslie and Jay discover shocking secrets that extend deep into the roots of Leslie's family tree--secrets that have the power to alter her life forever.

This book is a concise step-by-step guide to building and establishing the frameworks and models for the effective management and development of software requirements. It describes what great requirements must look like and who the real audience is for documentation. It then explains how to generate consistent, complete, and accurate requirements in exacting detail following a simple formula across the full life cycle from vague concept to detailed design-ready specifications.Mastering Software Project Requirements will enable business analysts and project managers to decompose high-level solutions into granular requirements and to elevate their performance through due diligence and the use of better techniques to meet the particular needs of a given project without sacrificing quality, scope, or project schedules.

This unique desk reference offers the information, models and guidance needed to plan and deliver complete, end-to-end business analysis services. Its step-by-step approach enables maximum utility of the business analysis (BA) role, development of more complete solutions for meeting the strategic goals of a business, and dramatic and sustainable improvements in project success rates. Managing Business Analysis Services: A Framework for Sustainable Projects and Corporate Strategy Success provides chief information officers, business analysis managers and consultants the information required to maximize the efficiency and productivity of technology projects, obtain higher returns on investment from BA services, reduce operating costs, and increase alignment of products to better serve the company or the client organization.

Ot avtora bestsellerov "Tysjacha svadebnykh platev" i "Poslednjaja iz Lunnykh Dev". 1984 god. Vladelitsa bukinisticheskogo magazina Eshlin Grir obladaet redkim darom: prikasajas k knigam, ona chuvstvuet "ekho" - otgoloski emotsij ikh prezhnikh vladeltsev. Odnazhdy ej v ruki popadajut dva strannykh toma, rasskazyvajuschikh o tragicheskoj ljubvi. Knigi ne imejut nikakikh vykhodnykh dannykh i dazhe imeni avtora. Oni izluchajut silnoe ekho gorja i predatelstva. Zaintrigovannaja Eshlin reshaet popytatsja razgadat tajnu pojavlenija etikh knig na svet. "Svoim poslednim romanom Barbara Devis sdelala prekrasnyj podarok chitateljam, kotorye po-nastojaschemu ljubjat knigi". - Dzhulianna Maklin, avtor bestsellera "More lunnogo sveta" Ego vremja na iskhode. Do sikh por Ben Cherch nikogda ne sovershal nichego ekstraordinarnogo. Teper emu nuzhno naverstat upuschennoe, poka on esche mozhet. Ben ostavljaet vse privychnoe pozadi i okazyvaetsja pered svoej ljubimoj kartinoj Leonardo da Vinchi. Vse, chto u nee est - eto vremja. Zhizn Vity Embrouz s neskonchaemymi vecherinkami, rabotoj v galeree Londona i potrjasajuschej odezhdoj vygljadit bezumno glamurno, no na samom dele Vita ne vidit v nej nikakogo smysla. Ona slishkom mnogo perezhila i slishkom mnogoe poterjala. Vot pochemu ona s golovoj ukhodit v izuchenie samoj zagadochnoj kartiny vsej vystavki. Svjaz Bena i Vity neposredstvennaja, spontannaja i strastnaja. No chasiki tikajut. Smogut li oni vmeste zastavit vremja ostanovitsja? Udastsja li im najti sposob sdelat tak, chtoby ikh ljubov zhila vechno? Potomu chto kazhdoe mgnovenie imeet znachenie, osobenno esli ono mozhet stat poslednim... Dlja poklonnikov romanov "Zhena puteshestvennika vo vremeni" Odri Niffenegger, "Do vstrechi s toboj" Dzhodzho Mojes i "Chuzhestranka" Diany Gebldon.

This invaluable resource helps K-3 teachers deal with restless, energetic students including those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The book contains quick movement breaks that can be used between other classroom activities to minimize disruptions and maintain a positive learning environment for all students. The activities, labeled according to appropriate age levels, length of play time, and group size, include shape recognition, stretching and relaxing, pantomime and imagination movements, balancing, and team relays. None of the activities require special skills, and there are enough for every day of the school year.

This book describes short movement breaks that can be used between other classroom activities to channel energy and maintain a positive learning environment for all students. The book begins with activities for developing motor skills and alphabet recognition and moves through progressively more complex skills. Contents include stretching and relaxing movements, shaking and awaking movements, pantomime and imagination movements and more complex movement games, including improvisation, rhythm and clapping, balancing and team relays. All activities are marked according to appropriate age levels, length of playtime and group size. No activity requires special skills and there are enough for every day of the school year.