Software development can go in many different directions... ICONIX Process has a long track record of helping companies avoid analysis paralysis on a multitude of projects, and is best suited for developing web and GUI-based systems. But what if your project has some other complexities? What if you're modeling business processes, or developing with web services, or designing an embedded hardware/software system? Answer: Use one (or more) of the process roadmaps in this book! This book contains a treasure-trove of tailored roadmaps, proven on demanding real-life projects: Business Process Modeling; Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) web service orchestration with BPMN/BPEL; Embedded hardware/software systems designed with SysML; Design Driven Testing of SysML Models; and Algorithmically complex systems. This book will guide you through these roadmaps, illustrating their use by example. From the author of "Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML".

Iconix Process Roadmaps: Step-By-Step Guidance for Soa, Embedded, and Algorithm-Intensive Systems

Computers & Technology

Rosenberg, Doug

Computer Science

Fingerpress

Nazi-occupied Aquitaine, 1943: A beautiful young woman is found murdered in the shadow of the Bergerac Prefecture. Auguste Ran, Assistant Chief of Police, suspects Brunner, a German Security Police Major, of the crime. The more Auguste investigates, the more obsessed he becomes with bringing down the seemingly untouchable Brunner. Auguste begins to realise he has been conveniently ignoring the Nazi atrocities going on around him, and understands too late the human cost of his own participation in the internment of the local Jewish population. Driven by conscience and struggling with his Catholic religious beliefs, his actions start to put his own family at risk. Harbouring the daughter of his lifelong Jewish friend Pierre, they are forced into a desperate trek towards neighbouring Switzerland, pursued all the way by the German Sicherheitspolizei. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Fred Nath is a full time neurosurgeon. He lives in the northeast of England with his wife and daughter, his three sons having grown up and flown the coop. In his time, he has run twenty consecutive Great North Run half-marathons, trekked to 6000m in Nepal, crossed the highest mountain pass in the world and began writing, like John Buchan, "because he ran out of penny-novels to read and felt he should write his own." Fred loves a good story, which is why he writes.

The Cyclist

Literature & Fiction

Nath, Fred

Action & Adventure

"Quirky and funny and heartfelt and rich" -Ft. Myers News-Press "A compulsively readable mixture of fast-paced plot, likable protagonist, and subtly deep theme." -Magdalena Ball, CompulsiveReader.com "Highly entertaining, often thoughtful, and strategically humorous" -Ft. Myers &amp; Southwest Florida Magazine In the hazy Florida sunshine, it felt like a great idea... ... move in across the street from his ex-wife and young daughter, to try and win them both back. At first, all that comes between them is the speeding tourist trolley which sends unsuspecting suburbanites diving for safety. But assorted trials quickly multiply for Gibb Chapman: his mother keeps stealing cars to get his attention; an angry religious group is picketing his house; and a misplaced boot gives his crumbling roof an unplanned skylight. But all Gibb wants is to win back the love of his life by proving that he has never stopped adoring her. Magic And Grace is a lively and life-affirming tale of self discovery set against the backdrop of a beachside holiday town in Florida.

Magic and Grace

Hautmann, Chad

Genre Fiction

*** Author Fredrik Nath was 'highly commended' in the Yeovil Literary Prize for his novel "Galdir: A Slave's Tale". *** Nazi-occupied Aquitaine, 1943: François Dufy, alcoholic and alone, is dragged into the war effort when he rescues a young Jewish girl from the Nazi Security Police. She breathes life into his world and gives him a reason to go on. Dufy begins a path of revenge on the occupying Germans. A sniper in the Great War, he uses his skills to devastating effect, always posing as the town drunk. Then the British drop supplies and a beautiful SOE agent whom Dufy falls in love with. But as the invaders hunt down the partisans in the deep, crisp woodland, nothing works out as Dufy had hoped. 'Farewell Bergerac' is an unforgettable wartime tale of fragile love, loss and redemption.

Farewell Bergerac

Nath, Fredrik

Inspired by a true story, Francesca Pascal is a compelling World War II adventure from the bestselling author of Farewell Bergerac, The Cyclist and Galdir: A Slave's Tale. France, 1942: A Nazi Officer steals a Matisse painting which becomes a symbol of freedom against the oppressors. Francesca, an artist and conservator, grieving over the death of her daughter at the hands of German soldiers, flees Paris. She has only a handful of paintings and a desire for revenge she is ill-equipped to pursue. In the long hard winter that follows, she joins a group of Partisans in their battle to free France and salvage her culture. She becomes embroiled in a plot to recover Le Mur Rose, the stolen painting. The painting becomes her reason for fighting and an opportunity for revenge upon the occupying force - a force for evil. Francesca Pascal is an unforgettable wartime tale of vengeance, art theft, and intrigue.

Francesca Pascal: A World War II Drama

"Highly Commended" in the Yeovil Literary Prize 2011 A Roman slave with a serpent tattoo uncovers his true barbarian identity... A battle for power among Frankish warlords leads to a mass exodus across the Rhine... All the while, Marcus Aurelius' Roman army pushes further north, changing everything. These seemingly unrelated events meet in a cataclysm that alters the course of history. In the background, the ageing witch Chlotsuintha predicts it all. Or is she the one pulling the strings to shape her people's future? When Sextus escapes Rome with a pocketful of gold and a knife, how could he even have dreamt of what the fates might have in store for him? Pursued by Roman soldiers for the murder of his master, Sextus enlists the help of a retired gladiator, and falls in love with the gladiator's niece. An invading German army drives them further north, where Sextus discovers his true birthright, and his real name - Galdir. He becomes caught up in a bitter feud as one of the heirs of a dead Frankish warlord; but the blood feud must be put aside when the Romans invade and besiege the Frankish capital. 'Galdir' is enthralling Roman fiction - a tale of love, brutal battles and conflict, in which a mystical prophecy winds its way through an epic saga of struggle against Rome, and the consequences of resistance by the Frankish people, its Warlord and its witches. Categories: Roman fiction; historical fiction; action & adventure.

Galdir - A Slave's Tale (Roman Fiction)

History

Europe

"The location is beautiful, the hotel well worth a visit, and the lives of the guests are intriguing... A great read." - Historical Novels Review (May 2011)    "This is a thoroughly enjoyable read and a 'must' for any fan of military aviation." - M Howard Morgan, author of 'First Fleet'    "Beyond the technical details lies a wonderful story with beautifully written characters full of personality and charm." - Raven Dane    "Adventure, excitement, tragedy, romance and engaging characters, this novel has it all." - Susanne O'Leary, author of Fresh Powder    ***    The War is over, but for Marine pilot Jack McGuire, it's only just begun.   Unable to adjust to post-war life, he buys a surplus Navy seaplane and heads for the South Pacific, where he sets up a colonial-style hotel on the island he used to fight over.   But his past soon catches up with him. A parade of war veterans float through the hotel, sending Jack hurtling back into dogfights over the Solomon Islands, as the story of his wartime life unfolds. Then, out of the Pacific blue, he sees the widow of his former wingman Don Wheeler, who was shot down in action. No-one even knew that womanizing fighter pilot Don had a wife, and her arrival in Jack's life changes everything.    Tulagi Hotel is a gripping tale that weaves the protagonist's war-torn past with his equally turbulent present.

Tulagi Hotel: A World War II Romance

Hietala, Heikki

A dark tale of Celtic mysticism, grief and battle. Although Galdir regards himself as a free man, he is still enslaved by his past - and his future. Unable to throw off the yoke of prediction, embittered by the defeat of his nation which has been annexed by Rome, and forced to serve the Roman Emperor as an auxiliary commander of cavalry on Hadrian's Wall, he faces increasingly fierce attacks from hostile Celtic tribes north of the Wall. But in Galdir's volatile world such a precarious situation could never last for long. "Rebel of the North" takes us to a divided nation north of Hadrian's Wall, where Galdir joins forces with Cimbri mercenaries, falls in love with a Celtic Princess, and hears a disturbing prophecy of battle and leadership - a prophecy which foretells of a Germanic warrior who will unite the feuding Northern tribes and drive the seemingly unstoppable Roman forces out of their land. "Rebel of the North" continues the epic tale of Galdir - slave, barbarian, mercenary and Warlord. Categories: Roman fiction; British historical fiction; action & adventure.

Galdir - Rebel of the North (Roman Fiction)

A TALE OF DEADLY CONSPIRACIES, BRUTAL BATTLES AND DIVIDED LOYALTY His life in tatters, the nation over which he presided now annexed by Rome, Galdir returns to the city from which he once escaped as a slave. But this time he's no innocent boy, and he quickly rises to become bodyguard to Emperor Commodus. For in this den of thieves and scoundrels lies Galdir's only hope of persuading the Senate to rescind the Roman fetters that hold his people. But the veteran swordsman becomes caught up in a fight to protect the mad Emperor, and must face his own people in a cataclysmic battle to end all opposition to Rome. 'Protector of Rome' brings the epic tale of Galdir full circle-right back to the city that once enslaved him.

Galdir - Protector of Rome (Roman Fiction)

Not just your garden-variety zombie apocalypse... "It was a week ago when it happened. Exactly a week when I heard the stomping on the front porch. I remember it sounded like someone was drunk. I opened the door and it was my neighbor. She lunged at me." Oz, a former professor driven to the brink of madness by a tragedy he cannot face, begins to notice that the people around him are acting strangely. They're eating each other. And they're scraping at his door. Fleeing south, Oz and a motley crew of survivors begin to notice that this isn't the zombie apocalypse they'd seen in countless movies and books. These creatures seem somehow 'closer' to the Earth, yet, perversely, somehow deader, less human, than even zombies are meant to be. The creatures are transfixed by the Sun, and they transform, their faces peeling back in short tentacles until they uncannily resemble flowers. And these zombies can't be stopped. Hack off a limb or a head and it re-joins or just grows back, like the toughest plants. The Dead have a global leader, a purpose - beyond that of just eating any remaining humans. And the seven survivors, led reluctantly by Oz, discover that they have a central role to play in the macabre new order of 'life' on Earth. Dead Petals is a different species of zombie tale. Apocalypse, Rapture and the transformation of reality, all sprouting from the same seed.

Dead Petals - An Apocalypse

Ortlund, Eric

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