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Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every engineering manager should know. With ninety-seven short and extremely useful tips for engineering managers, you'll discover new approaches to old problems, pick up road-tested best practices, and hone your management skills through sound advice.

We have learned how to suppress our pain and deny its presence, but when we fight against our internal turmoil, glimmers of peace are short-lived. Rejecting our suffering is not a sustainable solution because trauma is held in the body. In this book, Nityda Gessel invites listeners on a journey toward lasting freedom, with insights and experiential practices that marry the wisdom of Buddhist psychology, yogic teachings, and Indigenous understanding with somatic psychotherapy and neuroscience.

She's looking to rebel, to tarnish her naïve "good girl" image. Lucky for her, I deal in sex. Whatever your fantasy, I deliver. Voyeurism. Threesomes. A little slap and tickle . . . If it's your kink, I can fulfill it. So yeah, life is good. Simple. Until she enters my club. Still . . . It's just sex. Our little secret. For now . . .

"This book is about Black girl magick, queer girl magick, straight girl magick, trans magick, bisexual magick. This book is about giving yourself the power to be fierce . . . Black women are Hierophants, Magicians, Empresses, and High Priestesses."—Mawiyah Kai El-Jamah Bomani Authentic and...

It's been five years since I've seen her. Five years since Gabriella James damn near destroyed me with her betrayal, sending me to hell in a cage. I've crawled free, escaped the mob, opened a night club, and continue to battle my demons through underground fighting and sex. But now Gabriella's back, begging for absolution, wanting my forgiveness. All I want is what she's denied me for all these years—her body. Sex. That's all we'll ever have. Because Gabriella is still keeping secrets. I see it in her eyes. I'll never forgive her betrayal. But that won't stop me from taking her.

Tahli and Vin fell in love one summer and their story began. Through personal growth, love guided them. Watered by kisses, battered by storms, petals died off and grew again. Bent, twisted, and strengthened through adversities as love often faces . . . as one, they flourished. The flower turns...

I know what they say. Grief makes you do things. After the year I've had, I'm bathing in it. Dad's dead. Mom is...mom. My boyfriend and best friend are too busy screwing to comfort me. When a letter arrives with no return address telling me where to go for a new start, I don't hesitate. I pack some clothes and what's left of my life and run. But I didn't expect the fire waiting for me when I arrived. I didn't count on the burn. Rowdy Wray. They call him the lion of Idlewild. Me...I call him boss. He's the key to my past and the path to my future. What happens next is our twisted secret.

Crulden the Ruiner is the most dangerous gladiator in the galaxy. I'm his clone—equally ugly, equally dangerous, and just as feared. I'm also being held captive, since no one trusts a creature like me to be let loose. A curvy, determined human named Bee doesn't think I'm a creature, though. In fact, she thinks I just need a guide. She's got half the males on this planet eating out of her hand, and she's confident she can do the same with me. The managing little female has no idea what she's in for. 

They say the first love is the truest. If you can hold on to it, do. For the others after will be different. Watered down versions tainted with your insecurities, their fears, each other's pride. Promises not to make the same mistakes twice, entering as a slightly altered version of yourself...

Imagine one day you're happily preparing for the birth of your first child with your fiancée, then BOOM, in a blink of an eye, everything changes. That is Zachary's reality. For almost two years, his fiancée has disappeared after a terrible accident. Without knowing where she is or if she survived, Zachary is left in a mental terminal within his mind until one day, his fiancée returns. But there's only one problem: she doesn't remember him or the life they once shared. Find out if Zachary can rekindle the love and memories he and his fiancée once shared.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose. Sariah Thornton, a beauty industry mogul, dedicated herself to her brand and jet-setting around the world. Life hands her a lemon when her father's passing bequeaths her ownership of a basketball team. She knows nothing about basketball and even less...

JaRue Malone is a single mother who simply tries to make ends meet. The father of her eighteen-month-old daughter, Infiniti, refuses to help take care simply because JaRue won't play by his rules. With the help of her best friend, Journei, and her bosses, Knasim and Knight Richmond, she's able...

Delano “Del” Greer plays by the rules at all times. Especially after a scandal ruined his career at the police department and threatened to destroy his family’s reputation in his hometown of Providence. Now, he’s focused on establishing Game Changers as a reputable sports bar. Once a...

One time is chance. Two times is coincidence. Three times is . . . Laila Eden is focused. Focused on her career, on her friends, and on herself. Everything except the man she somehow keeps crossing paths with. She isn't interested in anything with him, or so she tells herself, but even with her...

Jaeda Dillinger isn’t so lucky when it comes to love. Between running her family's covert operations and being the timid, shy and quiet one of a rowdy bunch, she’s convinced romance just isn’t in the cards for her. But when a tech breach threatens her most secure files, Jaeda shifts into full-on defense mode—only to discover the hacker isn’t some faceless enemy, but a quiet, brilliant man who just might be everything she didn’t know she needed.

Juke's a problem in and out the ring—silent, savage, and undefeated. His rivalry with Boom runs deeper than boxing, rooted in the streets and personal history. So when he offers to help the DeLucas with a situation involving their cousin Sophi, it's just something to keep his hands busy. He's not looking to play hero…just keep an eye out…lie low, and handle business if it comes to that.

They say the first love is the truest. If you can hold on to it, do. For the others after will be different. Watered down versions tainted with your insecurities, their fears, each other's pride. Promises not to make the same mistakes twice, entering as a slightly altered version of yourself...

Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim-displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the 'hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S., as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities.

I've had a full life: wife, mom, divorcee . . . and then alien property. All of that's changing now that I'm on the ice planet. Here, I'm free again, and I've found love once more. Vaza's older and a widower, but he knows how to make a woman smile both in the furs and out of them. Everyone around me has a baby in their arms or in their belly, though, and it's hard to be the only one without. I love nothing more than being a mama . . . and when I hear there's an orphan at the Icehome camp, I want to adopt him. Vaza and I have so much love to give, but will an alien baby love us back?

Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought with them to the Americas was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu, as Sylviane A. Diouf demonstrates in this meticulously researched, groundbreaking volume, Islam flourished during slavery on a large scale.