Knoblies

With so many different people out to get him for the crime of just being himself, sixteen year old Rob McDonald does what he and his mother have always done - they run. Abandoning his best friend, Kevin, and also the beautiful April, who has only just recently acknowledged his existence, they leave their settled life on the coast and head for the hills. A broken promise sees them stranded, out of money and petrol, in a sleepy little town. How will Rob and his mother survive? What unexpected life-changing gift does he receive? And what compels him to risk entering a property where the owner threatens to shoot him, only for him to make a remarkable discovery inside? Re-united with his nerdy friend, Kevin, Rob learns to ride the rocky, sometimes dangerous, terrain of his new life, where the risk-taking skills he uses to outrun and outsmart his enemies become the same skills that just might help him become a world champion mountain biker, and start him on the long exhilarating journey towards dreaming the impossible.

In this jolly little gem of a cookery book, Miss Hope and Mr Greenwood offer 50 of their most delectable sweet recipes - delights such as toffee and fudge, coconut ice, gums, jellies, nougat and, of course, perfect hand-made chocolates. Like the confectionery they sell in their shops, everything in the book will recommend the use of the best ingredients, including fresh cream, butter and natural vanilla, and never use artificial flavours. You will also be treated to a delicious array of sweet stories, historical anecdotes and scandal which are guaranteed to make you chuckle. Exquisitely designed and lavishly photographed, Life is Sweet will tap into the current nostalgia for the confectionery we remember from our childhood and allow us to indulge our sweet tooth to the full.

This book features a collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Communication (ICICC 2020) organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru, India, on 18–20 September 2020. The book is organized in two volumes and discusses advanced and multi-disciplinary research regarding the design of smart computing and informatics. It focuses on innovation paradigms in system knowledge, intelligence and sustainability that can be applied to provide practical solutions to a number of problems in society, the environment and industry. Further, the book also addresses the deployment of emerging computational and knowledge transfer approaches, optimizing solutions in various disciplines of science, technology and health care.