Product Description: The Thrive in Bioscience revision guides are written to help students achieve exam success in all core areas of bioscience.Each title encourages the reader to follow four steps to maximise their learning, with features to support this process...read more

Product Description: When it comes to personal finance, the rules may have changed, but the time-tested principles of sound personal financial management haven't. Those starting out on their paths to financial security just need to learn them better and apply them earlier than ever before - ideally, right from the start...read more

Product Description: Veteran political analyst, Chris Smith, hones in on the inner thoughts of the Birther Movement. Smith bases his findings on the "facts" so often cited by the Birthers. This book of Shocking Revelations is one hundred fifty empty pages...read more

Product Description: Learn all the juicy details and quirky facts about Americans that the official U.S. Census fails to report.On April 1, 2011, the Official 2010 U.S. Census Report will be released. On that same day, The Unofficial U.S. Census will shed light (and a bit of laughter) on all the other facts that Americans are itching to know about our country and each other...read more

Product Description: Global Japaniziation? Brings together research from North America, Japan, Europe and Latin America to analyse the influence of Japanese manufacturing investment and Japanese working practices across the global economy. The editors present original case studies of work reorganization and workers’ experiences within both Japanese companies and those of their competitors in diverse sectors and national settings...read more

Product Description: Can you turn an ordinary bag of potato chips into a fireworks display? Make a toaster power a hot air balloon? Turn rice into quicksand? With this engaging and irreverent guide to the coolest science experiments ever, readers can do all that and 40 more science-based activities that simultaneously inspire and educate...read more

Product Description: Labour process theory is consolidated in Working Life to develop a credible account of the relationships between capitalist political economy, work systems and the strategies and practices of actors in the employment relationship...read more

Product Description: Why learn F#? This multi-paradigm language not only offers you an enormous productivity boost through functional programming, it also lets you develop applications using your existing object-oriented and imperative programming skills...read more

Doctors are likely to undergo several interviews of different types during their career, and this new title in the popular 'How to' series aims to guide the medical professional through the steps necessary to thoroughly prepare for this competitive process. Contents include:Discussion of the different types of medical interview How to prepare for interview How to optimise your performance Information about common questions and how best to answer them Information about knowledge-based questions currently asked Coverage of questions that test generic skills and how to answer them How to prepare for competency-based assessments and tasks. An ideal companion for all health professionals faced with an interview, How to Succeed at the Medical Interview will assist in building confidence and ensuring that candidates are as thoroughly prepared as possible.

Product Description: Creative labour has become a growing area of the market, and of management study. Alan McKinlay and Chris Smith have compiled the first book to look at the creative industries from a labour process perspective. The text concludes with an authoritative investigation into managing new media workers...read more

Product Description: Chris Smith's 101 Albums That Changed Popular Music tells the fascinating stories behind the most groundbreaking, influential, and often controversial albums ever recorded, ranging from The Anthology of American Folk Music (1952) to Elephant (2003) by The White Stripes...read more

Presents and discusses one hundred albums that have had an impact on American music or popular culture.

Product Description: Are you tired of uninspired, bland meals? Then you're ready for tasty, creative dishes from The Diabetic Chef. Carefully crafted to take advantage of seasonal foods available from month to month, The Diabetic Chef®'s Year-Round Cookbook gives you a year of amazing, market-fresh meals...read more

Product Description: Despite suffering a life-threatening illness after rescuing a young girl from the River Dee, Detective Constable Dominic Strider of Chester CID still gets tangled-up in the hunt for a serial killer stalking students in the medieval city...read more

Western civilization has thrived more than any other civilization in the past or present - it has been much more successful in economic, military and political terms, in science and technology, in the arts, and in enhancing its citizens' health, wealth, longevity and even, probably, their happiness.

Two arguing brothers stand before the wise King Solomon and he decides to share with them the story of two other brothers who lived long before their time. By retelling the story of how Jerusalem came to be, he offers guidance in hope that they will learn to appreciate one another and the value of sharing.

Product Description: Andy Garnett and his wife, the writer Polly Devlin, bought Cannwood Meadow in 1983. Realizing that this Somerset meadow, which has benefited from benign husbandry over many years, contains an amazing variety of wild flowers, grasses and rushes that provide feeding for moths, butterflies and other insects – some of them very rare – they asked English Nature if they would be interested in making a survey of the field...read more

Product Description: A crime-wave threatens to engulf the quiet city of Chester, forcing Detective Constable Dominic Strider to single-handedly deal with a rape, armed robbery, arson, burglary and malicious letters sent to the local M.P. whose implication in a high-class prostitute's death prompts a cover up! Reeling under the strain of a broken marriage and with the threats of dismissal, a vicious murderer on the loose and attempts on his life, what better time for Strider to fall in love...read more

Product Description: A one-of-a-kind new guide to recorded blues This informative, insightful, and easy-to-use A-Z guide surveys the recorded work of more than a thousand blues artists. From towering figures of the past like Charley Patton, Bessie Smith, and Robert Johnson to stars of the modern era such as B...read more

Product Description: Biology of Disease describes the biology of many of the human disorders and disease that are encountered in a clinical setting. It is designed for first and second year students in biomedical science programs and will also be a highly effective reference for health science professionals as well as being valuable to students beginning medical school...read more

Product Description: The Strategy Pathfinder is built around micro-cases of real-life problems faced by companies and executives. These micro-cases help readers to engage with the kinds of situations they will encounter in their working lives while provoking discussions about key theoretical themes...read more

Product Description: Neil Young once said that rock and roll will never die, and indeed, rock music has played an enormous role in American culture ever since its beginnings in the 1950s. From early rock n' roll to the British Invasion, from the psychedelic era to the growth of corporate rock and the underground scene, from the video generation to the grunge and post-grunge years, rock music has been an undeniable force in both reflecting and shaping cultural trends in the United States...read more