Science & Technical

Packed with relationship advice from Relate, the marriage guidance experts, Staying Together offers guidelines to help couples survive and grow through their relationship problems so that they need not separate and may maintain their commitment to each...

The Radcliffe Infirmary holds a special place in the history of medicine and in the hearts of the people of Oxfordshire. It was here that penicillin was first used to treat infections, the first accident service was set up and a flying squad to go to the...

The latest edition of a classic text on concurrency and distributed programming - from a winner of the ACM/SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education.The latest edition of a classic text on concurrency and distributed...

A fully illustrated and authoritative guide to herbology by Catherine Conway-Payne, the Course Director for the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh's Herbology diploma. A full guide to numerous herbology recipes, best practise and history. Organised by season...

This best-selling book is an easy-to-read guide for parents, using the latest thinking from the fields of positive psychology, NLP and hypnotherapy to help children overcome bedwetting more easily. The seven-day programme also comes with downloadable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607748892Author Lisa CronFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

A spirited volume on the great adventures of science throughout history, for curious readers of all ages Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046138Author Barton ZwiebachFormat HardbackPage Count 1200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The definitive textbook for the NEBOSH National General Certificate course, fully up to date with the 2019 syllabusMore than 12,000 students a year pursue National General Certificate in the UK, and this is the market-leading textbook dedicated to that...

Despite millennia of fame, the origins of the Great Pyramid of Giza are shrouded in mystery. Believed to be the tomb of an Egyptian king, even though no remains have ever been found, its construction date of roughly 2550 BCE is tied to only one piece of...

'Terrific and timely' Elizabeth Day 'Stories that will make you cringe, weep and laugh out loud' Scarlett Curtis 'Brilliant, informative...

Robert Bly writes that it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by popular culture are worn out, that a man can no longer depend on them. Iron John searches for a new vision of what a man is or could be, drawing on psychology,...

Charged with possibility and power, this memorable collection is an extraordinary immersion into the bodies and voices, mindscapes and landscapes, of the shapeshifting women of our native folklore. Drawing on myth and fairy tales found across Europe from...

Filled with intriguing true stories, and packed with black-and-white illustrations and photographs, The Forensic Casebook draws on interviews with police personnel and forensic scientists - including animal examiners, botanists, zoologists, firearms...

British Medical Association Book Awards 2009 - Commended, Basic and Clinical Sciences This innovative and highly praised book describes the visible and palpable anatomy that forms the basis of clinical examination. The first chapter considers the...

The field of music production has for many years been regarded as male-dominated. Despite growing acknowledgement of this fact, and some evidence of diversification, it is clear that gender representation on the whole remains quite unbalanced. Gender in...

Exam board: ISEB Level: 13+ CE and KS3 Subject: Maths First exams: November 2022This comprehensive, ISEB-endorsed guide for Mathematics focuses on consolidating knowledge and covering all the skills needed to meet the requirements of the ISEB CE 13+ exam...

From patriots to pirates, warriors to writers, and mistresses to male impersonators, this book looks at the unorthodox lives of inspiring Irish women. In times when women were expected to marry and have children, they travelled the world and sought...

The recent financial crisis and Great Recession have been analysed endlessly in the mainstream and academia, but this is the first book to conclude, on the basis of in-depth analyses of official US data, that Marx's crisis theory can explain these events...

Coaching psychology is a distinct branch of academic and applied psychology that focuses on enhancement of performance, development and wellbeing in the broader population. In Coaching Psychology in Schools, Mark Adams demonstrates how psychological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542524Author Ethem AlpaydinFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Pain has many valuable functions. It can be a warning or force us to rest our bodies. Yet most ongoing chronic pain, such as unrelenting backache or headache, has no discernable cause and diminishes countless lives. Over the years a scientific...

'These propositions may seem mild, yet, if accepted, they would absolutely revolutionize human life.'With these words Bertrand Russell introduces what is indeed a revolutionary book. Taking as his starting-point the irrationality of the world, he offers...

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As a social worker, you must make sense of complex situations and determine the needs of various individuals. As star constellations offer a guide by which to navigate, social work theories offer ways to make sense of practice. Tackling the major...

As the Amazon burns, Fabio Zuker shares stories of resistance, self-determination, and kinship with the land. In 2007, a seven-ton minke whale was found stranded on the banks of the Tapajos River, hundreds of miles into the Amazon rainforest. For...

There's no better guide through mind-expanding questions such as what the nature of space and time is, how we fit within the universe, and how the universe fits within us than Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos...

A book where John Holt uses anecdotal observations that question assumptions about how children acquire knowledge and learning skills.About the AuthorJohn Holt (1923-1985) was a teacher in the American school system before becoming one of the foremost...

Mark Rowlands presents a novel analysis of three epoch-defining environmental problems: climate, extinction, and pestilence. Our climate is changing at a rate that is unprecedented and, if unchecked, disastrous. Species are disappearing hundreds or...

'A powerful corrective' Guardian 'This should be compulsory reading' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 'For anyone interested in the future of Islam, both in Britain and the Islamic world, this is an important book' The Times The gulf...

Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: MathematicsFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: June 2018An OCR endorsed textbook Boost your students' knowledge, skills and understanding so that they can reason and apply mathematical techniques in solving...

**A SUNDAY TIMES MUST-READ**'Riveting and vitally important' - Steven Pinker'A gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change' - Anjana Ahuja, New StatesmanEmpty Planet offers a radical, provocative argument that the global population will...

An Introduction to Family Therapy provides an overview of the core concepts informing family therapy and systemic practice, covering the development of this innovative field from the 1950s to the present day.The book considers both British and...

Fully updated for a third edition, Training in Ophthalmology remains the indispensable guide to address the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) syllabus for trainee ophthalmologists, and is essential for all those studying ophthalmology,...

Medical Pharmacology & Therapeutics provides all the information medical and healthcare students need throughout their degree programme and beyond, including for professional qualifications such as the PSA. This all-round textbook covers basic...

'A fine book' The Sunday Times 'Powerful' Guardian 'Wonderful' The Telegraph'Moving, funny, warm' Mail on Sunday'Brave, compassionate, tender and honest' Metro'This book began as an attempt to hold on to my witty, storytelling mother with the one thing I...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715621998Author Alasdair MacIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Gerald Duckworth & Co LtdPublisher Duckworth OverlookWeight(grams) 565g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319114770Author Anthony J.F. GriffithsFormat HardbackPage Count 891Imprint W.H.Freeman & Co LtdPublisher Macmillan Learning

'A story for our, and all, times' GuardianSet in a town at the mercy of an epidemic, The Plague is an odyssey into the darkness and absurdity of human existence.-----------------------------------'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398803688Author Miyamoto MusashiFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd