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This dictionary contains over 2500 entries covering commonly encountered terms and concepts in biology, biophysics, and biochemistry, and key terms from medicine and palaeontology. It also includes many new terms in genetics (including genetic...

How great a role does chance play in ball games? Is it really an advantage to bluff at poker? What are the principles behind non-attacking queens in chess, and the faulty coin among twelve? What mathematical theories underlie games of pure skill, and...

BBC 2's 1986 "Horizon" programme won many new followers for Jim Lovelock's startling new theory of life called Gaia. Existing theories held that plants and animals evolve on, but are distinct from, an inanimate planet. Gaia, however, showed that the...

By suggesting that individual organisms should be viewed as a single coherent unit, working to maximize their own reproductive success, the author explains that as these organisms are "selfish" they have the capacity to effect the body of another animal,...

The result of the author's field studies over two years in a school playground, this book records conversations and events, illustrating the games and jokes beloved by children. The book shows how school-lore evolves and is transmitted. Much human...

The story of penicillin has become the story of Alexander Fleming: world opinion has conferred upon him sole credit for what is arguably the single most important medical discovery ever made. Gwyn Macfalane's sensitive analysis of this much-mytholigized...

From the time King Canute demonstrated to his courtiers the limits of his power as he failed to repulse the waves, anecdotes have proved a valuable source of historical truth. Details may be altered or distorted, but more often than not anecdotes prove...

`To sleep: perchance to dream'. As Freud and Jung have attempted to prove, there is great significance in all our dream matter, whether it be childhood or sex, success or peril. Dreams, daydreams, premonitions, and nightmares of all kinds have fired the...

This book is a guide to diagnosis and treatment, aimed at the GP when confronted by a stroke patient, regarded as possibly the most difficult illness that a general practitioner regularly manages. The author attempts to cover all aspects of stroke, from...

BL The companion volume to the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine BL Covers all the major clinical specialties BL Pocket guide to diagnosis, investigations, and treatment BL Provides enough background information to give a useful understanding of the...

This anthology draws on the dream material of a variety of authors to explore the dream exerience in literature from pre-Christian times to the present.Book InformationISBN 9780192141309Author Stephen BrookFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Oxford...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780131717114Author Tom DeMarcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Prentice HallPublisher Pearson Education (US)Weight(grams) 521g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780130876768Author Craig A. LindleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Prentice Hall PTRPublisher Pearson Professional EducationWeight(grams) 641g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780130008510Author Larry Joel GoldsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 335Imprint Prentice HallPublisher Prentice Hall (Higher Education Division, Pearson...

The Third Edition builds upon the previous edition to provide a comprehensive, coherent, and up-to-date introduction to the area of thought processes in normal human adults. The major topics covered are: thinking directed at solving well-defined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780113413249Author Great Britain: Home OfficeFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Stationery Office BooksPublisher TSO

This work brings together a selection of 40 works that cover 150 years of writing on women's struggle for freedom. Writers include Mary Wollstonecraft, George Sand, Emma Goldman and Clara Zetkin.Book InformationISBN 9780099597810Author Miriam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903474310Author K. W. HeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Family Doctor Publications LtdPublisher Family Doctor Publications LtdWeight(grams) 200g

Our weather is changing, almost everyone agrees. But what really lies behind this? In a mixture of scientific fact, personal apprehension, global experience and revelation, we are taken on a tour of the world and learn about the disturbing contemporary...

The purpose of Fitness-for-Service Fracture Assessment of Structures Containing Cracks is to facilitate the use of fracture mechanics based failure assessment procedures for the evaluation and design of structures and components. All practical structures...

This desktop encyclopaedia provides comprehensive coverage of Turbo, Turbo++ and Borland C++ 2.0 commands, functions and programming techniques. This new edition contains a section detailing the basics of programming for Windows (using Borland C++).Book...

Full details on all new Oracle9i features, including database administration and management improvements, architecture changes, performance enhancements, security advancements, and high-availability innovations.Book InformationISBN 9780072223859Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780099427704Author Gregory McdonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arrow Books LtdPublisher Cornerstone

Are you confused by parenting advice from experts who contradict each other? Concerned about the possible effects of being a working mother? Terrified of turning into your own parents? Parents today are overwhelmed with elaborate advice on how to raise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903699102Author Kate CairnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher CoramBAAFWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903474266Author Malcolm I. V. JaysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Family Doctor Publications LtdPublisher Family Doctor Publications...

The revised edition of this handbook includes recent medical research on the many and widely prescribed psychiatric drugs which form a major part of NHS prescriptions. It covers the benefits, side-effects and hazards of the entire range, with advice on...

In this final volume of Tony Benn's unrivalled series of diaries, the fall of Margaret Thatcher and the tragic was in the Gulf bring to an end a decade which see the disintegration of Eastern Europe and an unprecedented assault on the labour movement at...

This book teaches readers how to master the ins-&-outs of Oracle's database programming language - including new Oracle8 object-relational extensions. "PL/SQL" is the fastest selling area of interest within the Oracle developer community...

Aims to help the reader to develop the essential planning skills anyone in business needs to succeed. Included are basic strategies for developing a mission statement, writing a workable plan, presenting the plan, implementing the plan's strategies and...

'A fierce, big-hearted novel.' Joe Treasure, author of The Book of Air 'Pushes us to find our kinder selves.' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You 'A wonderful book.' Maurice Wren, Chief Executive of the Refugee Council One of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873868683Author Morag OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher CoramBAAFWeight(grams) 312g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858684062Author Dr-KFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Carlton Books LtdPublisher Welbeck Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 133g

The definitive guide to keeping your brain healthy for a long and lucid life, by one of the world's leading scientists in the field of brain health and ageing. The brain is our most vital and complex organ. It controls and coordinates our actions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852305659Author John MatthewsFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Element BooksPublisher Element Books LtdWeight(grams) 80g

This book specifically supports A Level and post-16 Chemistry students learning essential maths skills needed for exam success. Written by a bestselling author and examiner, this full-colour course companion reinforces all the maths skills and techniques...

This student-friendly textbook comprehensively covers the AQA exam specification for A2-Level Biology. It contains in-depth, accessible notes explaining every topic, supported by clear diagrams, photographs, tips and worked examples. To test students'...

This Revision Guide (with free Online Edition) covers the Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 in Physics and the Edexcel International GCSE in Physics. It contains concise study notes for every topic, supported by clear diagrams, helpful tips for doing well in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993065507Author Mark CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Mark & Caroline CookPublisher Mark & Caroline Cook

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934540889Author Barbara H. CraigFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Seven Bridges Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Bridges Press,U.S.