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Donald E. Waite - Environmental Health Hazards : Recognition and Avoidance - HB -SIGNED

Written in accessible language, (but fully sourced with detailed references) this is ageneral guidebook to environonmental risks and hazards across a wide ramge of situations, both from human interaction with wildlife, environment, with chemicals and...

Kenneth Craik / The Nature of Explanation (Vintage Paperback)

In his brilliant and tragically brief career, Kenneth Craik anticipated certain ideas which since his death in 1945 have found wide acceptance. As one of the first to realise that machines share with the brain certain principles of functioning, Craik was...

E.R. Baker / Police Promotion Handbooks (Vintage Paperback)

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Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt / Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences (Hardback)

The importance of culture-based attitudes, such as the degree of readiness to challenge, as well as to respect superiors and to assume authority in crimes, has an obvious and direct bearing on team effectiveness, not only in aviation and medical...

Claudio U. Ciborra / Groupware and Teamwork : Invisible Aid or Technical Hindrance? (Hardback)

This first international study of companies using groupware in a variety of sectors recounts the subtleties of managing/controlling technological innovation, and shows how complex and varied is the set of ways through which companies try to learn about...

Clay Spinuzzi / Tracing Genres Through Organizations: A Sociocultural Approach to Information Design (Hardback)

A sociocultural study of workers' ad hoc genre innovations and their significance for information design. In Tracing Genres through Organizations , Clay Spinuzzi examines the everyday improvisations by workers who deal with designed information and shows...

Peter Clothier / Multi-Level Marketing 2nd Edition (Large Paperback)

Multi-level marketing presents a tremendous opportunity for those wishing either to supplement their income or to start a new career. It offers great flexibility as to where and how to work, what to sell, and how much to earn. The author describes...

M. C. Bonner / Practical Pharmaceutical Calculations (Large Paperback)

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Denis Harrington , Tony Lenehan / Managing Quality in Tourism: Theory and Pratice (Large Paperback)

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Kevin McConway / Studying Health & Disease

Why are some individuals and groups within a society more prone to illness than others? How do we know what makes us ill? What can be done to alleviate illness or disability, and how can we be sure that an intervention will work? Biomedical scientists,...

Adam Hibbert / Obesity and Health - The Facts Behind the Headlines

Brings together the facts behind the headline issue of obesity. Ideal support for PSHE/Citizenship and Media Studies. Panels highlight key facts and statistics and suggest topics for debate.     All of our books are second hand, and while you...

Alan Cooper / About Face : The Essentials of User Interface Design

An excellent book for anyone who wants to understand why so much software is so poorly designed -- and an even better book for anyone who wants to DO something about the problem. Must reading (and doing!) for programmers of any level.     All...

John P. Bentley / Principles of Measurement Systems (Large Paperback)

Measurement is an important branch of engineering science, covering such diverse issues as the measurement of the acceleration of an aircraft, the daily production levels of an oil platform, and the acidity or alkalinity of waste discharge into a...

Philip Carr / Phonology : An Introduction (Large Paperback)

The second edition of this successful introductory guide has been thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded to take into account the latest developments and current teaching. It now features three new chapters covering Moraic Theory and Optimality...

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins / I.V. Therapy : An Incredibly Easy Pocket Guide

I.V. Therapy: An Incredibly Easy! Pocket Guide provides just the essential facts in a streamlined, bulleted quick-reference format, using illustrations, logos, charts, and other Incredibly Easy! visual features to help nurses spot key...

Barbara Rogoff / The Cultural Nature of Human Development (Hardback)

Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the Efe community in Zaire, infants routinely use machetes with...

Michael K. Ong / Internal Credit Risk Models: Capital Allocation and Performance Measurement (Hardback)

This work provides a practical, accessible step-by-step analysis of the theory and practicalities of credit risk measurement and management. Topics covered default probabilities; expected and unexpected losses; time effects; default correlations; and...

Gary Cokins / Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics (Hardback)

Praise for Praise for Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics "A highly accessible collection of essays on contemporary thinking in performance management. Readers will get excellent overviews on the...

Blaise Ganguin , John Bilardello / Standard & Poor's Fundamentals of Corporate Credit Analysis (Hardback)

An up-to-date, accurate framework for credit analysis and decision making, from the experts at Standard & Poor's "In a world of increasing financial complexity and shorter time frames in which to assess the wealth or dearth of information, this book...

W.A Beagles / Equity and Index Options Explained (Hardback)

In 2007 over 400 million equity option contracts were traded but it is a volatile market, prices are ever changing with supply and demand – the only certainty is that they will change. With little knowledge or experience, an uninformed decision can...

Jeff LeSueur / Marketing Automation: Practical Steps to More Effective Direct Marketing (Hardback)

In today's market, it takes more than good products and services to succeed.Successful marketing requires more precise segmentation and more sophisticated communications with customers--the lifeblood of every business--than ever before. Expertly...

Marion Devine / Successful Mergers: Getting the People Issues Right (Hardback)

Why so many mergers fail and what can be done to make them succeed. Worldwide merger and acquisition activity has run over $100 billion in recent years. But the M&A failure rate is high—roughly half fail and the financial gains of even...

Anthony Saunders / Credit Risk Measurement: New Approaches to Value at Risk and Other Paradigms, 1st Edition (Hardback)

The single most important topic in finance today is the art and science of credit risk management. Growing dissatisfaction with traditional credit risk measurement methods has combined with regulations imposed by the Bank for International Settlements...

Martin Christopher / Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Strategies for Reducing Costs and Improving Service (Hardback)

This edition discusses the role of logistics in achieving corporate and financial goals. It provides practical guidance on auditing logistics systems and describes the use of customer surveys, opportunities for lead time reduction and the principles of...

Tom Burns / Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry (Hardback)

Our Necessary Shadow is the first attempt in a generation to explain the whole subject of psychiatry, from the UK's leading expert, Tom BurnsA lot is written about psychiatry and the things it deals with, but very little that describes psychiatry itself...

V.A. Howard / Seasons of Learning: Talks to Graduates on Life After College (Hardback)

The first in-depth treatment of the school/work transition, this book raises the level of discussion above simple how to strategies. Howard considers the values, choices, responsibilities, and challenges facing the student leaving college or...

Jillian R. Griffith / Access, Delivery, Performance: The Future Of Libraries Without Walls (Hardback)

This book celebrates and acknowledges the contribution Professor Peter Brophy has made over a career spanning 37 years to the field of library and information studies. Whilst reflecting on his work, it is forward looking and challenging, and offers...

Bernard J. Luskin / Casting the Net over Global Learning: New Developments in Workforce and Online Psychologies (Large Paperback)

Casting the Net Over Global Learning presents an overview of what is happening now in education and corporate training to provide a basis for executives, trainers, investors, and administrators and learners to make intelligent choices for the future...

Bruce James / Lecture Notes on Ophthalmology (Large Paperback)

Lecture Notes on Opthalmology is a core text designed to meet the needs of medical students, junior doctors, optometrists, and opticians who need a very concise overview of this important subject. Lecture Notes on Opthalmology has a brief...

Sherry Mayo / Studio Artists at the Human-Computer Interface: A case study of arts technology integration in studio practice (Large Paperback)

What forms of expression will be possible tomorrow, how do they differ from those of the past, and how can we better prepare for them today? The investigation of artists at the human-computer interface (HCI), where artistic and cybernetic questions meet,...

Joseph Hegarty / Standing the Heat: Assuring Curriculum Quality in Culinary Arts and Gastronomy (Large Paperback)

Make sure your culinary arts students are prepared for the real world!Standing the Assuring Curriculum Quality in Culinary Arts and Gastronomy chronicles the creation and development of an undergraduate degree program in culinary arts at the Dublin...

Dermot McAleese / Competition and industry: The Irish experience (Large Paperback)

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Mohamed Bouzoubaa / Equity Derivatives Explained (Large Paperback)

A succinct book that provides readers with all they need to know about the equity derivatives business. It deals with vanilla equity products, their usage, structuring and their risk management. The author efficiently bridges the gap between theory and...

Maria L Gallo / The Alumni Way: Building Lifelong Value from Your University Investment (Large Paperback)

Are you a college or university graduate? Do you support students looking ahead to life after graduation? Are you curious about how your alumni network can benefit your life? Does the alumni strategy in your organization need inspiration? This...

Peter Ladefoged / Elements of Acoustic Phonetics (Large Paperback)

This revised and expanded edition of a classic textbook provides a concise introduction to basic concepts of acoustics and digital speech processing that are important to linguists, phoneticians, and speech scientists. The second edition includes four...

Carol A. Mullen , W. Brad Johnson / Write to the Top!: How to Become a Prolific Academic (Large Paperback)

This is a pithy, no-nonsense, no-excuses guide to maximizing the quality and quantity of your scholarly products. Write to the Top! offers an accessible overview of the art of writing efficiently and effectively; it is the first book that explicitly...

Roger Buckley , Jim Caple / The Theory and Practice of Training (Large Paperback)

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Emer Smyth / Do schools Differ?: Academic and personal development among pupils in the Second-Level sector (Large Paperback)

Many factors influence the effectiveness of a school, including: its social context; school management and staffing; school organization and class allocation or streaming; disciplinary climate; academic emphasis; and pupil-teacher interaction and...

Martin Weisser / Essential Programming for Linguistics (Large Paperback)

A gentle introduction to programming for students and researchers interested in conducting computer-based analysis in linguistics, this book is an ideal starting point for linguists approaching programming for the first time. Assuming no background...

Jennifer Rowley / Organizing Knowlege (Large Paperback)

The fourth edition of this standard student text, Organizing Knowledge, incorporates extensive revisions reflecting the increasing shift towards a networked and digital information environment, and its impact on documents, information, knowledge, users...

Alan Bond / Your Masters Thesis: Helping You to Achieve (Large Paperback)

A Master's dissertation is different from an academic essay; yet often post-graduate students are expected to make the transition without guidance. This guide brings together advice from a team of experts, drawn from the number of UK universities...

Huw R. Jones / Population Geography (Large Paperback)

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Carl Levinger , Itzchack Schefres / Everything You Need to Get a Psychology Internship (Large Paperback)

Second edition of a practical handbook of hints, tips, and essential advice for securing a competitive internship, for graduate psychology students. Offers step-by-step instruction on where to apply, preparing applications, interviews, and what to expect...

Michael Jacobs / Swift to Hear: Facilitating Skills in Listening and Responding (Large Paperback)

Swift to Facilitating Skills in Listening and Responding (New Library of Pastoral Care) Jacobs, Michael     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good...

MHRA Style Guide. A Handbook for Authors, Editors, and Writers of Theses (Large Paperback)

Now in its second edition, the MHRA Style Guide is an indispensable tool for authors and editors of scholarly books, contributors to academic publications, and students preparing theses. The Style Guide succeeds the best-selling MHRA Style Book, five...

Joseph Gibaldi / MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (Large Paperback)

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Chris Reij / Farmer Innovation in Africa: A Source of Inspiration for Agricultural Development (Large Paperback)

One of Africa's major untapped resources is the creativity of its farmers. This book presents a series of clear and detailed studies that demonstrate how small-scale farmers, both men and women, experiment and innovate in order to improve their...

Sadhvi Dar , Bill Cooke / The New Development Management: Critiquing the Dual Modernization (Large Paperback)

Development management' is an idea that blends the seemingly innocuous claims of managerialism with notions of modernity and utopian ideals of 'third world' progress. This book views both phenomena as problematic and modernizing interventions. In doing...

James Cunningham / Strategic Management of Technology Transfer: The New Challenge on Campus (Large Paperback)

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James G. Jones , Craig Landes / A+ : Exam Cram (Large Paperback)

Covers exam objectives and items in the following areas: Windows 98, Windows 2000 Windows NT, version 4.0, and Linux - baseline information. Focuses on the curriculum objectives of the new A+ exam due to be launched in December 2000. Features unique...

K. Littleton / Learning Relationships in the Classroom (Large Paperback)

This reader explores the nature of interactions between children and their teachers in the classroom. It emphasises the importance of such relationships for children's learning and for educational practice.Part 1 looks at different cultural conceptions...

Mary Gauvain / The Social Context of Cognitive Development (Large Paperback)

Traditional approaches to cognitive development can tell us a great deal about the internal processes involved in learning. Sociocultural perspectives, on the other hand, provide valuable insights into the influences on learning of relationship and...