Product Description: The aim of this book is to provide some basic information on noise at an easily understood level, together with some practical advice on making noise measurements, simple calculations and interpreting reports, hopefully allowing you to avoid the most obvious errors...read more

Product Description: Senior business executive David Holmes has seen firsthand the mistakes hundreds of job candidates have made in the interview process. In this fundamental resource, he incorporates this experience to help readers fashion an individualized, workable solution to interview challenges...read more

Product Description: If you are a studying within the biomolecular sciences (including biochemistry, biomedical sciences, biotechnology, genetics, microbiology and molecular biology) then this book will be an indispensable companion throughout the whole of your degree programme...read more

Product Description: Sequel to Hellburger, this novel takes place in Duluth.

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This book covers the key concepts central to understanding recent developments in media and communications studies. Wide-ranging in scope and accessible in style it sets out a useful, clear map of the important theories, methods, and debates. The entries critically explore the limits of a key concept as much as the traditions that define it. They include clear definitions, are introduced within the wider context of the field and each one is fully cross-referenced, is clearly illustrated with relevant examples, and provides a guide to further reading and an index.

Product Description: "Welcome to the dark world of Harold Bruntz, a thirty-year veteran of the Minneapolis police force. Detective Bruntz is tenacious about bringing justice to the streets he works. His methods of exacting righteousness can be brutal, illegal, unethical, and quite often deadly...read more

Product Description: Designed specifically to support and develop the complete range of practical skills which are essential to success in chemistry courses. 'One-stop' guide to the key practical skills needed in chemistry Information presented in a clear and user-friendly manner, tailored directly for the mastery of basic laboratory skills Numerous margin tips and hints, 'how to' boxes, checklists and worked examples Guidance on numerical aspects, including logarithms and statistics Chapters grouped into key topics Relevant Internet resources for chemistry highlighted Worked examples and ‘How To’ boxes provide practical guidance and support Key points highlight critical features of methodology...read more

Product Description: Abnormal, Clinical and Forensic Psychology offers a European perspective and a unique, comprehensive introduction to the field of abnormal psychology. The book takes an international perspective and considers the impact of cross-cultural issues, beliefs and opinions...read more

The post of Station Master, like others on the modern railway, has disappeared, and details of the many and varied responsibilities and everyday jobs that went with it will disappear too if they are not recorded. This work describes the development and duties of this once very prestigious grade.

Provides information on building concurrent applications using Java.

Product Description: This attractive hardback giftbook brings together text and illustrations from the Wedding minibook series, including To My Love, You're Engaged, On Your Wedding, and Happy Anniversary. This single-volume edition contains prose quotations and poetry on the theme of love and marriage, from before the time of engagement to the wedding itself and beyond...read more

Product Description: This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental in the production of homogenous world-spaces, and how these, in turn, presuppose new kinds of political and cultural identity...read more

Virtual Politics is a critical overview of the new - digital - body politic, with new technologies framing the discussion of key themes in social theory. This book shows how these new technologies are altering the nature of identity and agency, the relation of self to other, and the structure of community and political representation.

Facts, games, and activities reveal how animals in different environments find mates, homes, and food; defend themselves; adapt to day and night; and survive the winter

Facts, games, and activities reveal how animals living in the desert, sea cliffs, rivers, and other environments provide shelter for themselves and their young