Product Description: The doctors said I had unconfirmed haemophilia. People said I was clumsy, a clown, an accident waiting to happen. They were wrong. I have endured a multiplicity of injuries including: 200 stitches; a broken femur; broken bones in my feet; 3 sprained ankles; several dislocated kneecaps; ruptured knee ligaments; a broken scaphoid; traumatic bruising to my shin and a dislocated shoulder...read more

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Hired to return some very old pirate loot to its rightful owners, Daniel, Billy, Stefanie, and Mark embark on a new adventure that leads them halfway around the world and to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean where they stumble upon a mystery involving the Bible.

Product Description: One of the most prolific and respected scholars today, Manuel Castells has given us a new language for understanding the impact of information and communication technologies on social life.Politicians can no longer run for office without a digital media strategy, new communication technologies are a fundamental infrastructure for the economy, and the internet has become an invaluable tool for cultural production and consumption...read more

Product Description: Lecture Notes: Medical Law and Ethics provides students, junior doctors, general practitioners and allied health professionals with the legal framework related to medicine and discusses the ethics involved with these issues. The content is divided into: Sources of Medical Law and Ethics Consent, Confidentiality and Clinical Negligence Mental Health Issues – Describing the law and discussing the ethics in relation to abortion, reproductive technology, surrogacy and end of life issues Maintaining professional standards Doctors’ rights In addition the appendix provides further information and guidance including: Philosophers who have influenced medical ethics Further reading How to access legal reference material Cases Statutes Lecture Notes: Medical Law and Ethics is written specifically for medical students, junior doctors, general practitioners and allied health professionals...read more

Product Description: This work of reference explores the origin and meaning of a vast range of words, phrases, and events that have come into use in the English language over the past century. Over 8000 entries cover slang terms, acronyms, idioms, catchphrases, quotations, and new expressions...read more

As Halloween approaches Ocracoke Island, Billy, Daniel, Stefanie, and Mark are helped by the ghosts of Blackbeard and the eccentric Mrs. McNemmish when they are held captive by the local scoundrel Zeek, who is searching for a hidden treasure.

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Examines contemporary English in all of its aspects and discusses the effect that new technologies--from cable TV to photocomposition--are having on the English language

Discussions of forty words that have changed in meaning over the past few decades testify to the continuing resilience of the English language while castigating misuses and abuses

Examines changes in the English language in recent years, speculates on the decline of the language, and discusses social factors that have had an impact on everyday usage of the English language

Product Description: A book about the English language in the 1990s and how it is changing day by day. The author aims to be both entertaining and scholarly. His previous books include "The State of the Language", "Winged Words" and "A Word in Your Ear".

Reflects on the ways the English language is changing in the 1980s, discussing slang, the gradual disappearance of certain terms, the birth of new terms, and the new meanings applied to old words