Product Description: Cicero in Letters is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models for subsequent letter writers from Pliny to Petrarch to Samuel Johnson and beyond...read more

This volume, the first in the One World Archaeology series, is a compendium of key papers by leaders in the field of the emergence of agriculture in different parts of the world. Each is supplemented by a review of developments in the field since its publication. Contributions cover the better known regions of early and independent agricultural development, such as Southwest Asia and the Americas, as well as lesser known locales, such as Africa and New Guinea. Other contributions examine the dispersal of agricultural practices into a region, such as India and Japan, and how introduced crops became incorporated into pre-existing forms of food production. This reader is intended for students of the archaeology of agriculture, and will also prove a valuable and handy resource for scholars and researchers in the area.

Product Description: Learn how to cure the 20 most common outboard problems. Peter White draws on 15,000 hours of powerboat teaching to show how to keep your engine running. He assumes no previous experience and is realistic about when you'll have to call in an expert...read more

Product Description: Cultural Writing. Memoir. ECOLOGY OF BEING is a philosophical memoir by Peter White. ECOLOGY OF BEING offers new approaches to the fundamental human task of finding one's way in the world. It is a valuable guide for locating true measures of meaning for oneself and for sharing life's real abundance with others...read more

Product Description: To what extent do social factors such as stress cause physical diseases? How do physical and social factors contribute to the healing process? The biopsychosocial model is an approach to medicine which stresses the importance of a holistic approach...read more

This work covers all three main areas of an investigation where forensic science is practised, namely the scene of the crime, the forensic laboratory and the court. Coverage includes details of how crime scene and forensic examinations are conducted in the United Kingdom, the principles of crime scene investigations and the importance of this work in an investigation, and courtroom procedures and the role of the expert witness. The latest methods and techniques used in crime scene investigation and forensic laboratories are reported, cases are presented to illustrate why and how examinations are performed to generate forensic evidence and there is a bibliography for each chapter which provides further material for those readers wishing to delve deeper into the subject.

Product Description: First published in 1988, this award-winning compendium of New Mexico's folklore is now available in a shorter, easier to use, updated edition."A masterful encyclopedia. . . . a superb reference to historical folklore traditions in New Mexico up to World War II...read more

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Product Description: Peter has a passion for the the training of ministers to meet the real needs of church leadership. He has been involved with Crusaders, takes an active role in presbytery affairs and is commited advocate of the role of the local church in evangelism and mission...read more

Product Description: Public Transport is a comprehensive textbook covering the planning of all public transport systems (bus, coach, rail, taxi and domestic air travel) in Britain and other countries with similar systems. The term ‘planning’ is used both in the context of local authority and central government roles and in the work done by transport operators for example, network structures, vehicle type selection...read more

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Product Description: Born in battle, Peter White's journal is one of the most extraordinary stories to come out of the Second World War. As a 24-year-old lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, Peter kept an unauthorised journal of his regiment's advance through the Low Countries and into Germany in the closing months of the war in Europe...read more

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An inspiring autobiography of a man who was born blind, obtained a good education and eventual college degree despite strict regimes at special boarding schools, and is now one of the BBC's leading correspondents. Read by the author.