Product Description: What major long-term factors will shape the European Community post-1992? Who are the central actors, how will they exert influence on Europe's future, and what are their expectations and intentions? In seeking to answer these questions, The European Challenges Post-1992 offers a multidisciplinary, qualitative approach, throwing new light on the aspirations and preoccupations aroused by the promise of the Community...read more

Product Description: Broadband technology is ushering the telecom industry through a unique period of change with profound business implications for suppliers and users. This single source describes the four major broadband technologies that are shaping telecommunications networks: frame relay; optical fiber (including SONET); distributed queue dual bus (DQDB); and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)...read more

Product Description: At the age of seven, David Wright became totally deaf, consigned to the invisible dungeon from which was later to escape as a distinguished poet and critic. Written with humour, frankness and humility, this is both a personal account and a history of deafness.

Product Description: The Longman Modular Texts in Business and Economics series is aimed at undergraduate students of business studies programmes. The series covers the core foundation modules of a typical Business Studies degree. Each book consists of approximately 80% text, 15% test and assessment material and 5% further reading sources, and is accompanied by a lecturers manual which includes teaching ideas, further exercises and photocpiable overhead masters...read more

Introduces the life and accomplishments of the man who is known as the creator of "the greatest show on Earth."

Product Description: The Baker Atlas of the Bible and Christianity contains 160 new maps covering both the biblical period and all 2000 years of church history. Based on the most recent innovations in cartography, the computer-generated maps are of the highest level. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at the landscape, animals, and environmental issues of every part of the Earth

Product Description: Lines from the Provinces tenders to readers a collection of poems that speak in the long tradition of American poetry connected to place, trying to discover if it is reasonable to 'want lines to tether us to something / after all...read more

Product Description: The Internet and its different tools have brought momentous changes in the way people think, create, store, disseminate and acquire knowledge. Easier access to Internet information resources, the ability to find timely information from different sources such as onlilne databases, and instantaneous communication with experts worldwide, have helped create innovative learning environments and opportunities for learners...read more

Product Description: This historical account of the care of insanity outside formal instruction explores key issues relating to the social history of madness from 1750 to the present day. These include women and the social construciton of madness, the boarding out of lunatics by poor law authorities, familial care and treatment of the insane and the practice of mental healing by general practitioners...read more

Product Description: This text explores the concept and practicalities of web-based learning and training. It examines the required infrastructures, management tactics, business ramifications, and economic considerations that readers need to be aware of when implementing web-based learning programmes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Presents a collection of maps that detail the history and development of Christianity. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A perfect gift for pipe smokers (and anyone with a penchant for the occasional puff), The Pipe Companion details the origins, history, and customs of pipe smoking. This new addition to our critically acclaimed series of connoisseur's companions includes nearly 125 full-color photographs highlighting the work of more than 50 master pipe carvers from around the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This human biology text covers the Human Physiology and Health GCSE syllabuses (NEAB and SEG) and is suitable for GNVQ Health and Social Care. It is written for post-16 students who may have struggled with science GCSEs, or are studying the subject with a particular vocational focus.

A history of the U.S. Lifesaving Service, an ancestor of the modern Coast Guard, focuses on a crew led by former slave and Civil War veteran Richard Etheridge, and their heroic exploits while stationed on Pea Island, North Carolina. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Failures due to degradation may result from exposure to the weather or an aggressive operating environment. Alternatively they may be caused by the introduction of an external agent unforeseen by the product designer. This book describes the following mechanisms of polymer degradation, and then illustrates each failure mechanism with a number of case studies: Thermooxidation Photooxidation Degradation due to ionizing radiation Chemical attack Environmental stress cracking Treeing Electrochemical Degradation Diodegradation The book will be essential reading for designers, engineers, product specifiers and forensic engineers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers an in-depth look at how animal's bodies function and how distinctive traits of each species helps them adapt to their environment. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Recently, we have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the history of disability. In this book, David Wright investigates the social history of institutionalization and reveals the diversity of the "insane" population and the complexities of institutional committal in Victorian England--using the National Asylum for Idiots (Earlswood) as a case study...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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