This title explores a range of key materials, their properties and their uses. The title encourages readers to engage with this subject area via accessible text and modern imagery.Discover & Learn is a fascinating series that delves into key areas of learning. Each title features a mixture of diagrams, illustrations and photographs to make the information accessible and

A study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the early

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Ensure students achieve top exam marks, and can confidently progress, with a stretching yet accessible approach from Cambridge examiners. With full syllabus match, extensive practice and exam guidance this new edition embeds an advanced understanding of scientific concepts and develops advanced scientific skills for strong assessment

This book provides a solid understanding of electronic word of mouth (eWOM) by taking the reader through the process of information diffusion from rumour generation in times of traditional word of mouth (WOM) to negative social eWOM and examining how consumers process it. Consumer Behaviour and Social Network Sites tackles different themes relating to negative eWOM. Drawing on both intensive scientific

It\'s the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Italian Riviera? Filled with prosperous English visitors, the Hotel offers a closed world of wealth and comfort. With great wit and insight Elizabeth Bowen\'s first novel lays bare the intricacies and eccentricities of polite

Convinced that the veil is a symbol of unjust male authority over women, in The Veil and the Male Elite, Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi aims to investigate the origins of the practice in the first Islamic community.

The first in a new crime series featuring an English PI working on the Costa Brava. It is the first day of the hunting season. In the hills overlooking the Costa Brava a young graffiti artist, Cisco Perez, falls to his death while painting a mural on the tower of Casa

It\'s half-way through the twenty-first century.Contact with alien races was made forty years ago, but communication turns out to be impossible. We don\'t share a way of thinking or common sensory inputs with the aliens, let alone a grammar. But there is trade, done on a basis of putting things on a table and taking them off again until agreement is reached. There is no obvious pattern to the trades.

Who will solve the riddle of the quantum? Could it be you? Join Uncle Albert\'s niece Gedanken as she drinks from the magic bottle and shrinks down into the tiny world of jumping quarks and electrons. Help her and the White Rabbit explore a wonderland of light and matter where nothing is what it seems. Even today scientists remain baffled by their

Few shapes rolling down the highway are as instantly recognizable as silver Airstream trailer homes. With over 200 sparkling color images and engaging text, this book presents David Winick\'s adventure re-creating custom-built Airstream home trailers that date from1948 to 2007, including his 75th Anniversary Bambi trailer. The challenge of making functional and beautiful small living spaces helped

This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world. In License to Travel, Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey from pharaonic Egypt and Han-dynasty China to the passport controls and crowded refugee camps of today. Along the way, you will: Peruse the passports

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Charles Soule continues his saga of STAR WARS! When something goes horribly wrong with Lobot, it puts the Rebellion at terrible risk! Lando Calrissian will do anything to save his friend -- even if it means betraying all his other friends... COLLECTING: Star Wars (2020)

John Reid\'s The Best Little Boy in the World was hailed as a classic memoir of growing up gay in a straight world. But \"John Reid\" didn\'t write it. Years would pass before the writer could reveal his true identity as Andrew Tobias, America\'s bestselling financial guru, author of The Only Investment Guide You\'ll Ever Need. Now, twenty-five years later, Tobias, proud to use his real name, brings