Science and Technology

About the Book Each year thousands of people die from bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Alternative drugs are urgently needed. A surprising ray of...

About the Book Usability Engineering provides a complete overview of how to design a user interface. Intended to follow an introductory HCI course,...

About the Book United Kingdom Health Statistics 2005 brings together up-to-date information on health and care for the United Kingdom and its const...

About the Book Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry. But is it all nonsense? The Whole Story rounds up the latest evide...

About the Book A new politics of medicine is emerging from the changing relationship between medicine, society and the state. It is characterized b...

About the Book This account of the global switch to digital television, from its origins to its emerging outcomes, provides an understanding of how...

About the Book Successful Statistics For Nursing and Healthcare helps students to gain an understanding of statistical methods within the evidence-...

About the Book The stem cell debate has been intensely political, religious, global, and confusing to many people. This text explains to a general ...

About the Book An established reference source, Social Trends draws together the most up-to-date social and economic data from a wide range of gove...

About the Book This book interrogates the global utopian vision for smart energy technologies and the new energy consumer intended to realise it. I...

About the Book There are a lot of important skills needed for a career in engineering. As well as academic skills, future engineers need to be able...

About the Book Revisiting Waterbirth is an essential text for midwifery practice, by an internationally renowned author. This revised version of Ga...

About the Book Regional Trends is a comprehensive source of official statistics for the regions and countries of the UK. This edition includes a wi...

About the Book This important text explores the development and current context of primary care in the UK. Taking a policy perspective it discusses...

About the Book This unique and highly popular book provides an essential and authoritative guide to the principles and practice of nurse prescribin...

About the Book The world is changing. Human population is surging towards 10 billion, food, water, climate and energy security are all at risk. Nit...

About the Book Traditionally, dementia has been defined primarily in terms of loss: loss of cognitive and communicative competencies, loss of ident...

About the Book Pre-registration nursing students are required to spend 50% of their course time on placement. This new practical guide is designed ...

About the Book Thoroughly revised and updated to take account of recent changes in health policy, this new edition offers an extensive insight into...

About the Book An 'evidence-based' approach to health care is growing in importance, but it is difficult for students and professionals to keep up-...

About the Book This innovative introduction to environmental planning is designed for an international readership. Each of the book's chapters focu...

About the Book Aiming to provide readers with information on the various medicines prescribed or bought over the counter, this book acts as a guide...

It is important that all staff involved in health care should know what drugs a patient is taking, what they are for and what side effects there ma...

About the Book This core textbook offers a concise and interdisciplinary overview of the relationship between diversity and the media. Focusing on ...

About the Book This accessible and engaging book addresses the fundamental debates surrounding health promotion as well as exploring new horizons a...

A book on 'Children's and Young People's Nursing in Practice: A Problem-Based Learning Approach'.

About the Book Maths can be an unnecessary source of anxiety for both students and professionals involved in nursing and healthcare. Now the new ed...

The globally distributed health impacts of environmental degradation and widening inequalities require a fundamental shift in understandings of hea...

In a frank, edgy and entertaining style that pulls no punches this book reveals the truth about modern biology and debunks the commonest myths surr...