This volume should appeal to anyone fitting out a wooden or fibreglass hull from scratch, or for anyone wanting to renovate an old yacht & give it a face-lift. It takes the DIY boat owner through the steps required, with the help of detailed photograph sequences & step-by-step instructions. ...

Presents ergonomic information required to engineer workplaces, machinery, offices, computers, lighting, & more to fit the humans who use them. This book delineates true human engineering, as opposed to trying to select or train people to do things with ill-designed equipment. ...

Explores the brain's remarkable capacity to adapt to its current visual environment. This work describes how visual experience alters the adult brain, fitting the mind to the world, & ensuring the efficient coding of sensory signals. It demonstrates how this plasticity affects every aspect of our visual experience. ...

Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski) is an opera-loving entrepreneur who dreams of building an opera house in the middle of the Peruvian jungle. To finance his project he attempts to persuade the rubber business to extend into the jungle, & concocts a plan which involves moving his steamship over a mountain to a parallel waterway. In making his film of the visionary's adventures, director Werner Herzog famously refused to use special effects & insisted instead on actually transporting a steamship over the mountains. ...

Part of a series of literature guides designed for GCSE coursework requirements, this book contains
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Offers coverage of the spectrum of dermatologic science, diagnosis, treatment, & management. This book looks at dermatologic therapeutics as well as dermatologic surgery & cosmetic dermatology. It

Includes:: 3, 000 color photographs & tables which encapsulate core concepts.

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