A guide for the more than 4 million women each year who experience abnormal Pap smears. It discusses the relationship of cervical cancer to infection by the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) & underscores how crucial Pap smears are for cervical cancer prevention. It also covers the meaning of different Pap-smear diagnoses. ...

The Anti-Slave Trade Act became law on 25th March 1807. It made the capture & transport of slaves by British subjects illegal. Slavery as such in the British Empire wasn't abolished until 1833. This book tells the story of the slave trade in the British Empire & examines the movement to bring it to an end. ...

Part of a series that introduces a representative selection of key art, decorative art & design of particular cultures. This book also explores the materials & resources the culture's environment has to offer. It supports Key Stage 3 Art curriculum & provides a resource for Key Stage 3 & 4. It

Includes:: photographs & illustrations.

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Story: Hugh Grant takes the lead role as aimless, commitment-shy, thirtysomething Will in this adaptation of Nick Hornby's bestseller. Living on the royalties of a hit song his father wrote 40 years ago, Will drifts through life, moving from one relations ...

' How cool was Will Freeman?' Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs & knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy. ...

At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed
- perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola
- by her love of Virgil & Cicero, but shocked by her appearance.

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The importance of Chekhov's stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors. Their themes
- alienation, the
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Why does the size of a space shuttle's fuel tanks have more to do with a horse's rump than rocket science? Is there a correlation between the humble pint & the capacity of the human bladder? & why is an old Wellington boot as important an instrument of spacial awareness as was ever invented? About the Size of It is a hugely entertaining history of traditional weights & measures that will make you look at your everyday world in a completely different way.. .'A full & convincing account of why our well-tried & trusted traditional measures make human sense' Alexander Mc Call Smith ' His direct, engaging conversational prose is a delight to read...inspirational' Andrew Roberts ' Absolutely masterly. Lucid & wise & touching & absolutely right' Jilly Cooper ...

When Albert Einstein formulated his theory of relativity it brought about a revolution in our understanding of time, yet also presented a new set of mysteries. In this book, the author tackles the tough questions about time, including the strange relationship between physical time & our psychological perception of it. ...

Something in our world is changing. In ten years time 60% of us will be over 55. The retirement age is likely to move up to 70; modern medicine ensures that most of us will live well in to our 80s & most of us will choose to do some work, paid or voluntary, while we are still physically able. Yet older people have, as yet, no role in modern society. Old age is regarded as an invonvenience, something to be shunned & set apart from our daily lives. In this frank, often funny & always compelling disquisition on ageing, Irma Kurtz sets out to chart the territory through her own & others' experiences. Along the way she meets a diverse group of people whose insights into their own lives have much to offer a younger generation
- from a 90-year-old weekly columnist & a vicar still working in his mid-70s to The Good Granny Guide's Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall & ' London's Rudest Landlord', Normal Balon of the celebrated Coach & Horses. Kurtz is a fearless investigator of the art of growing old
- its pleasures & its griefs
- carrying with her the only tool that sharpens with age: lifelong curiosity.


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