This practical, research-informed text will provide students across all disciplines with models, tasks & activities to enable them to plan, action, write & present quality research. It will help develop ideas, creative thinking & systematic research practices to enable students to produce high quality dissertations & reports. ...

In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured & many suffered serious after-effects. This title features the author's interviews with the victims to tried & established precisely what happened on the subway that day. ...

For Stephen Smith, author of UNDERGROUND LONDON, beneath the dales & downs of England's green & pleasant land there exists another country, its equal in beauty & fascination. On his underworld odyssey from Newcastle to Brighton, from the Welsh Marches to the Suffolk coast, Smith uncovers smugglers' tunnels & drowned cities, burial mounds & underground waterfalls, & investigates the errant nuns & secret societies, the eighteenth-century rakes & troglodyte communities who have made the netherworld their home. Erudite, curious & unfailingly entertaining, UNDERGROUND ENGLAND is at once subterranean ghost train, rollercoaster ride, & passport to a mysterious other world. This book has 306 pages & is 2.5 x 13.3 x 19.7 cm ...

What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide & history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages & tunnels of the city, the bunkers & tunnels, crypts & shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground London, it's also an exploration through time: Queen Boudicca lies beneath Platform 10 at King's Cross (legend has it); Dick Turpin fled the Bow Street Runners along secret passages leading from the cellar of the Spaniards pub in North London; the remains of a pre-Christian Mithraic temple have been found near the Bank of England; on the platforms of the now defunct King William Street Underground, posters still warn that ' Careless talk costs lives'. Stephen Smith uncovers the secrets of the city by walking through sewers, tunnels under such places as Hampton Court, ghost tube stations, & long lost rivers such as the Fleet & the Tyburn. This is 'alternative' history at its best. This book has 416 pages & is 3.2 x 12.7 x 19.7 cm ...

Steven Soderbergh directs this thriller starring Peter Gallagher as Michael Chambers, a charming drifter who returns home after leaving years earlier under a cloud of gambling debts & indiscretions. Following his homecoming, he becomes embroiled in a de ...

When elite SBS operative John Stratton is given orders to retrieve a missing computer ship, she soon discovers that this mission could be his most dangerous yet. The chip is embedded beneath the skin of a fearless Taliban terrorist who has been captured by the American military & placed inside the notorious Stynx penitentiary. & the Styx is no ordinary prison it is located 300 feet beneath the sea. Even if a prisoner did manage to break free, the pressure of water as he rose to the surface would make his head explode. With murderous convicts, crooked guards & a kamikaze terrorist to contend with, it seems that Stratton may have signed his own dearth warrant. ...

Understand Physics gives you a solid understanding of the key skills & ideas that run through the subject. You will explore the important concepts of force & motion, electricity, light, molecules, matter & space & discover the frontiers of physics. With numerous questions, answers & worked examples throughout, you will feel confident in approaching the science & applying your knowledge. ...

Understand what dyslexia is, assess education options & help your child succeed. Open the book & find: * How to recognise the signs of dyslexia at all ages. * Tests you can use to assess your child's reading skill. * Advice on obtaining a Statement of Special Educational Needs. * Ways to establish the kind of school that will best suit your child. * Techniques for helping your child feel confident & independent. * How to succeed with dyslexia in adulthood. * Information on well-known dyslexia programmes & learning centres. ...

Fully revised to take account of the latest developments in the treatment & diagnosis of ADHD, this text covers topics such as: the causes; how to help improve behaviour at home & at school; making the diagnosis; medication & alternative therapies; & boosting self esteem. ...

A brand new strand for Developing Literacy: the best-selling library of photocopiable teaching resources. Written specifically to support the governments new Primary Framework for Literacy, it features completely new activities, a fresh modern design both inside & out, & comes with a CD that contains all the activity sheets in a customisable format. Using our unique software supplied on the CD-ROM, teachers can effortlessly adapt the activities to make them more challenging or to create further exercises for children who need a bit more practice. New text & images can be easily imported & saved without fear of corrupting the original files, & teachers can print out as many copies as they wish. ...