User-friendly easy to dip into guide for all Built Environment students Takes the reader from the stage of choosing a topic to writing a well-structured dissertation Best case practice illustrated with numerous examples case studies & references. Dissertation Research & Writing for Construction Students covers topic selection research planning data collection & methodology as well as structuring & writing the dissertation
- in fact everything needed for a successful write-up. A new section advising students on the use of the SPSS software ' Statistical Package for Social Sciences' will help readers make the best use of this tool. New examples & references ensure that this new edition of the bestselling construction dissertation guide is right up to speed with current practice. This is the ideal resource for students involved in research in Construction Management Building & Quantity Surveying.
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Addictive risque glamourous fiction series for sophisticated teens. Alice & Tally the most gorgeous glamorous girls at St Cecilia's are best friends. But since Alice shared a fabulously romantic tryst with Tally's ex during a New Year's skiing trip it seems only a matter of time before things get ugly. But Tally seems too distracted to notice Alice's guilty behaviour. Where did she disappear to over the Christmas break? Where has she got hold of the cash she's flaunting around? & where has she got the beautiful new necklace with its mysterious coat of arms? Alice hopes it doesn't have anything to do with the scary sounding Russian connections Tally's boasted of. The new term will bring gossip glamour & scandal than ever before... ...

As the second year of high school begins Haruhis cynical & sarcastic confidant Kyon the only normal" member of the SOS Brigade finds himself meeting Sasaki an old friend from his days in junior high. Haruhi & Sasakis shared friendship with Kyon & possibly shared abilities causes tension between the two & Kyon knows Haurhis dissatisfaction can have dire consequences! Kyon & Sasakis chance meeting could affect his future the future of the SOS Brigade & the world forever. This ninth volume of the Haruhi Suzumiya series is the first to use two alternate stories for the same plot with different endings. The story continues in the next novel The Astonishment of Haruhi Suzumiya." ...

Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church & the country is waking up to savage new laws rigged trials & the greatest network of informers ever seen. Under the order of Thomas Cromwell a team of commissioners is sent through the country to investigate the monasteries. There can only be one outcome: the monasteries are to be dissolved. But on the Sussex coast at the monastery of Scarnsea events have spiralled out of control. Cromwell's Commissioner Robin Singleton has been found dead his head severed from his body. His horrific murder is accompanied by equally sinister acts of sacrilege -- a black cockerel sacrificed on the alter & the disappearance of Scarnsea's Great Relic. Dr Matthew Shardlake lawyer & long-time supporter of Reform has been sent by Cromwell into this atmosphere of treachery & death. But Shardlake's investigation soon forces him to question everything he hears & everything that he intrinsically believes.. . ...

Gripping insightful & deft Maggie O' Farrell's third novel is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives. It was winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. On a cold February afternoon Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years but instantly recognises. Or thinks she does. At the same moment on the other side of the globe in the middle of a crowd of Chinese New Year revellers Jake realises that things are becoming dangerous. They know nothing of one another's existence but both Stella & Jake flee their lives: Jake in search of a place so remote it doesn't appear on any map & Stella for a destination in Scotland the significance of which only her sister Nina will underst&. ...

The award-winning Number One bestseller & Queen of crime fiction Val Mc Dermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller. ...

THE SHADOW OF THE EAGLE
- 1814: Napoleon has abdicated & the ' Great War' is at an end. As King Louis XVIII is escorted back to
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A story of seafaring men & the women who love them by the author of The Red Shawl". Captain David Fernley has made & lost a fortune in the whaling trade fishing the frozen Arctic wastes from the Yorkshire port of Whitby. Then his erring wife & best friend die in an accident at sea." ...

Edie Burchill & her mother have never been close but when a long lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle Kent printed on its envelope Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a thirteen year old girl Edie's mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe & taken to live at Millderhurst Castle with the Blythe family. Fifty years later Edie too is drawn to Milderhurst & the eccentric Sisters Blythe. Old ladies now the three still live together the twins nursing Juniper whose abandonment by her fiance in 1941 plunged her into madness. Inside the decaying castle Edie begins to unravel her mother's past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst Castle & Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in the distant hours has been waiting a long time for someone to find it... ...

As they dazzle all the men at Queen Victorias jubilee ball Beth & Milly Goodwin seem to be mirror images of one another: beautiful graceful & rich they can take their pick of any man in St Helens. Only those who know them best realize that Millys dark brown eyes hide a wild untamed wantonness while Beths silvery-grey ones betray her idealism & kindness. But the only man in the room either of them wants is the one who could destroy both their lives. Hugh sixteenth Lord Thornley is a rake who needs to marry an heiress to restore the fortune his father gambled away. Even a lowly daughter of a glass manufacturer will do
- provided she is biddable & strong & willing to bear the son he needs. Beth he decides will make him the perfect wife. But it is Milly who traps him into a loveless marriage
- & sets in motion a chain of events that could destroy everything they hold dear.

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