Fundamentals of Nursing unlike other texts is not limited to just one specialism but considers nursing across all fields from Adult to Child Mental Health & Learning Disabilities as well as both within the acute & community settings. The book will help you to prepare & succeed in the varied & exciting career you have chosen enabling you to become the skilled flexible & confident nurse modern healthcare demands. Fundamentals of Nursing helps you on this journey with comprehensive coverage of contemporary professional nursing developed to compliment the latest Standards of Proficiency for Pre-Registration Nursing Education (Nursing & Midwifery Council 2010) & the Essential Skills Clusters. Support for your learning is provided through: * Full Colour Presentation
- view procedures & other visuals in realistic full colour. Diagrams & text features stand out in the colourful & highly developed text design. Black & white & dullness are banned. Dont accept anything less! * Step-by-Step Procedures are included in all clinical chapters (with a quick access contents list included within the prelims). Clinical procedures are discussed using a step-by-step approach often with stunning visuals & the rationale is provided for these procedures based on current clinical evidence. Skills revision videos (available within My Nursing Kit) are linked to procedures where relevant. * Case Studies
- helping to put nursing into context these realistic scenarios across a range of nursing fields & settingsare included in all chapters. Relevant guidance is included to help you understand what you need to consider when confronted with a similar situation. These are suitable for both personal reflection & group discussion. * Newly Developed Chapters devised by specialists on Mental Health Child & Learning Disability Nursing have been written to promote the widest possible experience & understanding among students & practitioners of all nursing fields promoting the basic skills to meet any patients needs independent of age or vulnerability. * Clinical Alerts are used in clinical chapters to highlight particular areas of practice that need to be taken into account when caring for an individual or group. * Activities are used throughout to help you reinforce & prove your learning. Reference answers are provided to check your understanding. * Lifespan Considerations are included where appropriate to highlight alternative practices when caring for infants children and/or older adults. * Community Considerations provide information on caring for individuals in the home care & community setting. Prepares the student for more than just the acute setting. * My Nursing Kit
- a premium website integrated with the text providing extra practice revision & support for the student. Including diagnostic tests interactive scenario simulations & skills videos among other resources. Go to www.pearsoned.co.uk/kozier to login.


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Now in a new full-color edition Fundamentals of Photonics Second Edition is a self-contained & up-to-date introductory-level textbook that thoroughly surveys this rapidly expanding area of engineering & applied physics. Featuring a logical blend of theory & applications coverage

Includes:: detailed accounts of the primary theories of light including ray optics wave optics electromagnetic optics & photon optics as well as the interaction of photons & atoms & semiconductor optics. Presented at increasing levels of complexity preliminary sections build toward more advanced topics such as Fourier optics & holography guided-wave & fiber optics semiconductor sources & detectors electro-optic & acousto-optic devices nonlinear optical devices optical interconnects & switches & optical fiber communications. Each of the twenty-two chapters of the first edition has been thoroughly updated. The Second Edition also features entirely new chapters on photonic-crystal optics (including multilayer & periodic media waveguides holey fibers & resonators) & ultrafast optics (including femtosecond optical pulses ultrafast nonlinear optics & optical solitons). The chapters on optical interconnects & switches & optical fiber communications have been completely rewritten to accommodate current technology. Each chapter contains summaries highlighted equations exercises problems & selected reading lists. Examples of real systems are included to emphasize the concepts governing applications of current interest.

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Now more than ever organizations must plan response & recognize all forms of risks that they face. Fundamentals of Risk Management" now in its second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject of commercial & business risk for anyone studying for a career in risk as well as a broad range of risk professionals. It examines the key components of risk management & its application with examples to demonstrate its benefit to organisations in the public & private sector. The second edition has been completely updated to take into account the greater influence of ISO 3100 the emergence of Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC) & the wide use of the bowtie method to illustrate risk management. In addition there is now a chapter on the skills & competencies required by an effective risk manager." ...

Fundamentals of the Physical Environment" has established itself as a well-respected core introductory book for students of physical geography & the environmental sciences. Taking a systems approach it demonstrates how the various factors operating at Earths surface can & do interact & how landscape can be used to decipher them. The nature of the earth its atmosphere & its oceans the main processes of geomorphology & key elements of ecosystems are also all explained. The final section on specific environments usefully sets in context the physical processes & human impacts. This fourth edition has been extensively revised to incorporate current thinking & knowledge &
Includes:: a new section on the history & study of physical geography; an updated & strengthened chapter on climate change (9) & a strengthened section on the work of the wind; a revised chapter (15) on crysosphere systems
- glaciers ice & permafrost; a new chapter (23) on the principles of environmental reconstruction; a new joint chapter (24) on polar & alpine environments; a key new joint chapter (28) on current environmental change & future environments; new material on the Earth System & cycling of carbon & nutrients; themed boxes highlighting processes systems applications new developments & human impacts; & a support website with discussion & essay questions chapter summaries & extended case studies. Clearly written well-structured & with over 450 informative colour diagrams & 150 colour photographs this text provides students with the necessary grounding in fundamental processes whilst linking these to their impact on human society & their application to the science of the environment."

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Guiding novice & experienced woodworkers alike this ultimate guide to the fine art of using the lathe to shape wood



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When a skeleton is discovered on a Devon smallholding DS Wesley Peterson a keen amateur archaeologist is intrigued by the possibility that it is a Viking corpse buried in keeping with ancient traditions. But he has a rather more urgent crime to solve- the disappearance of a Danish tourist. Wesley finds disturbing evidence that the attractive Dane has been abducted. His boss Gerry Heffernan believes that Ingeborg's disappearance is linked to a spate of brutal robberies & that she witnessed something she shouldn't have. But is her disappearance linked to far older events? For it seems that this may not have been Ingeborg's first visit to this far from quiet West Country backwater... Kate Ellis's wonderfully addictive series of West Country set crime novels feature Wesley Peterson one of Devon's first black detectives. ...

Satyrus & Melitta twin heirs to a rich kingdom on the Black Sea become desperate fugitives when their mother the Scythian warrior-princess Srayanka is cut down in a savage act of betrayal. Accompanied by their tutor the Spartan Philokles they must make a perilous journey west pursued by ruthless assassins to find sanctuary with the army of their fathers closest friend Diodorus. But Diodorus is caught up in the tangled web of alliances betrayals & intrigue that followed Alexander the Greats death as his generals fought over the huge empire he had created
- & soon the twins will have their first taste of real battle as two Macedonian warlords clash. In this violent & unstable world they must chose sides carefully as Antigonus One-Eye & his brilliant son Demetrius prepare to take on the might of Ptolemys Egypt & the forces gather for the biggest & most spectacular battle the world had ever seen
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A ferociously cool Cold War thriller from the author of The Ipcress File. Len Deightons third novel has become a classic as compelling & suspenseful now as when it first exploded on to the bestseller lists. In Berlin where neither side of the wall is safe Colonel Stok of Red Army Security is prepared to sell an important Russian scientist to the West
- for a price. British intelligence are willing to pay providing their own top secret agent is in Berlin to act as go-between. But it soon becomes apparent that behind the facade of an elaborate mock funeral lies a game of deadly manoeuvres & ruthless tactics. A game in which the blood-stained legacy of Nazi Germany is enmeshed in the intricate moves of cold war espionage...
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The brilliant new Bob Skinner mystery by the master of crime fiction his most ambitious ever. After a tip-off a man's body is exhumed from a shallow grave in Edinburgh. Murder surely yet he died from natural causes so case closed? Indeed was there ever a case? But Chief Constable Skinner & his people keep on digging. Who was the man why was he buried so reverentially & by whom? Meanwhile corruption is discovered within the force & an investigation launched. Immersed in crises his marriage heading for the rocks Skinner finds his very career hanging in the balance its fate beyond his control. In a tale seen through the eyes of each of its leading players Quintin Jardine the Crimemaster lays mystery upon mystery until the greatest threat of all those facing the Chief is revealed & a deadly race begins. Can he win out or will his life implode? ...

Life in Bogeydom is full of snot smells slime scum & other unspeakable things & Bogeymen live under the ground revelling in all the nastiness imaginable. Briggs has created a whole new world in this sophisticated cartoon-strip picture book for older children which will entice the most reluctant of readers into books. ...