Our immune system is a complex network of cells continually working against a barrage of attack from our environment quite literally to save our lives. But how do our bodies protect us from the bacteria & other potentially life-threatening organisms that surround us every day? Infection & Immunity third edition explains how in the lucid accessible style for which John Playfair is renowned. Together with Greg Bancroft an expert in infectious diseases Playfair describes the main causes of infection that our bodies have to battle against
- from bacteria to viruses fungi to protozoa
- & explains the intricate & fascinating ways that our bodies respond to infection
- from detection of these potentially dangerous organisms to their ultimate elimination. Presenting a fully-rounded perfectly-balanced overview of the field the book also explains how diseases spread & what measures we can take to control this spread
- from vaccination to increased awareness through public health initiatives. With examples of infectious diseases from across the world Infection & Immunity is perfect for biomedical science bioscience & microbiology students who need to understand what causes infection & how our immune systems respond. Online Resource Centre The Online Resource Centre features * Figures from the book ready to download (for registered adopters)
- Hyperlinks to primary literature articles cited in the text




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Infection control is fundamental to delivering effective health & social care at all levels. However health & social care professionals actual behaviour can sometimes seem intractable to the most rigorous training & promotion of safe practice
- including even basic hygiene precautions. Many have identified this problem but few have addressed why it occurs & how practices can lastingly be changed. This book reaches beyond a prescriptive approach to infection control behaviour examining the psychosocial forces that affect individual & group behaviours in practice. It gives a strong theoretical framework for practitioners supervisors & managers to reflect upon & challenge behaviour before providing practical advice on how to create supervise & promote genuinely consistent safe practice. This book aims to challenge fundamentally the way health & social care professionals supervisors & managers approach infection control & hygiene
- & in doing so to dramatically improve the health & safety of their patients clients colleagues & the public. I have deliberately set out to challenge the status quo & to push the frontiers of your thinking in relation to infection control. I have also attempted to provide a text that closes a gap where infection control research education & practice leaves much to be desired. Paul Elliott

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Infection control is now a major issue in clinical practice. The third edition of this highly successful book provides a comprehensive guide to the principles & practice of infection control & prevention & the basic elements of microbiology & epidemiology that underpin them. This revised edition has been updated thoroughly throughout in line with current policy clinical practice & the organisation & prevention of infection control in the UK. It contains new material on emerging pathogens antimicrobial agents & resistance & infection control guidance. The evidence-base for infection control practice has been fully revised to take into account new research & guidance. The contents are firmly based in clinical practice & relevant to both hospital & community settings. The information is research-based & extensively referenced & therefore provides an invaluable resource for evidence-based practice. Presentation is clear concise & accessible to a wide audience including diploma & degree course students nurses & allied health professionals working in clinical settings & infection control specialists. ...

Four decades after the Oblivion Crisis Tamriel is threatened anew by an ancient & all-consuming evil: Umbriel a floating city casts a terrifying shadow
- for wherever it falls people die & rise again. & inside Umbriel's shadow a great adventure begins
- & a group of unlikely heroes meet. A legendary prince with a deep secret. A daring spy on the trail of a vast conspiracy. A mage obsessed with his desire for revenge. & Annaig a young girl in whose hands the fate of Tamriel may rest... Based on the award-winning The Elder Scrolls" " The Infernal City" is the first of two exhilarating novels following events that continue the story from " The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" named 2006 Game of the Year."

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This title is second in the New York Times" bestselling urban fantasy series set in Victorian London. Love & lies can corrupt even the purest heart... In the magical underworld of Victorian London Tessa Gray finds her heart drawn more & more to Jem while her desire for Will despite his dark moods continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will
- the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets & give Tessa the answers about who she is & what she was born to do? As their dangerous search for the truth leads the three friends into peril Tessa's heart is ever more torn especially when one of their own betrays them... The first book in the series " Clockwork Angel" debuted at number one on the " New York Times" Bestseller list & spent ten weeks in the charts. Casting has begun for Cassandra Clare's first bestselling urban fantasy series " The Mortal Instruments" & filming is expected to begin shortly."
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This title is second in the New York Times" bestselling urban fantasy series set in Victorian London. Still reeling from her terrifying confrontation with the Magister & her brothers betrayal Tessa Gray is drawn ever deeper into the Shadowhunters dark underworld of demons & danger. In a desperate attempt to help her friends Tessa tries to uncover the truth about the Magister & learns that blames the Shadowhunters for the murder of his parents nearly a half century ago. But who were his parents & why did the Shadowhunters kill them? Determined to unravel the secrets of his past Tessa Will & Jem journey to mist-shrouded Yorkshire only to encounter corrupt Shadowhunters more intent on burying the past than finding the Magister
- a past that holds the key not only to the enemys motivations & weakness but to the secret of what Tessa really is & what she was born to do. Meanwhile Tessas feelings for Jem & Will are growing more complicated & soon she is forced to acknowledge that any choice she makes will either save the Shadowhunters of London
- or end them for ever. This is the first book in the series " Clockwork Angel" debuted at number one on the " New York Times" Bestseller list & spent ten weeks in the charts. Casting has begun for Cassandra Clares other bestselling urban fantasy series " The Mortal Instruments" & filming is expected to begin shortly. The exclusive online global cover reveal is planned for May 2011."

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As a bold & gifted child Branwell Brontes promise seemed boundless to the three adoring sisters over whom his rule was complete. But as an adult the precocious flame of genius distorted & burned low. With neither the strength nor the resources to counter rejection unable to sell his paintings or publish his books Branwell became a spectre in the Bronte story in pathetic contrast with the astonishing achievements of his sisters. Daphne du Maurier concentrates all her biographers skill on the shadowy figure of Branwell Bronte & no reader could fail to be intensely moved by Branwells final retreat into laudanum alcohol
- & death
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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important & innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally & politically. At the same time he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the Italian vernacular to produce a radically new & all-encompassing work. The Comedy tells the story of the journey of a character who is at one & the same time both Dante himself & Everyman. In the Inferno Dantes protagonist
- & his reader
- is presented with a graphic vision of the dreadful consequences of sin & encounters an all-too-human array of noble grotesque beguiling ridiculous & horrific characters.

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Inferno" is the first part of Dantes epic poem " The Divine Comedy" revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed self-deception political double-dealing & treachery. This " Penguin Classics" edition is translated & edited with an introduction & notes by Robin Kirkpatrick. Describing Dantes descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide " Inferno" depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonising torture Dante encounters doomed souls including the pagan Aeneas the liar Odysseus the suicide Cleopatra & his own political enemies damned for their deceit. Led by leering demons the poet must ultimately journey with Virgil to the deepest level of all. Portraying a huge diversity of characters culminating in a horrific vision of Satan the " Inferno" broke new ground in the vigour of its language & storytelling. It has had a particular influence on Modernist writers & their successors throughout the world. Printed in English with facing pages in Dantes Italian this edition offers commentaries & notes on each canto by Robert Kirkpatrick. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) scion of a Florentine family mastered in the art of lyric poetry at an early age. His first major work is " La Vita Nuova" (1292) an exercise in sonnet form constructed as a tribute to Beatrice Portinari the great love of his life. It is believed that " The Divine Comedy"
- comprised of three canticles " Inferno" " Purgatorio" & " Paradiso"
- was written between 1308 & 1320. If you enjoyed the " Inferno" you might like Giovanni Boccaccios " Decameron" also available in " Penguin Classics". Kirkpatrick brings to this English Dante both his perfect knowledge of the Italian & an extraordinarily good ear in his own language Professor Piero Boitani University of Rome"

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Dan Browns new novel Inferno features renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon & is set in the heart of Europe where Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centred around one of historys most enduring & mysterious literary masterpieces. As Dan Brown comments: Although I studied Dantes Inferno as a student it wasnt until recently while researching in Florence that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dantes work on the modern world. With this new novel I am excited to take readers on a journey deep into this mysterious realm.a landscape of codes symbols & more than a few secret passageways." Click here for an EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW of Inferno" ...