This new edition of Woodrows Intensive Care Nursing will be warmly welcomed. Especially written for qualified nurses working in intensive care nursing units this comprehensive text has been developed to be as accessible as possible. Including new chapters on planning for pandemics & transferring patients it has been revised throughout to ensure the evidence-base is completely up-to-date & the content reflects contemporary best practice. Intensive Care Nursing is structured in user-friendly sections. Each chapter contains fundamental knowledge needed to understand the chapter an introduction implications for practice a chapter summary completely updated further reading time out sections for revision & a clinical scenario with questions included. Reviewed throughout by experienced practitioners & teachers it covers: patient-focused issues of bedside nursing the technical knowledge necessary to care safely for ICU patients the more common & specialized disease processes & treatments encountered how nurses can use their knowledge & skills to develop their own & others practice. Written by a practice development nurse with a strong clinical background in intensive care nursing & experience of teaching nursing Intensive Care Nursing is essential reading for nurses & health professionals working with high dependency patients particularly those undertaking further training in the area. ...

Ever wondered if your intentions prayers or wishes have a real calculable effect on the world? Here from Lynne Mc Taggart groundbreaking author of The Field comes riveting accounts of scientific investigations & real case histories with evidence that we are all connected & our intentions can be harnessed as a collective force for good. For the last 40 years renegade scientists experimenting with the limits of quantum physics have made seemingly impossible discoveries. 1966: a lie-detector expert accidentally discovers that plants can read thoughts. 1982: meditating Buddhist monks in the Himalayas turn their bodies into a human furnace. 1994: a psychologists experiments reveal a stream of light flowing from healers during healing. These events form part of an extraordinary scientific story & revolutionary discovery
- that thought is a thing that affects other things. In The Intention Experiment Lynne Mc Taggart author of the international bestseller The Field joins forces with a team of international renowned scientists to test the effects of focused group intention on scientifically quantifiable targets
- animal plant & human. The Intention Experiment is a truly revolutionary book that invites you the reader to take part in the greatest intention experiment in history. The results of Mc Taggarts global laboratory started with the focused intention that made a geranium leaf glow to evidence to show that group intention is powerful enough to affect targets more than 5000 miles away & may even affect global warming. These remarkable results prove human thought & intention has the power to focus our lives heal our illnesses clean up our communities & improve the planet. This book also shows you how to harness that power to make changes in your own life.

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' Nick Pratt's book looks in detail at the real meaning of teaching mathematics interactively in primary schools. Each section is set clearly within a context is linked by 'key ideas' -- the important bits to think about -- & is summarised to give a succinct close to the chapter's content & thinking. It is a book that the reader will definitely find useful & thought provoking. It certainly made me consider how small changes & a wider variety of approaches in the classroom can make big changes in children's learning & understanding of mathematical concepts'
- Mike Eatwell Primary Maths Advisor Bristol LEA Using a whole-class interactive approach to teaching mathematics is a key feature of the National Numeracy Strategy (NNS) & this book looks at not only what works but also why things work. Teachers will be able to understand why & how the various teaching strategies they are using in their classrooms have a positive effect on children's learning. The book covers: how to engage in meaningful reflective practice that will improve your lessons " how to use whiteboards " making mathematical meaning through talk " getting the whole class interacting " thinking talking & acting mathematically " teaching number
- starting points " teaching shape & space
- starting points " developing your interactive teaching " a glossary of terms It is aimed at both practising & trainee teachers & offers clear subject guidance as well as an explanation of a key part of the NNS. It supports both individuals & mathematics subject leaders delivering INSET to their colleagues."


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From the Arab Spring to British summer riots from the War on Terror to The X Factor from social networking sites to online electioneering the significance of new media technologies seems clear. This study offers an analysis of the impact of such interactive media on contemporary politics & society. It explores how new media technologies give their users a sense of empowerment & questions whether these technologies really directly empower their users at all. For example when viewers cast their votes in reality television shows is that really a form of democratic participation? Does Facebook actually enhance the quality of its users friendships & increase their social capital? Does the video game player develop the liberating agency the game appears to promise? Do online forms of politics essentially increase levels of democratic involvement? Will Wikipedia truly teach us anything? Can Web 2.0 ever set us free? Drawing upon interviews with figures from politics & the media this book examines the possibilities which underlie these technologies & questions some of the key assumptions which we have made about them. ...

Patrick Robinsons newest novel deals with the ultimate dread of the United States military
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Inter City was the flagship of British Rail's passenger network. Launched in the early 1960s the brand was created by BR to highlight its long-distance & express passenger services & it came to dominate long-distance railway travel. Inter City-branded services were to be seen throughout the BR network serving the East & Coast main lines the Midland main line the Great Western & Great Eastern main lines as well as the complex network of routes that formed the northeast-southwest corridor. Chris Green & Mike Vincent compiled The Inter City Story in 1994 just prior to the break-up of the business following the passage of the 1993 Railways Act. This provided a detailed history of Inter City from its origins in the 1960s through to the point of publication & speculated on its post-Privatisation future. This new book which is in part a revision of the earlier volume brings the story up-to-date by reflecting how the various franchisees have handled the routes that they have operated since Privatisation. Again compiled by Chris Green & Mike Vincent the book will have the undoubted advantage that the authors know all the significant & influential figures from both before & after the period of Privatisation & provide a first-hand & revealing account of almost 50 years of railway history. ...

Intercultural Communication in the Global Workplace 5/e" by Beamer & Varner addresses the issues of culture & communication within the context of international business. The text provides examples of how cultural values & practices impact business communication. The authors explore the relationships among the cultural environments of the firm & the structure of the firm. They examine how companies & individuals communicate & concentrate on the underlying cultural reasons for behavior. This approach helps readers develop an ability to work successfully within an environment of cultural diversity both at home & abroad." ...

A foot on the neck is nine points of the law' There are many who say that the art of diplomacy is an intricate & complex dance between two informed partners determined by an elaborate set of elegant & unwritten rules. There are others who maintain that it's merely a matter of who carries the biggest stick. Like when a large heavily fortified & armoured empire makes a faintly menacing request of a much smaller infinitely more cowardly neighbour. It would be churlish if not extremely dangerous not to comply
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Born in 1917 the year of the Russian Revolution the eighty-five years of Eric Hobsbawms life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars revolutions & counter-revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling & long life; historian & intellectual fluent in five languages a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain until it dissolved itself & writer of countless volumes of history. He has personally witnessed some of the critical events of our century from Hitlers rise to power in Berlin to the fall of the Berlin wall. Hobsbawm has kept his eyes & ears open for eighty-five years & has been constantly committed to understanding the interesting times (as the Chinese curse puts it) through which he has lived. His autobiography is one passionate cosmopolitan Jews account of his travels through that past which is another country where they do things differently & how it became the world we now live in. ...

MIGHTY BATTLES! REVOLUTION! DEATH! WAR! (AND HIS SONS TERROR & PANIC & DAUGHTER CLANCY) The oldest & most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities. & all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard who cant even spell the word wizard... Cohen the barbarian hero five foot tall in his surgical sandals who has had a lifetimes experience of not dying...and a very special butterfly. ...