This revision skills book gives all secondary students a clear practical method to revise effectively for all exams. Its packed full of handy tips & techniques thatll improve your revision & make the facts stick in your head & its pocket-sized so you can easily take it anywhere. There are also a few jokes to lighten the mood. Its exactly what you need to prepared for your KS3 GCSE or A-level exams! ...

The Professor of Truth" is the newest novel by Saltire prizewinner James Robertson. Twenty-one years after his wife & daughter were murdered in the bombing of a plane over Scotland Alan Tealing a university lecturer still does not know the truth of what really happened on that terrible night. Obsessed by the details of what he has come to call The Case he is sure that the man convicted of the atrocity was not responsible & that he himself has thus been deprived not only of justice but also of any chance of escape from his enduring grief. When an American intelligence officer apparently terminally ill & determined to settle his own accounts before death arrives on his doorstep with information about a key witness in the trial a fateful sequence of events is set in motion. Alan decides that he must travel to Australia to confront this witness whose evidence he has always disbelieved in the hope that this might at last be the breakthrough for which he has waited so long. Praise for " The Testament of Gideon Mack": " The story of a Presbyterian minister who comes back from a near-death experience claiming that he has met the devil this is both a hugely gripping tale & a fascinating examination of the difference between faith & belief". ("FT Magazine"). "A masterly piece of storytelling (and Scottish soul-reaching)". (James Naughtie " Herald"). Praise for " And the Land Lay Still": "A wonderful novel.. .panoramic illuminating & compassionate.. .the book represents nothing less than a landmark for the novel in Scotland & underlines the author's position as one of Britain's best contemporary novelists". (Irvine Welsh " Guardian"). " Bold discursive & deep Robertson's sweeping history of life & politics in twentieth-century Scotland should not be ignored". (" Observer"). James Robertson is the author of four previous novels " The Fanatic" " Joseph Knight" " The Testament of Gideon Mack" & " And the Land Lay Still". " Joseph Knight" was awarded the two major Scottish literary awards in 2003/4
- the Saltire Book of the Year & the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year
- & " The Testament of Gideon Mack" was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize picked by Richard & Judy's Book Club & shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award. " And the Land Lay Still" was the winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2010."

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School maths is not the interesting part. The real fun is elsewhere. Like a magpie Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening entertaining & vexing curiosities of maths over the years
- now the private collection is displayed in his cabinet. There are some hidden gems of logic geometry & probability
- like how to extract a cherry from a cocktail glass (harder than you think) a pop up dodecahedron the real reason why you cant divide anything by zero & some tips for making money by proving the obvious. Scattered among these are keys to unlocking the mysteries of Fermats last theorem the Poincare Conjecture chaos theory & the P/NP problem for which a million dollar prize is on offer. There are beguiling secrets about familiar names like Pythagoras or prime numbers as well as anecdotes about great mathematicians. Pull out the drawers of the Professors cabinet & who knows what could happen?

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Ian Stewart author of the bestselling Professor Stewarts Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities" presents a new & magical mix of games puzzles paradoxes brainteasers & riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient & modern mathematical thought appallingly hilarious mathematical jokes & enquiries into the great mathematical challenges of the present & past. Amongst a host of arcane & astonishing facts about every kind of number from irrational or imaginary to complex or cuneiform we find out: how to organise chaos; how matter balances anti-matter; how to turn a sphere inside out (without creasing it); why you cant comb a hairy ball; & how to calculate pi by observing the stars. & we get some tantalizing glimpses of the maths of life & the universe. Mind-stretching enlightening & endlessly amusing Professor Stewarts new entertainment will stimulate delight & enthrall." ...

Author Bryan Bland has led thousands of birding tours to more than 70 countries. On one such trip a bemused waiter once posed the question: Where is the profit in birding?" Bryan is famed as one of birdings greatest story-tellers & he uses his book to answer this question emphatically. In short theres more to birding than just birds although these clearly provide a great deal of interest & pleasure. In addition history dramatic scenery location filming plus much else from world politics to the crucial life-enhancing role of music are all featured in this light-hearted examination of the profit of birding. Tales include scrapes with terrorists running 50 miles across the landslide-strewn Himalayas in order to keep an appointment with a tour group & Britains first-ever breeding pair of Parrot Crossbills using Bryans beard to build their nest! Birders & non-birders alike will enjoy the humorous anecdotal narrative while the lively text is accompanied by many of the authors photographs & exquisite line-drawings." ...

A chance encounter with Andrew Lloyd Webber at a summer party sent Josceline Dimbleby on a quest to uncover a mystery in her own family's past. Her great-aunt Amy Gaskell was the subject of a beautiful dark portrait by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones but all that was known about Amy according to family lore was that she had 'died young of a broken heart'. In her search Josceline discovered a cache of unpublished letters from Burne-Jones to her great-grandmother May Gaskell Amy's mother. They formed a passionate & prolific correspondence of up to five letters a day from the last six years of the painter's life. As she read more & more questions were raised: why did Burne-Jones feel he had to protect May from an overwhelming sadness? What was the deep secret she had confided to him? & what was the tragic truth behind beautiful Amy's wayward wandering life her strange marriage & her unexplained early death? ...

Successful construction is often attributed to one or more aspects of the delivery process from good planning design & clever engineering to efficient project management & quality construction. Before any of these disciplines can begin they all require some form of procurement to select the team or supply chain to meet a clients or a projects specific requirements. The concept of PSE
- Purchase & Supplier Engineering
- originated in the procurement of the construction & infrastructure required to stage the 30 th Olympiad in London during 2012. At the time of writing PSE has successfully delivered almost GBP25bn of public procurement meeting client & project requirements & without legal challenge. The construction of the venues & infrastructure needed to stage London 2012 was such a resounding success that it boosted not only the reputation of the UK construction industry but also the confidence of the UK population in the countrys ability to organise build & run a major international event. Its success has been lauded as something from which clients & industry could learn. The ODA has established a comprehensive & informative body of evidence as part of a Learning Legacy. While the ODA is well aware of the many elements of the procurement & supply chain management the complete end to end concept of how the Olympic supply chain procurements were managed has until now not been captured. For example how does one buy the stage for an Olympic Games? How does one manage the details of thousands of contracts & the many firms of contractors subcontractors & material suppliers & ensure that no one organisation adversely affects any other to the detriment of the programme? How are a clients requirements beyond those of the capital asset realised as part of the investment? How does one measure programme exposure or manage performance? How does one measure capacity & the ability of firms to cope with the work & manage the risks involved? Programme Procurement in Construction: Learning from London 2012 covers the planning & preparation of a programmes procurement processes from understanding & developing the clients requirements to monitoring performance based on the benchmarks contractors set out in their own tender submissions. The emphasis is on a close attention to detail to avoid surprises while keeping a focus on the total programme. Purchase & Supplier Engineering provides an overview of managing the interest of firms in participating & the resulting capacity & workloads of all suppliers including the main contractors & the critical subcontractors & material suppliers. Offering techniques tips & lessons learnt from the implementation of PSE on London 2012 & Crossrail this book is aimed at public & private sector clients developers senior management & those businesses & professionals involved in undertaking the procurement supply chain management & delivery of multiple construction projects or complex major construction programmes.

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Completely revised & updated with the latest version of C++ the new Fifth Edition of Programming & Problem Solving with C++ provides the clearest introduction to C++ object-oriented programming & software development available. Renowned author team Nell Dale & Chip Weems are careful to include all topics & guidelines put forth by the ACM/IEEE. A new chapter on Data Structures makes this text ideal for the one- or two-term course. New Software Maintenance Case Studies teach students how to read code in order to debug alter or enhance existing class or code segments. ...

What does it take to build well-engineered Android applications? Explore Androids core building blocks & APIs in depth with this authoritative guide (updated to cover the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android) & learn how to create compelling apps that work on a full range of Android devices. Youll work with proven approaches to app design & implementation
- including application frameworks that you can use as a starting point for your own projects. Delve into sensors native development 3D graphics & many other topics & discover how to build apps on the platform of your choice. If youre an intermediate to advanced programmer youll learn how to make great Android apps. Learn how to use the Android SDK with the Eclipse IDE Apply advanced Java concepts regardless of your experience with the language Create an Android user interface thats captivating & easy to navigate Use the Fragment API for tablet user interfaces Make your application compatible with Honeycomb & earlier versions Understand Androids unique database design issues & the role of SQLite Use sensors & gestures to expand your apps input beyond just tapping & scrolling Explore Android APIs for multimedia location communication NFC & other applications
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Learn how to build real-world applications with the ASP.NET MVC framework using powerful architecture patterns & modern web technologies such as HTML 5 & j Query. With this hands-on guide you'll gain a complete understanding of this framework with examples that demonstrate how various ASP.NET MVC 4 features work. You'll also get valuable code examples that you can directly apply to your own projects. This practical book also

Includes:: tips tricks & best practices for web application development in general & ASP.NET MVC 4 in particular
- including pitfalls you need to avoid. Key topics include: Web application architecture (s) The ASP.NET MVC 4 framework Mobile web development Cloud architecture & development Best practices for using HTML5 CSS Javascript & j Query


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