Summarises items at the start of each section to aid revision. Personalised learning activities enable students to review what they have learnt. Advice from examiners on common pitfalls & how to avoid them prepares students for the exam. Features additional questions that cover the QCA science criteria 3.6 How Science Works". Links to the Student Books to make it easy to cross-refer." ...

Summarises items at the start of each section to aid revision. Personalised learning activities enable students to review what they have learnt. Advice from examiners on common pitfalls & how to avoid them prepares students for the exam. Features additional questions that cover the QCA science criteria 3.6 How Science Works". Links to the Student Books to make it easy to cross-refer." ...

Summarises items at the start of each section to aid revision. Personalised learning activities enable students to review what they have learnt. Advice from examiners on common pitfalls & how to avoid them prepares students for the exam. Features additional questions that cover the QCA science criteria 3.6 How Science Works". Links to the Student Books to make it easy to cross-refer." ...

From award-winning science writer John Gribbin Science: A History" is the enthralling story of the men & women who changed the way we see the world & the turbulent times they lived in. From Galileo tried by the Inquisition for his ideas to Newton who wrote his rivals out of the history books; from Marie Curie forced to work apart from male students for fear she might excite them to Louis Agassiz who marched his colleagues up a mountain to prove that the ice ages had occurred. Filled with pioneers visionaries eccentrics & madmen this is the history of science as it has never been told before. " Gripping & entertaining... Wonderfully & pleasurably accessible". (" Independent on Sunday"). " Tremendous.. .moves me to bestow a reviewer's cliche I long ago vowed never to use: a tour de force". (" Spectator"). "A magnificent history.. .enormously entertaining". (" Daily Telegraph"). "A splendid book.. .demolishes innumerable myths & exposes the factual roots of some of science's well known tales (for example Galileo never dropped weights of different sizes from Pisa's leaning tower)". (" Economist"). " We experience his subjects' triumphs & failures as if we knew them personally...I found myself whizzing through the pages". (" Sunday Telegraph"). John Gribbin is one of today's greatest writers of popular science & the author of bestselling books including " In Search of Schrodinger's Cat" " Stardust Science: A History" & " In Search of the Multiverse". Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University & is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex." ...

Bodies: Sorted! What happens in your head during a headache? What are toes for? This book explores everything from cells to organs from breathing to blood-flow from scabs & rashes to broken bones & brainpower. It will tell you everything you ever needed to know about bodies & all the amazing things that go on in them! ...

Until recently love existed in the realm of poets artists & philosophers. Latterly it has been studies from multiple scientific perspectives. The author argues that the specialist approach has overlooked the importance of love as a potential new strategy for human survival & that the old survival strategy the domination of nature & other human groups is no longer appropriate. By weaving together data from a multitude of disciplines Michel Odent is able to back up his argument in insightful & exciting ways making the case for the adoption of radical new strategies for human survival. This revised edition

Includes:: two new chapters. Michel Odent is the author of The Farmer & the Obstetrician also published by Free Association Books & and is more familiarly known as the obstetrician who introduced new birthing concepts which played a significant part in the radical change in attitudes towards maternity & childbirth in recent years. The author of 10 books in 19 languages Dr Odent continues his research at the Primal Health Centre in London which he founded.

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For thousands of years Man has searched pondered & speculated about the true meaning of life. But in Scientology that search has culminated
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A volcano. A nuclear missile. An explosive deadly threat to the West. The murder of a prominent geophysicist & the eruption of Mount St. Helens are viewed as coincidence by the White House. But Admiral Morgan suspects the involvement of his nemesis terrorist Major Ray Kerman. Then comes the chilling threat
- Kerman has a nuclear device Scimitar SL-2 which he intends to launch straight into the heart of the volcano Cumbre Vieja causing a massive tsunami to devastate the East Coast of the United States. Shocked into action Admiral Morgan returns to the White House to run Operation High Tide
- a desperate race to evacuate the East Coast & locate the nuclear submarine before it launches its deadly weapon.. .

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Three hundred years have passed in the Four Lands. The Federation now controls all of the Southl&. In the West the Elves have vanished. In the East the dwarves are enslaved. Par Ohmsford has retained some of the magical powers of his ancestors although he does not fully understand the way they work. He is troubled by dreams of Allanon the Druid whose fate has always seemed linked with that of the Ohmsfords. But when he is told of the Shadowen the greatest danger ever to threaten the Four Lands he embarks upon a perilous quest
- to meet the shade of Allanon & to carry his message to the other Scions of Shannara.
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As Charles Redfern lies motionless in hospital his wife Anne & daughter Charlotte are forced to confront their relationships with him
- & with each other. Anne once beautiful & clever has paled in the shadow of her husbands dominance. Charlotte meanwhile is battling with her own inner darkness & is desperate to prevent her relationship with her not-yet-divorced lover from disintegrating. As the full truth of Charless hold over them is brought to light both women must reconcile themselves with the choices they have made the secrets they have kept & the uncertain future that now lies ahead of them.
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