This title features expert advice from a professional UK photographer useful hints & tips plus clear diagrams & charts. This new series of The Expanded Guides" focuses on photographic techniques to give you a comprehensive grounding in the subject & takes you a step further to enable you to get much more from your photography. This is an invaluable guide to taking better photographs using todays sophisticated digital SLR & compact digital cameras. Aimed at both the novice & more experienced amateur photographer jargon-free text explains the theory behind digital photography how light metering affects exposure & lights relationship to colour colour temperature & white balance focal points & the expression of mood. Aperture depth of field & shutter speed are also thoroughly covered along with chapters on ISO speeds dynamic range use of filters & making in-camera adjustments. Post processing techniques round off this invaluable guide to getting the best results from your photography." ...

As you get older it's natural for your eyesight to deteriorate slightly & for you to need reading spectacles or a stronger sight prescription. However there are also some specific eye conditions that can affect older people. Cataracts glaucoma & macular degeneration are the most common causes of poor vision in the United Kingdom. Each predominantly affects people of middle age & beyond. Many people with visual difficulties in later life are unnecessarily frightened that they are going to undergo progressive visual loss that will curtail their lifestyle or threaten their independence. This book is written to help you understand the causes symptoms & treatments of these common eye conditions. ...

The food you eat has a strong influence on your health & on your chances of developing heart disease & some types of cancer. This book is aimed at people who are basically healthy to help them understand nutrition & choose a diet that will keep them in good health. The book provides an overview of nutrition explaining the process of digestion & your need for energy protein fat carbohydrates vitamins & minerals. These sections include the science of nutrition good food sources & links with illnesses. The book will help you make informed choices about your diet & explain how to make sense of the nutritional labeling on food packets. ...

* Gives students the tools to prepare for each element of the new controlled assessment with complete confidence.* Write-in format for work-on-the-go highlights what students need to do independently.* Provides valuable advice on how to structure the task & help students tackle their research planning & writing.* Provides skills-focussed advice on how to conduct the task & understand the mark scheme. ...

Focused exam preparation to get the grades you want! Featuring an array of engaging & thought-provoking activities this Student Book equips students with the core skills & understanding they need to reach their full potential at GCSE. Exciting engaging activities help students develop a broad range of skills & consolidate understanding & updated case studies put learning into a real-world context. Grade Studio activities provide practice exam-style questions model answers & examiners' comments & advice to help students understand what to do to get the right grade. ...

The carefully sequenced content ensures a logical build-up of key ideas & cross-referencing between chapters enables pupils to integrate all aspects of the subject. Each chapter is broken into manageable short sections for ease of use & ends with a set of data-response questions. The Fieldwork Appendix provides practical guidelines for preparing & conducting field-work & there are ideas for practical work which link to each chapter. ...

The new edition of the best-selling reader Understanding Health & Social Care" (previously edited by Maragraet Allot & Martin Robb) combines classic works with newly-commissioned material offering readers unparalleled coverage of the key issues in health & social care. The breadth of material encompasses voices of service users professional & lay carers as well as academics & researchers. This Second Edition is organised into four new sections each with a part introduction pulling together the main themes: People focuses on those who use & provide health & social care services; Places looks at where care is given; Approaches considers different ways through which care takes places; & Ideas focuses on the ideas & policies that underpin care provision. Full of real practice scenarios & examples the book successfully makes the links between theory & practice & will be an essential resource for all students studying at undergraduate level across the wide spectrum of health & social care." ...

With health & social care increasingly asked to work in partnership many existing textbooks & educational opportunities are too uni-professional to be able to respond fully to the joined-up services agenda. Against this background this book provides a comprehensive & up-to-date analysis of both health & social care. The book packed with student-friendly features
Includes:: * a focus on both health & social care in a time of increasing interagency working; * a combined summary of current policy & practice dilemmas with useful theoretical frameworks; * service user-focused case studies & reflective exercises to aid further study & analysis; * comparative material throughout exploring relevant issues their impact & lessons learned. With partnership working now part of core business rather than an optional extra this book is essential reading for anyone studying or working in health & social care. It provides practical material to populate the theoretical & conceptual knowledge of social policy students & conceptual material to help make sense of the practical experience of professional students on training courses. Health & social care practitioners will find the book of value informing their continuing professional development. Jon Glasby is a qualified social worker & head of health & social care at the Health Services Management Centre University of Birmingham.
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Over 50 per cent of the population has arthritis in one or more of their joints. By the time you are 75 years old there is an 85 per cent chance that you will have developed arthritis somewhere particularly in the larger joints such as the hip or knee. Treatment of arthritis can be either medical with the provision of drugs & other non-invasive therapies or surgical. The purpose of this book is to look at the various surgical solutions. Despite the frequency of surgery there are few places a patient may go to learn about the relative merits & disadvantages of surgery; we hope this book will help fill that gap. ...

This third edition of Understanding Housing Defects provides a concise coherent & comprehensive introduction to the causes investigation & diagnosis of defects in domestic buildings. Each chapter covers a specific building element &

Includes:: a brief introduction setting out construction principles & the evolution of current practice. The chapters then go on to look at the identification cause & diagnosis of common (and sometimes not so common) defects. The text has been revised & extended with new sections on boundary walls chimneys & basements. The Services chapter has been replaced with three new more substantial chapters on heating & plumbing electrical installations & drainage. This book is a must have for all those students & practitioners who require a broad understanding of housing defects. Building surveyors architects estate agents & anyone involved in property construction & housing will benefit hugely from this highly informative full colour text.

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