Over the past decade, the percentage of elective surgical procedures performed on a day case basis has increased from 55% to over 70%. The current interest and focus on day surgery is a result of public demand and government-imposed targets. This concise handbook provides the practising day surgery [...]

Two gripping memoirs by British night-fighter crewmen Action-adventure tales of aerial combat aboard Beaufighter and Mosquito aircraft Accounts of Pathfinders who flew ahead of bomber formations and marked targets deep inside German territory How new technologies like airborne radar, one of World Wa[...]

Brightly illustrated early reading books by top authors and illustrators, perfect for newly independent readers.[...]

Helps students, scientists and researchers learn how to develop computer programmes which solve specific engineering problems using the finite element method and to assemble their own computer programmes to produce numerical results to solve these problems. This book provides a guide to those intere[...]

Aims to teach administrators, programmers, database designers and IT managers the critical components and functions of version 8 and explains how to develop Rdb8 programs. This book addresses Rdb8 management, tuning and scalability tools and describes the Rdb/NT Workbench for Windows NT. It explains[...]

In July 2007, Zimbabwe's worsening economy saw inflation skyrocket to 7,634 per cent, deepening the already chronic food shortages in a country where only one in five of the adult population is in employment.Months later, on 20 November 2007, Ian Smith, the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia died, le[...]

An authoritative new Medicine development study from the Schools History Project (SHP) preparing candidates for exam success in OCR's 2009 SHP Specification[...]

Gather round for some high-spirited and fortune-filled fables when Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, takes on the world's most beloved literary classics Mount Olympus will never be the same when Homer presents The Iliad and Ned Flanders takes a turn as Aesop. Then, in a tale of biblical p[...]

Fortran 90 is the most radical revision ever of this popular language, bringing it up to date with current thinking in programming language development. This is the first book aimed directly at problem solving for Engineers and Scientists using the new features of Fortran 90. It can be used as a com[...]

The fifth edition of Pharmaceutical Practice has been totally overhauled and restructured to bring the contents completely up to date and to reflect emerging new roles for pharmacists both within the traditional employment areas of hospital and community pharmacy, as well as other developing roles s[...]