Our modern society is flooded with all sorts of devices: TV sets, automobiles, microwaves, mobile phones. How are all these things affecting us? How can their role in our lives be understood? What Things Do answers these questions by focusing on how technologies mediate our actions and our perceptio[...]

Brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in orthopedics, carefully selected from more than 300 journals worldwide. In this title, topics covered include trauma and amputation surgery, hip and knee replacement, sports medicine, and orthopedic oncology.[...]

OCR A2 Economics has been written specifically to meet the needs of A2 students following the OCR specification and provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the subject content.[...]

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

An authoritative Handbook which offers a discussion of the social, political, ethical and economic consequences and implications of the new bio-sciences. The Handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach providing a synoptic overview of contemporary international social science research on genetics, [...]

Race and ethnicity have shaped the social, cultural and political character of much of the world, and remain an important influence on contemporary life in the 21st Century. Race and Ethnicity: The Basics is an accessible introduction to these potent forces. Topics covered include: The forms and dyn[...]

With undergraduate and postgraduate curricula increasingly delivered or supported by electronic means, it is time for both learners and teachers to develop the specific skills that are essential to successful e-learning, but seldom taught in medical school.[...]

Internationally respected authors, actively working in this area, establish theoretical reasons for extending cognitive therapy to these symptoms. This includes a justification for looking at symptoms rather than syndromes, first-person accounts of delusions and hallucinations along with an analysis[...]

An illustrated field guide that gathers information about agriculture and its environmental context, and answers the perennial question posed by California travelers: 'What is that, and why is it growing here?'. It explores the full range of the state's agriculture, balancing agribusiness triumphali[...]