Australia's rural workplaces and homes have a poor safety record due to people being unaware of simple safety measures and the hazards which make them necessary. This book offers a practical guide to all the major safety aspects of farming, including tractors, bushfires, and building fires.[...]

What are professional doctorates? How do they change professional knowledge and improve practice? This book examines the relationship between advanced study on higher education courses and professional practice. It explores contributions made by research on practice to professional development.[...]

32 less familiar folk tales from the American Indians, Australian Bushmen, African Kaffirs and from Persia, Lapland, Brazil, and India. Different enough to capture all imaginations. 50 illustrations.
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Wheatley's Road Traffic Law in Scotland is an established reference manual for all those involved in the detection and prosecution of road traffic offences. The new edition of this authoritative text has been revised throughout to include all major legislative changes.[...]

Does the success of warts-and-all celebrity biographies betray our prurient, voyeuristic times? Or is a fascination with the lives and struggles of others a facet of human nature, reflected in literary tastes through the ages? Modern biographies, Andrew Brown argues, inspire by framing life as a st[...]

Andrew Brown spent part of his childhood in Sweden during the 1960s. In the 1970s he married a Swedish woman and worked in a mill raising their son. In the mid-1980s his marriage and the country fell apart. Twenty years later Andrew travelled the length of Sweden in search of the country he had love[...]

Chelsea Physic Garden was founded by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1673 as a resource providing plant material for the training of apothecaries. For most of its existence, the Garden has been a focus for botanists, taxonomists, students and horticulturists both for employing their skills[...]

Music Technology in Education lays out the principles of music technology and how they can be used to enhance musical teaching and learning in primary and secondary education. Previously published as Computers in Music Education, this second edition has been streamlined to focus on the needs of toda[...]

New medical technologies are increasingly at the centre of novel transformations in the human and social body. Whilst reproduction, health, ageing and dying have long been areas for technical intervention, the emergence of molecular biology and information technology raise far--reaching political, s[...]