The Rise of the Modern Educational System is a pioneering socio-historical analysis of change and development in secondary education in three European countries (England, France, Germany) in the mid to late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The authors develop novel theoretical forms of anal[...]

Today, most competition cars have at least some components made from composite materials. Fully updated to include the latest developments in material and techniques, this book explains how to exploit composites technology in the home workshop. It covers all the main materials and methods, from 'wet[...]

Henry is going on a bike ride all by himself through the neighborhood. What amazing new vehicles will he find?[...]

Universities have been propelled into the center of the global political economy of knowledge production by a number of factors: mass education, academic capitalism, the globalization of knowledge, the democratization of communication in the era of the Internet, and the emergence of the knowledge an[...]

Offers a guide to hypoglycaemia, the most common and feared side effect of insulin treatment for diabetes. With reference to ADA and EASD guidelines throughout, this book includes topics such as the physiology of hypoglycaemia and the body's response to a low blood glucose, its presentation and clin[...]

Visually engaging textbook for the 2010 BTEC specifications

This title is written by Brian Azzarello, Harlan Ellison, Paul Levitz, Paul Dini and others. It features a cover by Mike Mignola. It includes art by Alex Ross, Jim Lee, Tim Sale, Kyle Baker, Dave Gibbons, Mark Buckingham and others. A new edition of the trade paperback collecting stories from "Batma[...]

Torchwood is an action-packed sci-fi series following the adventures of a team of investigators, working for the secret organisation who use scavenged alien technology to solve present day crimes - both alien and human. Now the smash hit TV series comes to comics! When Torchwood-3 comes under fire i[...]