Perform an accurate, efficient, and effective physical examination with confidence.Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking provides authoritative, step-by-step guidance ...
Global awareness of climate change is increasing, and the scientific evidence is incontrovertible: an environmental crisis is upon us. Art and Climate Change presents an overview of ecologically co...
‘From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.’Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade, raid and invade a...
From earliest pre-history, with the dawning understanding of fire and its many uses, up to the astonishing advances of the twenty-first century, Thomas Crump traces the ever more sophisticated mean...
The story begins in an Augustinian abbey in 1856, and takes the reader from Darwin’s groundbreaking theory of evolution, to the horrors of Nazi eugenics, to present day and beyond - as we lea...
Welcome to a revolution in the science of you.Recent and dramatic breakthroughs in our understanding of the body will profoundly change the experience of being human in the coming centu...
Learn the facts, figures, super-powers and origins of your favourite characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). From the Avengers and Ant-Man to Black Panther and Doctor Strange, this boo...
In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the...
Have you ever dreamt of having your own private museum tour with one of the world's most-celebrated artists? Take a walk through art history in the company of one of the pre-eminent American painte...
W książce przedstawiono jedną ze składowych kultury chińskiej, jaką jest kategoria harmonii z punktu widzenia elementów mających wpływ zarówno na zachowania ekonomiczne – kultur...
Over the last 20 years, New York City has been convulsed by enormous challenges: terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, pandemic. New Yorkers is a grand portrait of the irrepressible cit...
In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over every sea, every mountain and desert, every city and every port. The most ordinary things -- eating, sleeping, brushing your teeth or cu...
The incredible story of the death of Eric Garner, the birth of the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement and the new fault lines of race, protest, policing and the power of the people.On July 17,...
There was a huge upsurge of global interest in US politics during the Trump presidency, culminating in the November 2020 election, the victory of the Democrat candidate Joe Biden and the subsequent...
How Mass Migration Will Reshape the World – and What It Means for YouWhere will you live in 2030? Where will your children settle in 2040? What will the map of humanity look like in 205...
'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scraw...
'Dennis Duncan has done a great service to all bibliophiles by writing this scholarly, witty and affectionate history' Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and LeavesMost of us give litt...
Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world's most important cities.From the first towns in Mesopotamia to today's global metropolises, cities have marked the progress o...
Bring out the popcorn and settle in for the ultimate countdown of a century of celluloid entertainment.Rediscover your big screen favourites and get acquainted with new recommendations ...
What does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language?China today is one of the world's most powerful nations, yet just a century ago it was a crumbling empire with literacy ...