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Peter Ward
In 1967 Peter Ward crashed in a training ride. While recovering, he wrote the iconic King of Sports: Cycling Road Racing, which hasn't been republished since - until now.
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Offering a concise, highly visual approach to the basic science and clinical pathology of the digestive system, this updated volume in The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations (the CIBA "Green…
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Introduces digital camerawork techniques used in television and video production. This book features step-by-step instructions on camera controls, editing, lighting and sound. Talking about transition between analogue and digital acquisition/recording…
Most of us would be happy if our doctors recalled the majority of what they learned in school. However, the workload of professional school often force students to prepare for…
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This groundbreaking and provocative book charts the recent history and impact of Christian youth work. It argues that the extraordinary growth of the evangelical movement in the UK can be…
Offers an account of the closing stages of the war against Japan, victory being due to the contribution of the British Pacific Fleet. This book is based on memories, memorabilia…
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Imagine you’ve just been told you’re the most insignificant person who’s ever lived. A nobody. Somebody less important to the world than certain types of mushroom. Not very nice, is…
Imagine you’ve just discovered you’re the most significant person who’s ever lived. A hero. You saved the world from an alien invasion. If it wasn’t for you, everyone would be…
AD 450: A young king and his followers step down from their longship onto a foreign shore to celebrate Yule at the court of his brother-in-law. But their hopes of…
Rokshan and An-Lushan are drawn into this centuries-old struggle, along with a young girl destined to become the Spellweaver of her nomadic tribe. And as An-Lushan is pulled towards the…
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First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
When it was originally published in 1986, this was the first book to deal simultaneously with several aspects of social welfare provision in a developing country.
An in-depth work of reportage that dares to ask what’s at stake in privatising outer space.
A visionary book for the emergent church. The church must be like water–flexible, fluid, changeable. This book is a vision for how the church can embrace the liquid nature of…
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Provides an overview of attitudes and practical skills needed by new entrants to the broadcast industry.
Offers an introduction to both the analogue and digital beta camera formats: Betacam, Digital Beta, Betacam SX and DV & DVCAM. This book covers various things from pre-recording checklists, to…
Studio and outside broadcast is often done with more than one camera and has its own distinct discipline and operational procedures. This book describes multi-camerawork and the techniques required to…
Aims to teach picture composition and enhance the quality of the work. This book includes compositional implications of widescreen, DV cameras, and teaches through examples of practical scenarios and problem-solving…
Richard Henley’s day began with a visit from a stranger and an invitation to dinner. It ended with him receiving a note in his own handwriting warning that someone was…
Recounting the history of personal hygiene in Europe and North America and the making of the modern clean body.
In the tradition of Jon Ronson and Tim Wu, an absorbing and revelatory journey intothe American Way of Defying Death …
As longevity medicine revolutionizes the lives of many older…
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
In a world where technology controls everything, sometimes your own handwriting is the only thing you can trust.
Richard Henley is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, but when…
In The Medea Hypothesis, renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life’s relationship with the Earth’s biosphere–one that has frightening implications for our future, yet also…
An engrossing and revelatory first look at the search for alien life - on Earth and beyond.
Epigenetics upends natural selection and genetic mutation as the sole engines of evolution, and offers startling insights into our future heritable traits.
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Elaborating on and updating Ward’s previous work, The End of Evolution, Rivers in Time delves into his newest discoveries. The book presents the gripping tale of the author’s investigations into…
Describes in detail what our world will look like in 2050, 2100, 2300, and beyond. Laying out a blueprint for a foreseeable future, the author explains what politicians and policy…
A consumer’s guide to bad taste, illustrated with examples of ‘pretentious nonsense’ in all its manifestations.
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Pat, an energetic yellow Labrador, learns to play ice hockey with owner Ash on a frozen pond.
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Shows how Rainier skillfully coped with the immense difficulties of maintaining British naval power in a huge area fraught with difficult circumstances.
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George Stephen Jones’s diary chronicles his romance with Honorine Tanswell.
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In this study of newborn weight and economic growth in Boston, Dublin, Edinburgh, Montreal and Vienna between 1850 and 1930, W. Peter Ward explores the relation between infant size, economic…
Peter Ward,Donald Brownlee
Combining their knowledge of how the critical sustaining systems of our planet evolve through time with their understanding of how stars and solar systems grow and change throughout their own…
This in-depth work of reportage dares to ask what’s at stake in privatizing outer space.
Earth is in trouble–so dramatically that we’re now scrambling to explore space for valuable resources…
An absorbing and revelatory journey into the American Way of defying death
As longevity medicine revolutionizes the lives of many older people, the quest to take the next step–to live…