Professional Books

As a journalist for the Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator, James Delingpole has expressed his thoughts – articulately and amusingly – on everything from politics to popular music, from school sports days to spliffs. If you’ve thought about it, he’s written about it. In this A-Z collection of brief essays he turns his lively mind to modern society gone mad. And what he discovers is that the older you get, the more mad it seems. Can’t understand what’s wrong with much-loved feet and inches? Don’t believe the global-warming hype? Wondering what ever happened to good, old-fashioned universities? Well, join James’s club. Pouring scorn on the state of Britain after a decade of Blair and Brown, How to be Right couldn’t have come along at a more appropriate time. Prepare to foam and splutter, and to be seriously entertained.

Lesikar and Flatley’s, Basic Business Communication (BBC): Skills for Empowering the Internet Generation, has long been known as a solid introductory business communication book that gets to the writing skills sooner than most other texts and gives students true ‘how-to’ skills in all areas of business communication. It has solid examples, and is both consumer-and service-oriented. Its strength has also been its use of margin notes, cartoons and photos that relate to the concepts and use of cases. Recent editions have established BBC as truly cutting edge; it was the first text in the market with PowerPoint as part of its package, the first to have an online chapter, and with the 9th Edition is now the first to offer writing tips and templates for PDAs (personal digital assistants).).

Are you confident in yourself or is negativity holding you back?
Do you have the faith and endurance to weather any obstacle life throws at you?
Are you inspiring loved ones as much as they inspire you?

Today We Are Rich has the answers and will show you how to be rich in positivity and gratitude. You’ll learn what Tim learned from his grandmother: confidence comes from within you, from your loved ones, and from your spirituality, allowing you to rise above any of life’s challenges.

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Tell Me No Lies is a celebration of the very best investigative journalism, and includes writing by some of the greatest practitioners of the craft: Seymour Hersh on the My Lai massacre; Paul Foot on the Lockerbie cover-up; Wilfred Burchett, the first Westerner to enter Hiroshima following the atomic bombing; Israeli journalist Amira Hass, reporting from the Gaza Strip in the 1990s; Gunter Wallraff, the great German undercover reporter; Jessica Mitford on ‘The American Way of Death’; Martha Gelhorn on the liberation of the death camp at Dachau.

The book – a selection of articles, broadcasts and books extracts that revealed important and disturbing truths – ranges from across many of the critical events, scandals and struggles of the past fifty years. Along the way it bears witness to epic injustices committed against the peoples of Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and Palestine.

In Ways of Knowing, John V. Pickstone provides a new and accessible framework for understanding science, technology, and medicine (STM) in the West from the Renaissance to the present. Pickstone’s approach has four key features. First, he synthesizes the long-term histories and philosophies of disciplines that are normally studied separately. Second, he dissects STM into specific ways of knowing—natural history, analysis, and experimentalism—with separate but interlinked elements. Third, he explores these ways of knowing as forms of work related to our various technologies for making, mending, and destroying. And finally, he relates scientific and technical knowledges to popular understandings and to politics.

Covering an incredibly wide range of subjects, from minerals and machines to patients and pharmaceuticals, and from experimental physics to genetic engineering, Pickstone’s Ways of Knowing challenges the reader to reexamine traditional conceptualizations of the history, philosophy, and social studies of science, technology, and medicine.

This stunning new cookbook from TV chef and bestselling cookery author Nisha Katona is her best yet. Taking her signature style of big flavours and applying them to classic dishes, this beautiful book is BOLD inside and out.

An instant New York Times bestseller, What’s Gaby Cooking: Grilling All the Things is a healthy grilling book for every kind of grillerfrom first-timer to seasoned profrom cooking au

“Italian, American, and Italian-American recipes, from the revered baker of Ciao, Gloria and co-founder and former co-owner of Baked”–

The text is designed for both undergraduates and post-graduates, providing a complete introductory course on the subject, along with study-aids and tutorial exercises.Many of the new features are the result of insights gained from teaching with the text. Where required, more detailed explanations have been added in order to simplify difficult topics.Support material can be found on the Authors’ website: http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/hughes

With a little help from his weird band of characters the Fourth Edition of the award-winning book continues, with its unique blend of humour and collection of bizarre examples, to bring statistics – from first principles to advanced concepts – well and truly to life using IBM SPSS Statistics.

Lecturers: with WebAssign® you can manage and monitor your students′ progress quickly and easily online or give them more opportunities to practise!
Ideal for short courses, choose to use WebAssign® alongside the Fourth Edition of Andy Field′s textbook to quickly set up courses and schedule assignments (using the  2159 questions available) and track individual performance so you can spot in an instant where more instruction or practice is needed. If not using for fomal assessment, WebAssign® still lets you set questions for your students to practise over and over again. They get instant feedback and also links to the relevant chapter or section in the integral ebook to help them work out the correct solution.

BPP Learning Media’s new Business Essentials range is the ideal choice for numerous business qualifications. Most of the books can be specifically used on courses leading to diplomas in business from a variety of institutions, as generic texts on a wide range of degree programmes, as well as background reading and reference material for the subject areas.