Dominic: 570 books
Coastal Engineering
Processes, Theory and Design Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Effective coastal engineering is expensive, but it is not as costly as neglect or ineffective intervention. Good practice needs to be based on sound principles, but theoretical work and modelling also need to be well grounded in practice, which is continuously evolving. Conceptual and detailed design...
by Lawrence Miall, Mary Rudolf, Dominic Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Paediatrics at a Glance provides an introduction to paediatrics and the problems encountered in child health as they present in primary, community and secondary care, from birth through to adolescence.
Thoroughly updated to reflect changes in understanding of childhood illness over the last...
Promoting Healthy Behaviour
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
There is ever growing recognition by governments and healthcare professionals of the need to respond to the challenges of preventable diseases, especially so-called "lifestyle diseases", and of the influence that social class, gender, ethnicity, as well as individual differences play in...
Sport, Medicine and Health
The medicalization of sport?
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The relationship between sport, medicine and health in our society is becoming increasingly complex. This important and timely study explores this relationship through an analysis of changing political economies, altered perceptions of the body and science’s developing contribution to the human...
Million Dollar Crolla
Good Guys Can Win
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Million Dollar Crolla tells the rollercoaster story of 'the nicest man in boxing' and his remarkable path from prospect to has-been, from victim to world champion. Written off by many, an office job beckoned for Anthony Crolla before a devastating but defining fight put him back on track. After overcoming...
by Dominic F L Southgate, Peter R N Childs, Anthony M J Bull
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Sports Innovation, Technology and Research gives an insight into recent research and design projects at Imperial College London. It presents the on-going development of a diverse range of areas from elite rowing performance to impact protection to sporting amenities in communities.
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Medical Modelling
The Application of Advanced Design and Rapid Prototyping Techniques in Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
Medical modelling and the principles of medical imaging, Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Rapid Prototyping (also known as Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing) are important techniques relating to various disciplines - from biomaterials engineering to surgery. Building on the success of the first...
Probability
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Probability is an area of mathematics of tremendous contemporary importance across all aspects of human endeavour. This book is a compact account of the basic features of probability and random processes at the level of first and second year mathematics undergraduates and Masters' students in cognate...
by Professor Dominic Wyse
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
This accessible guide to writing academically is based on the author's many years of experience helping students to improve their writing and get better marks in assignments. The advice works because it uses real examples of students' work to explain what tutors look for, and shows you how to get there.
by Dominic Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
A comprehensive and easy-to-use dictionary for each item listing its romaji (phonetic English) and kanji spellings and its English equivalent.
by Dr Mark Forshaw, Dr Dominic Upton, Dr Steve Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
This revision guide provides concise coverage of the central topics within Research Methods in Psychology, presented within a framework designed to help you focus on assessment and exams. The text encapsulates all the subject matter listed in the BPS Qualifying Examination syllabus for the area. ...
Business Continuity Management
A Crisis Management Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Since the publication of the first edition in 2002, interest in crisis management has been fuelled by a number of events, including 9/11.
The first edition of this text was praised for its rigorous yet logical approach, and this is continued in the second edition, which provides a well-researched,...
Medical Modelling
The Application of Advanced Design and Development Techniques in Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Research into medical modelling and the application of design and product development technologies in medicine and surgery requires a multidisciplinary approach. Designed to be accessible to all disciplines, with medical and technical terms explained as clearly and simply as possible, Medical modelling...
Tourism and Wellness
Travel for the Good of All?
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Tourism and Wellness: Travel for the Good of All? enhances academic understandings and analyses of tourism as a social and worldmaking force by situating broad questions of well-being, health, and equity within the scaffolds of critical tourism studies. Contributors touch on power and politics, space...