Gemma: 340 books

Governments and road safety agencies around the world have either introduced or are considering 'safe system' strategies, a long overdue acknowledgement that different elements of the road system contribute to road safety outcomes. Human factors approaches have a leading role here in both conceptualising...

Polarization involves the vectorial nature of light fields. In current applications of optical science, the electromagnetic description of light with its vector features has been shown to be essential: In practice, optical radiation also exhibits randomness and spatial non-uniformity of the polarization...

How can we design transport environments that cater to the situation awareness needs of different end-users? This book answers this question by showcasing how state-of-the-art human factors theory and methods can be used to understand how situation awareness differs across drivers, cyclists, motorcyclists,...

With a growing population, rising housing costs and housing providers struggling to meet demand for affordable accommodation, more and more people in the UK find themselves sharing their living spaces with people from outside of their families at some point in their lives. Focusing on sharers...

Este libro está especialmente dirigido a educadores y trabajadores sociales que deseen valerse de la etnografía como instrumento de análisis con el que interpretar y comprender las realidades en las que llevan a cabo sus prácticas profesionales. Para ello se propone una breve pero sugestiva introducción...

Leadership in the early years is about using your knowledge, skills, personality and experience to positively influence practice.  Every practitioner has the capacity to lead, and in doing so, improve opportunities for children and their families. Examining the various roles of early years...

Un problema attuale, sentito, a tratti sconvolgente, a volte amplificato oltre misura dai mass media. All’inizio bulli per dispetto, o per confermare la propria personalità. Ma le conseguenze del folle piano di due ragazzi andranno ben al di là delle loro stesse aspettative.

Trixxi Powers is every guy’s dream musician: blonde, sexy, and amazing on the keyboard. Life seems complete as she kicks off her tour with her successful band, FunkTime, knowing her loving boyfriend, Steve, is supporting her shot at fame. Until technical problems dog her performance in their first...

When seventeen-year-old Ingrid Harper realizes she may not have the talent to pursue a scholarship for the most prestigious art school in Australia, she turns to pink hair dye as a distraction. Her new hair captures the attention of a fellow art student, Kat, who introduces Ingrid to the LGBT...

A fun, romantic read in which the course of true love doesn’t even come close to running smooth! For all fans of Jill Mansell. If life’s a ball then Cass needs an invite! While off to seek her fortune, Cass meets Prince Charming in a carriage – a railway carriage, that is. That chance conversation,...

A warm and sexy read about meeting your first love, second time around – for all fans of Carole Matthews and Jill Mansell. Who could resist the chance to go to their old school reunion? To find out who got fat? Who got famous and who got off with who? Carol French is lured by the promise of a get-together...

Esta ciudad fue condenada hace años al infortunio de la pobreza, tras la entrada de la mafia al gobierno. Nos arrebataron todo lo que era nuestro e hicieron desaparecer la libertad que tanto amábamos. Ahora estamos divididos en distritos, tal vez para protegernos, tal vez para sobrevivir. Pero aquí,...

Beautiful and sexually-charged agency creative director, Stephanie Spicer, is back and trying to find her true future in a harsh and complicated business world. Whilst trying to juggle delivery of work on an important new corporate branding account, she must also resolve issues in her tangled love...

“Juliet is the Sun” directly confronts two assumptions of most Western Shakespeare scholarship. First, it reveals how there may be coherence in Shakespeare's works, and this coherence is based on heliocentrism; second, this novel explains the basic importance of Giordano Buno's ideas for Shakespeare....