An essential companion for students across a range of disciplines, including biochemistry, biomedical sciences, microbiology and molecular biology throughout your entire degree programme, this sixth edition of Practical Skills in Biomolecular Sciences, has been updated and expanded to provide you with a complete and easy-to-read guide. It's an all-in-one solution for the key practical skills needed for all cellular and molecular life sciences, including: comprehensive coverage of study and examination skills; fundamental laboratory methods; investigative and analytical techniques and analysis and presentation of data. This new edition comes with increased coverage on laboratory skills, new chapters on working with bacteria, eukaryotic microbes and viruses, and on assaying biomolecules, as well as new sections on online learning in a post-COVID world. In addition, 250 new and updated illustrations, tables, and tips - including 25 new 'how to' boxes - have been added, along with numerous end-of-chapter study exercises (with answers provided on the companion website) to support self-evaluation.

This thoroughly updated second edition is a student-friendly and truly supportive resource, including new graphs and maps and updated geographical data. It motivates students with accesible, topical content and case studies while retaining a rigorous approach, and has been entered into the AQA approval process. The Student Book has been revised to more closely reflect the latest AQA advice and exam question wording, while new Skills Focus pages hone students' ability to answer skills-based questions with confidence. It provides comprehensive coverage of the 2016 AQA GCSE Geography specification and includes extension tasks and practice questions on every spread help students succeed. Up-to-date case studies provide real-world examples that your students can relate to, while reworked fieldwork and issue evaluation chapters explain and develop the skills required by the specification. Answers to all activities are included in the Teacher Handbook on Kerboodle (school purchase only) Also available: Revision Guide, Exam Practice, Fieldwork, Kerboodle, Kerboodle Book (student access) Also available as ebook: 9781382029131

Practical skills form the cornerstone of chemistry. However, the diversity of skills required in the laboratory means that a student's experience may be limited. While some techniques do require specific skills, many of them are transferable generic skills that are required throughout the subject area. Limited time constraints of the modern curriculum often preclude or minimise laboratory time. Practical Skills in Chemistry 3rd edition provides a general guidance for use in and out of practical sessions, covering a range of techniques from the basic to the more advanced. This 'one-stop' text will guide you through the wide range of practical, analytical and data handling skills that you will need during your studies. It will also give you a solid grounding in wider transferable skills such as teamwork, using information technology, communicating information and study skills. This edition has been enhanced and updated throughout to provide a complete and easy-to-read guide to the developing skills required from your first day through to graduation, further strengthening its reputation as the practical resource for students of chemistry and related discipline areas.

These new edition Workbooks have been fully updated for 2021 and focused to help students practise their skills and improve their subject knowledge both inside and outside the classroom. - Develop and consolidate understanding using practice questions to check knowledge - Build key skills with worked examples - Prepare for assessment using exam-style questions - Study independently with answers available online Questions cover Human Geography topics globalisation, regenerating places, diverse places, superpowers, health, human rights and intervention, and migration, identity and sovereignty.

Exam board: Pearson Edexcel Level: A-level Subject: Geography First teaching: September 2016 First exams: Summer 2017 (AS); Summer 2018 (A-level) Secure higher marks in Pearson Edexcel A-level Geography coursework, using this step-by-step guide to complete the project with confidence. Providing a clear structure to follow, this write-in workbook contains information and activities that help students to produce a manageable, relevant and interesting independent investigation. - Takes you through every stage of the process, from choosing a topic to conducting research, presenting data and writing up the report - Offers the support that students need to work independently without teacher involvement - Enables students to organise their thinking, record their progress and review their coursework against a self-assessment checklist and example paragraphs - Keeps students on track by breaking the investigation down into chunks, with tasks to undertake at each stage - Increases students' chance of success as they benefit from the expert advice of David Holmes, who has worked closely with exam boards and delivers teacher training on the independent investigation

This throughly updated second edition is a student-friendly and truly supportive resource, including new graphs and maps and updated geographical data. It motivates students with accesible, topical content and case studies while retaining a rigorous approach, and has been approved by Edexcel B. The Student Book has been revised to more closely reflect the latest Edexcel B advice and exam question wording. It provides comprehensive coverage of the 2016 Edexcel B GCSE Geography specification and includes extension tasks and practice questions on every spread help students succeed. Up-to-date case studies provide real-world examples that your students can relate to. Answers to all activities are included in the Teacher Handbook on Kerboodle (school purchase only) Also available: Revision Guide, Exam Practice, Kerboodle, Kerboodle Book (student access) Also available as ebook: 9781382029209

Please note, this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: Edexcel Level: GCSE Subject: Geography First Teaching: September 2016 First Exams: June 2018 GCSE Geography Edexcel B is a student-friendly resource for the 2016 Edexcel GCSE Geography B (9-1) specification, written specially to target the demands of the course. Accessible, clear, and thorough, this student book is designed to engage students through stimulating, up-to-date examples and relevant case studies, motivating them to progress throughout the course. Clearly-written objectives open each unit, setting out for students what they need to learn, and high-quality photos, maps, and diagrams aid explanations. Differentiated activities, chapters on fieldwork and decision-making exercises, and exam-style questions all reinforce the book's rigour. Answers to all activities are included in the Teacher Handbook on Kerboodle (school purchase only). This Student Book has been endorsed for Edexcel.

"I was fortunate indeed to have worked with a fantastic team on the design and implementation of the concurrency features added to the Java platform in Java 5.0 and Java 6. Now this same team provides the best explanation yet of these new features, and of concurrency in general. Concurrency is no longer a subject for advanced users only. Every Java developer should read this book."
--Martin Buchholz
JDK Concurrency Czar, Sun Microsystems

"For the past 30 years, computer performance has been driven by Moore's Law; from now on, it will be driven by Amdahl's Law. Writing code that effectively exploits multiple processors can be very challenging. "Java Concurrency in Practice" provides you with the concepts and techniques needed to write safe and scalable Java programs for today's--and tomorrow's--systems."
--Doron Rajwan
Research Scientist, Intel Corp

"This is the book you need if you're writing--or designing, or debugging, or maintaining, or contemplating--multithreaded Java programs. If you've ever had to synchronize a method and you weren't sure why, you owe it to yourself and your users to read this book, cover to cover."
--Ted Neward
Author of "Effective Enterprise Java"

"Brian addresses the fundamental issues and complexities of concurrency with uncommon clarity. This book is a must-read for anyone who uses threads and cares about performance."
--Kirk Pepperdine
CTO, JavaPerformanceTuning.com

"This book covers a very deep and subtle topic in a very clear and concise way, making it the perfect Java Concurrency reference manual. Each page is filled with the problems (and solutions!) that programmers struggle with every day. Effectively exploitingconcurrency is becoming more and more important now that Moore's Law is delivering more cores but not faster cores, and this book will show you how to do it."
--Dr. Cliff Click
Senior Software Engineer, Azul Systems

"I have a strong interest in concurrency, and have probably written more thread deadlocks and made more synchronization mistakes than most programmers. Brian's book is the most readable on the topic of threading and concurrency in Java, and deals with this difficult subject with a wonderful hands-on approach. This is a book I am recommending to all my readers of "The Java Specialists' Newsletter," because it is interesting, useful, and relevant to the problems facing Java developers today."
--Dr. Heinz Kabutz
"The Java Specialists' Newsletter"

"I've focused a career on simplifying simple problems, but this book ambitiously and effectively works to simplify a complex but critical subject: concurrency. "Java Concurrency in Practice" is revolutionary in its approach, smooth and easy in style, and timely in its delivery--it's destined to be a very important book."
--Bruce Tate
Author of "Beyond Java"

""Java Concurrency in Practice" is an invaluable compilation of threading know-how for Java developers. I found reading this book intellectually exciting, in part because it is an excellent introduction to Java's concurrency API, but mostly because it captures in a thorough and accessible way expert knowledge on threading not easily found elsewhere."
--Bill Venners
Author of "Inside the Java Virtual Machine"

Threads are a fundamental part of the Java platform. As multicore processors become the norm, using concurrency effectively becomes essential forbuilding high-performance applications. Java SE 5 and 6 are a huge step forward for the development of concurrent applications, with improvements to the Java Virtual Machine to support high-performance, highly scalable concurrent classes and a rich set of new concurrency building blocks. In "Java Concurrency in Practice," the creators of these new facilities explain not only how they work and how to use them, but also the motivation and design patterns behind them.

However, developing, testing, and debugging multithreaded programs can still be very difficult; it is all too easy to create concurrent programs that appear to work, but fail when it matters most: in production, under heavy load. "Java Concurrency in Practice" arms readers with both the theoretical underpinnings and concrete techniques for building reliable, scalable, maintainable concurrent applications. Rather than simply offering an inventory of concurrency APIs and mechanisms, it provides design rules, patterns, and mental models that make it easier to build concurrent programs that are both correct and performant.

This book covers: Basic concepts of concurrency and thread safety Techniques for building and composing thread-safe classes Using the concurrency building blocks in java.util.concurrent Performance optimization dos and don'ts Testing concurrent programs Advanced topics such as atomic variables, nonblocking algorithms, and the Java Memory Model

Support and encourage students in their study of Pearson Edexcel A-level Geography with these revised and restructured write-in Workbooks. These new edition Workbooks have been fully updated for 2021 and focused to help students practise their skills and improve their subject knowledge both inside and outside the classroom. - Develop and consolidate understanding using practice questions to check knowledge - Build key skills with worked examples - Prepare for assessment using exam-style questions - Study independently with answers available online Practice questions cover physical geography topics tectonic processes and hazards, glaciated landscapes and change, coastal landscapes and change, the water cycle and water insecurity, the carbon cycle and energy security.

`This is a very clear and concise summary of media studies, present and future. There is no other book that can both be used as a teaching tool and can help scholars organize their thinking about new media as this book can' - Steve Jones, University of Chicago This book offers an introduction to communication theory that is appropriate to our post-broadcast, interactive, media environment. The author contrasts the `first media age' of broadcast with the `second media age' of interactivity. Communication Theory argues that the different kinds of communication dynamics found in cyberspace demand a reassessment of the methodologies used to explore media, as well as new understandings of the concepts of interaction and community (virtual communities and broadcast communities). The media are examined not simply in terms of content, but also in terms of medium and network forms. Holmes also explores the differences between analogue and digital cultures, and between cyberspace and virtual reality. The book serves both as an upper level textbook for New Media courses and a good general guide to understanding the sociological complexities of the modern communications environment.

This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental in the production of homogenous world-spaces, and how these, in turn, presuppose new kinds of political and cultural identity. This work will be of essential interest to scholars and students in the fields of sociology, geography, cultural studies and media studies.

Exam board: OCR Level: A-level Subject: Geography First teaching: September 2016 First exams: Summer 2017 (AS); Summer 2018 (A-level) Secure higher marks in OCR A-level Geography coursework, using this step-by-step guide to complete the project with confidence. Providing a clear structure to follow, this write-in workbook contains information and activities that help students to produce a manageable, relevant and interesting independent investigation. - Takes you through every stage of the process, from choosing a topic to conducting research, presenting data and writing up the report - Offers the support that students need to work independently without teacher involvement - Enables students to organise their thinking, record their progress and review their coursework against a self-assessment checklist and example paragraphs - Keeps students on track by breaking the investigation down into chunks, with tasks to undertake at each stage - Increases students' chance of success as they benefit from the expert advice of David Holmes, who has worked closely with exam boards and delivers teacher training on the independent investigation

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Exam board: AQA Level: A-level Subject: Geography First teaching: September 2016 First exams: Summer 2017 (AS); Summer 2018 (A-level) Secure higher marks in AQA A-level Geography coursework, using this step-by-step guide to complete the project with confidence. Providing a clear structure to follow, this write-in workbook contains information and activities that help students to produce a manageable, relevant and interesting fieldwork investigation. - Takes you through every stage of the process, from choosing a topic to conducting research, presenting data and writing up the report - Offers the support that students need to work independently without teacher involvement - Enables students to organise their thinking, record their progress and review their coursework against a self-assessment checklist and example paragraphs - Keeps students on track by breaking the investigation down into chunks, with tasks to undertake at each stage - Increases students' chance of success as they benefit from the expert advice of David Holmes, who has worked closely with exam boards and delivers teacher training on the fieldwork investigation

Virtual Politics is a critical overview of the new - digital - body politic, with new technologies framing the discussion of key themes in social theory. This book shows how these new technologies are altering the nature of identity and agency, the relation of self to other, and the structure of community and political representation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Augemented Environments for Computer-Assisted Interventions, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2012, in Nice, France in September 2012. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers cover the topics of image registration and fusion, calibration, visualization and 3D perception, hardware and optical design, real-time implementation, as well as validation, clinical applications, and clinical evaluation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Augemented Environments for Computer-Assited Interventions, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2011, in Toronto, Canada, in September 2011. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: image registration and fusion, calibration, visualisation and 3D perception, hardware and optical design, real-time implementations, validation, clinical applications and clinical evaluation.

This updated second edition includes revision activities and exam-style questions for every enquiry strand, and uses clear and accessible visual styles to aid students' preparation for the fieldwork element of the Paper 3 exam. The book features easy-to-digest recaps that summarise the fieldwork enquiry strands from the specification, and 'Over to you' activities help students to apply their knowledge and understanding of each geographical strand. Students apply their personal fieldwork investigations, just as they will in Paper 3. Exam tips give advice from fieldwork experts on how to best prepare for the exam, while 'Get exam ready' summaries help students to review what they need to know. The book includes exam practice to help students practise answering questions in 'familiar' and 'unfamiliar' fieldwork contexts and is suitable for both independent study and in-class exam preparation. Guided answers and mark schemes are provided online. Also available: Student Book, Revision Guide, Exam Practice, Kerboodle, Kerboodle Book (student access) Also available as ebook: 9781382029100

The post of Station Master, like others on the modern railway, has disappeared, and details of the many and varied responsibilities and everyday jobs that went with it will disappear too if they are not recorded. David Holmes became an SM in the 1960s, so is eminently qualified to describe the development and duties of this once very prestigious grade.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Augmented Environments for Computer-Assisted Interventions, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2014, in Boston, MA, USA in September 2014. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The scope of the workshop spans the theoretical and practical aspects of augmented reality and visualization computer assisted intervention, interventional imaging, image-guided robotics, image-guided intervention, surgical planning and simulation, systematic extra- and intra-corporeal imaging modalities, general biological and neuroscience image computing, patient specific modeling, and medical image understanding.