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Halliday and Resnick's Principles of Physics (Paperback, 11th Edition, Global Edition): David Halliday, Robert Resnick,... Halliday and Resnick's Principles of Physics (Paperback, 11th Edition, Global Edition)
David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker
R1,817 Discovery Miles 18 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The classic textbook that builds scientific literacy and logical reasoning ability Principles of Physics, now in its 11th edition, is renowned for teaching students, not just the basic concepts of physics, but also the superior problem-solving skills needed to apply what they have learned. With thematic modules and clear learning objectives, students will never be left asking, "Why am I learning this?" End-of-chapter questions range from the mathematically challenging to the conceptually complex, to truly instill in students a working knowledge of calculus-based physics. This new edition features problems that represent a "best of" selection reaching all the way back to the book's first publication. The strongest and most interesting questions from all the Principles of Physics editions will challenge and stimulate students as they learn how the world works. Altogether, this user-friendly text is peerless in its ability to help students build scientific literacy and physics skill.

Seek and Find Bugs (Hardcover): Lydia Halliday Seek and Find Bugs (Hardcover)
Lydia Halliday; Illustrated by Amanda Shufflebotham
R261 Discovery Miles 2 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Seek and Find Animals (Hardcover): Lydia Halliday Seek and Find Animals (Hardcover)
Lydia Halliday; Illustrated by Amanda Shufflebotham
R261 Discovery Miles 2 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Principles of Physics, Extended (Paperback, 12th Edition, International Adaptation): David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl... Principles of Physics, Extended (Paperback, 12th Edition, International Adaptation)
David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker
R1,651 Discovery Miles 16 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Renowned for its interactive focus on conceptual understanding, Halliday and Resnick's Principles of Physics, 12th edition, is an industry-leading resource in physics teaching with expansive, insightful, and accessible treatments of a wide variety of subjects. Focusing on several contemporary areas of research and a wide array of tools that support students' active learning, this book guides students through the process of learning how to effectively read scientific material, identify fundamental concepts, reason through scientific questions, and solve quantitative problems. This International Adaptation of the twelfth edition is built to be a learning center with practice opportunities, simulations, and videos. Numerous practice and assessment questions are available to ensure that students understand the problem-solving processes behind key concepts and understand their mistakes while working through problems.

Cathedrals and Abbeys (Hardcover): Stephen Halliday Cathedrals and Abbeys (Hardcover)
Stephen Halliday 1
R312 R209 Discovery Miles 2 090 Save R103 (33%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cathedrals and abbeys are the most beautiful and iconic buildings of the British Isles, and have formed the bedrock of our nation for centuries. This absorbing collection of amazing and extraordinary facts opens the doors of these fascinating structures to reveal their rich historical and architectural heritage. From stories of English Popes, martyred archbishops and renegade bishops to iconoclastic kings, power-hungry nobles and architectural dynasties, as well as the role of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, we explore how the people and religion in Britain have shaped these buildings over the last 2,000 years. Also read about the architectural heritage of British cathedrals, from troublesome spires, stained glass wonders and buy-a-brick campaigns to abbeys in the sea, fortified castle-cathedrals and mass graves. Along with tales of famous memorials and artefacts, fascinating folklore and architectural feats, these intriguing and diverse facts will provide something for every enthusiast to dip into and relish.

Great Britain (Hardcover, Revised edition): Stephen Halliday Great Britain (Hardcover, Revised edition)
Stephen Halliday
R313 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R102 (33%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Great Britain unearths the hidden legends, laws, landscapes, discoveries, adventures and locations that have shaped Britain's compelling, and at times, tumultuous past. Explore how Britain was formed - its geology and climate, the quirky characters and events of its history and the origin of British institutions, such as public schools, fish and chips and driving on the left hand side. Brief, accessible and entertaining pieces on a wide variety of subjects makes it the perfect book to dip in to. The amazing and extraordinary facts series presents interesting, surprising and little-known facts and stories about a wide range of topics which are guaranteed to inform, absorb and entertain in equal measure.

Otherlands - A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller (Paperback): Thomas Halliday Otherlands - A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller (Paperback)
Thomas Halliday
R405 R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Save R81 (20%) In Stock

What would it be like to experience the ancient landscapes of the past as we experience the reality of nature today? To actually visit the Jurassic or Cambrian worlds, to wander among their spectacular flora and fauna, to witness their continental shifts? In Otherlands, the multi-talented palaeontologist Thomas Halliday gives us a breath-taking up close encounter with worlds that are normally unimaginably distant. Journeying backwards in time from the most recent Ice Age to the dawn of complex life itself, and across all seven continents, Halliday immerses us in sixteen lost ecosystems, each one rendered with a novelist's eye for detail and drama. Every description - whether the colour of a beetle's shell, the shambling rhythm of pterosaurs in flight or the lingering smell of sulphur in the air - is grounded in fact. We visit the birthplace of humanity on the shores of the great lake Lonyumun, in Pliocene-era Kenya; in the Miocene, we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the world has ever known as it fills the evaporated Mediterranean Sea; we encounter forests of giant fungus nine metres tall in Devonian-era Scotland; and we gaze at the light of a full and enormous moon in the Ediacaran sky, when life hasn't yet reached land. To read Otherlands is to time travel, to see the last 550 million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time, but as a series of worlds, simultaneously fantastical and familiar.

The Temperamental Nude - Class, Medicine and Representation in eighteenth-century France (Paperback): Tony Halliday The Temperamental Nude - Class, Medicine and Representation in eighteenth-century France (Paperback)
Tony Halliday
R2,985 Discovery Miles 29 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although discredited by seventeenth-century scientists, temperament theory - which attributed human moods to the interaction of four distinct bodily fluids or 'humours' - was refashioned a century later to create a moral and physiological typology of social classes. This revival was the work of leading physiologists of the time, but the impact of their thinking extended far beyond medicine to embrace the history of ideas and, in particular, the representation of the human body in art. In this richly-illustrated book, Tony Halliday argues that matters of artistic representation were closely connected to medical and political discourses throughout the later eighteenth century, especially during the successive phases of the French Revolution. He explores the effects of the reworked theory of humours on visual representation, focusing on: the interaction of art and politics in debates about the visual portrayal of the 'new citizen' Antique notions of an ideal body and their transformation in contemporary art the concept of a new 'muscular' temperament, and its social, political and artistic implications the impact of certain works of art such as Bouchardon's statue of Cupid fashioning a bow from the club of Herculesand the unease they revealed in late eighteenth-century Europe about the relationship of character, appearance and occupation.

Otherlands - A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller (Paperback): Thomas Halliday Otherlands - A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller (Paperback)
Thomas Halliday 1
R295 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R64 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, PROSPECT, THE NEW YORKER AND BBC HISTORY WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH 'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read' Tom Holland 'Epically cinematic... A book of almost unimaginable riches' Sunday Times This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. Award-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today. We visit the birthplace of humanity; we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known; and we watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal dawns. Otherlands is a staggering imaginative feat: an emotional narrative that underscores the tenacity of life - yet also the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, including our own. To read it is to see the last 500 million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time, but as a series of worlds, simultaneously fabulous and familiar.

Underground Railways of the World (Hardcover): Stephen Halliday Underground Railways of the World (Hardcover)
Stephen Halliday; Edited by Rydon Publishing
R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Over 200 underground railways are in service or under construction around the world. Many although of great importance to their cities and passengers are otherwise unremarkable, however others have fascinating stories to tell. With unique histories, unusual circumstances around their construction, unbelievable technical challenges to overcome, beautiful architecture and a whole host of colourful personalities this enthralling collection has it all. The first underground railway opened in London in 1863, with numerous major cities following, and since the year 2,000 an explosion in new systems with over 30 metros opening in China alone! From the Budapest World Heritage site, to the longest and busiest in Beijing; from the stunning architecture of Moscow to the mysterious Pyongyang Metro; from the Buenos Aires Subte the first in Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world to the forthcoming Crossrail in London and the City Rail Link, the first in New Zealand.

London at War (Hardcover): Stephen Halliday London at War (Hardcover)
Stephen Halliday 1
R312 R209 Discovery Miles 2 090 Save R103 (33%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: London at War" is a unique collection of surprising revelations, heroic deeds and other quirky pieces of trivia from the conflicts that have shaped London's fascinating past. From British wartime commanders and other characters who called London their home, through the privations of war and their social impact, to the devastation caused by the Blitz in World War II and London's subsequently resilience, an intriguing history is revealed. With stories of human endeavour in the face of adversity, the rich history of this great capital city at war is revealed.

Beyond the Virus - Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives on Inequalities Raised by COVID-19: Buhm-Suk Baek, Louise... Beyond the Virus - Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives on Inequalities Raised by COVID-19
Buhm-Suk Baek, Louise Bernier, Gwilym Blunt, Julia Boelle, Valentina Cardo, …
R858 Discovery Miles 8 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, exacerbated by the global health crisis. This book explores these inequalities, identifying three thematic strands: power and governance, gender and marginalized communities. By examining these three themes in relation to the effects of the pandemic, the book uncovers how unequal the pandemic truly is. It brings together invaluable insights from a range of international scholars across multiple disciplines to critically analyse how these inequalities have played out in the context of COVID-19 as a first step towards achieving social justice.

Asymmetry (Paperback): Lisa Halliday Asymmetry (Paperback)
Lisa Halliday
R432 R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Save R73 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice.

The first section, “Folly,” tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, “Folly” also suggests an aspiring novelist’s coming-of-age. By contrast, “Madness” is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda.

A stunning debut from a rising literary star, Asymmetry is “a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas, and a politically engaged work of metafiction” (The New York Times Book Review), and a “masterpiece” in the original sense of the word” (The Atlantic). Lisa Halliday’s novel will captivate any reader with while also posing arresting questions about the very nature of fiction itself.

Images of Art Therapy (Psychology Revivals) - New Developments in Theory and Practice (Hardcover): Tessa Dalley, Caroline Case,... Images of Art Therapy (Psychology Revivals) - New Developments in Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
Tessa Dalley, Caroline Case, Joy Schaverien, Felicity Weir, Diana Halliday, …
R4,291 Discovery Miles 42 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Working through the process of image-making in a therapeutic relationship, the art therapist is able to explore feelings, fantasies, and myths in different setting with diverse client groups. Originally published in 1987 Images of Art Therapy is a collection of essays by experienced art therapists which discuss and develop both theoretical and practical issues central to art therapy. The authors describe how they work through the use of illustrated case material which includes children, adolescents, and adults, in normal schools, psychiatric hospitals, therapeutic communities, and out-patient clinics. Theoretical considerations include bereavement, play, transference, symbolism, and verbal versus non-verbal communication. The first book on art therapy, Art as Therapy, edited by Tessa Dalley, was a useful introduction to the subject. Images of Art Therapy expands the issues raised in the earlier book in more depth, and develops new and innovative ideas which it was hoped, at the time, would influence both the theory and practice of art therapy in the future.

Halliday Wine Companion 2024: James Halliday Halliday Wine Companion 2024
James Halliday
R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For over thirty years James Halliday AM has been Australia's most respected wine critic, and his Halliday Wine Companion is recognised as the industry benchmark for Australian wine.  A best-selling annual, the Halliday Wine Companion 2024 has been completely revised to bring readers the latest wine ratings, regions, best varietals, winery reviews and a curated selection of the best wines in Australia.  The Halliday Tasting Team, now led by Campbell Mattinson in the role of chief editor, share their extensive knowledge of wine through detailed tasting notes with points, price, value, and advice on best-by drinking.  ​ The book provides information about wineries and winemakers, including opening times, contact details and advice on family and dog-friendly vineyards. It’s the essential guide to the country’s best drops, or an ideal gift for any wine lover.

BRS Gross Anatomy (Paperback, Tenth, International Edition): Nancy L. Halliday, Harold M. Chung BRS Gross Anatomy (Paperback, Tenth, International Edition)
Nancy L. Halliday, Harold M. Chung
R1,219 Discovery Miles 12 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

BRS Gross Anatomy, 10th Edition, presents the essentials of human anatomy in the popular Board Review Series outline format to help students master key information and confidently prepare for basic sciences level anatomy exams and the USMLE Step 1 board exam. Praised by students as the best review book for gross anatomy, this powerful, easy-to-use resource combines clear, concise writing, a clinically relevant approach, engaging radiographs and full-color illustrations, and more than 550 board-style review questions to ensure unparalleled exam preparation and position users for a successful transition to clinical practice. UPDATED! More than 550 USMLE-style, multiple-choice questions with answers and rationales-presented across chapter-ending exams and an end-of-book comprehensive exam-help students assess their mastery and build test-taking confidence. UPDATED! Clinical Correlatesreinforce connections between anatomical knowledge and clinical medicine. High-Yield Topics at the end of each chapter maximize study time with targeted preparation for board and anatomy course examinations. Board Review Series outline format with built-in learning aids and bolded key terms makes review easy and efficient. UPDATED! More than 200 full-color illustrations clarify anatomic structures in vivid detail. eBook available for purchase. Fast, smart, and convenient, today's eBooks can transform learning. These interactive, fully searchable tools offer 24/7 access on multiple devices, the ability to highlight and share notes, and more.

Inheritance and the Right to Bequeath - Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover): Hans-Christoph Schmidt Am Busch,... Inheritance and the Right to Bequeath - Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover)
Hans-Christoph Schmidt Am Busch, Daniel, Halliday,, Thomas Gutmann
R4,147 Discovery Miles 41 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In every Western democracy today, inheritances have a very profound influence on people's lives. This motivates renewed scholarship on inheritance law by philosophy and the legal sciences. The present volume aims to contribute to some ongoing areas of inquiry while also filling some gaps in research. It is organized in a highly interdisciplinary way. In the thirteen chapters of the book, written by outstanding philosophers and legal scholars, the following questions, among others, are discussed: What is the nature of the right to bequeath? What are the social functions of bequest and inheritance? What arguments concerning justice have philosophers and legal scholars advanced in favour or against practices of bequest and inheritance? How should we think about taxing the wealth transfers that occur in bequest and inheritance? In discussing these questions, the authors break new ground and offer much needed insight into several related domains, such as the philosophy of law; legal theory; general and applied ethics; social and political philosophy; theories of justice; and the history of legal, political, and economic thought. This book will be of great interest to scholars in these areas as well as policy-makers.

Charity Law - Exploring the Concept of Public Benefit (Hardcover): Daniel, Halliday,, Matthew Harding Charity Law - Exploring the Concept of Public Benefit (Hardcover)
Daniel, Halliday,, Matthew Harding
R4,156 Discovery Miles 41 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book investigates and critically evaluates the concept of public benefit within charity law in the common law world. In the course of the study the book: provides a rich account of how the concept of public benefit has developed over time in charity law jurisprudence; deepens understanding of the aspects of public benefit that remain poorly understood even today; and suggests ways in which public benefit jurisprudence might develop in an orderly and principled way so as to better address some of the core concerns of charity law and the public policy objectives that lie behind it. The book includes contributions from world leading charity law experts and jurists. Each chapter reflects on a key aspect of public benefit jurisprudence in charity law. The topics have been chosen carefully to ensure coverage of most if not all of the large unresolved questions relating to public benefit in the common law world. Each chapter is accompanied by a comment, written by an academic expert or leading practitioner. The comments complement the chapters by critically engaging with those chapters and by offering different and thought-provoking perspectives on the subject matter of the chapters. The book will be of interest to academics working in law, philosophy, economics, sociology and political science. It will also provide a valuable resource for legal practitioners and judges, government officials, especially charity regulators, and in the not-for-profit sector itself.

Beyond the Virus - Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives on Inequalities Raised by COVID-19 (Hardcover): Buhm-Suk... Beyond the Virus - Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives on Inequalities Raised by COVID-19 (Hardcover)
Buhm-Suk Baek, Louise Bernier, Gwilym Blunt, Julia Boelle, Valentina Cardo, …
R2,273 Discovery Miles 22 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, been exacerbated by the global health crisis. This book explores these inequalities, identifying three thematic strands: power and governance, gender and marginalized communities. By examining these three themes in relation to the effects of the pandemic, the book uncovers how unequal the pandemic truly is. It brings together invaluable insights from a range of international scholars across multiple disciplines to critically analyse how these inequalities have played out in the context of COVID-19 as a first step towards achieving social justice.

Buy Black - How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture (Paperback): Aria S. Halliday Buy Black - How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture (Paperback)
Aria S. Halliday
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from haircare to Nicki Minaj's hip-hop, Aria S. Halliday spotlights how the products created by Black women have furthered Black women's position as the moral compass and arbiter of Black racial progress. Far-ranging and bold, Buy Black reveals what attitudes inform a contemporary Black sensibility based in representation and consumerism. It also traces the parameters of Black symbolic power, mapping the sites where intraracial ideals of blackness, womanhood, beauty, play, and sexuality meet and mix in consumer and popular culture.

Nationalism and Racism in the Liberal Order (Paperback): Bob Brecher, Jo Halliday Nationalism and Racism in the Liberal Order (Paperback)
Bob Brecher, Jo Halliday
R1,083 Discovery Miles 10 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998, this volume emerged in the light of the resurgence of militant nationalism and racism since liberalism's alleged triumph in 1989. We have to ask whether liberalism represents a bulwark against these deformations, or whether it is in fact their harbinger. Central themes explored in this interdisciplinary collection are: c the position of the Romani, especially in central and eastern Europe c the nature and scope of multiculturalism and its relation to conceptions of recognition c the relations of liberalism to nationalism and racism c the philosophical relation of 'the individual' to national and other identities c the debate between liberal and communitarian conceptions of personhood The book will thus be of particular interest to social and political scientists, philosophers and educationalists, as well as to anyone more generally concerned with contemporary issues of nationalism and racism.

An Underground Guide to Sewers - or: Down, Through and Out in Paris, London, New York, &c. (Hardcover): Stephen Halliday An Underground Guide to Sewers - or: Down, Through and Out in Paris, London, New York, &c. (Hardcover)
Stephen Halliday; Foreword by Peter Bazalgette
R747 R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Save R219 (29%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Lose yourself in the vast sewer networks that lie beneath the world's great cities - past and present. Let detailed archival plans, maps and photographs guide you through these subterranean labyrinths - previously accessible only to their builders, engineers and, perhaps, the odd rogue explorer. This execrable exploration traces the evolution of waste management from the ingenious infra-structures of the ancient world to the seeping cesspits and festering open sewers of the medieval period. It investigates and celebrates the work of the civil engineers whose pioneering integrated sewer systems brought to a close the devastating cholera epidemics of the mid-19th century and continue to serve a vastly increased population today. And let's not forget those giant fatbergs clogging our underground arteries, or the storm-surge super-structures of tomorrow.

Social Rights in Europe in an Age of Austerity (Paperback): Simon Halliday, Stefano Civitarese Matteucci Social Rights in Europe in an Age of Austerity (Paperback)
Simon Halliday, Stefano Civitarese Matteucci
R1,414 Discovery Miles 14 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of essays examines the promise and limits of social rights in Europe in a time of austerity. Presenting in the first instance five national case studies, representing the biggest European economies (UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), it offers an account of recent reforms to social welfare and the attempts to resist them through litigation. The case studies are then used as a foundation for theory-building about social rights. This second group of chapters develops theory along two complementary lines: first, they explore the dynamics between social rights, public law, poverty and welfare in times of economic crisis; second, they consider the particular significance of the European context for articulations of, and struggles over, social rights. Employing a range and depth of expertise across Europe, the book constitutes a timely and highly significant contribution to socio-legal scholarship about the character and resilience of social rights in our national and regional constitutional settings.

Thin Within - A Grace-Oriented Approach To Lasting Weight Loss (Paperback): Judy Halliday, Arthur Halliday Thin Within - A Grace-Oriented Approach To Lasting Weight Loss (Paperback)
Judy Halliday, Arthur Halliday 1
R389 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R94 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

I want to lose weight, but dieting just doesn't seem to work.

I've tried everything, and I'm still three sizes too big.

Help I hate the way my body looks.

Sound familiar? Like many women and men, perhaps you have tried virtually every wtight-loss plan that exists only to give up in disappointment and despair. Have you faithfully counted fat grams and calories? Have you subjected yourself, week after week, to the humiliation of hearing what your current weight should be compared to what it is? Have you exercised excessively, given up your favorite foods, and felt guilty when you've failed to meet your weight goals?

Time tested for more than 30 years, "Thin Within" is the original hunger-fullness plan. Tens of thousands of participants in the program have joyfully reported the release of unwanted weight. More importantly, they have maintained that weight with a new and incomparable peace with themselves and with the One who designed them. "Thin Within" makes it possible to:

  • Identify and resolve issues that cause you to eat more than your body needs
  • Leave diets behind forever
  • Discover and enjoy those foods that promote health and vitality
  • Experience the abundant life as you reach and maintain your natural God-given size
The Great Stink of London - Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis (New edition): Stephen Halliday The Great Stink of London - Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis (New edition)
Stephen Halliday; Foreword by Adam Hart-Davis
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the sweltering summer of 1858 the stink of sewage from the polluted Thames was so offensive that it drove Members of Parliament from the chamber of the House of Commons. Sewage from over 2 million Londoners was pouring into the river, carried by the tides. The Times called the crisis "The Great Stink". Parliament had to act - drastic measures were required to improve London's primitive system of sanitation. The great engineer entrusted with this task was Sir Joseph Bazalgette, his response to conceive and build the system of intercepting sewers, pumping stations and treatment works that serves London to this day. In the process he cleansed the Thames and helped banish cholera, but this was only one of his great achievements. This enthralling history gives a vivid insight into Bazalgette's achievements and the era in which he worked and lived, including his heroic battles with politicians and bureaucrats, to transform the face and health of the world's largest city.

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