Provides comprehensive information on leadership and management issues encountered by all healthcare staff working in the operating department, particularly ODPs.

Ideal for students and practitioners in science, engineering and medicine, this book gives an insight into science's place in society.

An overview of how the legend of Arthur and his Knights evolved from the earliest documentary sources to Spamalot.

A lucid exploration of the key features of postmodernism and the most important authors from Beckett to DeLillo.

Cultural Mobility offers, from Stephen Greenblatt and colleagues, a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create.

An essential read covering all the clinical topics required of a modern curriculum for medical students.

This essential textbook examines what personality traits are, how they influence human behaviour and the applications of personality assessment.

Special centenary edition of Hind Swaraj, celebrating 100 years since the first publication of Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work.

First of its kind and unique in its blend of theoretical and practical approaches for mainstreaming biodiversity in impact assessment.

Identifies all of the main forms of consciousness and proposes an account of each of them.

Examines the ethical and policy dimensions of testing novel medical interventions in human beings for the first time.

Covers the middle Byzantine period, describing the day-to-day workings of the Byzantine Jewish economy via primary sources.

Ecology is a difficult field - this book presents a coherent philosophy for the struggle to understand, practise and teach it.

Ideal for courses, this Companion examines the range, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain, 1500-1700.

Presents new algorithms for determining orbits; ideal for graduate students and researchers in applied mathematics, physics, astronomy and aerospace engineering.

A unique new geological perspective on the oil industry's impact on climate change and its potential role in stabilizing carbon emissions.

Explains how natural selection, combined with methods in statistical physics, can predict and explain the assembly of ecological communities.

Reconstructs Rawls's argument, as well as discussing some of the most influential criticisms in the secondary literature.

Cultural Mobility offers, from Stephen Greenblatt and colleagues, a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create.

A major reassessment of Britain's comparative productivity performance over the last 150 years.