A Quick to find it guide fot the 17th Edition

After just completing the 17th Edition exam, i was looking for something that i could have with me at all times, ie fits in my tool bag. So if a problem, or i come across something that i may think the ledgislation may have changed, i can quickly check without the need to wait and refer back to my larger 17th Edition book later on, thus saves time. Plus i find it to be straightforward.

It worked perfectly for me

This book made me smoke-free. I have never gotten so much out of a self-help book, this is one that truly works. <br /><br />However, the book only gets 4 stars since it just didn't work out for my mom and sister! They're still smoking after I gave up 2 years ago using this book, though I recommended and even gave them the book. I don't understand why it doesn't work for them, it worked flawlessy for me. I blame the book. Not that it don't work(for many people including me), but some are still holding on to their cigarettes, like my sister and mom after getting in contact with this book.

Iee 17th Edition

A must for all electricians and especially for those who are taking the 17th edition exhams<br />Make sure you have this weeks before you take the exham I got this 2 days before and I failed through lack of studying the format etc

A useful book

I have found this book very helpful and practical. The accompanying CD takes you through the exercises described in the book- a great thing to put on your I-pod . The Authors use good examples of how different techniques can be applied and case studies from their own clients.

Basics for CBT

I needed this book for my CBT course. We do the initial training for CBT with the exercises described in this book, so it's a very useful tool for me. But anyone who has problems with depression and other difficulties can find easy managing strategies in this book, as well. I would recommend it to anyone who is in need of counselling before and when they start with therapy.

Life & money saving

As the parent of two daughters who are now in secondary school, I wish I had been able to read this book several years ago as I would have saved a great deal of time and money. Modern maths is quite different to that which I learned but, as I now see from this book, not nearly as mysterious as I initially thought. Following Rob & Mike's tips and advice would have prevented much aggravation and heated discussion between myself and my daughters during their primary education. Had our mathematical relationship not been strained by this, my daughters might now still have been happy to sit down and talk maths with me, rather than to an expensive, but excellent, tutor!

I still have not received this item!!

I still have not received this book,I did send two messages to the seller but have not received any reply..<br />I am not happy about the lack of communications as there has been no explanations as what has happened and whether the book has been shipped lost or returned!!!<br />SZ

City & Guilds 2330

Excellent product, absolutely essential to any electrical student. You'll be amazed at how many practicing"electricians" don't know the first thing about testing an earth electrode on a TT system! Don't be one of them. You'll need this to get through your level III practical.

Excellent Book for Parents and Practitioners

Im a social care professional so i use this book as a guiding tool . Im not a parent but part of my remit is to support young parents. A useful book which looks at science and psychology- I would recommend this book for all professionals working in health and parents as well.

GCSE Maths - revision guide

useful - helped my son revise<br />arrived before 08.00 on next day delivery - v pleased!

Housebuilders Bible 8th edition.

Essential, full of useful information-don't consider self build without it BUT make sure you have the latest version as info goes out of date very quickly!!Great book.

SWALLOW A DICTIONARY FIRST

<br />Before I tell you how wonderful this book is - first a few things I didn't like: <br /><br />1. It's too short. I enjoyed it so much that I wanted it to go on and on and was saddened when I realised I was already half way through. <br /><br />2. The author is trying too hard to impress us by swallowing a dictionary and peppering the pages with obscure and little used words. Why use a normal word when a weird one will do - for example the use of"tryptych" is infinitely more impressive than"three". And"jocose" for"joyful". Bring it on girl - we are impressed......I think. And what is a"dysarthic voice" ? Goodness only knows. <br /><br />3. Some of the writing is too mannered as if trying to impress a grand old uncle or aunt. And it is obvious that author has an English Literature degree - she never lets us forget it with references to great literary works thrown in at intervals. <br /><br />4. It borders on Mills and Boon with descriptions of men folk as being"beautiful" and"handsome". My God I was expecting Heathciff or Mr Darcy to come galloping onto the ward. They never did - thank goodness. But this love interest was a bit tiresome. <br /><br />But folks - this is a great read and I loved the book. <br /><br />The author's honesty and obvious humanity is refreshing and her writing style is magical. This girl can really write well with beautiful sentence construction and imagery. She has mastered her craft. <br /><br />I found her descriptions of the surgical manoeuvres utterly compelling and on occasions had to put the book down to gain a little equilibrium - some of it was too close to the bone (pun intended). <br /><br />Although she has suffered from the privations of the English Private school system rendering her emotionally distant and a little sterile she nevertheless breaks through all of this and demonstrates a true love of humanity and a touching affection for many of her patients. <br /><br />I was fascinated all of the way through and I feel that I now understand a lot more about surgery and hospital life. Who would want to be a doctor? Not I. <br />

The Strangest Man

I found this biography to to be a very good read - a page-turner - I was unable to put it down.<br />Here is a social history of Physics in the first half of the twentieth century. All the major players are here as full interesting personalities - Rutherford, Bohr, Einstein, Schrodinger, Heisenberg. Dr Farmelo has skillfully woven in enough Physics to help the intelligent layman.<br />Also here is a fascinating story of a clearly autistic genius and his extraordinary family as he moves from Bristol to Cambridge to Tallahassee.

A ground breaking popular Science book

This book hardly needs further introduction. It ranks in the central canon of popular Science writing, certainly in the same league as 'A Brief History of Time'. It is unsual in one respect in that it actually describes original thinking. Its central thesis is that the gene is the basic unit of natural selection, almost to the extent that bodies or cells are merely vehicles to perpetuate the continued existence of the genes themselves. A weakness here is that the book does not define a gene well. A single gene for example may encode for more than one protein; a protein may be the product of several individual genes. Dawkins goes onto explain how altruism may have evolved and that, rather than being paradoxical, is fully consistent with natural selection as outlined by Darwin. In this, Dawkins does provide arguments and evidence to support this. Overall, he is reasonably successful. We learn that group selection as such does not exist, but that through cooperation, it is possible for individuals to increase their own chances of survival and reproduction. We also learn that kin selection arises primarily through the sharing of the same genes: since my brother has a relatedness of 1/2, it may be worth sacrificing myself since my brother has half of my genes. There is, in my opinion, a very good description of the Prisoner's Dilemma, developed from game theory and how this can be applied to model the development of cooperation (or non-cooperation) strategies and to assess whether these may become so-called 'evolutionary stable strategies'. Clealy, this must be seen as an over-simplification. The complexities of molecular biology and neurobiology are great. The book ends with an introduction to Dawkins's next work, 'The Extended Phenotype'.<br /><br />It is worth noting that the title of the book has led people to assume that Dawkins is a pure genetic determinist. Dawkins stresses that this is not the case, and that we may easily overcome the 'rule' of our genes. Indeed this is essential for living in a sustainable and peaceble manner. In the introduction to this anniversary edition, Dawkins even mentions some regret in the title of the work, since it causes many to make assumption about his beliefs and motives.<br /><br />Overall, this is a ground-breaking and well written work that makes an excellent read.

This is really the greatest show on earth!

Brilliant!!! Just from the beginning the book gives to the reader a complete understanding of the"greatest show on earth". <br />Each chapter focus on different aspects of the evolution theme, giving more and more evidences to confirm strongly <br />the evolution as the key to the show on earth! Even the picture are superb.

shocking, surprising and mind-blowing

It is guaranteed that the reader will be utterly blown away with this extraordinary collection of medical insights into the symptoms that can occur when there are brain malfunctions with their consequenct bizarre changes in mental perceptions.This essentially is a collection of case histories that are quite out of the scope of the average persons understanding. Oliver Sacks' accessible style of writing gives us glimpses into the 'unreal' lives of patients who have to negotiate their everyday lives lacking some essential and basic abilities to relate to the world in a 'normal' way either in the business of memory, sensory perception or mobility.Each case reads like a whacky novel and leaves the reader with a feeling of walking on thin ice because the very foundations upon which we as 'normal'human beings base our lives come into question too.Not to be missed!

Fooled into buying into ramble

I found this book even more irritating than the narcissistic outpourings of Fooled By Randomness, the insufferable Taleb's previous ramble on chance and probability. After stripping out all the random pointless forays into the undergrowth by the road and pseudo-intellectual musings and nauseating self-praise (disguised with unctuous false humility) - i.e. most of the book, we discover that the author has ONLY ONE IDEA, and he's already told us of its discovery (by him) IN HIS PREVIOUS BOOK!<br /><br />Taleb's is a counsel of despair. If rare events, difficult by definition to predict, have major consequences, then we might as well throw in the towel, not bother forecasting and go to the beach. In any case, I can assure everybody (having spent thirty years trying to forecast stock prices) that forecasting is difficult enough even assuming Gaussian or log-normal distributions without having to invoke Black Swans or any other feathered creatures.<br /><br />By the way, am I the only one who thinks that Black Swans are simply a metaphor for the well-known (in intelligence circles) problem of the impossibility of proving a negative? Why doesn't Taleb the epistemologist not baldly say this? Because it wouldn't provide enough material for a book - of more rambling? Read the far more more modest and capable Mandelbrot's The Misbehaviour of Markets for a good read by one of the world's most accomplished mathematicians about probability and forecasting. The chapter on the Nile floods is a fascinating read.

amusing & informative

this book gets the job done, i hate statistics and reading this book didn't hurt one little bit, it explains everything wonderfully and the amusing examples as well as the authors sense of humour come across all too well, i didnt know a statistics book could actually be funny<br /><br />BUY IT!

nursing books

this book is concise easy to follow and a essential book for nursesand student nurses. this book covers a variety of procedures in detail and gives rationals as to why these procedures should be followed. A great overview and information at hand.

New starts and old hands reference

For a beginner with no idea what to expect, this provides an excellent entry-level guide. For the experienced grower who identifies new behavour or results, this has to be the first place to turn.<br />Illustrated to the highest standard, written for clarity, this book should be every growers' companion.<br />For readers who find they need further detail on pests and problems, or who want to know more about 'organic' or 'green' issues there are the essential elements that are expanded in companion books, but for everyone else, this has to be the"growers' bible".