Dementia is a little understood and incurable illness, but much can be done to maximise the quality of life for people with the condition. This book outlines the SPECAL method (Specialized Early Care for Alzheimer's) for managing dementia that allows both sufferer and carer to maintain the quality of life, in various stages of the illness.

This updated edition contains new chapters on 'baby' vegetables and the modern easy ways to grow food crops. There is an enlarged chapter on herbs, with details of new varieties which have appeared in the past few years.

If you suffer from depression you are far from alone. Depression is very common, affecting over 300 million people around the world. This self-help book contains helpful case studies and easy-to-follow, step-by-step suggestions and exercises to help you understand your depression and lift your mood.

This new set of resources, comprising three Worksheet Packs and a student book, have been designed specifically for the new Adult Numeracy Curriculum, covering Entry Levels 1, 2 and 3 and Levels 1 and 2. All topics within the resources are clearly labelled with a curriculum reference to assist with planning.

Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird and wonderful mathematical phenomena, the author travels across the globe and meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany and a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan.

Offers the benefits of the original Atkins diet, including the freedom to eat luxuriously and feel completely satisfied, a metabolic boost giving you more energy and weight loss that never comes back. This new diet allows you to include carbohydrates in your diet; and trains your body to burn fat for energy rather than banning fats altogether.

Contains three full sets of papers plus answers and a mark scheme. This pack also contains tests.

Contains eight case-studies of people the author has treated, including a woman of 67, obsessively pining with love for her 32-year-old previous therapist and a woman of 19 stone who has emotional difficulties because of her weight problem. This title includes stories that reveal the diversity of human motivation.

Tells the story of one little boy and his journey through childhood life up to his mid-teens. This title provides an insight into psychotherapy - how it works and what it can mean to people on a practical level.

Gives guidance to those responsible for the inspection, testing and maintenance of electrical appliances. This text specifies the frequency and scope of inspections and testing in different environments. It is printed in colour and includes many drawings aimed at helping to identify common problems.

Answers your questions on the basics of inspection and testing with reference to the legal requirements. This book not only tells you what tests are needed but also describes them step-by-step with the help of real-world colour photos. It offers advice on how to avoid and solve common problems encountered on the job.

It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that is truly readable.

To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now clichés, but which Darwin was the first to pen. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here.

Darwin's friend and"bulldog" T. H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin ,"How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution Darwin did, but it was Darwin who gathered the mass of supporting evidence--on domestic animals and plants, on variability, on sexual selection, on dispersal--that swept most scientists before it. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in his conclusion that"Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" is surely the pinnacle of British understatement. --Mary Ellen Curtin, Amazon.com