Practical Transfusion MedicinePractical Transfusion Medicine, Sixth EditionThe pace of change in transfusion medicine is relentless, with new scientific and technological developments and continuing efforts to improve transfusion practice. This sixth edition of Practical Transfusion Medicine has been updated significantly to reflect the rapid changes in transfusion medicine since the fifth edition was published in 2017.The primary purpose o...

Winner of 'Best Book' and 'Impact for Change' True Crime Awards 2025The shocking true story of one of Britain’s most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operationsBristol, 1979.An attacker roams the streets…Young women are warned not to go out alone…Enter the Decoys.For several years, a prolific predator haunted Bristol. Avon and Somerset Police had tried all th...

With themes ranging from passion and romance to murder and psychological disturbance, popular British film in the 1940s found little favour with the critics, but provided thrills and entertainment for millions of people during a time of austerity and danger. Realism and Tinsel looks beyond the established histories of Ealing Comedies and realist classics to excavate a rich but neglected tradition of melodrama, gangster films, morbid thrillers, and costume pictures. Discussing cinema in the...

- Newly revised to accompany the Pearson Edexcel specification for Global Politics, with updated case studies and recent developments from around the world- Provides synoptic links within global politics, and across UK and political ideas topics- Includes definitions of key terms and concepts throughout- Includes quickfire knowledge-check questions and summaries of key content to help consolidate knowledge and understanding- Features practice questions throughou...

Winner of 'Best Book' and 'Impact for Change' True Crime Awards 2025The shocking true story of one of Britain’s most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operationsBristol, 1979.An attacker roams the streets…Young women are warned not to go out alone…Enter the Decoys.For several years, a prolific predator haunted Bristol. Avon and Somerset Police had tried all th...

This is the story of a sixteen-year-old boy who finds his way to the beginning of manhood during a great and memorable adventure in the world of nature.Geordie Sutton was more interested in the wildlife of the prairie slough and along the Iowa River than he was in following his father’s footsteps into the practice of law. His world stretched comfortably from quiet, tree-lined streets with well-spaced houses to clandestine adventures on the river. But the turn of the century was sti...

In the near future, as the Human Race starts to make breakthroughs into deep space exploration, earth is visited by their nearest neighbours, the Kaani.The Kaani want to size us up, before welcoming us into the interstellar community. Unfortunately, we don't quite measure up to their exacting standards. War, poverty and inequality are considered too prevalent within our society for us to be let loose on the universe.The Kaani decide to share some of their knowledge with us, h...

This book is about the missing gospel, that portion of the gospel the church has lost sight of; the biblical gospel currently not being taught or preached. Its about hope found in Scripture but missing today. Heavens purpose, the joys we will know there, and the glorious future arriving soon. Salvations final chapter, written by God and disclosed in Scripture. Its about the uniqueness of Jesus, what hes done for us, and what he will ultimately do for God. The joy that was set before him th...

The new edition of The British Cinema Book has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to the major periods, genres, studios, film-makers and debates in British cinema from the 1890s to the present. The book has five sections, addressing debates and controversies; industry, genre and representation; British cinema 1895-1939; British cinema from World War II to the 1970s, and contemporary British cinema.Within these sections, leading scholars and ...

Most commonly accepted economic "facts" are wrong Here's the unvarnished, politically incorrect truth. The liberal media and propagandists masquerading as educators have filled the world--and deformed public policy--with politically correct errors about capitalism and economics in general. In The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Capitalism, myth-busting professor Robert P. Murphy, a scholar and frequent speaker at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, cuts through all their nonsense, ...

The emerging field of lipidomics has been made possible because of advances in mass spectrometry, and in particular tandem mass spectrometry of lipid ions generated by electrospray ionization. The ability to carry out basic biochemical studies of lipids using electrospray ionization is predicated upon understanding the behaviour of lipid derived ions following collision induced decomposition and mechanisms of product ion formation. During the past 20 years, a wealth of information has been...

By the mid-1950s, New York had been the unrivaled capital of America’s national pastime for a century, a place where baseball was followed with truly fanatical fervor. The city’s three teams—the New York Yankees, the New York Giants, and the Brooklyn Dodgers—had over the previous decade rewarded their fans’ devotion with stellar performances: from 1947 to 1957, one or more of these teams had played in the World Series every year but one. Yet on opening day 1958, the Giants and the Dodgers ...