*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton Park and became ‘Mr West Ham’: a one-club man who lived the dream.A modern footballing legend, Mark Noble is the embodiment of what it means to be a Hammer, pouring his heart and soul into the club he supported as a boy. Born and raised in Canning Town, Mark joined the West Ham youth squad in 2000 and made his senior-team debut aged j...

If you want to learn French without having to relocate to a French-speaking country for months or even years, then keep reading.... Learning a new language can seem difficult, if not impossible, at the very beginning. If you’re an adult, then it probably seems even scarier. You may have had a bad experience trying to learn a second language in school. It’s easier than you think. You’re not going to pull out your hair while learning French. It won’t be long until you amaze your friends and ...

The author of the bestselling Empire sequence continues his new epic of the uprising of the Batavi in AD 88.The Rhine frontier has exploded into all-out war. Summoned back to their homeland by their new leader Kivilaz, the Batavi cohorts, so recently proud soldiers of Rome, find their lands transformed. All Roman influences have vanished after a battle in which two legions were humbled by the rebels, then chased away to lick their wounds in their fortress, the Old Camp.As t...

Drupal open source content management is the perfect solution for small business websites, and this book takes you through the whole process step-by-step, from installing Drupal to incorporating sophisticated e-commerce modules.Key FeaturesBuild a Drupal 7 powered website for your business rapidlyAdd blogs, news, e-commerce, image galleries, maps, surveys, polls, and forums to your website to beat competitionComplete example of a real world sit...

Do you have the love or the passion for learning French and Spanish?Or you have thought of visiting Europe and experiencing the local lifestyle?Or do you have overseas clients in European countries?Or are you planning to expand into the European countries?Learning a new language sounds difficult, and you are just frozen at your feet at the start. If you are a working professional, then it might just sound impossible to you, but right now, learning a new language...

Social work and social development in the Asia-Pacific region continue to grow in new and exciting ways. Social work educators are an essential part of shaping social work and development. In this second edition we hear four new voices, from Cambodia, Fiji, Japan and Vietnam, together with revised and updated chapters from social work educators in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Nepal, and New Zealand. Summaries of each chapter are included in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, as we...

This new edition is written in the same quick reference style as its predecessor to help clinical and basic researchers, as well as graduate students, understand hemodynamics. Hemodynamics makes it possible to characterize, in a quantitative way and often with noninvasive techniques, the function of the heart and the arterial system, individually and in combination.Snapshots of Hemodynamics provides a thorough grounding in the discipline that will help any medical professional and ...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton Park and became ‘Mr West Ham’: a one-club man who lived the dream.A modern footballing legend, Mark Noble is the embodiment of what it means to be a Hammer, pouring his heart and soul into the club he supported as a boy. Born and raised in Canning Town, Mark joined the West Ham youth squad in 2000 and made his senior-team debut aged j...

Learning a new language can seem difficult, if not impossible at the very beginning. If you’re an adult, then it probably seems even scarier. You may have had a bad experience trying to learn a second language in school. You’ve wanted to learn French for some time now. It could just be because you’re in love with the language or you may live in an area where French is routinely spoken. Regardless of the reason, your desire to learn a second language is genuine, and it has driven you here.

Grumpy old retired Prof of Medicine rails (with cartoons) against low salt and low fat diets, over-diagnosis of high blood pressure, inappropriate use of anti-coagulants, etc. For light relief, some unsolved puzzles of body function are discussed.

In American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who rethink the human in material terms. Do our experiences correlate to our material elements? Do visions of a common physical ground imply a common purpose? Noble proposes new readings of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, George Santayana and Wallace Stevens that explore a literary history wrestling with the consequences of its own materialism. At a moment when several new models of the re...

Mare Island is my personal coming of age story about turning ten, getting my first kiss, and how the Zodiac killer ruined my life.