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A Very British Christmas

Twelve Days of Discomfort and Joy

By: Rhodri Marsden

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A Very British Christmas

Twelve Days of Discomfort and Joy

By: Rhodri Marsden

Imagine if all your Christmases did actually "come at once". That idiom is supposed to evoke an image of delight, happiness and nothing going wrong, but the British Christmas doesn't always turn out that way. Yes, sometimes all the gifts are perfect, everyone's on great form and no one chokes on a mince pie. But on other occasions you'll fall through a glass cabinet or set your cardigan on fire. A Very British Christmas pays tribute to all the peculiar ways we choose to celebrate; it tells stories of our propensity to behave badly, our uselessness under pressure and our unquenchable joie de vivre. Join us as we salute cultural icons, dissect national customs and hear from people who've eaten all the turkey and lived to tell the tale. Tidings of discomfort, tidings of joy.

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0008256713

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The Next Big Thing

A Rough Guide to things that seemed like a good idea at the time

By: Rhodri Marsden

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The Next Big Thing

A Rough Guide to things that seemed like a good idea at the time

By: Rhodri Marsden

Times change. People move on. Plunging a hand into a pot of boiling oil is no longer considered an accurate way of determining the guilt of an adulterous woman. We tend not to casually vomit at the dinner table, do the Macarena, or fly around in airships inflated with highly flammable gas. We live our lives amid a complex web of rapidly changing ideas, desires and ethics; we pick the ones that seem like a good idea, and jettison the ones that don't. The Next Big Thing points, laughs and winces at all those things that were suddenly deemed not that great after all. The guide is a tribute to the fad, the dead-end trend, the ephemeral nature of our beliefs, needs and aspirations. Choose your fad by era - Prehistory, Ancient Civilizations, The Middle Ages, Renaissance & Elizabethan, Georgian & Victorian, World Wars, The Post-War Years, The 1960s & 70s, The 1980s & 90s right through to today. Think about it: In the 1930s, men who played the clarinet were considered incredibly sexually attractive by young women. This is no longer the case. The Next Big Thing will tell you why. A Rough Guide to things that seemed like a good idea at the time.

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Rough Guides UK

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1848367481

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9781848367487

Crap Dates

Disastrous Encounters from Single Life

By: Rhodri Marsden

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Crap Dates

Disastrous Encounters from Single Life

By: Rhodri Marsden

A good date can be exhilarating: a shared joke, an improbable spark, long moments of gazing fondly into each other's eyes. Not so for the dating disasters featured in this collection of laugh-out-loud actual tweets about the most terrible evenings imaginable. From seriously unwelcome confessions, to dousing dates in wine, to bringing them back to creepy apartments to meet favorite stuffed animals, here are the funniest and most alarming reports from dating's front lines. Along the way, author Rhodri Marsden offers tips on how to identify and avoid the worst of the bad daters, including married men, blatant liars, deluded optimists, and more. This harrowing collection of real nightmare dates will amuse anyone who's suffered through one of cupid's off nights.

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125

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Chronicle Books

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1452132054

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9781452132051

FRCS (Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery) Part 2

100 Clinical Cases

By: John Breeze,Ross Elledge,Rhodri Williams

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FRCS (Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery) Part 2

100 Clinical Cases

By: John Breeze,Ross Elledge,Rhodri Williams

The FRCS Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) exam is split into three parts: written, viva and mock clinical consultations with an examiner and an actor in the role of a patient. These consultations fall into two formats: ‘short case’, where the examiner poses questions specific to the patient’s case, and ‘long case’ where the candidate must diagnose the patient’s presenting problem and suggest an appropriate course of treatment. FRCS (Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery) Part 2: 100 Clinical Cases focuses on the clinical component of the exam and is structured according the FRCS OMFS syllabus. Each chapter starts with cases devoted to examination of the patient, history taking and investigations. Subsequent cases feature ‘short case’ clinical scenarios commonly encountered in the exam. Where relevant to exam practice, a ‘long case’ is included at the end of each chapter. The ‘short cases’ feature mock questions, while the ‘long cases’ also include an examiner’s mark sheet listing the answers and actions candidates must perform to achieve full marks. First book to cater specifically for the clinical component of the FRCS OMFS exam Ideal for practising scenarios with colleagues and taking turns to play role of either candidate or examiner

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369

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JP Medical Ltd

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1909836834

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9781909836839

Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of Reality

By: Rhodri Evans,Brian Clegg

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Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of Reality

By: Rhodri Evans,Brian Clegg

Acclaimed popular-science writer Brian Clegg and popular TV and radio astronomer Rhodri Evans give us a Top Ten list of physicists as the central theme to build an exploration of the most exciting breakthroughs in physics, looking not just at the science, but also the fascinating lives of the scientists themselves. The Top Ten are: 1.Isaac Newton (1642-1727) 2.Niels Bohr (1885-1962) 3.Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 4.Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 5.James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) 6.Michael Faraday (1791-1867) 7.Marie Curie (1867-1934) 8.Richard Feynman (1918-1988) 9.Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) 10.Paul Dirac (1902-1984) Each of these figures has made a huge contribution to physics. Some are household names, others more of a mystery, but in each case there is an opportunity to combine a better understanding of the way that each of them has advanced our knowledge of the universe with an exploration of their often unusual, always interesting lives. Whether we are with Curie, patiently sorting through tons of pitchblende to isolate radium or feeling Bohr's frustration as once again Einstein attempts to undermine quantum theory, the combination of science and biography humanizes these great figures of history and makes the Physics itself more accessible. In exploring the way the list has been built the authors also put physics in its place amongst the sciences and show how it combines an exploration of the deepest and most profound questions about life and the universe with practical applications that have transformed our lives. The book is structured chronologically, allowing readers to follow the development of scientific knowledge over more than 400 years, showing clearly how this key group of individuals has fundamentally altered our understanding of the world around us.

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Robinson

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1472120388

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9781472120380

Questioning the Assessment of Research Impact

Illusions, Myths and Marginal Sectors

By: Rhodri Thomas

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Questioning the Assessment of Research Impact

Illusions, Myths and Marginal Sectors

By: Rhodri Thomas

This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of non-academic research impact in relation to a marginal field of study, namely tourism studies. Informed by interviews with key informants, ethnographic reflections on the author’s extensive work with trade and professional associations, and various secondary data, it paints a picture of inevitable research policy failure. This conclusion is justified by reference to ill-founded official conceptualisations of practitioner and organisational behaviour, and the orientation and quality of tourism research. The author calls for a more serious consideration of research-informed teaching as a means of creating knowledge flows from universities. Research with greater social and economic impact might then be achievable. This radical assessment will be of interest and value to policy makers, university research managers and tourism scholars.

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Springer

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3319957236

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9783319957234

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art

By: Rhodri Lewis

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Shakespeare’s Tragic Art

By: Rhodri Lewis

A new account of Shakespearean tragedy as a response to life in an uncertain world In Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, Rhodri Lewis offers a powerfully original reassessment of tragedy as Shakespeare wrote it—of what drew him toward tragic drama, what makes his tragedies distinctive, and why they matter. After reconstructing tragic theory and practice as Shakespeare and his contemporaries knew them, Lewis considers in detail each of Shakespeare’s tragedies from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus. He argues that these plays are a series of experiments whose greatness lies in their author’s nerve-straining determination to represent the experience of living in a world that eludes rational analysis. They explore not just our inability to know ourselves as we would like to, but the compensatory and generally unacknowledged fictions to which we bind ourselves in our hunger for meaning—from the political, philosophical, social, and religious to the racial, sexual, personal, and familial. Lewis’s Shakespeare not only creates tragedies that exceed those written before them. Through his art, he also affirms and invigorates the kinds of knowing that are available to intelligent animals like us. A major reevaluation of Shakespeare’s tragedies, Shakespeare’s Tragic Art is essential reading for anyone interested in Shakespeare, tragedy, or the capacity of literature to help us navigate the perplexities of the human condition.

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400

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Princeton University Press

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0691246718

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9780691246710

Bodyology

The Curious Science of Our Bodies

By: Mosaic Science

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Bodyology

The Curious Science of Our Bodies

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What it’s like to be hit by lightning or to lose your sense of smell? Have you heard about the woman saved by bee stings — or the window cleaner who fell 400ft and lived? Written for Wellcome charity's Mosaic Science site, these 16 stories explore the mysteries of the human body. Learn about everything from diets to allergies to baldness. Contents What’s it like to be struck by lightning?Why do we colour hair?The man with the golden bloodWhy dieters can’t rely on calories3D printers can now make body partsHow to fall from a skyscraper and live to tell the taleThe quest to explain miscarriagesSeeking a ‘cure’ for male baldnessHow bee stings saved a woman’s lifeThe global trend for ‘kangaroo’ babiesWhat it means to lose your sense of smellThe doctor aiming to end eye painCould allergies be a defence against noxious chemicals?Why business is going slow on the male pillHow virtual reality headsets aid remote surgeryShhh! What exactly is the menopause? Review It's a good sign when you pick up a book intending to read one chapter and end up reading three. It's very moreish. This is because it's made up of short, self-contained articles, originally published on a website. Often an edited collection of articles by different authors suggests a boring read, but here the articles are good pieces of journalism with plenty to interest the reader. The topics are all vaguely human body related, but thankfully not all medical (not my favourite subject) - so, for example, as well as stories of a person cured of Lyme disease by bee stings or a piece on miscarriages we get topics like the effects on the body of being struck by lightning or falling from a high place. Even some more explicitly health-related matters, such as the impact of losing your sense of smell, were engaging enough to get me past my medical squeamishness. — Brian Clegg, science writer

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Canbury Press

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0995497869

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9780995497863

The Next Big Thing

A Rough Guide to things that seemed like a good idea at the time

By: Rhodri Marsden

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The Next Big Thing

A Rough Guide to things that seemed like a good idea at the time

By: Rhodri Marsden

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Book's by Rhodri Marsden

A Very British Christmas

A Very British Christmas

The Next Big Thing

The Next Big Thing

Crap Dates

Crap Dates

FRCS (Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery) Part 2

FRCS (Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery) Part 2

Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of Reality

Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of Reality

Questioning the Assessment of Research Impact

Questioning the Assessment of Research Impact

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art

Bodyology

Bodyology

The Next Big Thing

The Next Big Thing

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