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A pocket-sized guide to help nursing students prepare for their critical care placement. Critical care placements can be daunting – you’ll be working in a demanding setting and caring for people when they are critically ill and at their most vulnerable. There is a large amount of new information to take in, and newly learned nursing theory to put into practice. This pocket guide is designed to make your placement a less stressful and more rewarding learning experience. From advanced life support to urinalysis, via myocardial infarction, it’s full of practical detail, hints and tips. Written by current nursing students and edited by a senior lecturer – this guidance is really produced with you in mind. Pocket-sized format – carry it with you at all times. Space to make your own notes – be it new information, unfamiliar terminology, or just the names of your new colleagues Reduce your stress and make the most of your placement by having this book to hand from the start. Pocket Guides is a series of handy, pocket-sized books designed to help students make the most of their practice learning experiences.

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The brand new edition of the unrivalled and bestselling Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book.

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Pocket Playhouse is Michael Frayn's latest imaginative offering that brings the stage to the page. In thirty-six comic sketches, he provides a tour de force of theatrical imagination and satire. Each sketch reveals the author's infectious delight in writing between the lines of theatre, fiction and comedy.Charmingly packaged and published with flair, Pocket Playhouse is the perfect gift for all theatre and comedy writers.

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Just as Pocket Medicine helped you get through residency,Pocket Medicine High-Yield Board Review, Second Edition, will help you pass your boards! This fully updated review book follows the organization of Dr. Marc S. Sabatine’s bestselling Pocket Medicine manual and covers the essential information you need to excel on exams. Each chapter presents clinical vignettes and related multiple-choice questions and answers—all written by trusted Pocket Medicine contributors and meticulously edited by Dr. Sabatine. Hones your knowledge of internal medicine, preparing you for success on licensing, certification, and recertification exams Includes only clinically relevant, high-yield questions that reflect what you’ll see on exams, helping you make the most of your study time Questions have been reviewed, revised, and expanded so that now more than 600 questions in total mimic exam content and format, plus interactive quizzing available online Provides detailed answer rationales that review key diagnostic and therapeutic principles Based on the expert medical knowledge and clinical acumen of attendings, fellows, and residents at Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School Enrich Your eBook Reading Experience Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone. Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech.

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Thomas can travel with you wherever you go with this mini pocket library containing six little books! The Thomas Little Learners Pocket Library is the perfect way to introduce toddlers to early learning concepts. Young Thomas fans will love learning with Thomas & Friends from the All Engine Go TV show. This little slipcase contains six sturdy board books each based on a different early learning theme: ColoursWordsNumbersEmotionsShapesOpposites With colourful pictures of Thomas and friends and simple text,young children will enjoy holding the books, turning the pages and pointing to the pictures. The small size of the slipcase and board books means it’s perfect for carrying in a bag or buggy, so it can be enjoyed by children wherever they go. The books also make the perfect party bag fillers! There’s also a fun extra – children can arrange the back covers of the books to put together a big picture of Thomas and his friends. The Thomas and Friends Pocket Library is a great collection for young children to enjoy again and again. It’s a must-have for every child! The Thomas & Friends Pocket Library is now more eco-friendly too: the plastic shrinkwrap has been removed and instead the slipcase has a cardboard flap around the books and a small sticker to hold it closed.

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The 'Pocket Guide to Health Promotion' is a short, punchy and practical guide aimed at students and practitioners. The book includes precise definitions and examples of key concepts and methods in health promotion practice and a chapter by chapter description of the management planning, strategy selection, implementation and evaluation of health promotion programmes.Written in an accessible and concise style, the book offers the reader a practical and flexible resource that is ideal for students and practitioners looking to plan and implement health promotion activities. A must buy for those new to health promotion or who want a pocket guide to this core health activity. "Clearly written and practical, this excellent guide will prove indispensible to practitioners of health promotion globally, and a very useful starting point for students. It will be worth buying a pocket to put it in!"David Ross, Professor of Epidemiology and International Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK "The Pocket Guide to Health Promotion is easy to navigate with complex concepts in health promotion explained in a user-friendly way. Whether you are practicing health promotion or studying the discipline, this will be a welcome addition to any book shelf." Dr James Woodall, Co-Director of the Centre for Health Promotion Research & Course Leader MSc Public Health, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

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Your cool pocket companion and one-stop guide to improving your sleep!From the best-selling author of The Mindfulness Companion and The Can’t Sleep Colouring Journal comes the third in our pocket-sized range of gift self-help titles, designed to help you improve your sleep and as a consequence your quality of life. From diet and exercise to underlying stress or anxiety, Dr Arnold helps your nail your sleep patterns and get the quality sleep you deserve. With expert tips and guidance, exercises, techniques and check-lists – this is your one-stop, trusty and beautiful companion for everyday reference and rest!

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The world's best-selling annual wine guide.'This compact annual guide is packed with information and recommendations of top names from every wine region.' DecanterHugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine - in shops, restaurants, or on the internet. Now in its 46th year of publication, it has no rival as the comprehensive, up-to-the-minute annual guide.This latest edition of Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book includes a color supplement: How Wine Ages (And Why), which covers questions such as whether aged wine is necessarily better wine and how to store wine to ensure it ages well. It provides clear succinct facts and commentary on the wines, growers and wine regions of the whole world. It reveals which vintages to buy, which to drink and which to cellar, which growers to look for and why. Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book gives clear information on grape varieties, local specialities and how to match food with wines that will bring out the best in both.

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A Pocket Guide for Student Midwives is an accessible, portable book offering student midwives everything they need to grasp the key elements of midwifery language, knowledge and skills. The new edition of this useful aide-memoire is divided into two parts. The first includes relevant terms, abbreviations and definitions. The second part is a quick A-Z reference guide to common conditions, procedures, emergency situations, and supporting information, enhanced by visual material to aid comprehension of normality and anomalies. The innovative action flow charts enable rapid access to information that logically guides the reader through procedures in potentially life-threatening situations, in both home and hospital settings. A Pocket Guide for Student Midwives is essential reading for the new non-nurse student midwife, the experienced nurse entering the midwifery profession, and senior student midwives.

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Small and light enough to carry comfortably in a lab coat pocket, this completely revised edition of The Pharmacy Technician's Pocket Drug Reference contains the five main components of drug information that a pharmacy technician seeks. For each of the most commonly prescribed drugs, this book provides generic names (with pronunciations), trade names, therapeutic classes, general FDA-approved therapeutic uses, and commercially available dosage forms/strengths.KEY FEATURES: Five components of information on approximately 1,500 drug products: Generic Names (with pronunciations), Trade Names, Therapeutic Class, General Uses, and Dosage Forms/Strengths. The top 200 oral and topical products by retail sales, most oral and topical products approved by the FDA since 1997, plus more than 400 of the top parenteral products. Trade-name Index. A top-200 drugs table and brief appendices showing the controlled substance schedules, common abbreviations used in prescriptions, and common conversions.

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QI The Pocket Book of Animals is John Lloyd and John Mitchinson's funny, eccentric and confounding handbook filled with interesting animal facts and figures. Join the QI team for an off-road safari into the wildlife, past one hundred of the most unusual members of the animal kingdom, armed with illuminating illustrations and diagrams by award-winning artist Ted Dewan. Amongst the weird, wonderful and really quite interesting animal facts, meet albatrosses that fly non-stop for ten years, leeches with 34 brains, koalas that don't drink, geese that mourn their dead and lobsters that live for a century. marvel at elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and woodpeckers that have ears on the end of their tongues. Collected by the writers of the hit BBC show, QI, and authors of the international bestsellers The Book of General Ignorance and 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off, QI The Pocket Book of Animals is an animal encyclopedia

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The Tcl/Tk combination is increasingly popular because it lets you produce sophisticated graphical interfaces with a few easy commands, develop and change scripts quickly, and conveniently tie together existing utilities or programming libraries. The Tcl/Tk Pocket Reference,a handy reference guide to the basic Tcl language elements, Tcl and Tk commands, and Tk widgets, is a companion volume to Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell.

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From the publisher of the Jordanville Prayer Book and A Psalter for Prayer comes the perfect devotional companion for travel and everyday life. This truly pocket edition brings together prayers for use throughout the day with all one hundred fifty Psalms of David adapted from the classic Miles Coverdale translation. Designed with convenience and affordability in mind to encourage all Christians to “pray without ceasing.”

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Revised and updated, the Audubon Pocket Backyard Birdwatch is a portable, visually rich guide for beginning birdwatchers to use at home or in the field and includes a foldout chart that illustrates over 30 common garden birds. Produced in conjunction with the experts at Audubon, the book is packed with practical and achievable advice, from how to provide water, food, and nesting sites to creating a bird-friendly environment in your yard.

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A fully illustrated history of Ireland’s most famous sporting institution, published in association with the GAA museum in Croke Park. This is a fascinating and colourful introduction to Gaelic games, covering football, hurling, camogie and handball. This pocket sized book features all the key events in the GAA’s illustrious history, as well as biographies of famous players, rolls of honour, county information and the stories behind some of the GAA’s cups and trophies.

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Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves! This colorful, compact guidebook is perfect for spending a week or less in Paris:- City walks and tours: Six detailed tours and walks showcase Paris's essential sights, including the Louvre, the Orsay Museum, the Eiffel Tower, a stroll along the Left Bank, and more.- Rick's strategic advice on what experiences are worth your time and money.- What to eat and where to stay: Sip café au lait at a sidewalk café, chat with locals over a picnic of camembert and rosé, and admire the lights of the Eiffel Tower from your balcony.- Day-by-day itineraries to help you prioritize your time.- A detailed, detachable fold-out map, plus museum and city maps throughout.- Full-colour, portable, and slim for exploring on-the-go.- Trip-planning practicalities like when to go, how to get around on the Métro, basic French phrases, and moreLightweight yet packed with valuable insight into Paris's history and culture, Rick Steves Pocket Paris truly is a tour guide in your pocket. Expanding your trip? Try Rick Steves Paris or Rick Steves France!

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Richard Wagner remains, almost 130 years after his death, the most controversial composer in the history of music. Creator of huge and hugely ambitious operas, which have an immense immediate impact, as well as providing food for endless thought and discussion, Wagner has had an influence on many fields outside music. In this lively pocket guide, Michael Tanner gives concise accounts of all his operas - the likes of Parsifal, Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde - showing how important it is to grasp the dramatic situations at every point, and indicating some of the key musical features. He also provides an outline of Wagner's astonishing life, and shows that he has often been unfairly criticised and made a scapegoat, especially for political events which took place long after his death.Key features include:- Wagner: his life year by year- Wagner: his music work by work- Things people said about Wagner- Essential Wagner: ten great moments- Wagner on CD and DVD- Wagner bibliographyThis indispensable Faber Pocket Guide provides a wealth of insights into Wagner and is essential reading for anyone with an interest in both and the man and his music. '[P]robably the best introduction ever written to this most complex of composers.' Simon Heffer, Telegraph

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Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet Pocket Genoa & Cinque Terre is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Delight in the artistic skill of the old masters at the Musei di Strada Nuova in Genoa, hike between colourful Cinque Terre villages on the famous Sentiero Azzurro, commune with poets while sailing the Golfo dei Poeti - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of the best of Genoa & Cinque Terre and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Pocket Genoa & Cinque Terre: Full-colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Free, convenient pull-out Genoa map (included in print version), plus over 17 colour city and village maps User-friendly layout with helpful icons, and organized by neighbourhood to help you pick the best spots to spend your time Covers Genoa, Portofino Peninsula, Levanto, Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, Riomaggiore, La Spezia, Porto Venere and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Pocket Genoa & Cinque Terre, a colourful, easy-to-use, and handy guide that literally fits in your pocket, provides on-the-go assistance for those seeking only the can't-miss experiences to maximise a quick trip experience. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. Lonely Planet enables the curious to experience the world fully and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves, near or far from home. TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 winner in Favourite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) *Source: Nielsen BookScan: Australia, UK, USA, 5/2016-4/2017

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Seek, feel, grow and heal. Strengthen your connection to your divine self, recognise when change is approaching and prepare to live to your fullest potential with this unique and powerful deck.Author and artist, Ravynne Phelan, combines the familiar structure of tarot with bold new archetypes, symbology and meanings for more intimate, insightful and relevant messages. Embark on a journey of undoing, being and becoming and be inspired into tomorrow with this pocket edition of the award-winning DREAMS OF GAIA TAROT.81 full col cards and 112 page guidebook

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The Psalms of David are the foundation of Christian worship and integral to its form and content. This edition of the classic Coverdale translation is accompanied by prayers and rubrics from the Liturgical Psalter of the Russian Church, adapted to conform to the Greek Septuagint text, and subdivided into the twenty traditional Orthodox liturgical kathismata. It is presented here for the first time in a slimmed down pocket edition to inspire daily use in prayer at home and when traveling. The text is complimented by a flexible textured binding, gold stamped cover, and three marker ribbons.

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The revised, updated Fifth Edition of this pocket book is a handy reference to consult when making bedside interpretations of clinical data. Remarkably complete for its small size, the book lists nearly 200 symptoms, physical signs, laboratory test results, and radiologic findings and their differential diagnoses.This edition has a new, more user-friendly two-color design, tabs indicating sections, and shortened lists of the most common diagnoses. An expanded section on HIV infection covers new manifestations, including immune reconstitution syndrome. The infectious disease chapter has been revised to reflect its increasing importance in clinical medicine, the emergence of multi-drug resistant bacteria, and the threat of bioterrorism.

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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.SMALL ENOUGH TO FIT IN YOUR POCKET, DETAILED ENOUGH TO PROVIDE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW Essential data on more than 1,000 of the most commonly used prescribed medications and more than 75 drugs most often used in the pre-hospital setting Drug-specific EMS pearls, including signs and symptoms of overdose and specific overdose management Sections on popular medicinal herbs and common street drugs Quick-reference tables encapsulate essential information Street Drug section updated to include "bath salts" and salvia

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Learn all about tropical plants and flowers with this with this useful and portable reference book.This handy field guide introduces approximately 60 plant species found in the Tropics. Trees, shrubs, flowers and fruits are all presented in full color. Included are exotic and beautiful blooms, plants with utilitarian uses and some of the more extraordinary members of the plant kingdom. Each entry is described in detail, and the expert botanical information is included, along with interesting historical anecdotes. This book will delight lovers of tropical flora. Periplus Handy Pocket Guides are practical field guides, useful for identifying various natural objects ranging from plants and animals to gemstones and seashells. Each page of each title throughout the series is filled with clear, precise photographs and informative text. Scientific and local language names are given.

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This pocket guide presents more than 500 surgical procedures! State-of-the-art revisions familiarize the reader with new standards of excellence for care of the surgical patient in the perioperative environment. For each procedure, you’ll find a definition, discussion, description of the surgery, preparation of the patient, skin preparation, draping technique, instrumentation, supplies, and special notes pertinent to that surgery.Comprehensive patient care is addressed, including psychological care of the patient in surgery, safety measures for the patient and perioperative personnel, the written record of intra-, pre- and postoperative care, The Joint Commission’s Universal Protocol and AORN’s standards and recommended practices, (including correct site and laterality considerations).Its in-depth coverage also encompasses charting as a legal document, patient teaching, detailed surgical patient positioning with drawings, anesthesia and anesthetic agents, laser application, robotics, endoscopy (including laparoscopic, hysteroscopic, thoracoscopic, and arthroscopic procedures), microsurgery (including microendoscopy and microneuroendoscopy), harmonic scalpel, argon beam coagulator, special considerations for the pediatric patient in surgery, (including anesthesia modifications and surgical procedures).

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This handy field guide introduces over 40 different fruits commonly found in Asia. Each fruit is clearly presented and described, with a detailed description of each fruit including its country of origin and areas of growth. Culinary uses are also given, with helpful tips on how to produce the best flavours when consuming and cooking these fruits. With nine exciting Asian recipes for readers to try, this book is an absolute must for lovers of tropical tastes. Features of Handy Pocket Guide to Tropical Fruits include: A handy paperback format and eye-catching cover; Descriptions and notes on over 40 fruits, including avocado, banana, breadfruit, coconut, dragon's eye fruit (or longan), durian, guava, jackfruit, langsat, lychee, lime, mango, papaya, rambutan, salak, sapodilla, soursop and water apple; Listing of scientific and family names, as well as common names in Indonesian, Malay and Thai; Over 100 beautiful colour photographs; A wealth of expert botanical information.

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Put essential ECG information at your fingertips! Based on Barbara Aehlert's popular ECGs Made Easy, 7th Edition, this full-color pocket guide makes it quick and easy to identify and interpret basic heart rhythms. Each dysrhythmia includes a sample rhythm strip, a brief description, a discussion of possible patient symptoms, and general treatment guidelines. Ideal for use in classroom and practice settings, this handy, compact reference makes heart dysrhythmia information easy to find and easy to understand. Easy-to-read style and conversational tone make understanding ECG information quick and easy. Brief description of each dysrhythmia is accompanied by a concise summary of rhythm characteristics and a sample ECG rhythm strip. More than 70 full-color illustrations plus numerous tables and boxes highlight and summarize key information. NEW! Content updates mirror the changes to Aehlert's core text, ECGs Made Easy, 7th Edition. NEW! Current science and clinical practice guidelines are reflected, including the American Heart Association's 2020 ECC resuscitation guidelines where applicable.

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James Inverne provides an indispensable guide to his top one hundred greatest shows of all time - and ten of the worst. Whether you know your Pal Joey from The Producers, your West Side Story from your Witch Witch, the Faber Pocket Guide To Musicals is packed with entertaining behind-the-scenes stories, essential songlists and comprehensive recording guides. Did you know, for instance, that one of the best recordings of Les Miserables is in Hebrew? Or that Mel Brooks wasn't the first person to want to make a musical of The Producers? (That claim goes to Eric Idle.) Or the ridiculous story of the huge purpose-built theatre constructed in Holland to house a flop about Grace Kelly? Key features include: - The hundred greatest musicals - Numbers to listen for - Snapshot plot summaries - Ten terrible musicals - Recommended recordings James Inverne has been writing about musical theatre for years and brings copious knowledge, passion for the subject and a sense of fun to a genre that continues to entertain us all. Make the most of the musicals with this vital book.

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This 112-pp week-to-view diary features 33 stunning illustrations from wildlife artist Jane Smith including, birds, animals and plants set against magnificent scenery.

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Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves! This colorful, compact guidebook is perfect for spending a week or less in Prague: City walks and tours: Five detailed self-guided walks, including a walk from the Old Town Square to the Charles Bridge and tours of the Jewish Quarter and Prague Castle Rick's strategic advice on what's worth your time and money What to eat and where to stay: Savor a traditional goulash stew, mingle with locals over a Czech beer or two, and stay in a romantic hotel Day-by-day itineraries to help you prioritize your time A detailed, detachable fold-out map, plus museum and city maps throughout Full-color, portable, and slim for exploring on-the-go Trip-planning practicalities like when to go, how to get around, basic Czech phrases, and more Lightweight, yet packed with info on Prague's history and culture

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Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves! This colorful, compact guidebook is perfect for spending a week or less in Vienna: City walks and tours: Seven detailed self-guided walks including a central Vienna walk, tours of St. Stephen's Cathedral and Schönbrunn Palace, and more Rick's strategic advice on what's worth your time and money What to eat and where to stay: Indulge in pork schnitzel and local riesling, relax with locals at a Viennese coffeehouse, and soak up the Baroque charm of an Old Town B&B Day-by-day itineraries to help you prioritize your time A detailed, detachable fold-out map, plus museum and city maps throughout Full-color, portable, and slim for exploring on-the-go Trip-planning practicalities like when to go, how to get around, basic German phrases, and more Lightweight,

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Emily Bethell is Senior Lecturer in Primatology and Animal Behaviour at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is co-author of Planning Your PhD and Completing Your PhD.Clare Milsom is Head of Academic Practice at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is responsible for the leading and managing the university's strategic work on promoting student success, achievement and retention.

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Navigate your way around Peterborough with detailed street maps from A-Z This up-to-date, folded A-Z street map includes all of the 1,500 streets in and around Peterborough.Detailed coverage of an area extending from Walton in the north to Hampton Gardens in the south, and from Fengate in the east to Thorpe Wood Golf Course in the west. This street map includes the following: Postcode districts, one-way streets and car parks Places of interest On the reverse there is a handy index to streets, places of interest, place and area names, park and ride sites, national rail stations, hospitals and hospices With clear mapping at a scale of 5.5 inches to 1 mile, this is the perfect reference map for finding your way around Peterborough.

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Navigate your way around Folkestone with detailed street maps from A-Z This up-to-date, folded A-Z street map includes all of the 1,500 streets in and around Folkestone. Detailed coverage of an area extending from Hawkinge to Sandgate in the south, and from East Wear Bay in the east to Newington in the west. Postcode districts, one-way streets and car parks Places of interest On the reverse side there is a handy index to streets, places of interest, place and area names, park and ride sites, national rail stations, hospitals and hospices With clear mapping on a scale of 5.5 inches to 1 mile, this is the perfect reference map for finding your way around Folkestone.

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