This comprehensive book is a treatment of the steps involved in bringing an older piece of treasured furniture back to usable, beautiful condition. Included are more than 100 projects and techniques, dealing with a wide variety of materials, finishes, and restoration processes. Using the over 250 illustrations and detailed instructions.
British Government and the Constitution: Text and Materials (Law in Context)
New developments such as the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and recent case law concerning the sovereignty of Parliament, the Human Rights Act, counter-terrorism and protests against the Iraq War, among other matters, are extracted and analysed. While it includes extensive material and commentary on contemporary constitutional reform, Turpin and Tomkins is a book that covers the historical traditions and the continuity of the British constitution as well as the current tide of change.
This updated fourth edition offers simple and straightforward methods and practice for quickly and dramatically improving reading comprehension skills. Using a self-paced approach that moves from basic questions to more difficult ones, this new edition of 501 Reading Comprehension Questions teaches you to successfully prepare for all the different types of reading materials that are tested on standardized exams and placement tests.
The application of circuits and systems and engineering principles to problems in the medicine has led to the emergence of biomedical circuits and systems as an exciting and rapidly growing area of research. Nanotechnology provides new nano-structured materials with amazing properties. The properties offered by nanomaterials can be applied to develop advanced instrumentation for biomedical diagnostics and personalized therapy, as well as bio-sensing in the environment. Biotechnology provides new biochemical materials with novel properties to be applied to develop new performances in sensing techniques.