Education/Academic

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The best value for money of any dictionary of this size, with thousands of clear and up-to-date definitions and numerous notes to help with tricky points of language. This new edition has been updated to include recent additions to the language. Key features include: 36,000 references and 47,000 definitions; clear and attractive layout; help with irregular word forms and pronunciation; and extensive supplements including help with spelling and punctuation.

Flooding of coastal communities is one of the major causes of environmental disasters world-wide. This textbook explains at a basic level, how sea levels are affected by astronomical tides, by weather effects that generate extreme flooding events, and over the longer term by ocean circulation and climate trends.

Why do certain substances react together in the way that they do? What determines the shape of molecules? And how can we predict whether a particular reaction will happen at all?

This bestselling book has been updated to take account of the rapid changes in child protection practices since the previous edition. In the United Kingdom, for instance, legal changes related to high profile cases such as the Victoria Climbié case which resulted in the Laming Report in 2003 followed by the Children's Act in 2004, have altered interagency and intra-agency procedures.

The need to understand child abuse and neglect in its historical, social and political context remains key to this book but the book has been broadened to include issues such as:
The exploitation and maltreatment of children world-wide (child trafficking, the impact of war on children, and child labour)
The commercial sexual exploitation of children
Treatment of child asylum seekers in Britain
Abuse of children on the internet
Controversy relating to child deaths (including Munchausen's syndrome by proxy)