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  • SYSTEMS THINKING METHODS IN SPORT
    SCOTT MCLEAN / MITCHELL NAUGHTON / GEMMA READ / NEVILLE A. STANTON / ADAM HULME / GUY WALKER / PAUL SALMON
    Sport is increasingly being described as a complex system. This inherent complexity cannot be understood by examining components in isolation; rather, the system as a whole should represent the unit of analysis. Systems thinking is the answer to understanding this complexity and is gaining traction in sport. Systems thinking provides a philosophy and a set of associated methods...

    $1,120.00

  • MAKER LITERACIES AND MAKER IDENTITIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
    JENNIFER ROWSELL / CHERYL A. MCLEAN
    This book explores “making” in the school curriculum in a period in which the ability to create and respond to digital artifacts is key and focuses on makerspaces in educational settings. Combining the arts with design to give a fuller picture of the engagement and wonder that unfolds with maker literacies, the book moves across such settings and themes as: Creativity and writi...

    $1,100.00

  • XENOTRANSPLANTATION
    SHEILA A. M. MCLEAN
    Originally published in 2005. One of the leading causes of death is organ failure, that is, when one or other of the organs that run the machine we call the body gives out. However, whereas with a machine spare parts can usually replace faulty parts, in the case of humans the supply of these is limited as it is dependent on organs being obtained from living or dead donors. Due ...

    $1,160.00

  • DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS
    VIRGIL L. ANDERSON / ROBERT A. MCLEAN
    The book is written for anyone who wants to design experiments, carry them out, and analyze the results. The authors provide a clear-cut, practical approach to designing experiments in any discipline and explain the general principles upon which such design is based. The reader then can apply these theories to any specific problem in his own work. No advanced mathematics is nee...

    $1,800.00

  • GEOLOGY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS
    C. GRIBBLE / A. MCLEAN
    This seasoned textbook introduces geology for civil engineering students. It covers minerals and rocks, superficial deposits and the distribution of rocks at or below the surface. It then looks at groundwater and gives guidance on the exploration of a site before looking at the civil engineering implications of rocks and the main geological factors which affect typical engineer...

    $2,540.00

  • GENETICS AND GENE THERAPY
    SHEILA A.M. MCLEAN
    Genetics and Gene Therapy shows the wide range of the debate and the very real significance that genetics and its associated developments have for human beings, individually and collectively. Few areas of science and medicine have resulted in the volume of academic and popular literature as has genetics. The so-called revolution in understanding of the causes of disease states,...

    $1,460.00

  • FIRST DO NO HARM
    MCLEAN, SHEILA A M, PROFESSOR
    This collection brings together essays from leading figures in the field of medical law and ethics which address the key issues currently challenging scholars in the field. It has also been compiled as a lasting testimony to the work of one of the most eminent scholars in the area, Professor Ken Mason. The collection marks the academic crowning of a career which has laid one of...

    $1,460.00

  • REGULATING PRE-IMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS
    A.M. MCLEAN, SHEILA / ELLISTON, SARAH
    The successful achievement of pregnancies following pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was first reported in April 1990. The technology is often used for patients who are at substantial risk of conceiving a pregnancy affected by a known genetic disorder, however from this technology other more controversial uses have arisen such as HLA typing to save the life of a sibling...

    $1,100.00

  • AUTONOMY, CONSENT AND THE LAW
    SHEILA A.M. MCLEAN
    Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law. Respect for autonomy is said to underpin the law of consent, which is theoretically designed to protect the right of patients to make decisions based on their own values and for their own reasons. The notion that consent underpins beneficent and lawful medical inter...

    $1,460.00