Presents a modern approach to the agricultural industry, including natural resources, technology, and the plant, animal, physical, food, and earth sciences.

Agriscience Explorations (Agriscience & Technology)

Engineering & Transportation

Wilson, Elizabeth

Morgan, Elizabeth M.

Engineering

Pearson\Prentice Hall

Tennis has never been played better than it is today. To watch Rafael Nadal spin a forehand at 4000 rpm, Maria Sharapova arabesque out of a serve, Serena Williams utterly destroy a short ball, or Roger Federer touch a volley into an impossibly angled winner is to watch not only the best players with the best coaching hitting with the best racquets, it is to watch the culmination of an entire history. Love Game is different from most tennis books—it isn’t a ghostwritten biography, and it won’t teach you how to slice your serve. It’s a book about tennis’s grand culture, one that unveils the sport’s long history as it lives and breathes (or grunts) in the modern game. No one is better equipped to tell this story than novelist and historian Elizabeth Wilson. With a penchant for tennis’s inherent drama, she finds its core: a psychological face off between flamboyant personalities navigating the ebbs and flows of fortune in the confines of a 78 x 36–foot box—whether of clay, grass, or DecoTurf. Walking the finely kempt lawns of Victorian England, she shows how tennis’s early role as a social pastime that included both men and women—and thus, lots of sexual tension—set it apart from most other sports and their dominant masculine appeal. Even today, when power and endurance are more important than ever, tennis still demands that the body behave gracefully and with finesse. In this way, Wilson shows, tennis has retained the vibrant spectacle of human drama and beauty that have always made it special, not just to sports fans but to popular culture. Telling the stories of all the greats, from the Renshaw brothers to Novak Djokovic, and of all the advances, from wooden racquets to network television schedules, Wilson offers a tennis book like no other, keeping the court square in our sights as history is illuminated around it.

Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon

History

World

University of Chicago Press

Elizabeth Wilson's life of Jaqueline Du Pre is authorized by Barenboim and has exclusive access to familly papers. She has tracked down hitherto unheard recordings, and the book is the most authoritative and rounded account yet of anartist permanently held in high public affection.

Jacqueline du Pré

Biographies & Memoirs

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life\n“Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking work—a phenomenal biography of a towering human spirit of everlasting relevance.”—Norman Lebrecht, Wall Street Journal\nMaria Yudina was no ordinary musician. An incredibly popular pianist, she lived on the fringes of Soviet society and had close friendships with such towering figures as Boris Pasternak, Pavel Florensky, and Mikhail Bakhtin. Legend has it that she was Stalin’s favorite pianist.\nYudina was at the height of her fame during WWII, broadcasting almost daily on the radio, playing concerts for the wounded and troops in hospitals and on submarines, and performing for the inhabitants of besieged Leningrad. By the last years of her life, she had been dismissed for ideological reasons from the three institutions where she taught. And yet, according to Shostakovich, Yudina remained “a special case. . . . The ocean was only knee-deep for her.”\nIn this engaging biography, Elizabeth Wilson sets Yudina’s extraordinary life within the context of her times, where her musical career is measured against the intense intellectual and religious ferment of the postrevolutionary period and the ensuing years of Soviet repression.

Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia

Arts & Literature

Yale University Press

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees

Education & Teaching

Bedford, Dorothy

Higher & Continuing Education

Routledge

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees offers a step-by-step guide to the skills needed to successfully complete a Foundation Degree. Filled with activities and useful tips, it will help students to move from nervous novice to confident expert and provide them with the necessary tools to accomplish this. By reading this book, students will be able to learn new skills and enhance existing ones. This third edition has been fully updated and features new chapters on e-learning and dissertations as well as expanded sections on ethics, feedback and referencing. Each chapter includes practical guidance as well as student perspectives that will help students through their course of study. It includes advice on how to support learning, boost motivation and enhance time management, and covers all the essential skills required for successful study, including: <ul>
<li>Effective reading and note-taking strategies </li> <li>Developing oral skills in a wide range of presentation settings, including what makes a good presentation and how each stage of the process can be prepared for </li> <li>Carrying out well-planned, methodologically sound and well-written research</li> <li>Preparing for examinations and other forms of assessment</li> <li>Producing a professional development portfolio or winning CV </li> </ul>
Highly accessible, this new edition is an essential resource for all Foundation Degree students who want to get the most out of their course, mature students or anyone with limited or no experience of academic study.

Spatial Planning and Climate Change (Natural and Built Environment Series)

Spatial planning has a vital role to play in the move to a low carbon energy future and in adapting to climate change. To do this, spatial planning must develop and implement new approaches. Elizabeth Wilson and Jake Piper explore a wide range of issues in this comprehensive book on the relationship between our changing climate and spatial planning, and suggest ways of addressing the challenges by taking a longer-sighted approach to our preparation for the future. This text includes: <ul>
<li>an overview of what we know already about future climate change and its impacts, as we attempt both to adapt to these changes and to reduce the emissions which cause them</li> <li>the role of spatial planning in relation to climate change, offering some theoretical and political explanations for the challenges that planning faces in the coming decades</li> <li>a review of policy and legislation at international, EU and UK levels in regard to climate change, and the support this gives to the planning system</li> <li>case studies detailing what responses the UK and the Netherlands have made so far in light of the evidence</li> <li>ways to help new and existing urban developments to reduce energy use and to adapt to climate change, through strengthening the relationships between urban and rural areas to avoid water shortage, floods or loss of biodiversity.</li>
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The authors take an evidence-based look at this hugely important topic, providing a well-illustrated text for spatial planning professionals, politicians and the interested public, as well as a useful reference for postgraduate planning, geography, urban studies, urban design and environmental studies students.

Science & Math

Piper, Jake

Technology

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees is a much needed resource for anyone thinking about or currently studying at foundation degree level. If you are unsure whether you have the academic skills to handle it, this book will prepare and guide you, in a clear accessible way, through the broad range of study-related issues you may encounter. By helping you to develop a broad range of study skills essential for success on any foundation degree course, you will soon have the confidence to rise to any challenge that comes your way. This new edition has been fully updated and features new chapters on effective academic writing for other types of assignments such as reports, project work, diary entries, seminar papers and reviews and e-learning. Highly accessible with a wide range of activities and useful tips to help you through the course of your studies, this new edition covers all the essential skills you will need including: • How to take good notes and read effectively • Developing successful academic writing • Research skills • E-learning • Producing a professional development portfolio • Presentation techniques • Referencing and avoiding plagiarism Also offering help with managing your time, boosting your morale and keeping motivated, this essential text will be an invaluable resource for Foundation Degree students that want to get the most out of their course as well as mature students and those with limited or no experience of academic study.

Theory, Politics and Experience in the Women's Movement

Hidden Agendas: Theory, Politics and Experience in the Women's Movement

Routledge& Kegan Paul

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Books by Wilson, Elizabeth

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Agriscience Explorations (Agriscience & Technology)

Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon

Jacqueline du Pré

Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees

Spatial Planning and Climate Change (Natural and Built Environment Series)

Spatial Planning and Climate Change (Natural and Built Environment Series)

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees

Hidden Agendas: Theory, Politics and Experience in the Women's Movement