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Product Design for Students covers the basic concepts and processes intrinsic to professional industrial product design: from the initial design concept through design for manufacture, sustainable production, distribution, marketing and recycling of the product at the end of its life. User research, concept generation techniques, design process methodologies, the use of design thinking, user-centred design and co-design, design for sustainable production, materials and manufacturing proces...

From its launch on 20 September 1961 the Mini Cooper caused a sensation. The world’s first sports saloon, the diminutive Cooper combined the glamour and racing heritage of 1959 and 1960 Formula 1 champions the Cooper Car Company with the outstanding handling and downright practicability of the Austin Mini Seven and Morris Mini Minor. Alec Issigonis’s little people’s car had been launched by the manufacturer, the British Motor Corporation (BMC), two years earlier. A winner almost from the w...

When it was launched in 1959, the Mini stunned the world with its ingenious compact design. In this book, Mini expert and fan Peter Barker gives the full account of the classic Mini through the decades, from the 1950s to the millennium. Drawing on interviews with the original designers and engineers, he provides the inside story of how the Mini was developed. From the 1960s when the Mini became a cultural icon, boosted by its starring role in the film The Italian Job, through the sensible ...

20 RIOT COPS TO NICK 2 CHICKENSClimate activists reveal the true inside stories of direct action and protest.Bravery, ingenuity and humour combine as the campaigners struggle to get their message of existential threat heard amid the noise of the modern world.Featuring:Anthony facing the prospect of 15 years in a Russian prisonJanet confronted by an angry MP, finds herself the centre of a media storm.Dirty power stations on tr...

For good reasons, she did bad things.As the system collapses under the weight of capitalist greed, Imogen Thomas, hacker, part time anarchist and occasional fire-starter, knew she was on the wrong side of the law, but whose side was the law on?With the unwitting assistance of a not so innocent priest, a sceptical accomplice and a small band of environmental cyber-geeks, Imogen is on a mission to redistribute the vast fortunes of the super rich until the wealthiest man on th...

**A thrilling, suspenseful anthology of 18 short stories of supernatural detective fiction, curated by award-winning anthologist Stephen Jones.Featuring stories by some of the biggest names in supernatural and noir fiction, including Clive Barker, Kim Newman, Peter Tremayne, and many more.**Eighteen stories of supernatural detective fiction, featuring sleuths who investigate fantastic and horrific cases, protecting the world from the forces of darkness. Each writer offers a...

If, as Carl Jung said, Liverpool is "the pool of life" then here are things from the darkest depths of that pool, brought to the surface to terrify and startle you...Liverpool has long been known as a city of dreamers. But not all those dreams are as beautiful as a Beatles melody or as funny as a Paul O'Grady punchline. Here are the darker dreams of the Merseyside imagination, the macabre imaginings of Liverpool's Princes of Nightmare. Along with an introduction by native son Doug ...

Do you desire to have an idea of what dark persuasion means? Do you want to know who a dark persuader is ?Through the content of this book, you will understand that persuading someone simply means convincing someone to do or accept as true, using a variety of methods to give advice or discuss. The dissimilarity between belief and dark conviction is intention. A persuader could try to convince someone to do something without thinking about certain tactics or motives...

In vivo magnetic resonance spectrosopy (MRS) is increasingly being used in the clinical setting, particularly for neurological disorders. Clinical MR Spectroscopy – Techniques and Applications explains both the underlying physical principles of MRS and provides a perceptive review of clinical MRS applications. Topics covered include an introduction to MRS physics, information content of spectra from different organ systems, spectral analysis methods, recommended protocols and localization ...

MR perfusion imaging is an area of major research interest and rapid clinical growth. Clinical Perfusion MRI: Techniques and Applications provides a concise and comprehensive review of the principles and applications of the field, covering dynamic susceptibility contrast, dynamic contrast enhancement, and arterial spin labeling imaging techniques. Principles of blood-volume and oxygenation imaging are included. The clinical applications of perfusion imaging in neurological disease and neur...

Clinical MR Neuroimaging, second edition, provides radiologists, neuroscientists and researchers with a clear understanding of each physiological MR methodology and their applications to the major neurological diseases. Section 1 describes the physical principles underlying each technique and their associated artefacts and pitfalls. Subsequent sections review the application of MRI in a range of clinical disorders: cerebrovascular disease, neoplasia, infection/inflammation/demyelination di...

A true-crime author gets swept up in a murder plot in a psychological thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author, James Patterson.**"Excellent ... perfectly executed ... genuinely suspenseful, even shocking." —**BooklistNYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West?In the tower apartment, Shaw finds two people. One of them is famous. One of them is dead. And...