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In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Get through your pharmacology course and beyond with this clear and accessible approach to the analysis of therapeutic agents at the cellular and molecular level. With detailed diagrams, full-colour illustrations, pedagogical features, and online access to multiple choice review questions and more at studentconsult.com, you'll have everything you need to gain a complete understanding of this complex subject.

In good condition - has markings, underlining & writing on some pages - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Pharmacology is now established as a worlwide best-selling and highly acclaimed textbook for medical and science students. Its successful approach emphasises the mechanisms by which drugs act and relates these to the overall pharmacological effects and clinical uses. In doing so it sets out for the reader a clear route from a molecular underatanding of receptors and drug actions, to the therapeutic uses of the most important groups of drugs.

Large Print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Green eyes, hair like a burning sunset: the men couldn't take their eyes off the widow at the funeral. When she told private eye Paul Lomax what her problem was, he thought she'd gone grief-crazy. He figured the case would be more hassle than a roundup on a kangaroo farm, but he needed the cash and she seemed to have stacks. And when he began his investigation into the drugs scene and the beautiful women who were its victims, all hell broke loose...

In very good condition - ex library - has slight markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The artefact is found seven miles below the surface of the sea and beneath forty more feet of sand. The Navy's efforts to raise a wrecked submarine uncover it - and set in motion a scientific race to retrieve it, to discover just what it is and where it came from. Denser than any substance known to man, it has broken every drill bit they've tried on it and will not budge an inch. It resists every effort to breach it - or communicate with it. So the government turns to marine biologist Russell Sutton for help.Meanwhile, unknown to any of them, two creatures have wandered the earth for generations. The aliens have no knowledge of each other, but possess a residual memory of the artefact - and an affinity for deep water. One, which calls itself the changeling, has survived by adaptation, by taking on many different forms: man, woman, snake, shark. The other, which… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Minister's wife, sometime sleuth and culinary artist Faith Sibley Fairchild is intrigued by rumours of mysterious goings on at Hubbard House - an elegant, secluded retirement home for the well-heeled Yankees of Aleford, Massachusetts.Determined to do some surreptitious snooping, she joins the flu-depleted kitchen staff. But after witnessing a resident collapse face-first into a bowl of her bouillon and finding a murdered drug dealer in her room, Faith realizes that murder is the specialty of the house. And her own untimely demise might be the next item on the menu.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When India's Love Commandos rescue a young woman - who has been forbidden from marrying an untouchable - from a high-caste family, she looks set to live happily ever after with the man she truly loves. But just hours before the wedding, her boyfriend, Ram, is abducted. Has his would-be father-in-law made good on his promise and done away with him?It falls to Vish Puri to find out. Unfortunately, he's not having a good month. He can't locate a haul of stolen jewellery. He's been pickpocketed. And the only person who can get his wallet back is his interfering Mummy-ji.Things only get worse when he discovers that his arch-rival, Hari Kumar, is also trying to locate the abducted boy - as is a genetics research institute exploring illiterate villagers.To find Ram first, Puri and his team must travel into the Badlands of rural India, where the local politics are shaped by… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.On a cold, miserable night in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn't feel so unusual if it wasn't the Fourth of July, an antique wooden boat runs full-speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow waters of Waishkey Bay. When Alex McKnight helps rescue the passengers, he finds three men. The driver is out cold, the other two are dazed but conscious. When they're all finally back on dry land and sent away in an ambulance, Alex figures he'll never see them again. He couldn't be more wrong.It's not enough that Natalie Reynaud, the woman who has become the center of his life, is five hundred miles away, working a dangerous undercover operation in Toronto. Now Alex has even more problems when the men from the boat get tangled up with his best friend, Vinnie. It's all Alex can do to keep Vinnie from killing them or being killed by them.With Vinnie in danger on… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Two weeks away from giving birth, Detective Inspector Honey Laird is at a point when bending down is becoming increasingly difficult and straightening up again almost impossible, when her boss calls upon her to investigate Dr McGordon...her next door neighbour.On the outside, Dr McGordon appears to be the perfect doctor, giving services free in poor areas, providing care in underdeveloped countries, and even bringing patients to Britain (at his own expense) for special treatments. But when officers knock on his door, looking for witnesses to an accident, Dr McGordon, panicky and pale, reveals a guilty conscience about something and refuses to say anything.Aware that he's done something wrong but unsure of what, Honey - along with the help of an unsure young officer, her overprotective housekeeper, and her faithful Labrador, Pippa - dives into the case, using the computer,… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Superstar Mona Lisa plans to marry her fiancé in style, but her emailed request for a quotation from Castle Angus falls into the hands of ex-con Robin Dunwoodie and his daughter. They decide to rip off the star for what deposits they can get.But they in turn have been set up, and find themselves embroiled in something much deeper than they'd bargained for.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Racine is a reserved young man, but his passion for music lights him up inside. He's just returned from Paris where he'd been invited by a friend to produce music, make recordings, and earn a living. The plan didn't quite pan out, and now he's back in New York, where fate, providence, or just plain chance leads him to a once-glorious brownstone turned into a squat by a few eccentric loners.There's Manny, who wears sarongs and glitter but has no trouble attracting beautiful women, and Couchette, a gorgeous second-generation dancer whose mother has gone to Bali to live and bear a child with a man who built her a house in the midst of a rice paddy. What binds the characters is a deep sense of loss. Each is - like the city they live in - wounded and seeking healing and connection with and through the other housemates.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Bismarck is finally going out to fight the British enemy. It will be a prestigious operation for Admiral Raeder, the head of the German fleet and advocate of the big surface ship. But Admiral Doenitz, head of the submarine service, views the operation with disgust. He wants the big ships mothballed, and he'll sabotage Raeder's operation if he can.There are others, too, who wish Raeder to fail, but for different reasons. Franz Müller, head of the Gestapo and intimate of Doenitz, is really a long-term mole for the Russians. Both he and Doenitz want the Bismarck knocked out, but the only people who can do it are the British - provided they are treacherously informed of the Bismarck's movements...

In good condition - minus CD - book is written for Animal Anti-Cruelty League (ACCL) of South Africa. This is Volume 3. Due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Tony finds a new home and although he is a little apprehensive at first his nervousness soon turns to excitement when he reallizes that his new home is on a game farm. Read about Tony's introduction to animals of a different kind.This "Teacher Approved" educational product will provide quality reading and listening enjoyment for children, while learning about the importance of conservation of wild life in South Africa. Tony and Friends volume three continues to highlight and promote the importance of being a responsbile animal lover.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.'No, forgive and forget,' say your friends.So you think you'll ring the new couple and tell them how happy you are for them. Four o'clock in the morning would be a good time - at ten-minute intervals. For the next six months.This is Wendy Harmer's Classic Manual for the Love-Lost, A How-Not-To Guide for the Brokenhearted.

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.At the Gettysburg battlefield Abraham Lincoln said that the Civil War would test whether the American democracy "or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure." During the long years of fighting there were moments when many supporters of the Union doubted that the nation could endure the terrible bloodletting.Yet Lincoln never despaired of the outcome, writes T. Harry Williams, author of this volume of The LIFE History of the United States. Although the President was saddened by the slaughter of America's young men, he was convinced that the Union would survive.At the outset, both North and South thought that the war would be short. The Battle of Bull Run taught them otherwise. Lincoln realized that he needed better generals; the Confederates ruefully admitted that the boys in blue could fight better than Rebel fire-eaters had predicted.T. Harry Williams,, Boyd Professor… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When farmers cutting turf in a peat bog make a grisly discovery -- the perfectly preserved severed head of a young woman with long red hair -- Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin team up in a case that will open old wounds. Peat bogs prevent decay, so the decapitated young woman could have been buried for two decades, two centuries, or even much longer. Who is she? When was she killed? The extraordinary find leads to even more disturbing puzzles. The red-haired girl is clearly a case for the archaeologists, not the police. Still, her tale may have shocking ties to the present, and Cormac and Nora must use cutting-edge techniques to preserve ancient evidence. And the red-haired girl is not the only enigma in this remote corner of Galway. Two years earlier, Mina Osborne, the local landowner's Indian-born wife, went for a walk with her young son… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A storm is threatening the East Coast of America, swelling the rivers and submerging the roads, and as the clouds gather on the horizon the inhabitants of a small Boston suburb feel their lives begin to spiral away from them.Vincent, a school teacher, meets with a former student, Henry, to discuss the wrenching possibility of hospitalising his only daughter. As he offers advice, Henry, now, a young psychology professor, tests the boundaries of his own marriage, while Lucinda, his pregnant wife, harbours another secret. Shadowing these characters is Jack, a college intern, who gathers climate data and thinks of ways to bridge the distance between himself and his increasingly absent girlfriend.As he logs field notes gathered from the surrounding forests and rivers, Jack becomes more and more preoccupied by the data: what it explains, along with the many things it does not, about… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In Modern Classics, Australia's best-selling food writer Donna Hay takes the food from the past we love the most and makes it irresistibly new. Then she looks at what's the best of the new and turns it into a cooking classic.Coleslaw gets a well-deserved makeover while free-form ratatouille tart enters the classics category. Chicken soup comes of age again while the fresh, crunchy and healthy rice paper roll makes its debut.Modern Classics is set to become the contemporary commonsense cookbook of a new generation and an indispensable handbook to those of cooking age now. More practical inspiration from Donna Hay.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.You have something that someone else wants. At any cost...Claudia seems to have the perfect life.She's heavily pregnant with a much-wanted baby, she has a loving husband, and a beautiful home.And then Zoe steps into her life. Zoe has come to help Claudia when her baby arrives.But there's something about Zoe that Claudia doesn't like. Or trust.And when she finds Zoe in her bedroom, Claudia's anxiety turns to real fear...

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout."Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found..."Now remebered as the author of the world's most famous hymn, in the mid-eighteenth century as England and France stand on the brink of war, John Newton is a young sailor wandering aimlessly through life. His only duty is to report to his ship and avoid disgracing his father - until the night he hears Polly Catlett's enchanting voice, caroling. He's immediately smitten and determined to win her affection.An intense connection quickly forms between the two, but John's reckless spirit and disregard for the Christian life are concerns for the responsible, devout Polly. When an ill-fated stop at a tavern leaves John imprisoned and bound, Polly must choose to either stand by his side or walk out of his life forever. Will she forfeit her future for the man she loves?Step back through the pages of… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Commercial Law: In Principle has been written to accompany Australian Commercial Law 23rd ed by Clive Turner but can be successfully teamed with any of the Commercial Law texts currently used in tertiary programs. The textbook provides an overview of the principles of commercial law.It is accompanied by PowerPoint slides for lectures and a Teachers' Manual that includes answers to problems, supplementary questions, and lecture outlines. Both are available to prescribing lectures on the Lawbook Co. Academic WebSource at www.lawbookco.com.au/academic.The Lawbook Co, In Principle Series offers a concise presentation of complex concepts and principles in key areas of legal study. The series provides an excellent learning tool for LLB and business law students of core subjects and a few elective areas. Strategic objectives, questions and exercises are incorporated to enhance understanding of… Read More