Alan Cooper: 21 books
by Alan Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
A fascinating book that is much more than a tragic personal story, more than a picture of how brain injuries will strain relationships with family, co-workers, health care professionals and a legal system not adequately empowered to respond to an individual's needs, let alone the thousands who have...
Subtracting Insult from Injury
A Buddheo-Christian Art of Transmuting Pain
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
When a bear, eagle, whale, elephant, camel, and other creatures experience pain, they react sanely. Instead of getting hysterical, they find a safe, calm place to heal and be gently settled, which fosters their natural restorative, pain-relieving endorphins and potent immune stimulators to be released...
by Alan Cooper, Jan Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Have you ever wondered what happens to kidney patients on dialysis? Do you know how organ transplants affect the lives of those who receive them... and those whose loved ones donate their organs? Kidney disease is increasing rapidly. Kidney Research UK estimate at least a million people in the UK have...
About Face
The Essentials of Interaction Design
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
The essential interaction design guide, fully revised and updated for the mobile age
About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Fourth Edition is the latest update to the book that shaped and evolved the landscape of interaction design. This comprehensive guide takes the worldwide shift...
Free to Fight Again
RAF Escapes and Evasions 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck. To then manage to return to Allied shores inevitably needed considerably more good fortune and often the assistance of local patriots and resistance workers.
This...
Target Leipzig
The RAF’s Disastrous Raid of 19/20 February 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
Seventy-nine heavy bombers failed to return from the catastrophic raid on the industrial city of Leipzig on the night of 19/20 February 1944. Some 420 aircrew were killed and a further 131 became prisoners of war. It was at that time by far the RAF’s most costly raid of World War II. The town was...
Air Gunner
The Men who Manned the Turrets
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
There have been several books published about the wartime experiences of individual air gunners but there is no general history of Air Gunners, their equipment, training or service in the various RAF Commands in which they served. This book explains in great detail how and why the trade of air gunner...
Bravery Awards for Aerial Combat
Stories behind the award of the CGM (Flying)
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
The first recipient was Flight Sergeant Leslie Wallace, a wireless operator with 83 Squadron, who extinguished a major fire in his Lancaster and despite his severe wounds returned to his radio until the crippled aircraft returned to England.
The final CGM was awarded to Flight Sergeant John...
by Alan Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
A man feels excluded after the birth of a first baby, a revealing text message discloses an affair, a young couple find the magic goes out of their relationship after the big wedding and six year old Isabel learns to cope with anxieties and the problems caused by her disabled older sister. These stories...
by Alan Cooper, E Abel, Martyn Berry
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Biophysical Chemistry covers the physical chemistry of biological macromolecules and the experimental techniques used to study them. Topics covered include: an introduction to biological molecules; spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and hydrodynamics of macromolecules; a ""bluffer's guide""...
Bombers Over Berlin
The RAF Offensive November 1943 - March 1944
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
First published to acclaim in 1985, this book is set to be a timely release, in line with the 70th Anniversary of the outset of the Raids, near approaching in November 2013. Berlin itself was 'the Big City'. It was deep in the heart of Germany and heavily defended with flak and night fighters, not...
The Men Who Breached the Dams
617 Squadron ‘The Dambusters’
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
First published to acclaim in 1982, this was author Alan Cooper's first publication before he went on to become a prolific writer of aviation history. As we approach the 70th Anniversary of the Dam Buster Raids, this re-print will make a timely addition to the library of any enthusiast wishing to...
by Nicolas Brunel, John Rinzel, Jonathan Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition.
This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...
Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This one-of-a-kind collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative practices from classrooms, schools, districts, communities, and faraway places in the world. Each of the chapters-organized under six headings-tells an authentic, compelling story of a pioneering and successful...
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