Authors:R M Harrison, R E Hester, Paul Harrison, John Garrod,
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Keywords: environmental, science, technology, issues, risk, environment, assessing, managing, chemicals
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2006-01-31
List price: $101.00
ISBN-10: 0854042067
ISBN-13: 9780854042067

Rising concern in recent years over the possible adverse environmental consequences of the use of chemicals has led to a steady increase in national activity towards greater regulation, as well as voluntary agreements with manufacturers for risk management of certain products. This book begins by reviewing the current framework of legislation for the regulation of chemicals in the UK and then reports expert views on both the current situation and possible future developments. Subsequent chapters consider some of the scientific and technical issues, including the evaluation of the risks which c

Author: John Harrison
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: thing, strangest, synaesthesia
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-06-07
List price: $98.50
ISBN-10: 0192632450
ISBN-13: 9780192632456

Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of someone’s voice or music, the sound of which looks like ’shards of glass’. Throughout history, many notable artists and writers have claimed to suffer from synaesthesia, including, Arthur Rimbaud, Wassily Kandinsky, Vladimir Nabokov, and David Hockney. The condition remains as controversial now as when first brought to the public e

Author: M. John Harrison
Publisher: Spectra
Keywords: swing, nova
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-09-25
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0553385011
ISBN-13: 9780553385014

Set in the unique world first featured in the award-winning Light, here is a story of love, murder, and intergalactic noir on the razor’s edge of the imagination, as envisioned by the incomparable M. John Harrison. Not far from Moneytown, in a neighborhood of underground clubs, body-modification chop shops, adolescent contract killers, and sexy streetwalking Monas, you’ll find the Saudade Event Site: a zone of strange geography, twisted physics, and frightening psychic onslaughts. Vic Serotonin is an illegal “travel agent” into and out of Saudade. His latest client is a woman as unpred

Author: M. John Harrison
Publisher: Spectra
Keywords: light
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0553587331
ISBN-13: 9780553587333

In M. John Harrison’s dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go along and break them just as fast, where there’s only one thing more mysterious than darkness.In contemporary London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on the run from the entity that drives him to kill. He is seeking escape in a future that doesn’t yet exist—a quantum world that he and his physicist partner hope to access through a breach of time and space itself. In this future, Seria Mau Genlicher has already sacrifi

Author: John Harrison
Publisher: Legal Action Group
Keywords: misconduct, police
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1987-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0905099168
ISBN-13: 9780905099163

This revised and expanded edition provides assistance to lawyers and advisers contemplating any kind of proceedings against the police. Readers are guided through the practice and procedure of police complaints, civil litigation, criminal actions, official and unofficial inquiries, applications for judicial review, complaints to the European Commission of Human rights and inquests. The book also deals with the special problems of wrongful convictions, criminal injuries and property taken by the police, and it contains practical illustrations and precedents, including letters and particulars of

Author: John Harrison Morrison
Publisher: Lewis Press
Keywords: navigation, steam, american, history
Number of Pages: 644
Published: 2008-02-22
List price: $35.45
ISBN-10: 1408681447
ISBN-13: 9781408681442

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Authors:Terry P. Harrison, Hau L. Lee, John J. Neale,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: management, operations, series, research, science, international, application, supply, chain, theory, practice, converge
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2005-01-04
List price: $104.00
ISBN-10: 0387240993
ISBN-13: 9780387240992

For over a decade, there has been an increasing interest in the use of supply chain methods to improve performance across the entire business enterprise. Numerous industries have recognized the importance of efficient supply chain integration, and, as a result, supply chain management has become a standard part of business practice. The Practice of Supply Chain Management: Where Theory and Application Converge is a must-have volume for users of supply chain management methods, supply chain management researchers, and students in supply chain management. The objective of the book is to provide