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ECG at a Glance
Patrick Davey Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:00:00 -0000
  This brand new title in the popular at a Glance seriescombines the science behind ECGs with how to use them to guide diagnosis and treatment. These key skills are fundamental for examination of the cardiovascular system and all medical students and specialist nurses are expected to be proficient at ECG interpretation. The at a Glance approach provides a large number of clear diagrams and example ECGs alongside concise text, Read More...
MOAC 70-640: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration Package with Win Svr08 Net Inf Config Package Set
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:00:00 -0000
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MCITP: Windows Server 2008 Server Administrator Study Guide: (Exam 70-646)
Darril Gibson Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:00:00 -0000
  Master Windows Server 2008 and navigate every detail of Microsoft’s new MCITP: Windows Server 2008 Server Administrator exam with the information in MCITP: Windows Server 2008 Administration Study Guide (Exam 70-646, with CD). Learn the infrastructure, Web, and IT application servers and also how to use scripts and batch files to accomplish tasks on a regular basis. As a Server Administrator, Read More...
70-642: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration, Package
Microsoft Official Academic Course Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:00:00 -0000
  Exam 70-642, Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration.  The newest iteration of the Microsoft Official Academic Course (MOAC) program for network administration courses using Windows Server 2008 and mapping to the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) 70-642 certification exam. The MOAC IT Professional series is the Official from Microsoft, turn-key Workforce training program that leads to professional certification Read More...
Pediatrics: Clinical Cases Uncovered
Jonathan J. Round, Lucy Stradling, Alice Myers Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:00:00 -0000
  * A new paediatrics title for medical students with a unique case based approach * Includes an introductory section on the approach to the patient and backgroud information on how paediatrics differs from other specialties * Cases are divided into four sections covering: Neonates, Infants and Toddlers, Early Childhood and Middle Childhood and Adolescence * An ideal companion to paediatric attachments or rotations Read More...
Surgery: Clinical Cases Uncovered
Harold Ellis, Christopher Watson Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:00:00 -0000
  * Written by authors of the bestselling Lecture Notes: General Surgery, this title in the CCU series contains a vast array of surgical cases for the student to experience and explore * Gives a firm understanding of signs and symptoms that might indicate a need for surgical intervention and the various treatment and management issues involved in surgery * Covers a core area of the medical curriculum Read More...

 

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Amberley Museum, West Sussex - Displays industrial history through historic buildings, working exhibits and demonstrations of craft skills. Collections; site tour via an interactive map; visitor information.

Avoncroft Museum of Buildings - Over 20 historic buildings, including a windmill, have been dismantled and re-erected on this site in Bromsgrove, Hereford and Worcester.

Beamish: The North of England Open Air Museum - Set over 300 acres of countryside in county Durham, the site vividly recreates life in Northern England in the 1800s and 1900s. Covers the social, agricultural and industrial history of the region.

Bede's World - The Museum of Early Medieval Northumbria at Jarrow. Looks at the life and times of the great scholar Bede (AD 673-735). Experimental recreation of an Anglo-Saxon farm.

Black Country Living Museum - Heritage of the heart of industrial England, with recreated buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries brought to life by costumed demonstrators. Tour via interactive map.
Meta Description: [ Britains friendliest Open-Air Museum - in the heart of the black country - (Dudley, West Midlands UK) is a 26 acre living history heritage site with plenty to do for a family day out ]

Burns National Heritage Park - The birthplace of Robert Burns in Alloway, Ayrshire, is the heart of this open air museum focusing on the poet's life and the countryside which inspired him. Description, biography, events, kid's zone.
Meta Description: [ Robert Burns National Heritage Park in Alloway, Ayrshire, offers visitors a chance to experience the rich heritage of Robert Burns within the environment which inspired him. ]

Burwell Museum of Fen Edge Village Life - Rural history museum depicting life through the centuries on the edge of the Cambridgeshire fens. Photographs and details of the buildings, which include an early 19th-century windmill, history, news and events.

Butser Ancient Farm - Replica of an Iron Age farm circa 300 BC, with buildings, animals and crops. Both a museum and an open-air laboratory for research into the Iron Age and Roman periods. Photos, information for visitors and schools.

Castell Henllys Iron Age Fort - This reconstructed Iron Age hillfort still has excavation going on each summer. Iron Age roundhouses and livestock. How to get there, online tour, how to build a roundhouse, education and events.

Chiltern Open Air Museum - This museum at Chalfont St Giles, Bucks. rescues and re-erects historic buildings from medieval to modern. Its collection includes a cottage of around 1600, and a variety of 19th-century buildings.

Dunaskin Open Air Museum, Scotland - The site at Waterside, by Patna, Ayrshire was a Victorian ironworks.

Flag Fen - At Easter and in the Summer archaeologists can be seen excavating this unique site, where waterlogging has preserved evidence of a prehistoric way of life. Iron Age and Bronze Age Roundhouses have been reconstructed. Rare breed animals. Visitor information.
Meta Description: [ flag fen at peterborough is on of europe's most important bronze-age sites attracting thousands of visitors every year to its heritage centre and archaeological park. ]

Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall - Closed as a working mine in 1990, it is now a preserved mining site and museum managed by Pendeen Community Heritage. Includes history and visitor information.

Gower Heritage Centre - Based around a 12th-century water powered corn mill in the Gower Peninsula in South Wales. Attractions include craft shops, play areas and farm animals. Map and description.

Ironbridge Gorge Museums - The Shropshire site of the birth of the Industrial Revolution has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Visitor information and a virtual tour.
Meta Description: [ Collection of ten family friendly museums that celebrate the history of the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage site. Information is available to help visitors plan their day, as well information about the collections ]

Living History Village 1642 - Gosport Living History Society recreate English rural life in the South of England during 1642 in the village of Little Woodham. Photograph and visitor information.
Meta Description: [ Little Woodham 1642 Living History Village Rowner Gosport Hampshire ]

Milestones - Hampshire's living history museum with collections of industrial and everyday life.
Meta Description: [ transport, technology, museum,living history, demonstrators, activities, day out, basingstoke, ]

Museum of East Anglian Life - St Osyth's Priory, Essex, owned the manor of Stowmarket and built the 13th-century barn which forms the centrepiece of this open air museum. Other vernacular buildings have been rescued and moved to the site.

Museum of Welsh Life - In the 100-acre parkland of St Fagans Castle, a late 16th-century manor house, are over 30 buildings moved from various parts of Wales and re-erected to show how the people of Wales lived at various times in history. Visitor information, events, collections.

National Showcaves Centre for Wales - The caves at Dan yr Ogof include a display of Bronze Age life. Other attractions include life-sized dinosaur models in the Dinosaur Park and a reconstructed Iron Age Village.
Meta Description: [ Dan-yr-Ogof, The National Showcaves Centre for Wales offers a great day out below ground in its award-winning Showcaves. ]

Roots of Norfolk at Gressenhall - At a former workhouse at Gressenhall you can see recreations of craftsman's workshops, a bakery, shop and cottage. The farm is stocked with rare East Anglian breeds and worked with horses.

Ryedale Folk Museum - Three acres of displays of life in the North York Moors. Guide to the site via sensitive map, illustrated description of highlights of the collection and crafts demonstrated, events listing.

500 Somerset Levels and Moors - Includes information on the Peat Moors Centre near Glastonbury which has reconstructions of Iron Age roundhouses, prehistoric trackways, Roman pottery kilns and an Iron Age canoe.
Meta Description: [ The website of the Somerset Levels and Moors Partnership. ]

The Golden Hinde - Replica of Sir Francis Drake's ship, a living history museum currently moored on the river Thames in London. Opening, school tours, groups.
Meta Description: [ The Golden Hinde, captained by Sir Francis Drake, circumnavigated the world between1577 and 1580. Since the reconstruction of the ship in 1973 over 140,000 miles have been sailed, including a circumnavigation. This living history museum is currently docked in London but about to sail again. ]

Ulster American Folk Park - An outdoor museum which tells the story of emigration from Ulster to America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Located in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
Meta Description: [ An outdoor museum which tells the story of emigration from Ulster to America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ]

Ulster History Park - Located in Omagh in Northern Ireland. The park is an open air museum dedicated to the presentation of the history of human settlement in Ireland over the last 10,000 years.

Weald and Downland Open Air Museum - Over 40 historic buildings from south-east England have been rescued from destruction, dismantled and reconstructed on the site at Chichester, Sussex, including a medieval shop, a timber-framed farmhouse, a market hall and a Victorian school.
Meta Description: [ The Weald and Downland Open Air Museum:over 45 historic houses and agricultural buildings dating from the 13th century to victorian times, rescued from destruction and rebuilt in a magnificent parkland setting. Designated as a collection of national significance the Museum provides a range of ed... ]

West Stow Country Park and Anglo-Saxon Village - Uses its 125 acres to explain the history of the land and its wildlife. The early Anglo-Saxon village (c.420-650AD) has been carefully reconstructed where it was excavated.

World Naval Base - Photographs and description of the naval history on display at the former dockyard in Chatham: historic buildings, traditional skills, ships, lifeboats. Visitor information supplied by medwaytowns.com.
Meta Description: [ Brief introduction to the Medway Towns of Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham in Kent. Now includes access to Free e-mail accounts. ]