{"title":"Peter Sheldon","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the thrilling world of Peter Sheldon, a master of suspense. From gripping mysteries to heart-pounding thrillers, discover why readers are hooked on his intricate plots and unforgettable characters. Start browsing now!\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"roadways-book-peter-sheldon-9780902633629","title":"Roadways","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49520241410321,"sku":"GOR004948128","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0902633627.jpg?v=1751364353"},{"product_id":"swindon-in-camera-book-peter-sheldon-9780902633551","title":"Swindon in Camera","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49557897150737,"sku":"GOR006793838","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0902633554.jpg?v=1750980362"},{"product_id":"a-swindon-album-photographs-of-a-bygone-age-book-peter-sheldon-9780950718200","title":"A Swindon Album; photographs of a bygone age.","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49645274890513,"sku":"GOR004977077","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49863943356689,"sku":"GOR002684843","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0950718203.jpg?v=1751265901"},{"product_id":"false-light-book-peter-sheldon-9780948849015","title":"False Light","description":"This story opens when Karl is an adolescent in Vienna between the wars. He is handsome, intelligent, popular and has every advantage. But all is not what it seems in a situation full of political tensions and erotic undercurrents. Entranced by his own reflection, he basks in the light and sees his life changing irrevocably.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50374309282065,"sku":"CIN0948849010G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B00BO4BFVO.jpg?v=1751397119"},{"product_id":"life-and-times-of-william-withering-book-peter-sheldon-9781858582405","title":"The Life and Times of William Withering","description":"William Withering whilst travelling from Birmingham to Stafford and stopping to change horses, was asked to see a patient suffering from the dropsy. A few weeks later, enquiring about her progress, he was told she had improved following the use of a remedy of an old woman in Shropshire. He was able to discren that of all its ingredients, the one likely to be responsible was derived from the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea). His most famous contribution to the world of medicine was to study its optimum dosage, and accurately to chart its side effects. Withering was also a mineralogist and botanist. He was a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham. Within this book we traverse world events of the 18th century - wars and riots, the Industrial Revolution, the effects in the Midlands of the French Revolution, the events in India, and many others. We chart the lives of other physicians, famous politicians, artists, playwrights, cabinet makers and others, who collectively weave the tapestry of the time. Then we move into modern times with the advent of digoxin, the current version of digitalis. We assess its place in the medicine of today. This book is intended not only for members of the medical and allied professions, but for all who, like Withering, seek truth from the Nature that surrounds us.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50685687890193,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50685688512785,"sku":"GOR003548933","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1858582407.jpg?v=1751281277"},{"product_id":"regulation-and-management-of-workplace-health-and-safety-book-peter-sheldon-9780367538354","title":"The Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and Safety","description":"The book provides a collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety. Featuring research from Australia, Europe and North America, the chapters traverse important historical examples and place important, emerging contemporary trends, like work in the gig economy, into wider international and historical perspectives. The authors are leading authorities in their fields.  The book contributes to advancing our knowledge – empirical and theoretical – of the ways in which labour market dynamics, management strategies, state regulation and public policy, and union organisation affect outcomes for workers. It features in-depth exploration of, and reflection on, some of the major labour market challenges facing workers, and analysis of strengths and weaknesses of responses to those challenges, whether via management, state regulation or collective employee voice. The chapters highlight shifts in in\/equality of outcomes; access to security and flexibility at work; genuine access to workplace voice and decision-making; and the implications of different avenues and mechanisms for regulating work and employment.  The text is aimed at researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students in work and organisational studies, industrial\/employment relations and human resource management, workplace (or occupational) health and safety, employment law, and labour history. It will also be of particular interest to policy makers and practitioners working in the field of workplace health and safety.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51001543885073,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001546866961,"sku":"NIN9780367538354","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52151550509329,"sku":"NLS9780367538354","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0367538350.jpg?v=1750877996"},{"product_id":"evolutionists-book-peter-sheldon-9781858587721","title":"The Evolutionists","description":"Were we all created? Or did we evolve? If so, from what and how? The author does not pretend to know the answers, but instead has trawled over several centuries and some very prominent names. Amongst these of course is Charles Darwin, always associated with his book On the Origin of Species. His grandfather, Erasmus, was of the opinion that we all originated from snails! Lamarck has been ridiculed for his belief that an example of a different pathway to evolution was by lifetime experience, which would be transmitted to future generations. This was evidenced by the long neck of the giraffe assumedly having arisen as a consequence of reaching up high for the choicest tree leaves. But the nuts and bolts of the question came under closer scrutiny with the discovery by an Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel, of genes and their role in the inheritance of characteristics in peas. Subsequently the discovery of DNA illuminated the fascinating path whereby species might evolve as a consequence of trackable changes in DNA. Much of the foregoing is straightforward for the lay reader, but it is admitted that some parts delve deeper, and assume more knowledge of biology. However, at the end, the author comes clean and admits that there is much that we don t know, but slowly the curtain of knowledge is being opened and some startling facts have and will continue to emerge","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52111374483729,"sku":"NGR9781858587721","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781858587721.jpg?v=1766487383"},{"product_id":"fall-and-rise-of-aspirin-book-peter-sheldon-9781858584034","title":"Fall and Rise of Aspirin","description":"The author has long been interested in how plant derived substances can prove beneficial to Medicine. Writings on papyrus from the earliest times have described the use of willow bark for soothing inflamed wounds. Major contributions by the Reverend Edward Stone of Chipping Norton, and Dr. Thomas Maclagan of Dundee are covered, along with the unique discovery by Professor John Vane and his team, of the fundamental effect of aspirin on prostaglandin synthesis. The book includes fascinating memorabilia on the early days of aspirin, kindly donated from the Bayer archive.In his first book on the foxglove, the author described how Nature's gift of digitalis came to become accepted worldwide as a valuable treatment for heart failure. Now, he has explored the bark of the willow, from which by chemical modification, aspirin was obtained. But whereas up to now, digitalis (in its current form, digoxin), only has a place in the treatment of heart disease, aspirin - the world's most ubiquitous pain killer, has in the last half-century, been shown also to prevent heart attacks and strokes. And in addition it may soon come into use in cancer prevention.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52111770288401,"sku":"GOR014490072","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781858584034.jpg?v=1757151841"},{"product_id":"china-s-changing-workplace-book-peter-sheldon-9780415584548","title":"China's Changing Workplace","description":"This book explores the diversity and dynamism of China’s workplaces and of the wider labour market experiences of its workforce. Drawing on the authors’ extensive recent research, it considers a diverse range of issues and types of workplaces. These changes include: the continuing spread of market-oriented human resource management across public and private sector organisations; greater employment rights for workers; local diversity in regulatory control alongside the governmental priority of a ‘harmonious society’; persistent shortages of skilled labour co-existing with vast underemployment amongst the unskilled; uneven access to education and training across regions; and changes in union behaviour and influence.  Unlike other studies - which tend to assume changes to management, work and employment are relatively uniform across modernising parts of the economy - this book conveys the rich variety among contemporary China’s local labour markets by looking at them, and the institutions that influence them, from the bottom-up. It focuses on other under-explored but emerging phenomena such as family-owned firms, the role of private services businesses, and the emergence of employer associations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52426582229265,"sku":"NLS9780415584548","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53034993025297,"sku":"NIN9780415584548","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780415584548.jpg?v=1759158321"},{"product_id":"regulation-and-management-of-workplace-health-and-safety-book-peter-sheldon-9780367211448","title":"The Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and Safety","description":"Featuring research from Australia, Europe and North America, this collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety explores important historical examples and emerging contemporary trends in international and historical perspectives.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52520724300049,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52520724627729,"sku":"NLS9780367211448","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780367211448.jpg?v=1760565709"},{"product_id":"china-s-changing-workplace-book-peter-sheldon-9780415838269","title":"China's Changing Workplace","description":"This book explores the diversity and dynamism of China’s workplaces and of the wider labour market experiences of its workforce. Drawing on the authors’ extensive recent research, it considers a diverse range of issues and types of workplaces. These changes include: the continuing spread of market-oriented human resource management across public and private sector organisations; greater employment rights for workers; local diversity in regulatory control alongside the governmental priority of a ‘harmonious society’; persistent shortages of skilled labour co-existing with vast underemployment amongst the unskilled; uneven access to education and training across regions; and changes in union behaviour and influence.  Unlike other studies - which tend to assume changes to management, work and employment are relatively uniform across modernising parts of the economy - this book conveys the rich variety among contemporary China’s local labour markets by looking at them, and the institutions that influence them, from the bottom-up. It focuses on other under-explored but emerging phenomena such as family-owned firms, the role of private services businesses, and the emergence of employer associations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52540557066513,"sku":"NLS9780415838269","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780415838269.jpg?v=1760686011"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-peter-sheldon.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}