Written from a more practical angle than many existing childcare textbooks, Jennie Lindon's student text uses scenarios to describe practice in realistic fictional settings drawn from the author's extensive experience.

Provides an insight into the construction and operation of modern computer systems. It reviews main computer sub-systems such as the CPU, primary and secondary storage devices, I/O systems, and the display. It also deals with digital circuits and describes basic gates along with their use in forming combinational and sequential logic circuits.

Suitable for students following an undergraduate or postgraduate course on international marketing, this title explores the key roles that multiculturalism plays in different societies and its impact on marketing theory and practice and examines the importance of the cultural context in different societies' marketing practices.

Provides an introduction to database systems for computing students. Designed to cover a one semester course, topic coverage features examples using Oracle 10g and practical guidelines. The material is grounded in modern enterprise infrastructure where databases need to link to a Web front end.

Based on years of research funded by the Swedish government, this is an examination of Scandinavian projects in sustainable tourism. It discusses their implications for tourism around the world, and includes several extended case studies.

One of the leading Economics principles texts in the UK and Europe, restructured and reorganized to more directly match economics students' course structures and learning and assessment needs.

Presents the theory and practice of enterprise for students, revealing its capabilities and limitations, and the processes and the skills. This title employs a 3-part structure: entrepreneurship as a process, the entrepreneur as a person, and how entrepreneurs create value to acknowledge that entrepreneurship unfolds in various contexts.

A discussion of the pressures of tourism on rural destinations. It brings together current thinking and synthesizes it with case studies of rural destinations - especially woodland and forest - from the UK, Portugal and England. The book is linked to the EU's good management award scheme.