An essential guide to the undergraduate wishing to develop skills in physics. Drawing on physics education research and the author's own extensive experience in teaching, this book addresses the skills needed by the undergraduate to become a physicist.

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In this lively and engaging textbook, Rob Penhallurick introduces readers to the diversity and history of the English language, and to relevant contemporary and classic work in linguistics.

Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film fills a broad scholastic gap by analysing the elements of narrative and stylistic construction of films in the slasher subgenre of horror that have been produced and/or distributed in the Hollywood studio system from its initial boom in the late 1970s to the present.

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