Thin films of conducting materials, such as metals, alloys and semiconductors are currently in use in many areas of science and technology, particularly in modern integrated circuit microelectronics, which require high quality thin films for the manufacture of connection layers, resistors and ohmic contacts. These conducting films are also important for fundamental investigations in physics, radio-physics and physical chemistry.

Since the posthumous publication in 1979 of alleged memoirs by Shostakovich, the controversy about the composer and his music has escalated. This book presents the case for the dissident view, arguing that the meaning of the composer's music cannot be appreciated without a knowledge of the terrible times he lived through under Soviet Communism.

Project X CODE Extra introduces more exciting adventure stories and stimulating non-fiction texts into the Project X CODE series. This pack contains 1 copy of each of the following titles: The Feast, The Jousting Handbook, T-rex Trouble, Dino Detectives. In line with the phonic, vocabulary and comprehension progression in Project X CODE, these books are ideal for additional practice outside of the core intervention sessions, for introducing children to non-fiction texts, and for children who simply want to read more of the CODE adventure!

Project X Origins Graphic Texts can help children to reach higher standards in comprehension. This action-packed, fiction story told in graphic form signals the start of a brand new time-travelling adventure for the popular Project X characters, Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger. The micro-friends go back in time to Saxon England and find themselves in the midst of King Alfred's battle against the Vikings! Can the friends help the king and stop the Tick-Tock Man from stealing his candle clock? This book also contains notes on the inside front and back covers with advice on supporting older children...

Rocket Phonics reading books are fully decodable phonics books allowing children to practise their phonic skills in context, developing emerging reading skills. A man is lying on Ant's nest and blocking the ants from going in and out. Can Cat and Dog help Ant and get the man off the nest? Or will Ant have to find another way to get him moving? Reading age: 4-5 years

Rocket Phonics reading books are fully decodable phonics books allowing children to practise their phonic skills in context, developing emerging reading skills. The children are convinced that there is a strange creature in the bathtub ...But is it a spider, a squid, or even a bat? Will Mum come and get rid of the creature or does Gran have a simpler explanation of what the mysterious 'creature' really is? Reading age: 4-5 years.

Joe's school friends don't know he lives on a barge and he is worried about telling them. What will happen when the whole class come to visit his unusual home? (Letter-sounds featured: /k/ /sh/ ch /j/ ge dge /uh/ o) Joe's Barge is part of the Rocket Phonics teaching and learning programme from Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at home as well as...

'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination ... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'. So wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of her story, Things Remembered and Things Forgotten, a piece that illuminates, as if by throwing a switch, the layers of wartime devastation that lie just below the surface of Tokyo's insistently modern culture. The ten acclaimed stories in this collection are pervaded by an air of Japanese ghostliness. In beautifully crafted and deceptively light...