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Essentials of Pharmacology for Health Occupations (6th Edition)
by David M. Smith Ruth Woodrow Bruce J. ColbertThis basic introductory text presents information about pharmacology and the safe administration of medications.
Essentials of Physical Anthropology
by Robert Jurmain Lynn Kilgore Wenda Trevathan Eric BartelinkConcise, well-balanced, and comprehensive, ESSENTIALS OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 10th Edition, introduces you to physical anthropology with the goal of helping you understand why it is important to know about human evolution. <p><p>You'll learn how humans are biologically connected to all other life, including our ancient ancestors and our contemporary primate cousins, and how closely modern human populations are related to each other. Numerous high-quality visual diagrams, artwork, maps, photographs, and other learning tools will help you grasp the big picture of human evolution.
Essentials of Physical Anthropology: Discovering Our Origins (Third Edition)
by Clark Spencer LarsenThe big picture of physical anthropology. Essentials of Physical Anthropology, Third Edition, is rich with stunning and photorealistic art, thoughtful pedagogy, innovative media, and up-to-date, student-centered content that illuminate physical anthropology’s most important themes.
Essentials of Precalculus with Calculus Previews
by Dennis G. Zill Jacqueline M. DewarEssentials of Precalculus with Calculus Previews, Sixth Edition, is an ideal undergraduate text to help students successfully transition into a future course in calculus. The Sixth Edition of this best-selling text presents the fundamental mathematics used in a typical calculus sequence in a focused and readable format. Dennis G. Zill’s concise, yet eloquent, writing style allows instructors to cover the entire text in one semester. Essentials of Precalculus with Calculus Previews, Sixth Edition uses a vibrant full-color design to illuminate key concepts and improves students' comprehension of graphs and figures. This text also includes a valuable collection of student and instructor resources, making it a complete teaching and learning package.
Essentials of Psychology Fifth Edition
by Stephen L. FranzoiPsychology involves the "study of the mind." As such, introductory psychology offers you the hope that course material will help you better understand not only other people but also yourself. Seeking such knowledge is a distinguishing feature of young adulthood, and the college experience is specifically designed to foster this quest.
Essentials of Psychology: Concepts and Applications (Fourth Edition)
by Jeffrey S. NevidThe new edition of this brief introductory text retains the hallmark features that have made its parent text unique, while offering a more manageable, student-friendly format. The book was written with three goals in mind: to make the study of psychology accessible and engaging to the beginning student in psychology, to provide students with a solid grounding in the knowledge base in psychology, and to help students succeed in the course. Nevid’s comprehensive learning system-derived from research on memory, learning, and textbook pedagogy-is featured throughout. This learning model incorporates what the author calls the Four E’s of Effective Learning-Engaging Student Interest, Encoding Information, Elaborating Meaning, and Evaluating Progress. ESSENTIALS OF PSYCHOLOGY: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS, 4th Edition, provides a broad view of psychology as well as applications of the knowledge gained from contemporary research to the problems and challenges we face in today’s world.
Essentials of Real Estate Finance
by Doris BarrellThis dynamic textbook combines solid concepts of real estate finance, but it also gives you a solid foundation for a career in real estate. In this course, you will learn about monetary systems, primary and secondary money markets, and sources of mortgage loans. You will also learn about federal government programs, loan applications, processes and procedures, closing costs, alternative financial instruments, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Community Reinvestment Act, and the state housing agency.
Essentials of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society
by Anna Y. Leon-Guerrero Chava Frankfort-NachmiasEssentials of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society is a briefer version of the successful Social Statistics for a Diverse Society now in its 6th edition. As in the parent text, the context of diversity, illustrated through the use of real data in examples from contemporary social issues, will continue to differentiate this briefer statistics text. Better illustrated with more interesting examples and exercises with aá focus on student learning, will set this book apart from its competitors. Features and Benefits: - The book's informal writing style -- coupled with the use of real-world examples makes the book more accessible and engaging for students. - A focus on race, class, gender and other aspects of social diversity sets the book apart from others in the field and mirrors the major emphasis in the social sciences today. - Reading the Research Literature sections in most chapters help students read and interpret statistical information in professional and scholarly publications. - Learning Checks within chapters engage students in reviewing key concepts and techniques. - Statistics in Practice extended examples show students applications to meaningful social issues. - Heavily illustrated with many charts, tables and graphs - Extensive end of chapter exercise sets.
Essentials of Social Work Management and Leadership: A Competency-based Approach
by Richard Hoefer Larry D. WatsonEssentials of Social Work Management and Leadership: A Competency-based Approach helps students not only build critical knowledge but also cultivate the unique skills that will help them develop into competent and successful managers and leaders. <p><p>Experiential exercises, informative case studies, and carefully crafted assignments based on the 2015 Council on Social Work Education's (CSWE) Educational Policy Accreditation Standards (EPAS) show students how to apply key concepts to gain career success. Each chapter of the text combines knowledge with competency-building exercises that fit into a newly refined conceptual model of the material. The model places the 2015 CSWE EPAS into strategic categories according to orientation, helping readers better understand how each skill functions within the discipline and how collectively, they can support a thriving and effective social work practice. The text delivers excellent insight, opportunities for action, and material that inspires students to become effective, confident, and capable leaders. Essentials of Social Work Management and Leadership is well suited for courses in social work and nonprofit leadership and management at a specialized or advanced level. <p><p>The text is co-sponsored by The Network for Social Work Management, an international organization focused on strengthening and advancing social work management within health and human services.
Essentials of Sociology (Fourth Edition)
by Anthony Giddens Richard P. Appelbaum Mitchell Duneier Deborah CarrThis is a textbook that teaches students how issues in our global society connect to their own lives.
Essentials of Sociology: A Down-To-Earth Approach (7th edition)
by James M. HenslinThis textbook explores the behavior of social groups, examines the impact of culture and social inequality on everyday lives, describes political and religious institutions, and analyzes population and technology trends. The functionalist, symbolic interactionist, and conflict perspectives are represented in most chapters. The sixth edition adds three photo essays, and reflects some national and global changes. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach
by James M. HenslinSociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach highlights the sociology of everyday life and its relevance to students’ lives. Throughout the text, author James Henslin shares the excitement of sociology through his acclaimed down-to-earth approach and personal writing style. Six central themes help stimulate students’ sociological imaginations: a down-to-earth approach, globalization, cultural diversity, critical thinking, the new technology, and the influence of the mass media on our lives. The Thirteenth Edition has been extensively revised to include contemporary examples and fresh topics that bring sociology to life.
Essentials of Statistics for Business and Economics
by David Anderson Thomas Williams Dennis Sweeney Michael Fry Jeffrey Camm James Cochran Jeffrey OhlmannDiscover how statistical information impacts decisions in today's business world as Anderson/Sweeney/Williams/Camm/Cochran/Fry/Ohlmann's leading ESSENTIALS OF STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS, 9E connects concepts in each chapter to real-world practice. This edition delivers sound statistical methodology, a proven problem-scenario approach and meaningful applications that reflect the latest developments in business and statistics today. More than 350 new and proven real business examples, a wealth of practical cases and meaningful hands-on exercises highlight statistics in action. You gain practice using leading professional statistical software with exercises and appendices that walk you through using JMP Student Edition 14 and Excel 2016. WebAssign's online course management systems is available separately to further strengthen this business statistics approach and helps you maximize your course success.
Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
by Susan Nolan Thomas HeinzenEssentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences by Susan Nolan and Thomas Heinzen is a concise, readable text that covers key statistical concepts. Exploring its wide variety of creative, step-by-step examples, students using Essentials will learn how to choose the appropriate statistical test, understand its conceptual significance, and calculate each statistic. With inviting examples using real-world data, the text teaches students to apply concepts and formulas to statistical questions that they will encounter in their academic lives and outside the classroom. The clear, accessible explanations highlight a conceptual understanding of statistics that minimize the mathematical. Nolan and Heinzen's brief text also provides the most opportunities for students to evaluate their understanding, with three tiers of exercises --Clarifying the Concepts, Calculating the Statistic, and Applying the Concepts-- integrated after each major topic as well as at the end of each chapter.
Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (2nd Edition)
by Susan A. Nolan Thomas E. HeinzenThis Nolan/Heinzen text makes the mathematics of statistical reasoning accessible with engaging storytelling, careful explanations, and helpful pedagogy.
Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (8th Edition)
by Larry B. Wallnau Frederick J GravetterThe goal of this book is not only to teach the methods of statistics but also to convey the basic principles of objectivity and logic that are essential for science and valuable for decision making in everyday life.
Essentials of Strategic Management
by Martyn R Pitt Dimitrios KoufopoulosThis exciting new textbook is built on the belief that strategic management principles are more straightforward than they seem. Unlike other textbooks, it does not overcomplicate the discussion with enigmatic layers of theory or irrelevant perspectives from other disciplines. Instead you will find focused, clearly articulated coverage of the key topics of strategic management, encouraging critical reflection and deeper exploration on your own terms. Fully developed to cover the essentials of any strategic management course, this textbook not only creates understanding of the principles of strategy, but shows you how to apply them constructively in the face of real-world practicalities. Throughout the text, these principles are put into context with illustrations and examples drawn from all over the world and from all kinds of organization - from Shell, Airbus and Tesco to small and non-profit enterprises.<P> With an emphasis on topical, distinctive and engaging features, this text offers:<P> - Over 120 short, topical case studies drawn from every type of organization across more than 20 countries, written especially for this book and supplemented with questions and tasks.<P> - Worksheets for strategy analysis that can be used to tackle real-world situations<P> - Learning outcomes, key points and summaries to focus your reading on what matters<P> - Chapter-by-chapter exercises for further study and discussion<P> - Suggestions for further reading to deepen your understanding of the theories underpinning the chapters<P> In addition, tutors will benefit from a fully developed companion website offering lecture slides, teaching notes for case studies and assignments, module plans and links to further cases www.sagepub.co.uk/pitt <P> Martyn R Pitt is formerly Senior lecturer in Strategic Management at Brunel Busienss School, Brunel University.<P> Dimitrios Koufopoulos is Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at Brunel Business School, Brunel University.
Essentials of Strategic Management: The Quest for Competitive Advantage (Fourth Edition)
by Arthur A. Thompson John E. Gamble Margaret A. PeterafThe text presents a conceptually strong treatment of strategic management principles and analytic approaches that features straight-to-the-point discussions and timely examples.
Essentials of Thematic Analysis (Essentials of Qualitative Methods)
by Nikki Hayfield Gareth TerryThe brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to qualitative methods, offering exciting opportunities to gather in-depth qualitative data and to develop rich and useful findings. In this book, Gareth Terry and Nikki Hayfield introduce readers to reflexive thematic analysis, a method of analyzing interview and focus group transcripts, qualitative survey responses, and other qualitative data. <p><p>Central to this method is the recognition that we are all situated in a particular context, and that we see and speak from that position. This leads researchers to produce knowledge that represents situated truths, providing insights into people's perspectives on a given topic. <p><P>About the Essentials of Qualitative Methods book series: <p>Even for experienced researchers, selecting and correctly applying the right method can be challenging. In this groundbreaking series, leading experts in qualitative methods provide clear, crisp, and comprehensive descriptions of their approach, including its methodological integrity, and its benefits and limitations. Each book includes numerous examples to enable readers to quickly and thoroughly grasp how to leverage these valuable methods.
Essentials of Understanding Psychology (7th Edition)
by Robert S. FeldmanEssentials of Understanding Psychology, Seventh Edition, is the core of a learning-centered multimedia package that comprises a complete framework for learning and assessment. Conforming to recommendations of a 2002 APA task force report on undergraduate student competencies (Board of Educational Affairs, 2002), every component of the package is tied to specific psychological concepts and their application in everyday life. Though the book forms the core of this framework, its power to enrich and empirically demonstrate learning is expanded through a unique library of electronic activities with concept-based quizzes, all developed to accompany this text.
Essentials of Understanding Psychology (9th Edition)
by Robert S. FeldmanThe ninth edition contains a significant number of new and updated features and content, reflecting advances in the field. In particular, chapters on sensation and perception, states of consciousness, and thinking, language, and intelligence have been heavily revised. Some 1,000 new citations have been added to the text, most referring to articles and books published since 2008.
Essentials of Understanding Psychology (Twelfth Edition)
by Robert FeldmanYour students are individuals. Do your teaching materials treat them that way? Feldman's Essentials of Understanding Psychology does. Using a revolutionary revision process, Bob Feldman's Essentials of Understanding Psychology is a fully integrated learning system that gives students an even greater opportunity to achieve success, and brings the Students First goal to a new level. With an adaptive learning system that provides an individualized learning environment and helps students identify what they know, and more importantly, what they don't, every student has a unique experience refined to their needs.
Essentials of the Living World
by George Johnson Joel BerghJohnson’s Essentials of The Living World text is written with an emphasis on the "how” and “why” of Biology, focusing on concepts rather than terminology and technical information. Utilizing a clear, straightforward writing style, the text helps students apply scientific principles to daily life. The 7th edition includes contributions and pedagogy from new coauthor, Dr. Joel Bergh.
Essentials of the Living World 4th Edition
by George B. JohnsonEssentials of The Living World is often considered a student favorite. George Johnson has written this non-majors textbook from the ground up to be an engaging and accessible learning tool with an emphasis on "how things work and why things happen the way they do". Essentials of The Living World focuses on concepts rather than terminology and technical information, and features a straightforward, clear writing style and a wide variety of media assets to enhance the content of the textbook.