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The Essentials of Family Therapy (Sixth Edition)
by Michael P. NicholsIllustrates family therapy techniques. With its clinical focus and extremely practical presentation, The Essentials of Family Therapy, 6/e examines the rich history, classic schools, and latest developments in family therapy. The sixth edition is edited to focus more on the contemporary clinical practice and case studies illustrating family therapy techniques. Written by a leading family therapist, descriptions of the various models are based on actual experience. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: Utilize various family therapy techniques. Recognize the techniques of successful contemporaries in the field. Understand why research has failed to influence clinical practice.
Essentials Of Genetics (Sixth Edition)
by William S. Klug Michael Cummings Charlotte SpencerBalancing classical and modern genetics,Essentials of Genetics helps readers understand basic genetics concepts, apply those concepts to genetics problems, and recognize the logic behind them. This succinct treatment features coverage of new research that will capture readers' interests. Mendelian (transmission) genetics, and modern molecular genetics with analytical reasoning woven into discussions, plus references to classical experiments and recent applications. Helps readers connect the science of genetics to the issues of today. Modernizes treatment of timely topics, including genomics, bioinformatics, proteomics (chapter 18), applications and ethics of genetic engineering (chapter 19); updated and extended coverage of gene regulation (chapter 15), cancer genetics (chapter 16). Features beautifully redesigned illustrations throughout, helping readers understand concepts more clearly. A useful reference for anyone interested in learning more about genetics.
Essentials of Health Behavior (Second Edition)
by Mark EdbergHealth promotion, education, and prevention programs ultimately focus on changing health behavior. Essentials of Health Behavior, Second Edition provides the groundwork for understanding, assessing, and effectively applying theories of human behavior within the practice of public health. In clear and accessible language, it provides the student with a background of the kinds of social and behavioral theories that guide our understanding of health related behavior and form the background for health promotion and prevention efforts. Filled with real life examples and profiles, the text explores some of the ways in which these theories and approaches are used in applied health promotion efforts. This book will:- Introduce students to the relationship between behavior and a selection of major health issues. - Provide an introductory background to the kinds of social and behavioral theories that guide our understanding of health related behavior and form the background for health promotion and prevention efforts. - Explore some of the ways in which these theories and approaches are used in applied health promotion efforts. The Second Edition offers:- New chapter on multi-level theories and frameworks - Updated examples of application and practice throughout- Additional information on several of the theories presented, such as the Diffusion of Innovations theory and the Social Cognitive TheoryLooking for more real-life evidence? Check out Cases 3, 5-11, 13, 18, & 20 in Essential Case Studies in Public Health, Putting Public Health into Practice.
Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology (9th edition)
by Elaine N. MariebThis text introduces students to the structure and function of the human body. Marieb, an R.N. and Ph.D. who teaches at Edison Community College and Holyoke Community College, designed this book for students pursuing careers in the allied health fields but who may have limited previous exposure to the sciences. Sections discuss immunology and clinical advances based on current research, and throughout the book emphasizes career orientation through interviews with working professionals.
Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology (Third Edition)
by John W. HoleEssentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology, Third edition, is designed to provide accurate information about the structure and function of the human body in an interesting and readable manner.
Essentials of Human Communication (8th Edition) With The Interviewing Guidebook (Fourth Custom Edition For Bergen Community College)
by Joseph DevitoThis book is responsive to the need for a brief, interesting, but serious text that emphasizes on the essential skills of human communication, including interpersonal communication, small group communication, and public speaking.
Essentials of Marketing (7th Edition)
by Charles W. Lamb Joseph F. Hair Carl McdanielEssentials of Marketing, 7e will give students the ability to recognize how much marketing principles play a role in their day-to-day lives. This edition visually illustrates key marketing concepts and showcases the customer experience with an engaging writing style punctuated by the most recent marketing statistics and figures.
Essentials of Medical Language (2nd Edition)
by David M. Allan Karen D. LockyerThis book presents new medical terminology to students in manageable quantities via short lessons and a 2-page spread format. This edition offers a completely redesigned learning experience through larger, more focused art and revised table of contents.
Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management (Sixth Edition
by Sally A. Weiss Ruth M. TappenSuccessfully make the transition to professional nursing practice. Two books in one, for the price of one--all the issues and trends coverage you need, plus leadership and management content. The completely revised and updated 6th Edition of this popular resource prepares you to meet the challenges you'll face as a professional in today's changing health care environment. You'll explore your future responsibilities as a leader and a manager and the workplace issues and trends that you'll encounter in practice.
Essentials of Organizational Behavior
by Stephen P. Robbins Timothy A. JudgeFor one-semester undergraduate and graduate level courses in Organizational Behavior. Concise fundamentals for students. Ultimate flexibility for instructors. This bestselling, brief alternative for the OB course covers all the key concepts needed to understand, predict, and respond to the behavior of people in real-world organizations. This text also includes cutting-edge topics and streamlined pedagogy to allow maximum flexibility in designing and shaping your course. The eleventh edition contains expanded and updated coverage on international issues, as well as new sections on the management of information, safety and emotions at work, risk aversion, self-determination theory, managing information, and downsizing. Accompanied by mymanagementlab! See the hands in the air, hear the roar of discussion-be a rock star in the classroom. mymanagementlab makes it easier for you to rock the classroom by helping you hold students accountable for class preparation, and getting students engaged in the material through an array of relevant teaching and media resources. Visit mymanagementlab.com for more information.
Essentials of Pathophysiology: Concepts of Altered Health States
by Carol Mattson PorthPrepare your students for their future careers with Essentials of Pathophysiology: Concepts of Altered Health States, 4/e. This clear, readable, and student-friendly text delivers "need to know" disease content, along with the essential foundation in science that nursing, physician assistant, pharmacology, advanced health science, and medical students need to succeed in their future careers. Approaching the topic as an exploration of pathophysiology, the book relates normal body functioning to the physiologic changes that occur as a result of disease and provides concise yet complete coverage of how the body works. The Fourth Edition builds on the book''s extremely successful art program and the "Understanding" feature and incorporates summary concept boxes after each section.
Essentials of Pediatric Radiology
by Heike E. Daldrup-Link Charles A. GoodingEssentials of Pediatric Radiology: A Multimodality Approach provides a concise overview of both basic and complex topics encountered by pediatric radiologists in their daily practice. Written by leading pediatric radiologists from renowned children's hospitals, it focuses particularly on multimodality imaging, covering the full gamut of radiologic diagnostic techniques, including conventional radiography and ultrasound, Doppler ultrasound, up-to-date CT and MRI techniques, and PET-CT. Each chapter is generously illustrated with high quality images, as well as graphs, tables, decision flowcharts and featured cases. Chapters are arranged according to pathologies, rather than organ systems, providing the reader with clinically-oriented information when employing 'whole body' techniques or analysing scans involving multiple anatomical sites. The book is complemented by online presentations of cases as 'unknowns', which enable readers to test their diagnostic proficiency. A key text for pediatric radiology fellows, radiology residents and general radiologists, this is also essential reading for all pediatricians.
Essentials of Real Estate Investment
by David SirotaIt is with this positive point of view that this ninth edition of Essentials of Real Estate Investment was prepared: with an eye to our imminent financial recovery and to prepare the reader for the time when investing in real estate will again emerge as a rational and profitable alternative to build a valuable inheritable estate.
Essentials of Sociology (Fourth Edition)
by Anthony Giddens Mitchell Duneier Richard P. Appelbaum Deborah CarrThis is a textbook that teaches students how issues in our global society connect to their own lives.
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 (8th Edition)
by Frederick J Gravetter Larry B. WallnauThe 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: The Quest for Competitive Advantage (Fourth Edition)
by John E. Gamble Arthur A. Thompson 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 Surgical Pediatric Pathology
by Marta C. Cohen Irene ScheimbergEssentials of Surgical Pediatric Pathology is a clear and practical yet comprehensive guide for trainee pediatric pathologists and non-pediatric pathologists.
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.
Essentials of Veterinary Ophthalmology (Second Edition)
by Kirk N. GelattNow in its second edition, Essentials of Veterinary Ophthalmology provides its readers with a practical introduction to the diagnosis and clinical management of the most frequently encountered eye diseases of domestic animals. Essentials of Veterinary Ophthalmology is distilled from the authoritative, two-volume, fourth edition of Veterinary Ophthalmology (Gelatt), drawing primarily on the clinically relevant sections to provide expert coverage in a more concise and quick-reference format - ideal for busy small animal or equine practitioners seeking rapid advice for a patient. The second edition includes more images, algorithms to speed the clinical problem-solving process, key points highlighted in bold, expanded appendices for convenient reference to therapeutic agents, recommended dosages, and possible side effects, and a brief glossary.Practical and accessible, the second edition of Essentials of Veterinary Ophthalmology is filled with reader-friendly features to provide veterinary students and practitioners with an indispensable resource for the fundamentals of clinical veterinary ophthalmology.* Focuses on the most common eye diseases of small animals and horses* Provides expert coverage in a concise, quick-reference format* New edition includes more images, algorithms, key points in bold, expanded appendices and glossary* Based on the two-volume definitive reference Veterinary Ophthalmology, 4th Edition (Gelatt)
The Eternal City
by Paula MorrisFrom master of suspense Paula Morris comes a tale of gods and goddesses, thrilling romance, and mystery set in present-day Rome.Laura Martin is visiting Rome on a class trip, and she's entranced by the majestic Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon . . . Everything in this city seems magical. That is, until the magic seems to turn very dark. Suddenly, statues of Cupid and ancient works of art come to life before her eyes. Earthquakes rumble and a cloud of ash forms in the sky. A dark-eyed boy with wings on his heels appears and gives her a message. Laura soon realizes she is at the center of a brewing battle -- a battle between the gods and goddesses, one that will shake modern-day Rome to its core. Only she and her group of friends can truly unravel the mystery behind what is happening. As tensions mount and secret identities are revealed, Laura must rely on her own inner strength to face up to what may be a fight for her life. Acclaimed author Paula Morris brings the ancient world to vivid life in this unstoppable tale of friendship, love, and the power of the past.
The Eternal Sea
by Angie FrazierRomance and adventure are just around the corner . . .After the thrilling journey that led Camille through the dangerous discovery of love, secrets, and a magical stone that grants immortality, Camille has everything she wants. She's escaped the men who wanted her dead, and now she is ready to build a new life with Oscar, her one true love. But things are not to be so simple. Oscar is acting strangely, and before they can even board a ship from Australia back home, to San Francisco, Camille learns that the journey is not over. If she does not follow the magic of the curse of Umandu, her life and Ocar's could be in grave danger.
Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Counseling
by Theodore P. Remley Barbara HerlihyThis authoritative resource, written by two counseling professors--one an attorney and the other an expert in ethics--explores the most difficult ethical, legal, and professional challenges in counseling in an easy-to-understand manner. Ideal for instructors who do not specialize in the topics presented, and for students who are learning about the counseling profession, Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Counseling includes numerous case studies throughout not only to highlight difficult situations faced by counselors, but also to give readers the benefit of the authors' best thinking on how to resolve the dilemmas. The complex legal, ethical, and professional counseling issues are analyzed and discussed in a manner that allows counselors to resolve challenging situations as they arise in their practice. Included is practical advice on how to manage ethical and legal issues such as using technology and social media, counseling minors and vulnerable adults, counseling clients who may be suicidal or violent, responding to subpoenas; setting boundaries with clients, students, and supervisees serving as gatekeepers for the counseling profession; developing a private practice, responding to complaints, and practicing in a diversity-sensitive manner. The topics are relevant for school counselors, clinical mental health counselors, college counselors, rehabilitation counselors, marriage and family counselors, substance abuse counselors, and counselors who practice in other specialties. As a text it is appropriate for undergraduate, master's level, and doctoral level human services and counseling.
Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Counseling (3rd Edition)
by Barbara Herlihy Theodore P. Remley Jr.For undergraduate and graduate courses in Counseling Ethics, Legal Issues in Counseling; a supplement for Introduction to Counseling, Practicum, or Internship courses. From two leading scholars in the field of counseling, and written specifically for the future practicing counselor, this comprehensive volume offers an in-depth examination of the counseling profession. The authors approach each professional issue in counseling from both an ethicalanda legal point-of-view, offering readers a complete, integrated exploration of all facets. Difficult issues are addressed in a straightforward manner, and practical, realistic advice is proffered through vignettes that showcase typical situations and dilemmas faced by practicing counselors.
The Ethically Responsible Engineer: Concepts and Cases for Students and Professionals
by Robert McginnThe book lays out and discusses four Fundamental Ethical Responsibilities of Engineers (FEREs) that are incumbent of engineers. It also shows how the FEREs can be applied to particular engineering situations to determine specific "derivative ethical responsibilities" that are incumbent on engineers in those situations Includes a variety of case studies in various fields of engineering that are divided into four parts: salient factual background, ethical issues, analysis of ethical issues, and moral lessons Grasp ethical issues in real-life situations The author is a professor of Management Science and Engineering and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Stanford University