From the writer of the best-selling OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS comes this timely tract on the art of writing--an anecdotal, frank step-by-step guide on how to write and how to manage a writer's life. Offers advice on getting started, character, plot, dialogue, writer's block, writing groups, publication, and more.
A student and instructor favorite, this book/CD-ROM package covers the entire nursing curriculum. It can be used as both a study guide for your nursing classes and as a review tool for the NCLEX examination. Known for its quality NCLEX exam-style practice questions, this book includes detailed rationales for both correct and incorrect answers. An ...
"Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Sixth Edition" provides first-year medical and allied health students with the clinically oriented anatomical information that they need in study and practice. This best-selling textbook is renowned for its comprehensive coverage of anatomy, presented as it relates to the practice of medicine, dentistry, and physical ...
The Mayfair family is heir to the awesome gift--or curse--of witchery. Knowledge of the legacy was withheld from neurosurgeon Rowan Mayfair until the power passed to her on the death of a relative. With this power comes the attention of the demon Lasher, who now wants to enter the mortal world forever through one of his human conduits.
A book of 175 fast foolproof recipes for doctoring up ordinary cake mixes to create extraordinary desserts. They range from toasted coconut sour cream cake to Charleston poppy seed cake.
The vampire Lestat's internal religious conflicts are fully explored in this, the fifth volume in the "Vampire Chronicles", in which he realizes that he is being stalked by a creature that even he cannot understand--the Devil.
"Essential Clinical Anatomy, Third Edition" presents the core anatomical concepts found in "Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Fifth Edition" in a concise, easy-to-read, and student-friendly format. This streamlined book is an excellent review for the larger text and an ideal primary text for health professions courses with brief coverage of anatomy. ...
Lamott collects her heartfelt columns from the online magazine Salon, which deal mainly with her religious faith, her recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, and her son, Sam.
This truly unique, bestselling review and preparation resource offers the perfect combination of core content review, practice questions with comprehensive rationales, and detailed test-taking strategies and tips. Throughout the book, you'll find Linda Silvestri's hallmark Pyramid to Success learning features, which highlight key information, and ...
The cupcake is America's darling. It's celebrated in upscale bakeries, on "Sex in the City", on the cover of "Gourmet", and in thousands of classrooms - where every day, it seems, a parent has sent in a batch for the kids to share. The very word conjures up whimsy, cosiness, pleasure and nostalgia. Not to mention the fact that their diminutive ...
Increasingly as popular as her legendary vampires, Anne Rice's Mayfair witches return in the paperback edition of the bestselling sequel to The Witching Hour. Around the globe, through time and between the worlds, the beautiful coven queen Rowan Mayfair flees the evil spell of the darkly compelling Lasher.
A journal that covers Lamott's pregnancy at 35 and the birth of her son, Sam, as well as the diagnosis and death of her best friend, Pammy, from cancer.
Miami, 1992. Lestat, vampire-hero, rockstar, seducer of millions - is desperate to be free from the nightmare of his own immortality. The next in the series of "Vampire Chronicles", including "Interview With the Vampire", "The Vampire Lestat", "The Queen of the Damned" and "The Mummy".
Picnics, dinner parties and church socials, fundraisers, toasts to the teacher, reunions, cookouts - it's the busy age of shared meals, which means with every invitation comes the question: "What can i bring?" Anne Byrn, an inspired cook, problem solver, and bestselling author of "The Cake Mix Doctor" cookbook and other books with over 2.6 million ...
Moody's famous autobiography is a classic work on growing up poor and Black in the rural South. Her searing account of life before the Civil Rights Movement is as moving as The Color Purple and as important as And Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. "A history of our time . . . (and) a reminder that we cannot now relax".--Senator Edward Kennedy.
This text provides comprehensive coverage of more than 250 nursing skills and procedures. This edition includes 22 new skills, such as treatment for pressure ulcers, measuring body temperature via the tympanic membrane, pulse oximetry, central venous pressure and transtracheal oxygen. The information is supplemented by illustrations that clearly ...
Study! Organize! Succeed! Our S.O.S Edition for Psychology: Core Concepts, 4/e, offers a personalized study and review system that helps students master psychology's key questions and core concepts, save time studying, and perform better on exams. Our well-rounded program includes a paperback text with built-in, perforated Practice Tests, live ...
This edition includes the most current MLA citation, documentation, and style guidelines. "I would describe The DK Handbook as visually arresting and a breath of fresh air in the market of composition handbooks!I think this text is remarkably suited to today's generation of visual learners." -Joel Henderson, ChattanoogaStateTechnical CC ...
Anne Rice built her literary reputation through an elaborately constructed Gothic horror mythology of vampires and witches. But now Rice, who has returned to the Catholic faith of her youth, eschews these dark, unholy topics in favor of the sacred, with this first in a series of retellings of the life of Jesus, inspired by the New Testament, ...
This volume of the Vampire Chronicles focuses on the life of Marius, the 2000-year-old guardian charged with watching over the body of the Queen of the Damned, Akasha. Centuries later, he recounts his adventures in ancient Rome, his career as a painter, and his search to be forgiven for failing Akasha.
For introductory courses in computer concepts or computer literacy often including instruction in Microsoft Office. A Computer Concepts Text Focused on Today's Student! Technology in Action engages students by combining a unique teaching approach with rich companion media.
The foremost text in pediatric nursing, this book retains in its eighth edition the qualities that have contributed to its great success. As always, readers can count on the information to be highly accurate, thoroughly updated, comprehensive, and remarkably readable. Students will find the book's appearance highly appealing with superior ...
Lestat, who made Louis into a vampire in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, awakens from an ancient sleep and finds himself in the 1980s. Resourceful, enamored of glamour, he becomes a rock star. The novel traces the vampire legend from its origins in ancient Egypt its through European permutations and, eventually, to America.
Since its publication in 2000, "Strategies That Work" has become an indispensable resource for teachers who want to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers. In this revised and expanded edition, Stephanie and Anne have added twenty completely new comprehension lessons, extending the ...
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