Here's the essential information you need to know in critical care nursing - all in one concise text! Using a to-the-point, reader friendly approach, "Introduction to Critical Care Nursing, 5th Edition", provides authoritative, real-world information on the important concepts of critical care nursing and the assessment and technical skills ...
This book examines the global unfolding of the African Diaspora, the migrations and dispersals of the people of Africa, from antiquity to the modern period. Their exploits, challenges, and struggles are discussed over a wide expanse of time in ways that link as well as differentiate past and present circumstances. The experiences of Africans in ...
Applied statisticians in many fields frequently analyze time-to-event data. While the statistical tools presented in this book are applicable to data from medicine, biology, public health, epidemiology, engineering, economics and demography, the focus here is on applications of the techniques to biology and medicine. The analysis of survival ...
This book provides mailing to TAMBA (Twins and Multiple Birth Association) groups. The first edition sold over 100,000 copies. The rate of twin births as high as 1 in 50. The books that demystify challenging children become classics. The only major book on twins written by physicians, "Twins! 2nd edition" addresses the unique questions and ...
This comprehensive, practical text is built on solid theory and evidence-based practices from both the fields of Special Education and Early Childhood Education. When the first edition was conceived in 1980, the authors encountered students who either had a strong special education background or a strong early childhood (child development) ...
This is the best way to prepare for questions on the USMLE Step 2. This great new study tool for the USMLE Step 2 features 1000 board-style questions and answers with explanations for correct and incorrect answers. You will also find 350 images and content correlated to "First Aid for the USMLE Step 2" to create the ultimate study package.
Those who think they know the story of Ophelia and Hamlet can think again, because when bloody deeds turn the court of Elsinore into a place of treachery and madness, Ophelia alone will find the means to escape, with nothing more than the clothes on her back . . . and one very dangerous secret.
Praise for the First Edition: 'This is an admirable text and sourcebook, but also achieves the status of an intellectually challenging confrontation with the reader. It is in many ways a model which many of us would be well advised to follow. I wish I could have written it' - British Journal of Developmental Psychology This revision of a best ...
Prescott, Harley and Klein's 6th edition provides a balanced, comprehensive introduction to all major areas of microbiology. Because of this balance, "Microbiology, 6/e" is appropriate for students preparing for careers in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and allied health, as well as research, teaching, and industry. Biology and chemistry are its ...
This exciting book offers an overview of the ways in which cultural differences influence young children's behavior, communication, and learning styles. It is a practical guide for early childhood professionals working in such settings as group child care, preschools, and Head Start programs. The book considers the major developmental domains of ...
This is the second edition of this text on logistic regression methods. As in the first edition, each chapter contains a presentation of its topic in 'lecture-book' format together with objectives, an outline, key formulae, practice exercises, and a test. The 'lecture-book' has a sequence of illustrations and formulae in the left column of each ...
Readers from the Big Apple to Buffalo and beyond will find "The Empire State"--which provides equal coverage to "upstate" and "downstate" events and people--satisfying and informative reading. A rich resource, it chronicles the state through centuries of change.
In Alabama, it's illegal to sell vibrators, but legal to buy a gun. In South Dakota, the governor won't allow Columbia University's teen sexuality information website on library computers. In California, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "The Color Purple" is banned from a high school library due to sexual content. These are just a few examples of ...
The case companion to the best-selling "First Aid for the USMLE Step 1". Essential in preparing for the USMLE Step 1, this comprehensive case book features 240 high-yield clinical cases, a unique one-case-per-page format, active recall questions and answers for each case, and more than 200 illustrations.
Examining a series of processes (Islamization, Arabization, Africanization) and case studies from North, West and East Africa, this book gives snapshots of Muslim societies in Africa over the last millennium. In contrast to traditions which suggest that Islam did not take root in Africa, author David Robinson shows the complex struggles of Muslims ...
A guidebook that addresses the emotional and psychological challenges faced by parents of multiple pregnancy and birth. The first section covers a chronology of the pregnancy including symptoms, nutrition and exercises. The second section covers telling twins apart, size and energy differences and how to handle the extra work.
A narrative of the events that led to the start of hostilities between South Carolina and the federal troops occupying Fort Sumter in April 1861--which, in turn, was the immediate cause of the Civil War.
In this study of the 1929 stock market crash, a historian examines trends, national moods, pastimes, trivia, themes, and popular culture--as well as the major players and companies on the exchange--all which, collectively, add up to changing times.
This greatly expanded second edition of "Survival Analysis: A Self-learning Text" provides a highly readable description of state-of-the-art methods of analysis of survival/event-history data. This text is suitable for researchers and statisticians working in the medical and other life sciences as well as statisticians in academia who teach ...
For Early Childhood Special Education methods courses. This comprehensive text takes a non-categorical approach to preparing future early childhood teachers to help infants and young children with disabilities meet their challenges and develop to their fullest potential. Coverage is organized around four themes: how all young children learn, ...
Life just got easier for everyone expecting - thanks to "How to Make a Pregnant Woman Happy." Every chapter of this guidebook is brimming with advice and helpful tips to solve pregnancy's most common problems. From ginger to ease morning sickness, a warm bath to reduce water retention, or a turkey sandwich to relieve insomnia - it's all here in ...
Baseball fans are well aware that the game has become increasingly international. Major league rosters include players from no fewer than fourteen countries, and more than one-fourth of all players are foreign born. Here, Alan Klein offers the first full-length study of a sport in the process of globalizing. Looking at the international activities ...
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