This new introductory theory book addresses the underlying information needed to understand theory and apply it to practice. Based on the author's extensive survey of current Master's Degree programs, the text is designed to fully meet the needs of students. Content includes the history of the development of nursing science and theory; an ...
For more than 60 years, "Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery" has been an essential, reliable resource for perioperative nursing. The detailed, state-of-the-art information in this edition reflects current procedures and promotes the delivery of comprehensive patient care. This text provides nurses with the tools needed to deliver safe, ...
There's a whole new way to think about stress. Sure, some stress is inevitable, but being 'stressed out' isn't. In fact, we can learn to rechannel the powerful stress activators in our lives to make us even more effective. "Hamlet" spoke of 'suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.' These days we simply use the word 'stress' to ...
This text prepares readers for the changing health care system by introducing them to the full range of non-hospital clinical settings, including homes, doctor's offices, clinics, schools, work sites, nursing homes, and more. It provides essential information, focusing on health promotion/illness prevention interventions as well as management of ...
The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Umberto Eco's response is a provocative, passionate, and witty series of essays--which originally appeared in the Italian newspapers La Repubblica and L'Espresso- ...
"Community/Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Populations, Fourth Edition", focuses on the issues and responsibilities of contemporary community/public health nursing. It retains the book's hallmark social justice approach, photo novellas that illustrate clinical stories, and a concise presentation. An emphasis on working with ...
"What is beauty? What is art? What is taste and fashion? Is beauty something to be observed coolly and rationally or is it something dangerously involving?" So begins Eco's intriguing journey into the aesthetics of beauty, in which he explores the ever-changing concept of the beautiful from the ancient Greeks to today.
"Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery", now in heading its 6th decade of publication, it maintains a long standing tradition as the standard in perioperative nursing. "Alexander's" is a comprehensive reference developed to assist perioperative personnel to meet the individual needs of surgical patients for safe, cost-effective, efficient ...
Although American companies spend a staggering $500 billion on advertising annually, many fail to establish an emotional connection with consumers. "Married to the Brand" examines why some companies develop this most desirable consumer connection, and why others don't. Using Gallup's 60 years of global consumer data and tons of consumer stories, ...
Converging at a remote seaside inn are a lovelorn professor, an inscrutable seductress, a renowned painter and a beautiful young girl, seemingly fatally ill. An intricate web of destinies and associations is finally resolved with the arrival of a sailor called Adams.
Like many memorable works of fiction, this surprising mystery--and love story--set in rural Sicily hinges on a single question, in this case: who is Maria Rosalia Inzerillo, known as Mennulara, the almond picker?
A triumphant follow-up to Simonetta Agnello Hornby's internationally acclaimed "The Almond Picker," this entertaining new novel is an intricate family saga interwoven with violent passions, cruelty, deceit, and the abuse of power.
The intimate, life-affirming journey of recovery and rehabilitation from a major stroke, written by one of morning television's most beloved personalities Mark McEwen was at the top of his game and enjoying life when he suffered a stroke. After fifteen years on "The Early Show," he had moved to Orlando to anchor the local news and spend more ...
800 pages, 435 illustrations, 94 photographs, index. Handy, fact-filled new boating guide offers, how-to-do-it information and reference facts, figures, formulas, graphs, and tables about boating in a book small enough (about 3" x 5" x 1") to fit in your pocket. This book is for everyone who wants to enjoy being a better, safer, and more ...
Each "Sam's Science" book explores an aspect of science through a conversation between young Sam and his mum. In this book Sam learns about molars, canines and incisors, baby teeth and big ones, and how to look after them all.
Ahlberg's third book about the Gaskitt family concentrates on the adventures of Horace, the family cat, who sets out to discover who is responsible for a recent rash of pet disappearances. Colored pencil and mixed-media illustrations accompany the text of this beginning chapter book.
The previous two editions of this text have earned a solid and respectable standing within the community health nursing market. This edition is a significant, substantive revision that focuses on the issues, responsibilities, and roles important for providing contemporary community health nursing care. The chapters have been reorganized and ...
The story of Mrs. Gaskitt, a woman with extraordinary luck who is always winning things in various contests. Mrs. Gaskitt's life becomes more complicated, however, when her childrens' new substitute teacher arrives--and things suddenly start to disappear from the students' backpacks. Color illustrations accompany the text.
This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics. Perrault argues that rules of architecture should be determined by reason, not by ancient precedent.
The doctor delivers bad news. What's a man to do, with the life he has left to live? He can cry, he can wonder which particular cigarette did it - the 564,119th or the 976,835th - or which brand. Kent? Pall Mall? Or (and as well) he can call the friend he loves in the city he loves and then set out down the avenues and streets of New York to meet ...
Thirteen-year-old Cath is a new girl at a Catholic convent. She is afraid of the nuns, unused to the restriction and terrified of God. She finds refuge in nature, and her friend Olive's vision of the starry limitless universe. Cath's sister Very is at art school in seventies Punk London. She lives a wild chaotic life with bedraggled artists, ...
Mr. Gaskitt wakes up one morning and dresses himself in three pairs of underwear, three pairs of socks, three shirts, two pairs of pants, and four coats and then gets into his car and drives away. Meanwhile, Mrs. Gaskitt takes off in her taxi and picks up a passenger who turns out to be a bank robber. After fleeing Mrs. Gaskitt's taxi, the robber ...
In this thrilling and amusing Gaskitts story, Mrs. Gaskitt finds a very peculiar package, Mr. Gaskitt loses a baby in a shopping cart, Horace the cat has mixed feelings about a bird, and the twins' beloved teacher, Mrs. Fritter--ooer!--is not herself. Why? How? When? And why does everyone keep looking the other way? Tune in for the astonishing ...
In these essays, Eco explores in depth such subjects as perception, the relationship between language and experience, and iconism. Forgoing a formal, systematic treatment, he engages in a series of explorations based on common sense, and shares a wealth of ideas that are at once philosophical and amusing.
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