"Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing" is the #1 pediatric nursing textbook on the market, owing its success to its scrupulous accuracy, current research, and highly readable writing style. The seventh edition retains the very successful organization of previous editions. The first part of the book on child development and health promotion, lays ...
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 ...
This breakthrough book, written by renowned authorities on treating anxiety disorders, has already helped thousands of people enjoy a life free from excessive fears and rituals. Now this newly revised edition incorporates even more effective exercises.
Adapted for younger audiences, a new edition of the bestselling classic, The Light and the Glory. The authors recount key events in early American history from the time of Columbus' voyage to George Washington's election without forfeiting any of the historical significance, truthfulness, dramatic appeal, or spirituality of the original. Includes ...
"What is the biological reason for gossip? For laughter? For the creation of art? Why do dogs have curly tails? What can microbes tell us about morality?" These and many other questions are tackled by renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson in this witty and groundbreaking new book. With stories that entertain as much as they inform, Wilson ...
Even after 25 years, "Wong's Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing, 7th Edition" is still your go-to clinical guide to caring for children and their families in the hospital, community, and home. With care plans, assessment tools, skills and procedures, patient teaching, and reference data in a concise, reader-friendly format, "Wong's Clinical ...
Carry all of the most essential knowledge on pediatric care in your pocket with the "Clinical Companion for Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing"! This indispensable guide from the authors of the most trusted pediatric nursing textbook on the market includes need-to-know information for the clinical setting in a quick-reference format. Content ...
No matter what we do, however kind or generous our deeds may seen, a hidden motive of selfishness lurks - or so science has claimed for years. This book tells readers differently. The authors demonstrate that unselfish behaviour is in fact an important feature of both biological and human nature. Their book provides a panoramic view of altruism ...
Utilizing ethnographic and archaeological data and an updated paradigm derived from the best features of cultural ecology and ecological anthropology, this extensively illustrated book addresses over fifteen South American adaptive systems representing a broad cross section of band, village, chiefdom, and state societies throughout the continent ...
The author examines the social and evolutionary impulses for the development of religion. Among his examples is a consideration of how early Christianity, with its active proselytizing, increased emphasis on procreation and women's rights, and how certain social customs allowed it to eclipse the growth of other religious sects.
Paediatric nursing's foremost text, Whaley & Wong's "Nursing Care of Infants And Children", retains in its sixth edition the qualities that have contributed to its great success. As always, readers can count on "Nursing Care of Infants And Children" to be highly accurate, thoroughly updated, comprehensive, and remarkably readable. The current ...
Both The Light and the Glory and From Sea to Shining Sea, the first two books in Marshall and Manuel's best-selling U.S. history series, have been successfully adapted for children by Anna Fishel. Now young readers can continue learning about God's hand in our nation's history in Sounding Forth the Trumpet for Children. This book brings one of the ...
This fifth edition arms readers with the latest information on nutrient metabolism and the formulation of diets from an array of available feedstuffs. The authors discuss animals' role in ecological balance, environmental stability and sustainable agriculture and food production. A new chapter on the regulation of nutrient partitioning offers a ...
This leading paediatric nursing textbook owes its success to scrupulous accuracy, current research and a highly readable style. The new edition is packed with colour and includes many special features, ensuring it is the most comprehensive package available, whilst still maintaining the high standards established by previous editions. Todays ...
This authoritative volume starts with a clear introduction to the animal world, followed by a superbly illustrated survey of world habitats. The main part of the book, a comprehensive catalog, profiles more than 2,000 individual species. Photographs. Young Adult.
The bicycle is almost unique among human-powered machines in that it uses human muscles in a near-optimum way. This new edition of the bible of bicycle builders and bicyclists provides just about everything you could want to know about the history of bicycles, how human beings propel them, what makes them go faster and what keeps them from going ...
For senior/graduate-level courses in Turbomachinery.One of the only texts to focus on turbomachinery and gas turbines from the "design" point of view, this volume reviews the necessary thermodynamics, gives extensive design data, provides engine and component illustrations (with comments on good and less-than-good design features), and contains ...
Jesus the Jewish Theologian establishes Jesus firmly within the context of first-century Judaism and shows how understanding Jesus' Jewishness is crucial for interpreting the New Testament and for understanding the nature of Christian faith.
In this fifth installment in the Offerings for Humanity project, the authors invite the reader to travel to East Asia. Each photograph by Olivier is accompanied by the thoughts of great masters, including Confucius, Lao Tzu, Dogen Zenji, Shonin Shinran, D. T. Suzuki, Gao Xingjian, and the Buddha.
With this book, the student of Western Tantra may attain the knowledge and inner truth that has been hidden from us since conception. Within this new, expanded edition you will find a wealth of practical and passionate Tantric techniques utilising the Archetypal images of the Tarot. Nothing is held back. Every method is explicit and clearly ...
Winner of the 1993 Coretta Scott King Award and the African Studies Association Outstanding Book Award, here is a lavish retelling of an age-old African creation myth. Based on the legends of the Yoruba, an ancient West African culture, this full-color, cultural experience provides today's young readers with a unique bridge to the past.
The Life Application Bible Commentary is the only work to offer sermon and lesson applications alongside stirring commentary. Complete with charts, diagrams, maps, quotations, bibliography, and short articles on specific topics.l
The Bayeaux Tapestry is unique both as a historical document and as a work of art. It was made soon after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, and it tells the story of the events that led up to William the Conqueror's invasion of England and the battle itself.
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