Wabi Sabi, a little cat in Kyoto, Japan, had never thought much about her name until friends visiting from another land asked her owner what it meant. At last, the master says, "That's hard to explain." And that is all she says. This unsatisfying answer sets Wabi Sabi on a journey to uncover the meaning of her name, and on the way discovers what ...
For counseling techniques and for basic skills courses in counseling, social work, and psychology departments. Assuming no prior knowledge of counseling techniques, this highly interactive text takes students, step-by-step through the acquisition of the skills and techniques for effectively helping their future clients. The author's ...
James Balch and Mark Stengler, coauthors of the hugely successful "Prescription for Natural Cures", and Robin Young Balch have teamed up to create the most comprehensive and up-to-date book available on natural alternatives to prescription medications. The book provides natural, safe, and effective ways to treat a wide range of common ailments, ...
A revision of a visionary introduction to management accounting. This full-color, well-illustrated and heavily supplemented textbook is intended for sophomores or first-year MBAs. Thoroughly modern treatment focuses on the uses of accounting information to assist managers in making decisions in all aspects of their business activities. This book ...
Why are we so deeply interested in celebrity lives and loves, their endlessly repeated journey from rising star to inevitable flame out? In spite of extreme fame, fortune, and opportunity, why do their lives always seem so steeped in drama? And-most important - how are their lives changing ours? In this shattering new book, authors Drew Pinsky and ...
Prepare for couples work with COUNSELING AND THERAPY FOR COUPLES! This counseling text includes wide coverage of topics in couples counseling, giving you exposure to the key issues and the varieties of couples with which you will be working. Numerous case examples and role-play scenarios illustrate the application of concepts to real-life ...
Widely acclaimed for its outstanding step-by-step illustrations, comprehensive coverage, and reader-friendly format, "Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Procedures" is now in its thoroughly updated Second Edition. In 137 chapters, the book provides clear, complete instructions on every emergency medicine procedure performed on infants, children, and ...
"Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation Secrets", a new addition to the extraordinarily popular "Secrets" series, includes questions asked on rounds, in the clinic, and at bedside. Basics of patient management, pharmacology, patient monitoring, and procedures are covered.
Studies have demonstrated that women feel more pain, seek help more aggressively, and are more open to alternative treatments than men. This book offers women practical and complementary solutions that practitioners may have overlooked, addressing a complex array of strictly female symptoms and concerns.
Every year, millions of readers count on "The World Almanac and Book of Facts" to deliver accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive information on thousands of topics. Now those same factoid fanatics will be able to dig into the all-new, fully illustrated "World Almanac Book of Records: Firsts, Feats, Facts and Phenomena." This first edition of "The ...
The goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth required the development of three things: spacecraft, launch vehicles, and protective clothing. Spacesuits: Within the Collections of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum takes the reader through the development of the last category, the spacesuits used during this ...
The evaluation and assessment of appropriate design approaches for usable human machine interfaces is at the heart of ergonomics. "A Guide to Methodology in Ergonomics" arises from work carried out by Neville Stanton, funded by the EPSRC/Department of Transport, to compile and review a pool of methodologies currently used throughout the human ...
A supplementary reader for all levels of Cost and Management Accounting courses. This reader contains thirty-nine recent business press and academic articles-all representing state-of-the-art thinking and examples on a wide variety of management accounting topics in many types of service and manufacturing contexts. The articles parallel the ...
Contains recent business press and academic articles that correlate to the chapter coverage in Management Accounting 5/e. Ideal for additional content reinforcement and for any case-based course, this supplement includes articles from a variety of sources. Readings in Management Accounting can be used with Management Accounting 5/e, or any other ...
The mother of all reference books, this edition of the Guinness World Records has even more record-breaking trivia that pushes the edge on technology, extreme sports, and computer games.
This text relates the stories of humans trying to improve their lot, capturing both the high and low points. The contents are divided into 12 subject areas, enabling the reader to dip in and out of the book at their pleasure.
With the help of her veterinarian grandmother and the other volunteers at the Wild at Heart Animal Clinic, eleven-year-old Maggie rescues sick puppies from an illegal puppy mill.
The top-selling copyrighted book in publishing history, this revised edition contains in-depth reports, exciting photos, fascinating features, wacky record attempts, and information for aspiring record-breakers. A survey of the world's most extraordinary human achievements and natural phenomena, this astounding collection will continue to ...
This second edition addresses the clinical problems encountered by primary care physicians in the office or community practice of adult medicine. It has been updated to reflect the latest in primary care medicine. The text includes comprehensive information on aspects of medicine that confront physicians in primary care practice and contains ...
As recently seen in the Kitzmiller vs. Dover case, the evolution versus creation debate will seemingly never end. This work provides a handy resource for students and others who want to understand the past and present of this debate in the words of the people of the time. Each document is from a major participant in the debates and includes any ...
For courses in Family Counseling, Family Therapy of Family Systems. The authors provide a comprehensive student study guide that ties practice and reflection to Samuel T. Gladding's, Family Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice. The guide helps to deepen students' understanding of family therapy in three ways: 1) to review what they are learning ...
Young recounts the story of the founding and eventual disintegration of two 19th-century Utopian societies in New Harmony, Indiana: the Rappites, a celibate German religious group, and the Owenites, who superseded them.
This updated edition of THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS, first published in 1955, chronicles record-making abnormalities and achievements, merging the more traditional athletic and eating competitions with newer categories such as supermodels and the Internet.
This work compares sub-Saharan Africa and the former Soviet Union, two regions beset by the breakdown of states suffering from extreme official corruption, organized crime extending into warlordism, and the disintegration of economic institutions and public institutions for human services. The contributors not only study state breakdown but also ...
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