This text presents the renowned Bates Assessment content with a nursing-oriented approach. Throughout, content relevant to the RN-level nurse is emphasized.[...]
Using actual case vignettes, this resource will help students apply their skills in history taking and physical examination and test their knowledge by answering case-based questions. This edition includes additional cases on the older adult and other new topics covered in the Ninth Edition of Bates[...]
Seventeen stories deal with a middle-aged romance, a child's pain, a man living in the past, pilots during World War II, and an absent-minded old man[...]
China's diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, creating both challenges and opportunities for other world powers. Through a combination of pragmatic security policies, growing economic clout, and increasingly deft diplomacy, China has established productive and increasingl[...]
An introduction to educational policy, practice and the professional that focus on historical policy from the state's first interventions in education through to Thatcherism, and Blair's Education, Education, Education. It is suitable for undergraduate education studies students.[...]
This biography by historian George Knight makes use of previously unavailable sources, letters, and logbooks to shed new light on the first theologian and real founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.[...]
What will we remember of 2012? The Olympic and Paralympic Games? The Queen's Diamond Jubilee? The faltering of the Arab Spring and the unfolding tragedy of Syria? Occupy London? The Bankers (again)? Leveson? Whatever the news, "Guardian" writers were there, every step of the way, with their unique a[...]
Over the coming years we will need to move from a global culture addicted to cheap, abundant petroleum to a culture of compelled conservation, whether through government directive or market forces. This book provides useful practical advice for preparing your family and community to make the transit[...]
Conventional agriculture destroys our soils, pollutes our water and is a major contributor to climate change. What if our agricultural practices could stabilise, or even reverse these trends? This book explores the dual function of biochar as a carbon-negative energy source and a potent soil-builder[...]
In 1999, Michigan State University Press launched "Fourth Genre: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction", a journal devoted to publishing notable, innovative work in nonfiction. The title reflected our intention to give nonfiction its due as a literary genre - to give writers of the "Fourth Genre" a sh[...]
A contemporary approach to network marketing--from the author of the million-copy bestseller, "Your First Year in Network Marketing"This is a book about reality--an unpleasant reality that no one seems to want to address. A large number of the population was hit with substantial loss of income and s[...]
Written by Gardner Fox, Gerry Conway and others Art by John Calnan, Carmine Infantino, Jim Aparo, Curt Swan, Rich Buckler and others Cover by Jim Aparo Collecting classic tales featuring the seeming death of The Dark Knight, as originally published in DETECTIVE COMICS #347, WORLD'S FINEST #184 and [...]