By exploring the communication options that organizations can employ in their stewardship to address crucial public policy options and engage in collaborative decision making, "Strategic Issues Management" gives students practical, actionable guidance. Issues management is vital to an organization's[...]

Provides practical, easy-to-understand coverage of the basics of digital design, along with information on the necessary hardware to implement the design, and VHDL programming language for programming PLD devices. This work features everything from basic programming concepts to microprocessors and m[...]

Although interest in spatial regression models has surged in recent years, a comprehensive, up-to-date text on these approaches does not exist. Filling this void, Introduction to Spatial Econometrics presents a variety of regression methods used to analyze spatial data samples that violate the tradi[...]

A 36-year-old housewife presents in the emergency department complaining of progressively increasing breathlessness over the last two weeks, accompanied by wheeze and a productive cough. You are the medic on duty...100 Cases in Radiology presents 100 radiological anomalies commonly seen by medical s[...]

The revised edition of the most comprehensive, complete handbook for the superintendency!

Known for its interpretive voice, balanced analysis, and brief-yet-comprehensive narrative, "America: A Concise History" helps students to make sense of it all while modeling the kind of thinking and writing they need to be successful. Offering more value than other brief books, "America "is""compet[...]

Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi discover themselves working on two sides of the same case when a set of double homicides rocks downtown Manhattan. A bloody warning scrawled on the wall above a murdered elderly couple sends the Jewish community reeling into a tension-filled confrontation with the city'[...]

Mysteriously rich and desperately lonely, George Smith appears to be under attack from all quarters. His former wife and four horrible children are suing to get his money, and someone is sending him threatening letters. Despite some very elaborate precautions, he remains worried. So he builds a maus[...]

God is great--for your mental, physical, and spiritual health. Based on new evidence culled from brain-scan studies and a wide-reaching survey of people's religious and spiritual experiences, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, MD, and therapist Mark Robert Waldman offer the following breakthrough discov[...]