This book brings to light the current job responsibilities of the healthcare librarian, but at the same time reveals a dichotomy. In theory, advances in healthcare research promise better care and improved safety for patients. In practice, there are barriers that undermine change. The author calls a[...]
New "Atkins For A New You" is an alternative to the original Atkins diet, which allows you to lose weight successfully and emerge with a healthier, firmer body. This new diet offers all the benefits of the original diet, including the freedom to eat luxuriously and feel completely satisfied, a metab[...]
How and why does each of us grow up to be the person we are? What role do genes play in shaping our behaviour and personalities? Are our characters fixed, or can we change as adults? How does early experience affect our sexual preferences? This title deals with these questions.[...]
The "Ecology of Sandy Shores" provides the students and researchers with a one-volume resource for understanding the conservation and management of the sandy shore ecosystem. Covering all beach types, and addressing issues from the behavioral and physiological adaptations of the biota to exploring t[...]
Doctors are being targeted by government prosecutors and whistleblowers challenging the legality of their relationships with drug and device companies. This title offers a resource for doctors struggling to understand the ever changing law and ethical standards on interactions with pharmaceutical an[...]
Educates litigators, judges, criminalists, and students about various aspects of the use of DNA evidence in criminal and civil trials. This book includes discussions of the molecular biological basis for the tests, essential laboratory practices, probability theory and mathematical calculations.[...]
SysML is a general purpose graphical modeling language used to specify, analyze, and design systems that may include hardware, software, and personnel. This comprehensive and practical guide for modeling systems with SysML includes a description of the language, and shows how the language can be app[...]
Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C++ is an advanced algorithms book that bridges the gap between traditional CS2 and Algorithms Analysis courses. As the speed and power of computers increases, so does the need for effective programming and algorithm analysis. By approaching these skills in [...]
This best-selling text offers a balanced approach to issues as it explores today s multicultural landscape and how to prepare teachers to use equitable and reflective decision making in their multicultural classrooms. The ninth edition of "Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society" was design[...]
You Will Learn C! Zed Shaw has crafted the perfect course for the beginning C programmer eager to advance their skills in any language. Follow it and you will learn the many skills early and junior programmers need to succeedjust like the hundreds of thousands of programmers Zed has taught to date![...]
Programmers who endure and succeed amidst swirling uncertainty and nonstop pressure share a common attribute: They care deeply about the practice of creating software. They treat it as a craft. They are professionals. In "The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers, " legendary s[...]
A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become "real" at all' writes John Bayley in his foreword to this edition of "Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth". Approaching the tragedi[...]
Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourcefu[...]
A Tufts University professor explores the nature of faith and how religion shapes everyday life and the future, addressing controversial issues about the relevance and rational qualities of faith while tracing the history of organized religion from its roots in folk beliefs to its key role in modern[...]
Kate and Cecy and their new husbands Thomas and James embark on a honeymoon in Europe, but when they arrive in France, mysterious and possibly magical events unfold, ranging from the arrival of a lost coronation treasure to the strange disappearance of a glove. Reprint.[...]