It is 2030. What are the new technologies that have advanced healthcare? What are the new or strengthened demands placed on the healthcare systems of the world? Is the future affordable, or do we see drastic rationing of care or the collapse of healthcare insurance? This book tackles these questions[...]

An introduction to the fundamentals of accounting and how it is used that will help students apply accounting as a usable, everyday business tool. It adopts an intuitive, informal approach to describe basic principles - what they are, why they exist and how they are used - to help students see the c[...]

Incorporating interactive learning techniques, this book helps students to better understand concepts, work independently, and obtain greater mathematical fluency. It also includes technology features to accommodate courses that allow the option of using graphing calculators.[...]

Brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in medicine, carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. This title includes sections on: Rheumatology, Infectious Disease, Hematology and Oncology, Kidney, Water, and Electrolytes, Pulmonary Diseas[...]

Examines the key issues surrounding human resource management in education. This book develops an alternative perspective on HRM in education, taking account of national and international trends.[...]

The aim of the rules was to provide the simplest possible set of wargaming rules that retained the feel and generalship of ancient and medieval warfare. The rules were about command decisions not the detail of combat. The average player would have memorized the rules by half way through their first [...]