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by W.E. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Combining the best elements of both traditional publishing and self-publishing, FMQK offers a proven alternative. We help authors with any part of the publishing process. That includes production, marketing and distribution. With us, our authors have access to all of the top distribution channels. Our services have been proven to help both the new and traditionally published author.
Writing and Developing Your College Textbook
A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
**Writing and crafting a textbook and attending to authoring tasks is a time-consuming, complex—some would say monumental—project, even harrowing at times. **This updated and expanded third edition will empower you to undertake textbook development by guiding you through the nuts and bolts of...
With Us Always
A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 1998
Although welfare reform is currently the government's top priority, most discussions about the public's responsibility to the poor neglect an informed historical perspective. This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in this country and abroad, to balance the efforts...
The American West at Risk
Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense,...
Beyond Residency
The New Physician’s Guide to the Practice of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Beyond Residency offers practical, no-nonsense advice about the business and economics of being a medical doctor. Used as a textbook in the Business of Medicine Course at East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine, this edition is designed to work more broadly for other institutions teaching...
by Bernard W.E. Alford
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Bernard Alford reviews the changing role, and diminishing influence, of Britain within the international economy across the century that saw the apogee and loss of Britain's empire, and her transformation from globe-straddling superpower to off-shore and indecisive member of the European Community....
Music in Our Lives
Rethinking Musical Ability, Development and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Why do some children take up music, while others dont? Why do some excel, whilst others give up? Why do some children favour classical music, whilst others prefer rock? These are questions that have puzzled music educators, psychologists, and musicologists for many years. Yet, they are incredibly...
by James E. Gern, MD, William W. Busse
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Now in its sixth edition, this incisive handbook provides clear explanations of the hypersensitivity mechanisms involved in allergic diseases and asthma. Based on the extensive clinical expertise of two acknowledged leaders in the allergy and asthma field, this handbook explains the guidelines for...
Achieving Strategic Excellence
An Assessment of Human Resource Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2006
This is the Center for Effective Organizations’s (CEO) fourth national study of the human resources (HR) function in large corporations. It is the only long-term national study of this important function. Like the previous studies, it focuses on measuring whether the HR function is changing and...
Past, Present, and Future Research on Teacher Induction
An Anthology for Researchers, Policy Makers, and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
This anthology on teacher induction research is intended for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in the field of teacher induction both nationally and internationally. This book is the final and major project of the Association of Teacher Educators' (ATE) Commission on Teacher Induction...
by Ronald W. Rebore, Angela L. E. Walmsley
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Engage a new generation of teachers to create effective learning communities!
Administrators will find a research-based framework for hiring and retaining Generation Y educators, whose exposure to technology and diversity makes their perspectives dramatically different from previous...
Crime Classification Manual
A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crime
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Praise for Crime Classification Manual
"The very first book by and for criminal justice professionals in the major case fields. . . . The skills, techniques, and proactive approaches offered are creatively concrete and worthy of replication across the country. . . . Heartily recommended for...
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
Lift
The Fundamental State of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
**NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED
Harness the Science of Positive Influence
Just as the Wright Brothers combined science and practice to finally realize the dream of flight, Ryan and Robert Quinn combine research and personal experience to demonstrate how to reach a psychological state...