Books published by Cengage Learning, Inc

Offers an introduction to the human services profession. Based on the authors' extensive experience as practitioners, educators, and researchers, this text defines human services, reviews the historical development of the field, provides an overview of the profession, and emphasizes the skills needed to succeed as a human services practitioner.

Provides the comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of nutrition and nutrition therapy for an introductory course. This title includes chapters that focus on "normal" nutrition, including digestion and metabolism, vitamins and minerals, and life cycle nutrition.

Written within a bio-psychosocial framework, this book covers the specific ages-stages of adult development and aging. It focuses on "positive aging" and the gains and losses people experience across adulthood.

Specifically oriented to the needs of information systems students, this book delivers the technology and developments from the field. Taking a managerial approach, it teaches all the aspects of information security - not just the technical control perspective.

With a combination of cases, readings, hypotheticals, and dilemmas, this book illustrates the decision-making process and why good leaders often make questionable choices.

Presents a long tradition of accuracy, thoroughness, and consistent coverage of the latest issues and emerging trends.

Details how to organize as well as manage effective project teams, from planning and scheduling to cost management. This title helps you learn the keys to effective communication both within and outside a team and see firsthand how project management is applied in the workplace with this edition's cases and new real-world vignettes.

Contains readings that cover centuries of thought and wisdom. This book includes various issues in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, and ethics.

Integrates the use of spreadsheets and graphing calculators with instructions for Microsoft Excel and the TI-83. This book has an accompanying website that provides several interactive tutorials, exercises, and online support.

Provides what students need to strengthen their interpersonal, group, public speaking, and media literacy skills - and demonstrates the value of communication in their own lives. This book is packed with interactive, online study tools that assist your students as they explore human communication and become confident and effective communicators.

Covering topics such as hybrid vehicles, GPS systems and fuel injection systems, the latest edition of this title has been updated to reflect new developments in the field of automotive technology.

Offers a comprehensive guide to the care and husbandry of small animals. This book introduces you to the basics of the small animal industry, including the history, safety concerns and care and welfare of these animals before diving into the specifics of each, with chapters covering dogs, cats, reptiles, birds, fish and exotic species.

Provides an effective introduction to SQL programming using straightforward instruction, extensive hands-on exercises, and a strong foundation in real-world business applications.

Reflecting the policy and practice changes, this title delivers a thorough examination of human services - providing students with an insightful, realistic portrayal of the field. Using a multidisciplinary approach, it offers an overview of the helping field, its available programs, and the practical skills workers can employ.

Featuring topics such as competence to stand trial, the insanity defense, expert forensic testimony, analysis of eye witness identification, criminal profiling, and many others, this book gives a comprehensive overview of psychology's contributions to the legal system, and the many roles available to trained psychologists within the system.

This straightforward, concise, conversational introduction to statistics presents a plain and simple overview of statistics that is sparing in its use of jargon. Readers develop a strong awareness of the interaction between statistical methods and research methods along with a solid working knowledge of basic statistical cautions.

Provides a thorough guide to perimeter defense fundamentals, including intrusion detection and firewalls. This text covers advanced topics such as security policies, network address translation (NAT), packet filtering and analysis, proxy servers, virtual private networks (VPN), and network traffic signatures.

Framed in a student-friendly writing style, this text presents the essentials of statistics with an applied approach. It encourages skill development for statistical literacy, emphasizing computational competence and the ability to read social science literature with greater comprehension.

Demonstrates how human service professionals help others work more effectively to fulfill their work-related or care taking responsibilities to individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. This book is structured to aid students in developing their own personal consultation model as they work through the book.

By illustrating how effective managers apply economic theory and techniques to solve real-world problems, this title helps future business leaders learn to think analytically and make better decisions.

Designed for the three-semester engineering calculus course, this book offers instructors and students teaching and learning resources.