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Offers an in-depth introduction to political, cultural, and intellectual history. Updated with more recent scholarship, this eleventh edition retains many popular features that help readers absorb and understand the material, including comparative timelines, full-color art essays, and profile and primary source boxes in each chapter.

Introduces early childhood students to the field. This book is organized to answer four key questions: What is the field? Who is the child? Who is the teacher? and What is being taught?

A guide for home-school-community collaborations. It provides an overview of modern families and their complex roles and beliefs to sensitize teachers to the diversity and needs of families they will encounter, including multilingual, multiethnic, multigenerational, and gender-diverse families from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

Equips readers with a solid understanding of the theoretical models of career counseling as well as practical techniques on how to effectively counsel clients. This text demonstrates how to consider a client's values, temperament, talents, and passions when trying to determine his or her best career fit.

Intends to bridge the gap between first- and second-year Spanish through a broad focus on useful grammar structures, practical vocabulary, and an overview of culture that is both extensive and detailed. This book also includes a video program containing six award-winning short films, all delivered within an understandable unit organization.

Presents the major areas of ethical theory through an engaging collection of contemporary moral debates. This title brings the debate with detailed discussions of timely moral topics such as same-sex marriage, structural racism, factory farming, pacifism, and global distributive justice.

Helps you develop the skills of introductory German students by maintaining a focus on listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Manageable for two-semester courses, this 10th Edition covers grammar in a logical sequence. Each chapter contains many function-based activities that focus on specific emotional expressions.

Presents the core business law topics that you need to know in a concise paperback. Intended for the one-term course focused primarily on contracts and sales, this title condenses the legal topics - including cyberlaw, health-care, financial reform, and more - for quick comprehension.

Presents an introductory Italian program featuring a balanced four-skills approach to language learning.

Organized around the central theme of homeostasis - how the body meets changing demands while maintaining the internal constancy necessary for all cells and organs to function, this book helps you appreciate the integrated functioning of the human body.

A blend of traditional management concepts and emerging insights, this title draws from the authors' firsthand business experience to deliver the leadership skills hiring managers want but rarely find in new recruits.

Presenting the law of contracts in an understandable and organized manner, this book helps you master the details of contract formation, determining the applicable law, unenforceable contracts and breach of contract. It addresses impact of Article 2 of the UCC, federal preemption, and the UN's Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

Helps you master the basics of psychopharmacology. Concise yet comprehensive, this counseling text covers the basic principles of psychopharmacology, commonly prescribed psychotropic drugs for adults, and psychotropic medications prescribed to children. It also addresses psychological, cultural, and social issues related to psychopharmacology.

Ever wonder why you have the number of friends that you do? Would a tax on soda really reduce obesity? What is going on with the financial problems in Greece? Is a tax rebate is better than a tax bonus? This book answers these questions.

Focuses on law enforcement managers and supervisors, their jobs, and the complicated interrelationships between members of the law enforcement team and the communities they serve. This book begins with a general overview of the policing profession to provide context for later discussions of the role of managers within the field.

With a focus on how to conduct a family assessment for case intervention, this practical guide offers a step-by-step approach to family practice. It includes family case studies that demonstrate the process of assessment and selected interventions for working with diverse families.

Suitable for professionals new to health behavior theory and challenged to shape the health behaviors of others, this book changes the way you think and behave in relationship to planning health promotion programs.

Whether you are preparing for a career in the building trades or are already a professional contractor, this book helps you develop the knowledge and skills you need to merge renewable heat sources with the hydronics hardware and low temperature distribution systems to assemble efficient and reliable heating systems.

Written specifically for users who are new to research methods, this book streamlines and clarifies explanations of fundamental, yet difficult, concepts in a familiar, engaging style. Readers learn about the relationship between theory and practice, which helps them become better researchers and better consumers of research.

New to the 9th edition, the Laboratory Manual is a valuable tool designed to enhance your lab experience. Lab activities, objectives, materials lists, step-by-step procedures, illustrations, and review questions are commonly found in a Lab Manual.

Featuring content from National Geographic and TED, this title offers four-level, integrated skills World English series that brings stories about our planet and compelling ideas from around the world to the classroom.

Informed by extensive data and research, this text provides an in-depth, scholarly examination of serial murderers and their victims, including profiles of some of the most prominent murderers of our time.

A concise, streamlined paperback that reflects the latest developments from the field, BASICS OF RESEARCH METHODS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CRIMINOLOGY, Fourth Edition combines a conversational writing style with Michael G. Maxfield's expertise in criminology and criminal justice. In fewer than 400 pages, this popular, student-friendly text introduces you to the core of criminal justice research using the most current, real data available. It features coverage of such key topics as ethics, causation, validity, field research, research design, and more. The Fourth Edition includes expanded coverage of qualitative research and interviewing, focus groups in criminological research, and snowball sampling, as well as additional examples of student research. Balancing coverage of both qualitative and quantitative methods, the text is packed with real-world examples, practical applications, and Internet research exercises that help you "get" the basics of research methods.