Books published by Cengage Learning, Inc

Presents information on several important topics including infection control, manicuring, pedicuring, chemistry, UV gels, and the salon business. This book gives the aspiring nail technician the tools they need to launch themselves into a rewarding and successful career.

Designed to serve senior-level engineering students taking a capstone design course in fluid and thermal systems design, this book begins with a discussion of design methodology, including the process of bidding to obtain a project, and project management techniques.

Suitable for all learners from beginning to advanced, this book helps students write better sentences, paragraphs, and essays.

An introduction to the management techniques appropriate to each area of the criminal justice system. By focusing on both the "hows" and "whys" of management techniques, it equips readers with an understanding that may serve them well as they face challenges in their own career.

Suitable for Web site design, this title guides readers through the entire Web site creation process, while developing and enhancing your HTML, CSS, and visual design skills along the way. It features sections on HTML5, CSS3, CSS page layouts, and enhanced navigation as well as technical updates and new screen shots throughout.

Prepares adults and younger learners to excel in the revised exam.

Discover a structured, applied approach to behavioral finance with the first academic text of its kind--Ackert/Deaves' BEHAVIORAL FINANCE: PSYCHOLOGY, DECISION MAKING, AND MARKETS. This comprehensive text--ideal for today's behavioral finance elective--links finance theory and practice to human behavior.The book begins by building upon the established, conventional principles of finance before moving into psychological principles of behavioral finance, including heuristics and biases, overconfidence, emotion and social forces. Readers learn how human behavior influences the decisions of individual investors and professional finance practitioners, managers, and markets.The book clearly explains what behavioral finance indicates about observed market outcomes as well as how psychological biases potentially impact the behavior of managers. Readers see, first-hand, the implications of behavioral finance on retirement, pensions, education, debiasing, and client management. This book spends a significant amount of time examining how behavioral finance can be used by practitioners today.Readers utilize theory and applications in every chapter with a wide variety of end-of-chapter exercises, discussion questions, simulations and experiments that reinforce the book's applied approach.

Updated throughout with relevant new examples, research, and photos, this book brings a social problems approach to the interdisciplinary study of gerontology. It combines academic research with an empathetic view of the lives of older people to involve students emotionally and intellectually in the material.

Written in the same style as Professor Landsburg's popular trade book, The Armchair Economist, this book gives students an understanding of economic theory as well as the skills to apply it to the world around them.

When it comes to game programming, C++ is the name of the game. If you aspire to move from game player to game creator, it all starts with learning the fundamentals of C++ and game-programming basics. This book presents an introduction to what you need to get started-with no previous programming experience required.

Provides students with the clinical wisdom and hands-on practice to fully develop their clinical interviewing skills. This book features practice examples, essay questions, and self-exploration activities to prepare students for a variety of practice settings.

The Laboratory Manual is a valuable tool designed to enhance your lab experience. This comprehensive workbook tests students' knowledge and reinforces learning of text content. Job sheets for each unit include an objective, tools and materials needed, and a procedure with short answer questions, procedural checklists, image labeling activities, or other activities meant to reinforce comprehension of unit content.

Helps you learn Pro Tools - the world's popular recording and mixing software. As the official training package used in first-level certification courses for Pro Tools operators, this title offers a thorough, systematic introduction to the fundamentals of the software.

Offers an overview of public administration theory that presents multiple viewpoints, enabling students to develop their own philosophies of public administration, and helping them relate theory to application.

Offering a positive view of the family, this book discusses the characteristics of successful intimate relationships, and teaches the decision-making skills that lead to strong marriages and families.

Provides choral music educators with an introduction to directing choirs and managing choral programs at the middle-school through high-school level. This book offers step-by-step advice on designing and administering a choral program, and helps instructors develop a personal philosophy of music education.

IELTS is our major British English exam preparation series combining exam preparation, practice, and tips. This effective combination of testing and teaching has proved a popular formula with teachers and students. This book deals with this exam.

IELTS is our major British English exam preparation series combining exam preparation, practice, and tips. This effective combination of testing and teaching has proved a popular formula with teachers and students. This book deals with this exam.

Combines exam preparation, practice, and tips for the revised Cambridge English exams. This title helps students through tests and shows how they work and what they have to do to succeed in each part of the exam.

Teaches the essential steps necessary to design and create updos inspired by looks on the red carpet. This book includes photo-driven, step-by-step instructions that demonstrate twenty-five different hairstyles, all of which are based on classic techniques and fashion-forward looks.

Focusing on key topics important in allied health and nursing careers, this book is suitable for readers who have had no prior exposure to chemistry.

Helps students with minimal math background prepare for technical, trade, allied health, or Tech Prep programs. This book focuses on fundamental concepts in basic arithmetic including the metric system and measurement, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and statistics.

Utilizes a balanced blend of classic and contemporary articles to present a well-rounded introduction to the philosophy of religion.