Books published by Cengage Learning

Discover the keys to personal financial management with the practical introduction in Garman/Fox's market-leading PERSONAL FINANCE, 14th EDITION. The step-by-step approach gives you a set of actionable items on how to save and invest, manage financial risk, plan for taxes, decrease credit card debt and reduce financial stress throughout your lifetime. Financial planning sounds easy but has proven difficult for far too many. Throughout the book you will find many "notes from our future selves", which are based on decades of research in personal finance where the authors have come to understand the cognitive and implicit biases that influence our financial decisions. All too often, these biases distract people from a more direct path to financial goals. Many math-based examples allow you to get your hands on the ideas behind trading present consumption for that planned in the future. With the latest updates and learning tools, this edition prepares you for personal financial success.

Master today's most essential topics in financial and managerial accounting today using the unique Integrated Financial Statement Framework in Warren/Farmer/Jones's SURVEY OF ACCOUNTING, 10E. Written specifically for readers who have no prior knowledge of accounting, this edition's focuses only on topics that are essential to the understanding of accounting as a manager or professional. The book's distinctive framework illustrates the impact of transactions on financial statements without the use of debits and credits. The authors also incorporate Metric Analyses that connect transactions and management decisions to financial condition and performance metrics used by businesses. New coverage addresses the use of data analytics and changes in retail operations. Updated and streamlined content throughout this edition integrates seamlessly with CNOWv2's online homework platform. CNOWv2 offers a variety of learning activities and helpful videos to maximize your understanding of accounting.

Master today's most effective professional selling concepts and skills with SELL, 7E by 4LTR Press. Updated, streamlined chapters cover the most relevant topics and current industry selling practices. This edition covers recent technology, including artificial intelligence, for use in the selling process. New or expanded coverage addresses storytelling in sales, customer engagement and the customer experience. This edition's visual presentation is complemented with new chapter-opening vignettes and new coverage of the latest ethical dilemmas and virtual selling strategies. Study tools and activities like case studies and role play videos help you prepare for real-world situations. MindTap digital resources let you read or listen to chapters and study with flashcards and practice quizzes. When it's time to review, you can easily gather everything you've flagged or noted into a guide you organize. Track your scores so you know where to focus efforts to reach your learning goals.

Whether you have a strong science background or feel overwhelmed at the prospect of taking a behavioral neuroscience, biological psychology or physiological psychology course, this book is for you. Clear writing, interesting examples, learning aids and illustrations help you stay interested and focused. DISCOVERING BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE: AN INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 5E introduces classic topics, cutting-edge research and today's most current thinking in behavioral neuroscience. You learn about the structure and function of the nervous system and its relationship to typical and disordered human behavior as you hone critical-thinking skills. "Behavioral Neuroscience Goes to Work" sections highlight rewarding careers related to each chapter's topics, such as genetics counseling or neuroeducator, while "Behavioral Neuroscience in Everyday Life" features further connect topics to real world issues and decisions. Infuse digital resources are also available to reinforce skills.

HEALTH, SAFETY, AND NUTRITION FOR THE YOUNG CHILD, Eleventh Edition, covers contemporary health, safety, nutrition and environmental issues that influence and support the development and well-being of infants and young children. This comprehensive, engaging, full-color resource guides you in implementing effective, developmentally appropriate classroom practices. Concepts are backed by the latest empirical research and linked to the new NAEYC Professional Preparation Standards, and the author emphasizes the importance of respecting and partnering with families to help children establish healthy lifestyle practices and achieve their full learning potential. Information is presented in a way that facilitates comprehension, application and retention, and features to promote learning are included throughout the text. Highlights include chapter objectives, review questions, Stop and Check questions to assess your understanding of key concepts, Connecting to Everyday Practice and Case Study features to apply chapter content to real-world challenges and Partnering with Families resources you can download and share with families. Ideal for current or aspiring early childhood educators and professionals, the text features up-to-date research and information on key topics including children's mental health, emergency and disaster preparedness, healthy dietary and physical activity practices, food safety, childhood obesity, bullying and fostering resilient behaviors, chronic and acute health conditions, environmental quality and safety and children with special medical needs. Numerous checklists, tables, figures, activities and lesson plans serve as practical resources you can use in your daily interactions with children and families.

Inspiring your future as a health care professional, Honeycutt's UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR, 10th Edition, delivers reliable, practical information that equips you with a solid understanding of basic psychological and behavioral concepts from a health care perspective. Updated with the latest industry trends and examples, it streamlines coverage spanning a wide, useful range of important mental health topics -- and their implications for you as a health care professional. It includes updated coverage of cultural bias and competence; developmental disorders; trauma-informed care; drug use in the U.S.; alternative, complementary and integrative medicine; stress-management and much more. This powerful resource presents both client and caregiver perspectives, exploring the behaviors, emotions and coping mechanisms you may encounter in a variety of health care situations and settings. Practical examples and activities help you apply what you learn to real-world scenarios.

Gain the understanding of finance you need to make good decisions on the job and advance in your career, whether you work in finance or any other business discipline. Brigham/Ehrhardt's FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: THEORY AND PRACTICE, 17E emphasizes key theoretical concepts, equipping you with practical tools for effective decision making. This updated edition focuses on corporate valuation and its importance in financial decisions as you examine the big picture as well as financial details. Chapters connect concepts and tools with fully integrated Excel models that you can apply to typical employment situations. Topics advance from fundamentals to strategic finance, linking recent events to finance in business or your personal life. MindTap online learning platform is also available to reinforce learning. With a relevant presentation, numerous examples and emphasis on Excel applications, this edition provides a comprehensive resource for use throughout your academic and business career.

Develop a strong foundation in financial accounting that prepares you for future study and success in business with FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING, 17E by award-winning authors Warren/Jones/Tayler. This edition and corresponding CNOWv2 online learning platform connects accounting concepts to the "bigger picture" as you see how the steps in the accounting cycle are interrelated and how accounting plays a critical role in business success. Chapter-opening features clearly demonstrate how each chapter's content fits within the overall framework of this edition. The CNOWv2's Journal Entry Tool reinforces this approach by automatically illustrating the impact of transactions on the accounting equation. New content integrates coverage of data analytics, while new online appendices offer optional topics for study. This edition offers learner-centric revisions as well as new learning features, demonstration videos, case and projects to create a rewarding learning experience no matter what your learning style.

Over a million students have learned to be more discerning at constructing and evaluating arguments with the help of Hurley's A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC. The text's clear, student-friendly and thorough presentation has made it the most widely used logic text in North America. Studying logic offers multiple benefits. It helps you think through problems in an organized and systematic way. It instills patterns of reasoning that enable you to persuade others as to the correctness of your convictions, and it teaches you how to use language clearly and precisely. Doing well in logic improves your skills in ways that will help in your other courses, everyday life and future career. Additionally, for the 14th edition, the WebAssign online platform provides interactive exercises, online homework solutions, multimedia tutorials, help videos and the complete text in an eBook format.

Learning to write well requires learning to use writing as a tool to think well, and Rosenwasser/Stephen's WRITING ANALYTICALLY, 9th edition, shows you how. This reader-friendly book is built on step-by-step tools that expand your thinking and help you arrive at better ideas. You'll learn to determine which details are important in your subject, how to go about figuring out why they are important and how to talk and write about what they mean. Building your confidence, WRITING ANALYTICALLY helps you think of yourself as a writer and see writing as a way to better understand yourself and the world. Samples of student writing emphasize what makes the writing good rather than its shortcomings. Numerous applications and examples are tailored to those headed toward STEM majors. In addition, MindTap provides you with on-the-go digital learning solutions.

Unrivaled in its current coverage, Siegel's best-selling JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND LAW, 14E presents the historical development of the concept of childhood and delinquency as well as the latest research on when, where and why juvenile crime occurs. With a highly praised balanced approach and engaging writing style, this edition uses thought-provoking discussions of the latest trends to capture your interest as you examine the latest data on issues such as mental disorders and social and environmental causes of delinquency. Each chapter presents numerous complex and detailed scenarios, many based on real life cases, followed by critical-thinking questions. You examine current issues, such as how today's gangs recruit members in cyberspace, how the COVID pandemic has influenced teen drug use, trends in school shootings and crime and how delinquency is addressed around the world. MindTap digital resources are also available to apply what you've learned.

Examine strategic management with the market-leading book that sets the standard as today's most intellectually rich, but practical analysis of strategic management. Written by award-winning instructors and prominent management scholars, Hitt/Ireland/Hoskisson/Harrison's STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBALIZATION, 14E incorporates cutting-edge research and examples from more than 600 companies. This edition combines a classic industrial organization model with a resource-based view of the firm and a stakeholder perspective to demonstrate how businesses establish competitive advantages in the global market. You study how firms govern themselves, formulate and implement strategies that create value for stakeholders, use strategic alliances to enhance global competitiveness and meld strategic management and entrepreneurial behaviors for winning growth strategies. MindTap and Cengage Infuse online resources are also available to help you excel as a strategic leader.

Reflecting the latest research and practices, Corey/Corey/Corey's ISSUES AND ETHICS IN THE HELPING PROFESSIONS, 11th Edition, helps you discover and determine your own guidelines for helping within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions. This bestseller is the ideal resource for students in any helping field -- a book readers return to well into their professional careers. The authors point out central issues, present a range of diverse views on the issues, discuss their position and provide opportunities for you to develop your own informed position. Offering a wide range of perspectives, about 40 respected leaders in the counseling profession also share their positions through the new Voices From the Field feature. Also available, the MindTap digital learning solution delivers interactive learning, study and exam prep tools.

This comprehensive and engaging text presents the complexities of strategic management through up-to-date scholarship and hands-on applications. Highly respected authors Charles Hill and Melissa Schilling integrate cutting-edge research on topics including competitive advantage, corporate governance, diversification, strategic leadership, technology and innovation, and corporate social responsibility through both theory and case studies. Based on real-world practices and current thinking in the field, the 14th edition features an increased emphasis on the changing global economy and its role in strategic management. The appendix walks students through the case-analysis process, and explains key ratios that managers use to compare the performance of firms. The high-quality case study program contains 31 cases covering small, medium, and large companies from a large range of industries and nations. Featured cases in this edition include Tesla Motors, Alibaba, Google, Microsoft, Boeing, Ikea, Zeta Energy, and many others. When paired with this student-centric text, the MindTap learning solution will prepare the next generation of strategic leaders.

Gain a thorough understanding of the business side of health care with the practical approach in Harrison/Harrison/Taylor's INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH CARE FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING, 2E. This health care finance book is specifically designed for readers with little or no accounting or finance background. The latest discussions detail cost reimbursement programs, economic factors driving the rising costs of medical services and health care reform -- from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 through future trends. Health care-related examples show you the importance of what you're learning as you study the basics of health care accounting and finance, from accounting fundamentals, operating the cash drawer and bank reconciliation through more complex issues of cash management, budgeting and variance analysis and revenue cycle management. Engaging case scenarios, helpful learning features and optional MindTap digital further reinforce what you learn.

Master the fundamental concepts and applications of operations (OM) and supply chain management (SCM) with OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT, 3E by award-winning authors Collier/Evans. This edition balances coverage of both manufacturing and service businesses with the latest updates, an additional new SCM chapter and new discussions that highlight the latest changes in OM and SCM. Clear explanations are supported with contemporary examples and new and updated case studies that demonstrate how concepts apply. Discussions highlight new techniques and principles as well as the most recent Excel techniques and digital tools. Solved problems further guide you through key formulas and computations. MindTap online learning platform is available for both manual calculations and the use of Excel spreadsheet templates and models. MindTap's algorithmic homework and interactive learning tools also show you how to apply qualitative and quantitative reasoning to today's OM and SCM concepts.

"A major objective of Warren/Jones/Tayler Accounting, 29e, is to create an inclusive learning experience for all students that recognizes the wide diversity in student demographics, abilities, and experiences. This edition has been revised with a learner-centric approach that understands and acknowledges that a student's learning experience may be influenced by a variety of mental, sensory, and physical factors. As a result, this edition and its ancillaries have been designed to create an accessible learning experience for all students. This edition also recognizes that students have unique backgrounds and perspectives. As a result, chapter content, illustrations, and homework are designed to be respectful and inclusive of differences in student race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, religion, age, and culture. The authors welcome suggestions and comments on how to be even more inclusive in future editions"--

Completely revised to reflect the 2023 National Electrical Code (NEC), ELECTRICAL WIRING COMMERCIAL, Eighteenth Edition, offers the most current coverage available, giving you accurate, up-to-date information on the essential industry standards you will need to apply as a working professional. This reader-friendly, trusted resource is filled with vibrant, full-color illustrations and photographs, bringing even difficult concepts to life and making complex material easier to understand. In addition to updates based on the 2023 NEC, the Eighteenth Edition features information on important recent developments in electrical design and installation, a strong emphasis on green technologies and safety in the workplace and ample coverage of topics you will likely encounter in this dynamic field. Providing uniquely practical preparation for real-world success, the text includes a full set of blueprints that walk you through designing and installing a commercial electrical project compliant with the latest edition of the NEC.

The workbook is designed to help students both retain and apply chapter content. Each workbook chapter includes Review Questions, Activities and Lab Worksheets to add breadth to students' learning experience.