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Combining CBT and Medication. An Evidence-Based Approach
Donna M. Sudak
Combining medication and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be challenging but can also enhance patient care. This book reviews the existing literature about the neurobiological and clinical basis in combining CBT and medication for...
The Good Life of Teaching. An Ethics of Professional Practice
Chris Higgins
The Good Life of Teaching extends the recent revival of virtue ethics to professional ethics and the philosophy of teaching. It connects long-standing philosophical questions about work and human growth to questions about teacher motivation,...
Statistical Physics. An Entropic Approach
Ian Ford
This undergraduate textbook provides a statistical mechanical foundation to the classical laws of thermodynamics via a comprehensive treatment of the basics of classical thermodynamics, equilibrium statistical mechanics, irreversible...
Television and the Meaning of 'Live'. An Enquiry into the Human Situation
Paddy Scannell
This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of ‘life’. It is an enquiry into the contemporary human situation as disclosed by television. The elementary components of any real-world situation are place, people and time. These are...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2011. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2011
A. Knipe C.
The only book series to summarize the latest progress on organic reaction mechanisms, Organic Reaction Mechanisms, 2011 surveys the development in understanding of the main classes of organic reaction mechanisms reported in the primary...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2010. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2010
A. Knipe C.
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2010, the 46th annual volume in this highly successful and unique series, surveys research on organic reaction mechanisms described in the available literature dated 2010. It details the latest progress in a wide...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2009. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2009
A. Knipe C.
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2009, the 45th annual volume in this highly successful and unique series, surveys research on organic reaction mechanisms described in the available literature dated 2009. The following classes of organic reaction...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2008. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2008
A. Knipe C.
This volume is the 44th in this classical series. In every volume relevant reaction mechanisms are featured in chapters entitled: Reaction of Aldehydes and Ketones and their Derivatives Reactions of Carboxylic, Phosphoric, and Sulfonic Acids and...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2007. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2007
A. Knipe C.
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2007, the 43rd annual volume in this highly successful and unique series, surveys research on organic reaction mechanisms described in the available literature dated 2007. The following classes of organic reaction...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2006. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2006
A. Knipe C.
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2006 is the 42nd volume in this classical series. Every year, an experienced team of authors compiles these reviews, so that the reader can rely on a continuing quality of selection and presentation. Detailed author...
Realizing General Education: Reconsidering Conceptions and Renewing Practice. AEHE Volume 42, Number 2
Cynthia Wells A.
General education is widely touted as an enduring distinctive of higher education, but what do we actually mean by general education? Differing perspectives not only make it challenging to consider its significance, but also open it up to a wide...
Future Earth. Advancing Civic Understanding of the Anthropocene
Diana Dalbotten
Earth now is dominated by both biogeophysical and anthropogenic processes, as represented in these two images from a simulation of aerosols. Dust (red) from the Sahara sweeps west across the Atlantic Ocean. Sea salt (blue) rises into the...
Ideas in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. Advances in Synthetic Chemistry
Bruno Pignataro
Written by some of the most talented young chemists in Europe, this text covers most of the groundbreaking issues in chemistry. It provides an account of the latest research results in European chemistry based on a selection of leading young...
Technology Platforms for 3D Cell Culture. A User's Guide
Stefan Przyborski
Technology Platforms for 3D Cell Culture: A Users Guide points to the options available to perform 3D culture, shows where such technology is available, explains how it works, and reveals how it can be used by scientists working in their own...
Working with Problem Faculty. A Six-Step Guide for Department Chairs
R. Crookston Kent
Working with Problem Faculty When asked to name their number one concern and problem, department leaders overwhelmingly said that it was dealing with difficult people. Now R. Kent Crookston draws on the wisdom of seasoned department chairs, the...
The Weather Almanac. A Reference Guide to Weather, Climate, and Related Issues in the United States and Its Key Cities
Steven Horstmeyer L.
The Weather Almanac, 12th Edition is a resource for a variety of climate and meteorological data including both domestic and international weather trends, historical weather patterns dating back 1000 years, natural disasters, and a 20 page...
Optimizing Organization Design. A Proven Approach to Enhance Financial Performance, Customer Satisfaction and Employee Engagement
Ronald Capelle G.
Optimizing Organization Design offers a comprehensive resource and valued guide for anyone interested in improving organization performance. The book presents an approach to optimizing organization design that is based on over 100 large scale...
Doing Physics with Scientific Notebook. A Problem Solving Approach
Joseph Gallant
The goal of this book is to teach undergraduate students how to use Scientific Notebook (SNB) to solve physics problems. SNB software combines word processing and mathematics in standard notation with the power of symbolic computation. As its...
Dyslexia. A Practitioner's Handbook
Gavin Reid
The main purpose of this new edition is to incorporate the most recent theoretical and practical research in the field of dyslexia and literacy and present it in a user friendly format for Practitioners. It refers to the most recent government...
The Peak Performing Professor. A Practical Guide to Productivity and Happiness
Susan Robison
Drawing on research from the fields of neuroscience, faculty development, work productivity, positive psychology, and resilience, The Peak Performing Professor is filled with techniques, strategies, and practical tools for managing the...
Supporting Online Students. A Practical Guide to Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Services
Anita Crawley
Supporting Online Students shows how effective and efficiently delivered support services improve academic success and course retention for online learners. Drawing on a decade's worth of research, Anita Crawley describes the scope of services...
Driven by Data. A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction
Paul Bambrick-Santoyo
Driven by Data offers valuable tips and general guidelines about data-based methods and the difficulties surrounding the implementation of data-driven instruction. Through a CD-ROM, this guidebook provides all the tools needed to launch...
The Essential College Professor. A Practical Guide to an Academic Career
Jeffrey L. Buller
The Essential College Professor is about the «how» and «why» of being a faculty member today. Based on the author's series of highly successful faculty development workshops, each chapter deals concisely with the most important information...
Teaching Adults. A Practical Guide for New Teachers
Ralph Brockett G.
A highly practical guide for new instructors teaching in any setting Regardless of the context, teaching is a tall task—and for those teaching adults, unique challenges await. Teaching Adults: A Practical Guide for New Teachers is chock-full of...
Best Practices in Faculty Evaluation. A Practical Guide for Academic Leaders
Jeffrey L. Buller
Praise for Best Practices in Faculty Evaluation «Jeffrey Buller, a leading and respected voice in higher education, has written a truly practical and highly useful book on the increasingly important topic of faculty evaluation. This highly...
Research Methods in Child Language. A Practical Guide
Erika Hoff
This is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the methods researchers use to study child language, written by experienced scholars in the study of language development. Presents a comprehensive survey of laboratory and naturalistic techniques...
Biostatistical Design and Analysis Using R. A Practical Guide
Dr Logan Murray
R – the statistical and graphical environment is rapidly emerging as an important set of teaching and research tools for biologists. This book draws upon the popularity and free availability of R to couple the theory and practice of...
Sedimentary Rocks in the Field. A Practical Guide
Maurice Tucker E.
This fourth edition builds on the success of previous editions and for the first time is produced in full colour throughout with improved photos and diagrams. It retains its popular pocket size and is an essential buy for all students working in...
Buying and Selling Laboratory Instruments. A Practical Consulting Guide
Marvin McMaster C.
A time-tested, systematic approach to the buying and selling of complex research instruments Searching for the best laboratory instruments and systems can be a daunting and expensive task. A poorly selected instrument can dramatically affect...
Vegetation Description and Data Analysis. A Practical Approach
Martin Kent
Vegetation Description and Data Analysis: A Practical Approach, Second Edition is a fully revised and up-dated edition of this key text. The book takes account of recent advances in the field whilst retaining the original reader-friendly...
Digital Design of Signal Processing Systems. A Practical Approach
Shoab Khan Ahmed
Digital Design of Signal Processing Systems discusses a spectrum of architectures and methods for effective implementation of algorithms in hardware (HW). Encompassing all facets of the subject this book includes conversion of algorithms from...
The Atmosphere and Ocean. A Physical Introduction
Neil Wells C.
The Atmosphere and Ocean is a fully revised and updated student friendly physical introduction to the atmosphere and ocean. Now in its Third Edition, the book continues to provide students with an accessible description of the atmosphere and...
Biofilm Eradication and Prevention. A Pharmaceutical Approach to Medical Device Infections
Tamilvanan Shunmugaperumal
Biofilm Eradication and Preventions presents the basics of biofilm formation on medical devices, diseases related to this formation, and approaches pharmaceutical researchers need to take to limit this problem. Split into three parts, the first...
Energy Storage. A New Approach
Ralph Zito
Energy Storage: A New Approach presents practical solutions to the problem of energy storage on a massive scale. This revolutionary book describes technologies that include basic chemical concepts that engineers have been practicing for years,...
Post-Traumatic Syndromes in Childhood and Adolescence. A Handbook of Research and Practice
Vittoria Ardino
This book offers a comprehensive overview of up-to-date research and intervention techniques for traumatized youth highlighting uncharted territories in the field of developmental trauma and related post-traumatic reactions. One of the few...
Student Engagement Techniques. A Handbook for College Faculty
Elizabeth Barkley F.
Keeping students involved, motivated, and actively learning is challenging educators across the country,yet good advice on how to accomplish this has not been readily available. Student Engagement Techniques is a comprehensive resource that...
International Construction Contracts. A Handbook
William Godwin
Many large construction projects, such as those in the Middle East or Asia Pacific, are international in scope with a range of contractors and subcontractors signing contracts for delivery of specified work or services. The contractual situation...
Geotrekking in Southeastern Arabia. A Guide to Locations of World-Class Geology
Benjamin Jordan R.
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series. Geotrekking in Southeastern Arabia presents the world’s most diverse geology and reveals some of the unique rocks that were once covered under shallow seas...
Global Software and IT. A Guide to Distributed Development, Projects, and Outsourcing
Christof Ebert
Based on the author’s first-hand experience and expertise, this book offers a proven framework for global software engineering. Readers will learn best practices for managing a variety of software projects, coordinating the activities of several...
Assessing and Improving Student Writing in College. A Guide for Institutions, General Education, Departments, and Classrooms
Barbara Walvoord E.
Step-by-step guidance for shaping better writers while keeping faculty workloads manageable Effective communication is a critical skill for many academic disciplines and careers, and so colleges and universities and their faculty members are...
Wildlife Search and Rescue. A Guide for First Responders
Rebecca Dmytryk
Rescuing wild animals in distress requires a unique set of skills, very different from those used in handling domestic animals. The equipment, degree of handling, the type of caging and level of care a wild animal receives can mean the...
Computational Drug Design. A Guide for Computational and Medicinal Chemists
D. Young C.
Helps you choose the right computational tools and techniques to meet your drug design goals Computational Drug Design covers all of the major computational drug design techniques in use today, focusing on the process that pharmaceutical...
Student Writing in the Quantitative Disciplines. A Guide for College Faculty
Patrick Bahls
Designing interesting problems and writing assignments is one of the chief tasks of all teachers, but it can be especially challenging to translate and apply learning theory, good teaching techniques, and writing assignments into STEM and other...
Dyslexia and Employment. A Guide for Assessors, Trainers and Managers
Sylvia Moody
Edited by award-winning author Sylvia Moody, this jargon-free guide to good practice in dyslexia workplace consultancy, and related legal issues, provides comprehensive coverage in four clearly distinguished areas: Professional dilemma chapters...
Political Ecology. A Critical Introduction
Paul Robbins
This fully updated new edition introduces the core concepts, central thinkers, and major works of the burgeoning field of political ecology. Explores the key arguments and contemporary explanatory challenges facing the sub-discipline Provides...
Systematics. A Course of Lectures
Ward Wheeler C.
Systematics: A Course of Lectures is designed for use in an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level course in systematics and is meant to present core systematic concepts and literature. The book covers topics such as the history...
Networked. A Contemporary History of News in Transition
Adrienne Russell
Journalism, what happened? In the last decade, the industry and the profession have been rocked to the core. Newspapers as consumer product are as ripe for comic mocking and satire as are the techniques of the journalism profession. The...
Resolving Erroneous Reports in Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring. A Comprehensive Guide
Amitava Dasgupta
The tools for detecting false positives, false negatives, and interference in interactions when testing and monitoring therapeutic drug use For physicians monitoring a patient's progress, efficacy of treatment is often linked to a patient's...
Dyslexia. A Complete Guide for Parents and Those Who Help Them
Gavin Reid
The new edition of Dyslexia is written for parents of dyslexic children and the professionals who work with them, and provides information on the role parents can play in supporting their dyslexic child. This updated edition contains new...
The Syntax Workbook. A Companion to Carnie's Syntax
Andrew Carnie
The Syntax Workbook was written as a response to the students and instructors who, over the years, have requested more problem sets that give greater experience in analyzing syntactic structure. Aligned chapter-by-chapter with Carnie’s...
