Fast Facts for Dementia Care
This quick-access clinical reference for nurses in adult health settings addresses the most prevalent and complex management challenges in caring for people with dementia. The second edition-completely updated with the newest guidelines for eviden...
Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults
Cultivate confident, wellness-oriented care for older adults across a changing healthcare environment with the latest evidence-based coverage of gerontological nursing.¿Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults,¿9th Edition,¿fosters students' understan...
Russian Revolution
This indispensable volume comprises the work of nine of the most prominent scholars of the Russian Revolution, with introductions by the editor that help students contextualize and understand each piece.
Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
Offers a wide-ranging overview of the issues and research approaches in the diverse field of applied linguistics¿ Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field that identifies, examines, and seeks solutions to real-life language-related issues...
Book of Job A Contest of Moral Imaginations
From the simple and beautiful language of the prose tale, to the verbal fireworks of the dialogue between Job and his friends, to the haunting beauty of the poem on wisdom and the sublime poetics of the divine speeches, this book provides an inten...
Focus: Music of South Africa
Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensiv...
Eight and a Half (Otto e mezzo)
Federico Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) shocked audiences around the world when it was released in 1963 by its sheer auteurist gall. The hero, a film director named Guido Anselmi, seemed to be Fellini's mirror image, and the story to r...
A Time for All Things
He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understan...
The Foundations of Modern Terrorism
Why is it that terrorism has become such a central factor in our lives despite all the efforts to eradicate it? Ranging from early modern Europe to the contemporary Middle East, Martin Miller reveals the foundations of modern terrorism. He argues ...
US National Security, Intelligence and Democracy
This volume examines the investigation by the 1975 Senate Select Committee ('Church Committee') into US intelligence abuses during the Cold War, and considers its lessons for the current 'war on terror'. This report remains the most thorough publi...
Growing Girls
In the early years of the twentieth century, Americans began to recognize adolescence as a developmental phase distinct from both childhood and adulthood. This title explores the girls' organizations that sprang up in the first half of the twentie...
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Law in Crisis
Taking natural disaster as the political and legal norm is uncommon. Taking a person who has become unstable and irrational during a disaster as the starting point for legal analysis is equally uncommon. Nonetheless, in Law in Crisis Ruth Miller m...
Mastering the Market
The grain trade, a crucial sector of the French economy, caused enormous concern throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Bread was the staple of French diets, so harvest shortfalls triggered unrest. The royal government had only ...
The Gifts of Acceptance
What Would Your Life Be Like If You Accepted People and Things as They Are? Do you wish your parents had been more nurturing and supportive? Are you wondering if you'll ever find your perfect soul mate and dream boss? Do you wish you had 'perfect' children, relatives who never fight, and friends who always agree with you? No one gets to sail through life free of turbulence. What separates people who shake it off, bounce back, and stay positive from the bitter, never satisfied, and defeated? Best-selling author and former compulsive controller Daniel A. Miller convincingly attests that the answer is choosing acceptance. In the GIFTS OF ACCEPTANCE: Embracing People and Things as They Are, Danny shares what he's learned--through extensive research, inspiring true stories, and his own experience with hardships--about the integral relationship between accepting the facts of life and others, with their quirks, flaws, and differences, and enjoying greater satisfaction in life. Recognizing
español en contacto con otras lenguas
"El espanol en contacto con otras lenguas" is the first comprehensive historical, social, and linguistic overview of Spanish in contact with other languages in all of its major contexts - in Spain, the United States, and Latin America. I...
Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo
Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo
Computer Applications in Second Language Acquisition
Computer Applications in Second Language Acquisition
Women's Bible Commentary
The Womens Bible Commentary gathers the best feminist scholars in the field today to produce a commentary on every book of the Bible, including the apocryphal books, with additional articles on the reception history of biblical women, feminist cri...