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Stoner and Swartwood’s Doing Practical Ethics is the first book to offer a framework for acquiring the component skills required to philosophize about applied ethics. The book accomplishes this by providing clear explanations and models of basic argument and critical thinking skills. Demonstration Exercises with solutions that provide clear and immediate feedback, and further Practice Exercises for honing skills.

This skill-focused textbook can b...

Author: Sarah Shurts, Professor of History, Bergen Community College

History in Practice engages students in the process of "doing history" via source analysis and synthesis. Its multi-step, inquiry-based approach guides students from the basics of understanding a source to creating informed examinations of the historical world. There are three sections within each module, and each section includes the following:

• Background, headed with the sect...

Just Practice: A Social Justice Approach to Social Work provides a foundation for critical and creative social work that integrates theory, history, ethics, skills, and rights to respond to the complex terrain of 21st century social work. Just Practice puts the field of social work's expressed commitment to social justice at center stage with a framework that builds upon five key concepts: meaning, context, power, history, and possibility. How do...

Practical Computing for Biologists shows you how to use many freely available computing tools to work more powerfully and effectively. The book was born out of the authors' own experience in developing tools for their research and helping other biologists with their computational problems. Although many of the techniques are relevant to molecular bioinformatics, the motivation for the book is much broader, focusing on topics and techniques that a...

Widely praised for its conversational tone and clear advice, Practically Speaking is the public speaking textbook your students will actually read. Filled with engaging stories and examples, sound scholarship and recent research, and useful tips and tricks, Practically Speaking shows students how to get started, practice thinking critically, and ultimately develop their own voice.

Practices of Looking, Third Edition, bridges visual, communication, media, and cultural studies to investigate how images and the activity of looking carry meaning within and between different arenas in everyday life. The third edition has been updated to represent the contemporary visual cultural landscape and includes topics like the increasingly rapid global circulation of media, the rise of design and DIY cultures, digital media art and activ...

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Sylvius 4 Online provides a unique web-based learning environment for exploring and understanding the structure of the human central nervous system. Sylvius features fully annotated surface views of the human brain, as well as interactive tools for dissecting the central nervous system and viewing fully annotated cross-sections of preserved specimens and living subjects im...

Technical Editing: A Twenty-First-Century Introduction offers a comprehensive and fully current approach to technical and professional editing. With a first part covering core competencies of practicing technical editors and a second part examining the factors inherent in professional culture, Technical Editing's experienced author team makes accessible the most complete and up-to-date instruction in the field of technical and professional editin...

The digital resources for Animal Physiology, 5e address the following key issues faced by instructors:

1. Providing in-class lecture resources
2. Providing instructors with a comprehensive test bank for assessment
3. Engaging students via self-assessments
4. Engaging students through interactive layered figures

Basic Vision: An Introduction to Visual Perception demystifies the processes through which we see the world. Written by three authors with over 80 years of research and undergraduate teaching experience between them, it leads the reader through the intricacies of visual processing, with full-colour illustrations on nearly every page.

Biomedical Science Practice gives a comprehensive overview of the key laboratory techniques and professional skills that students need to master. The text is supported throughout with engaging clinical case studies, written to emphasize the link between theory and practice, providing a strong foundation for beginning biomedical science students.

Introduction to Criminology: A Brief Edition provides students with coverage of core concepts supported by student-tested pedagogical tools that promote student engagement, thought-provoking classroom discussions, and critical-thinking skills.

The definitive introduction to the study of leadership, covering key theories and issues whilst examining leadership practice through a range of distinctive case study examples.

Microelectronic Circuits by Sedra and Smith has educated over a million students worldwide.  Respected equally as a teaching text and reference, "Sedra/Smith" remains the best text for helping students progress from circuit analysis to circuit design, developing design skills and insights that are essential to successful practice in the field. Significantly revised, slimmed down, and updated with the latest innovations, this edition also con...

Written by two leading authorities in the area with over seventy years' combined legal experience, A Practical Approach to Conveyancing offers a detailed and up-to-date account of the key principles and procedures underpinning the practice of conveyancing. It takes a pragmatic, rather than academic, approach to conveyancing, providing practical solutions to everyday problems encountered by conveyancing practitioners wishing to offer a cost-effect...

Written by a leading authority in the area, A Practical Approach to Conveyancing offers a detailed and up-to-date account of the key principles and procedures underpinning the practice of conveyancing. It takes a pragmatic, rather than academic, approach to conveyancing, providing practical solutions to everyday problems encountered by conveyancing practitioners wishing to offer a cost-effective and efficient service. Combining coverage of reside...

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Research Methods: From Theory to Practice guides students through the entire research process-from choosing a research question and getting Institutional Review Board approval to presenting results at conferences and submitting work for peer review.

A comprehensive, evidence-based guide to transitioning to the professional nursing role

Transition to Nursing Practice: From Student to Professional provides students with a comprehensive introduction into the nursing profession and the capabilities they need for practice. Written by experts in their field, this book takes an evidence-based approach to understanding workplace readiness of graduate nurses.

It presents the theoretical principles th...

Since the publication of its first edition in 2005, Advocacy Practice for Social Justice has served as a clear, comprehensive, and practical resource for social work courses in advocacy, community practice, and macro practice. Now in its fourth edition, this text provides extensive information on the value base for advocacy; an examination of why people get involved in advocacy; and step-by-step instructions for social workers and others who want...

This book covers the wide array of capital punishment topics and expounds on them by utilizing a philosophical and theoretical frameword. The book has three important and unique features:
1) A shapter on the proceses by which "hard" science (DNA) is used to address exoneration and mitigation, in terms that are understandable to the typical undergraduate.
2) A chapter on philosophy, i.e., why we punish wrongdoes. Death Penalty texts rarely go beyon...

Environmental Justice as Social Work Practice places the natural environment as central to practice. Utilizing the Phases of Practice and micro to macro levels of practice, the book integrates neatly into a college semester course. Chapters cover important components of social work such as theory, ethics, conceptual foundations as well as distinct chapters on micro, mezzo, and macro practice. Each chapter expands the discipline's commitment to an...

Essential Ethics for Social Work Practice provides students with clear and accessible explanations of the values, theories, and skills needed to practice ethical behavior written by a master ethicist and teacher. Brief and yet comprehensive, it covers as much ground as competing texts, but also presents the content in the most up to date and accessible manner. Its compact size and low price make it an ideal text for both standalone ethics courses...

Generalist Social Work Practice presents the knowledge, values, and skills needed for entry-level social work practice with individuals, groups, families, organizations, and communities. The text describes a variety of approaches to social work practice including assessment, intervention, and evaluation. A large number of skill building exercises are included so that readers can practice applying theoretical concepts. This book provides the theor...

Labor and Legality is an ethnographic account of the lives of ten undocumented workers in Chicago, originally published in 2010. The book seeks to push past one-dimensional rhetoric and show that undocumented workers are neither mere victims nor criminals, but complicated people engaged in workaday struggles to make their lives better. The book follows these men through their daily routines and records their efforts to improve their fortunes and ...

The Principles to Practice series offers a novel pedagogical approach that helps students engage with and understand the key principles of the law, and develop the skills they need to put the principles into practice

The bestselling history of modern Japan, now with increased coverage of culture and the environment.

Navigating Policy and Practice in the Great Recession is a fictional narrative that follows Martha White, the intrepid executive director of a small non-profit organization, as she navigates policy practice and demonstrates enlightened administrative leadership in the years during and following the Great Recession. Based on the authors' 20-plus years of experience in non-profit management and the evaluation of more than 40 welfare-to-work program...

Adapted to better meet the needs of American college students, The Oxford Latin Course, College Edition, retains its trademark reading-based approach, but does so now in two companion volumes–Readings and Vocabulary and Grammar, Exercises, Context–that cover all of the topics essential to a first-year Latin course. The College Edition features a streamlined organization; additional and more robust grammar explanations; revised cartoon...

Trusted by generations of students and litigators, this classic text is unrivalled in its detail and provides a thorough and highly practical overview of the key principles and procedures employed in the civil courts.

The Principles to Practice series offers a novel pedagogical approach that helps students engage with and understand the key principles of the law, and develop the skills they need to put the principles into practice.

Insightful, empowering, and with implementation at its core: this text will teach you how to think, talk, and act like a strategist.

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Child and Family Practice: A Relational Perspective, Second Edition, presents important guidelines and principles for social workers and helping professionals working with children, their families, and service-providing organizations. Grounded in the traditional social work theories of relationship, this new edition underscores three core concepts of reflexivity, relational connection, and evidence-guided knowledge. Cohen Konrad's goal is to help...

Essential Skills of Social Work Practice, Third Edition presents the basics of effective social work practice and helps students develop competence in assessment, intervention, and evaluation. Its broad coverage explores the counseling, case management, and research skills necessary to implement evidence-based practice in contemporary social work. Part I of the text includes three chapters that address the core foundations of social work practice...

Featuring an interdisciplinary, developmental, ecological-systems framework, Human Behavior for Social Work Practice, Third Edition helps students implement a consistent system through which to approach multifaceted social issues in any environment. Students will learn that by effectively connecting theory to practice, they can develop successful strategies to use as they encounter complex issues currently facing social workers, whether it be in ...

Introduction to Criminal Justice: A Brief Edition 2e provides students with a mainstream table of contents and critical perspective, supported by boxed features to promote engaging and thought-provoking classroom discussions. The text includes extensive pedagogical tools to help students succeed and develop critical thinking skills.

Student and instructor resources for Chapter 3 are currently available for preview

Students are drawn to topics of urgent sociological concern by a need to both understand the forces that shape their world, and their desire to make the world better. It can be challenging, however, for students to link sociological concepts with real-world applications. Living Sociologically: Concepts and Connections, Concise Edition with Acrobatiq Adaptive Learning helps students make those connections. This brief, engaging and accessible text ...

Perspectives on Community-Based Corrections is a concise introductory text for students wishing to gain insight into community-based corrections. This text offers past experiences from practitioners, researchers, and individuals under community-based supervision, intending to provide students with a complete understanding of the environment. Along with extensive pedagogical tools, online resources, such as an Instructor's Manual, Test bank, and a...

Featuring a remarkably clear writing style, Philosophy: Asking Questions--Seeking Answers is a brief and accessible guide designed for students with no prior knowledge of the subject. Written by renowned scholars Stephen Stich and Tom Donaldson, it focuses on the key issues in Western philosophy, presenting balanced coverage of each issue and challenging students to make up their own minds. Each chapter incorporates discussion questions, key term...

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Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy, Fifth Edition leads the reader, step by step, through identifying and acquiring the sequences to be included in a tree, aligning the sequences, estimating the tree by one of several methods, and drawing the tree for presentatio...

The most accessible and practical guide to research methods written especially for politics and international relations students

Practices of Looking, Fourth Edition, bridges visual culture studies, media studies, communication, and design to investigate how images and the activity of looking carry meaning across different arenas in everyday life. The fourth edition has been updated to represent new trends in design, digital art and media, Indigenous art, disability, and environmental media, and new directions in social media and computing, including artificial intelligenc...

Research Methods and Evidence-based Practice introduces students to various research techniques they can use throughout their degree and into a range of health settings. It teaches qualitative and quantitative research methods of finding evidence to help students make informed decisions in their practice and for their clients.

This new edition has been updated to reflect the increasing importance of evidence-based practice. It questions what type...

Social Work Practice with the LGBTQ+ Community weaves together sociopolitical, historical, and policy contexts in order to assist readers with understanding the base for effective and affirming health and mental health practice with diverse members of the LGBTQ+ community. Comprised of chapters written by social work academics and their allies, this book features applicable and useful content for social work students and practitioners across the ...

Social workers and helping professionals serve many people who draw upon religion and spirituality to find meaning, thrive, and overcome oppression and obstacles in their lives. The third edition of Spiritual Diversity in Social Work Practice provides a comprehensive framework of values, knowledge, and skills for spiritually sensitive and culturally appropriate practice with diverse religious and non-religious clients.

This classic text contains ...

Understanding quantitative and qualitative research in psychology is the most hands-on, accessible, and approachable guide to the entire research process, which fully explores both quantitative and qualitative methods to give students the knowledge and confidence they need to succeed.

Concise, straightforward, practical: Thorsten Ewald’s Writing in the Technical Fields provides students with a clear, accessible approach to building strong technical writing skills. Drawing examples from a range of technical industries and fields, Ewald helps students apply their technical minds and the communication skills they already possess to logical, easy-to-remember principles and rules of writing. The fourth edition includes a new chapte...

Unlike textbooks that emphasize the memorization of facts, Asking Questions About Cultural Anthropology: A Concise Introduction, Third Edition, teaches students how to think anthropologically, helping them view cultural issues as an anthropologist might. This approach demonstrates how anthropological thinking can be used as a tool for deciphering everyday experiences. The book covers the essential concepts, terms, and history of cultural anthropo...

Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis in Social Work Practice integrates six different perspectives (the DSM, a critique of the DSM, a risk and resilience biopsychosocial framework, evidence-based practices, measurement tools for assessment and evaluation, and a life-span approach) in order to teach diagnosis with the values and principles of social work practice. A consistent and modular chapter structure enables students to navigate each disorder i...

Mental Health Social Work Practice in Canada is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the nature of mental health issues and the legal and policy framework within which treatment is provided. Written by leading experts in the field, this highly readable text teaches students about the evidence-based social work practices that will best help individuals and families struggling with mental health challenges.

The Oxford History of Western Music, College Edition, Second Edition, immerses students in the engaging story of the Western musical tradition. By emphasizing the connections among works, both within each cultural era and across time and place, the text goes beyond a basic retelling of the music's history to build students' ability to listen critically to key works.

A full suite of instructor resources, a free open-access student Companion Websit...

Quantitative Research Methods for Communication: A Hands-On Approach is a comprehensive and engaging guide to quantitative research. Drawing on their extensive research and teaching experience in the field of communication, authors Jason S. Wrench, Candice Thomas-Maddox, Virginia Peck Richmond, and James C. McCroskey encourage students to take an active, hands-on role in the learning process. After giving students the tools they need to locate, c...

Anthropology takes a holistic approach that emphasizes critical thinking, active learning, and applying anthropology to solve contemporary human problems. The organization of each chapter around compelling questions engages students in the material and invites them to participate in the investigation of ideas. Building on the classical foundations of the discipline, the book shows students how anthropology is current and relevant by connecting it...

A comprehensive history of the Civil War based on fresh research, written by an eminent scholar, and complemented by digital learning resources designed expressly for college students.

Disability, Fourth Edition, is an indispensable tool for human services students in understanding disability from an empowerment perspective. The textbook is divided into three parts: Part I establishes a nontraditional context of disability, moving readers away from the perspective that people with disabilities are sick, passive, and deviant. Part II looks at groupings of disabilities placed within the context of the social definition of disabil...

An engaging and practical introduction to econometrics, Real Econometrics: The Right Tools to Answer Important Questions provides thorough coverage of the most frequently used methods of analysis and a diverse array of examples and case studies. Grounded in contemporary understandings of causal inference, the text invites students to see how econometric tools can help answer interesting questions ranging from whether police reduce crime, to how d...

Introduction to Human Services and Social Change: History, Practice, and Policy is a core, introductory text that provides a foundation for future human service professionals interested in the intersection of theory, research, and practice. Providing an exciting blend of theory and research, the text uses frameworks derived from contemporary learning science to provide students with thought-provoking opportunities to apply concepts to service lea...