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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Practical Business Analytics: A Proven Approach through Successful Personalized Learning is an innovative educational package that combines a concise, approachable textbook with a collection of online active learning activities designed to help students apply what they learn in their work environment and achieve impactful results.This dynamic package emphasizes a personalized approach to learning, providing students with an array of opportunities to learn the material according to their individual learning styles. The active components allow students to watch video lectures, engage in interactive group learning exercises, and test their knowledge with online quizzes to support every lesson. This organization of the material is particularly well suited for the COVID-19 era and beyond because of the greater emphasis on online, hybrid, and flipped courses.The textbook employs a conversational (dialectic) format, classroom tested and refined over many years, to present the information in an engaging manner. Dedicated chapters cover decision theory, simulation, optimization, forecasting, and how to implement Business Analytics in organizations.With an emphasis on real-world application, Practical Business Analytics is an ideal educational vehicle for learning subject matter contained in courses in management science, decision science, operations research, business decision modelling, or business analytics.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Organizing for Suicide Prevention: A Case Study at the Golden Gate Bridge describes the long struggle to end a tragic history of individuals jumping from the bridge to their death. Readers learn how a group of advocates grew and sustained a coalition led by families touched by suicide, and including prevention supporters, health professionals, and other interested parties, to build a successful campaign for a suicide prevention structure at the Golden Gate Bridge. Central to this story is an understanding that restricting easy access to lethal meansa simple yet often poorly understood suicide prevention techniquecan save lives.The text demonstrates how the coalition's advocacy was employed to gain approval for an access restriction structure on the bridge. Dedicated chapters help readers understand how to develop a public campaign to address suicide hotspots or other mental health issues through community organizing, assertive communications, and a persistent focus on goals.Balancing the findings of suicide prevention researchers with practical application, Organizing for Suicide Prevention is an ideal textbook for undergraduate or graduate social work macro courses focused on communities and organizations. It is also a valuable resource for practicing social workers, community advocates, and community organizers.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Featuring highly relatable and engaging accounts from a counselor-in-training, a new counselor, and a counselor educator, Becoming a Counselor: Three Perspectives from the Trenches is designed to ignite important reflection and conversation regarding the journey of counselor development. Leveraging their distinct range of experiences, Corrine R. Sackett, Rachel E. De Alba, and Heather L. Mack provide insight into this process.The text covers an array of issues, including self-care and balance, discussing culture, confronting imposter syndrome, and cultivating skills. Readers are invited to reflect on the process of developing a theoretical orientation, embracing vulnerability and taking risks, managing countertransference, and learning from mistakes. Dedicated chapters speak to supervision, creativity in counseling, connecting with peers, and advocating for clients. Closing chapters underscore the joys of counseling, reveal what the authors wish they'd learned in graduate school, and acknowledge the challenge of becoming a counselor during a pandemic. Questions throughout the text are intended to elicit reflection and conversation around the reader's experience of each topic.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Transactional Document Guide for Business Organizations familiarizes students with the basic forms and documents used in the life cycle of a business and illustrates how the law is applied in practice. This text provides readers with full-length documents that have been selected for their readability.Organized into three primary sections covering corporations, general partnerships, and hybrid entities, the supplemental text features 15 documents in total that provide examples of partnership agreements, articles of organization, certificates of merger and dissolution, proxy statements, and more.The second edition has been revised to feature document examples from Facebook, rather than McDonalds, including such documents as Facebook's articles of incorporation, bylaws, and proxy statement. Additionally, the third section includes a new Statement of Dissociation, Statement of Dissolution, and Application to Register Limited Liability Partnership.The Transactional Document Guide for Business Organizations is an excellent supplemental textbook for foundational courses in business organization and business planning.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Strategic Planning for School Leaders equips readers with critical knowledge regarding the practices and leadership skillsets needed to establish and lead the strategic planning process within the school setting. Readers learn how to cultivate and channel visionary, curriculum, managerial, cultural, ethical, and political leadership to create effective school improvements and support academic achievement.The opening chapter defines strategic planning and illuminates how the strategic planning process applies within the school setting. Additional chapters cover the Every Student Succeeds Act; conducting needs assessments and analyzing the resulting data; developing and prioritizing goals and objectives; and the importance of consistently building the instructional abilities of those who are working with and teaching students. Closing chapters demonstrate how to effectively monitor, assess, and evaluate strategic plans with emphasis on the cyclical nature of the strategic planning process and the need for ongoing, continuous improvements.Featuring practical illustrations of the strategic planning process, vignettes based on the authors' experiences, and ample reflection opportunities, Strategic Planning for School Leaders is a valuable resource for courses and programs in educational leadership and school administration.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Guided Inquiry for General Chemistry provides students with an interactive introduction to key concepts in chemistry. This workbook covers all of the topics and ideas presented within a first-year chemistry course for science majors. Short chapters guide students to understanding through simple questions, followed by more advanced practice exercises designed to be completed in a group setting with instructor assistance.Each chapter introduces readers to fundamental chemistry concepts, challenges them to think and reflect on those concepts, and examines essential applications of those concepts. Topics in the book include atomic structure, bonding, Lewis dot structures, nomenclature, chemical reaction types, stoichiometry, states of matter, kinetics, equilibrium, energetics, electrochemistry, and nuclear chemistry.Each chapter features explicitly stated learning outcomes, a list of prerequisite chapters that will assist readers in their understanding of the current chapter, background information with guiding questions, and application questions to facilitate learning and retention.Comprehensive and approachable in nature, Guided Inquiry for General Chemistry is designed for first-year chemistry courses at the university level but is also well suited for introductory and high school chemistry courses.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Designed to provide students with practical, hands-on knowledge, Exercise Prescription Case Studies for Clinical Populations introduces readers to situations they are likely to encounter when writing exercise prescriptions in professional settings.The book focuses on individuals with certain clinical diseases, exposing students to practices established over many years of research to ensure the safety and efficacy of an exercise program for this unique population. Students are presented with strategies for working with individuals with advanced cardiovascular disease, peripheral vascular disease, and pulmonary diseases. A case study approach is used, beginning with the contraindications for clinical exercise testing through exercise prescriptions.The case studies closely follow the guidelines established by the American College of Sports Medicine, rendering it a valuable resource to help students prepare for the ACSM Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist exam.Exercise Prescription Case Studies for Clinical Populations features content that prepares students for a meaningful career after graduation. The text is exemplary for courses in exercise science and physiology.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Global Themes in World History since 1500 provides students with a concise, thematic approach to world history with emphasis on topics and themes representative of global patterns across time. Students are challenged to embrace the idea that history, while based on primary source evidence, is also based on historians' interpretations of that evidence, and that historiography changes through time and place.The book addresses diverse topics and research areas, including the history of Africa, the African diaspora, world military history, modern Europe, the Middle East, empires and imperialism, food history, cultural history, and more.Each chapter explores key themes that reflect important transitions in world history research and writing: geography and environment; material culture; science and technology; gender and sexuality; and war, peace, and diplomacy. Throughout, students are provided with primary sources, discussion questions, images, timelines, glossary terms, and suggested additional readings and media to deepen the learning experience.An engaging, diverse, and accessible text, Global Themes in World History since 1500 is well suited to undergraduate courses in modern world history.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Internships: Quality Education Outside of Class is designed to demonstrate that important and rich learning opportunities can be found outside a formal lecture class through engaging internships. The volume features carefully curated articles that speak to how these opportunities enhance students' professional career prospects, and how students can maximize their educational value.The anthology contains 16 individual readings that cover a variety of topics, including how internships provide a bridge between college and the workforce, how overseas opportunities can provide students with global perspective, whether students should receive credits for internships, and how internships can help students develop job readiness and emotional awareness. Additional readings address internships as pathways to public service, internships at the national level, NASPAA guidelines for public service internships, typical characteristics of a social science internship program, academic advice for students regarding internship selection, and more.Providing readers with valuable knowledge to prepare them to make the most of their experiences, Internships is an ideal resource for any individual who is considering participation in an internship program.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Reader in the History, Culture, and Politics of Modern East Asia presents readings that encourage students to explore issues related to modernization, nationalism, the state, and national identity in China, Japan, and Korea.The reader's Introduction examines the 'Washington Consensus' and its competitors, and the 21st century shift in global economic power from the Anglo-American West to China. Each of the three parts that follow is focused on a particular country.Part I explores the Chinese concept of tianxia through interpretation of the hit 2002 movie, Hero; China's household registration (hukou) system and its impacts upon migrant children in Chinese cities; and continuity and change in East Asian patterns of marriage and family. Part II examines aspects of Japanese modernization, nationalism, and state-building from the Meiji era to the present; contemporary challenges at the national level; and the vitality of local politics in this unitary state. Part III considers Korea's and China's movement from 'tribute' to 'treaty' relations in the 19th century; the development of Korean national identity through sport from the colonial era to 1988; changing South Korean perceptions of North Korean immigrants; and competing models of North Korea as a state. The Conclusion offers a diplomat's overview of the politics of history in East Asia. Students are then provided with a Glossary of terms and concepts.A Reader in the History, Culture, and Politics of Modern East Asia is an excellent resource for undergraduate courses in political science and Asian studies.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Readings in Abnormal Psychology: Multiple Perspectives presents students with a collection of carefully curated readings that examine the major psychopathologies in the DSM-5 from a variety of viewpoints. The book does not advocate a single approach toward etiologies, diagnoses, and treatments. Rather, it encourages readers to critically analyze various perspectives, decide which they agree with and which they do not, and use the information to further develop their individual therapeutic approaches.The anthology is organized into 15 chapters, each of which is devoted to a particular aspect of abnormal psychologyfoundational knowledge, clinical assessment, and a variety of disorders, including anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, PTSD, dissociative disorders, depression, and eating disorders, as well as somatic, paraphilic, personality, and sleep-wake disorders. There are also chapters devoted to sexual dysfunction and neurodevelopment and neurocognitive disorders. Each chapter features original writing to provide essential context and end-of-chapter questions to stimulate critical thinking and assess comprehension.Featuring first-person narratives, data-based research articles, and vital knowledge within the discipline, Readings in Abnormal Psychology is an ideal supplementary resource for courses in abnormal psychology.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Native American History and Culture: An Anthology contains diverse perspectives and illuminates the sociocultural and political complexity of American Indian history. The selected readings in this anthology explore the full context of Indian life and present readers with leading scholarship that rejects ethnocentrism and respects Native American heritage.The text is organized into five chapters. Chapter 1 features three readings that explore the history of Native Americans before and after European contact. In Chapter 2, students read about disparities in health status and care between American Indians and other groups over time. The readings help students better understand how economic and political forces can explain both the persistence of health disparities and the controversies that surround them. Chapter 3 examines Native nations and western expansion, including treaties, settler colonialism, and more, and Chapter 4 explores American Indian activism. The final chapter illuminates the legacies of settler colonialism through discussion of white supremacy, the Indian male body and the heroic ideal, and American Indian identity and blood quantum.…