John wiley sons nov 2002 (49 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A compelling fable that distills the essence of genius marketing strategiesThe 'King of Positioning' Jack Trout presents the story of PJ Bigdome, a newly appointed CEO looking for a new way to successfully learn about marketing. Luckily, within his PC lurks a genie with vast experience in the particulars of marketing (having helped out with some of the biggest marketing successes ever). As Bigdome finds answers to his most important questions, the reader learns the secrets of successful marketing, such as: the essence of marketing; how much stock to put into research; how to evaluate advertising; how to allocate budgets; and much more. A Genie's Wisdom allows Trout, a famed business visionary, to distill his years of management and marketing experience into an entertaining and educational yarn that reveals today's essential practices.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Virtue Ethics collects, for the first time, the main classical sources and the central contemporary expressions of virtue ethics approach to normative ethical theory. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, these readings are essential for anyone interested in normative theory.Introduced by Stephen Darwall, this collection brings together classic and contemporary readings which define and advance the literature on virtue ethics.Includes six essays which respond to the classic sources.Includes a contemporary discussion on character and virtue by Gary Watson.Includes classic essays by Aristotle, Francis Hutcheson and David Hume, and recent reactions to this work by philosophers including Philippa Foot, John McDowell, Alasdair MacIntyre, Annette Baier, Rosalind Hursthouse, and Michael Slote.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Deontology brings together some of the most significant philosophical work on ethics, presenting canonical essays on core questions in moral philosophy. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, these readings are essential for anyone interested in normative theory.With a helpful introduction by Stephen Darwall, examines key topics in deontological moral theory.Includes seven essays which respond to the classic sources.Includes classic excerpts by key figures such Kant, Richard Price and W. D. Ross; and recent reactions to this work by philosophers, including Robert Nozick, Thomas Nagel, Stephen Darwall, Judith Thomson, Frances Kamm, Warren Quinn, and Christine Korsgaard.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Teaching Literature is an inspirational guidebook for all teachers of English and American literature in higher education.Written by leading academic, prolific author and cultural journalist, Elaine ShowalterOriginal and provocative reflections on teaching literature in higher educationEncourages teachers to make their classroom practice intellectually excitingWide-ranging - covers the practical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of teaching literatureHighly practical - employs real examples from real classes and careers throughoutDraws on 40 years of international teaching experience.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Parenting After Infertility Parents who have wondered about the long term impact of infertility on their self image will find the answers in this insightful book. --Lois Melina, author of Raising Adopted Children and Making Sense of Adoption Finally, here's a book that's sensitive and responsive to the unique emotional experience of parenting after a long, ardous course of infertility diagnosis and treatment. The Long-Awaited Stork gives you all the information, advice, and support you need to adjust to and cope with the special problems of parenting after infertility.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Consequentialism collects, for the first time, both the main classical sources and the central contemporary expressions of this important position. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, these readings are essential for anyone interested in normative ethics.Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, examines key topics in the consequentialist branch of moral theory.Includes seven essays which respond to the classic sources.Includes an insightful discussion of central topics in consequentialism by John Rawls and Amartya Sen.Includes classic articles by key figures such Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick and G. E. Moore; and recent reactions to this work by philosophers including Philip Pettit, Derek Parfit, Samuel Scheffler, Peter Railton, R. B. Brandt, J. C. Harsanyi, and Robert Adams.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Foundations of Student Affairs Practice is an essential resource that explores the purposes of higher education, the theories that provide a foundation for student learning and growth, and the experiences that contribute to student learning. Florence Hamrick, Nancy Evans, and John Schuh-three preeminent leaders in the field-show how student affairs professionals can provide a more meaningful and holistic educational experience for their students. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This essential guide to studying geography has been updated to ensure it remains a valuable resource for all those on geography courses, as well as those considering studying the subject at university.Second edition of this popular and wide-ranging guide to studying geography.Includes contributions from many key geographers around the world.Provides answers to questions from before starting a degree course right through to further study and careers.Includes lots of practical tips for improving geographical study and research skills.Fully revised and updated to ensure it remains an invaluable resource for students.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The World s Great Philosophers provides an introduction to and overview of some of the most profound and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy.Presents an introduction to and overview of some of the most profound and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy.Contains 40 essays, written by an outstanding international assembly of scholars.Provides cogent and accessible discussion of key philosophers from around the world.Conveys the historical panorama of philosophical thought on the nature of reality, the human condition, and basic human values.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This short and accessible book introduces readers to the problems of heresy, schism and dissidence over the last two millennia. The heresies under discussion range from Gnosticism, influential in the early Christian period, right through to modern sects.The idea of a heretic conjures up many images, from the martyrs prepared to die for their beliefs, through to sects with bizarre practices. This book provides a remarkable insight into the fraught history of heresy, showing how the Church came to insist on orthodoxy when threatened by alternative ideals, exploring the social and political conditions under which heretics were created, and how those involved were tested and punished, often by imprisonment and burning. Engaging written, A Brief History of Heresy is enlivened throughout with fascinating examples of individuals and movements.A short, accessible history of heresy.Spans the last two millennia, from the Gnostics through to modern sects.Considers heresy in relation to ecclesial separatism, doctrinal disagreement, church order, and basic metaphysics.Enlivened with intriguing examples of individuals and movements.Written by a leading academic in the field of Religious History.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Personal Identity brings together the most important readings on personal identity theory.Brings together 13 of the most important readings on personal identity theory.Includes a detailed introductory historical essay, tracing the origins of personal identity theory.Features essays by David Lewis, Bernard Williams, Derek Parfit, and Robert Nozick.Describes the revolutionary shift from the 'internal relations' view of personal identity to the 'external relations' view.Includes a discussion on the controversial topic of animalism.Collectively offers a comprehensive introduction to the field.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Martin Herbert s latest book provides an interesting and informative account of the child s journey from the womb to the world outside, through childhood and into adolescence. It is based on the belief that it is vital for those training to work with children who have problems to understand what is typical or atypical in children s development. Herbert deliberately links developmental and clinical psychology approaches in order to help readers connect their theoretical understanding of the physical and psychological problems of childhood with the practicalities of assessment, rehabilitation and treatment.Although many have attempted to write a developmentally based book on child and adolescent behavior problems, few have achieved this lofty and elusive goal. Professor Herbert does so, however. He nicely bridges the gap or, some would say, chasm between developmental psychology, educational psychology, and clinical child and adolescent psychology. Thomas H. Ollendick, PhD, University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book brings together seminal articles by leading scholars of technological and organizational systems, exploring the impact of 'modularity'. Modularity refers to an ability to take apart and put together differenct products and networks, or to 'mix and match' components in order to meet different user specifications. This is of key importance today where new systems such as the World Wide Web and many areas of the computer industry depend on it. The volume pulls together and defines an exciting new area of inquiry: into how our 'modular age' is reshaping the business eco-system. - Includes contributions from leading scholars of technology and organization - Modularity refers to an ability to take apart and put together different products and systems, or to 'mix and match' components in order to meet different user specifications. - Consolidates and defines an area of inquiry that is becoming increasingly important with the development of web-based and 'network' industries. - Sensitizes readers to the complexity of issues surrounding new modular products and systems created by e-business - Encourages readers to make connections among different levels and disciplines. - Initiates a debate around issues of modularity. - Includes a commentary co-authored by the late Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon to whom the book is dedicated.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book contains a range of activities designed to help children who have moved to new families, for example through fostering or adoption, to overcome emotional difficulties.Encourages creativity in therapy with children who have moved to new families through fostering, adoption, or other means.Contains a broad range of activities designed to help these children overcome emotional difficulties in a gentle and positive atmosphere, as well as guidelines about how, when, where, and at what age to use them.Includes activities such as Family Web , Pick up a Privilege , The Anger Debugging Kit and I Can Do It (Now) that can be used by therapists or caregivers as part of, or to supplement, many different therapeutic approaches.Most are appropriate for use where the child is in long-term care, or when the plan is that they should not return to their birth family.All are suitable for both boys and girls.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Development of Mental Processing integrates several psychological approaches in order to create a more comprehensive theoretical system. This system is tested through a longitudinal study of children 8 to 16 years of age, where findings show that it is ones efficiency at processing information, which has the greatest impact on the development of the working memory. This working memory, in turn, becomes the underlying factor determining individual differences in thinking. - Study presenting a developing comprehensive theorhetical system and showing its evolution. - Includes commentary by Kurt Fischer and Theo Dawson. - An interesting monograph for both students and researchers about the process of theory creation as much as the study's findings.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The way nurses are taught is constantly evolving and changing. Workplace learning is seen as key to developing practitioners. In this book Jenny Spouse discusses how students learn in a range of different clinical settings and how best to facilitate this process. How do students learn to become nurses What knowledge and understanding do they need to acquire How do their preconceptions, beliefs about the learning process, and social needs affect their development What do they find helpful and unhelpful What makes clinical settings good for learning Is it helpful for students to document their learning What are the best ways for lecturer/ practitioners to facilitate student learning and what other factors influence their progress The book explores how professional development can be better understood, following the progress of six nurse learners drawn from different parts of nursing and investigating both those difficulties faced by all students and those issues unique to particular students. It places these narratives in the context of nurse education today, exploring the implications of 'Fitness for practice' and 'Making a difference', and looking at the implications for the future development, organisation and funding of nurse education. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South combining recent historical research with period documents. - The most comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in America. - Combines recent historical research with period documents to bring both immediacy and perspective to the origins, principles, realities, and aftermath of African-American slavery. - Includes the colonial foundations of slavery, the master-slave relationship, the cultural world of the planters, the slave community, and slave resistance and rebellion. - Each section contains one major article by a prominent historian, and three primary documents drawn from plantation records, travellers' accounts, slave narratives, autobiographies, statute law, diaries, letters, and investigative reports.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book describes and discusses the assessment and treatment techniques applied by Occupational Therapists (OTs) to sufferers from Multiple Sclerosis (MS).The text begins with basic information about MS and follows this with suggestions for assessment and treatment. Then the specific issues of work, fatigue, leisure, mobility and the home are considered in detail. The needs of people who reach the later stages of the disease are discussed, as are the needs and concerns specific to carers of those with MS. Contact details are provided for many of the services and agencies mentioned in the text. Insight into the impact of MS on people's lives is provided by individuals with MS.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hospital acquired infections (HAI) are complications of health care which affect on average 10 percent of patients admitted to hospital world wide. They have serious public health implications by changing the quality of life of patients and sometimes causing disability or even death. The purpose of this comprehensive text is to provide nurses and junior doctors with an understanding of the basics of infection control by explaining the methods employed and their purpose. The book is based on lectures presented by the author at training courses for nurses and doctors and gives simple, understandable and essential information that is vital knowledge for medical staff in hospitals.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Spanning the period from Alexander the Great s accession to the throne in 336 BC to the defeat by Octavian of Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC, this volume provides a vivid account of the innovative civilization of the Hellenistic world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current Clinical Technique Therapists who want to work skillfully with couples are often confronted with a confusing array of theories, techniques, and myths. Treating Couples creatively addresses many of these challenging issues while shining a light to help therapists navigate through this confusing maze. --Ellyn Bader, Ph.D., co-director, The Couples Institute, Menlo Park, California Treating Couples weeds through the treatment trAnds and presents a rational framework for assessing which methods will most effectively meet clients' needs and expectations. This is an accessible guide for the wide range of professionals who practice couples therapy. Treating Couples promotes the clinical functions of evaluation, assessment, judgment, and hypothesis-formation and testing and will serve as an invaluable resource for determining which approaches are the most ethical, flexible, and creative for the effective treatment of couples.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Increasing demands on acute hospital resources, together with a reduction in the number of available beds, has placed a greater emphasis on the need for rapid and effective assessment of patients in order to determine their need for hospital adsmission. This has led to the widespread emergence of the specialist Medical Assessment Unit (MAU). This timely book provides an up- to-date guide to the assessment and immediate management of patients with acute medical conditions. It presents a structured approach based on common presenting features and focuses on the first twenty four hours of the patient's stay in hospital. In writing this book, the editors have been able to draw on their own clinical experiences as a charge nurse in Accident and Emergency nursing and a sister in acute cardiology and respectively.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thirteen of the most important critical essays on the Italian Renaissance are brought together in this volume.Brings together critical essays on the Italian Renaissance.Provides an ideal starting point for non-specialists studying this period.Includes new research as well as classic interpretations.Editorial apparatus helps students to engage with the material.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference.Provides new perspectives on established texts.Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions.Pioneered by leading scholars.Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies.Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reading and writing skills were once confined to only a few people. Today, a person facing problems with acquiring literacy skills will run the risk of being excluded from fully participating in society New information tends to imply even more demands on mastering reading and writing than ever before. Dyslexia was used early as a descriptive term for characterising problems of reading and writing. Since the introduction of the term, research has made impressive progress and interdisciplinary fields have been created including social studies, behavioural studies, biology, education and remediation. Above all, dyslexia research has taken a step from being descriptive to suggesting theoretical models for explaining the empirical phenomena observed. This book presents contributions from some of the world leading researchers on these issues in honour of one of the main scholars in the field, Professor Ingvar Lundberg.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Learn how to incorporate adult play therapy into your practice with this easy-to-use guideIn the Western world there has been a widening belief that play is not a trivial or childish pursuit but rather a prime pillar of mental health, along with love and work. Play Therapy with Adults presents original chapters written by a collection of international experts who examine the diverse approaches and clinical strategies available for successfully incorporating play therapy into adult-client sessions.This timely guide covers healing through the use of a variety of play therapy techniques and methods. Various client groups and treatment settings are given special attention, including working with adolescents, the elderly, couples, individuals with dementia, and clients in group therapy.Material is organized into four sections for easy reference: Dramatic role play Therapeutic humor Sand play and doll play Play groups, hypnoplay, and client-centered playPlay Therapy with Adults is a valuable book for psychologists, therapists, social workers, and counselors interested in helping clients explore themselves through playful activities.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Always controversial, Thomas DeGregori has released another classic volume that is sure to inform, confound, and present new perspectives on todays environmental issues. This time he is taking on the environmentalists, naturalists, green consumerists, and those that hail the natural lifestyle as the healthy, politically correct thing to do. DeGregori examines the economics of green consumerism, the reality of saving the environment, how historical cultures may have influenced environmental damage, and how being ecologically correct may have a more damaging effect on our environment. Not just a regurgitation of theories; DeGregori offers real-time strategies and alternatives to enhance our natural resources and our environment in harmony with today's modern technology. This is the book everyone will be talking about for years to come.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Deduction is an efficient and elegant presentation of classical first-order logic. It presents a truth tree system based on the work of Jeffrey, as well as a natural deduction system inspired by that of Kalish and Montague.Efficient and elegant presentation of classical first-order logic. Presents a truth tree system based on the work of Jeffrey, as well as a natural deduction system inspired by that of Kalish and Montague. Contains detailed, yet accessible chapters on extensions and revisions of classical logic: modal logic, many-valued logic, fuzzy logic, intuitionistic logic, counterfactuals, deontic logic, common sense reasoning, and quantified modal logic. Includes problem sets, designed to lead students gradually from easier to more difficult problems. Further information and select answers to problems available here: bonevac.info/deduction/About-the-Book.html.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cellular Physiology of Nerve and Muscle , Fourth Edition offers a state of the art introduction to the basic physical, electrical and chemical principles central to the function of nerve and muscle cells. The text begins with an overview of the origin of electrical membrane potential, then clearly illustrates the cellular physiology of nerve cells and muscle cells. Throughout, this new edition simplifies difficult concepts with accessible models and straightforward descriptions of experimental results.An all-new introduction to electrical signaling in the nervous system.Expanded coverage of synaptic transmission and synaptic plasticity.A quantitative overview of the electrical properties of cells.New detailed illustrations.…