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Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine: Contemporary Readings in Bioethics

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A Doody's Core Title for 2015!Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine: Contemporary Readings in Bioethics Eighth Edition is a comprehensive state-of-the-art anthology that covers both traditional and emerging issues in the field of biomedical ethics with engaging case studies and reflective papers written by leading scholars. Each of the books seven parts begins with a helpful introduction that raises important questions and skillfully contextualizes the positions and key points of the articles that follow. This eighth edition has been thoroughly updated to include the most important recent contributions to contemporary debates and all selections have been subjected to the editors exacting standards for both scholarly quality and teachability.Instructors and students can now access their course content through the Connect digital learning platform by purchasing either standalone Connect access or a bundle of print and Connect access. McGraw-Hill Connect is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription to Connect includes the following: SmartBook - an adaptive digital version of the course textbook that personalizes your reading experience based on how well you are learning the content. Access to your instructors homework assignments quizzes syllabus notes reminders and other important files for the course. Progress dashboards that quickly show how you are performing on your assignments and tips for improvement. The option to purchase (for a small fee) a print version of the book. This binder-ready loose-leaf version includes free shipping.Complete system requirements to use Connect can be found here: http://www.mheducation.com/highered/platforms/connect/training-support-students.html

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Niebel's Methods, Standards, & Work Design

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This edition addresses the increasing global competition and the fact that every industry business and service organization is restructuring itself to operate more effectively. Cost-effectiveness and product reliability without excess capacity are the keys to successful activity in business industry and government. These keys are the end results of methods engineering.The 13th edition of Methods Standards and Work Design will provide practical up-to-date descriptions of engineering methods to measure analyze and design manual work. The text emphasizes both the manual components and the cognitive aspects of work recognizing the gradual decline of the manufacturing sector and the growth of the service sector. The importance of ergonomics and work design as part of methods engineering emphasizes not only increased productivity but also to improve worker health and safety and thus company bottom-line costs. In the twenty-first century it is essential that the industrial engineer consider both productivity issues and their efforts on the health and safety of the worker. This comprehensive text addresses this need by integrating the traditional elements of motion and time study along with the human factors and ergonomics and safety engineering.

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Measurement by the Physical Educator: Why and How

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The purpose of this text is to help the physical education exercise science or kinesiology major develop the necessary confidence and skills to conduct measurement techniques properly and effectively. However more than just measurement techniques are presented. Emphasis is placed upon the reasons for the measurement and the responsibilities after measurement is completed. These inclusions should help the student develop an appreciation of the need for measurement in a variety of settings. In addition every effort has been made to present all the material in an uncomplicated way and only practical measurement techniques are included.Instructors and students can now access their course content through the Connect digital learning platform by purchasing either standalone Connect access or a bundle of print and Connect access. McGraw-Hill Connect is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription to Connect includes the following: SmartBook - an adaptive digital version of the course textbook that personalizes your reading experience based on how well you are learning the content. Access to your instructors homework assignments quizzes syllabus notes reminders and other important files for the course. Progress dashboards that quickly show how you are performing on your assignments and tips for improvement. The option to purchase (for a small fee) a print version of the book. This binder-ready loose-leaf version includes free shipping.Complete system requirements to use Connect can be found here: http://www.mheducation.com/highered/platforms/connect/training-support-students.html

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How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age

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This concise and engaging text teaches the basic principles of good reasoning through an examination of widely held beliefs about the paranormal the supernatural and the mysterious. By explaining what distinguishes knowledge from opinion science from pseudoscience and evidence from hearsay How to Think about Weird Things helps the reader develop the skills needed to tell the true from the false and the reasonable from the unreasonable.Instructors and students can now access their course content through the Connect digital learning platform by purchasing either standalone Connect access or a bundle of print and Connect access. McGraw-Hill Connect is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription to Connect includes the following: SmartBook - an adaptive digital version of the course textbook that personalizes your reading experience based on how well you are learning the content. Access to your instructors homework assignments quizzes syllabus notes reminders and other important files for the course. Progress dashboards that quickly show how you are performing on your assignments and tips for improvement. The option to purchase (for a small fee) a print version of the book. This binder-ready loose-leaf version includes free shipping.Complete system requirements to use Connect can be found here: http://www.mheducation.com/highered/platforms/connect/training-support-students.html

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Educational Administration: Theory, Research, and Practice

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One of the most widely read books in educational leadership Educational Administration uses a systems perspective to synthesize the relevant theory and research on organizational behavior and focuses on understanding and applying theory to solve problems of practice. With each new edition the latest research and theory are incorporated into the analysis of teaching learning and leading. Educational Administration helps future administrators understand the content and context of schools remember key ideas and principles and apply and practice those principles as they lead.

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Experiments Manual For Contemporary Electronics

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Contemporary Electronics: Fundamentals Devices Circuits and Systems offers a modern approach to fundamental courses for the electronics and electrical fields. It is designed for the first two or three electronic courses in the typical associate degree program in electronic technology. It includes both DC and AC circuits as well as semiconductor fundamentals and basic linear circuits. It addresses the numerous changes that have taken place over the past years in electronics technology industry jobs and the knowledge and skills required by technicians and other technical workers. It can be used in separate DC and AC courses but also in a combined DC/AC course that some schools have adopted in the past years. Contemporary Electronics offers the student the benefit of being able to use a single text in two or three courses minimizing expenses.

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Contemporary Electronics: Fundamentals, Devices, Circuits, and Systems

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Fundamentals, Devices, Circuits, and Systems

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Contemporary Electronics: Fundamentals Devices Circuits and Systems offers a modern approach to fundamental courses for the electronics and electrical fields. It is designed for the first two or three electronic courses in the typical associate degree program in electronic technology. It includes both DC and AC circuits as well as semiconductor fundamentals and basic linear circuits. It addresses the numerous changes that have taken place over the past years in electronics technology industry jobs and the knowledge and skills required by technicians and other technical workers. It can be used in separate DC and AC courses but also in a combined DC/AC course that some schools have adopted in the past years. Contemporary Electronics offers the student the benefit of being able to use a single text in two or three courses minimizing expenses.

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Designed for the introductory Biblical studies course this text surveys both the Old and New Testaments. This book takes a clear and honest presentation of the passages in the Bible from the legacy of Genesis to the book of Revelation. Narratives include Jesuss life and teachings and the promises of heaven and a new earth as they are outlined in the book of Revelation.Instructors and students can now access their course content through the Connect digital learning platform by purchasing either standalone Connect access or a bundle of print and Connect access. McGraw-Hill Connect is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription to Connect includes the following: SmartBook - an adaptive digital version of the course textbook that personalizes your reading experience based on how well you are learning the content. Access to your instructors homework assignments quizzes syllabus notes reminders and other important files for the course. Progress dashboards that quickly show how you are performing on your assignments and tips for improvement. The option to purchase (for a small fee) a print version of the book. This binder-ready loose-leaf version includes free shipping.Complete system requirements to use Connect can be found here: http://www.mheducation.com/highered/platforms/connect/training-support-students.html

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Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes

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The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociology

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The Practical Skeptic a concise introduction to sociology focuses on core concepts as the central building blocks for understanding sociology. Lisa McIntyre's straightforward lively style and her emphasis on critical thinking make this an engaging and user-friendly text for students of all levels. Through this conversational narrative students are able to grasp key sociological concepts and learn the essential lesson that there is much that goes on in the social world that escapes the sociologically untrained eye.

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Essentials of World Regional Geography 3e gives readers an approach that combines fundamental geographical elements internal regional diversity and contemporary issues. This approach allows serious discussion of cultural and environmental issues as well as political and economic issues. White Essentials of World Regional Geography 3e encourages students to consider what it means to be part of a global community and to develop their geographical understandings of world events. Essentials of World Regional Geography has chapter openings with a physical features map of the region which includes short accounts of people or events to provide a personal flavor of the region an outline of the chapter contents and a short section placing the region in its wider global context. Each regional chapter is consistently organized by three sections. The first section summarizes the distinctive physical and human geographies of the region; the second section explores the internal diversity of the region at subregional selected country and local levels. The third section focuses on a selection of contemporary issues that are important to the people of each region and frequently have implications for the rest of the world. Each regional chapter follows the same framework allowing students to easily make comparisons from one world region to the next. This new edition now offers a suite of digital resources including ConnectPlus LearnSmart and SmartBook!

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The benchmark text for the syllabus organized by technology (a week on databases a week on networks a week on systems development etc.) taught from a managerial perspective. OBrien defines technology and then explains how companies use the technology to improve performance. Real world cases finalize the explanation.

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Marketing Strategy: A Decision-Focused Approach

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Public Finance benefits from the combined efforts of Harvey Rosens market-leading book and co-author Ted Gayers research and government agency experience. This combination of experience is able to explain as clearly as possible how the tools of economics can be used to analyze government expenditure and tax policies. This new edition incorporates recent developments and along the way takes students to the frontiers of current research and policy. While the information presented is cutting edge and reflects the work of economists currently active in the field the approach makes the text accessible to undergraduates whose only prior exposure to economics is at the introductory level. All of the changes in the Tenth edition were made to further the authors goal of providing students with a clear and coherent view of the role of government spending and taxation. The authors years of policy experience have convinced themselves that modern public finance provides a practical and invaluable framework for thinking about policy issues. The goal is simple: to emphasize the links between sound economics and the analysis of real-world policy problems.Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need when they need it and how they need it so that your class time is more engaging and effective.

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Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology

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Committed to the scientific investigation of human antiquity Frauds Myths and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology uses interesting archaeological hoaxes myths and mysteries to show how we can use science to learn things about the past. By placing wildly inaccurate claims within the context of the scientific method this indispensable supplementary text demonstrates how science approaches questions about human antiquity and in doing so shows where pseudoscience falls short.

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Human Resource Management 12e by Ivancevich and Konopaske takes a managerial orientation; that is it takes the position that HRM is relevant to managers in every unit project or team. Managers are constantly faced with HRM issues problems and decision-making and the text's primary goal is to show how each manager must be a human resource problem solver and diagnostician. This book pays attention to the application of HRM approaches in "real" organizational settings and situations. Realism understanding and critical thinking were important in the revision. Students and faculty alike have identified readability and relevance as key strengths of the text. The Twelfth Edition provides a book that stimulates ideas and keeps all users up-to-date on HRM thinking and practice.

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With Music: The Art of Listening students practice engaging with music critically and with an appreciative ear. Presenting music within a broadened cultural and historical context The Art of Listeningencourages students to draw on the relationships between: music and the other arts; musical characteristics of different periods; as well as Western music and various non-Western musics and concepts.Learning to appreciate music is a skill. Together with McGraw-Hill's Connect Music The Art of Listening helps students develop that skill by encouraging them to be active and thoughtful participants in their own listening experience.Whether listening through headphones or at a live performance The Art of Listening will develop students' ability to hone the skills required to listen to reflect upon and write about music.

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Bernheim and Whinston's Microeconomics 2nd edition is uniquely designed to appeal to a variety of student learning styles. The content focuses on core principles of the intermediate microeconomics course: individuals and firms making decisions competitive markets and market failures and is delivered in a combination of print digital and mobile formats appropriate for today's learner. McGraw-Hill's adaptive learning component LearnSmart provides assignable modules that help students master core concepts in each chapter. Scan codes within the chapters give students mobile access to online resources including videos on how to solve In-Text Exercises. Extensive end-of-chapter material provides flexible options for both calculus and algebra-based courses. Bernheim and Whinston's completely integrated and accessible learning experience teaches students to apply and engage with a wide range of quantitative problems for more success in the intermediate microeconomics course.Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need when they need it and how they need it so that your class time is more engaging and effective.