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Cultural Competence: A Primer for Educators

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We all know that an appreciation of diversity is important, but how do you teach that to students? CULTURAL COMPETENCE: A PRIMER FOR EDUCATORS, 2nd Edition, shows you the basics of multicultural education strategies in a short, easy-to-use education textbook. The author also offers insights into the psycho-social dimensions of teaching culturally diverse populations. Thorough yet concise, this is the guide youll need to ensure that you emphasize the importance of diversity in your classroom.

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Navigating the Research University: A Guide for First-Year Students

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Full of practical tips and tools and useful personal advice, NAVIGATING THE RESEARCH UNIVERSITY: A GUIDE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS, 3E, provides students with a comprehensive introduction to education at a research institution. The text is designed to support students at a broad range of research universities by helping them understand research, the role it plays in the university, and the basic methodologies used in a variety of disciplines. Andreatta guides students in developing the skills necessary for achieving academic success, including critical thinking, thoughtful analysis, and effective writing. In addition, the text includes valuable insights into the personal and working issues students may encounter as new and aspiring members of a community of scholars.

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College Study Skills: Becoming a Strategic Learner

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COLLEGE STUDY SKILLS: BECOMING A STRATEGIC LEARNER, Seventh Edition, is a wide-ranging, practical text that focuses on helping you become actively engaged in your own learning. The text incorporates active learning strategies to help you succeed in college by introducing a strategy, allowing you to practice it, and asking you to do self-assessments to gain feedback on your own success. This variety of strategies and activities, as well as authentic and engaging text material from numerous core subject areas, gives you opportunities to apply what you are learning to your course work in other college classes. The Seventh Edition has a new focus on motivation.  Chapter (1), ""Getting Motivated,"" focuses on the importance of motivation in college success.  More information on the causes of motivation problems and strategies for increasing motivation are included.  Each of the chapters that follow in the text strengthens the connection between motivation and the strategies that are presented, so that students continue to increase their motivation through-out the course.

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Best-selling book WESTERN CIVILIZATION has helped over one million users learn about the present by exploring the past. Jackson Spielvogels engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. The clear narrative of a single gifted author makes it easy to follow the story of Western civilization.

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EUROPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY offers a comprehensive, yet streamlined narrative of twentieth-century Europe. The scholarship and currency is top-notch as is the books excellent consideration of important socio-cultural issues in the twentieth century, including youth movements and feminism.

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Experiments in Biochemistry: A Hands-on Approach

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Make the most of your lab time with this interactive manual by text author Shawn O. Farrell and co-author Lynn E. Taylor. Youll find a selection of classroom-tested experiments designed to be completed during a normal laboratory period.

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Elements of Crisis Intervention: Crisis and How to Respond to Them, 3rd

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Designed to help in day-to-day, on-the-scene crisis intervention, ELEMENTS OF CRISIS INTERVENTION: CRISES AND HOW TO RESPOND TO THEM, 3e offers a nuts-and-bolts presentation of the information, strategies, and guidelines needed to be an effective crisis worker. A concise handbook for helping professionals who work on the front lines of crisis intervention, it is an ideal reference for crisis interveners, first responders, counselors, nurses, disaster responders, EMTs, law enforcement, human service workers, psychologists, social workers, teachers, agency directors, military, and any other professionals who encounter crisis situations.

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Algebra and Trigonometry with Analytic Geometry

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Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Massage

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Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Massage, 5th edition is the classic text in the massage industry including the essential knowledge and skills needed to become a successful, professional massage therapist, plus the essentials of anatomy and physiology. Essential topics to the industry such as ethics, hygiene, communication skills, and body mechanics are discussed. Full-color illustrations and photographs clearly illustrate techniques and procedures. Classical massage is expanded with clinical techniques including neuromuscular and myofascial techniques, and lymph massage, combined to better serve the client by following therapeutic procedures. Numerous career tracts are explored including massage in a spa environment and athletic massage. A new chapter discusses massage for special populations including pre-natal, infant, elder, critically ill, people with cancer, and hospice. The final chapter has been revised to cover business practices for finding employment or successful self-employment.<br>Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

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This current and concise text presents a balanced approach to the study of medical malpractice in the United States. Designed to encompass both early history and modern day principles, The Law of Medical Malpractice takes the reader from a brief history of civil liability for professional malfeasance to the anatomy of a lawsuit and the medical malpractice trial. The author provides sample medical records, definitions of medical and legal terminology, and sample legal forms to enhance student comprehension of key concepts. The text provides actual documents to give insight into real world cases and demonstrates how a case progresses from beginning to end.   The many applications are based on true cases and provide an accurate depiction of medical malpractice as it exists today.

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Moving Images is the first comprehensive media studies and motion picture production textbook of its kind. Offering a series of thematically-driven units that provide opportunities for collaborative learning, enhancement of creativity, and development of higher order thinking, this book is designed to get you excited about making movies. You will not only learn how to analyze and appreciate motion pictures, but you will also study the fundamental skills needed to create and produce your own movies. With an included interactive DVD you will also be able to view short films, as well as use a selection of film files to enhance your editing skills.

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Agribusiness: Decisions & Dollars, second edition, provides students the important need to know information necessary to make effective decisions, and to value financial progress and success regardless of agricultural enterprise size. As the first agricultural education high school level text based on the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) students will learn the most basic life skills such as the mechanics of writing a check to better understanding complex enterprise analysis. The text gives foremost attention to dollar and sense management, but also helps students hone skills necessary for solving problems and evaluating the management of resources. Agribusiness: Decisions & Dollars, presents students with relatable scenarios by following two high school students interested in agribusiness, as they learn the complexities of the financial world, and why records are important. This informal, approachable writing style is used to engage and help students gain a clear understanding of the importance of basing decisions on financial records.<br>Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

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Introduction to Veterinary Science, second edition, provides core information for a variety of learners including those studying animal and veterinary sciences as well as students desiring to become veterinary assistants or technicians. The text begins with an overview of cellular and tissue physiology and then follows a systems approach for easy comprehension. It also investigates nutrition, disease, surgeries, and cost analysis of procedures. Both small and large animals are used in examples to provide a real life look at the varied cases encountered in the field. Each chapter begins with a Day in the Life preview that gives practical application to the text's theory, and ends with a description of clinical significance. Introduction to Veterinary Science remains a must have text for animal and veterinary oriented classrooms.<br>Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

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Culturally Competent Practice: A Framework for Understanding

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CULTURALLY COMPETENT PRACTICE: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING DIVERSE GROUPS & JUSTICE ISSUES will help you become a more informed helping professional through its strong tradition of presenting a model for understanding, measuring, and evaluating cultural competence. Author Doman Lum explains how clients and workers can become culturally competent and proficient by working through culturally based problems together. This text emphasizes cultural competence as a dialogical process and challenges students and professors to continue the conversation to achieve greater mutual understanding and social justice.

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Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, Volume II: Since 1914

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Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, this reader uses a carefully selected group of primary sources and analytical essays to allow students to test the interpretations of distinguished historians and draw their own conclusions about the history of American foreign policy. This text serves as an effective educational tool for courses on U.S. foreign policy, recent U.S. history, or 20th Century U.S. history. Some of the new literature spotlights cultural relations, and the ways in which culturally constructed attitudes about class, gender, race, and national identity have shaped Americans perceptions of the world and subsequently its overseas relationships.

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Nakama 2: Japanese Communication, Culture, Context

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NAKAMA is a two year proficiency-oriented program that emphasizes practical communication and the development of listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills. The eleven thematic chapters, plus one preliminary chapter, focus on high-frequency communication situations; while chapter dialogues illustrate typical daily events representative in Japanese life and provide realistic contexts in which to learn vocabulary and grammar.

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Yukiko Abe Hatasa, Kazumi Hatasa, Seiichi Makino