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" Babel is an endlessly interesting book, and you don't have to have any linguistic training to enjoy it . . . it's just so much fun to read." —NPR English is the world language, except that 80 percent of the world doesn't speak it. Linguist Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's people in their mother tongues, you'd need to know no fewer than twenty languages. In Babel , he sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali). Whisking readers along on a delightful journey, he traces how these languages rose to greatness while others fell away, and shows how speakers today handle the foibles of their mother tongues. Whether showcasing tongue-tying phonetics, elegant but complicated writing scripts, or mind-bending quirks of grammar, Babel vividly illustrates that mother tongues are like nations: each has its own customs and beliefs that seem as self-evident to those born into it as they are surprising to outsiders. Babel reveals why modern Turks can't read books that are a mere 75 years old, what it means in practice for Russian and English to be relatives, and how Japanese developed separate "dialects" for men and women. Dorren also shares his experiences studying Vietnamese in Hanoi, debunks ten myths about Chinese characters, and discovers the region where Swahili became the lingua franca. Witty and utterly fascinating, Babel will change how you look at and listen to the world. "Word nerds of every strain will enjoy this wildly entertaining linguistic study." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) |
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The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing presents essential material from the full Broadview Guide to Writing. Included are key grammatical points, a glossary of usage, advice on various forms of academic writing, coverage of punctuation and writing mechanics, and helpful advice on how to research academic papers. MLA, APA, and Chicago styles of citation and documentation are covered, and each has been revised to include the latest updates. A companion website provides a wealth of interactive exercises, information on the CSE style of citation and documentation, and much more. Features Features of The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing • Extensive treatment of research methods and argument • Wide-ranging treatment of writing styles in different academic disciplines • Printed in two colours and coil-bound for ease of use, yet reasonably priced, with fewer bells and whistles than any leading competitor—and more of what students need to know • Companion student website featuring a wide range of interactive exercises Features New to the Fifth Edition • Fully updated coverage of MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles • Expanded treatment of bias-free language—issues of gender, race, class, religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc. • All-new material on personal and informal writing • Revised and expanded section on email etiquette and related topics • New instructor’s website providing sample syllabi and lesson plans, as well as additional grammar exercises |
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The Ottawa Anesthesia Primer is an essential primary text for medical students and residents completing a rotation in anesthesia. Written by over 40 authors and edited by Dr. Patrick Sullivan, the 2023 Ottawa Anesthesia Primer updates the previous 2013 edition. Selected learning objectives can be used and tailored to meet the needs of the reader. Learning objectives appropriate to medical students completing a rotation in anesthesia focus on preoperative assessment, securing intravenous access, airway management, basic resuscitation skills, acute pain management, and the safe use of local anesthetics. Anesthesiologists, anesthesia residents, and physicians from other specialties will find advanced topics discussing the management of the difficult airway, regional anesthesia, acute and chronic pain, management of the circulation, and adult and neonatal resuscitation, to name a few of the 26 chapters. The Primer is available as an Apple or Kindle eBook, and as a printed book. Hyperlinks in the Apple and Kindle eBooks provide direct access to reference articles, instructional videos, case discussions, and other resources. Each chapter in the printed book is accompanied by a QR code image. By simply scanning the QR code image with any smart-device camera, the reader has access to the Primer’s electronic resources. The QR code-enabled print book combines the best of both the traditional analog and digital worlds. The accompanying procedural videos are a valuable resource for educators who can use them as a springboard for further discussion as students gain confidence in their knowledge and procedural skills. |
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Are you ready to take your iPhone 16 Pro Max experience to the next level? Look no further than "Full iPhone 16 Pro Max Guide" – the ultimate manual for mastering all the incredible features of iOS 18! This comprehensive guide is packed with detailed instructions, step-by-step tutorials, and helpful illustrations to help you navigate your way through your iPhone 16 Pro Max with ease. Whether you're a seasoned iPhone user looking to uncover hidden tips and tricks or a new user just getting started, this book has something for everyone. In "Full iPhone 16 Pro Max Guide," you'll learn how to customize your device, optimize battery life, use advanced photo and video editing tools, and so much more. Discover how to make the most of iOS 18's new features, including enhanced privacy settings, improved Siri functionality, and exciting AR capabilities. But that's not all – this guide is also filled with pro tips and tricks from experts to help you become a true iPhone power user. From mastering multitasking gestures to setting up shortcuts and automations, you'll unlock the full potential of your device in no time. So why wait? Dive into "Full iPhone 16 Pro Max Guide" today and take your iPhone experience to new heights. Whether you're a casual user or a tech enthusiast, this book has everything you need to become an iPhone expert. Don't miss out on the opportunity to master your device and become a pro at using iOS 18 – get your copy now! |
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Becoming a skilled anti-bias teacher is a journey. With this volume’s practical guidance, you’ll grow in your ability to identify, confront, and eliminate barriers of prejudice, misinformation, and bias about specific aspects of personal and social identity. Most important, you’ll find tips for helping staff and children learn to respect each other, themselves, and all people. Over the last three decades, educators across the nation and around the world have gained a wealth of knowledge and experience in anti-bias work. The result is a richer and more nuanced articulation of what is important in anti-bias education. Revolving around four core goals—identity, diversity, justice, and activism—individual chapters focus on culture and language, racial identity, family structures, gender identity, economic class, different abilities, and more. |
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An Instant New York Times Bestseller “A bestselling page-turner that has made waves not just in Silicon Valley but around the world . . . With Empire of AI, Hao is fundamentally shaping many people’s perceptions and understanding of the company at the center of the AI revolution.” —TIME Magazine , “TIME100 AI 2025” “Excellent and deeply reported.” —Tim Wu, The New York Times “Startling and intensely researched . . . an essential account of how OpenAI and ChatGPT came to be and the catastrophic places they will likely take us.” — Vulture “Hao’s reporting inside OpenAI is exceptional, and she’s persuasive in her argument that the public should focus less on A.I.’s putative ‘sentience’ and more on its implications for labor and the environment.” —Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong? Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that its vision of success requires an almost unprecedented amount of resources: the “compute” power of high-end chips and the processing capacity to create massive large language models, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans “cleaning up” that data for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the usage of energy and water underlying it all. The truth is that we have entered a new and ominous age of empire: only a small handful of globally scaled companies can even enter the field of play. At the head of the pack with its ChatGPT breakthrough, how would OpenAI resist such temptations? Spoiler alert: it didn’t. Armed with Microsoft’s billions, OpenAI is setting a breakneck pace, chased by a small group of the most valuable companies in human history—toward what end, not even they can define. All this time, Hao has maintained her deep sourcing within the company and the industry, and so she was in intimate contact with the story that shocked the entire tech industry—Altman’s sudden firing and triumphant return. The behind-the-scenes story of what happened, told here in full for the first time, is revelatory of who the people controlling this technology really are. But this isn’t just the story of a single company, however fascinating it is. The g forces pressing down on the people of OpenAI are deforming the judgment of everyone else too—as such forces do. Naked power finds the ideology to cloak itself; no one thinks they’re the bad guy. But in the meantime, as Hao shows through intrepid reporting on the ground around the world, the enormous wheels of extraction grind on. By drawing on the viewpoints of Silicon Valley engineers, Kenyan data laborers, and Chilean water activists, Hao presents the fullest picture of AI and its impact we’ve seen to date, alongside a trenchant analysis of where things are headed. An astonishing eyewitness view from both up in the command capsule of the new economy and down where the real suffering happens, Empire of AI pierces the veil of the industry defining our era. |
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Your brain is the most remarkable thing in the known universe. Fun, but still deeply, rigorously researched.' - Professor Neil Shyminsky 'A true masterpiece. Rachel Barr has done a phenomenal job breaking down the complexities of the human mind.' - Jeffrey Meltzer, LMHC 'Insightful and relatable psychoeducation that demystifies the brain . . . it’s a resource I’ll proudly keep on my shelf as a therapist.' - Joshua Fletcher, anxiety therapist Always trying to mend itself, and always trying to protect you, it’s in a constant state of flux — adapting, reconfiguring, finding new pathways . . . And it has an astonishing capacity for recovery. Only it doesn’t always get it right. Rachel Barr struggled through years of devastating loss, heartache, and uncertainty until neuroscience gave her the first spark of self-belief she had felt in her adult life — and proof that, because of the brain’s near-infinite potential for neuroplastic change, it’s never too late to carve out neural pathways to form new habits, new skills, and new ways of thinking. Whether you want to nerd-out on Neuroscientific acronyms, finally understand what’s going on in your head, or take refuge in a book that’s like a warm hug for your mind, How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend is a delight-filled, evidence-based guide to taking better care of your brain — so it, in turn, will take better care of you. |
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From the celebrated Ursula K. Le Guin, "a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller" (Boston Globe), the revised and updated edition of her classic guide to the essentials of a writer's craft. Completely revised and rewritten to address modern challenges and opportunities, this handbook is a short, deceptively simple guide to the craft of writing. Le Guin lays out ten chapters that address the most fundamental components of narrative, from the sound of language to sentence construction to point of view. Each chapter combines illustrative examples from the global canon with Le Guin’s own witty commentary and an exercise that the writer can do solo or in a group. She also offers a comprehensive guide to working in writing groups, both actual and online. Masterly and concise, Steering the Craft deserves a place on every writer's shelf. |
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“Sparkles with insight.”—Daniel Pink A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2023 A New Scientist Best Science Book    A Publishers Weekly Summer Read 2023 Recommendation One of Next Big Idea Club’s "7 Books that Reveal the Wonders of Writing and Language" One of Inc.’s “13 Psychology Books to Understand Humans Way Better” This revolutionary book goes beyond any recent book on language to dissect how language operates in our minds and how to harness its virtually limitless power. As Dr. Marian explains, while you may well think you speak only one language, in fact your mind accommodates multiple codes of communication. Some people speak Spanish, some Mandarin. Some speak poetry, some are fluent in math. The human brain is built to use multiple languages, and using more languages opens doors to creativity, brain health, and cognitive control.   Every new language we speak shapes how we extract and interpret information. It alters what we remember, how we perceive ourselves and the world around us, how we feel, the insights we have, the decisions we make, and the actions we take. Language is an invaluable tool for organizing, processing, and structuring information, and thereby unleashing radical advancement.   Learning a new language has broad lifetime consequences, and Dr. Marian reviews research showing that it: ·        Enhances executive function—our ability to focus on the things that matter and ignore the things that don’t. ·        Results in higher scores on creative-thinking tasks. ·        Develops critical reasoning skills. ·        Delays Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia by four to six years. ·        Improves decisions made under emotional duress. ·        Changes what we see, pay attention to, and recall. |
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Exam Prep: Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations, Fifth Edition is designed to thoroughly prepare you for a Hazardous Materials certification, promotion, or training examination by including the same type of multiple-choice questions that you are likely to encounter on the actual exam. By completing the practice questions in this manual, you will be able to identify weak areas you may have, allowing you to adjust accordingly. The manual follows the Systematic Approach to Examination Preparation, developed by Dr. Ben. A. Hirst, to help improve examination scores. The practice examinations were written by fire and emergency services personnel and the content was validated through current reference materials and technical review committees. Your exam performance will improve after using this system. |
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Cet ouvrage s’adresse notamment aux étudiants du cours de droit de l’entreprise. Il met à leur disposition deux ressources d’aide à la préparation des évaluations formatives et sommatives : d’une part, des conseils simples sur la manière de résoudre le cas pratique, un exercice incontournable en droit; d’autre part, une banque d’une centaine de fiches de jurisprudence qui illustrent la façon dont les tribunaux ont abordé plusieurs des questions fréquemment posées en droit de l’entreprise. |
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The engaging, self-guided way to sharpen your grammar and write better! Mastering English grammar can be a real challenge. But never fear! The English Grammar Workbook for Adults is here to help improve your writing fluency so you can feel confident while crafting emails, cover letters, birthday cards and more. No matter your current skill level, this English grammar workbook has everything you need to learn essential elements, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, tenses, and beyond. Then, you’ll apply what you’ve learned to everyday situations you could encounter at school, at work, social situations, creative writing, online, and more. Fun & functional —This clear, concise book is essential for ESL/EFL and other grammar students who want to work on writing English. Situational success —Get expert tips on how grammar applies to real-world scenarios. Easy to use —Find quick answers to your English grammar questions using text boxes and the expanded index in the back of the book. Learning how to communicate more clearly is a snap with The English Grammar Workbook for Adults . |
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An electronic book on basic science of pain written by well-known experts in the field. A few special features for the readers: (1) to help explaining and elucidating the concept of basic science, the book contains lots of videos, animations and illustrations that summarize important information (in 4 chapters, we have 28 videos, 25 illustrations and 3 interactive diagrams); (2) each basic science chapter is accompanied by a clinically orientated chapter to discuss the clinical relevance of the basic scientific knowledge. Four chapters: 1. Ascending pathway: JoseCastro-Lopes, Fani Neto (basic science), Carlos Goicoechea, Oscar de Leon (clinical) 2. Descending pathway: Serge Marchand (basic science); Ken Craig, Philip Peng (clinical) 3. Visceral pain: Qasim Aziz, Adam Farmer (basic science); Maria Adele Giamberadino, Raffaele Costantini (clinical) 4. Brain imaging: Karen Davis (basic science); Angela Mailis (clinical) |
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A few well-chosen words can elicit smiles, inspire happiness, transform moods, and turn a bad day into a good one. Philosopher William James once said, “The deepest principle in human nature is the desire to be appreciated.” This is a fun, fabulous, reader-friendly book all about compliments—the history of compliments, how to use them, best-loved compliments, and how to take them. |
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A Fully-Updated, No-Nonsense Guide to Electronics Advance your electronics knowledge and gain the skills necessary to develop and construct your own functioning gadgets. Written by a pair of experienced engineers and dedicated hobbyists, Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, lays out the essentials and provides step-by-step instructions, schematics, and illustrations. Discover how to select the right components, design and build circuits, use microcontrollers and ICs, work with the latest software tools, and test and tweak your creations. This easy-to-follow book features new instruction on programmable logic, semiconductors, operational amplifiers, voltage regulators, power supplies, digital electronics, and more. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, covers: Resistors, capacitors, inductors, and transformers Diodes, transistors, and integrated circuits Optoelectronics, solar cells, and phototransistors Sensors, GPS modules, and touch screens Op amps, regulators, and power supplies Digital electronics, LCD displays, and logic gates Microcontrollers and prototyping platforms Combinational and sequential programmable logic DC motors, RC servos, and stepper motors Microphones, audio amps, and speakers Modular electronics and prototypes |
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Want to live a better life but feel overwhelmed? Longevity is achievable without sweat, without strict elimination diets, or pounding the pavement until you’re too sore to enjoy the rest of your day.   Good news—living a longer and healthier life doesn’t need to be complicated.   Join the thousands of followers who rely on Dr. Howard J. Luks, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in Sports Medicine, to empower them with straightforward, actionable longevity strategies. Author of the blogs on his incredibly popular website, howardluksmd.com, he’s compiled his wisdom into Longevity…Simplified : Living A Longer, Healthier Life Shouldn’t Be Complicated , an easy-to-read guide that tosses out the myths and clears up the truth behind living longer . As you read this book, you will:   Understand the science behind the recommendations for living a longer and healthier life Understand that all our bodies’ systems are interconnected and rely on one another. Connect all the dots to poor metabolic health and take practical steps to reverse this path Recognize that fear doesn't need to be your reality Recognizing that most people view “exercise” as unpleasant work Stop going down “rabbit holes” of false information Realize you don't have to change as much as you think In Longevity…Simplified, Dr. Luks explores: Longevity goals and why they’re essential, and achievable, regardless of your age How your metabolic fitness affects your risk of most chronic diseases that lead to our demise.  Why metabolic health is your key to a longer healthspan Delaying dementia Heart (cardiovascular) health The importance of sleep Nutrition for longevity The benefits of exercise Why exercise doesn't need to be sweaty and painful How to increase your fitness and track your progress Muscle strength for longevity   You don’t have to live in the gym or never eat an ounce of carbohydrates to achieve a longer healthspan and enjoy your quality of life. Pick up Longevity…Simplified and start living your best life today. |
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"A hugely entertaining achievement." –Esquire “An engaging survey through a period of intellectual history that reveals as much about people who wear watches as the objects on their wrists." – Wall Street Journal "As impeccably crafted and precisely engineered as any of the watches on which the author has worked so lovingly over the years, this book is a joy to behold and a wonder to enjoy.” –Simon Winchester, author of The Perfectionists and Land An award-winning watchmaker—one of the few practicing the art in the world today—chronicles the invention of time through the centuries-long story of one of mankind’s most profound technological achievements: the watch. Timepieces have long accompanied us on our travels, from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest, the ice of the arctic to the sands of the deserts, outer space to the surface of the moon. The watch has sculpted the social and economic development of modern society; it is an object that, when disassembled, can give us new insights both into the motivations of inventors and craftsmen of the past, and, into the lives of the people who treasured them. Hands of Time is a journey through watchmaking history, from the earliest attempts at time-keeping, to the breakthrough in engineering that gave us the first watch, to today – where the timepieces hold cultural and historical significance beyond what its first creators could have imagined. Acclaimed watchmaker Rebecca Struthers uses the most important watches throughout history to explore their attendant paradigm shifts in how we think about time, indeed how we think about our own humanity. From an up-close look at the birth of the fakes and forgeries industry which marked the watch as a valuable commodity, to the watches that helped us navigate trade expeditions, she reveals how these instruments have shaped how we build and then consequently make our way through the world. A fusion of art and science, history and social commentary, this fascinating work, told in Struthers’s lively voice and illustrated with custom line drawings by her husband and fellow watchmaker Craig, is filled with her personal observations as an expert watchmaker—one of the few remaining at work in the world today. Horology is a vast subject—the “study of time.” This compelling history offers a fresh take, exploring not only these watches within their time, but the role they played in human development and the impact they had on the people who treasured them.  |
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Learn how to evaluate and apply health sciences research with this beginner's guide! Reading Research: A User-Friendly Guide for Health Professionals, 7th Edition provides a clear introduction to reading and understanding research articles, with practical guidelines for implementing research into clinical practice. It describes how to interpret common research methods including qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method approaches, and explains how to find relevant, reliable research on the internet. Written by Barbara Davies and Jo Logan, both of whom are noted educators and research experts, this easy-to-use pocket guide is ideal for both students and health professionals. - Concise overview of health sciences-related research maximizes your study time and makes it easier to understand qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research. - Succinct introduction to reading and understanding health sciences research articles is accompanied by practice worksheets and other learning resources on an Evolve website. - Helpful guidelines suggest how to find interesting research results, identify how to use research results towards planning and delivering best practices and improving patient outcomes, and recommend actions to address barriers to using research in practice. - UNIQUE! Tips boxes provide practical, easy-to-follow advice for those who are new to the subject. - UNIQUE! Alert! boxes warn of common assumptions made when reading research. - Recommendations for best practices in research include brief definitions of popular research terms as well as links to World Health Organization information, the latest RNAO (Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario) Best Practice Guidelines, and guidelines from Australia, the USA, the UK, and other countries. - NEW! Enhanced worksheet exercises on the Evolve website demonstrate how to apply knowledge gained from the text, based on research articles drawn from Australia, Canada, Europe, and the USA, on a variety of health issues encountered in hospital and community settings. |
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Epidemics and the Modern World explores the relationships between epidemics and key themes in modern history. Our institutions, colonial structures, relationships to animals, and perceptions of suffering, sexuality, race, and disability have all shaped – and been shaped by – these significant medical events. This book uses "biographies" of epidemics such as plague, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS to explore the impact of disease on the development of modern societies from the fourteenth century to the present. Drawing on the most recent science of genetics, microbiology, and climatology, this text includes "Science Focus" boxes that discuss important scientific concepts and technologies. Structured workshop sections with engaging primary sources help readers develop skills of interpretation and gain knowledge of key historical events. Epidemics and the Modern World assumes no prior experience with the history of science or medicine and is accessible for undergraduate students, while its challenging approach to the history of the modern world will engage readers of all levels and all interests. |
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An introduction to the principles and methods of epidemiology in a Canadian context The third edition of Epidemiology for Canadian Students updates the only introductory epidemiology textbook grounded in Canadian research and studies, and it takes into account the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this resource, students will learn core concepts, while also familiarizing themselves with Canadian registries, special-purpose cohorts, provincial health administrators, national statistical agencies and other sources that inform epidemiologic research in Canada. The third edition includes new links to Statistics Canada resources, updated examples with reference to recent Canadian and international literature on topics such as COVID-19, and expanded coverage of causal diagrams. Topics include: Basic principles and why epidemiological reasoning matters for health professionalsKey parameters in descriptive and analytical epidemiologySources of error in epidemiology and ways to quantify and control errorThe concept of bias, which is introduced with basic parameter estimates to make it more accessible to studentsKey study designs and their vulnerability to errorHow to use critical appraisal and causal judgement to evaluate epidemiological studies |
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Vous souhaitez progresser en français  et vous préparer au niveau A2 (DELF, TCF, TEF)  ? Grammaire essentielle du français A2  permet de découvrir la grammaire du français de façon progressive, simple et dynamique en trois étapes : « observez », « réfléchissez »  et « mémorisez ».  675 exercices : pour chacune des 45 leçons, plus de 15 activités d’entraînement oral et écrit et 1 activité de prise de parole en continu ou en interaction. |
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Tolman Hall Literature Unit Studies are designed to give you the flexibility to design your own curriculum based on your children’s interests while still providing a solid foundation in literature. If used as designed, your children will learn and understand the literary concepts essential for doing well on standardized tests such as the SAT Literature Subject Test and the ACT Reading Test. Even more important, Tolman Hall Literature Studies will open your students’ eyes to ideas, concepts, and deeper meanings that they may previously have skimmed over in cursory literature studies and in their reading for pleasure. Each Unit Study provides background information about the author, several possible unit study schedules, a plot overview, and individual lessons. The lessons each contain a reading assignment, a summary and analysis of the assignment, a vocabulary lesson, a reading quiz, and short essay questions. Depending on your needs and schedule, you can customize the lessons to fit your students’ needs. As the teacher, you can read along with your students, or if you’re short on time, you can keep up by simply reading the summaries and analyses of each lesson, which give enough information for you to discuss the assignment with your student. Many homeschooling parents teach more than one student at a time, and with Tolman Hall Unit Studies, you can teach the same work of literature at several grade levels. For instance, you could assign the same reading to students in grades 7 and 9 but assign the 9th grader more difficult writing assignments and more mature end-of-unit projects. In this way, your whole family can discuss the same books and authors while still meeting grade-appropriate requirements. Two Old Women is a story based on an Athabaskan Indian legend about two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. The Athabaskan Indians lived in the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, and the legend was passed from mother to daughter until Velma Wallis dramatized it in this suspenseful and inspirational novel. Published in 1993, Two Old Women won the Western States Book Award in 1993 and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award in 1994. |
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- NEW! Preface includes an overview of the NCSBN® Clinical Judgement Measurement Model, PN competencies, and the REx-PN®. - NEW! Clinical judgement exercises equip students for success on the Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN), including questions with an increased focus on clinical judgement. - Updated content throughout corresponds to the 4th Canadian edition of the textbook and incorporates the latest research and evidence-informed practice. |
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"This book is a tremendous asset for students and residents learning to develop their diagnostic skills. It can also be useful as a refresher for established clinicians when the more common diagnoses are not the cause of a patient's complaints." —Doody's Review An engaging case-based approach to learning the diagnostic process in internal medicine Doody's Core Titles for 2023! Symptom to Diagnosis, Fourth Edition teaches an evidence-based, step-by-step process for evaluating, diagnosing, and treating patients based on their clinical complaints. By applying this process clinicians will be able to recognize specific diseases and prescribe the most effective therapy. Each chapter is built around a common patient complaint that illustrates essential concepts and provides insight into the process by which the differential diagnosis is identified. As the case progresses, clinical reasoning is explained in detail. The differential diagnosis for that particular case is summarized in tables that highlight the clinical clues and important tests for the leading diagnostic hypothesis and alternative diagnostic hypotheses. As the chapter progresses, the pertinent diseases are reviewed. Just as in real life, the case unfolds in a stepwise fashion as tests are performed and diagnoses are confirmed or refuted. Completely updated to reflect the latest research in clinical medicine, this fourth edition is enhanced by algorithms, summary tables, questions that direct evaluation, and an examination of recently developed diagnostic tools and guidelines. Clinical pearls are featured in every chapter. Coverage for each disease includes: Textbook Presentation, Disease Highlights, Evidence-Based Diagnosis, and Treatment. |
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Le vocabulaire indispensable du prêt-à -porter pour travailler dans la mode (vêtements, détails, bases de textiles, mercerie et accessoires) - Ouvrage illustré et bilingue. Avec plus de 1200 illustrations en couleurs, ce lexique Français-Anglais rassemble cinq grandes familles du vocabulaire de la mode : les vêtements classés par catégorie de forme, les détails de vêtements, les bases des textiles, la mercerie et les accessoires regroupant chapeaux, chaussures, sacs, ceintures et bretelles, cravates, écharpes, gants et lunettes. Chaque mot du lexique est enrichi par sa traduction phonétique en Français et en Anglais permettant ainsi d'assurer au lecteur sa bonne interprétation du mot dans le langage parlé. Fashion vocabulary glossary for garments, details, textiles basics, haberdashery and accessories. With over 1200 colour illustrations, this French-English lexicon gathers all the fashion vocabulary along with phonetic transcription in both langage, thus enabling the reader to pronounce the word correctly when speaking. |
