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Imagine the leaders of one of New York’s top real-estate firms coming together every Monday morning to hear…the moral and spiritual thoughts of a Rabbi. Wouldn’t you like to hear the paths Alan Lurie traced for his listeners, how he helped them bring together their spiritual and business lives, the sacred and the profane? Five Minutes on Mondays compiles these talks for the first time, sharing Lurie’s deep and profound inspiration on the challenges we all face--at work and in life. Lurie draws on millennia of philosophy, theology, and science to help us answer our deepest questions, comfort our deepest yearnings, and become better people: more connected to each other and to the Greater Purpose. Next, in Touchdown! Achieving Your Greatness on the Playing Field of Business (and Life), Dr. Kevin Elko shows how to build your success one brick at a time…so when it happens, it happens huge. 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Graham provides a working definition of identity, shares powerful insights about why it’s so important, offers a process and structure for your own journey, and introduces his patented 9 Step Plan for SuccessTM. In Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition, the legendary Ken Blanchard and his colleagues bring together everything they’ve learned about world-class leadership. Discover how to create targets and visions based on the “triple bottom line,” and make sure people know who you are, where you’re going, and the values that will guide your journey. In Winners Never Cheat, Jon M. Huntsman shows how to succeed at the top, without sacrificing principles that make life worth living. Huntsman personally built a $12 billion company from scratch, the old-fashioned way: with integrity. Now, he tells you how he did it, and how you can, too. 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Throughout the book, the authors focus on key results in each area and stress the organic unity of the subject.A comprehensive and authoritative text that treats some of the main topics of modern analysisA look at basic functional analysis and its applications in harmonic analysis, probability theory, and several complex variablesKey results in each area discussed in relation to other areas of mathematicsHighlights the organic unity of large areas of analysis traditionally split into subfieldsInteresting exercises and problems illustrate ideasClear proofs providedElias M. Stein is the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. Rami Shakarchi received his PhD in mathematics from Princeton University.</description><dc:publisher>Princeton University Press</dc:publisher><dc:creator>Elias M.  Stein</dc:creator><dc:creator>Rami  Shakarchi</dc:creator><dc:subject>Functional Analysis</dc:subject><dc:date>20110819</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781400840496"><title>Information Choice in Macroeconomics and Finance</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781400840496</link><description>Most theories in economics and finance predict what people will do, given what they know about the world around them. But what do people know about their environments? The study of information choice seeks to answer this question, explaining why economic players know what they know--and how the information they have affects collective outcomes. Instead of assuming what people do or don't know, information choice asks what people would choose to know. Then it predicts what, given that information, they would choose to do. In this textbook, Laura Veldkamp introduces graduate students in economics and finance to this important new research.The book illustrates how information choice is used to answer questions in monetary economics, portfolio choice theory, business cycle theory, international finance, asset pricing, and other areas. It shows how to build and test applied theory models with information frictions. And it covers recent work on topics such as rational inattention, information markets, and strategic games with heterogeneous information.Illustrates how information choice is used to answer questions in monetary economics, portfolio choice theory, business cycle theory, international finance, asset pricing, and other areasTeaches how to build and test applied theory models with information frictionsCovers recent research on topics such as rational inattention, information markets, and strategic games with heterogeneous informationLaura L. Veldkamp is associate professor of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business.</description><dc:publisher>Princeton University Press</dc:publisher><dc:creator>Laura L.  Veldkamp</dc:creator><dc:subject>Advanced Macroeconomics</dc:subject><dc:date>20110815</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781400839469"><title>The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781400839469</link><description>With 150 accessible articles written by more than 130 leading experts, this essential reference provides authoritative introductions to some of the most important and talked-about topics in American history and politics, from the founding to today. Abridged from the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History, this is the only single-volume encyclopedia that provides comprehensive coverage of both the traditional topics of U.S. political history and the broader forces that shape American politics--including economics, religion, social movements, race, class, and gender. Fully indexed and cross-referenced, each entry provides crucial context, expert analysis, informed perspectives, and suggestions for further reading.Contributors include Dean Baker, Lewis Gould, Alex Keyssar, James Kloppenberg, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Lisa McGirr, Jack Rakove, Nick Salvatore, Stephen Skowronek, Jeremi Suri, Julian Zelizer, and many more.Entries cover:Key political periods, from the founding to todayPolitical institutions, major parties, and founding documentsThe broader forces that shape U.S. politics, from economics, religion, and social movements to race, class, and genderIdeas, philosophies, and movementsThe political history and influence of geographic regionsMichael Kazin is professor of history at Georgetown University. Rebecca Edwards is the Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College. Adam Rothman is associate professor of history at Georgetown University.</description><dc:publisher>Princeton University Press</dc:publisher><dc:creator>Michael  Kazin</dc:creator><dc:subject>American History</dc:subject><dc:date>20110909</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781400831333"><title>Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781400831333</link><description>Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improve much less than they should in such important areas as writing, critical thinking, quantitative skills, and moral reasoning. Large majorities of college seniors do not feel that they have made substantial progress in speaking a foreign language, acquiring cultural and aesthetic interests, or learning what they need to know to become active and informed citizens. Overall, despite their vastly increased resources, more powerful technology, and hundreds of new courses, colleges cannot be confident that students are learning more than they did fifty years ago.Looking further, Bok finds that many important college courses are left to the least experienced teachers and that most professors continue to teach in ways that have proven to be less effective than other available methods. In reviewing their educational programs, however, faculties typically ignore this evidence. Instead, they spend most of their time discussing what courses to require, although the lasting impact of college will almost certainly depend much more on how the courses are taught.In his final chapter, Bok describes the changes that faculties and academic leaders can make to help students accomplish more. Without ignoring the contributions that America's colleges have made, Bok delivers a powerful critique--one that educators will ignore at their peril.</description><dc:publisher>Princeton University Press</dc:publisher><dc:creator>Derek  Bok</dc:creator><dc:subject>Curriculum and Instruction</dc:subject><dc:date>20111226</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9780133087512"><title>The Financial Crisis in Perspective (Collection)</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9780133087512</link><description>A brand new collection of powerful insights into the meaning and implications of the financial crisis… now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!How the financial crisis really happened, and what it really meant: 3 eBooks packed with lessons for investors and policymakers!These three eBooks offer unsurpassed insight into the causes and implications of the global financial crisis: information every investor and policy-maker needs to prepare for an extraordinarily uncertain future. In Financial Shock, Updated Edition, renowned economist Mark Zandi provides the most concise, lucid account of the economic, political, and regulatory causes of the collapse, plus new insights into the continuing impact of the Obama administration’s policies. Zandi doesn’t just illuminate the roles of mortgage lenders, investment bankers, speculators, regulators, and the Fed: he offers sensible recommendations for preventing the next collapse. In Extreme Money, best-selling author and global finance expert Satyajit Das reveals the spectacular, dangerous money games that are generating increasingly massive bubbles of fake growth, prosperity, and wealth, while endangering the jobs, possessions, and futures of everyone outside finance. Das explains how everything from home mortgages to climate change have become fully financialized… how “voodoo banking” keeps generating massive phony profits even now… and how a new generation of “Masters of the Universe” has come to own the world. Finally, in The Fearful Rise of Markets, top Financial Times global finance journalist John Authers reveals how the first truly global super bubble was inflated, and may now be inflating again. He illuminates the multiple roots of repeated financial crises, presenting a truly global viewÂ¿that avoids both oversimplification and ideology. Most valuable of all, Authers offers realistic solutions: for decision-makers who want to prevent disaster, and investors who want to survive it.From world-renowned leaders and experts, includingDr. Mark Zandi, Satyajit Das, and John Authers</description><dc:publisher>FT Press</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  Mark  Zandi</dc:creator><dc:creator>  Satyajit  Das</dc:creator><dc:creator>  John  Authers</dc:creator><dc:subject>Principles of Economics</dc:subject><dc:date>20120501</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9780133087314"><title>Powerful PR Strategies for Success (Collection)</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9780133087314</link><description>A brand new collection of state-of-the-art insights into public relations, from practitioner Deirdre Breakenridge.Master Supercharged PR Techniques Based on the Latest Social and Online Platforms!Three great books help you leverage the latest social media and online platforms to transform the way you do PR--and the results you achieve! In Social Media and Public Relations: Eight New Practices for the PR Professional, social marketing pioneer Deirdre Breakenridge teaches and demonstrates the eight new skills and mindsets you need to build brands and engage customers in a social world. This concise, action-oriented book shows practitioners how to systematically expand their roles, improve their processes, and sharpen their strategies to engage with today’s more sophisticated and socialized customers. Next, in Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media Is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR, Breakenridge and Brian Solis show how to bring the “public” back into public relations and get results traditional PR people can only dream about. Drawing on their unparalleled experience, they present powerful new ways to build the relationships that matter and reach a new generation of influencers…leverage platforms ranging from Twitter to Facebook…embed yourself in communities that are shaping the future. Finally, in PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences, Breakenridge helps you master the full spectrum of online tools to build meaningful two-way conversations with everyone who matters to you. Choose the right strategies for each PR scenario and environment, keep the best Web 1.0 tools, stop using outmoded, counterproductive tactics, and master new best practices ranging from online newsrooms to advanced research and analytics.From world-renowned leaders in social media and modern public relationsDeirdre BreakenridgeandBrian Solis</description><dc:publisher>FT Press</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  Deirdre K. Breakenridge</dc:creator><dc:creator>  Brian  Solis</dc:creator><dc:subject>Advertising &amp; Public Relations</dc:subject><dc:date>20120501</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9780133006353"><title>Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally: The Professional Development Edition for Mathematics Coaches and Other Teacher Leaders, Eighth Edition</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9780133006353</link><description>Written by leaders in the field, this best-selling book will help mathematics coaches and other teacher-leaders support all Pre-K – 8 teachers in growing professionally in their teaching of mathematics. Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally, Professional Development Edition provides an unparalleled depth of ideas and discussion to help mathematics coaches and other teacher leaders develop teachers’ understanding of the mathematics they will teach and the most effective methods of teaching the various mathematics topics. This text reflects the NCTM and Common Core State Standards and the benefits of problem-based mathematics instruction. It is structured for maximum flexibility, offering 23 chapters that may be mixed and matched to address all major topics in mathematics education today. This comprehensive, practical text offers readers a strong theoretical perspective reflecting the most current research on how students learn mathematics, ways to best teach it, and many problem-based activities to engage students and their teachers. </description><dc:publisher>Allyn &amp; Bacon</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  John A. Van de Walle</dc:creator><dc:creator>  Karen S. Karp</dc:creator><dc:creator>  Jennifer M. Bay-Williams</dc:creator><dc:creator>  Jonathan  Wray</dc:creator><dc:creator>  Nicole  Rigelman</dc:creator><dc:subject>Curriculum and Instruction</dc:subject><dc:date>20120323</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/0077140613"><title>Management Accounting 4/e</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/0077140613</link><description>The new fourth edition of Management Accounting by Professor Will Seal offers comprehensive coverage as well as a balance between the technical and conceptual approaches to management accounting. Retaining its student friendly writing style and practical approach, it is the ideal text for students studying management accounting across a variety of levels, from introductory through to advanced levels.</description><dc:publisher>McGraw-Hill Education (UK) Ltd.#UK</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  Seal</dc:creator><dc:subject>Management Accounting</dc:subject><dc:date>20110111</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781400833085"><title>An Introduction to Mathematical Analysis for Economic Theory and Econometrics</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781400833085</link><description>Providing an introduction to mathematical analysis as it applies to economic theory and econometrics, this book bridges the gap that has separated the teaching of basic mathematics for economics and the increasingly advanced mathematics demanded in economics research today. Dean Corbae, Maxwell B. Stinchcombe, and Juraj Zeman equip students with the knowledge of real and functional analysis and measure theory they need to read and do research in economic and econometric theory.Unlike other mathematics textbooks for economics, An Introduction to Mathematical Analysis for Economic Theory and Econometrics takes a unified approach to understanding basic and advanced spaces through the application of the Metric Completion Theorem. This is the concept by which, for example, the real numbers complete the rational numbers and measure spaces complete fields of measurable sets. Another of the book's unique features is its concentration on the mathematical foundations of econometrics. To illustrate difficult concepts, the authors use simple examples drawn from economic theory and econometrics.Accessible and rigorous, the book is self-contained, providing proofs of theorems and assuming only an undergraduate background in calculus and linear algebra.Begins with mathematical analysis and economic examples accessible to advanced undergraduates in order to build intuition for more complex analysis used by graduate students and researchersTakes a unified approach to understanding basic and advanced spaces of numbers through application of the Metric Completion TheoremFocuses on examples from econometrics to explain topics in measure theoryDean Corbae is the Rex A. and Dorothy B. Sebastian Centennial Professor in Business Administration at the University of Texas at Austin. Maxwell B. Stinchcombe is the E. C. McCarty Centennial Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. Juraj Zeman is researcher at the National Bank of Slovakia and lecturer in applied mathematics at Comenius University in Bratislava.</description><dc:publisher>Princeton University Press</dc:publisher><dc:creator>Dean  Corbae</dc:creator><dc:creator>Maxwell B.  Stinchcombe</dc:creator><dc:creator>Juraj  Zeman</dc:creator><dc:subject>Forecasting/Econometrics</dc:subject><dc:date>20090217</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781464104169"><title>Microeconomics, Third Edition</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781464104169</link><description>When it comes to explaining current economic conditions, there is no economist readers trust more than New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. Term after term, Krugman is earning that same level of trust in the classroom, with more and more instructors introducing students to the fundamental principles of economics via Krugman’s signature storytelling style. The new Third Edition of Paul Krugman and Robin Wells’s Microeconomics is their most accomplished yet—extensively updated to offer new examples and stories, new case studies from the business world, and expert coverage of the ongoing financial crisis.</description><dc:publisher>Worth Publishers</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  Krugman, Paul</dc:creator><dc:creator>  Wells, Robin</dc:creator><dc:subject>Principles of Economics</dc:subject><dc:date>20120501</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781449691479"><title>Quality Management in Health Care: Principles and Methods</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781449691479</link><description>Now in its second edition, Quality Management in Health Care: Principles and Methods addresses the mounting pressure on the health care industry to control costs while providing the highest quality care and services. In doing so, it provides students with a solid foundation in the implementation of quality improvement activities and the tools necessary to evaluate and improve their efforts toward quality of care. With an emphasis on general theory and practical applications, the text delineates the techniques that form the basis of quality management in medicine, such as group processes, process orientation, statistical process control, and statistical techniques. A clear and concise writing style and effective use of examples, illustrations, and case studies elucidate the complex topics presented in the text.</description><dc:publisher>Jones &amp; Bartlett Learning</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  Donald Lighter,        Director, The Institute for Healthcare Quality Research and Education</dc:creator><dc:creator>  Douglas C. Fair</dc:creator><dc:subject>General Health</dc:subject><dc:date>20040224</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781449689193"><title>Legal, Ethical, and Practical Aspects of Patient Care Documentation: A Guide for Rehabilitation Professionals</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781449689193</link><description>Legal, Ethical, and Practical Aspects of Patient Care Documentation: A Guide for Rehabilitation Professionals, Fourth Edition, is the only text to integrate coverage of the legal responsibilities of rehabilitation professionals with basic, essential advice on how to effectively document patient care activities – from intake through discharge. This resource thoroughly covers the basics of documentation and includes many exemplars, cases, and forms, as well as a sample abbreviations used in rehabilitation settings. Legal, Ethical, and Practical Aspects of Patient Care Documentation, Fourth Edition covers all the bases – from ethics, to practical aspects of patient care documentation, to relevant and salient legal implications and illustrative case examples that will help students excel in practice. Even after graduation, this text is perfect for ready reference in the clinic!FEATURES All updated materials and references A chapter on patient informed consent documentation issues Focus on electronic medical records (EMRs) The patient care record, as a legal document, used in legal proceedings Exemplars showing purposes, methods, and techniques of patient care documentation Case examples in the ethical aspects of patient care documentation Documentation formats Documentation activities 25 documentation errors and suggestions Background information on the litigation environment written by a health law attorney Focus on Ethics vignettes Extensive reference lists Universal coverage of health disciplines</description><dc:publisher>Jones &amp; Bartlett Learning</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  Ron W. Scott</dc:creator><dc:subject>Physical Therapy</dc:subject><dc:date>20111114</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781449688639"><title>Nonprofit Marketing</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781449688639</link><description>Nonprofit Marketing: Tools and Techniques presents a series of 35 essential marketing tools and demonstrates their application in the nonprofit sector, referencing myriad diverse entities, including zoological parks, planetariums, theater companies, medical clinics, workforce development centers, food banks, and more. Ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in nonprofit marketing, promotion, fundraising, and related courses, the text covers a broad spectrum of topics, including product development and portfolio analysis, branding and identity management, target marketing, consumer behavior and product promotions, environmental analysis and competitive assessment, and marketing management, strategy, and planning. Each chapter focuses on a specific marketing tool and can be read as a stand-alone presentation of the topic. Instructor Resources: Instructor's Manual, PowerPoints, TestBank</description><dc:publisher>Jones &amp; Bartlett Learning</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  John L. Fortenberry Jr.</dc:creator><dc:subject>Public Administration</dc:subject><dc:date>20120329</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781449686833"><title>Fit to be Well: Essential Concepts BOOK ONLY</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781449686833</link><description>Fit to Be Well: Essential Concepts offers simple, workable approaches for being healthy and fit that can be easily be added to a student’s lifestyle and schedule. It encourage students to increase their self-esteem and create a more positive self-image by improving their eating habits and incorporating healthier foods, increasing their level of physical activity, improving physical endurance, strength, and flexibility while reducing stress. Each chapter contains easy to follow guidelines to help students modify their lifestyle behaviors and make responsible decisions. New to the Third Edition • Healthy People 2020 and MyPlate • Life expectancy • Exercising in the heat, cold, air pollution, and at high altitude • Cross-training and interval-training • How to overcome excuses for not exercising • The FITT formula for designing an effective exercise program • Walking techniques, how to gauge walking speeds, and pedometers • And more!</description><dc:publisher>Jones &amp; Bartlett Learning</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  Alton L. Thygerson,        Brigham Young University</dc:creator><dc:creator>  Steven M. Thygerson</dc:creator><dc:subject>Physical Fitness &amp; Wellness</dc:subject><dc:date>20120207</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781449686765"><title>Correctional Counseling: A Cognitive Growth Perspective</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781449686765</link><description>The cognitive growth model maintains that correctional counseling is intended to help offenders balance their lives and important relations through developing more accurate social cognitions and understanding about the self, others, and patterns governing their interactions. This updated Second Edition employs the cognitive growth model to examine the major contemporary issues in correctional counseling and thoroughly explains how to use the model to fully understand and effectively perform correctional counseling. Correctional Counseling: A Cognitive Growth Perspective discusses such issues as, the counselor roles, work settings and challenges, offender classification and assessment, counseling processes, intervention/therapeutic techniques, and more. With this text the reader will learn how to respond to correctional clients and help them cope with their issues in the community and within prison. New to the Second Edition: -A NEW chapter (Chapter 11) on understanding and treating substance abuse has been added to address the increasing issue of substance abuse for the offender population. -Includes a NEW chapter (Chapter 12) on restorative justice. This chapter examines the skills and principles of restorative justice and addresses the needs of the victim, community, and the offender. -Contains updated crime statistics, further examines the issue of prisoner reentry, and provides additional information on drug/mental health courts. -Includes an expanded discussion on art therapy for assessment, and focuses on its techniques and benefits. -The chapter on counseling processes (Chapter 7) has been updated to include coverage on the issue of a gender-sensitive approach in counseling female offenders, and assessment and intervention for juvenile offenders. -The chapter on mentally disordered offenders (Chapter 10) includes an expanded discussion on research about mental illness and violence, and further analyzes the debate between social cognitive explanation and the biomedical explanation for mental disorder. Key Features: -Comprehensive in coverage, this text includes discussions on all major issues in contemporary correctional counseling (correctional counselors' roles, settings and challenges, major systems of therapeutic models, counseling processes, ethical dilemmas, etc.). Readers gain a wide-range of knowledge about correctional counseling theories and practice. -Although comprehensive, all discussions remain concise so that the reader can focus on and learn the most relevant and useful knowledge needed to succeed in the field. -Describes controversial issues in correctional counseling, including the limitations of counseling models and multidisciplinary perspectives for evidence-based counseling. This text encourages the reader to think critically and analyze the correctional issues being discussed. Instructor Resources: • Instructor's Manual • Test Bank • PowerPoint Lecture Outlines</description><dc:publisher>Jones &amp; Bartlett Learning</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  Key Sun,        Central Washington University</dc:creator><dc:subject>Corrections</dc:subject><dc:date>20120223</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781449682996"><title>EMS Medication Field Guide</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781449682996</link><description>The Fourth Edition is a quick reference guide to drug and toxicology information and will speed your recognition of unfamiliar drugs, improving your field care and treatment of the overdose or poison patient.</description><dc:publisher>Jones &amp; Bartlett Learning</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  Peter A. 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Wilderness and Rescue Medicine: A Practical Guide for the Basic and Advanced Practitioner teaches readers how to improvise, adapt and exercise reasonable judgment at any level of medical training and in any difficult environment, from the desert to the oceans, from the backwoods to cities stricken by disaster. Grounded in the collective wisdom of hundreds of instructors, rescue personnel and medical practitioners, this text explores medical problems in a broad wilderness context—including cold injuries, altitude illness, diving and lightening injuries and toxins, among others—and pairs that exploration with the realities of solving such problems in the field, well outside the confines and comforts of mainstream medicine. Wilderness and Rescue Medicine: A Practical Guide for the Basic and Advanced Practitioner provides: • The most up-to-date guidance on practicing medicine in a wilderness context • An introduction to critical body systems and the general principals of trauma • Specific information on environmental and backcountry medicine • An examination of the medical role in search and rescue missions</description><dc:publisher>Jones &amp; Bartlett Learning</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  Jeffrey Isaac,        Wilderness Medical Associates International</dc:creator><dc:creator>  David E. Johnson</dc:creator><dc:subject>Emergency Medical Services</dc:subject><dc:date>20120313</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781439057001"><title>Using Computers in the Law Office - Advanced</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781439057001</link><description>Created for those with a working knowledge of basic word processing, spreadsheet, and database software, USING COMPUTERS IN THE LAW OFFICE – ADVANCED takes you to the next level of proficiency with legal technology and imparts the more sophisticated computer skills desired by law offices today. From billing and timekeeping to electronic discovery and computer-assisted legal research, the book demonstrates real-world applications of commonly used legal software programs, and builds practical skills in Tabs3, AbacusLaw, CaseMap, TimeMap, Discover FY, Westlaw, LexisNexis and TrialDirector. Hundreds of screenshots provide context for the lessons, while each chapter includes self-test questions, suggested Web exercises, review questions and exercises and an ethics question. The detailed Hands-On Exercises include Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced assignments to allow for a variety of skill levels and to help prepare you for a successful and satisfying paralegal career or enhance your current career.</description><dc:publisher>Cengage Learning</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  Cornick</dc:creator><dc:subject>Technology and Business Law</dc:subject><dc:date>20111227</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781133191193"><title>ORGB 3, Student Edition (with Management CourseMate Printed Access Card)</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781133191193</link><description>Created by the continuous feedback of a "student-tested, faculty-approved" process, CFIN3 delivers a visually appealing, succinct print component, tear-out review cards for students and instructors and a consistent online offering with CourseMate that includes an eBook in addition to a set of interactive digital tools all at a value-based price and proven to increase retention and outcomes. CFIN3 employs self quizzes, extra problems for practice, downloadable flash cards and more - all at an affordable price and proven to enhance your learning experience and improve your grades.</description><dc:publisher>Cengage Learning</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  Nelson/Quick</dc:creator><dc:subject>Organizational Behavior</dc:subject><dc:date>20120214</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781111841935"><title>ED PSYCH (with Education CourseMate with eBook Printed Access Card)</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781111841935</link><description>Created by the continuous feedback of a "student-tested, faculty-approved" process, CFIN3 delivers a visually appealing, succinct print component, tear-out review cards for students and instructors and a consistent online offering with CourseMate that includes an eBook in addition to a set of interactive digital tools all at a value-based price and proven to increase retention and outcomes. CFIN3 employs self quizzes, extra problems for practice, downloadable flash cards and more - all at an affordable price and proven to enhance your learning experience and improve your grades.</description><dc:publisher>Wadsworth</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  Snowman/McCown</dc:creator><dc:subject>Educational Psychology</dc:subject><dc:date>20120101</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781111833015"><title>Pocket Keys for Writers</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781111833015</link><description>POCKET KEYS FOR WRITERS gives students big writing help in a small package. This indispensable pocket-style handbook covers the essentials of the writing process--taking students through the research process to the mechanics of writing and using punctuation to the evaluation and documentation of both print and electronic source materials. Concise, up-to-date, and practical, this edition is easier to use than ever before, designed to help students find the material they need when they need it.This edition of POCKET KEYS FOR WRITERS features an increased focus on academic writing and includes a new chapter on the writing process and new sections on multimodal composition. It teaches students how to find, analyze, and cite visual arguments and to create multimedia arguments. 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The package will include MP3 files so the student can hear words properly pronounced and used in context.</description><dc:publisher>Cengage Learning</dc:publisher><dc:creator>  Richek/Picci</dc:creator><dc:subject>Developmental Reading</dc:subject><dc:date>20120113</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://www.coursesmart.com/9781111826611"><title>Ethical Decision Making in Business</title><link>http://www.coursesmart.com/9781111826611</link><description>Providing a vibrant four-color design, market-leading ETHICAL DECISION MAKING IN BUSINESS: A MANAGERIAL APPROACH, 9E, International Edition thoroughly covers the complex environment in which managers confront ethical decision making. Using a proven managerial framework, this accessible, applied text addresses the overall concepts, processes, and best practices associated with successful business ethics programs--helping readers see how ethics can be integrated into key strategic business decisions. 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