Download or read book Continuum 2012 Second Edition Pocket written by Peter E. Lee and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You never expect to see beings from the future, because you were taught that Time travel to the past violated the Laws of Physics. Well, it does not. When faced with the inevitable truth of the Continuum, in which you live, you see that violence, fear, and hatred are stitched right through it. Spread curves of reality can intermingle, if the time is right. This story is a glimpse into just one of those possibilities. Time and space are bent and reality twisted, easily, by these extra-terrestiral beings. We realize that we are the endangered zoological fauna of the galaxy, ranched out, on this planet, until the round-up. This tortured science fiction novelette is geared for generation X'ers, struggling to understand this galactic law. Burnouts, bums, and boozers will all find a piece of themselves in this story. You might even find yourself laughing at the incredulity of the possibilities which this book reports. It is an alien story, after all.

Download or read book Continuum 2012 Second Edition written by Peter E. Lee and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You never expect to see beings from the future, because you were taught that Time travel to the past violated the Laws of Physics. Well, it does not. When faced with the inevitable truth of the Continuum, in which you live, you see that violence, fear, and hatred are stitched right through it. Spread curves of reality can intermingle, if the time is right. This story is a glimpse into just one of those possibilities. Time and space are bent and reality twisted, easily, by these extra-terrestiral beings. We realize that we are the endangered zoological fauna of the galaxy, ranched out, on this planet, until the round-up. This tortured science fiction novelette is geared for generation X'ers, struggling to understand this galactic law. Burnouts, bums, and boozers will all find a piece of themselves in this story. You might even find yourself laughing at the incredulity of the possibilities which this book reports. It is an alien story, after all.

Download or read book Scrum A Pocket Guide 2nd edition written by Gunther Verheyen and published by Van Haren. This book was released on 2019-02-16 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pocket guide to Scrum is the one book for everyone who wants to learn or re-learn about Scrum. The book describes the framework as it was designed and intended, with a strong focus on the purpose to the rules and adding an historical perspective to Scrum and the Agile movement. Several elements that were described in the first edition of Scrum - A Pocket Guide (2013) were later added to the official Scrum Guide. The most noticeable ones are the Scrum Values (2016) and the description of the 3 questions of the Daily Scrum as a good, yet optional practice (2017). As the balance of society keeps shifting from industrial labor to digital work, complexity and unpredictability keep increasing. The need for agility through Scrum increases equally, in and beyond software and product development. This 2nd edition of Scrum - A Pocket Guide offers the clarity and insights on Scrum that many organizations need, today and in the foreseeable future. Scrum – A Pocket Guide is an extraordinarily competent book. It flows with insight, understanding, and perception. This should be the de facto standard handout for all looking for a complete, yet clear overview of Scrum without being bothered by irrelevancies. (Ken Schwaber, Scrum co-creator) The author, Gunther Verheyen, is a seasoned Scrum practitioner (2003). Throughout his standing career as a consultant, Gunther has employed Scrum in diverse circumstances. He was partner to Ken Schwaber and Director of the Professional Scrum series at Scrum.org. He is the founder of Ullizee-Inc and engages with people and organizations as an independent Scrum Caretaker.

Download or read book Pocket Beer Book 2nd edition written by Stephen Beaumont and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As featured in beer-loving Great Food Magazine, this landmark guide provides beer fans with easy access to an expert overview and puts a world of superb beers at your disposal. Written by two of the world's leading beer experts, with the help of a team of international contributors, The Pocket Beer Book 2015 takes you from the Bock beers of Germany to the Trappist beers of Belgium, the complex bitters and stouts of Britain to the cutting-edge brews of North America. This expert selection covers the extraordinary variety the world's beers now have to offer. Tasting notes, organised by country, provide succinct commentary on the chosen beers and cover the brewery and each beer's key characteristics. With 4,300 beers featured, this book encompasses more familiar established beers as well as exciting new discoveries from the myriad craft breweries that are emerging around the world, covering 80 countries. Punctuating the tasting notes is information on 'beer destinations', specific places where you can best experience a beer in situ. An extensive introductory chapter to the book also covers styles of beer and food and beer pairings.

Download or read book Foundations and Adult Health Nursing E Book written by Barbara Lauritsen Christensen and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-12-27 with total page 2260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the popular LPN Threads series, this comprehensive text includes in-depth discussions of fundamental concepts and skills, plus medical-surgical content to help you provide safe and effective care in the fast-paced healthcare environment. Easy-to-read content, an enhanced focus on preparing for the NCLEX® Examination, and a wealth of tips and study tools make Foundations and Adult Health Nursing, 6th Edition, your must-have text!

Download or read book 101 Questions about Sex and Sexuality 2nd Edition written by Faith Hickman Brynie and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As in previous books in this critically acclaimed series, Brynie polled hundreds of high school students across the country to find out what they wanted to know most about sex and sexuality. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Brynie helps readers discover and learn facts about the sex and sexuality. Brynie appealing and clear writing style makes learning about sex and sexuality for students easy and understandable.

Download or read book So You Want to be a Teacher written by Lucy Waide and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing insight into surviving as a trainee or newly qualified teacher, complete with valuable tips that can be put straight into practice.

Download or read book Foundations of Nursing E Book written by Barbara Lauritsen Christensen and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-12-27 with total page 1395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the popular LPN Threads series, this comprehensive text prepares you for safe and effective nursing practice in today’s fast-paced healthcare environment. Covering maternal and neonatal, pediatric, geriatric, mental health, and community nursing, Foundations of Nursing, 6th Edition, includes all of the essential LPN/LVN content you need. Companion CD includes animations and audio clips depicting physiologic processes, physical assessment video clips, an English/Spanish glossary with definitions and audio pronunciations, an anatomy coloring book, and a fluid and electrolytes tutorial. The consistent, logical framework of the nursing process connects specific disorders to patient care. A mathematics review chapter provides a complete review of basic arithmetic skills and practice in drug dosage calculation to ensure safe medication administration. Safety Alert boxes help you implement The Joint Commission’s safety guidelines in all settings, with considerations for special populations. Nursing Diagnosis boxes, screened and highlighted in the text, include nursing diagnoses for specific disorders paired with the appropriate nursing interventions. More than 100 skills in a step-by-step format with full-color illustrations present clearly defined nursing actions with rationales for the skills and techniques you’ll use in practice. Medication tables are meticulously detailed and provide quick access to action, dosage, precautions, and nursing considerations for commonly used drugs. Nursing Care Plans, presented in a case-study format, emphasize patient goals and outcomes and end with Critical Thinking Questions to develop your clinical decision-making skills. Coordinated Care boxes emphasize parameters for prioritizing tasks, as well as assigning tasks to and supervising unlicensed assistive personnel. Patient Teaching boxes and Family Teaching boxes include post-hospital discharge guidelines and disease prevention instructions with a strong focus on three-way communication among the nurse, patient, and family members. Life Span Considerations for Older Adults boxes provide age-specific information for the care of the aging population, which is often the primary focus of the LPN/LVN nurse. Home Care Considerations boxes discuss the issues facing patients and caregivers in the home health care setting. Health Promotion boxes provide key information on staying healthy and preventing disease, with tips on wellness from Healthy People 2010. Cultural Considerations boxes discuss how to address the health needs of a culturally diverse patient population when planning care. Enhanced focus on the NCLEX® Examination offers end-of-chapter Get Ready for the NCLEX Examination! sections with key points for self-guided study and remediation and an extensive set of review questions for thorough self-assessment. Additional review questions on Evolve provide instant feedback with correct answer and rationale for even more test-taking practice. Evidence-Based Practice boxes summarize the latest research findings and highlight how they apply to LPN/LVN practice. Updated, vibrant full-color design highlights key information and enhances your understanding of important concepts.

Download or read book Oncology Nutrition for Clinical Practice written by Anne Coble Voss and published by Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive reference for professionals providing up-to-date oncology nutrition practice recommendations, the latest nutrition assessment tools, current knowledge, and support and resources"--

Download or read book Pocket Primary Care written by Meghan M. Kiefer and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared by residents and attending physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital, this pocket-sized loose-leaf is created in the style of Pocket Medicine by providing key clinical data for students and residents and focuses on patient care in the outpatient setting. Pocket Primary Care is a handy summary of key clinical information designed to form the basis of an individual's pocket notebook or to be integrated into one's own notebook. Includes areas of: preventive medicine, cardiovascular, dermatology, endocrine, gastrointestinal, hematology, infectious disease, musculoskeletal, neurology, ophthalmology/ ENT, psychiatry/social, pulmonary, renal/urology, special populations, women’s health, men’s health, and geriatric.

Download or read book The Mathematics Teacher s Handbook written by Mike Ollerton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive handbook for mathematics teachers with practical advice on all aspects of the maths curriculum including developing an effective classroom culture, assessment and progressing mathematical concept development.

Download or read book Molecules Of Death 2nd Edition written by Steven C Mitchell and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-08-06 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been developed over many years from several popular courses taught to students at both Birmingham and London universities. It provides an important step in introducing principles and concepts within the field of toxicology. The underlying mechanisms of toxicity are highlighted through examples taken from gases, minerals, plants, fungi, bacteria, marine creatures, industrial chemicals and pharmacological agents.In this second edition, the text has been completely revised and expanded with the addition of six new chapters — carbon monoxide, hydrofluoric acid, lead, mushroom, toxins, paracetamol, paraquat and diquat. Each chapter is self-sufficient, enabling readers to dip into chapters of interest at random without any lack of understanding. The book is informative, with numerous clinical details, and will appeal to those who wish to delve into this fascinating subject./a

Download or read book The Living Stream written by Warwick Gould and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories of the man are shared by Seamus Heaney, Christopher Rush and Colin Smythe, who compiles a bibliography of Jeffares’s work. Terence Brown, Neil Corcoran, Warwick Gould, Joseph M. Hassett, Phillip L. Marcus, Ann Saddlemyer, Ronald Schuchard, Deirdre Toomey and Helen Vendler offer essays on such topics as Yeats and the Colours of Poetry, Yeats’s Shakespeare, Yeats and Seamus Heaney, Lacrimae Rerum and Tragic Joy, Raftery’s work on Yeats’s Thoor Ballylee, Edmund Dulac’s portrait of Mrs George Yeats, The Tower as an anti-Modernist monument, with close studies of ‘Vacillation’, ‘Her Triumph’, and ‘The Cold Heaven’. Throughout, the essays are inflected with memories of Jeffares and his critical methods. The volume is rounded with further essays on A Vision by Neil Mann and Matthew de Forrest, while reviews of recent editions and studies are provided by Matthew Campbell, Wayne K. Chapman, Sandra Clark, Denis Donoghue, Nicholas Grene, Joseph M. Hassett, and K.P.S. Jochum. Yeats Annual is published by Open Book Publishers in association with the Institute of English Studies, University of London.

Download or read book The Fairchild Dictionary of Retailing 2nd Edition written by Rona Ostrow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-07-23 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of The Fairchild Dictionary of Retailing clearly defines terms commonly used in all parts of the retail industry, from retail advertising to merchandising and displays. This comprehensive reference for students and faculty in all retailing and merchandising programs lists over 10,000 terms alphabetically with extensive cross-referencing. Global terms used in the retailing industry, including descriptions of retail market structures of countries around the world, are covered. This up-to-date reference book also includes important legislation related to the retail industry, government agencies, and merchandise marts, new terms related to the e-retailing business, extensive Internet resources, and a bibliography.

Download or read book Atlas of Otologic Surgery and Magic Otology Second Edition Two Volume Set written by Marcos V Goycoolea and published by JP Medical Ltd. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 1661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to select and develop an appropriate therapy, it is essential to have an understanding of the anatomy, function and pathology of the organs involved, as well as the mechanisms of a disease. The second edition of this two volume set has been fully updated and gives special emphasis to structure, function, pathogenesis and research. Written by international experts, the atlas discusses new developments in otology, such as genetics and molecular biology, and includes a complete section on anatomy, histology, dissection, sculpturing and surgical procedures of temporal bones. Nearly 1600 detailed illustrations, figures and histology material including electron microscopy, assist understanding. A DVD featuring real cases and surgical procedures is also provided.

Download or read book Introduction to Political Psychology written by Martha L. Cottam and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, user-friendly introductory textbook to political psychology explores the psychological origins of political behavior. The authors introduce readers to a broad range of theories, concepts, and case studies of political activity to illustrate that behavior. The book examines many patterns of political behaviors, including leadership, group behavior, voting, race, ethnicity, nationalism, terrorism, war, and genocide. It explores some of the most horrific things people do to one another for political purposes, as well as how to prevent and resolve conflict -- and how to recover from it. The goal is to help the reader understand the enormous complexity of human behavior and the significant role political psychology can play in improving the human condition. The book contains numerous pedagogical features, including text boxes highlighting current and historical events to help students see the connection between the world around them and the concepts they are learning. Different research methodologies used in the discipline are employed, such as experimentation and content analysis. The "Political Being" is used throughout to remind the reader of the psychological theories and concepts to be explored in each chapter. New to the second edition is coverage of recent political events, including the 2008 US presidential election, Darfur, Iraq, and Afghanistan. There are now separate chapters on race, ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and conflict resolution. In addition, instructor resources are available online. This accessible and engaging introductory textbook is suitable as a primary text on a range of upper-level courses in political psychology, political behavior, and related fields, including policymaking.

Download or read book Becoming Emotionally Intelligent 2nd Edition written by Catherine Corrie and published by Network Continuum Education. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book takes you on a journey through the theory and practice of Emotional Intelligence, enabling you not only to use the powerful philosophy in your classroom practice but also in your life. Catherine Corrie explains in a simple and practical way what Emotional Intelligence is and how it is an essential intelligence for people who work with others and want to have a really positive impact in their communities. This new edition has been fully updated to include current practice, the latest theory within the field and new ideas to use in the classroom. This book provides practical activities to support the development of Emotional Intelligence and will support you in your endeavours."--BOOK JACKET.