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Database skills are among the most in-demand IT skills. With its practical, accessible approach, Coronel/Morris' market-leading DATABASE SYSTEMS: DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, & MANAGEMENT, 14th edition, equips you with a solid foundation in database design and implementation for today's market. The authors blend foundational theory, the latest real-world practices and the skills employers want. Straightforward writing and vivid illustrations make even complex concepts easy to understand. You'll learn the key to successful database implementation as you study how to properly design databases that fit within the larger strategic data environment. Expanded coverage includes big data analytics, NoSQL and data visualization technologies. In addition, the MindTap digital platform gives you real-world, hands-on practice to help you prepare for a successful career in database design and management.

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INFANTS AND TODDLERS: CAREGIVING AND RESPONSIVE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, Tenth Edition, guides you through the acquisition of skills necessary to provide high-quality care for infants and toddlers in any educational setting. Each chapter incorporates new research results and scholarly articles, and new and extended boxed features provide additional insights and emphasis. The new edition continues to support the author's goal of providing appropriate caregiving and educational techniques, as well as curriculum ideas, for infants and toddlers from birth to age three. The text also provides overviews of key child care philosophies as they relate to the child, the caregiver and parent involvement, along with real-world case studies and relevant lesson plans to help you translate theory into practice.

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Discover the power of learning calculus with the intuitive, discovery based, problem-solving approach found in Stewart/Kokoska���s CALCULUS: CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS, 5th Edition. This easy-to-read, updated edition is designed using the latest learning principles to remove typical barriers to learning. The carefully planned, inclusive learning experience provides new guided, step-by-step explanations and detailed examples with expanded solutions. Numerous exercises provide opportunities to practice, review and discover concepts through pattern recognition. In addition, precise definitions, new margin notes and learning features focus on key concepts and demonstrate how to avoid common mistakes. Every aspect of this edition is designed to help you understand the most important concepts in calculus and learn how to apply them in real-world situations. New online problems with immediate, specific feedback and interactive learning modules in WebAssign further strengthen your conceptual understanding.

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Develop original, clear interviewing skills with the hallmark microskills approach within INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING: FACILITATING CLIENT DEVELOPMENT IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 10E. This text provides the insights and tools you need to address individual and multicultural uniqueness. You learn to conduct interviews using six different theoretical approaches as you begin to develop a personalized style of interviewing and counseling that matches your aptitudes and affinities. This is the only text of its kind that demonstrates how to understand and use the latest neuroscience developments in counseling practice. Updates detail how counseling and psychotherapy change the brain and build new neural networks in both client and counselor. New content also emphasizes telehealth and trauma counseling and the effects of stress and the pandemic. Timely case studies, sample interviews and a "Portfolio of Competencies" help you master key skills and become a better listener.

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Reflecting the latest research and practices, Corey/Corey/Corey's ISSUES AND ETHICS IN THE HELPING PROFESSIONS, 11th Edition, helps you discover and determine your own guidelines for helping within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions. This bestseller is the ideal resource for students in any helping field -- a book readers return to well into their professional careers. The authors point out central issues, present a range of diverse views on the issues, discuss their position and provide opportunities for you to develop your own informed position. Offering a wide range of perspectives, about 40 respected leaders in the counseling profession also share their positions through the new Voices From the Field feature. Also available, the MindTap digital learning solution delivers interactive learning, study and exam prep tools.

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Master the electrical principles and practices you need to succeed as a professional installation and service technician with this trusted guide. Accurate and easy-to-understand, ELECTRICITY FOR REFRIGERATION, HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING, Eleventh Edition, will give you a strong foundation in essential electrical theory--and help you hone real-world skills and techniques you can apply on the job. Thoroughly updated for today���s professionals, the Eleventh Edition includes up-to-date information based on current trends, technology and industry practices--including key diagnosis and troubleshooting methods--making this an ideal resource whether you���re new to the field or a current practitioner ready to update your knowledge and skills. Available with this text is The Complete HVAC Lab Manual, which features over 250 lab exercises covering 15 topic areas. See the supplements section for more details.

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Wright/Plesniarski's MICROSOFT�� SPECIALIST GUIDE TO MICROSOFT EXAM MD-100: WINDOWS 10 ensures you are well prepared for the Microsoft�� exam as well as a successful career in system administration. Completely up to date, this student-friendly guide walks you step by step through all aspects of installing, configuring and maintaining Windows 10 as a client operating system. Engaging exercises throughout enable you to experience the processes involved in Windows 10 configuration and management -- with plenty of troubleshooting tips that offer solutions to common problems. Review Questions help you prepare for the Microsoft�� certification exam, while Case Projects provide practice in situations that must be managed in a live networking environment. Giving you added flexibility, labs can be completed on physical or virtual machines. Also available: MindTap digital learning solution.

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Developed in partnership with the National Geographic Society, OCEANOGRAPHY: AN INVITATION TO MARINE SCIENCE, 10th edition gives you a basic understanding of the complexities and uncertainties involved in ocean use as well as its role in sustaining life on Earth. Thoroughly updated with the latest findings from the field, the text includes new coverage of important issues such as climate change. Emphasizing the science process throughout, it helps you see how concepts from other scientific fields relate to topics in oceanography. Co-author Robert Ellis draws from his experience managing research projects and educational programs throughout the world, and a diverse group of National Geographic Explorers share their unique insights on key concepts. In addition, MindTap equips you with a wealth of anywhere, anytime digital learning solutions.

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Written by meteorologists C. Donald Ahrens and Robert Henson and grounded in the scientific method, METEOROLOGY TODAY: AN INTRODUCTION TO WEATHER, CLIMATE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 13th edition, shows you how to observe, calculate and synthesize weather information as a scientist. Packed with engaging visuals, it provides the latest information on climate change, ozone depletion, air quality, El Ni��o and other key topics as well as discussions of recent high-profile weather events, including droughts, heat waves, tornado outbreaks and hurricanes. "Focus On" boxes help you delve deeper into meteorological observation methods and environmental issues, while case studies provide direct access to academic and newsworthy papers on recent developments. The MindTap for Meteorology digital platform includes concept check activities, animations and videos, and a variety of hands-on activities.

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Develop an understanding of the matrix method of structural analysis with the contemporary, reader-friendly approach found in Kassimali's MATRIX ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES, SI, 3rd Edition. Whether you are an advanced undergraduate or graduate student, this edition serves as an excellent resource for understanding all key aspects of the matrix method of structural analysis. Unlike traditional books that are difficult to read, this edition provides understandable, clear explanations of concepts with updated photographs and diagrams as well as flowcharts. Step-by-step procedures guide you through analysis while updated, intriguing examples clarify concepts. New and current exercises include problems working with practical, real-world structures to give you meaningful practice. Trust this technically and mathematically accurate presentation to provide the foundation you need in matrix structural analysis.

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Examine today's best practices and key issues impacting international marketing with the best-selling, upper-level international marketing text -- Czinkota/Ronkainen/Cui's INTERNATIONAL MARKETING, 11E. This innovative resource offers cutting-edge international marketing strategies and guidelines using the latest examples. You explore the range of international marketing topics, from start-up operations and new market entry considerations to key international issues confronting today's giant global marketers. Updates address international e-commerce and technology as well as the impact of culture and government on marketing throughout the world. Case studies highlight the latest marketing practices in real organizations, while Internet exercises focus on online opportunities. This in-depth coverage prepares you for success in today's international business world, whether you are an upcoming international marketer or practicing executive.

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MILADY STANDARD NAIL TECHNOLOGY, 8th Edition, is the future nail technician���s guidebook to success. The new 2-book format includes Standard Foundations and Nail Technology packaged together for a complete curriculum. Standard Foundations focuses on introductory topics including science basics, infection control and the importance of soft/ business skills; while Nail Technology includes new and updated information on manicuring, pedicuring, gel nail enhancement, nail resin enhancements, and nail art. New procedural photography follows the highest standards in infection control and enhances step-by-step instructions. This edition also features new competency-based learning objectives to emphasize the importance of the concepts presented. This edition offers aspiring nail technicians the tools they need for a rewarding and successful career.

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Reflecting the latest developments and emerging trends from the field, COMPTIA SECURITY+ GUIDE TO NETWORK SECURITY FUNDAMENTALS, Seventh Edition, helps you prepare for professional certification -- and career success. The text fully maps to the new CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 Certification Exam, providing thorough coverage of all domain objectives. In addition to its comprehensive coverage of the fundamental essentials of network and computer security, the seventh edition includes expanded coverage of security evaluations, embedded device and Internet of Things (IoT) security, and cloud and virtualization security. Practical, Hands-On Projects, case activities and online virtual labs help you put what you learn into real-world practice, while the innovative Information Security Community Site connects you to up-to-the-minute news and insights from the information security field.

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Experience the wonders of human creativity in GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, VOLUME I, 16th Edition! A grand tour of the world���s most celebrated works of Western Civilization from the Stone Age to the modern era, this introductory text has been a classroom favorite for 85 years. Every chapter includes rich and compelling discussions of pivotal art works, periods and geographies in art history, as well as new artists and art forms. The bold illustrations on the pages look almost as good as the real thing, especially when you use the unique Scale feature to imagine a work���s stature from the artist���s point of view. And to keep your course success in focus, the text offers Quick Review Captions and Big Picture Overviews, as well as an optional ebook that enables you to zoom in on fine details of paintings, sculptures, and priceless art forms of all kinds.

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Psychology has insights relevant to all majors, all people. As a hub science, it also provides foundational material for many other scientific disciplines. Cacioppo/Freberg/Cacioppo's DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY: THE SCIENCE OF MIND, 4th edition, presents a cohesive understanding of the field, highlighting connections within psychology as well as between psychology and other disciplines. The fourth edition includes a new emphasis on social connectivity and loneliness, interpersonal relationships and myth busting, while author Dr. Stephanie Cacioppo brings additional insight as a licensed clinician. Smart and engaging writing, illuminating visuals and sound science illustrate the depth, breadth and diversity of this exciting field. Up-to-date coverage offers insight into the latest research, while hands-on activities help you sharpen your critical thinking skills. Also available: MindTap.

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Join the more than 1 million students who have used Spielvogel's texts to succeed in their Western civilization course. There's a reason why WESTERN CIVILIZATION is a bestseller: It makes history come alive. Updated with the most current scholarship, the 11th Edition is packed with primary source features that highlight real voices from the past, a variety of end-of-chapter study tools to help you prepare for exams, colorful maps, vivid photographs and visuals and dramatic firsthand historical accounts -- bringing to life the stories of the people and events that have shaped Western civilization. In addition, MindTap equips you with anywhere, anytime digital learning tools.

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Gain the understanding you need to think and act like a marketer the most current principles of marketing resource -- Pride/Ferrell���s FOUNDATIONS OF MARKETING 9E with MindTap. This edition blends marketing fundamentals with discussions of the latest topics and trends reshaping marketing. You'll examine the power of market research, analytics, and the impact of artificial intelligence while introducing social media, digital marketing, ethics, globalization, and marketing technology interface. Updated intriguing visuals, timely content, real cases, and fascinating videos work with the engaging presentation to put principles into practice in today's fast-paced business world. MindTap, today's leading digital platform helps you reinforce concepts to learn, apply, and study them in interactive marketing scenarios to build confidence and elevate performance.

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Reading Explorer, a six-level reading series, prepares learners for academic success with highly visual, motivating National Geographic content that features real people, places, and stories.

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Master data analysis, modeling and the effective use of spreadsheets with the popular BUSINESS ANALYTICS: DATA ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING, 7E. The quantitative methods approach in this edition helps you maximize your success with a proven teach-by-example presentation, inviting writing style and complete integration of the latest version of Excel. The approach is also compatible with earlier versions of Excel for your convenience. This edition is more data-oriented than ever before with a new chapter on the two main Power BI tools in Excel -- Power Query and Power Pivot -- and a new section of data visualization with Tableau Public. Current problems and cases demonstrate the importance of the concepts you are learning. In addition, a useful Companion Website provides data and solutions files, SolverTable for optimization sensitivity analysis and Palisade DecisionTools Suite. MindTap online resources are also available.

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Equipping you with a real-world understanding of geography-related concepts, Hobbs' WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY, 7th Edition, introduces you to the eight world regions by providing the historical, cultural, economic, political and physical context that makes each unique, while MindTap empowers you with anywhere, anytime digital learning tools and interactive ArcGIS-powered mapping activities. The text's emphasis on the impact of human interaction on geography helps you see the relevance of the field in everyday life. The 7th edition spotlights COVID-19's capacity to change long-standing economic and migration patterns. It also delivers the most up-to-date coverage available on IPCC emissions scenarios, UN Sustainable Development Goals, the ongoing refugee crisis, Brexit, emerging geopolitical issues in the Middle East and North Africa, and much more.

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Reflecting the latest research and evidence-based practices, NUTRITION THERAPY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, 4th Edition, provides comprehensive coverage of disease pathophysiology and treatment that emphasizes the best application of the nutrition care process. It clearly connects nutrition therapy practices and expected outcomes to underlying disease processes at every level--from cells to organ systems. Detailed illustrations enhance your understanding of disease progression, surgical procedures and treatment protocols, while Practitioner Interviews equip you with real-world insight on how to work with patients. The 4th Edition includes expanded coverage of nutrition therapy for pediatric and geriatric populations, medical treatment and the role of nutrition, malnutrition assessment, nutrition interventions, the monitoring and evaluation step of the nutrition care process and more.

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Study more effectively and improve your performance at exam time with this comprehensive guide! Written by Susan McMurry, the Study Guide and Solutions Manual provide answers and explanations to all in-text and end-of-chapter exercises. Content has been updated to match the new in-text and end-of-chapter exercises.

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Today's electrical students and electrical technicians alike are looking for a resource that moves beyond traditional offerings to get more than just transformer theory, but also the practical information that can be put to use in everyday situations when in the field. TRANSFORMERS FOR THE ELECTRICIAN is the perfect solution! Written in a conversational style that minimizes technical jargon in favor of laymen's terms, the book presents a solid, comprehensive theoretical background of transformer operation, exploring its most important concepts through real-world examples, practical maintenance procedures, and pertinent National Electrical Code�� rules. The end result: readers will gain a thorough understanding of the critical information that a successful working electrician needs in order to connect, troubleshoot, and size just about any type of transformer.

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Welding: Skills, Processes, and Practices for Entry-Level Welders is an exciting new series that has been designed specifically to support the American Welding Society���s (AWS) SENSE EG2.0 training guidelines. Offered in three volumes, these books are carefully crafted learning tools consisting of theory-based texts that are accompanied by companion lab manuals, and extensive instructor support materials. With a logical organization that closely follows the modular structure of the AWS guidelines, the series will guide readers through the process of acquiring and practicing welding knowledge and skills. For schools already in the SENSE program, or for those planning to join, Welding: Skills, Processes, and Practices for Entry-Level Welders offers a turnkey solution of high quality teaching and learning aids.

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Joni Eareckson Tada, autora de best-sellers, ha escrito un juego de seis cuadernillos tematicos que forman parte de la coleccion Temas de Fe en curso. Joni se ha familiarizado bien con la adversidad. A los 17 anos de edad, un accidente durante un salto de clavado la dejo paralitica en las cuatro extremidades. Sin embargo, su fe ante esas circunstancias desencadeno un ministerio a escala mundial. En estos cuadernillos, Joni escribe sobre el sufrimiento, la soberania de Dios, la oracion, la oracion no contestada, el enojo y la depresion. Cada cuadernillo de 14 paginas a todo color tiene abundantes ilustraciones, incluye un titulo facil de entender sobre el contenido y sirve como herramienta de referencia practica para uso personal o en el campo misionero. Tambien hay disponibles docenas de otros cuadernillos de esta coleccion, los cuales cubren una amplia gama de temas. (Se vende en paquete de 10). Best-selling author Joni Eareckson Tada has written a set of six topical booklets that are part of the ongoing Themes of Faith collection. Well acquainted with hardship, a diving accident at age 17 left Joni quadriplegic, yet her faith in the face of it sparked a worldwide ministry. Tada writes here about suffering, God s sovereignty, prayer, unanswered prayer, anger, and depression. Each 14-page, full-color booklet is richly illustrated, carries a self-explanatory title regarding the content, and serves as an always-ready reference tool for personal use or on the mission field. Dozens of other Themes of Faith booklets are also available covering a broad range of issues."

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English in Action is a four-level, standards-based integrated language learning program that prepares adults for work and academic success. The third edition of English in Action features authentic and high-interest content from National Geographic to promote critical thinking and 21st century skills. English in Action is retaining its best-selling grammar approach and relevance of topics to learners��� lives that prepare learners for education or a career pathway.

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English in Action is a four-level, standards-based integrated language learning program that prepares adults for work and academic success. The third edition of English in Action features authentic and high-interest content from National Geographic to promote critical thinking and 21st century skills. English in Action is retaining its best-selling grammar approach and relevance of topics to learners��� lives that prepare learners for education or a career pathway.

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Gain an understanding of today's ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS diagnostic and procedural coding system, including the latest 2019 ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS coding guidelines and new 2019 ICD-10 codes, with Bowie���s UNDERSTANDING ICD-10-CM AND ICD-10-PCS: A WORKTEXT, 4E. Using a unique, extremely hands-on approach, this worktext provides comprehensive, detailed coverage packed with applications. Numerous learning features and helpful tools reinforce understanding within each chapter. You can immediately practice what you learn with professionally focused exercises, genuine coding assignments and actual case studies. Vivid color illustrations throughout this edition also demonstrate how a thorough knowledge of anatomy and disease processes can increase coding accuracy. Trust this hands-on resource for diagnostic and procedural coding success in today���s medical environment.

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