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Integrates nutrition and exercise physiology principles, emphasizing scientific reasoning and examining research studies to illuminate the evidence for nutritional recommendations. This book illustrates the connections between exercise, nutrition, and, the goals: optimal performance and health.

Learn how your life connects to the latest discoveries in physics with MODERN PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS. This updated fifth edition offers a contemporary, comprehensive approach with a strong emphasis on applications to help you see how concepts in the book relate to the real world. Discussions on the experiments that led to key discoveries illustrate the process behind scientific advances and give you a historical perspective. Included is a thorough treatment of special relativity, an introduction to general relativity, and a solid foundation in quantum theory to help you succeed. An updated WebAssign course features a mobile-friendly ebook and a variety of assignable questions to enhance your learning experience. WebAssign for MODERN PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS helps you prepare for class with confidence. Its online learning platform helps you unlearn common misconceptions, practice and absorb what you learn and begin your path as a future physicist or engineer. Tutorials walk you through concepts when you're stuck, and instant feedback and grading let you know where you stand--so you can focus your study time and perform better on in-class assignments and prepare for exams. Study smarter with WebAssign!

Get a thorough overview of sustainable methods for site, residential and commercial building construction with this comprehensive text, which covers both traditional and contemporary materials, current industry standards and new and emerging technologies. The only text organized according to the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) MasterFormat standards, CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS, METHODS AND TECHNIQUES: BUILDING FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE, Fifth Edition, features a reader-friendly style and logical structure, which follows the construction process step-by-step from project inception to completion. The new edition provides up-to-date coverage of dramatic changes underway in the construction industry, including advances in pre-fabricated construction; increased use of drones, robotics and artificial intelligence; net-zero buildings and lean construction. You'll learn about key current industry developments and standards, as well as latest relevant building codes, all presented within a dynamic, richly illustrated new design. Beyond the text itself, you can access a wealth of helpful learning resources to help you gain a clear understanding of today's construction materials, methods and techniques, providing a critical foundation for your career success.

Strengthen your knowledge base as well as the critical skills and behaviors needed to become a successful entry-level medical assistant with Blesi's MEDICAL ASSISTING: ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLINICAL COMPETENCIES, 9E. Clear and easy to understand, this streamlined edition now includes a complete, updated section on the structure and function of body systems with current medical terminology presented in context. Updates highlight the latest information in nutrition, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), ICD-10 and electronic health records. Expanded content focuses on increasing your personal effectiveness as you study professionalism, teamwork and time management. New chapters also discuss geriatrics and mental health -- topics of growing importance. You examine the latest procedures as you increase your general, administrative and clinical competencies. MindTap digital resources help you further develop a competitive advantage as you pursue a career in medical assisting today.

Offers a topical organization at the chapter level and a consistent chronological presentation within each chapter. This title includes sections on four life stages: infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. It enables students to comprehend the processes of transformation that occur in key areas of human development.

Reader-friendly and packed with useful tips, photos and charts, COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATION FOR AIR CONDITIONING TECHNICIANS, Fourth Edition, helps you apply existing HVACR skills to new concepts in order to service medium- and low-temperature refrigeration equipment such as walk-ins, reach-ins, refrigerated cases and ice machines. The text focuses on the food service industry and includes �how-to� advice from experienced professionals on installing, servicing and troubleshooting commercial equipment. Extensively updated throughout the text, the Fourth Edition includes a simplified, step-by-step flowchart for quickly diagnosing and addressing the nine most common refrigeration problems on the job--as well as new information on the latest advances in commercial refrigeration. Ideal for advanced refrigeration courses, this trusted text is equally valuable as a real-world resource you can take from the classroom to keep on hand in the truck or shop. COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATION FOR AIR CONDITIONING TECHNICIANS, Fourth Edition, is an indispensable tool for any technician working with commercial refrigeration today.

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.

A 'how to' guide for both preventive and intervention-oriented counseling in school settings. It offers coverage some of the most common mental health or psychosocial/emotional issues and disorders facing schoolchildren and youth - issues that can negatively impact their learning and long-term educational development.

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problem in American History Series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in US history. The text, designed to be the primary anthology - or even the textbook - of the course, covers the subject's chronological span.

Written in an informal, first-person writing style that makes abstract concepts easier to understand, this book provides strong coverage of fundamental concepts and applications.

Features little opportunity outside the traditional educational channel.

Delivers a practical approach to the modern investigative principles and practices you need to succeed in criminal justice. Demonstrating techniques and their many applications, this book introduces long-standing tools, practices, and policies alongside the innovations in technology and science to give you a perspective of criminal investigations.

Suitable for those interested in the principles, components, diagnosis, and repair of modern automotive heating and air conditioning systems, this title allows students to learn fundamental climate control theory, including basic physics related to heat transfer, before applying their knowledge through practical, hands-on shop work.

Filled with research about all aspects of educating young children with special needs, this book discusses key approaches and tools needed to provide an optimal setting for young exceptional children with special needs and their families.

Learn how today's managers, investors and other business stakeholders effectively use accounting information and reports to guide business success with Warren/Jones/Farmer�s USING FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING. Designed as a one-term introduction for those with no previous accounting experience, this edition overviews basic financial accounting concepts without extraneous details. This book's spreadsheet approach focuses on the use of accounting information in business without the distraction of debits and credits. An integrated financial statement framework highlights how transactions impact each of the three primary financial statements: balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements. Unique metrics analyses highlight transaction, financial statement and managerial decision-making information. In addition, special features and cases demonstrate the use of data analysis in financial accounting today. Optional CNOWv2 digital resources further support your financial accounting learning experience.

Specifically oriented to the needs of information systems students, this book delivers the technology and developments from the field. Taking a managerial approach, it teaches all the aspects of information security - not just the technical control perspective.

Compact yet comprehensive, Norman/Phinney/Halstead's DENTAL ASSISTING INSTRUMENTS AND MATERIALS GUIDE, 3rd edition, offers an ideal, quick-reference resource that covers the various instruments and materials used in all practice areas of modern dentistry. Detailed coverage of proper functions, properties, precautions and tray setups is supported by hundreds of full-color photos that make memorization easier. This convenient handbook equips you with the fundamental instrument and equipment knowledge today's dental assistants need for success in a continually advancing field.

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.