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Provides what students need to strengthen their interpersonal, group, public speaking, and media literacy skills - and demonstrates the value of communication in their own lives. This book is packed with interactive, online study tools that assist your students as they explore human communication and become confident and effective communicators.

Covering topics such as hybrid vehicles, GPS systems and fuel injection systems, the latest edition of this title has been updated to reflect new developments in the field of automotive technology.

Offers a comprehensive guide to the care and husbandry of small animals. This book introduces you to the basics of the small animal industry, including the history, safety concerns and care and welfare of these animals before diving into the specifics of each, with chapters covering dogs, cats, reptiles, birds, fish and exotic species.

Reflecting the policy and practice changes, this title delivers a thorough examination of human services - providing students with an insightful, realistic portrayal of the field. Using a multidisciplinary approach, it offers an overview of the helping field, its available programs, and the practical skills workers can employ.

Featuring topics such as competence to stand trial, the insanity defense, expert forensic testimony, analysis of eye witness identification, criminal profiling, and many others, this book gives a comprehensive overview of psychology's contributions to the legal system, and the many roles available to trained psychologists within the system.

This straightforward, concise, conversational introduction to statistics presents a plain and simple overview of statistics that is sparing in its use of jargon. Readers develop a strong awareness of the interaction between statistical methods and research methods along with a solid working knowledge of basic statistical cautions.

This text aims to introduce readers to the art of good reasoning, using a wealth of current, relevant & stimulating examples from television, newspapers, magazines & advertisements.

Provides a thorough guide to perimeter defense fundamentals, including intrusion detection and firewalls. This text covers advanced topics such as security policies, network address translation (NAT), packet filtering and analysis, proxy servers, virtual private networks (VPN), and network traffic signatures.

Demonstrates how human service professionals help others work more effectively to fulfill their work-related or care taking responsibilities to individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. This book is structured to aid students in developing their own personal consultation model as they work through the book.

By illustrating how effective managers apply economic theory and techniques to solve real-world problems, this title helps future business leaders learn to think analytically and make better decisions.

Designed for the three-semester engineering calculus course, this book offers instructors and students teaching and learning resources.

Capturing student interest through early coverage of chemical reactions, accessible explanations and visualizations, and an emphasis on everyday applications, this book explains chemical concepts by starting with the basics, using symbols or diagrams, and conclude by encouraging students to test their own understanding of the solution.

Integrates traditional drill and practice with the elements of the reform movement. This book blends instructional approaches that include vocabulary, practice, and pedagogy with an emphasis on reasoning, modeling, communication, and technology skills.

Provides a clear strategy for connecting theories to a consistent problem-solving approach, carefully reinforcing this methodology throughout the text and connecting it to real-world examples.

Provides explanations that offer students "just in time support" reinforced by real-world samples, 170 exercises, and instant feedback in all areas of writing. This book includes exercises from multiple disciplines that broaden students' understanding and interest in science, art, history, film, literature, social studies, and the media.

Offers an overview that combines case excerpts with legal discussion and analysis to give students an understanding of criminal procedure, while emphasizing the need for a balance of government power and the liberty/privacy of individuals.

Are you an unsuspecting "victim" of the "CSI effect"? This book equips you with an understanding of the modern criminal justice system.

Provides an introduction to diesel engine theory, construction, operation, and service. Combining a simple, straightforward writing style, ample illustrations, and step-by-step instruction, this book helps aspiring technicians develop the knowledge and skills they need to service modern, computer-controlled diesel engines.

Includes biographical sketches of theorists and accounts of the stories behind influential research programs that help students understand how classic and contemporary findings relate to each other, and reinforce the idea that theory and research perpetuate one another.

Suitable for developmental writers, this title teaches students how to write correct sentences and effective paragraphs. It offers proofreading practice, a focus on critical thinking, and practice exercises.

This volume combines text, cases, and articles. Two chapters on the nature of morality and ethical theory are included, as well as one piece devoted to economic justice, and thorough treatment of applied issues.