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Through comprehensive grammar explanations, practice exercises, and lively communicative activities, this title provides students with the language skills they need to communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.

In Brazil, a man has discovered a new way of saving, or rescuing, people from drowning in the ocean. This new rescue method involves a person using a motor-powered aircraft to work with lifeguards on the beach. How do these people work together? Is this an effective way of saving lives?

People from around the world travel to Coober Pedy, Australia, with hopes of getting rich. This town is full of valuable stones called opals. Some opals are worth millions, but they are extremely hard to find. What influences the value of an opal? What does it take to find them?

Farmers in India are having a serious problem. A local animal is eating their food. However, the farmers cannot hurt the animal because it has a special name. How can a name protect an animal? What will the farmers do?

Addresses legal issues confronted by managers in the hotel, restaurant, travel and casino industries. This book emphasizes on prevention of legal violations. It enables managers to identify what actions and precautions are necessary to avoid, or at least minimize, the number of lawsuits.

Suitable for 9-11 year olds, this title features an adventure cartoon story for Levels 1 & 2.

The Art of Dementia Care is a practical guide intended for all who provide support, encouragement and care for people with dementia. Using a relationship model of care, you will learn how you can make a positive difference in the lives of those with dementia. Discussion and examples will challenge you to reflect on your attitude and behavior towards people with dementia and teach you to provide thoughtful care to each person in your care. The authors draw upon examples from common clinical situations to highlight how to practice the art of dementia care through the recognition of the limits of people with dementia and the promotion of their strengths and abilities. Ultimately, the quality of the care you provide can greatly affect the quality of life the person with dementia will experience. The Art of Dementia Care will set you on the path to thoughtful and meaningful care.

Finance is an area of business practice that has been deeply influenced by theoretical developments. This book provides the basic theoretical foundations necessary to understand how three broad classes of assets - stocks, options and bonds - are valued on financial markets, while developing the crucial concepts of market equilibrium and arbitrage. The analysis is rigorous, yet successfully bridges the gap between mathematical and non-mathematical approaches to provide a book which will be of interest to both academics and practitioners.

Addresses the developments in premises cabling, including technologies and applications in copper, fiber, and wireless cabling. This title covers background information on communications systems and media first, and then delves into discussions on each media type: copper, wireless, and fiber.

Offers an introduction to clinical psychology. This title examines the research training that clinicians receive, along with the empirically supported assessment methods and interventions that clinical psychologists must understand to be successful in the field.

Das fünfbändige Lehrwerk Innovations richtet sich an junge und jung gebliebene Erwachsene, die zeitgemäßes und idiomatisches Englisch von Anfang an lernen möchten. Bei Innovations liegt der Schwerpunkt vor allem auf dem Aufbau von Sprachkompetenz für realistische Situationen und Unterhaltungen im Alltag. Entsprechend sind die Units thematisch nach Sprechanlässen gegliedert. Das Lehrwerk enthält vielfältige Übungsformen zu den vier skills sowie zahlreiche Vorschläge für Partner-/Gruppenarbeit und Rollenspiele. Listening activities und motivierende Lesetexte fördern einen kommunikationsorientierten Unterricht. Die Grammatikinhalte des jeweiligen Sprachniveaus werden funktional in den Units vorgestellt, eingeübt und regelmäßig wiederholt.Das Workbook ergänzt die jeweiligen Units des Coursebook mit weiteren Übungen und zusätzlichen Schreibaufgaben. Es ist als Selbstlernmaterial konzipiert, kann aber alternativ auch im Unterricht oder für Hausaufgaben eingesetzt werden.

This comprehensive revision continues to approach ageing from a psychological viewpoint, not a sociological one. It shows how psychological research translates into practice and includes sections on interventions where appropriate.

Helps students not only improve their ability to read newspapers in English, but also gain practice that can help prepare them for TOEFL[registered], TOEIC[registered], and IELTS[registered] exams.

Helps to discover the richness and complexity of Latin American culture. Featuring a thematic organization supported by comprehension questions, expansion questions, timelines, chapter summaries, photos, illustrations, Internet activities, video suggestions, and maps, this text takes you on a 20-chapter tour of the progression of Latin culture.

Focused on building linguistic skills and comprehension through creative introductions to contemporary life and cultures in German-speaking countries, this title exposes students to the German language, while encouraging cultural awareness and the acquisition of a functional vocabulary that effectively prepares them in their study of German.

Encourages teachers to reflect on their classroom practice by thinking critically about their own teaching, their colleagues' teaching, and the environments where they work.

Suitable for intermediate and advanced students, this idioms practice book is useful for all students preparing for the FCE, CAE, Proficiency, and TOEFL exams. It takes this difficult area for students and organises it in such a way that students at last can make sense of it.

An Introduction to Java Programming and Object-Oriented Application Development is an introductory text intended for beginning programming students, whether in high school, junior college, or a four-year university majoring in computer science or computer information systems. This text covers what students need to know about basic Java programming in a clear, straight-forward writing style. This text spends less time on verbiage and offers more examples than other books. The key concepts are isolated and identified for easier understanding and quick review. This kind of organization will help students better understand what they are reading and enable them to find important topics for review later.

With the new generation of machines, players expect higher-fidelity models and animations, fancier physics and graphics effects, and more intelligent AI. This volume includes a section dedicated to Scripting and Data-Driven Systems, which is focused entirely on the growing trend of removing the programmer from the data-tweaking loop.