The new, 4th edition of Contemporary Topics expands on its highly respected approach to developing academic listening and study skills. Organised around realistic college lectures, the text guides learners through carefully sequenced activities in skills such as note-taking, focusing attention, intensive listening, and vocabulary building. It also helps students evaluate their interests and explore possible career paths There are 3 levels within this series: Levels: 1 - 3, Intermediate - Advanced New subject areas, presented as one-on-one academic lectures, emphasise professional applications such as software engineering, multimedia design, information technology, urban planning, and social psychology. Learning Outcomes listed at the outset of each unit let students know the goals of each unit and what their learning experience will be. New audio interviews with topic experts provide context for the upcoming unit lecture. Bottom-up listening and pronunciation exercises emphasise important principles and improve realtime perception. An oral presentation activity, supported by specific preparation and delivery strategies, concludes each unit and includes the opportunity for peer evaluation. Proficiency assessments composed of short academic audio lectures and multiple-choice exams simulate TOEFL-style test format for practice on high-stakes tests. New Essential Online Resources include audio, video, and teacher materials (assessments, teaching notes, answer keys, audioscripts, presentation points, and more). Corpus vocabulary drawn from the Academic Word List ensures that students are exposed to core academic vocabulary. Collaborative activities with presentation strategies and peer evaluations allow students to make connections and develop critical thinking skills. Unit comprehension tests assess students' grasp of key concepts presented in the unit lecture. Mapped to the Global Scale of English
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This is the International Edition of Understanding and Using English Grammar , Fifth Edition. This book is NOT to be sold in the United States. For nearly forty years, Understanding and Using English Grammar has been the go-to grammar resource for students and teachers alike. Its time-tested approach blends direct grammar instruction with carefully sequenced practice to develop all language skills. New to This EditionPretests at the start of each chapter enable learners to check what they already know. Updated grammar charts reflect current usage and highlight differences between written and spoken English. A new chapter on article usage. A variety of high-interest readings include reviews, articles on current topics, and blogs that focus on student success. Additional incremental practice helps learners better grasp concepts, while thematic exercises and integrated tasks offer more contextualized language use. Step-by-step writing activities are supported by writing tips and pre-writing and editing tasks. MyEnglishLab (access code provided in the book)Rich online practice for all skill areas: grammar, reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Instant feedback and remediation. Grammar videos. Bonus material not included in the Student Book, including additional expanded practice of gerunds and infinitives. Robust assessments. Gradebook and diagnostic tools.
The Student Book is available with the Essential Online Resources. Student Book audio and Answer Key are available for downloading from the Essential Online Resources.
For nearly forty years, Understanding and Using English Grammar has been the go-to grammar resource for students and teachers alike. Its time-tested approach blends direct grammar instruction with carefully sequenced practice to develop all language skills.New to This EditionPretests at the start of each chapter enable learners to check what they already know.Updated grammar charts reflect current usage and highlight differences between written and spoken English.A new chapter on article usage.A variety of high-interest readings include reviews, articles on current topics, and blogs that focus on student success.Additional incremental practice helps learners better grasp concepts, while thematic exercises and integrated tasks offer more contextualized language use.Step-by-step writing activities are supported by writing tips and pre-writing and editing tasks.New Essential Online Resources include Student Book audio, Student Book answer key, Grammar Coach videos, and self-assessments.
For courses in Advanced EMTUsing the National EMS Education Standards as a foundation, Advanced EMT: A Clinical-Reasoning Approach is designed to assist students in successfully completing their Advanced EMT course and ultimately obtaining their licensure. Special care has been taken to ensure that the latest applicable research was reviewed during the development of this text, resulting in our ability to deliver the latest evidence-based patient care to you and your students.Also available with MyBRADYLab™ MyBRADYLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyBRADYLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.
Focus Your Supply Chain Technology Investments to Reduce Risk and Maximize CompetitivenessLean, Six Sigma, and related approaches offer immense potential for improving competitiveness, cost, and customer experience-if you can overcome the challenges of planning and implementation. The well-targeted use of technology can dramatically reduce your risks and accelerate your progress. Until now, however, many guidebooks and consultants have treated Lean primarily as a "pen and pencil" technique. Lean and Technology is the first complete guide to integrating Lean thinking with proven, affordable, and emerging technologies. You'll learn how companies are linking strategy, the value chain, and IT-and how they are executing on their plans to achieve real competitive advantage.Step by step, Myerson shows how to use the proven six-step SCOR Model to organize the integration of technology with all key supply chain and operations processes. You'll discover how to:PLAN to optimize supply chain networks, demand forecasting, master production scheduling, and S&OPSOURCE more effectively with today's MRP and procurement/e-procurement technologiesMAKE higher-value "lean production" products with modern ERP, MES, and short-term scheduling systemsDELIVER the right customer solutions at the right time and cost via advanced DRP, TMS, and order fulfillment systemsRETURN products and materials with state-of-the-art reverse logistics systemsENABLE continuous improvement via carefully chosen measurements, metrics, and analyticsThroughout, Myerson presents easy-to-use tools, methodologies, best practices, and real-world examples: all you need to improve speed, accuracy, integration, and collaboration across complex supply chains. He concludes by previewing emerging technologies for maintaining and extending the competitive advantage you've already built.
In The Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning, Howard Podeswa walks students through an integrated case study project from inception through to completion, offering detailed, step-by-step guidance for performing analysis across the entire agile lifecycle. Students will learn which tools to use, when to use them, how to "stage" agile analysis, and how to adapt analysis for agile projects while protecting the chain from business needs to solutions.Students will learn how to engage more productively with the business by applying a wide range of analysis tools, including use cases, user stories, Business Process Modeling (BPM), decision tables, traceability matrices, and structural modeling. Podeswa shows how to write effective acceptance criteria for agile projects using the powerful BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) Given/When/Then template. He covers analysis for release plan preparation, sprints, backlog management, and retrospectives; and offers a full chapter of guidance on scaling analysis for large agile projects.
Each project in Learn More Python the Hard Way helps readers build a key practical skill -- combining demonstrations to get them started, and challenges to help them achieve even deeper understanding. Shaw organizes this practical programming course into five sections: working with commands, organizing and using data, applying algorithms, processing text, and implementing simple internet-style networking protocols. Along the way, Shaw stresses efficient processes and practical hacking mindsets -- helping readers gain true mastery, not just follow recipes!
This is Cisco's official, comprehensive self-study resource for preparing for the new CCNA Cloud certification exam. Designed for all CCNA Cloud candidates, it covers every objective concisely and logically, with extensive teaching features designed to promote retention and understanding.
CCDA Official Cert Guide, Fifth Edition is a comprehensive self-study tool for preparing for the new DESGN exam. Complete coverage of all exam topics as posted on the exam topic blueprint ensures students will arrive at a thorough understanding of what they need to master to succeed on the exam.
IKEv2 IPsec Virtual Private Networks is the first plain English introduction to IKEv2: both a complete primer on this important new security protocol, and a practical guide to deploying it with Cisco's FlexVPN implementation. Cisco experts Graham Bartlett and Amjad Inamdar explain how IKEv2 can be used to perform mutual authentication, and to establish and maintaining security associations (SAs). Their insights into IKEv2's goals, theory, and underlying concepts will be invaluable to all network security professionals, whatever technologies or solutions they choose for implementation. Next, Bartlett and Inamdar thoroughly introduce FlexVPN, Cisco's high-value implementation of the IKEv2 standard. You'll discover FlexVPN's unified paradigm, and learn how its command-line interface can be used to manage IKEv2 in site-to-site, remote access, hub and spoke topology, and partial mesh (spoke to spoke direct) environments. The authors explain how FlexVPN's simple, modular framework relies on the tunnel interface paradigm while remaining compatible with legacy VPN implementations. They offer detailed guidance on configuring IKEv2 VPNs using FlexVPN in both Cisco IOS and IOS-XE environments, and show how FlexVPN unifies previous Cisco overlay solutions, including crypto maps, EasyVPN, DMVPN, and remote access. Their practical design examples and hands-on troubleshooting steps will help you gain real mastery of FlexVPN configuration and operations in any network environment.
The authors begin with a high-level overview of the Internet of Things IoT) and introduce key concepts needed to successfully design IoT solutions. Next, they walk through each key technology, protocol, and technical building block that combine into complete IoT solutions.Building on these essentials, they present several detailed use cases, including manufacturing, energy, utilities, smart+connected cities, transportation, mining, and public safety. Networking students will gain deep insight into what IoT applications can do, and what it takes to deliver them.Note - this text is not based on the Cisco Networking Academy course of the same name.
Nowadays, virtually every significant SQL Server database application needs to incorporate some form of high availability right from the outset. SQL Server 2016 High Availability Unleashed is the first comprehensive guide to delivering highly available SQL Server databases and applications. World-renowned enterprise database architect Paul Bertucci presents in-depth, all-encompassing coverage of SQL Server's full continuum of availability options, from the most extreme forms of fault tolerance down to "medium availability" options for less critical databases. Bertucci presents a proven assessment approach he has used for more than fifteen years, in defining, designing, and implementing large-scale high-availability database systems for Cisco, Intel, Symantec, Wells Fargo and many other leading enterprises. He demonstrates the best approaches to design and implementation with both the Microsoft SQL Server platform and underlying Windows operating systems, and also introduces key non-Microsoft options. He walks through traditional on-premises deployments; cloud deployments through Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, hybrid deployments encompassing both on-premise and cloud components; and Big Data applications. You'll find expert coverage of key SQL Server 2016 features including AlwaysOn, availability groups, SQL clustering, data replication, log shipping, database snapshots, and more. For each approach, he presents step-by-step deployment instructions and production-quality examples. SQL Server 2016 High Availability Unleashed is the only resource you'll need to choose the best high availability option for any database application -- and then implement it quickly and reliably.
The Cisco Networking Academy Course Booklet is designed as a study resource students can easily read, highlight, and review on the go, wherever the Internet is not available or practical.
Providing the principles and techniques for the evaluation of construction design, this guide emphasizes the importance of building strong analysis skills before proceeding to a study on estimation, and presents students with a study of the these two areas.
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