This practical handbook should be used by nursing students in clinical courses and by nurses in clinical settings as a quick reference. It guides the nurse in planning what needs to be assessed, monitored, treated, and taught at every stage of care, including pre-test requirements, intra-test procedures, and posttest care. This updated edition also [...]

Brief, accessible, and inexpensive, The Little Brown Essential Handbook, Sixth Edition, answers questions about academic writing, the writing process, grammar and usage, research writing, and documentation. Minimal terminology, clear explanations and examples, and pointers for ESL writers help students at all levels. Extensive sections on academic writing, research writing, source documentation, and document design [...]

The New Century, Fourth Edition, meets students where they are—as writers and researchers in an electronic age.  This handbook shows students how to use new technologies to make appropriate rhetorical choices and to become more successful college writers in all of their courses, while also providing clear, comprehensive coverage of handbook basics—writing, grammar and [...]

The Scholarship Handbook 2009 is an ideal resource for students and parents who need help paying for college.  It provides complete, authoritative facts about more than 2,100 scholarship, internship, and loan programs offered to undergraduates by foundations, charitable organizations, and state and federal government agencies.  Each program is clearly described, and indexes help students [...]

The goal of this book is to apply the principles of acoustics to the audio arts. This involves serving as an interpreter of major trends and the literature for students and practitioners in the audio field. Along with covering the more theoretical aspects of acoustics, the book applies the theory to the design of [...]

This bestselling reference helps users make nursing diagnoses and write care plans with ease and confidence. It helps nurses correlate nursing diagnoses with known information about clients on the basis of assessment findings, established medical or psychiatric diagnoses, and the current treatment plan. This extensively revised and updated edition presents the most up-to-date information [...]

It has been more than twenty years since desktop publishing reinvented design, and it’s clear that there is a growing need for designers and artists to learn programming skills to fill the widening gap between their ideas and the capability of their purchased software. This book is an introduction to the concepts of computer [...]

From Previous Editions:
“A commendable volume in which the author condenses information, normally in several locations, into one reading . . . an excellent text for graduate courses on psychological assessment. It . . . familiarizes the student with the entire enterprise of clinical assessment and provides enough of of

No pilot, flight instructor, or aviation student should be without this official handbook of procedures.
Designed as a technical reference for instrument-rated pilots who want to maximize their skills in an “Instrument Flight Rules” environment, the Federal Aviation Administration’s Instrument Procedures Handbook contains the most current information on FAA regulations, the latest changes to procedures, [...]

If you’re enrolled in an executive education or MBA program, you’ve probably encountered a powerful learning tool: the business case. But if you’re like many people, you may find interpreting and writing about cases mystifying, challenging, or downright frustrating. In “The Case Study Handbook”, William Ellet presents a potent new approach for analyzing, discussing, [...]