From Local Patriotism to a Planetary Perspective : impact crater research in Germany, 1930s - 1970s / by Kölbl-Ebert, Martina

Table of Contents: “…Introducing the smoking gun -- Early impactists and their sources -- Dismissing the impact I -- A letter from Berlin -- Kaalijärv crater and Köfels landslide -- Impact physics--beyond human imagination -- German geology -- Setting the stage -- The tide is turning -- Dismissing the impact II -- Testing an old theory -- Ries crater--a terrestrial proxy for the moon -- From local patriotism to a planetary perspective.…”
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Understanding motivation and emotion / by Reeve, Johnmarshall

Table of Contents: “…Motivation in historical and contemporary perspectives -- The motivated and emotional brain -- Needs -- Physiological needs -- Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations -- Psychological needs -- Social needs -- Cognitions -- Goal setting and goal striving -- Personal control beliefs -- The self and its strivings -- Emotions -- Nature of emotion : five perennial questions -- Aspects of emotion -- Individual differences -- Personality characteristics -- Unconscious motivation -- Growth motivation and positive psychology -- Conclusion.…”
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Cognitive therapy for challenging problems : what to do when the basics don't work / by Beck, Judith S.

Table of Contents: “…Identifying problems in treatment -- Conceptualizing patients who present challenges -- When a personality disorder challenges treatment -- Developing and using the therapeutic alliance -- Therapeutic relationship problems: case examples -- When therapists have dysfunctional reactions to patients -- Challenges in setting goals -- Challenges in structuring the session -- Challenges in solving problems and in homework -- Challenges in identifying cognitions -- Challenges in modifying thoughts and images -- Challenges in modifying assumptions -- Challenges in modifying core beliefs.…”
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Managing diversity : toward a globally inclusive workplace / by Mor-Barak, Michàlle E.

Table of Contents: “…inclusion through international collaborations -- Practical steps for creating an inclusive workplace: climate for diversity, climate for inclusion, and survey scales -- Toward a globally inclusive workplace: putting the pieces together -- References -- Index -- About the author.…”
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Understanding sociology / by Calhoun, Craig J., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Study of sociology: Sociological perspective; Methods of sociological research; Culture; Interaction and social structure -- Individual and society: Socialization; Life course, from childhood to old age; Deviance and crime; Groups and organizations -- Inequality and power: Class and stratification; Race and ethnicity; Sex and gender -- Social institutions: Family; Education; Religion; Health and health care; Economics and work; Politics, the State, and war -- Global challenges: Third world; Population and environment; Communities and urbanization; Social movements and collective action; Social change -- Glossary.…”
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Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula : a practical guide / by Diamond, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the author --Part 1: Frame Of Reference -- 1: Learning-centered approach to course and curriculum design -- 2: Expanding role of faculty in accreditation and accountability -- 3: Staying informed -- 4: Scholarship and faculty rewards -- 5: Introduction to the model and its benefits -- 6: Diagramming -- Part 2: Process -- 7: Making the decision to go ahead -- 8: Getting started -- 9: Linking goals, courses, and curricula -- 10: Gathering and analyzing essential data -- 11: Thinking in the ideal -- 12: Adjusting from the ideal to the possible -- 13: Clarifying instructional goals and learning outcomes -- 14: Designing and implementing your assessment plan: Overview and assessing a curriculum -- 15: Designing and implementing your assessment plan: Assessing a course -- Part 3: Designing, Implementing, And Assessing The Learning Experience -- 16: Designing the learning experience: Research on teaching and learning -- 17: Designing the learning experience: Your instructional options -- 18: Using technology to support learning / Wallace Hannum -- 19: Distance learning / Wallace Hannum -- 20: Meeting the needs of adult learners / G Roger Sell -- 21: Addressing diversity / G Roger Sell -- 22: Developing a learning-centered syllabus -- Part 4: Your Next Steps -- 23: Using your data: curriculum and course revision -- 24: Learning from experience -- Resources -- Case studies -- References -- Index.…”
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Prose poetry in theory and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Protean manifestations and diverse shapes : defining and understanding strategies of the contemporary prose poem / Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington -- Prose poetry and the resistance to narrative / Oz Hardwick -- "In the eye of the beholder" : prose poetry in dialogue between reader and poet / Hannah Stone -- Nobody's storybook : reading Russell Edson for the wrong reasons / Nicholas Lauridsen -- "Borders on edges, where skin stops, or begins" : the prose poem's relationship with the discourses of fashion and food, with particular reference to Charles Baudelaire, Gertrude Stein, and Harryette Mullen / Susie Campbell -- The contemporary vernacular : exploring intersections of architecture and prose poetry / Anne Caldwell -- "Image machine" : Gaspar Orozco's Book of the peony and the prose poem sequence as perceptual trick / Helen Tookey -- Writing the prose poem : an insider's perspective on an outsider artform / Ian Seed -- "A form of howling. A form of chanting. A form of looking out for each other" : poetics and politics of the contemporary Indian-English prose poem / Divya Nadkarni -- Collaboration, conversation, and adaptation : the prose poetry project and renga attitude / Jen Webb -- Framing catastrophe : the ekphrastic prose poem / Patrick Wright -- "An interlude suspended" : historical biography through the lens of prose poetry / Edwin Stockdale -- Who are the contemporary symbolists? …”
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Manual of Clinical anesthesiology :

Table of Contents: “…-- Hemodynamic collapse following a mainstem intubation -- Hypoxemia during tracheostomy -- Anesthetic depth and mask ventilation in the prone position -- Jet ventilation through a cookgas airway exchange catheter -- End of case evaluation and management of a patient post airway mass excision -- Possible recurrent laryngeal nerve injury -- Obstructive sleep apnea, and dead in bed -- Bilevel positive air pressure, decreased sensorium, aspiration and capnography -- Perioperative management of a patient previously treated with bleomycin undergoing thoracic surgery -- Intra-operative airway fire -- Obesity hypoventilation syndrome -- Circulation-related cases -- Hemorrhage during endovascular repair of thoracic aorta -- Pacemakers and automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillators -- Acute myocardial infarction during laparoscopic surgery -- Sickle cell and preeclampsia -- Dysrhythmias in a patient with Crohn's disease -- Hematologic disorders: hemophilia and disseminated intravascular coagulation -- Blood transfusion and the Jehovah's Witness patient -- Cardiac and pulmonary contusions -- Intraoperative coagulopathy -- Hypotension in chronic methamphetamine user -- Venous air embolism during arteriovenous malformation repair -- Cardiac tamponade -- Case of intraoperative new-onset atrial fibrillation -- Valvular disease -- Obstetrics-related cases -- Labor epidural with unrecognized dural puncture, causing high sensory block, hypotension, fetal bradycardia and post dural puncture headache -- Acute pulmonary dysfunction immediately after cesarean delivery under general anesthesia -- Jehovah's Witness with placenta previa and increta for cesarean hysterectomy -- A pregnant patient with mitral stenosis -- Unrecognized uterine hyperstimulation due to oxytocin and combined spinal-epidural analgesia -- Super morbidly obese patient for elective repeat cesarean section -- Probable amniotic fluid embolus -- Emergent cesarean section -- Pregnancy plus atrial septal defect vs Eisenmenger Syndrome -- Uterine abruption -- Pediatric-related cases -- Neonatal resuscitation following spontaneous vaginal delivery -- Anxious, coughing and bound to obstruct -- Special diseases/conditions/situations -- Hypothermia during laparoscopic nephrectomy -- Operating room management case scenarios -- Anaphylaxis reactions -- Autonomic dysreflexia -- Porphyrias -- Monitored anesthesia care: medical implications; and wrong-sided operations: legal implications -- Diabetic ketoacidosis in the urgent anesthesia setting -- Fever, altered mental status, and rigidity in the perioperative course -- Neuro/neuromuscular-related cases -- Emergent craniotomy for evacuation of epidural hematoma -- Hyperkalemia and residual neuromuscular blockade after kidney transplantation -- A defasciculating dose of nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocker -- Postoperative monocular vision loss -- Delayed emergence after aneurysm clipping -- Pain and regional anesthesia related cases -- Unintentional dural puncture in a patient with severe preeclampsia -- Complex regional pain syndrome -- Vascular absorption of local anesthetic producing systemic toxicity -- Inadvertent high spinal in parturient -- Outpatient surgery-related cases -- Plastic surgery in a surgeon's office -- Orthopedic surgery in an ambulatory surgicenter -- Eye surgery at an outpatient surgicenter -- Endoscopic sinus surgery at an outpatient sugicenter.…”
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Calculate with Confidence / by Morris, Deborah Gray

Table of Contents: “…Roman numerals -- Fractions -- Decimals -- Ratio and proportion -- Percentages -- Metric system -- Apothecary and household systems -- Converting within and between systems -- Additional conversions useful in the health care setting -- Medication administration -- Understanding and interpreting medication orders -- Medication administration records and medication distribution systems -- Reading medication labels -- Dosage calculation using the ratio and proportion method -- Dosage calculation using the formula method -- Dosage calculation using the dimensional analysis method -- Calculation of oral medications -- Parenteral medications -- Reconstitution of solutions -- Insulin -- Intravenous solutions and equipment -- Intravenous calculations -- Heparin calculations -- Critical care calculations -- Pediatric and adult dosage calculation based on weight.…”
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Business-to-Business Marketing / by Brennan, Ross, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…IV Managing Marketing Processes -- 10.Managing Product Offerings -- 11.Routes to Market -- 12.Price-Setting in Business-to-Business Markets.…”
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Guyton and Hall textbook of medical physiology / by Hall, John E. (John Edward), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Unit I: Introduction to physiology: the cell and general physiology -- Unit II: Membrane physiology, nerve, and muscle -- Unit III: The heart -- Unit IV: The circulation -- Unit V: The body fluids and kidneys -- Unit VI: Blood cells, immunity, and blood coagulation -- Unit VII: Respiration -- Unit VIII: Aviation, space, and deep-sea diving physiology -- Unit IX: The nervous system: A. …”
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Differential Diagnosis for Physical Therapists : Screening for Referral / by Goodman, Catherine Cavallaro

Table of Contents: “…Screening the head, neck, and back -- Screening the sacrum, sacroiliac, and pelvis -- Screening the lower quadrant: buttock, hip, groin, thigh, and leg -- Screening the chest, breasts, and ribs -- Screening the shoulder and upper extremity.…”
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Management & Organisational Behaviour / by Mullins, Laurie J., Christy, Gill

Table of Contents: “…Management in the news and case studies -- About this book -- Guided tour of the book -- Guided tour of my management lab -- In acknowledgement and appreciation -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- The organisational setting -- The nature of organisational behaviour -- Approaches to organisation and management -- The nature and context of organisations -- The individual -- Individual differences and diversity -- The nature of learning -- Perception and communication -- Work motivation and job satisfaction -- Groups, teams and leadership -- The nature of work groups and teams -- Working in groups and teams -- The nature of leadership -- The process of management -- The nature of management -- Managerial behaviour and effectiveness -- Structures of organisation -- Organisation strategy and structure -- Patterns of structure and work organisation -- Technology and organisations -- Organisation management -- Organisational control and power -- Corporate responsibility and ethics -- Organisation culture and change -- Organisational performance and development -- Conclusion -- Glossary.…”
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Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries : gender justice and norm change /

Table of Contents: “…/ Caroline Harper and Rachel Marcus -- "Sticky" gendered norms : change and stasis in the patterning of child marriage in Amhara, Ethiopia / Nicola Jones, Bekele Tefera, Guday Emirie and Elizabeth Presler-Marshall -- The politics of policy and programme implementation to advance adolescent girls' well-being in Ethiopia / Nicola Jones, Elizabeth Presler-Marshall, Bekele Tefera and Bethelihem Gebre -- The paradox of change and continuity in social norms and practices affecting adolescent girls' capabilities and transitions to adulthood in rural Uganda / Carol Watson, Grace Kyomuhendo Bantebya and Florence Muhanguzi Kyoheirwe -- From national laws and policies to local programmes : obstacles and opportunities in communications for adolescent girls' empowerment in Uganda / Grace Kyomuhendo Bantebya, Florence Muhanguzi Kyoheirwe, and Carol Watson -- Intersecting inequalities: the impact of gender norms on Hmong adolescent girls' education, marriage and work in Viet Nam / Nicola Jones, Elizabeth Presler-Marshall and Tran Thi Van Anh -- Triple invisibility : the neglect of ethnic minority adolescent girls in Viet Nam / Nicola Jones, Elizabeth Presler-Marshall and Tran Thi Van Anh -- Small but persistent steps on the road to gender equality : marriage patterns in far west Nepal / Fiona Samuels and Anita Ghimire -- Continuity and change : how embedded programmes improve the lives of adolescent girls / Fiona Samuels, Anita Ghimire, and Matthew Maclure -- Pushing the boundaries of social order : adolescent girls and norm change / Caroline Harper and Rachel Marcus.…”
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Physical Examination & Health Assessment / by Jarvis, Carolyn

Table of Contents: “…Evidence-based assessment -- Cultural competence -- The interview -- The complete health history -- Mental status assessment -- Substance use assessment -- Domestic and family violence assessments -- Assessment techniques and safety in the clinical setting -- General survey, measurement, vital signs -- Pain assessment: the fifth vital sign -- Nutritional assessment -- Skin, hair, and nails -- Head, face, and neck, including regional lymphatics -- Eyes -- Ears -- Nose, mouth, and throat -- Breasts and regional lymphatics -- Thorax and lungs -- Heart and neck vessels -- Peripheral vascular system and lymphatic system -- Abdomen -- Musculoskeletal system -- Neurologic system -- Male genitourinary system -- Anus, rectum, and prostate -- Female genitourinary system -- The complete health assessment: adult -- The complete physical assessment: infant, child, and adolescent -- Bedside assessment and electronic health recording -- The pregnant woman -- Functional assessment of the older adult.…”
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Reading, Understanding, and Applying Nursing Research / by Fain, James A., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Fain -- Selecting the sample and setting / James A. Fain -- Principles of measurement / James A. …”
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An introduction to early childhood /

Table of Contents: “…A History of Childhood: Adult Constructs and Children's Agency / Michael Wyness -- Modern Childhoods: Contemporary Theories and Children's Lives / Tim Waller -- International Perspectives / Libby Lee-Hammond with Tim Waller -- Children's Rights to Participation / Gill Handley -- Understanding Diversity / Prospera Tedam -- Inclusive Practice for Children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) / Christine Hickman and Kyffin Jones -- Play and Creativity / Paulette Luff -- Outdoor Play and Learning / Helen Tovey and Tim Waller -- Children and Media / Jane O'Connor -- Child Health / Sharon Smith and Tania Hart -- Wellbeing / Jane Waters -- Protecting and Safeguarding Children / Celia Doyle -- Working with Families / Eunice Lumsden and Celia Doyle -- Professional Work in Early Childhood / Denise Hevey -- Joined-up Thinking in Practice: An Exploration of Professional Collaboration / Eunice Lumsden -- Leadership and Change Management in Early Childhood / Geraldine Davis -- Researching Young Children's Worlds / Jane Murray -- Reflective Practice / Caroline Jones.…”
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