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"Differentiating Textbooks" is the next logical and practical step toward improving your students' ability to read, comprehend, and retain what they are taught in content-area textbooks. Find out how to motivate your students as they are confronted with text which is generally written in less-than-engaging expository style. "Differentiating Textbooks" shows you how to teach the child, not the textbook, and as with differentiated instruction, you will soon discover that this approach is "just part of good teaching." (Grades 4-12)

This money saving package includes Pathophysiology Online for Pathophysiology (User Guide and Access Code) and the 6th edition of McCance: Pathophysiology: The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults and Children.  Enhances and supplements the textbook with online activities showing processes and concepts using animation, sound, and more.Provides faculty with complete, professionally prepared, easy-to-use lessons ready for immediate use, saving valuable preparation time.Includes hundreds of engaging activities and exercises to challenge students to think critically about key aspects of pathophysiology while making learning entertaining.Includes over 80 specially created, narrated animations to help students visualize some of the most complex pathophysiologic processes.Incorporates over 850 high-quality figures to illustrate tough concepts and key clinical presentations of disease processes for all body systems.Features case studies throughout to encourage development of critical thinking skills and application of knowledge to real-world situations.Provides a pre-test for every major body system to help students test their knowledge of normal structure and function before alterations in function are introduced.Gives students immediate feedback on all activities and assessments throughout, reinforcing learning and encouraging subject mastery.Provides rationales for both correct and incorrect responses to help students not only know when an answer is correct or incorrect, but why.Provides a glossary to give students quick, easy access to definitions of new and unfamiliar terms.Provides carefully reviewed resources for core topics for further exploration, so students can focus on learning information, not searching for it.Includes a comprehensive exam for every module that can be used as a self-assessment tool to help students prepare for in-class exams or can be reserved by instructors as graded assessments.Supports diverse learning styles with activities and content that use both voice-overs, narrations, on-screen text, and visual cues.Provides faculty wit

This text gives a systematic account of what is currently known about the epidemiology and primary prevention for most forms of human cancer. Part 1 provides an introduction to basic concepts in epidemiology, a description of the global burden of cancer, definitions and characterisations of the various measures used, and approaches used to reveal genetic determinants of cancer risk and integrate biologic markers in the epidemiologic research process. Part 2 contains chapters of uniform structure on over 20 types of cancer, providing clinical and pathological outlines, descriptive epidemiology, and a comprehensive account of risk factors and their etiological importance. Specific sections address somatic and germ cell mutations that play a role in the occurrence of particular forms of cancer.

A concise, colourfully illustrated and highly informative textbook of paediatrics. Written primarily for medical students for their course in clinical paediatrics (6-10 weeks in duration in the UK and worldwide), the book has found a wider audience among nurses, trainee paediatricians preparing for the MRCPCH, and general practitioners preparing for the DCH. Throughout, there is an emphasis on the core fundamentals of paediatrics practice throughout the world, which has contributed to its success in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East.In the book:Summary boxes to help learning/revisionAdditional diagrams and photographs to assist learningBringing book up to date and expanding topical items such as immunisations, obesity, child protection, ethics, medicines in childrenNew chapters on Allergy and Adolescent MedicineImproved navigation by means of: Chapter summaries at the beginning of chapters using main headings and page numbersColour-coding of chaptersDifferentiation of types of boxes by colour and numberingOn www.studentconsult.com:Full textSelf-assessment questions and answers using different formats: multiple choice questions; best of five and best of many; extended matchingPhotographs/illustrationsSelected additional background information e.g. relevant embryology, basic science

From the creators of the best-selling On Cooking, 4/e comes the new edition of On Baking—the source for learning the practice of baking and the pastry arts. Lavishly illustrated, it is the most complete guide on the market—emphasizing baking principles over formulas and reinforcing each technique with a companion recipe and illustrations. With ample coverage of the craft, equipment, and ingredients, it addresses all aspects of baking and a wide range of styles. This new edition inspires readers’ creativity with over 285 new photos, 50 new recipes, and more on advanced decorating and confectionery techniques.

This book is a chronicle of what happened when several interesting ideas about teaching and learning history were put to the test.

This money-saving package includes Copstead-Kirkhorn's Pathophysiology, 4th edition textbook and the innovative learning tool, Pathophysiology Online.

Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants provides complete coverage of the nursing assistant's role in the long-term care setting. These responsibilities are addressed clearly and logically in a visually appealing format. This new edition now includes Mosby's Nursing Assistant CD-ROM packaged free with the text to make learning key procedures interactive and engaging.A clear and readable writing style with a 7th grade reading level makes content easily understandable.Includes over 100 procedures divided into pre-procedure, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning.The text highlights OBRA content throughout.Quality of Life boxes throughout the text address the OBRA mandate to enhance residents' overall well-being.Charting examples demonstrate correct recording methods to ensure accuracy in practice.Delegation Guidelines detail what the nursing assistant should know before accepting specific delegated tasks.Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes provide guidelines for techniques to promote the resident's safety and comfort.Focus on Rehabilitation boxes alert the student to special information and insights regarding rehabilitation care.Caring About Culture boxes help students learn about the various practices and preferences of people from various cultural groups.Residents with Dementia boxes detail special care and safety considerations for the confused resident.Teamwork and Time Management boxes suggest ways for nursing assistants to work more efficiently with the nursing team.Focus on Communication boxes provide suggestions for how to communicate with residents in a professional and caring manner.Safe Resident Handling, Moving, and Transfers follows OSHA's new ergonomic guidelines to prevent musculoskeletal injuries in nursing homes.Includes new procedures such as transferring the person from the chair or wheelchair to bed, and transferring the person to and from the toilet.Six new chapters include Assisting with the Nursing Process, Preventing Falls, Safe Resident Handling, Moving, and Transfers, Nutritional Support and IV Therapy, Collecting and Testing Specimens, and Hearing, Speech, and Vision Problems.UNIQUE! Companion CD includes 25 procedures with video, animation, and interactive exercises, plus an audio glossary and Body Spectrum, an anatomy and physiology review program.UNIQUE! Workbook includes a competency review section that covers content tested in most state's certification exams, along with a series of review questions.Appendix provides basic Spanish health care terminology.

This money saving package includes Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination 7e textbook and Health Assessment Online for Mosby's (User Guide and Access Code).