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Applied Developmental Systems Science: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Theories, Meta-Theories, Methods, and Interventions but Didn't Realize You Needed to Ask. An Advanced Textbook
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributors: Skinner, Kindermann, and Roeser
Publisher: Portland State University Library
License: CC BY-NC
This textbook provides a toolbox, a guidebook, and an instruction manual for researchers and interventionists who want to conceptualize and study applied problems from a developmental systems perspective, and for those who want to teach their graduate (or advanced undergraduate) students how to do this. It is designed to be useful to practitioners who focus on applied developmental problems, such as improving the important developmental contexts where people live, learn, and work, including the applied professions in education, social work, counseling, health care, community development, and business, all of which at their core are concerned with optimizing the development of their students, clients, patients, workers, citizens, and others whose lives they touch.
(1 review)
Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities & Mental Illness
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributor: Melrose
Publisher: BCcampus
License: CC BY
This multidisciplinary resource develops topics of interest to all those who care about and for individuals with co-occurring intellectual disabilities and mental illness. Each chapter presents current evidence informed practice knowledge. Each topic is also presented with audio enabled text boxes emphasizing ‘Key Points for Caregivers.' For those who are interested in background knowledge, we provided the comprehensive literature base. And, for those interested mainly in ‘what to do,' we provided text box summaries for reading and listening.
(7 reviews)
Microbiology
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributor: Parker
Publisher: OpenStax CNX
License: CC BY
Microbiology covers the scope and sequence requirements for a single-semester microbiology course for non-majors. The book presents the core concepts of microbiology with a focus on applications for careers in allied health. The pedagogical features of the text make the material interesting and accessible while maintaining the career-application focus and scientific rigor inherent in the subject matter. Microbiology's art program enhances students' understanding of concepts through clear and effective illustrations, diagrams, and photographs.
(22 reviews)
Immigrant and Refugee Families - 2nd Ed.
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributors: Ballard, Wieling, Solheim, and Dwanyen
Publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
License: CC BY-NC
Immigrant and Refugee Families: Global Perspectives on Displacement and Resettlement Experiences offers an interdisciplinary perspective on immigrant and refugee families' challenges and resilience across multiple domains, including economic, political, health, and human rights. This new edition has been revised and updated from the original 2016 edition.
(12 reviews)
Veterinary Epidemiology: Principles and Methods
Copyright Year: 1987
Contributors: Martin, Meek, and Willebtrg
Publisher: Virginia Tech Libraries
License: CC BY-NC-ND
The purpose of this textbook is to provide an introductory, yet comprehensive, source of information on epidemiology for veterinary students, researchers, and practitioners. There has not been a textbook that presents analytic epidemiology as a science, basic to veterinary medicine's efforts in health management (herd health) as well as in clinical medicine.
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Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributors: Doyle and McCutcheon
Publisher: BCcampus
License: CC BY
The checklist approach, used in this textbook, aims to provide standardized processes for clinical skills and to help nursing schools and clinical practice partners keep procedural practice current. Each skill/procedure is covered in a chapter that has learning objectives, a brief overview of the relevant theory, checklists of steps for procedures with the rationale behind each step of the process, and a summary of key takeaways. Key terms are set in bold throughout the book and laid out again in a Glossary in the appendix. All 88 checklists are also summarized, and hyperlinked to the original checklist, in the appendix.
(9 reviews)
Anatomy and Physiology of Animals
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributor: Lawson
Publisher: WikiBooks
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Veterinary nurses need to have a firm grasp of the normal structure of an animal's body and how it functions before they can understand the effect diseases and injuries have and the best ways to treat them.
(8 reviews)
The Law of Trusts
Copyright Year: 2013
Contributor: Lewis
Publisher: CALI's eLangdell® Press
License: CC BY-SA
The use of testamentary trusts is becoming an important part of estate planning. As a result, students who want to make a living as probate attorneys will need to know how trusts fit into estate planning. In addition, bar examiners realize that it is important for students to have a basic knowledge of trust law. That realization will result in bar examination questions that test that knowledge. This book is designed for use as a supplementary text for a course on wills and trusts and the primary text in a seminar or course exploring the law of trusts.
(1 review)
U.S. Federal Income Taxation of Individuals 2023
Copyright Year: 2017
Contributor: Geier
Publisher: CALI's eLangdell® Press
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This is the tenth edition of this textbook, updated through December 15, 2022 for use beginning January 2023.
(2 reviews)
Torts: Cases and Contexts Volume 1
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributor: Johnson
Publisher: CALI's eLangdell® Press
License: CC BY-SA
Plain-spoken and convivial, this casebook makes a deliberate effort to explain the law, rather than to provide a mere compilation of readings and questions. Simple concepts are presented simply. Complex concepts are broken down and accompanied by examples and problems.
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