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Grammar for Great Writing is a three-book series that focuses on
the key grammatical and lexical elements learners need to become
more powerful academic writers. Ideal for the grammar component of
a writing and grammar class, Grammar for Great Writing may be used
as a companion to the Great Writing series or in conjunction with
any academic writing series.
This new edition of Nursing Care: An Essential Guide for Nurses and
Healthcare Workers in Primary and Secondary Care is a comprehensive
introductory textbook to nursing care for pre-registration nursing
students and nursing associate students in the UK, and is relevant
to other allied health students. This 'back to basics' edition is a
concise, clear text on the essentials of nursing care which:
Comprehensively covers all aspects of essential care Puts care into
context and relates it to current UK government policy and targets
Shows how to apply theory in practice using diagrams and case
studies Provides opportunities to reflect on the theory and think
critically on key issues Explains clinical skills in the context of
care Includes features such as recap questions, points for debate,
a glossary, further reading lists and a companion website to allow
students to reinforce and expand their knowledge Fully updated to
address the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council and government
policy, this new edition of Nursing Care: An Essential Guide for
Nurses and Healthcare Workers in Primary and Secondary Care is
designed to help the student develop a proactive approach to the
assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care
that they give. The invaluable advice can be applied to all
branches of nursing and to all environments where patients are
nursed, whether in hospital, at home or care homes. This book is
essential reading for nursing students, qualified nurses and all
health and social care workers.
This new edition of Nursing Care: An Essential Guide for Nurses and
Healthcare Workers in Primary and Secondary Care is a comprehensive
introductory textbook to nursing care for pre-registration nursing
students and nursing associate students in the UK, and is relevant
to other allied health students. This 'back to basics' edition is a
concise, clear text on the essentials of nursing care which:
Comprehensively covers all aspects of essential care Puts care into
context and relates it to current UK government policy and targets
Shows how to apply theory in practice using diagrams and case
studies Provides opportunities to reflect on the theory and think
critically on key issues Explains clinical skills in the context of
care Includes features such as recap questions, points for debate,
a glossary, further reading lists and a companion website to allow
students to reinforce and expand their knowledge Fully updated to
address the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council and government
policy, this new edition of Nursing Care: An Essential Guide for
Nurses and Healthcare Workers in Primary and Secondary Care is
designed to help the student develop a proactive approach to the
assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care
that they give. The invaluable advice can be applied to all
branches of nursing and to all environments where patients are
nursed, whether in hospital, at home or care homes. This book is
essential reading for nursing students, qualified nurses and all
health and social care workers.
Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought,
features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics
both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in
1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and
contains work by many of feminism's foremost thinkers. This edition
features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new
preface that provides Barbara Smith the opportunity to look back on
forty years of the struggle, as well as the influence the work in
this book has had on generations of feminists. The preface from the
previous Rutgers edition remains, as well as all of the original
pieces, set in a fresh new package. Contributors: Tania
Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Cenen,
Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willi (Willie)
M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez,
Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Audre
Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat
Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd,
Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith,
Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed,
Alice Walker, and Renita J. Weems.
Go 'back to basics' with this concise, clear text on the essentials
of nursing care.
- Comprehensively covers all aspects of essential care
- Puts care into context and relates it to current UK Government
policy and targets
-
Shows how to apply theory in practice using diagrams and case
studies
-
Uses a 'reflective' theme throughout, in line with current
teaching practice
- Explains Clinical Skills in the context of care
- Includes a companion website (www.pearsoned.co.uk/field) to
support learning
The book is designed to help the student develop a proactive
approach to the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation
of the care that they give. The invaluable advice can be applied to
all branches of nursing and to all environments where patients are
nursed, whether in hospital, at home or care homes.
Essential reading for nursing students, qualified nurses and all
health and social care workers
The essays in this book argue that the active learning strategies
that teachers trained in composition use for their literature
courses can be exported to other disciplines to enhance both
teacher performance and student learning. The book provides and
explains examples of those strategies and illustrates how they have
been effectively used in other disciplines.
Barbara Smith has been doing groundbreaking work since the early
1970s, describing a Black feminism for Black women. Her work in
Black women's literary traditions; in examining the sexual politics
of the lives of women of color; in representing the lives of Black
lesbians and gay men; and in making connections between race,
class, sexuality and gender is gathered in The Truth That Never
Hurts. This collection contains some of her major essays on Black
women's literature, Black lesbian writing, racism in the women's
movement, Black-Jewish relations, and homophobia in the Black
community. Her forays into these areas ignited dialogue about
topics that few other writers were addressing at the time, and
which, sadly, remain pertinent to this day. This twenty-fifth
anniversary edition, in a beautiful new package, also contains the
essays from the original about the 1968 Chicago convention
demonstrations; attacks on the NEA; the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas
Senate hearings; and police brutality against Rodney King and Abner
Louima, which, after twenty-five years, still have the urgency they
did when they were first written. Â
The essays in this book argue that the active learning
strategies that teachers trained in composition use for their
literature courses can be exported to other disciplines to enhance
both teacher performance and student learning. The book provides
and explains examples of those strategies and illustrates how they
have been effectively used in other disciplines.
Anne Askew on the Kafka Machine is an affectionate and at times
startling poetic account of life growing up in Ireland. The poems
are earthy and lyrical against a backdrop of political events.
There is a nod to Irish folklore, and to the myths that connect
people to their land and which shape their sense of time and
destiny. Barbara writes in a way that is succinct and witty,
showing how simple yet significant human relationships are,
infusing her poems with tender details while never taking her eye
off the inevitable endings that are interwoven into human destiny.
Although the field of early modern women's studies has blossomed in
recent years, little attention has been paid to women poets of the
period. This new collection is specifically designed to fill the
gap, applying new critical methodologies and theories to this group
of early modern writers. Write or Be Written also contributes to
ongoing debates about canonicity, periodicity, disciplinarity, and
the construction of knowledge. The essays in this volume reflect
today's sophisticated critical thinking, and represent a broad
range of approaches and methodologies. Topics covered include
contextualizing the self; female discursive strategies; religious
discourses and gender; writing a female space; negotiating power
and desire; female writing and the marketplace/publishing; and
revisions of male-dominated poetic conventions and traditions.
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) is recognised as one of the major poets and
dramatists of his time. It is surprising, therefore, that this
should be the first study to look specifically at the role of women
in his poetry. Barbara Smith challenges previously held conceptions
of Jonson as a misogynist, upholding the patronage system that
allowed him to work. Through detailed examination of his poetic
structures, the influence of Juvenal, Martial and Horace, and
Jonson's attitudes to his own female patrons, the Countess of
Bedford and Lady Mary Wroth, The Women of Ben Jonson's Poetry
demonstrates how seventeenth century cultural values and ideas of
gender are both supported and subverted in the poems. 'If we
"survey Jonson in his works and know him there", we will find the
independence of spirit and originality that made him a rarity in
his time and ours.'
This book presents ecological principles and applications of
managing biodiversity in agriculture to decrease pesticide use and
produce safe food. Major topics include ecosystem services
biological pest control, conservation agriculture, drought stress,
and soil biodiversity, carbon and fertilisation.
Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought,
features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics
both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in
1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and
contains work by many of feminism's foremost thinkers. This edition
features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new
preface that provides Barbara Smith the opportunity to look back on
forty years of the struggle, as well as the influence the work in
this book has had on generations of feminists. The preface from the
previous Rutgers edition remains, as well as all of the original
pieces, set in a fresh new package. Contributors: Tania
Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Cenen,
Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willi (Willie)
M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez,
Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Audre
Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat
Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd,
Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith,
Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed,
Alice Walker, and Renita J. Weems.
Barbara Smith has been doing groundbreaking work since the early
1970s, describing a Black feminism for Black women. Her work in
Black women's literary traditions; in examining the sexual politics
of the lives of women of color; in representing the lives of Black
lesbians and gay men; and in making connections between race,
class, sexuality and gender is gathered in The Truth That Never
Hurts. This collection contains some of her major essays on Black
women's literature, Black lesbian writing, racism in the women's
movement, Black-Jewish relations, and homophobia in the Black
community. Her forays into these areas ignited dialogue about
topics that few other writers were addressing at the time, and
which, sadly, remain pertinent to this day. This twenty-fifth
anniversary edition, in a beautiful new package, also contains the
essays from the original about the 1968 Chicago convention
demonstrations; attacks on the NEA; the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas
Senate hearings; and police brutality against Rodney King and Abner
Louima, which, after twenty-five years, still have the urgency they
did when they were first written. Â
AISB91 is the eighth conference organized by the Society for the
Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour. It is
not only the oldest regular conference in Europe on AI - which
spawned the ECAI conferences in 1982 - but it is also the
conference that has a tradition for focusing on research as opposed
to applications. The 1991 edition of the conference was no
different in this respect. On the contrary, research, and
particularly newly emerging research dir ections such as knowledge
level expert systems research, neural networks and emergent
functionality in autonomous agents, was strongly emphasised. The
conference was organized around the following sessions: dis
tributed intelligent agents, situatedness and emergence in
autonomous agents, new modes of reasoning, the knowledge level
perspective, and theorem proving and machine learning. Each of
these sessions is discussed below in more detail. DISTRIBUTED
INTELLIGENT AGENTS Research in distributed AI is concerned with the
problem of how multiple agents and societies of agents can be
organized to co-operate and collectively solve a problem. The first
paper by Chakravarty (MIT) focuses on the problem of evolving
agents in the context of Minsky's society of mind theory. It
addesses the question of how new agents can be formed by
transforming existing ones and illustrates the theory with an
example from game playing. Smieja (GMD, Germany) focuses on the
problem of organizing networks of agents which consist internally
of neural networks."
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third
International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in
Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems,
CPAIOR 2006. The 20 revised full papers presented together with 3
invited talks address methodological and foundational issues from
AI, OR, and algorithmics and present applications to the solution
of combinatorial optimization problems in various fields via
constraint programming.
The "Canadian Oxford Dictionary" defines hoax as a "humorous or
malicious deception," and hex as "a magic spell." In "Hoaxes and
Hexes," Barbara Smith explores these intriguing reflections of
human nature, showing our curious desire to believe in the
impossible and explain the inexplicable. Here are tales of
swindlers, charlatans and imposters, among them the flamboyant
19th-century financier known as Lord Gordon-Gordon; David Walsh,
author of the horrendous Bre-X gold-mine hoax of the 1990s; and the
eccentric Josef Papp, who claimed to have crossed the Atlantic in a
homemade submarine. The persistent power of hexes is recorded in
stories of cursed places-including a strange haunting in the
Cypress Hills and a deadly Lake Superior lighthouse-and weird
coincidences, such as the legendary Hollywood hex on Oscar-winning
actresses. Whether you believe in the power of hoaxes or hexes,
these bizarre stories show them to be a fascinating part of our
history.
Based on true accounts of hauntings, and told with a master
storyteller's eye for detail, these collections will scare, astound
and intruct kids of all ages. Young readers will enjoy this
fascinating debut in which kids encounter all manner of animal
ghosts. some envlolve pets, others involve wild animals, but all
are very scary!
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