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Psychology for Nurses and Health Professionals, Second Edition is an accessible guide providing comprehensive coverage of psychology for nurses and healthcare professionals in training and practice. Key features include: Fully updated and restructured to ensure content matches training requirements for nurses and healthcare practitioners Stronger focus on the biopsychosocial model, therapeutic relationships and self-awareness More examples to highlight application with theories demonstrated t...

By examining how young children develop and learn from conception through to the age of eight, this book explores ways to enhance professional practice in the early years. For further discussion and engagement with current issues and hot topics in Early Childhood subscribe to Sheila Nutkin's author blog.

A fully revised and updated edition of this widely adopted textbook. The First Edition was published in 2003 by Hodder.

An introduction to conducting educational research for trainee teachers or anyone undertaking classroom-based research.

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Learn C# with Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming and you'll be thinking about program design in the right way from day one. Whether you want to work with .NET for the web or desktop, or for Windows 8 on any device, Dan Clark's accessible, quick-paced guide will give you the foundation you need for a successful future in C# programming. In this book you will: Master the fundamentals of object-oriented programming Work through a case study to see how C# and OOP work in a real-world applic...