Cengel and Cimbala's Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications, communicates directly with tomorrow's engineers in a simple yet precise manner, while covering the basic principles and equations of fluid mechanics in the context of numerous and diverse real-world engineering examples. The text helps students develop an intuitive understanding of fluid mechanics by emphasizing the physics, using figures, numerous photographs and visual aids to reinforce the physics. The highly visual appro...

Learn all the microbiology and basic immunology concepts you need to know for your courses and exams. Now fully revised and updated, Mims' clinically relevant, systems-based approach and abundant colour illustrations make this complex subject easy to understand and remember. Learn about infections in the context of major body systems and understand why these are environments in which microbes can establish themselves, flourish, and give rise to pathologic changes.

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Help your students cultivate the skills for successful business managementEssentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, 9th edition, teaches your students how to launch and successfully manage a small business.Packed with learning features, this book is perfect for courses on small business management.Also available with MyLabTM.

This forward-looking resource recasts the concept of healthy cities as not only a safe, pleasant, and green built environment, but also one that creates and sustains health by addressing social, economic, and political conditions. It describes collaborations between city planning and public health creating a contemporary concept of urban governance¿a democratically-informed process that embraces values like equity. Models, critiques, and global examples illustrate institutional change, commu...

The Integrated Chinese Volume 3 Textbook is designed to cover the first semester of study at the college level. Learners develop real-life communicative skills as they discuss topics related to everyday life and learn useful grammatical structures presented alongside clear, jargon-free explanations. Two review lessons are included for cumulative practice. In Volume 3, both simplified and traditional characters are shown side-by-side.

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Teaching Grammar: From Rules to Reasons is a book which outlines an alternative approach to teaching grammar in the language classroom. It explores what speakers and writers of English do with grammar, and how language students can be guided to discover what they mean.This book comprises of lesson materials, systematic lesson procedures, discovery techniques and explores replication activities that can be incorporated into a syllabus and used as demonstration lessons. Teaching Grammar: From R...

De huidige overheidsbemoeienis met de volksgezondheid en zorg vormt de resultante van een historische ontwikkeling waarin verschillen van inzicht en botsende ideologische opvattingen steeds hun stempel op het beleid en de besturingsstructuur drukten. Conflicten over meer concrete zaken als regelgeving, beleidsdoeleinden en middelen of de verdeling van de zeggenschap waren regel in plaats van uitzondering. Machtspolitieke overwegingen speelden altijd mee. Compromisvorming bleek veelal de enige...

Het is 2004. Een groep klimaatwetenschappers doet onderzoek op een schip in het Noordpoolgebied. Een van hen is Bas Fretz, een bijna-volwassen vrouw van 21 die nog met Lego speelt. Zij is mee in plaats van haar hoogleraar, Reinier, nadat die onverwacht is overleden. Ze hield net iets te veel van hem en ze zou graag weten of hij ook iets voor haar voelde, maar daar komt ze natuurlijk nooit meer achter, nu hij dood is.

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An essential foundation text for residents and pathologists, the third edition of Head and Neck Pathology, a volume in the Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology series, has been fully revised to include recent advances in the field. Featuring a highly templated, easy-to-use format and new information throughout, this practical, affordable resource by Drs. Lester D.

R. Thompson and Justin A. Bishop is ideal for study and review as well as everyday clinical practice.

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The trusted resource you need to meet the challenges of teaching Calculus.

The trusted author team behind this textbook have understood the challenges instructors face in a Calculus course and have crafted a resource that gives you the tools to meet them. This text helps students learn calculus conceptually, while also emphasizing computational and problem-solving skills with a wide array of problems including engaging challenge problems and applied exercises that model the physical sciences,...