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.

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...

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...

A comprehensive introduction to designing services according to the needs of the customer or participants, this book addresses a new and emerging field of design and the disciplines that feed and result from it. Despite its intrinsic multidisciplinarity, service design is a new specialization of design in its own right. Responding to the challenges of and providing holisitic, creative and innovative solutions to increasingly complex contemporary societies, service design now represents an int...

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.

The Volume 3 Textbook is also available as a fully integrat...

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...

Dieses Lehrbuch wendet sich an Lehrende und Studierende von Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache in Deutschland und in aller Welt. Es behandelt in verständlicher, anschaulicher und anregender Darstellung für DaF/DaZ relevante Aspekte der Phonologie und Phonetik im Zusammenhang mit der Orthografie. Es informiert über den aktuellen Forschungsstand und vermittelt einen bibliographischen Überblick.

Es werden zunächst die fachlichen Grundlagen zu Phonologie, Phonetik, Normen und Varianten der ...

Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen} ist eine Einführung in die Grammatik des gegenwärtigen Deutschen in den Bereichen Phonetik, Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax und Graphematik. Das Buch ist für alle geeignet, die sich für die Grammatik des Deutschen interessieren, vor allem aber für Studierende der Germanistik bzw.\ Deutschen Philologie, insbesondere auch für Lehramtsstudierende. Im Vordergrund steht die Vermittlung grammatischer Erkenntnisprozesse und Argumentat...

Deze Compact-uitgave handelt over de Wet op de lijkbezorging en aanverwante onderwerpen. Het boek is bestemd voor diegenen die in de dagelijkse praktijk werkzaam zijn op het gebied van de uitvaartverzorging en de daarmee samenhangende onderwerpen. Getracht is op een duidelijke wijze de wet en de daaruit voortvloeiende procedures en werkwijzen te beschrijven.

In het eerste gedeelte wordt op summiere wijze de Wet op de lijkbezorging besproken, waarbij zoveel mogelijk getracht is de indeling van ...

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...