Gluck, Mercado and Myers's Learning and Memory is the first textbook developed from its inception to reflect the convergence of brain studies and behavioural approaches in modern learning and memory research incorporating findings both in animals and humans. Each chapter integrates coverage of both human memory and animal learning, with separate ...
This is the authoritative introduction to the concepts and techniques of recombinant DNA research and their dramatic results. The book explores core concepts in molecular biology in a contemporary inquiry-based context, building its coverage around the landmark experiments that redefined our understanding of DNA. As a result, students learn how ...
Community is a fundamental life search. We need to belong. In our time, we search with some increasing desperation as terms like neighbor, family, and congregation are being redefined.
Identifies the major ideas that college and university students will encounter in a basic psychology course and explores connections with Christian belief.
Violent ghosts, lost souls, and strange specters wander spookily through these 84 terrifying and true stories of haunted houses, mysterious train rides, and demon dolls. Sharpe's eerie illustrations heighten the horror.
This book is for students and researchers who have a specific interest in learning and memory and want to understand how computational models can be integrated into experimental research on the hippocampus and learning. It emphasizes the function of brain structures as they give rise to behaviour, rather than the molecular or neuronal details. It ...
FOR FTN USE ONLY, NOT FOR WEB The Fundamentals of Small Group Communication provides the beginning student with basic concepts, skills, and practices to become an effective group member. Unlike other small group communication textbooks that revolve around group work and group presentations, this textbook centers on the individual group mem ber. ...
Combining developmental counseling and therapy (DCT) theory with wellness theory and positive psychology, this text provides a foundation for addressing lifespan transitions and developmental issues. Students use case studies, transcripts, and exercises to learn how the major theories relate to actual practice. Special Features: *Throughout ...
This edition presents both the "what" and the "how to" in education and therapy. The text's practical approach to therapeutic exercise and neuromuscular education or re-education includes detailed analyses of patterns of facilitation, descriptions of the repertoire of techniques, and illustrations depicting individual patterns and total patterns ...
Musical Instruments presents the first comprehensive survey to explain how Western musical instruments work, how they developed historically, how they are manufactured, and how they are used to make music. After introducing the nature of sounds in music, and the sound production mechanisms of different families of instruments, the authors survey ...
A compilation of childrens' words showing the warmth, humour and insight children own. The authors gathered gems to store in this book from schools, playgrounds, churches and family gatherings. They reflect a wide range of backgrounds and convey the joys and difficulties of growing up.
"The Parenting Survival Kit" provides real solutions to most common parenting problems and concerns, including how to tell if a child is active, overactive, or hyperactive; placing infants in child care; toilet training; and confronting teenagers about drug and alcohol abuse.
Three physicians and a health-care financial analyst help readers navigate the ever-changing world of health care, including insurance, managed care and doctor-patient relationships. Designed for patients frustrated and frightened by medical issues, the book lights the path to excellent care by using real-life stories, invaluable facts and ...
Marvin Phillips opens our eyes to the humorous side of life with his practical insights and extraordinary wisdom. This book causes you to look up, not down, to smile, not frown, to fly, not die, and above all else, to trust in the God who strengthens us for the task of living.
This book provides useful, compassionate advice about the chronic burdens that often result from conflicts with difficult, demanding, vindictive, or even dangerous ex-spouses. Comprises of 10 chapters that cover denial, guilt, communication, damage control, kids and more. Each of the chapters offer practical advice on each subject, complete with ...
What is chronic pain? -- What causes chronic pain? -- Seeking relief -- Taking care of yourself -- Low back pain -- Nerve pain -- Rheumatic pain -- Cancer pain -- Other chronic pain conditions.
As functional imaging becomes increasingly important in radiology, practitioners in a wide range of disciplines need to understand more about the quantitive aspects of physiology and pathophysiology. In straightforward language, this book integrates the principles and mathematics of measurements with physiological systems to which the quantitive ...
This title includes a book and CD-ROM. Arnold O Beckman was a legend in his time: the blacksmith's son who grew up to play a pivotal role in the instrumentation revolution that dramatically changed science, technology, and society. From his rural boyhood world of farming and woodworking, through his service in the US Marines and his appointment to ...
For Emile Durkheim, writing in the nineteenth-century, punishment was simply understood as a clear response to the criminal behavior a society experiences. Today's penal institutions challenge such a simple understanding. Inseparably linked with many aspects of society, they are profoundly shaped by the traumatic events and changes a society ...
With its balanced and practical program, this book gives parents the information and tools they need to shift the balance of power to its rightful place in the home.
This volume offers a new systems paradigm, presents a systems outlook, defines key concepts and outlines the principles of characterizing complex systems in a qualitative way and by the systematic use of models and measures. The book presents the product/process (P/p) methodology: a coherent collection of generic but readily understandable ...
Providing a well-written and easy-to-read review of the subject, this reference describes the most recent breakthroughs in the validation and execution of testing schemes for parenteral quality control. Emphasizing testing methodologies for the evaluation of package integrity and finished product contamination and sterility, the book is a guide to ...
She has designed banks and hotels, college master plans and retail spaces, homes and studios for leading artists, and her work has appeared in "Vogue", "Newsweek", and "Vanity Fair". Hailed as one of her generation's only true modernists, architect Deborah Berke has, perhaps ironically, made a name for herself by creating what she calls an ...
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