The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors


Leigh Ryan - 1994
    Its nine chapters provide principles and strategies for working with diverse writers and assignments in a variety of contexts: college or high school, online or face-to-face, in the writing center and beyond. Visit the companion Web site for The Bedford Handbook, Eighth Edition (hackerhandbooks.com/bedhandbook) to find additional tools for tutors and writers including handouts on common writing, grammar, and punctuation problems; documentation help; links to tutoring resources; and an annotated bibliography.

Human Anatomy & Physiology [With Interactive Physiology 10-System Suite and Paperback Book and Access Code]


Elaine N. Marieb - 1989
    Marieb and Katja Hoehn have produced the most accessible, comprehensive, up-to-date, and visually stunning anatomy & physiology textbook on the market. Marieb draws on her career as an A&P professor and her experience as a part-time nursing student, while Hoehn relies on her medical education and classroom experience to explain concepts and processes in a meaningful and memorable way. The most significant revision to date, the Eighth Edition makes it easier for you to learn key concepts in A&P. The new edition features a whole new art program that is not only more visually dynamic and vibrant than in previous editions but is also much more pedagogically effective for today's students, including new Focus figures, which guide you through the toughest concepts in A&P. The text has been edited to make it easier than ever to study from and navigate, with integrated objectives, new concept check questions, and a new design program.

Nonprofit Management: Principles and Practice


Michael J. Worth - 2008
    Essential for the classroom. -Robert Silverman, University at Buffalo Nonprofit Management: Principles and Practice, the first comprehensive textbook written for the Nonprofit Management course, covers such topics as the scope and structure of the nonprofit sector, leadership of nonprofits, managing the nonprofit organization, fundraising, nonprofit enterprise, financial management, collaborations and mergers, nonprofit lobbying and advocacy, and international trends. Written specifically for students, this text integrates research, theory, and the practitioner literature and includes more than is found in the more prescriptive, practitioner-oriented alternatives. Providing an overview suitable for students enrolled in their first course in the field, the book also includes cases and discussions of advanced issues for those with experience. Key FeaturesTakes a balanced approach to varied perspectives and controversial issues and encompasses traditional concepts as well as new approaches and thinking Integrates social sciences research, management theory, and practitioner literature Includes mini-cases to enhance student understanding of the issues involved in real-world situations Gives students direction on where to go in the literature to learn more through chapter-ending Suggestions for Further Reading Includes Questions for Discussion at the end of each chapter to help students apply chapter content to actual nonprofit organizationsAccompanied by High-Quality Ancillaries This text is supported by Instructor Resources on CD, featuring sample syllabi, suggested exercises and discussion questions, PowerPoint slides, and more. This CD is available to qualified instructors by contacting Customer Care at 1-800-818-SAGE (7243) from 6 am 5 pm, PST. Nonprofit Management is ideal for courses in Nonprofit Management, Not-for-Profit Management, and Public Management.

Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals


Hal Herzog - 2010
    Herzog’s groundbreaking research on animal rights activists, cockfighters, professional dog-show handlers, veterinary students, and biomedical researchers. Blending anthropology, behavioral economics, evolutionary psychology, and philosophy, Herzog carefully crafts a seamless narrative enriched with real-life anecdotes, scientific research, and his own sense of moral ambivalence.Alternately poignant, challenging, and laugh-out-loud funny, this enlightening and provocative book will forever change the way we look at our relationships with other creatures and, ultimately, how we see ourselves.