From up-and-coming Lovegram author Linda Sandifer, a steamy, romantic tale about a half-breed Shoshoni Indian and the Pinkerton agent who has been hired to track her down. Torn between desire and flight, Red Sky knew that she could never escape the fiery passion that Matt awoke in her hungry heart.
While excavating the cliff dwellings of the long-vanished Anasazi tribe, 19th-century archaeologist Tanya Darrow uncovers an expedition led by rival archaeologist and notorious playboy Keane Trevalyan. In a subterranean cave, Tanya and Keane discover a mystical gemstone and a passageway to the 13th century!
Leaving the comforts of her affluent home in Boston, Nancy Maguire joins a group heading West in the hopes of reaching California and starting a horse ranch, but her independent nature causes problems and forces her to face great challenges all alone. Reprint.
At thirty-five, Dev Summers wants to quit the rodeo and return to his family ranch in Nevada. July Jones, though seeking sanctuary at the ranch but becomes embroiled in tragedy and a murderous plot.
Arriving at her brother's Idaho ranch with plans to spend her life watching over him and his motherless daughter, Hattie Longmore is greeted by her brother's best friend, handsome Jim Rider, and the news of her brother's murder. Original.
The author of Embrace the Wind, Mountain Ecstacy, and Midnight Hearts brings to life the days of the western frontier. After fighting impossible odds to settle on the wild Wyoming land, Maggie loses her husband to a land-grabber's bullets. So Maggie hires a notorious gunslinger to protect her home, but ends up losing her heart.
Spanning nearly 400 years from the early abolitionists to the present, Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience profiles more than 400 people, places, and events that have shaped the history of the black struggle for freedom. Covering such mainstay figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks as well as delving into how lesser known figures contributed to and shaped the history of civil rights, Freedom Facts and Firsts chronicles the breadth and passion of an entire people's quest for freedom. Among the inspiring stories found in this comprehensive resource are: How the Housewives' League of Detroit started a nationwide movement to support black businesses, helping many to survive the Great Depression. What effect the sports journalist Samuel Harold Lacy had on Jackie Robinson's historic entrance into the major leagues. How the 9th and 10th Calvary and the 24th and 25th Infantry became known as the Buffalo Soldiers, a term of respect and endearment. How Whoopi Goldberg survived poverty, drug addiction, single parenthood, and a welfare income and used her personal history to take a satirical look at social issues. How world champion bicyclist Marshall “Major” Taylor was the first American-born black champion in any sport. How in 1890 John Mercer Langston became the first black U.S. congressman elected from his native state of Virginia. This inspiring resource offers an encouraging look at the historic struggles and triumphs of black men and women in politics, arts, music, journalism, law, social work and sports, the authors chart a full and inspiring history of African American activism!
Performance assessment is a hot topic in school systems, and educators continue to analyze its costs, benefits, and feasibility as a replacement for high-stakes testing. Until now, researchers and policymakers have had to dig to find out what we know and what we still have to learn about performance assessment. Beyond the Bubble Test: How Performance Assessments Support 21st Century Learning synthesizes the latest findings in the field, and not a moment too soon. Statistics indicate that the United States is in danger of falling behind if it fails to adapt to our changing world. The memory and recall strategies of traditional testing are no longer adequate to equip our students with the skills they need to excel in the global economy. Instead teachers need to engage students in deeper learning, assessing their ability to use higher-order skills. Skills like synthesizing information, understanding evidence, and critical problem-solving are not achieved when we teach to multiple-choice exams. Examples in Beyond the Bubble Test paint a useful picture of how schools can begin to supplement traditional tests with something that works better. This book provides new perspectives on current performance assessment research, plus an incisive look at what’s possible at the local and state levels. Linda Darling-Hammond, with a team of leading scholars, bring together lessons learned, new directions, and solid recommendations into a single, readily accessible compendium. Beyond the Bubble Test situates the current debate on performance assessment within the context of testing in the United States. This comprehensive resource also looks beyond our U.S. borders to Singapore, Hong Kong, and other places whose reform-mindedness can serve as an example to us.
The author of Embrace the Wind, Mountain Ecstacy, and Midnight Hearts brings to life the days of the western frontier. After fighting impossible odds to settle on the wild Wyoming land, Maggie loses her husband to a land-grabber's bullets. So Maggie hires a notorious gunslinger to protect her home, but ends up losing her heart.
While excavating the cliff dwellings of the long-vanished Anasazi tribe, 19th-century archaeologist Tanya Darrow uncovers an expedition led by rival archaeologist and notorious playboy Keane Trevalyan. In a subterranean cave, Tanya and Keane discover a mystical gemstone and a passageway to the 13th century!
Second-Chance Christmas It's been nine years since Jake Hamilton broke Allison Buchanon's heart and left town. But she's never been able to forget the high school boy she secretly loved. Now Jake's come home to care for his ailing grandmother, and Allison's family will do anything to prevent a rekindled romance. Unfortunately, the connection between Allison and the green-eyed cowboy is undeniable. She believes that forgiveness is possible, especially at Christmas. But Jake cares too deeply about Allison to take her away from the close-knit Buchanon clan. Will Allison have to choose between a loving family and the love of her life? The Buchanons: Steeped in loyalty, bound by family.
This practical textbook helps students in marriage and family programmes, as well as practicing marriage and family therapists, understand and apply a variety of the most popular family therapy models.
Medical literature for health care practitioners on the evaluation and treatment of breastfeeding issues has been disjointed, conflicting, and difficult to find. The field of breastfeeding medicine itself is nonexistent—there are no "breastfeeding doctors" who are specifically trained to understand this complex and interactive process. While much of the literature about breastfeeding describes how it "should" work, there is currently nothing available to explain why it often fails and how to treat it. Clinician’s Guide to Breastfeeding: Evidence-based Evaluation and Management is written for health care practitioners who work with breastfeeding mothers; physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and lactation consultants. It provides clear information and clinically tested strategies to help professionals guide new mothers to breastfeed successfully. The first of its kind to consider the entirety of the breastfeeding experience,Clinician’s Guide to Breastfeeding is written by Dr. Linda D. Dahl, a leading expert on the subject. It is a comprehensive review of breastfeeding, covering objective analyses of ideal or “normal” nursing, as well as the evaluation and treatment of abnormal nursing, including case studies to illustrate the treatment decision-making process.
Using a uniquely collaborative and reader-friendly approach, expert authors Donna D. Ignatavicius and M. Linda Workman cover all the latest trends, evidence-based treatment guidelines, and additional updated information needed for safe clinical practice in medical-surgical nursing. This seventh edition features an expanded emphasis on patient safety and NCLEX® Examination preparation, new ties to the QSEN priorities for patient safety, and a greater alignment with the language and focus of clinical practice. A new chapter on evidence-based practice and a wealth of effective online learning tools help solidify your mastery of medical-surgical nursing. UNIQUE! Collaborative approach presents all medical, surgical, nursing, and other interventions through the lens of the nursing process. Reader-friendly, direct writing style makes this one of the most readable medical-surgical nursing textbooks available. UNIQUE! Cutting-edge focus on the latest trends in nursing practice and nursing education prepares you for both today and tomorrow’s nursing practice. UNIQUE! Integrated tools for NCLEX preparation get you ready for your licensure examination. Chapter-opening Learning Outcomes are linked to Self-Assessment Questions for the NCLEX Examination on the Evolve website. Unique chapter-ending Get Ready for the NCLEX Examination! sections include Key Points organized by NCLEX Client Needs Categories. UNIQUE! Focus on nursing concepts helps bridge the gap between the concepts learned in Nursing Fundamentals, and disorders content learned in the medical-surgical nursing course. UNIQUE! Emphasis on clinical decision-making teaches you to apply concepts to true-to-life clinical situations. UNIQUE! Concentration on the core body of knowledge for the RN level of medical-surgical nursing practice focuses your attention on "need-to-know" content to pass the NCLEX Examination and practice safely as a beginning nurse. Rich array of effective learning aids includes: Best Practice for Patient Safety & Quality Care Best Practice for Emergency Care Patient and Family Education: Preparing for Self-Management Nursing Focus on the Older Adult Home Care Assessment Focused Assessment Common Examples of Drug Therapy Evidence-Based Practice Concept Maps Laboratory Profiles Assessment Using Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns
Using a uniquely collaborative and reader-friendly approach, expert authors Donna D. Ignatavicius and M. Linda Workman cover all the latest trends, evidence-based treatment guidelines, and additional updated information needed for safe clinical practice in medical-surgical nursing. This seventh edition features an expanded emphasis on patient safety and NCLEX? Examination preparation, new ties to the QSEN priorities for patient safety, and a greater alignment with the language and focus of clinical practice. A new chapter on evidence-based practice and a wealth of effective online learning tools help solidify your mastery of medical-surgical nursing.
From up-and-coming Lovegram author Linda Sandifer, a steamy, romantic tale about a half-breed Shoshoni Indian and the Pinkerton agent who has been hired to track her down. Torn between desire and flight, Red Sky knew that she could never escape the fiery passion that Matt awoke in her hungry heart.
Paris McKenna, disguised as a nun, is on a quest for priceless treasures hidden in the Arizona Territory by Jesuit missionaries of the early 1700's. She enlists the aid of bounty hunter Nate Brannigan. When Brannigan discovers "Sister Francis" is not what she seems, burning passion for gold and love flare between them. From the author of Came a Stranger.
A surprising Christmas reunion Cowboy Under the Mistletoe by Linda Goodnight Nine years ago, Jake Hamilton broke Allison Buchanon’s heart and left town. Now Jake’s come home to care for his ailing grandmother, and her family will do anything to prevent a rekindled romance. Allison believes in forgiveness, especially at Christmas. But Jake cares too deeply about Allison to take her away from the Buchanon clan. Will Allison have to choose between her family and the love of her life? A Hickory Ridge Christmas by Dana Corbit Hannah Woods had been the talk of Hickory Ridge five years ago. Her daughter was the light of her life, though Hannah was unable to forgive the one who’d loved her—and then left. Now Todd McBride was determined to find the woman he still adored and ask for a second chance. But Hannah’s secret—a child he’d never known about—threw his plans into a tailspin…
How do lawyers construct closing arguments? How do literary critics substantiate their original claims? How do op ed writers convince others that their arguments are valid and credible? The answers are clear: Through inquiry, research, analysis, and composition. From Inquiry to Argument blends inquiry, research, and argument by interweaving a discussion of argumentation strategies with instruction in critical thinking and research skills and with writing tasks important to research and argument. This book's approach gives readers a reason to research - to find ideas and information for their arguments - and also helps them build better arguments through analysis. This book covers academic documentation in both MLA and APA styles, while also addressing informal means of citation. Numerous professional readings, as well as nine writing samples, expose readers to different types of writing and provide a base for primary research. The coverage of argument addresses such related topics as critical thinking, logic and fallacies, and the appeals, and presents Toulmin logic as a touchstone for the discussion of argument. Lawyers, business professionals, instructors of critical reading and writing, and anyone else involved with formal or informal persuasive writing and debating.
Love Inspired brings you four new Christmas titles for one great price, available now! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. Look for the bundle 2 of 2 and enjoy more inspirational stories from Love Inspired! HIS MONTANA HOMECOMING by Jenna Mindel Big Sky Centennial Millionaire Dale Massey has come to Jasper Gulch's centennial celebration to honor his family—nothing more. But he quickly sees the joys of small-town life…and a potential future with charming Faith Shaw. AN AMISH FAMILY CHRISTMAS by Marta Perry and Patricia Davids Spend Christmas in Amish country with these two heartwarming tales about the power of family, forgiveness and finding a second chance at love. COWBOY UNDER THE MISTLETOE by Linda Goodnight The Buchanons Cowboy Jake Hamilton returns to Gabriel's Crossing to care for his ill grandmother. Can he gain the town's forgiveness for his tragic past and claim the girl he's never been able to forget? A HIGH COUNTRY HOLIDAY by Glynna Kaye They grew up on opposites sides of the tracks, but when Cody Hawk and Paris Perslow work together on the town's charity Christmas gala, they'll cross the divide and create their own happily-ever-after.
First AidTM remains the most trusted name in USMLE® review—just ask any medical student! First Aid Clinical Algorithms for the USMLE Step 2 CK was designed to help you develop and refine your clinical thinking skills—preparing you for success in your clerkship and on the Step 2 CK exam. This new addition to the First AidTM series uses an algorithmic approach that allows you to methodically walk through the diagnostic decision making process. The content is organized by symptom to reflect how information will be presented in an actual clinical setting. Clinical vignettes focusing on specific illnesses are followed by step-by-step flowcharts outlining the diagnosis and treatment of the illness and its relevant differential diagnoses. Unique algorithmic approach Clinical vignettes accompany decision-making algorithms Flowcharts outline the diagnosis and treatment process
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