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...

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.

Daar zit ze dan, als junior onderzoeker, op dat schip in het poolijs, tusse...

This new edition introduces the underpinning theory and concepts required for the development of first class communication and interpersonal skills in nursing. By providing a simple to read overview of the central topics students are able to quickly gain a solid, evidence-based grounding in the subject.

How can teachers generate those lightbulb "aha" moments of understanding for their students? This book helps to answer that question by showing Visible Learning strategies in action in high-impact mathematics classrooms.

This book introduces readers to the basic principles of bioinformatics and the practical application and utilization of computational tools, without assuming any prior background in programming or informatics. It provides a coherent overview of the complex field and focuses on the implementation of online tools, genome databases and software that can benefit scientists and students in the life sciences. Training tutorials with practical bioinformatics exercises and solutions facilitate the un...

For over 50 years students, professors, clergy, and general readers have relied on The New Oxford Annotated Bible as an unparalleled authority in Study Bibles. This fifth edition of the Annotated remains the best way to study and understand the Bible at home or in the classroom. This thoroughly revised and substantially updated edition contains the best scholarship informed by recent discoveries and anchored in the solid Study Bible tradition.

· Introductions and extensive annotations for ea...