Financial Markets and Institutions takes a practical approach to the changing landscape of financial markets and institutions. The text uses core principles to introduce topics, then examines these models via real-world scenarios. Empirical applications of themes help you develop essential critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.

The 10th Edition reflects major changes in the aftermath of the global financial and Covid crises. With timely new sections, cases and boxes, you'll have the la...

Mechanics of Materials excels in providing a clear and thorough presentation of the theory and application of mechanics of materials principles. Drawing upon his decades of classroom experience and his knowledge of how students learn, Professor Hibbeler provides highly visual, methodical applications to help you conceptualize and master difficult concepts. A variety of problem types stress realistic situations encountered in the field, with several levels of difficulty to give you the practic...

The Collaborative Analysis of Student Work is a comprehensive guide to implementing a research-based approach to professional learning that drives educator effectiveness and promotes learning for every student. This book includes step-by-step guidance to implementation supported by numerous tools, protocols, and rich examples.

A positive and practical guide that shows you how to succeed in academia, helping you hone your skills in teaching and research as well as building softer skills like interpersonal development.

A rhapsodic hymn to Black women' New York Times Book ReviewFAMILY CAN HOLD YOU TOGETHER. AND TEAR YOU APART. Joan was only a child the last time she visited Memphis.

She doesn't remember the bustle of Beale Street on a summer's night or the smell of honeysuckle as she climbs the porch steps to her aunt's house. But when the front door opens, she immediately remembers her cousin Derek. As Joan learns more about her family's past she discovers she's not the only North woman to have experienced ...

Written for busy teachers, trainers, managers and students, this 'dip-in, dip-out' guide makes understanding theories of learning accessible and practical.

This book shows which practices related to curriculum, instruction, and assessment are essential to make learning the goal for every student. A how-to book for hands-on implementation, it provides useful strategies for making changes that will pave the way for major transformation in the standards-based classroom.

Understanding spatial socio-economic inequalities

Global transformations such as globalization and climate change influence the economic fate of people and places very differently. Also, places differ in terms of the opportunities they offer to firms and the people living there. As a result, there are important socio-economic inequalities across space. Economic Geography gives you the tools to understand such inequalities.

The aim of this book is to provide students and other interested ...

In recent years, more and more organisations have realised that diversity and inclusion in the workplace is both crucial and enormously beneficial. But how do you stop this realisation from remaining empty words and flashy statements, and turn awareness into action?

In 'The Inclusion Marathon', Kauthar Bouchallikht and Zoë Papaikonomou interview 41 practitioners and researchers about their knowledge and experience within the field of diversity, equity and inclusion in the Netherlands. These...

Nowadays it seems there is a manual for everything. What if there was a manual for how to interact with people so that we could all function optimally and succeed in life?

This book comes closest to being the definitive manual for life. It is based on over 50 years of groundbreaking scientific research on self-determination theory which has produced a structural approach to social interaction—the ‘ABC of life’—as a concrete and actionable approach to success. For if you do not unders...