For courses in pharmacology.
A holistic approach to pharmacology essentials
Pharmacology for Nurses: A Pathophysiologic Approach simplifies pharmacology by linking it tightly to therapeutic goals. Instead of learning about drugs in isolation, students approach them by body systems and diseases in order to draw connections between A&P, diseases, and drug interventions. Engaging features and exercises relate pharmacology to nursing care, while discussion of alternative therapies and cultural and lifespan considerations give further context for clinical decisions. The 6th edition adds the most current pharmacotherapeutics and advances in pathophysiology.
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Think Like a Super-GM is a unique collaboration combining the chess insights of an elite grandmaster with a scientific investigation into thinking at the chess board.

40 chess puzzles were shown to a panel of players ranging from occasional club players up to Super-GM and co-author Michael Adams. Researcher Philip Hurtado recorded not only the moves chosen, but also the detailed thought processes of every player in order to shed light on the mystery as to what exactly defines superior chess strength.

This book offers a unique opportunity for readers to not only solve the puzzles, but also compare their thinking to that of club players, strong amateurs, IMs, GMs and Michael Adams himself. With an additional Bonus Puzzle section and a fascinating Eyetracker experiment showing where different players focused their attention on the board, this is a chess improvement book like no other.

When President Obama signed the affordable health care act in 2009, the Vice President was overheard to utter an enthusiastic This is a big f****** deal! A town in Massachusetts levies $20 fines on swearing in public. Nothing is as paradoxical as our attitude toward swearing and bad language how can we judge profanity so harshly in principle, yet use it so frequently in practice? Though profanity is more acceptable today than ever, it is still labeled as rude, or at best tolerable only under specific circumstances. Cursing, many argue, signals an absence of character, or poor parenting, and is something to avoid at all costs. Yet plenty of us are unconcerned about the dangers of profanity; bad words are commonly used in mainstream music, Academy Award-winning films, books, and newspapers. And of course, regular people use them in conversation every day.

In In Praise of Profanity, Michael Adams offers a provocative, unapologetic defense of profanity, arguing that we've oversimplified profanity by labeling it as taboo. Profanity is valuable, even essential, both as a vehicle of communication and an element of style. As much as we may deplore it in some contexts, we should celebrate it in others. Adams skillfully weaves together linguistic and psychological analyses of why we swear-for emotional release, as a way to promote group solidarity, or to create intimate relationships -- with colorful examples of profanity in literature, TV, film, and music, such as The Sopranos, James Kelman's How Late It Was, How Late, or the songs of Nellie McKay. This breezy, jargon-free book will challenge readers to reconsider the way they think about swearing.

For courses in pharmacology.
A patient-centered approach to pharmacology in nursing practice
Pharmacology: Connections to Nursing Practice links pharmacology to nursing practice and patient care. Features illuminate connections between pharmacology and nursing practice, from patient scenarios and practice applications, to lifespan considerations, alternative therapies, and gender and cultural influences. The use of prototype drugs helps nurses learn a vast range of medications, while organization by body systems and diseases places drugs in the context of their therapeutic applications. The 4th edition includes more than 30 new FDA-approved drugs, more than 20 new visuals clarifying concepts, and a new feature developing the clinical decision-making skills of advanced practice nurses.

Problems in Lexicography is an essential, classic work of practical lexicography (the practice of writing dictionaries) and meta-lexicography. Originally published over sixty years ago, it was based on the proceedings of the Indiana University Conference on Lexicography, held November 11-12, 1960. It set a standard that still holds today, three generations later.

This critical and historical edition, brilliantly researched and presented by Michael Adams, explores the enduring legacy of this classic work and promises to extend its life further into the twenty-first century. Problems in Lexicography: A Critical / Historical Edition amply demonstrates that this unique work is a book of historical significance and a worthy prologue to lexicography's present.

In its seven years on television, Buffy the Vampire Slayer earned critical acclaim and a massive cult following among teen viewers. One of the most distinguishing features of the show is the innovative way its writers play with language--fabricating new words, morphing existing ones, and throwing usage on its head. The result has been a strikingly resonant lexicon that reflects the power of both youth culture and television in the evolution of American slang. Using the show to illustrate how new slang is formed, transformed, and transmitted, Slayer Slang is one of those rare books that combines a serious explanation of a pop culture phenomenon with an engrossing read for Buffy fans, language mavens, and pop culture critics. Noted linguist Michael Adams offers a synopsis of the program's history, an essay on the nature and evolution of the show's language, and a detailed glossary of slayer slang, annotated with actual dialogue. Introduced by Jane Espenson, one of the show's most inventive writers (and herself a linguist), Slayer Slang offers a quintessential example of contemporary youth culture serving as a vehicle for slang.

Kevin Adams - Painter, June 19, 1951- April 23, 1987
Curtain Call, a collection of work by Kevin Adams, is the encore for his art. His life as an artist began as early as he could pick up a pencil and continued until his death in 1987. Kevin thought of himself not as just an artist but specifically as a Painter. Painting was the primary driving force in his life. This book represents work produced in a ten-year span from 1976 to 1986. Over this period he produced over 50 paintings, most of them reflected in this collection.
The narration of the work in this book is mostly written by Kevin. His writing about his paintings provides us with an insight into his creative thought, his struggles with subject and his intelligence in finding solutions. His journals are as integral to his painting as are the drawings and the preparation of his canvases; they represent the foundation of creativity, his intellect. We also find in his journals and sketch books studies in preparation for his paintings. While struggles and choices are reflected in his writing, there are no compromises made in the development of his work.
You will find that Kevin's direction, once set, is as focused as his style. He refused to compromise for the sake of vanity, greed or marketing. He clearly believed in his painting and demanded it stand on its own. He dares the viewer to judge his work and challenges them to explore the depth within them.
He developed close relationships with several fellow artists during his time in school at Brooks Institute of Fine Art in Santa Barbara. Kevin's closest friends were intelligent, talented and independent; they formed the core of his ideological alter ego. He relied on them to challenge him, stretch his talent and mind, and keep him productive.
After graduation from Brooks Institute of Fine Art he attended Tulane University in New Orleans as a graduate student. While at Tulane he continued to look to his friends from Santa Barbara for intellectual stimulation about art and its place in his world. Two of his closest friends were Anne Gregory and Stephen Fleming who lived in Sacramento, California. Kevin visited them, found a vibrant art community and moved there in 1976.

The very first book devoted to antique silver lemon strainers, this is the fruit of a decade's research by a biology teacher turned silver expert who gives equal weight to analysis and aesthetics. Lemon strainers, normally consigned to the 'miscellany' pages of antique silver guides, are varied, beautiful and collectable and survive in surprising numbers considering their 150 years of use in punch making ended 200 years ago: the author's database contains 900 examples from England, Ireland, Scotland and America. After an extensive introduction, lemon strainers are described in 27 categories and lavishly illustrated with 268 figures.

Tired of books that have low quality images or skip steps assuming you know how to fill in the gaps? Have you ever wondered: - How difficult is it to draw an object? - What materials and tools am I going to need? - How you must hold your pencil or eraser to do each part of the drawing? - Where do I start as a beginner in drawing? - How hard is it for me to add toning and shading? - Will I be able to draw a beautiful portrait of my beloved ones? This is simply the most comprehensive, analytical and easy to understand DRAWING guide on the market As a beginner you are going to need a real manual of how to draw really well. This book is exactly that A real blueprint that will guide you through all the steps, necessary to learn how to draw your first full portrait. We will take you from the hand from square one and guide you through many analytical steps until you learn how to make complete portraits of your beloved ones on your own. No things to assume, no steps to jump to finished drawings, no wondering how he did that. Only thing missing from this guide is... your imagination It covers a wide area of information, like: - Materials Needed - Drawing and First Attempts - The Simplicity of Toning and Shading Styles - The Best Grip Techniques to Hold a Pencil - Crash Course to Draw a Portrait - Learn How to Draw from your Memory - Draw your Favourite Superhero - Most Common Mistakes to Avoid - A vast number of high quality illustrations to see EXACTLY how one step leads to an other - Much, much more So are you ready? DRAW AWAY

Are you trying to figure out how to get your food product co-packed? --------------------------- Have you seen our Ultimate Food Business Bundle? It includes the Ultimate Guide to Co-packing and so much more. See the Bundle. --------------------------- What you learn in the Ultimate Guide to Co-Packing: - How to determine if you're ready for co-packing - How to find a co-packer that works with you. - What to look for when you take a tour of the facility - The 3 ways co-packers charge you for their space - The 9 hidden fees most co-packers won't tell you about - How to establish a better relationship with your co-packer - 5 common problems with co-packers (and how to fix them) - How I almost emptied my bank account with my first co-packer - How to make a smooth transition to a new co-packer - 10 frequently asked questions about co-packing

This is the step-by-step roadmap you need to get your food business to $100,000 in sales. What's included in this book? - Food business goal setting - How to get everything from legal to accounting and sourcing set up for your food business - Costing and pricing your food product to become profitable - Finding production space and working with co-packers - Increasing your product's distribution - Finding ways to sell more product online - How to pitch and sell your product to retailers - And lots more

Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown. It is the poetry of everyday speech, the people's poetry, and it deserves attention as language playing on the cusp of art. In Slang: The People's Poetry, Adams covers this perennially interesting subject in a serious but highly engaging way, illuminating the fundamental question What is Slang and defending slang--and all forms of nonstandard English--as integral parts of the American language. Why is an expression like bed head lost in a lexical limbo, found neither in slang nor standard dictionaries? Why are snow-boarding terms such as fakie, goofy foot, ollie and nollie not considered slang? As he addresses these and other lexical curiosities, Adams reveals that slang is used in part to define groups, distinguishing those who are down with it from those who are out of it. Slang is also a rebellion against the mainstream. It often irritates those who color within the lines--indeed, slang is meant to irritate, sometimes even to shock. But slang is also inventive language, both fun to make and fun to use. Rather than complain about slang as bad language, Adams urges us to celebrate slang's playful resistance to the commonplace and to see it as the expression of an innate human capacity, not only for language, but for poetry.

Michael Adams's book is great fun! No one intends to make a truly bad movie, but when they do, Michael Adams will be there to watch it...and make it entertaining! --John Landis, director of Trading Places and The Blues Brothers

In Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies, film critic Michael Adams embarks on a year-long odyssey to discover the worst movie ever made, which Mystery Science Theater 3000 star, writer, and director Kevin Murphy calls disturbingly comprehensive, joyously critical, and the best of its kind. From all-time cult classics such as Reefer Madness and Plan 9 from Outer Space to new entries to the pantheon such as Gigli and Baby Geniuses, no genre, star, or director is safe from Adams's acerbic wit and hilarious observations. In the vein of A.J. Jacobs's New York Times bestselling book The Know-It-All, and with the snarky sarcasm of television's Mystery Science Theater 3000 and The Soup, Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies leaves no stone unturned. With a foreword by cult director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead).

Religi se Aktivit t l sst sich mit einem Marktmodell treffend beschreiben und erkl ren. Der Markt f r Religion folgt den gleichen Regeln wie die M rkte nicht-religi ser G ter. Religi se Informationen und die damit verbundenen Versprechungen sind nicht berpr fbar. Dadurch erf llt Religion die Voraussetzungen eines Glaubensgutes. Bei Glaubensg tern sieht sich die Abnehmerseite immer einem Fehlinformationsrisiko durch die Anbieter ausgesetzt. So dienen viele Bestandteile von Religionen prim r der Steigerung der Glaubw rdigkeit, indem der Eindruck geschaffen wird, man habe es mit einem ernst zu nehmenden Anbieter qualitativ hochwertiger Leistungen zu tun. Der Markt f r Religion kann durch wenige deregulierende Ma nahmen und regulierende Eingriffe effizient gestaltet werden.

Die Arbeit verbindet Erkenntnisse der Informationsökonomik mit der juristischen Diskussion um den Betrugsstraftatbestand. Könnte doch gerade die Methodik der Ökonomen Juristen verdeutlichen, welche ökonomischen Anreize und gesellschaftlichen Konsequenzen die Entscheidung für die eine oder die andere Rechtsauffassung mit sich bringt.

The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume - which ranges chronologically from Old to Present-Day English and from manuscripts to corpora - challenges a wide variety of assumptions and practices and illustrates how diverse methods and approaches construct evidence for historical linguistic arguments from an increasingly large and diverse body of linguistic data.

Congratulations! You were recently promoted to lead the efforts of others; possibly many others. Maybe you became a new husband, wife, father, or mother. Maybe you have risen to be #1 in your company or organization and now have the ability to call the shots and make the changes you have always wanted to make! Whatever level your promotion has taken you to, God has given you increased authority, responsibility, and power. Do you know why? The Bible has a lot to say about your new role. Promoted from Leader to Servant reveals God's heart and plan for you and for those He has entrusted to you. This book is about becoming one of His treasured Servants in Authority and creating a Spirit-led atmosphere that is conducive to training and equipping those He has placed within your care. Discover what He says about the gifts He has given you and what He wants you to accomplish in and through your new position!

Der Erfolg unternehmerischer Entscheidungen ist ungewiss. Riskante Projekte versprechen häufig grö eren Gewinn, bergen aber auch die Gefahr eines Fehlschlags bis hin zur Existenzgefährdung. Fehlerhafter Umgang mit den Unternehmensrisiken kann zur Haftung der Unternehmensverwaltung führen. Die Arbeit geht der Frage nach, ob der Vorstand einer Aktiengesellschaft eine bestimmte Risikoschwelle nicht überschreiten darf. Es wird ausführlich analysiert, ob die Anforderungen des Kreditwesengesetzes auf das Risikomanagement aller Aktiengesellschaften übertragbar sind. Der Autor legt seiner Arbeit einen interdisziplinären Ansatz zugrunde, der nicht nur für Juristen und Ökonomen, sondern auch für Organe von Kapitalgesellschaften von Interesse ist. Er zeigt, dass Vorstellungen aus der Bankenregulierung ungeeignet für eine Übernahme in das Aktienrecht sind, da sie riskante, aber sinnvolle Investitionen verhindern.