Nutrition is one of the most important determinants of individual and public health. An increasingly informed public expects its health and food... professionals to be able to offer clear, evidence-based advice on diet and associated health implications, but how can established nutrition principles be extracted from the extensive body of often misleading information available in the public domain?For those embarking on courses in nutrition or related subjects, Essentials of Human Nutrition offers a broad, quality survey of the field. Chapters written by international experts chart the involvement and impact of nutrition across different age groups and from the genetic to the community level. It draws together the wide spectrum of disciplines, from biochemistry to counselling, necessary to promote the practical application of nutritional science at the human level, providing everything a student needs to appreciate the increasingly recognized importance of nutrition to health and disease.- Disentangles scientifically established nutrition principles from the morass of misinformation available in the public domain - Data sets and extensive referencing ensure the content is firmly anchored in nutrition science- Practical processes with which students need to be familiar, such as dietary assessment and food analysis, are coveredOnline Resource CentreThe Online Resource Centre to accompany Essentials of Human Nutrition features:For students:DT Links to sources of further information and dataDT Topical updatesFor registered adopters of the book:DT Figures from the book, available for download

Essentials of Human Parasitology provides an up-to-date and comprehensive guide for the recognition and identification of common, clinically significant... human parasites. Protozoa and helminths are discussed in separate sections that are broken into chapters covering intestinal and blood/body fluid/tissue protozoa and intestinal and blood/body fluid/tissue nematodes, trematodes and cestodes. Morphology, life cycles, transmission and pathogenesis of infection, lab diagnosis and methodology, and treatment and prevention information is arranged into a concise description for each parasite. Also includes chapters detailing proper specimen collection techniques and immunoassays for antigens and antibodies.

Quickly acquire the practical coverage and guidance you need to understand the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)The Individuals with... Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to children with disabilities.To understand it thoroughly, school psychologists, teachers, and other school service providers need a comprehensive resource to guide them in what this frequently amended Act means and how it should be interpreted. The first concise, yet authoritative, book of its kind on which professionals can rely to navigate this often-misunderstood law, Essentials of IDEA for Assessment Professionals is that source.Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, each chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered. Written in the user-friendly and well-known Essentials format, each of the seven concise chapters covers terminology, classification, assessments/evaluations, and other topics related to IDEA.With an accompanying CD offering commentary on judicial decisions related to interpretation of IDEA, as well as references to the 2006 final regulations for IDEA 2004 and Section 504 regulations, Essentials of IDEA for Assessment Professionals provides helpful guidelines for educational assessments and evaluations. From the Author: Legal Proverbs for Special Education Professionals As in life, most of the woes resulting in adversarial situations in special education law result from simple things that special educators have either done or left undone. Below are ten proverbs (or pseudo proverbs) that may help practitioners avoid the most common pitfalls: Providing protections to parents through meticulous adherence to due process procedures should never be regarded as “passing the buck.” The corollary for individual practitioners and evaluators with respect to identification and placement decisions should always be, “The buck never stops here.” In spedlaw, "No good deed goes unpunished.” When arguing special education law, a perceived loophole more often than not will become a hangman’s noose. If it’s not in writing, it didn’t happen (but anything you write anywhere may come back to bite you). The legal standards in determining whether a child has received a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment cut both ways; what is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander; but most especially, beware of the two- edged sword. When FAPE is on the line, cost is never a consideration in special educational litigation; but it may well be a factor in deciding whether to litigate at all. Parents and their children with disabilities have power; one should therefore always be nice to the parents (and to the children). When the time comes not to be nice, that’s why schools have board attorneys. “It is better to spend a bit now then to squander a lot later.” It is usually far, far better to spend a few dollars more than one might be obliged to spend on the education of a child with a disability than it is to squander hundreds of thousands of public tax dollars underwriting your attorney’s condo in Cancun. When you do engage in litigation, it’s never over until the fat lady sings . . . and the final decision handed down by the final court in protracted spedlaw litigation can be eight years or more after an initial complaint is filed, depending on the number of appeals and the number of remands back to lower courts. If you’re in a real adversarial situation, you need a real lawyer.

The Fifth Edition of "Essentials of Illinois School Finance" has been completely updated with revised laws and state funding data for fiscal year 2011.... In addition, author James B. Fritts provides insights from numerous experts that should help school budget managers address the current economic problems facing state and local governments.
This book from IASB Publications was originally designed as a training manual and desk-top reference for school business managers and budget makers. While it continues to fill that role admirably, the book also provides an effective reference for anyone who needs to understand the essentials of Illinois school finance. From the peculiarities of property taxes and state funding to the formulas for projecting enrollments and staffing budgets, this book covers just about everything - and does it in plain English. The book also features a separate chapter on the role of school board policy (which is also addressed in the Foreword to the First Edition by IASB Executive Director Michael Johnson). A comprehensive alphabetical index makes it easy to find substantive references to hundreds of topics. The first part of the book deals with revenue - where schools get it, how they maximize it, protect it, manage it and plan for it. The second half of the book addresses expenditures - how schools budget for them, reduce them, and make plans to deal with them. Together, the two sections provide a solid base for financial management and long-range planning.

Essentials of Immigration Law by Richard A. Boswell provides the basic foundation necessary for an understanding of everything immigration--from the... passage of the first immigration-related statute to the current state of affairs. This indispensable reference offers a practical overview of the entire area of U.S. immigration law and will help you comprehend: Labor Certification; Consular Processing; Citizenship/Naturalization; Deportation/Removal/Inadmissibility; Waivers; Asylum; Criminal Violations; Family-Based Immigration; Employment-Based Immigration; and Administrative/Judicial Review. Essentials of Immigration Law also includes Glossary of Terms, Glossary of Acronyms, List of Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Visas, USC to INA Conversion Chart, and Selected Bibliography. If you've been searching for a practice-oriented manual on this area, Essentials of Immigration Law will provide the foundation every attorney, law student, and law office staff member needs to build his or her understanding of U.S. immigration laws.

Essentials of Immigration Law by Richard A. Boswell provides the foundation necessary for an understanding of everything immigration-from the passage of... the first immigration-related statute to the current state of affairs. This indispensable reference, now in its third edition, offers a practical overview of the entire area of U.S. immigration law and will help you comprehend: Labor Certification
Consular Processing
Citizenship/Naturalization
Deportation/Removal/Inadmissibility
Waivers
Asylum
Criminal Violations
Family-Based Immigration
Employment-Based Immigration
Administrative/Judicial Review

Essentials of Immunology and Serology is a straightforward text that studies the way an immune response is generated by the interaction of the immune... system's components and how these responses relate to infectious diseases, autoimmunity, tumors, hypersensitivity and transplantation. Systematic presentations of infectious diseases include a description of the caustic agent, basic clinical manifestations and pathology, associated immunological responses, immunization status and lab diagnosis. Reflecting current trends in immunological testing the text covers the application and interpretation of a wide array of medical test kits. Essentials of Immunology and Serology meets the immunology guidelines of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists.

In recent years, there has been a dramatic and serious increase in infectious diseases. In addition to emerging diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, SARS, Lyme... disease, Hantavirus, and Ebola, we have diseases once cured that have become resistant to our treatments, such as tuberculosis and streptococcus. We have increasingly harmful foodborne contagions, such as E. coli, and sexually transmitted diseases, such as Chlamydia, in epidemic proportions worldwide. In the wings, we have diseases such as Avian flu, on the brink of causing a threat to global health even as we seek methods of control and risk reduction. As WHO Director-General Nakajima says of infectious disease, No country is safe from them. As public health education grows, so, too will the need for methodologic skills in infectious disease epidemiology. Without these crucial skills, there will be insufficient resources to improve the health of the public, both domestically and globally. Essentials of Infectious Disease Epidemiology is one of the few texts devoted specifically to the methods required to study infectious disease, making the perfect introduction to the field for undergraduate and introductory masters-level public health students. It will provide students with the requisite skills to conduct, evaluate, and understand the field of infectious disease epidemiology.

Piccoli's Information Systems for Managers offers an engaging, non-academic style and actionable frameworks to help managers envision how to develop... value added IT-dependent strategic initiatives. The version with cases offers an "all in one" book to choose different cases. Each case has extensive notes prepared by the author to help teach a meaningful course. Part III on "The Strategic use of IS" offers unique and useful frameworks that MBAs will be able to put into practice. Two versions provide flexibility and additional chapters on ERP and Business Intelligence/Analytics ad value. The text is well-written with clear examples of the theories and frameworks it introduces as well as great business cases that can be used for discussion to better educate about a subject that is vital to successful managers in the future.

Essentials of Inorganic Chemistry 2 provides an accessible collection of key topics for upper-level undergraduate students of inorganic chemistry.... Arranged alphabetically for easy-reference this concise text provides detailed information on topics ranging from agostic interactions to Zintl isoelectronic relationships. The book is illustrated throughout, and there are notes for further reading for students who wish to gain more insight into topics of interest. As with Essentials of Inorganic Chemistry 1, its popular companion volume for first year undergraduates, Essentials of Inorganic Chemistry 2 will be invaluable to second, third and fourth year chemists for looking up unfamiliar subject areas and for revision of topics in preparation for examinations.

ESSENTIALS OF INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING offers you and your students a shorter, more incisive version of the Iveys' best-selling INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING... AND COUNSELING-one in which every sentence and concept has undergone a thorough review to ensure both relevance and clarity for beginning helpers. This text is designed to be accessible to every student of the helping professions, with an active voice, a modular style that allows more flexibility, and a multicultural focus that reflects the diverse nature not only of your classroom, but of society today. And perhaps most importantly, the authors have retained their renowned Microskills model of teaching students vital interviewing skills step-by-step. Offer your students a text that truly meets their needs, with ESSENTIALS OF INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING.

An excellent guide to interviewing in the helping professions, ESSENTIALS OF INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING, 2nd Edition delivers a more concise and... accessible version of the Iveys' bestselling INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING. Ideal for beginning helpers, the Second Edition retains the authors' proven Microskills model of teaching vital interviewing skills step by step. Its multicultural focus reflects the diverse nature of today's society. It also integrates the five systems of helping--person-centered, decisional counseling, brief counseling, crisis counseling, and coaching--and includes new content addressing such critical topics as psychoeducational skills and Internet counseling.

Essentials of Interactive Functional Anatomy (IFA Essentials) will help students and professionals thoroughly review components of structural anatomy... through computer graphic models of human anatomy derived from MRI scan data. Students and professionals alike will also be able to view fully interactive 3-D animations that detail muscle and joint function.A scaled down version of Interactive Functional Anatomy, this software features a complete high-resolution 3-D model of the human musculature. The model can be rotated and allows for 11 layers of anatomy to be visually removed (from skin to bone) with a strip-away technique. Specific muscles within the 3-D model can be highlighted for viewing accompanying text about the selected muscle, such as name, agonists, antagonists, proximal and distal attachments, nerve innervation, blood supply, and primary and secondary actions. Text also accompanies specific ligaments within the model, providing information on function, injury mechanism, and pathology of injury. IFA Essentials also includes the following:-34 animations—each of which can be viewed from four different angles— show clinical muscle function and providing students with a strong sense of the movement and motions around joints.-Four animations of gross human motions demonstrate complete body movements, such as sit-ups and push-ups, coupled with live-action video clips showing the electrical stimuli of active muscles.-Views of any specific structure on the screen can be rotated up to 360 degrees and stopped at any point for viewing. -Related text on structures further defines the structure being viewed.The anatomy text of IFA Essentials includes bones, ligaments, muscles, tendons, retinacula, capsules, cartilage, discs, and membranes. The program includes detailed animations for the shoulder, elbow and forearm, wrist and hand, trunk, hip, knee, and ankle and foot. Muscles that shorten and lengthen around each joint are color-coded to show their functions.IFA Essentials also offers an interactive quiz. Students can select the level of difficulty and number of quiz questions. Then, using a multiple-choice format, they are asked to identify or locate various structures on the model.For a complete selection of Primal Pictures software, visit www.HumanKinetics.com/Primal.Minimum System RequirementsWindows-Windows® 98/2000/ME/XP-Pentium® processor or higher-At least 32 MB RAM-Monitor set to 800 x 600 or greater-High-color displayMacintosh-Power Mac®-System 8.6/9/OSX-At least 64 MB RAM-Monitor set to 800 x 600 or greater-Monitor set to thousands of colors

Combining classic international economics with straight-from-the-headlines immediacy, this essentials version of Feenstra and Taylor’s text (suitable... for one-term courses) seamlessly integrates the subject’s established core content with topic areas and ideas that have emerged from recent empirical studies.A MODERN APPROACH FOR THE 21ST CENTURYInternational economics texts traditionally place greater emphasis on theory and a strong focus on the advanced countries.  Feenstra/Taylor links theory to empirical evidence throughout the book, and incorporates coverage of emerging markets and developing economies (India, China, SE Asia) to reflect the evolving realities of the global economy. NOTE: Feenstra/Taylor, International Economics, Second Edition, is available in four versions: International Economics, 2e: 1-4292-3118-1 International Trade, 2e: 1-4292-4104-7 International Macroeconomics, 2e: 1-4292-4103-9Essentials of International Economics, 2e: 1-4292-7710-6

Essentials of International Health provides an introduction to international health with a focus on epidemiological, political, behavioral,... sociological, cultural, and medical dimensions in the field. The text covers problems concerning both developed and developing countries (with an emphasis on developing countries) and introduces population-based public health approaches to solving international health problems. Topics include historical perspectives, health indicators, role of culture and behavior, communicable diseases, non communicable diseases, malnutrition, nutritional deficiencies and obesity, environmental health and population issues, health of women, health of children, mental health, world health systems, and future issues in international health. This text is idea for undergraduate students, introductory graduate classes, and practitioners interested in working in developing countries.