Learn to fully harness the power of Microsoft Excel® to perform scientific and engineering calculationsWith this text as your guide, you can... significantly enhance Microsoft Excel's® capabilities to execute the calculations needed to solve a variety of chemical, biochemical, physical, engineering, biological, and medicinal problems. The text begins with two chapters that introduce you to Excel's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language, which allows you to expand Excel's® capabilities, although you can still use the text without learning VBA. Following the author's step-by-step instructions, here are just a few of the calculations you learn to perform: Use worksheet functions to work with matrices Find roots of equations and solve systems of simultaneous equations Solve ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations Perform linear and non-linear regression Use random numbers and the Monte Carlo method This text is loaded with examples ranging from very basic to highly sophisticated solutions. More than 100 end-of-chapter problems help you test and put your knowledge to practice solving real-world problems. Answers and explanatory notes for most of the problems are provided in an appendix.The CD-ROM that accompanies this text provides several useful features: All the spreadsheets, charts, and VBA code needed to perform the examples from the text Solutions to most of the end-of-chapter problems An add-in workbook with more than twenty custom functions This text does not require any background in programming, so it is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate courses. Moreover, practitioners in science and engineering will find that this guide saves hours of time by enabling them to perform most of their calculations with one familiar spreadsheet package

This guide to enabling middle-grade mathematics teachers to use Microsoft Excel in the classroom focuses primarily on concepts taught in grades 4–10,... with some pre-algebra lessons for higher grades. Including files available for downloading to create custom math worksheets, build self-grading interactive spreadsheets, and use Excel to demonstrate charts and Cartesian math, this handbook provides fun examples of probability, solving equations, magic squares, and compound interest.

Can we be equal and excellent too?In Excellence, Mr. Gardner discusses the strengths and failings of our educational system, our confusion over the idea... of equality, and the nature of leadership in a free society.

This landmark report affirms the contributions museums make to the educational needs of the nation. The report helps museums define how well they are... carrying out their educational mission and serving the public. The principles are accompanied by specific recommendations, which museums can implement to meet challenges as the stewards of educational excellence and equity.

By the early twenty-first century, a startling consensus had emerged about the overall aim of American school reform. In an era of political discord,... and in a field historically known for contentiousness, the notion of promoting educational excellence for all students was a distinct point of bipartisan agreement. Shaped by a corps of entrepreneurial reformers intent on finding "what works" and taking it to scale, this hybrid vision won over the nation's most ambitious and well-resourced policy leaders at foundations and nonprofits, in state and federal government, and in urban school districts from coast to coast. "Excellence for all" might, at first glance, appear to be nothing more than a rhetorical flourish. Who, after all, would oppose the idea of a great education for every student? Yet it is hardly a throwaway phrase. Rather, it represents a surprising fusion of educational policy approaches that had been in tense opposition throughout the twentieth century--those on the right favoring social efficiency, and those on the left supporting social justice. This book seeks to understand why the "excellence for all" vision took hold at the time it did, unpacks the particular beliefs and assumptions embedded in it, and details the often informal coalition building that produced this period of consensus. Examining the nation's largest urban school districts (Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York), the author details three major reform efforts in chapters titled "The Right Space: The Small Schools Movement"; "The Right Teachers: Teach for America"; and "The Right Curriculum: Expanding Advanced Placement."

KEY BENEFIT: With its real-life examples and cases, and its lively, conversational writing style, Bovee/Thill/Mescon brings concepts to life and... prepares students for obtaining and pursuing satisfying business careers. KEY TOPICS: Bovee/Thill/Mescon weaves a four-part pedagogical tool through out each chapter.  It starts with Orient, which outlines what is going to be covered in the chapter and then connects these topics with a “role-model” business professional.  Next is Explore, which looks at the skills that their “role-model” used in order to be successful.  Third is Confirm, which revisits what they have learned in the chapter.  And, finally, Apply allows students to use the skills they have learned in the chapter. MARKET: For introductory level business students.

Learn Business Communication Skills by Example. Excellent, effective, and practical business communication skills are necessary in order to succeed in... today’s business world. Excellence in Business Communication delivers an abundance of the most realistic model documents and tools, helping readers learn business communication skills by example.   The tenth edition is a more efficient, rigorously revised textbook that maintains solid coverage of fundamentals while focusing on today’s social media revolution and the impact it will have on readers’ future careers.  

KEY BENEFIT: This best-selling book captures the dynamics of business communication as no other on the market does. It presents the subject in a... fascinating way, powerfully stimulating and motivating readers; this book gives the foundation for excellent, effective, and practical business communication. By offering “On the Job” simulations that feature actual companies, readers apply business communication concepts to real situations and sharpen their problem-solving skills. KEY TOPICS: Incorporating a three-step approach to writing (planning, writing, and completing business messages), Excellence in Business Communication covers letters, memos, e-mail and other brief messages, reports and oral presentations, and employment messages (including resumes and application letters). MARKET: With its helpful appendices and a “Handbook of Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage,” this a must-have desk reference for anyone responsible for writing business letters, e-mail, memos, and reports.

Learn Business Communication Skills By Example. Excellent, effective, and practical business communication skills are necessary in order to succeed in... today’s business world. Excellence in Business Communication delivers an abundance of the most realistic model documents and tools, helping readers learn business communication skills by example. The ninth edition is a more efficient, rigorously revised textbook that maintains solid coverage of fundamentals while addressing developments in the business communication field. The authors also understand that to succeed in today’s social media environment, business communicators must abandon outdated thinking and embrace the new social communication model that’s redefining business communication and the relationships between companies and their stakeholders. By offering practical advice and hands-on experience through dozens of activities and cases, this edition helps readers adapt their communication skills to this important new media.

Open for Business 24/7: Excellence in Business Communication, 4th Canadian edition and MyCanadianBusCommLab, meeting your communication needs, all day,... everyday!   Excellence in Business Communication has long been a well-respected business communication textbook, successfully demonstrating how business communication works in the world, and helping students to understand the concepts behind effective communication while they develop and refine their own skills. 

Learn Business Communication Skills by Example. Excellent, effective, and practical business communication skills are necessary in order to succeed in... today’s business world. Excellence in Business Communication delivers an abundance of the most realistic model documents and tools, helping readers learn business communication skills by example.   The tenth edition is a more efficient, rigorously revised textbook that maintains solid coverage of fundamentals while focusing on today’s social media revolution and the impact it will have on readers’ future careers.  

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world. Unlike most studies, which assume that the... 'rise of the West' is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World, constructs a story in which those parts of the world play major roles. Robert B. Marks defines the modern world as one marked by industry, the nation state, interstate warfare, a large and growing gap between the wealthiest and poorest parts of the world, and an escape from 'the biological old regime.' He explains its origins by emphasizing contingencies (such as the conquest of the New World); the broad comparability of the most advanced regions in China, India, and Europe; the reasons why England was able to escape from common ecological constraints facing all of those regions by the 18th century; and a conjuncture of human and natural forces that solidified a gap between the industrialized and non-industrialized parts of the world. View an online study guide for this book.

Noting that standard accounts of US history often pay little attention to the working class, labour historian Paul Le Blanc presents a colourful,... fact-filled history that concentrates on the struggles and achievements of that often neglected labouring majority. In a blend of economic, social, and political history, Le Blanc shows how important labour issues have been and continue to be in the forging of our nation's history. Within a broad analytical framework he highlights issues of class, gender, race, and ethnicity, and includes the views of key figures of US labour - Cesar Chavez, Eugene V Debs, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Samuel Gompers, Woody Guthrie, 'Big Bill' Haywood, Langston Hughes, 'Mother' Mary Jones, Martin Luther King Jr., George Meany, A. Philip Randolph, and Carl Sandburg, among others. In addition to the main narrative, a bibliographical essay directs readers to classic works and cutting-edge scholarship in the field of US labour history as well as to relevant fiction, poetry, and films for further exploration or study. The book's substantial glossary offers clear definitions and thought-provoking mini-essays for almost 200 terms, from the most basic to the most complex and technical.