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For undergraduate courses in Liberal Arts Mathematics, Quantitative Literacy, and General Education.

 

NEW:  Now with “Mini-Excursions” Included! 

 These are enrichment topics that have been added at the end of each part and require an understanding of the core material covered in one or more of the chapters. Shorter than a full chapter but much more substantive than an appendix. Each mini-excursion includes its own exercise set.

 

This very successful liberal arts mathematics textbook is a collection of “excursions” into the real-world applications of modern mathematics. The excursions are organized into four independent parts: 1) The Mathematics of Social Choice, 2) Management Science, 3) Growth and Symmetry, and 4) Statistics. Each part consists of four chapters plus a mini-excursion (new feature in 6/e). The book is written in an informal, very readable style, with pedagogical features that make the material both interesting and clear. The presentation is centered on an assortment of real-world examples and applications specifically chosen to illustrate the usefulness, relevance, and beauty of liberal arts mathematics.

 

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Price: $62.45 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This convenient, money-saving package is a must-have for nursing students! It includes Hockenberry's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, 8th edition text & Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0 for Essentials of Pediatric Nursing..
Price: $97.79 [Notify me when price goes down.]

For undergraduate courses in Liberal Arts Mathematics, Quantitative Literacy, and General Education.

This very successful liberal arts mathematics textbook is a collection of “excursions” into the real-world applications of modern mathematics. The excursions are organized into four independent parts: 1) The Mathematics of Social Choice, 2) Management Science, 3) Growth and Symmetry, and 4) Statistics. Each part consists of four chapters plus a mini-excursion (new feature in 6/e). The book is written in an informal, very readable style, with pedagogical features that make the material both interesting and clear. The presentation is centered on an assortment of real-world examples and applications specifically chosen to illustrate the usefulness, relevance, and beauty of liberal arts mathematics..
Price: $64.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

By presenting problem solving in purposeful and meaningful contexts, Mathematical Excursions, 2/e, provides students in the Liberal Arts course with a glimpse into the nature of mathematics and how it is used to understand our world. Highlights of the book include the proven Aufmann Interactive Method and multi-part Excursion exercises that emphasize collaborative learning. An extensive technology program provides instructors and students with a comprehensive set of support tools..
Price: $40.79 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Following the long-running success he has enjoyed on bestseller lists in Europe, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is now winning over American readers and critics alike as "one of the most engaging protagonists in detective fiction" (USA Today). Now, in Excursion to Tindari, Andrea Camilleri’s savvy and darkly comic take on Sicilian life leads Montalbano into his most bone- chilling case yet.

In two seemingly unrelated crimes, a young Don Juan is found murdered and an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari. As Montalbano works to solve both cases, he stumbles onto Sicily’s ghastly "new age" of brutal and anonymous criminality..
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This convenient, money-saving package is a must-have for students training for a career in nursing It includes Lewis' Medical-Surgical Nursing Single Volume Text, 7th edition and Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0 for Lewis' Medical-Surgical Nursing, 7th edition..
Price: $120.29 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Student Resource Guide contains full worked out solutions to odd-numbered exercises from the text, "selected hints" that point the reader in one of many directions leading to a solution and keys to student success including lists of skills that will help prepare for chapter exams..
Price: $22.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Virtual Clinical Excursions is an innovative CD-ROM/workbook package that makes textbook content come alive and diminishes your anxiety about entering the clinical setting. VCE helps bridge the gap between the classroom and the real world by introducing you to clinical settings and critical thinking before you actually start clinical rotations - making the transition from nursing student to caregiver a smoother process. In this virtual hospital setting, you will interact with a variety of patients and gain valuable experience with documentation, communication, prioritization, medication safety, critical thinking, patient education, and care planning.

• Real-world nursing scenarios challenge you to set priorities for care, collect data, analyze and interpret data, and reach conclusions about complex problems within a health-illness transition.
• The highly engaging format encourages active learning and provides opportunities to collect and process data for evidence-based patient care; work with data entry and retrieval screens; access available information resources; understand hospital information systems; manage information for decision-making; and maintain and improve your core computing skills.
• Includes over 250 NCLEX® examination-style questions based on the VCE patients.
• Augments knowledge of physical assessment by allowing you to examine and document vital signs, as well as assess information related to the head and neck, chest, back and spine, upper extremities, abdomen, pelvic, and lower extremities.
• The software allows you to access realistic information essential for patient care, including: charts, medical administration records, electronic patient records, video clips of nurse-client interactions, and other related materials.
• The realistic environment gives you the opportunity to monitor and care for one or more patients during three 45-minute periods of care within a 12-hour shift.
• Clinical Alerts highlight changes in the patient's condition.

• New flash-based technology is easier to use and offers seamless navigation.
• You can leave the software program at any time and return later to pick up where you left off without losing any information.
• Six unique new patients/cases feature new patient data in the Electronic Patient Record, Patient Charts, KARDEX, and Medication Administration Record.
• The workbook includes time icons that indicate how long it will take to complete a particular exercise.
• Icons for linked activities alert you when a particular workbook exercise is linked to another exercise and cannot be completed independently.
• A new Medication Room introduces you to a wide variety of drug storage areas, such as a Unit Dosage Cabinet, Automated Dispensing System, IV Storage, and a Refrigerator.
• A medication administration feature enables you to select, prepare, and administer medications.
• Over 50 common medication errors embedded within the software challenge you to think critically about safe medication practices and follow safe medication standards.
• A Medication Scorecard provides instant feedback on what medications you administered correctly and which medications you administered incorrectly.
• The Examination Report checklist tracks your performance on Baseline and Focused assessments.

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Completely updated for easier use and more control, VCE Pacific View is a groundbreaking workbook/CD-ROM package that brings learning to life in a "virtual" hospital setting. This guided learning experience features textbook reading assignments that correspond with the CD-ROM and workbook activities. The workbook acts as a map, guiding students through the CD-ROM as they care for patients in the virtual hospital to help students make connections between what they experience through the CD-ROM and what they’ve learned in their textbook. Each virtual hospital visit allows the student to access realistic information resources essential to patient care resulting in a true-to-life, hands-on learning experience. Users will also discover that this edition of VCE is easier to use with the inclusion of flash-based technology and the elimination of previously needed third-party plug-ins. * Meaningful, real-world problems place users in nursing scenarios where they can set! priorities for care, collect data, analyze and interpret data, and reach conclusions about complex problems within a health-illness transition. * The highly-engaging format encourages active learning and provides opportunities to identify information to collect and process data for evidence-based patient care; work with data entry and retrieval screens; optimize use of available information resources; understand hospital information systems; manage information for decision-making; and maintain and improve core computing skills. * Lessons in the workbook complement the content in the textbook and guide the student through the virtual hospital. * Includes NCLEX„¥ examination-style questions that offer built-in testing of clinical knowledge..
Price: $40.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]