A fact-packed activity book filled with Super Hero action. Ultimate Factivity Collection: Marvel Avengers combines exciting facts about the Earth's mightiest Super Heroes – the Avengers – with fun activities. Learn all about Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk and many others through games, sticker activities and puzzles. Engaging reference material guides the child through each activity, while fun challenges and interesting puzzles are designed to inspire creativity!

Now in its 7th Edition, ESSENTIALS OF PHARMACOLOGY FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS is the best-selling resource for those preparing for licensed practical nursing, medical assisting, and other allied health careers. Clear, concise writing focused on "need to know" drug information gives readers the confidence to master pharmacology. Learn calculations quickly through a simplified step-by-step process. Part I chapters center on basic pharmacologic principles. Medication preparation, supplies, and specific information on each route of administration is covered. Administration checklists allow the learner to put the knowledge into practice. . Part II chapters organize drugs by classifications, and includes purpose, side effects, cautions, interactions, and contraindications. Patient education is highlighted for each category. Reference tables with each classification list the most commonly prescribed drugs according to generic and trade names, with dosage and available forms. The complete pharmacology resource for allied health professionals at every experience level, ESSENTIALS OF PHARMACOLOGY FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS, 7th Edition also makes a great refresher and on-the-job reference.

The perfect way to prepare for exams and get the grade you want! Easy access to key learning objectives for each chapter, outlines of key sections, self-test questions, and sets of problems with fully worked-out solutions help you build problem-solving skills while preparing for exams.

Psychodynamic Art Therapy Practice with People on the Autistic Spectrum offers a valuable counterbalance to the phenomenological, cognitive and behavioural theories that currently prevail in the wider field of practice and research. The result of a decade of work by a group of highly experienced art therapists, this book presents eight frank and compelling accounts of art therapy with either adults or children with autism, supported by a discussion of the relevant theory.

The book begins with an overview of the theoretical context and the subsequent chapters give varied accounts of practitioners’ experiences structured in a loose developmental arc, reflecting issues that may arise in different settings and at various stages of therapy. Each is followed by an afterword which describes the author’s reflections in the light of their subsequent knowledge and experience. The conclusion brings together some of the common threads arising from their encounters and considers how these might be relevant to current and continuing art therapy practice in the field of autism. Psychodynamic Art Therapy Practice with People on the Autistic Spectrum is a thoughtful consideration of where art therapy meets autism and the particular challenges that arise in the encounter between the autistic client and the therapist.

Presenting honest reflections arising from lived encounters and highlighting general principles and experiences, this book aims to orient other practitioners who work with people on the autistic spectrum, in particular art therapists and art therapy trainees.

Transport corridors support much of the developing countries' trade and are indispensable to the 31 landlocked developing countries. These countries are home to 360 million people, with the largest concentration is Sub-Saharan Africa. Logistics costs and unreliability of access corridors put these countries at a distinct disadvantage. Traditional approaches have stressed infrastructure investment and the development of international agreements as the main solutions to improve corridors and facilitate access to markets.

The authors of Connecting Landlocked Developing Countries to Markets present a break-through in the literature by arguing instead that the transit procedures regulating the movement of goods along the corridors have been poorly designed and implemented. They have discouraged competition and hampered the emergence of high-quality trade-related services. Small traded volumes and the unfavorable political economy of trade corridors have also constrained changes. Furthermore, many of the problems occur in the transit countries, which also need to find the advantages in facilitating trade.

Based on new analytical research and case studies, the authors provide insights on what works and does not work, and they offer policy recommendations to address these issues.

Implementation of the recommended conceptual framework and its main components will help landlocked developing countries to be more successful participants in world trade, to their benefit as well as to that of their transit neighbors.

Illustrates the most incredible faith one can have by drawing on biblical, historical, and contemporary stories, encouraging seekers and believers to understand and emulate that kind of faith, and to make a difference in the world. Original.

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Landlocked in the interior of Southeast Asia and surrounded by China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), and China, the country of Laos has long been forced, to its misfortune in the view of Pholsena (Southeast Asian studies, National U. of Singapore) and Banomyong (international business, Thammasat U., Thailand), to play a balancing act as a buffer state between larger powers. They describe this historical buffer role from the pre-colonial period through the Cold War as prelude to critically examining its current geopolitical and economic positioning within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. This is a paperbound edition of a work first published in 2004 as Le Laos au XXI siècle: Les Défs de l'intégration régionale. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Moffatt (nursing, Thames Valley U.) and her co-authors, both of whom are nurse specialists in leg ulcers, give nurses and other practitioners a comprehensive set of techniques intended to improve outcomes for leg ulcer patients, whether their wounds are from circulatory problems, trauma or diabetes. They describe the models of care in the UK, clinical assessment and diagnosis, including venous and arterial disease and diabetes, psychosocial dimensions of assessment and management, including assessment and management of pain and improving compliance and concordance, clinical management involving the multi-disciplinary team involving the wound bed, bandaging and compression therapy, and evaluating outcomes, including assessing the efficacy of care and prevention of recurrence. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Fear, rage, courage, discrimination. These are facts of everyday life for many Americans with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has made working, traveling, and communicating easier for many individuals. But what recourse do individuals have when enforcement of the law is ambiguous or virtually nonexistent? And how will its changing definition affect individuals' lives-as well as their legal actions-in the future? What is life like in post-ADA America?

Voices from the Edge seeks to challenge the mindset of those who would deny equal protection to the disabled, while providing informative analysis of the intent and application of the ADA for those who wish to learn more about disability rights. Giving voice to the many types of discrimination the disabled face--at a small Southern College, in the Library of Congress, on a New York City sidewalk--while illustrating the personal stakes underlying legal disputes over the ADA, this collection offers unparalleled insight into the lives behind the law.

Contributors:

Joan Aleshire on disability and the eye of the beholder.
Achim Nowak on disclosing HIV.
C.G.K. Atkins on being an academic liability.
Stephen Kuusisto on hope without the tenure lifeboat.
Leonard Kriegel on wheelchairs vs. NYC sidewalks.
John Hockenberry on trying one's luck at public transit.
Joan Tollifson on a license to drive disabled.
Shawn Casey O'Brien on the blue beacon of accessibility.
Jean Stewart on sign language in the ER.
Ruth O'Brien on everything you wanted to know about the ADA.

Offers a factual and amusing review of the many different types of hairstyles that people have worn throughout the years, from dyes and wigs to high-rise hair and beyond.

Overcoming the Odds looks closely at the lives of an ethnically diverse group of 505 men and women who were born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai and who have been monitored from the prenatal period through early adulthood by psychologists, pediatricians, public health professionals, and social workers. Werner and Smith trace the impact of a variety of biological and psycho-social risk factors and stressful events on the development of these individuals, most of whose parents did not graduate from high school and worked as semiskilled or unskilled laborers. Incorporating vivid case study accounts with statistical analysis, the authors focus on both the vulnerability and the resilience of those who overcame great odds to grow into competent and caring adults. They trace the recovery process through which most of the troubled adolescents in the cohort—those with histories of delinquency, teenage pregnancy, and mental health problems—emerged with improved prospects in their twenties and early thirties. Identifying both the self-righting tendencies that enable high risk children later to adapt successfully to work, marriage, and parenthood, and the conditions under which professional and volunteer care is most beneficial, Werner and Smith offer concrete suggestions for effective intervention policies.