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  Global Service-Learning in Nursing

  Tamara McKinnon and Joyce J. Fitzpatrick

  "This is a book of learning that can bring healing to the world through the touch of nursing. This book provides a map for approaching the best of global work in nursing. The authors demystify the global endeavor by clearing the brush from the pathway, helping us see clearly the reality of global commitment through partnerships."

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  Daily Life Through History: Women and Civil Rights Movement in America

  Danelle Moon

  Daily Life of Women during the Civil Rights Era looks at the variety of women’s experiences in promoting social justice and human rights in the US from 1920 to the 1980s. It gives an audience a deeper understanding of the complexity of gender, class, and race in America.

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  The Organizational Behavior Reader

  Joyce Osland and Marlene Turner

  This book is a primer on human behavior in organizations for students of management and industrial & organizational psychology at three levels – undergraduate, graduate and executive education. The Reader contains the best and most reader-friendly articles in these categories: basic ideas and concepts, new research findings and practical applications, as well as emerging perspectives that suggest the future shape of the field. The book consists of four sections: Understanding Yourself and Others at Work; Creating Effective Work Groups; Leadership and Management; and Managing Effective Organizations.

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  Toward a Visually Oriented School Mathematics Curriculum: Research, Theory, Practice, and Issues

  Ferdinand Rivera

  Toward a Visually-Oriented School Mathematics Curriculum explores a unified theory of visualization in school mathematical learning via the notion of progressive modeling. Based on the author’s longitudinal research investigations in elementary and middle school classrooms, the book provides a compelling empirical account of ways in which instruction can effectively orchestrate the transition from personally-constructed visuals, both externally-drawn and internally-derived, into more structured visual representations within the context of a socioculturally grounded mathematical activity

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  Information Security: Principles and Practice

  Mark Stamp

  Information security is a rapidly evolving field. As businesses and consumers become increasingly dependent on complex multinational information systems, it is more imperative than ever to protect the confidentiality and integrity of data. Featuring a wide array of new information on the most current security issues, this fully updated and revised edition of Information Security: Principles and Practice provides the skills and knowledge readers need to tackle any information security challenge.

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  Nutrition Therapy and Pathophysiology

  Kathryn P. Sucher, Marcia Nelms, Sara Long Roth, and Karen Lacey

  Provides the evidence based nutrition therapy for acute and chronic medical disorders in the context of pathophysiology, medical treatment and current research.

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  After Gödel: Platonism and Rationalism in Mathematics and Logic

  Richard Tieszen

  This book presents an analysis, development, and defense of a number of central ideas in the great logician Kurt Gödel's writings on the philosophy and foundations of mathematics and logic. The argument is structured around Gödel's three philosophical heroes, Plato, Leibniz and Husserl, and includes treatment of the incompleteness theorems and other technical results.

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  Green Energy: An A-to-Z Guide

  Dustin Mulvaney

  One of 4 volumes of the Sage Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future.
  This edited volume contains entries written by scholars at top universities on contemporary issues and topics related to energy and the environment.

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  Green Food: An A-to-Z Guide

  Dustin Mulvaney

  One of 4 volumes of the Sage Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future.
  This volume explores the institutions, practices, and concepts in the field of agri-food studies and the political economy of agriculture. It draws on scholars working in the fields of political ecology, rural sociology, geography, and environmental studies to paint a picture of the past, present, and future of agriculture and food.

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  Green Politics: An A-to-Z Guide

  Dustin Mulvaney

  One of 4 volumes of the Sage Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future.
  This volume covers core concepts in environmental politics including frameworks that capture the essence of contemporary environmental issues such as the availability and distribution of such resources, the impact economic development, and international cooperation and conflict.

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  Green Technology: An A-to-Z Guide

  Dustin Mulvaney

  One of 4 volumes of the Sage Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future.
  This edited volume explores the keywords and concepts needed to understand the opportunities and challenges presented by a shift toward green technologies.