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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. .
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden." As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment.".
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Fundamentals of Nursing
Comprehensive, logically-organized, and easy to read, this market-leading fundamentals text provides students with a solid base for their nursing education. Encompassing principles, concepts, and skills, it offers thorough coverage, a nursing process framework, an emphasis on critical thinking, and a focus on care in all settings. This new edition addresses a number of key issues, including evidence-based practice, safety concerns, and end-of-life care. To better meet the needs of beginning students, care plans have been expanded to more clearly explain assessment findings leading to nursing diagnoses, as well as evaluation of outcomes. - The 5-step nursing process provides a consistent framework for clinical chapters.
- The unique Critical Thinking Model visually demonstrates the application of the nursing process and critical thinking in each clinical chapter to help students understand the ongoing assimilation of knowledge and information that comprises critical thinking and its relationship to the nursing process.
- More than 65 skills, in a 2-column format, include rationales for each step and clearly explain both how and why nursing skills are performed.
- Procedural Guidelines boxes provide streamlined, step-by-step instructions for performing basic skills.
- The 3-tiered approach in implementation sections includes health promotion, acute care, and continuing care to address the diverse focus of today's care, as well as the various practice settings.
- Care Plans demonstrate the application of the 5-step nursing process to individual patient problems to help students understand how a plan is developed and how to evaluate care.
- Focus on Older Adults boxes, Research Highlight boxes, and Client Teaching boxes highlight key aspects of nursing care.
- The Caring in Nursing Practice chapter addresses the compassion nurses must incorporate with clinical competence to deliver comprehensive care.
- A CD-ROM companion, packaged with every text, includes a searchable audio glossary, Butterfield's Fluid and Electrolytes tutorial, NCLEX-style review questions, test taking tips, concept map situations, critical thinking model application, video clips, animations, and Spanish phrases.
- Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions for skills alert students to possible problems and help them determine the best nursing action.
- 22 Concept Maps more than any other fundamentals text visually demonstrate the association of multiple nursing diagnoses.
- Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines boxes review research that identifies best practices.
- The Care Plan format has been expanded to more clearly present assessment, defining characteristics, and evaluation of outcomes.
- Planning discussions include sections on Goals and Outcomes, Setting Priorities, and Continuity of Care to help beginning students plan and prioritize comprehensive client care.
- Safety Alerts provide information and techniques to ensure client and nurse safety.
- Cultural Aspects of Care boxes provide practical guidelines for how to meet the various cultural needs/preferences of clients and their communities.
- Rationales in care plans and procedures include references whenever possible to highlight evidence-based "best practice."
- NOC outcomes as well as NIC interventions are incorporated in Care Plans as appropriate.
- New 2002 CDC Hand Hygiene Guidelines are incorporated throughout.
- A new chapter on Nursing Today addresses emerging issues, including the nursing shortage.
- New coverage of bioterrorism has been added to the chapter on Safety.
- New content on end-of-life and palliative care has been added.
- The Spiritual Health chapter now offers expanded information to help students identify and meet their clients' spiritual needs.
- The Skin Integrity and Wound Care chapter has been revised to include updated content and new techniques for wound VAC.
- Just the Facts is the perfect clinical companion.
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Price: $23.99
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Development Across the Life Span (4th Edition)
This chronologically organized book provides readers with a broad overview of the field of human development–from the moment of conception through death–focusing on physical, cognitive, and social and personality development. Appealing to individuals with a myriad of different backgrounds and future goals, this book offers the most current, balanced coverage of theory and research. A wide variety of chapter topics includes gene therapy; brain development, post-partum depression; child care effects; home schooling; cognitive developments, stability of personality; cultural approaches to development, and attitudes toward aging and length of life. For a better understanding of the experiences of life and development of humans. .
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Camille and the Sunflowers
"Where Camille lived, the sunflowers grew so high they looked like real suns. . .One day a strange man arrived in Camille's town. He had a straw hat and a yellow beard." So begins this fascinating tale of Camille, a little boy who is the son of a small-town postman. Camille meets the man with the yellow beard, and they become friends. This bearded man is a painter named Vincent van Gogh. The story, based on a true-life incident, is beautifully illustrated in full color by the author. This unusual picture storybook will appeal to children who love art-and also to children who simply enjoy a good story..
Price: $8.88
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Super Social Studies! (Grades 4-8)
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The Parthenon Cookbook: Great Mediterranean Recipes from the Heart of Chicago's Greektown
This collection of terrific Greek recipes, from old favorites to unique house specialties, is also a tribute to the oldest restaurant in Chicago's fabled Greektown, a landmark innovator of legendary dishes like saganaki and the first gyros in Chicago. Filled with colorful history and lush photographs, the book features 40 of the restaurant’s most popular recipes from all courses, appetizers to desserts. They include Feta a la Soto, Marathon Salad with Shrimp, Moussaka, Sokolatina, and more. In addition, Greek wine pairings are included as well as full Greek dinner menus with tips for entertaining. .
Price: $15.42
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