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Give your students a solid overview of the basics in financial and managerial accounting with Warren's trusted SURVEY OF ACCOUNTING, Fourth Edition The book's proven, non-procedural approach provides a simple, straightforward approach to learning accounting that emphasizes the relevance of accounting information and how managers, investors, and other business stakeholders use accounting reports. This straightforward approach ensures a thorough understanding of accounting and accounting systems, ideal for students who have no prior accounting experience. The innovative Integrated Financial Statement framework focuses on understanding the integrated nature of financial statements and the interrelationship among them. A new comprehensive example further illustrates the manufacturing processes, while the CengageNOW Express™ provides a straightforward homework solution that's ideal for your students' accounting success..
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This one-semester intermediate program is designed to meet the needs of those programs that offer Introductory Spanish in three semesters and need a one-semester intermediate program to follow. Entre nosotros develops all four-language skills and enhances students' cultural awareness. It builds on first-year concepts with a review and expansion of essential grammar and presents high-frequency vocabulary, ample practice, and opportunities for meaningful communication.

• New! Six meaningful and manageable lessons comprise an accessible one-semester program that explores a variety of topics chosen for their cultural relevance and their success in generating student interaction.
• New! Lesson-opening vocabulary lists (Para hablar del tema) present all active vocabulary to facilitate acquisition. Para practicar el vocabulario sections prompting communication with pair and group activities follow immediately to provide reinforcement.
• New!Un paso más sections integrate grammar and thematic vocabulary from all previous Pasos and conclude with Para escribir, a step-by-step writing exercise that guides students through the process of writing for different purposes (such as interview questions, emails, and newspapers articles).
• New! Enhanced multimedia package includes a new integrated Online Study Center and a text-specific video, which provide additional grammar and vocabulary practice in engaging formats.
• Logical step-by-step presentation introduces the lesson's grammar points in three or four Pasos (steps), each opening with a dialogue or a text that recycles active vocabulary and grammar in context.
• Clear, succinct grammar explanations in English support acquisition. Practice ranges from controlled drills to open-ended, personalized, and contextualized activities.
• Authentic readings with supporting activities include Lecturas periodísticas journalistic selections and Ventana al mundo literario selections, featuring authors from the 21 Spanish-speaking countries.

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In One Hundred Semesters, William Chace mixes incisive analysis with memoir to create an illuminating picture of the evolution of American higher education over the past half century. Chace follows his own journey from undergraduate education at Haverford College to teaching at Stillman, a traditionally African-American college in Alabama, in the 1960s, to his days as a professor at Stanford and his appointment as president of two very different institutions--Wesleyan University and Emory University.

Chace takes us with him through his decades in education--his expulsion from college, his boredom and confusion as a graduate student during the Free Speech movement at Berkeley, and his involvement in three contentious cases at Stanford: on tenure, curriculum, and academic freedom. When readers follow Chace on his trip to jail after he joins Stillman students in a civil rights protest, it is clear that the ideas he presents are born of experience, not preached from an ivory tower.

The book brings the reader into both the classroom and the administrative office, portraying the unique importance of the former and the peculiar rituals, rewards, and difficulties of the latter.

Although Chace sees much to lament about American higher education--spiraling costs, increased consumerism, overly aggressive institutional self-promotion and marketing, the corruption of intercollegiate sports, and the melancholy state of the humanities--he finds more to praise. He points in particular to its strength and vitality, suggesting that this can be sustained if higher education remains true to its purpose: providing a humane and necessary education, inside the classroom and out, for America's future generations.

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The Biotechnology industry is one of the fastest growing sectors of the US economy, offering great opportunity for current and future employment. This has stimulated a desire in many schools to offer dedicated biotechnology courses to foster greater student interest in this important arena. The question, however, for many of the teachers either asked to or who wish to start such a course is "where do I begin?" This manual offers high school and community college educators with a detailed "road map" on how to start a biotechnology course at their schools. It was written by former biotech executive turned high school teacher who started and taught a biotechnology course for 5 years. The manual provides details about curriculum, resources (texts, labs, internet) used, and equipment required. It is designed to provide teachers a foundation upon which they can build and customize their own course curriculum..
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Medical Gross and Developmental Anatomy is the course every medical student dreads. As one aspiring physician described it to journalist-author Steve Giegerich, "it's the bridge you have to cross if you want to become a doctor."

Four lab partners facing that notoriously difficult course at Newark's University of Medicine and Dentistry are Sherry Ikalowych, a former nurse and mother of four; Jennifer Hannum, an ultracompetitive jock; Udele Tagoe, a determined Duke graduate of Ghanian descent; and Ivan Gonzalez, a Nicaraguan refugee and unlikely medical student. This lively chronicle of each of their ambitions, failures, and successes has at its center Tom Lewis, the cadaver lying before them to be dissected. From their first face-to-face encounter with Lewis as an anonymous cadaver on the stainless steel table to a rich reverence for Lewis's generous donation of his body to science, what they each learn about medicine, compassion, life, and death makes for a fascinating insiders' account of the shaping of a medical professional.

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These lecture notes grew out of a one semester introductory course on elliptic curves given to an audience of computer science and mathematics students, and assume only minimal background knowledge. After having covered basic analytic and algebraic aspects, putting special emphasis on explaining the interplay between algebraic and analytic formulas, they go on to some more specialized topics. These include the $j$-function from an algebraic and analytic perspective, a discussion of elliptic curves over finite fields, derivation of recursion formulas for the division polynomials, the algebraic structure of the torsion points of an elliptic curve, complex multiplication, and modular forms. In an effort to motivate basic problems the book starts very slowly but considers some aspects such as modular forms of higher level which are not usually treated. It presents more than 100 exercises and a Mathematica TM notebook that treats a number of calculations involving elliptic curves. The book is aimed at students of mathematics with a general interest in elliptic curves but also at students of computer science interested in their cryptographic aspects. A publication of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). Distributed within the Americas by the American Mathematical Society..
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Ideal for those with little or no background in economics, this book provides an in-depth discussion of a limited, but crucial set of economic principles and concepts--then applies these tools of analysis to a wide variety of familiar situations. It presents conceptually demanding material in an informal, lively, often witty fashion and prepares readers to be able to clarify, systematize, and make sense out of the economic "news" and "views" they encounter everyday in newspapers, political messages, etc. It covers sophisticated--but simple--economic theory and features extended applications that challenge customary ways of thinking. The Economic Way of Thinking. Substitutes Everywhere: The Concept of Demand. Opportunity Cost and the Supply of Goods. Supply and Demand: A Process of Cooperation. Supply and Demand: Issues and Applications. Efficiency, Exchange, and Comparative Advantage. Information, Middlemen, and Speculators. Price Setting and the Question of Monopoly. Price Searching. Competition and Government Policy. Profit. The Distribution of Income. Externalities and Conflicting Rights. Markets and Government. The Overall Performance of Economic Systems. The Supply of Money. Monetary and Fiscal Policies. National Policies and International Exchange. Employment and Unemployment. Promoting Economic Growth. Economic Performance and Political Economy. The Limitations of Economics. For anyone wanting an accessible introduction to economic principles and their application to everyday situations..
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