Artist, columnist, and poet Gertrude McCarty Smith (1923–2007) of Collins, Mississippi, carried herself as a demure and proper southern lady, yet this was deceiving as she was a prolific, creative trailblazer who had collectors and dedicated readers from coast to coast, and even in Europe. She grew up during the Great Depression with only some…
Worlds of History offers a flexible comparative and thematic organization that accommodates a variety of teaching approaches and helps students to make cross-cultural comparisons. Thoughtfully compiled by a distinguished world historian and community college instructor, each chapter presents a wide array of primary and secondary sources arranged around a major theme – such as universal…
Worlds of History offers a flexible comparative and thematic organization that accommodates a variety of teaching approaches and helps students to make cross-cultural comparisons. Thoughtfully compiled by a distinguished world historian and community college instructor, each chapter presents a wide array of primary and secondary sources arranged around a major theme – such as universal…
In recent years the study of illness as experienced by patients has emerged as an approach to understanding sickness. Descriptions of the everyday situations of people with particular diseases, provide a commentary upon the nature of symptoms and upon the relation of the body to society. This approach stresses the biographical and cultural contexts in…
Using a case-study approach, the text presents in-depth explorations of music from several cultures around the world. Editor Jeff Todd Titon’s opening chapter introduces students to ethnomusicology and relates each chapter’s music to the fundamentals of music in a worldwide context, while the final chapter invites students to undertake a fieldwork research project that increases…
The bestselling WORLDS OF MUSIC, now in its sixth edition, provides authoritative, accessible coverage of the world?s music cultures. Based on the authors? fieldwork and expertise, this text presents in-depth explorations of several music cultures from around the world, with a new chapter on Native American music. The student-friendly, case-study approach and music-culture focus gives…
Scientific, technological, and cultural changes have always had an impact upon philosophy.They can force a change in the way we perceive the world, reveal new kinds of phenomena to be understood, and provide new ways of understanding phenomena. Complexity science, immersed in a culture of information, is having a diverse but particularly significant impact upon…
Worldviews, Science And Us: Studies Of Analytical Metaphysics – A Selection Of Topics From A Methodological Perspective – Proceedings Of The 5th Metaphysics Of Science Workshop This volume brings together the lectures presented at the 5th Metaphysics of Science Workshop held from June 2 to 3, 2005, in Ghent, Belgium.The aim of this volume is…
Introducing the global mind-set changing the way we do business.In this fascinating book, global entrepreneurship expert Daniel Isenberg presents a completely novel way to approach business building-with the insights and lessons learned from a worldwide cast of entrepreneurial characters. Not bound by a western, Silicon Valley stereotype, this group of courageous and energetic doers has…
Beim Erlernen einer Fremdsprache im schulischen Kontext ist der Umgang mit Wörterbüchern relevant. Die Autorin untersucht die Verwendung von Online-Wörterbüchern in einem themengeleiteten und schülerorientierten Englischunterricht der Grundschule. Anhand quantitativer und qualitativer Forschungsmethoden betrachtet sie empirisch, ob und inwiefern die Verfügbarkeit eines Online-Wörterbuches zum erfolgreichen autonomen Lernen in den Bereichen Wortschatzerweiterung und Wortschatzbehalten führt. Schüler…
Über die deutschen Worttrennungsregeln, ihr Erlernen in der Grundschule und das Lesen getrennter WörterIm ersten Teil dieser Studie werden die Regeln für die Worttrennung am Zeilenende im Deutschen so beschrieben, dass anders als in der amtlichen Regelung auch ihr überraschend kompliziertes Zusammenspiel erfasst wird; es erweist sich dabei als eine charakteristische Eigenschaft der Worttrennung, dass…
In this issue of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics, guest editors Drs.Xiaohua Zhou and Cassandra Renfro bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Wound and Skin Care. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as non-operative and operative management of diabetic foot ulceration; advanced burn management; emerging technology in the wound management…
Wound Healing Biomaterials: Volume One, Therapies and Regeneration discusses the types of wounds associated with trauma, illness, or surgery that can sometimes be extremely complex and difficult to heal.Consequently, there is a prominent drive for scientists and clinicians to find methods to heal these types of wounds, with science increasingly turning towards biomaterials to address…
This most complete resource is back in a full-color, thoroughly revised, updated, and significantly expanded 4th Edition that incorporates all of the many scientific and technological advances that are changing the scope of practice in this multidisciplinary field.Learned authors Joseph Mc Culloch and Luther Kloth have gathered world renown experts in wound management to present…
A comprehensive resource on the recent developments of stem cell use in wound healing With contributions from experts in the field, Wound Healing offers a thorough review of the most recent findings on the use of stem cells to heal wounds.This important resource covers both the basic and translational aspects of the field. The contributors…
For physical therapy education programs covering wound management; and for clinicians (including PT, PTA, OT, and nursing) involved in treating patients with, or at risk for, open wounds or lymphedema.This ISBN is for the Pearson access card. A complete practical guide to wound care, for both learners and practitioners Wound Management: Principles and Practices?is the…