Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop

By: Tim Ormsby, Eileen J. Napoleon, Robert Burke, Carolyn Groessl, Laura Bowden
publisher: ESRI Press
year: 2010, pages: 597
Rar PDF 52 Mb

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop introduces principles of GIS as it teaches the mechanics of using ESRI’s leading technology. Key concepts are combined with detailed illustrations and step-by-step exercises to acquaint readers with the building blocks of ArcGIS® Desktop including ArcMap™, for displaying and querying maps, ArcCatalog™, for organizing geographic data, and ModelBuilder™, for diagramming and processing solutions to complex spatial analysis problems.

Its broad scope, simple style, and practical orientation make this book an ideal classroom text and an excellent resource for those learning GIS on their own.

A data CD for working through the exercises and a fully functioning 180-day trial ArcGIS® Desktop 10 software is included.

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Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

By: Merriam-Webster
publisher: Merriam-Webster, Inc.
year: 2008, pages: 1994 MOBI 14 Mb

New title! Designed to help advance students master spoken and written English as it is actually used, this groundbreaking new dictionary provides in-depth and up-to-date coverage of basic English vocabulary, grammar, and usage.

Outstanding features include nearly 100,000 words and phrases, more than 160,000 usage examples, more than 22,000 idioms, verbal collocations, and commonly used phrases, and more than 1,000 original drawings-including 16 pages of full color art. Abundant supplemental information includes 25 pages of grammar.

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Teaching Social Studies to English Language Learners

By: Bárbara C. Cruz, Stephen J. Thornton
publisher: Routledge
year: 2009, pages: 245,
PDF 6.6 Mb

This book provides simple and straightforward advice on how to teach English Language Learners in the classroom. In Teaching Social Studies to English Language Learners the authors offer context-specific strategies for the full range of the social studies curriculum, including geography, U.S. history, world history, economics, and government.

A fully annotated list of web and print resources completes the volume, making this a valuable reference to help social studies teachers meet the challenges of including all learners in effective instruction.

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Introducing Psychology for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals

By : Dominic Upton
Publisher: Pearson Education Ltd
Date: 2010, PDF 9 Mb

Introducing Psychology for Nurses and Healthcare Professionalsis a refreshingly engaging, and accessible introduction to psychology written specifically to support nurses and other medical and health care professionals, such as Midwives and Care Assistants, in both their studies and in practice.

Assumingno previous knowledge, the text emphasizes the importance of understanding the psychological thought and action of patients in order for nursing and healthcare professionals to provide appropriate and satisfactory patient care in practice.

The seven chapters cover psychology topics relevant to nursing and health care including the various psychological approaches and how they can be applied, psychology across the lifespan, the psychology of communication, cognitive psychology, the basis of psychological thought and action, and the psychology of stress and pain. In addition to being an ideal introductory text for all pre-registration nursing courses, this book is also suitable for those in practice requiring a refresher or reference text

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