Product Description: Is frosting the fluffiest food? Are pineapples the prickliest? Fun words meet tasty treats in this book of superlatives.

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Product Description: By the 1890s Victorians assumed that London's hospitals were facing an endemic financial crisis which was so severe that some feared the state might have to intervene to support an ailing voluntary system: charity both underpinned London's hospitals and proved insufficient to meet the ever-increasing cost of care, despite the ability of those running the hospitals to pick the pockets of the benevolent...read more

Product Description: In Treading on Sacred Grounds: Places of Worship, Local Planning and Religious Freedom in Australia, Noel Villaroman analyses the engagement of religious groups with local councils in Australia in their applications to build places of worship...read more

"An excellent book for those interested in providing culturally responsive and effective care to our nation's increasingly diverse population"--Dr. Robert Like, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Product Description: Now in its fourth edition, this widely used textbook is designed for students or professionals in medical fields who have little or no formal background in Spanish. Using online videos, readings, exercises, and activities such as role play and improvisation, it introduces the grammar structures and specialized medical vocabulary and colloquial terms that nurses, doctors, dentists, and allied health professionals need to communicate effectively with the growing Spanish-speaking population...read more

Product Description: Health researchers routinely evaluate health and illness across subgroups defined by their sex, gender, ethnicity, and race. All too often, these classifications are proffered as an explanation for any differences that may be detected, for example, in access to care, frequency of disease, or response to treatment...read more

Product Description: Accessible, engaging, and filled with contributions by the country's most celebrated disability experts, this fascinating volume skillfully captures how intellectual disability has been understood from prehistoric times to present...read more

This text is a resource to help the nurse at all levels navigate through the obstacles that culture can place on the patient experience. It compiles the history and theory behind cultural competency in nursing and offers key information regarding health beliefs and the impact of culture on health and illness.

The sixth edition of this best-selling resource continues to teach nursing, health professions, medical and social science readers the importance of cultural competence and cultural awareness in the health care industry. The new edition will include revised organization to create a better flow of content, new content on gererational differences, updated chapter on health care delivery system, updated illustrations and tables and MediaLink icons. For undergraduate and graduate courses in patient care and basic health related profession programs, as well as medical, social work, and other health disciplines.

Over the last ten years, The State of the World's Children report from UNICEF has become the best-known and most widely used of all United Nations publications. Published in over thirty languages, it is distributed to media in all countries at year's end, and has become both a record and a catalyst of the movement to promote the kind of development that most benefits today's children--and tomorrow's world. The 1992 report describes what it would take and cost to meet the basic needs of all the world's children--for food and water, health care and education--by the end of the century. Following the 1990 World Summit for Children, at which the largest gathering in history of heads of state promised a new deal for children in the decade ahead, the report sets out the action now needed--by the governments and peoples of both rich and poor nations--if that promise is to be kept.

Product Description: This course is designed for teachers and trainee teachers preparing for the Cambridge ESOL TKT: Content and Language Integrated Learning test (TKT: CLIL). It is ideal for both content and language teachers. Written by a CLIL expert in collaboration with Cambridge ESOL, this course covers the four key areas of the test: knowledge of CLIL and principles of CLIL, lesson preparation, lesson delivery and assessment...read more

Product Description: Documenting the work of twelve contemporary sculptors from Texas, Material Culture was published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at TCU in 2008. Both representational and abstract, the works in the exhibition were made from readymade and commonplace materials with an emphasis on craft, process, and the use of the hand...read more

Product Description: The book poses and explores questions about the roles of antiretroviral treatment and human rights in the global AIDS epidemic. A novel approach is used, which places treatment and human rights in the context of global debates, national struggles, and, especially, a case study of the lived experiences within a local community in South Africa...read more

The noted physician and two of her colleagues explain their approaches to and methods of caring for dying patients, especially the young, and their techniques for leading these patients to an understanding of death

Product Description: Although seldom studied or analyzed, osteoporosis in men is becoming an increasingly important clinical problem. While its onset in men begins at a later age, the effects can be as devastating and severe as they are in women. Osteoporosis in Men is the first text to focus specifically on osteoporosis as it presents in men...read more

This practical, readable text integrates nursing theory with the practice of transcultural nursing. It describes how cultural differences in lifestyle, habits, beliefs, life processes (such as childbirth and aging), and responses to clinical problems (like chronic illness or pain) must be considered in any nurse/client interaction. Readers learn how to view every client as an individual. New in this edition: Culturally appropriate interventions; Newly formatted research application boxes; A new chapter on Ethics & Culture: Contemporary Challenges; A new chapter on Cultural Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce; New pedagogy, including Chapter Objectives, Key Terms, Learning Activities to Promote Critical Thinking, End of Chapter Review Questions; and Numerous new Research Boxes that apply research to clinical practice.