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Moral Choices

Author : Scott Rae

Publisher : Zondervan Academic

Page : 420 pages

File Size : 42,60 MB

Release : 2009-12-15

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0310323231

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With its unique union of theory and application and its well-organized, easy-to-use design, Moral Choices has earned its place as the standard text for college ethics courses. This third edition offers extensive updates, revisions, and brand new material, all designed to help students develop a sound and current basis for making ethical decisions in today's complex postmodern culture. Moral Choices outlines the distinctive elements of Christian ethics while avoiding undue dogmatism. The book also introduces other ethical systems and their key proponents, including Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant. After describing a seven-step procedure for tackling ethical dilemmas, author Scott Rae uses case studies to help students think critically and biblically about ? Abortion ? Reproductive Technologies ? Euthanasia ? Capital Punishment ? Sexual Ethics ? The Morality of War ? Genetic Technologies and Human Cloning ? NEW: Ethics and Economics New features include online resources for instructors; a chapter covering global capitalism, environmental ethics, and business ethics; new material on bioethics and on stem cell and embryo research; discussion questions at the end of each chapter; and sidebars with case studies.



Choices

Author : Bob Shebib

Publisher : Pearson Education Canada

Page : 449 pages

File Size : 32,6 MB

Release : 2013-02-15

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0133098966

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Helping students develop professional counselling competency. The preferred text in its discipline, Choices: Interview and Counselling Skills for Canadians,is a practical guide that helps Canadian professionals develop the knowledge, abilities, and attitudes required for effective interviewing and counselling. It strives to help students gain a wide range of skills based on supported theory and evidence-based best practices. Readable, student-friendly, and jargon-free, Choices is appropriate for students from numerous disciplines including social work, youth justice, child and youth care counselling, addictions, psychology, teaching, general nursing, and psychiatric nursing. Note: MySearchLab is not included with the purchase of this product.



Oral Communication

Author : Kathryn Sue Young

Publisher : Waveland Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 22,77 MB

Release : 2017-11

Category : Communication

ISBN : 9781478635796

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Every day we communicate in our professional and personal lives to initiate or improve relationships, get what we want, function in teams, and learn new things. The success of these interactions depends on the ability to be effective in conveying messages. The Fourth Edition of this widely used text presents indispensible skills to encode and decode messages, guiding readers to develop their own communication style. Retaining its concise yet comprehensive coverage, the latest edition explores digital-age communication techniques and includes sections on communication privacy management theory and affection exchange theory.Oral Communication, 4/E presents a wide range of introductory topics in an afford-able, straightforward, and fun format. Each chapter opens with clear learning objectives and ends with key terms and discussion questions. Interactive exercises throughout the book engage readers as they are asked to reflect on previous experiences, experiment with tools provided to them in the text, react to hypothetical scenarios, and think critically. Readers will benefit from professional sidebars that illustrate how academic concepts fit into the careers they will soon enter.



Choices, Fourth Edition

Author : Marion Morra

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 1140 pages

File Size : 32,82 MB

Release : 2003-10-14

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN : 9780060521240

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For more than twenty years, Choices has been the leading source-book for cancer patients and their families. Fully revised to cover the latest medical and technological breakthroughs, Choices, Fourth Edition, provides the most up-to-date and essential facts on cancer, from diagnosis to recovery -- medication and nutrition, symptoms and stages, and all available surgical and nonsurgical treatments -- in an accessible, easy-to-use Q&A format. The book also includes checklists of essential questions for your doctor; useful Internet resources; a state-by-state listing of cancer-related programs, organizations, and services; reviews of complementary and alternative therapies; updated listings of chemotherapy drugs and their side effects; the facts on common misconceptions regarding cancer treatments; and advice on practical living concerns for both survivors and caregivers. Recommended by health-care professionals nationwide, Choices is a unique and invaluable reference. Marion Morra and Eve Potts's clear, compassionate advice is on every page, offering reassurance with the informed knowledge every cancer patient needs to make the right decisions throughout the treatment process.



Women's Realities, Women's Choices

Author : Hunter College. Women's and Gender Studies Collective

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 44,80 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Women's studies

ISBN : 9780199843602

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This book examines women as individuals, as family members, and as a force in the greater social fabric. It is multidisciplinary approach reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the field of women's and gender studies while providing depth of knowledge and experience.



Career Choice and Development

Author : Duane Brown

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 564 pages

File Size : 44,22 MB

Release : 2002-07-29

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0787957410

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The fourth edition of Career Choice and Development brings together the most current ideas of the recognized authorities in the field of career development. This classic best-seller has been thoroughly revised and expanded to include the most influential theories of career choice and development, and it contains up-to-date information regarding the application of these theories to counseling practice. This edition contains a wide range of career development theories that explore how people develop certain traits, personalities, self-precepts, and how these developments influence career decision making. This information will challenge teachers, researchers, and those involved in fostering career development to reexamine their assumptions and practices.



American Government

Author : Marc Landy

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 527 pages

File Size : 44,16 MB

Release : 2018-12-13

Category : History

ISBN : 1108471366

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Prompts students to consider how the past shapes the present and future of American politics and government.



Japanese Maples

Author : J. D. Vertrees

Publisher : Timber Press (OR)

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 34,43 MB

Release : 1987

Category : Gardening

ISBN :

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This book provides a guide to the identification of individual cultivars, information on the history and culture of the Japanese maple and over 200 color reproductions.



Thinking and Deciding

Author : Jonathan Baron

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 598 pages

File Size : 42,35 MB

Release : 2006-10-22

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 113946602X

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Beginning with its first edition and through subsequent editions, Thinking and Deciding has established itself as the required text and important reference work for students and scholars of human cognition and rationality. In this fourth edition, first published in 2007, Jonathan Baron retains the comprehensive attention to the key questions addressed in the previous editions - how should we think? What, if anything, keeps us from thinking that way? How can we improve our thinking and decision making? - and his expanded treatment of topics such as risk, utilitarianism, Baye's theorem, and moral thinking. With the student in mind, the fourth edition emphasises the development of an understanding of the fundamental concepts in judgement and decision making. This book is essential reading for students and scholars in judgement and decision making and related fields, including psychology, economics, law, medicine, and business.



Nutrition

Author : Clinton D. Allred

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 33,29 MB

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ISBN : 9781465284709

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