Comprehensive School Health Education with Ready Notes and PowerWeb OLC Bind-In Passcard


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Comprehensive School Health Education, third edition continues to be the most thorough textbook and resource for helping elementary, middle, and secondary teachers teach health. It is the most widely used health education methods textbook and Teacher Resource Book for Health Education. Students who use this in a methods class keep it and use it when they student teach and when they secure a teaching position. They rely on the reliable, practical strategies and methods that the book provides. The 50-page Curriculum Guide at the end of the book is an organized, sequential K-12 plan for teaching students the information and skills they need to become health literate, maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors.




Books In Print 2004-2005


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Fundamentals of Exercise Physiology


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FUNDAMENTALS provides basic and balanced information for the study of exercise physiology for the undergraduate introductory level student. It thoroughly examines both the immediate responses to, as well as the long-term benefits of exercise. The book uses full color illustrations to enhance learning.




Ergonomics for Therapists


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The Second Edition of this comprehensive text provides an introduction to ergonomic concepts and discusses their application to clinical practice. As occupational and physical therapists take more active roles in work performance, and workplace safety and rehabilitation, they need to acquire the tools and techniques of ergonomics. This book teaches therapists the skills they need to analyze work environments, change work habits, and prevent injury.




Green's Functions and Linear Differential Equations


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Green's Functions and Linear Differential Equations: Theory, Applications, and Computation presents a variety of methods to solve linear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and partial differential equations (PDEs). The text provides a sufficient theoretical basis to understand Green's function method, which is used to solve initial and boundary




A Great and Terrible Beauty


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It's 1895, and after the death of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's being followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls - and their foray into the spiritual world - lead to?




A Confederacy of Dunces


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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).




Health Education


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This comprehensive introduction to the different components of the school health program emphasizes the teaching of elementary health, with a secondary emphasis on health science. Its practical approach to teaching elementary health is particularly well suited for the elementary education major and will benefit students in health education, school nurse specialists, as well as community health educators.




Exercise Physiology


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This book emphasises the roles of cellular and biochemical adaptations in acute responses and chronic adaptations, which are the immediate and long-term effects of exercise upon the individual.




Comprehensive School Health Education with PowerWeb/OLC Bind-in Card


Book Description

A market leader, this book continues to be the most thorough text and resource for helping elementary-, middle-, and secondary-school teachers teach health. Students who use it in a methods class keep it and refer to it when they student-teach and when they secure a teaching position. They rely on the reliable, practical strategies and methods that the book provides, as well as on the comprehensive Curriculum Guide at the end of the book. The Curriculum Guide is an organized, sequential K-12 plan for teaching students the information and skills they need to become health-literate, to maintain and improve their health, to prevent disease, and to reduce risky health-related behaviors.