Subject(s): Political parties -- United States | Voting -- United States Summary: "Political scientists have long painted American voters' dependence on partisan cues at the ballot box as a discouraging consequence of their overall ignorance about politics. Taking on this conventional wisdom, Jeffrey D. Grynaviski advances the provocati

Subject(s): Soft tissue injuries -- Treatment | Surgical emergencies | Emergencies Summary: A fracture first and foremost is a soft-tissue injury, the best possible outcome of which strongly depends on correct decision making at the right time and state-of-the-art soft-tissue handling. In order for orthopaedic and trauma surgeons to address the

Subject(s): Library orientation | Information literacy -- Study and teaching | Information services -- User education | Library employees -- Training of | Teacher-librarians -- Training of | Teaching -- Methodology | Effective teaching | Reflective teaching | Learning, Psychology of Summary: Char Booth introduces a series of concepts that will

Summary: "The knowledge and skills of critical thinking, evidence-based practice, problem solving, judgment, and decision making are essential to effectively serve clients in all types of clinical practices. This book teaches clinicians and students how to avoid fallacies and biases in thinking as well as the skills to make well-informed,

Subject(s): Condensed matter | Solid state physics Summary: "This second edition presents an updated review of the whole field of condensed matter physics. It consolidates new and classic topics from disparate sources, teaching not only about the effective masses of electrons in semiconductor crystals and band theory, but also about quasicr

Subject(s): Chemotherapy | Physiology, Pathological Summary: "The most comprehensive, widely used, and evidence-based pharmacotherapy text available Hailed by Doody's Review Service as "one of the best in pharmacy" Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach is unmatched in its ability to help students develop a mastery of evid

Subject(s): Pharmacology -- Outlines, syllabi, etc | Drugs -- Outlines, syllabi, etc Summary: "A proven method for learning the most difficult-to-understand concepts in pharmacology. Great for USMLE review! Basic Concepts in Pharmacology provides students with a complete framework for studying the fundamental principles of drug actions. Thi

Subject(s): Special education -- United States | Special education -- Law and legislation -- United States Summary: "Provides an insider's view of the special education process for parents and teachers This book explores the special education process-from testing and diagnosis to IEP meetings and advocating for special needs children.

Subject(s): Animal genetics Summary: "The fact that living things inherit traits from their parents has been used since prehistoric times to improve crop plants and animals through selective breeding. Many aspects of human and animal behaviors have a strong genetic contribution. Individual variation in different behaviors is also found acro

Subject(s): Pregnancy -- Case studies -- Complications Summary: "Taken as a whole, the book covers a wide range of medical, obstetrical and fetal complications. Each chapter in the book concerns a single patient with a problem in clinical obstetrics. Some of the authors based their chapters on actual patients, although names and medical det