NEW TITLES

From Learning Express —

Plumber's Licensing Exam by Jack Burgess
In today’s economic environment, being in an established trade and having a secure occupation is becoming an increasingly attractive option for job seekers. One of the most important of these trades is in the plumbing field. People certainly notice when they turn on the faucet and the water does not comes out. So, getting someone to fix this problem quickly and efficiently is key. Proper training, testing, and certification are necessary for the public good and for the public’s safety.

The Complete Preparation Guide for the Plumber’s Licensing Exam is aimed at making sure that the applicants have every advantage in taking and passing the licensing exams for the journeyman and master plumber. Based on the Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC) and the International Plumbing Code (IPC), this guide boasts of having over 1,000 questions and up to 100 illustrations and charts to prepare an applicant for success.

The Complete Preparation Guide for the Plumber’s Licensing Exam will begin with a Pretest and end with a Sample Licensing Exam. Chapters progress from Learning Objectives to a Chapter Review and builds toward a Practice Quiz. This educational format sets the book apart from any others in the marketplace.

Electrician's Licensing Exam by Landon Johnson
The Complete Preparation Guide for the Electrician’s Licensing Exam is aimed at making sure that applicants have every advantage in taking and passing the licensing exams for the journeyman and master electrician. Based on the National Electrical Code Code (NEC), this guide boasts of having over 1,000 questions and up to 100 illustrations and charts to prepare an applicant for success.

The Complete Preparation Guide for the Electrician’s Licensing Exam will begin with a Pretest and end with a Sample Licensing Exam. Chapters progress from Learning Objectives to a Chapter Review and builds toward a Practice Quiz. This educational format sets the book apart from any others in the marketplace.

From Harris Media —

King of Eagles by Dean Albanese
THE MOST REMARKABLE COIN EVER PRODUCED BY THE UNITED STATES MINT

The 1804 Plain-4 gold Eagle is without a doubt the most remarkable coin ever minted by the United States Mint, and is indeed the King of Eagles.

Just four specimens of this quintessentially rare coin were ever minted - but not in 1804 as the date on the obverse suggests. Instead, these priceless coins were minted by the special order of President Andrew Jackson in 1834/35 as diplomatic gifts to a king, two emperors, and a sultan.

The story begins in 1832 when Edmund Roberts sailed on a diplomatic mission aboard the U. S. S. Peacock to establish trade relations with Muscat (modern day Oman), Siam (modern day Thailand), Cochin-China (modern day Vietnam) and Japan. He succeeded with Muscat and Siam, and returned to the United States where a complete set of new gold, silver, and copper coins neatly arranged in a morocco case were made as princely gifts. These sets included the 1804 silver dollar and the much rarer 1804 Plain-4 gold Eagle.

The return trip to the far east was an adventure that has been the subjects of books and is the sort of tale that can arouse imaginations and inspire movies. Men may fantasize and dream about high adventure, but King of Eagles is a true story that is more exciting than any fantasy that can be invented. It is a story of politics, greed, and courage that included attacks by pirates, shipwreck on a desert island, daring rescues, strange-but-true encounters with exotic natives, and finally tragedy.
Today, the saga is told as never before and the King of Eagles continues to be the ultimate prize for collectors of American coins and history enthusiasts.

From Teachers at Large —

The Heart of the Matter Workbook by Rachel Kramer
Upon the completion of the book… Heart of the Matter, it occurred to the authors that many educators would wish know about the practical ways to bring the expressed attitudes or dispositions toward teaching into the classroom. They wished to produce a manuscript for a workbook guide that would elucidate the concepts treated in Heart of the Matter and lay out activities and reflections that address these concepts. To write and illustrate these concepts they found a talented and experienced elementary school master teacher in Rachel Kramer who is presently teaching undergraduate students in the Education Department at Brandeis University.

Rachel has followed the format of the book, speaking to its guiding concepts with a structure framed by professional experience. The format of the workbook consists of 3 parts for each concept. First she includes a brief discussion of the theme; then she offers classroom activities and strategies that foster helpful attitudinal shifts; and finally she ends each section with reflective questions around which educators might assess their effectiveness in practicing these concepts. The text contains many examples, templates and other resources for using the exercises in the practice of teaching.   RETURN TO TOP

SPRING 2010

From Delmar Cengage Learning —

After the Diagnosis by Gary McClain Ph.d
Everyday, millions of people go to their doctors where they are given a diagnosis they either didn’t expect or dreaded. And after they hear it, they are left with their own conflicting, and crippling, emotions and asked to make life-changing healthcare decisions, often under time pressure. Left unrecognized, patients are at risk in terms of treatment outcomes, satisfaction with the chosen treatment, ongoing compliance with diet and lifestyle adjustments, quality of life... all of which affects virtually all professionals with whom patients come into contact, as well as their family members.

After the Diagnosis is the first book to help healthcare professionals – physicians, nurses, nursing assistants, and those from other allied professions – to understand how newly diagnosed patients are reacting emotionally and how to help them to harness both emotional and rational strengths as they communicate with healthcare professionals, gather information, evaluate treatment options, make informed treatment decisions, and manage their condition.   RETURN TO TOP

PENDING TITLES

PERSONAL TRAINING 101:
How to Get Started and Get Certified
by Emily Prosser

Personal Training 101 is a user friendly review book for the aspiring fitness professional. It will begin by outlining the different programs available in the industry and then explore in great detail what a certificate from each program will mean to the reader professionally.

The chapters following the introduction will take the reader through a variety of subjects including wellness, exercise physiology, kinesiology and anatomy, injury prevention, training and programming skills, professional responsibilities, and business skills that are necessary to become the invaluable personal trainer that you aspire to be. At the end of each chapter, a series of critical thinking and multiple choice questions will help with review and preparation for a written test. At the end of the book, a series of tests in a multiple-choice format will prepare the reader for their official certification exam.

This Book will Include:
Certification Program Outlines
Wellness 101
Exercise Physiology
Body Anatomy and Kinesiology
Fitness Assessments
Cardio Respiratory Programs
Muscular Strength and Endurance Programs
Resistance Training Skills
Flexibility Programs
Injury Prevention
Special Populations
Nutrition and Weight Management
Effective Communication and Behavior Skills
Legal Issues and Professional Responsibilities   RETURN TO TOP

From Delmar Cengage Learning —

Comprehensive Athletic Training Series

Recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA) as allied health professionals, athletic trainers specialize in the prevention, assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries. Often the first heath-care providers on the scene when injuries occur, trainers recognize, evaluate, and assess injuries; provide immediate, on-scene care; rehabilitate and recondition injuries; and work to prevent injuries. Injury prevention involves educating people of what to do, and what not to do, in order to avoid putting themselves at risk medically.

Demand for health care will continue to grow and evolve dramatically in upcoming years. Advances in technology, increasing emphasis on preventive care, and an increasing number of seniors likely to need and receive medical care, will provide athletic trainers with new and more sophisticated opportunities for fostering healthy lifestyles in cost-effective ways. To realize these opportunities, athletic trainers will need to expand their services. More employers are also expected to use these services to realize the cost savings of providing health care in-house.

This ten-book series is designed to help students understand the core subject matter for becoming an athletic trainer. As the profession continues to grow and change in the next decade, including more administrative responsibilities, adapting to new technology, and working with larger populations, students need content that is accessible and understandable. This series is aimed at preparing students and job seekers for the coming challenges by breaking down topic areas into smaller, more manageable sections.

The Comprehensive Athletic Trainers Series will demonstrate that athletic trainers play a significant role in the management, prevention, recognition, and rehabilitation of injured athletes. Athletic trainers administer immediate emergency and follow-up care. They need to develop athletic injury prevention and treatment programs using the knowledge of biomechanics, anatomy, and pathology that will be provided in individual books and supplements.

The ten-book series will include:
Essentials of Athletic Training: An Introduction to the Profession
Human Anatomy and Medical Terminology for the Athletic Trainer
Complete Emergency Medical Care for the Athletic Professional
Essentials of Injury Recognition and Prevention
Therapeutic Modalities and Therapeutic Exercise
Exercise Physiology and Psychology
Kinesiology, Biomechanics, and Human Nutrition
Pharmacology and Pathology
Advanced Athletic Training: Program Administration, Coaching, Communication, and Motivation
Athletic Training and Wellness: Personal and Community Health    RETURN TO TOP

FUTURE COMPANY RELEASES

Functional and Informational Non-Fiction for Kids (FINK)
A Reading and English Language Arts Study Guide for Grades 3–8
Making Visible the Problem-Solving Process That Good Readers Use
by Rachel Criscione

Functional and Informational Non-Fiction for Kids (FINK) workbooks will be invaluable tools for anyone who wants to gain the accuracy and fluency needed to become a more confident reader. Each of the individual workbooks will target grades 3 through 8 (early to middle-grade readers). An additional workbook will target readers who are high school ages and older (English as a Second Language [ESL] or English Language Learner [ELL] students).

Functional and Informational Non-Fiction for Kids (FINK) will be designed to have each chapter contain three thematically linked passages: one informational, one functional, and one for editing tasks. Each passage will be broken down into sections: six sections for informational, two sections for functional, and one section for editing. Each section will offer three to four questions in different formats, although the predominant format will be multiple-choice questions.

Functional and Informational Non-Fiction for Kids (FINK) will be a critical resource and reference for teaching readers how to master the problem-solving skills used by confident readers. It will help students enhance their reading skills, build confidence through practice, and emphasize engaging test-taking strategies that will help make any reader a success.   RETURN TO TOP

PAST COMPANY RELEASES

Heart of the Matter
The Role of Attitude in Teaching by Arthur Willis and Marcia Greenberg

“Willis and Greenberg have chosen to tackle questions that are essential to teaching: who are my students, and how can I build a bridge that connects me to each student so that learning can occur?”

— Lynn M. Gelzheiser, Associate Professor
Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology
University at Albany, SUNY

Heart of the Matter explores the overarching importance of attitude in teaching. Marcia Greenberg and Arthur Willis discuss four constituent elements that comprise human comprehension: awareness, knowing, understanding, and personality. According to the authors, only the last two of these elements are regularly attended in everyday education. In this context, Willis and Greenberg address the issue of mutual fear on the part of students and teachers in schooling so that readers can see how the impetus of fear can lead to increased attentiveness, or swing the other way toward exclusionary judgments. By discussing how burnout can be obviated, with a focus on the centrality of awareness and the cultivation of attentiveness, this book goes beyond diagnostic categories and offers a new way of seeing students. “You are unique just like everyone else”, is the Heart of the Matter. The book also addresses high stakes testing in a critical way, the often-devastating effects it has on teaching and learning, and suggests more productive alternatives to assessment.

In this book, Marcia Greenberg and Arthur Willis strive to accurately represent their collective educational experience in the United States, Europe, and Russia. Willis’s career spans from 1955 to 1998 and Greenberg’s from 1980-2004. Their combined experience encompasses a wide variety of contexts and levels of teaching from infancy to senior citizens in both private and public practice.   RETURN TO TOP

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