Students preparing to become teachers of young children from infancy through the early primary grades must be prepared to measure or evaluate children who are in the period of development called early childhood.

A Concise Introduction to World Religions, Fourth Edition, is ideal for single-semester courses. Renowned contributors trace the origins and evolution of the major traditions, explain their essential teachings, outline their practices, and examine their interactions with modern culture and society, while insightful introductory and concluding essays suggest countless avenues for further reflection and study.

Ninth Edition continues to explain ecological processes clearly and concisely, with a greater emphasis on the relevance of ecology to everyday life and the human impact on ecosystems. This dramatically revised edition discusses issues of human ecology throughout the text and provides a greater variety of opportunities for students to learn, practice, and develop quantitative and analytical skills.

This innovative text focuses on helping teachers ensure that students learn to use language to communicate with others in our increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse society.

Samantha is a fat girl whose career at the CIA is hindered by her weight. A chance encounter provides her the opportunity to go undercover as a fat web model to gain the trust of a fat admiring Dubai billionaire food titan named Khalid Al Bashir who is hell-bent on making the world fatter.

In the Blink of an Eye is editor Walter Murch's essay of film editing. Starting with what might seem to be the most basic editing question.

Learn the fundamentals of geometry from former USA Mathematical Olympiad winner Richard Rusczyk. Topics covered in the book include similar triangles, congruent triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, circles, funky areas, the power of a point, three-dimensional geometry, transformations, and much more.

Many nursing curricula combine and teach maternity and pediatrics in tandem. This can be viewed as a natural fit of two content areas that belong together.

In this fourth edition, Lee Alan Dugatkin draws on cutting-edge new work not only to update and expand on the studies presented, but also to reinforce the previous editions’ focus on ultimate and proximate causation, as well as the book’s unique emphasis on natural selection, learning, and cultural transmission.

New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin delivers exactly what his fans want: heart-wrenchingly beautiful stories that challenge them and fill them with hope.

Fundamentals of Investments is aimed at the introductory investments class with students who have relatively little familiarity with investments.