Are you the designated group travel planner but feeling overwhelmed and unsure of where to start and execute the whole thing in a way that ensures everyone is happy and has a memorable travel experience?Are you worried about keeping everyone happy and organized throughout the trip and you wish to get guidance on the whole process so you don’t mess things up and ruin the experience for the people counting on you?If you’ve answered YES,Let th...

In Bioethics in Context, Gary Jones and Joseph DeMarco connect ethical theory, medicine, and the law, guiding readers toward a practical and legally grounded understanding of key issues in health-care ethics. This book is uniquely up-to-date in its discussion of health-care law and unpacks the complex web of American policies, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Useful case studies and examples are embedded throughout, and a companion website offers a thoroug...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the many ethical and legal issues that arise in the practice of nursing. Ethical analysis is supplemented with rigorous discussion of precedents from the American legal system as well as the requirements of professional codes operating at the national and state levels. Topics include informed consent, end-of-life treatment, impaired decisional capacity, privacy and confidentiality, and much more.

Straight talk from up on the farmRaised on a small dairy farm in the Driftless Area in the mid-twentieth century, Gary Jones gets real about his rural roots. In this collection of interrelated stories, Jones writes with plainspoken warmth and irreverence about farm, family, and folks on the ridge. Readers will meet Gramp Jones, whose oversized overalls saved him from losing a chunk of flesh to an irate sow; the young one-room-school teacher who helped the kids make sled jumps at re...

Why and how to create a sales system. We have all heard that if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.

Revisiting the thinking on vulnerability to HIV and risk of infection, this book provides better understanding by considering the risk of HIV infection alongside notions of personal and collective resilience, dignity and humiliation.The work shows that young people in the urban slum dignify their world and, in doing so, establish priorities and draw on a set of references oftentimes intelligible to them alone. Moreover, humiliation, as an interpersonal event, adds to a sense of vul...

We cannot control a lot of things in the world. The only thing we can control is what we decide to do.Have you ever felt like you made a bad decision?Have you ever felt like you could make better decisions?Have you made decisions that altered the course of your life in a direction you did not intend on going?Have you made decisions that made you slap your forehead and yell, Duh?Do you want to improve your world and live with less stress?By us...

There is a vast amount of research on what goes on in schools, but how can school leaders sort credible findings from dubious claims and use these to make informed decisions that benefit their schools? How can abstract ideas from research be translated into dynamic plans for action?This book is a practical guide to evidence-based school leadership demonstrating the benefits that can be gained from engaging with robust educational research and offering clear guidance on applying mea...

Knowledge Management (KM) is the technique of using the information and knowledge that is supplied to, generated by and inherent in any organization or institution, to improve its performance. This volume demonstrates how KM can be used in education to improve learning.

Seven Perfect Promises of God Series One Seven: God’s perfect number. The number seven, generally refers to spiritual perfection and /or completion. God created the earth in six days, and the seventh day was the day of rest called the Sabbath. We know that seven appears many times in the bible. Also the rainbow has seven colours which God put it into the sky to promise us that He would not destroy the earth with a flood again. The book ‘Seven Perfect Promises of God’ is to encourage and in...

An innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care—and save the lives they endanger: "Highly engaging and worthwhile reading." ― Health AffairsOver 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unjust and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites. Health ...

A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestsellerIn this iconic bestseller, popular business blogger and bestselling author Seth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt—until they commit to beating the right Dip.Every new project (or job, or hobby, or company) starts out fun…then gets really hard, and not much fun at all. You ...