Stay safe and up to code with this must-have reference guide for electricians, contractors, and DIY homeowners, updated with the latest National Electrical Code® requirements.This newly expanded edition of the essential reference guide has been updated for the 2023 National Electrical Code® and the 2024 International Residential Code® requirements.It is written by leading experts in electrical and general building codes. Code Check Electrical 10th Editi...

Your Hands-On Guide to Thriving Your First Years of TeachingYou’ve made the incredible decision to become an educator because you want to impact the learning lives of young people. Thank you, and welcome. We welcome you to this amazing profession with open arms, and with an arsenal of experience and essential tools, strategies, and lessons to help you establish a successful and satisfying teaching career.We wanted to make it easier for you to learn...

An anthology of the most important historical sources, classical and modern, on the subjects of presumptions and burdens of proofIn the last fifty years, the study of argumentation has become one of the most exciting intellectual crossroads in the modern academy. Two of the most central concepts of argumentation theory are presumptions and burdens of proof. Their functions have been explicitly recognized in legal theory since the middle ages, but their per...

Identifying 13 core techniques and strategies that cut across all available evidence-based treatments for child and adolescent mood and anxiety disorders, this book provides theoretical rationales, step-by-step implementation guidelines, and rich clinical examples. Therapists can flexibly draw from these elements to tailor interventions to specific clients, or can use the book as an instructive companion to any treatment manual. Coverage includes exposure tasks, cognitive strategies, probl...

In 1973, Rick Hansen was a carefree teenager hitchhiking home from a fishing trip, a kid who lived and breathed sports. But after the truck he was riding in went out of control and crashed, Hansen was left a paraplegic. For some people that could have been the end. For Rick Hansen it was the beginning of a story that is at once sad and funny, heartbreaking and inspirational.Hansen takes you from the first painful days and frightening nights in hospital, through the...

Fattig og uden at have opnået det store efter sin tid på kunstskolen i Edinburgh tager John-Calum "Cal" Macleod færgen hjem til øen Harris. På den forblæste lille gård i de Ydre Hebrider, hvor han voksede op, genoptager Cal modstræbende sit gamle liv, fanget mellem barndommens to ekstremer: sin far John, en fåreavler, tweedvæver og trofast forkæmper i den lokale kirke, og sin bedstemor Ella, en svovlende Glasgow-kvinde, der i årtier har bevaret en skrøbelig fred med svigersønnen. Cal speku...

Social skills are at the core of mental health, so much so that deficits in this area are a criterion of clinical disorders, across both the developmental spectrum and the DSM. The Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically-Based Measures of Social Skills gives clinicians and researchers an authoritative resource reflecting the ever growing interest in social skills assessment and its clinical applications. This one-of-a-kind reference approaches social skills from a social learning pers...