Category: Textbooks

This ebook, On Invisible Language in Modern English: A Corpus-based Approach to Ellipsis (PDF) investigates the syntactic phenomenon of ellipsis and the linguistic forces that trigger it. It presents the results of a corpus-based study which takes into account grammatical, semantic/discursive, usage-related and processing variables. Evelyn Gandón-Chapela builds upon the

Impact: A Guide to Business Communication, 9th Canadian edition (PDF) will help students build their confidence and competence to speak in public, create and give oral presentations, run a meeting or handle a job interview. It offers excellent advice on writing, including memos, letters, reports and specific strategies for attacking

Professional Nursing Concepts: Competencies for Quality Leadership, 4th Edition, (PDF) takes a patient-centered, traditional approach to the topic of nursing education. A perfect text for teaching students how to transition from the classroom to practice, it emphasizes the core competencies for health professionals as determined by the Institute of Medicine

Preoperative imaging is increasingly being approved for preoperative planning in plastic and reconstructive surgery. Accurate preoperative analysis can lessen the length of operations and optimize the surgical design and dissection techniques. Imaging for Plastic Surgery (PDF) includes the techniques, applications, and potentialities of medical imaging technology in plastic and reconstructive

Continuing Garrett and Grisham’s innovative conceptual and organizing “Essential Questions” framework, Biochemistry 6th edition (PDF) guides science students through course concepts in a way that reveals the beauty and usefulness of biochemistry in our everyday world. Offering a streamlined and balanced presentation, this latest 6th edition has been updated throughout