These books provide your students with a strong & distinctive case study approach which will contextualise key issues with the Student Textbook for BTEC National Health & Social Care. Covering the core units -- enabling students to get a Level 3 Certificate Subsidiary Diploma or mandatory units towards a Diploma Collins BTEC National Health & Social Care allows you to: / Teach with complete confidence through assignments that enable students to produce their portfolios as they work through the activities connected to the book. / Enable every student to progress with Pass Merit & Distinction content clearly differentiated & signposted / Engage students with unit content presented in clear sections using high quality illustrations & photographs that bring the subject to life. Units covered: 1. Developing Effective Communication in Health & Social Care 2. Equality Diversity & Rights in Health & Social Care 3. Health Safety & Security in Health & Social Care 4. Development Through the Life Stages 5. Anatomy & Physiology for Health & Social Care 6. Personal & Professional Development in Health & Social Care 7. Sociological Perspectives for Health & Social Care 8. Psychological Perspectives for Health & Social Care ...

This clear & engaging book covers the core & most popular units -- enabling students to get a Level 3 Certificate Subsidiary Diploma or Diploma in either the Performance & Excellence or Development & Coaching pathways. / Teach with complete confidence with assignments that enable students to produce their portfolios as they work through the activities connected to the book. / Enable every student to progress with Pass Merit & Distinction material clearly differentiated & signposted / Engage students with unit content presented in clear sections using high quality illustrations & photographs that bring the subject to life. / Help students to succeed with material carefully & concisely matched to the 2010

Specification (with no irrelevant sections) written by teachers with hands-on experience of teaching at the right level for BTEC students. The units in full: Units covered in full: 1. Principles of anatomy & physiology in sport 2. The Physiology of fitness 3. Assessing Risk in Sport 4. Fitness Training & Programming 5. Sports Coaching 6. Sports Development 7. Fitness Testing for Sports & Exercise 8. Practical Team Sports 9. Practical Individual Sports 11. Sports Nutrition 14. Exercise Health & Lifestyle 17. Psychology for Sports Performance 18. Sports Injuries 27. Technical & Tactical Skills in Sport 28. The Athletes Lifestyle

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The Collins BTEC National Business Student Textbook covers the revised

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This workbook provides students with an attractive & engaging means of reviewing reinforcing & applying the material of Mathematics Explained for Primary Teachers 4th Edition" chapter by chapter. The material in the workbook has been tested & endorsed by primary PGCE trainees. Detailed solutions & explanatory notes are provided at the end of the book for each task. The self-assessment tasks are of three kinds: Checking Understanding
- tasks designed to help the reader to check their own understanding of key concepts & principles & their mastery of important skills in each chapter; Processes & Applications
- tasks that provide opportunities to apply the mathematical content of each chapter in real-life situations & in puzzles problems investigations & other mathematical challenges; & Teaching & Learning
- tasks that provide opportunities for the reader to consider their responses to childrens errors & misunderstandings & to consider the content of each chapter in terms of approaches to teaching & learning in a primary school context."


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Contents: * Single words for phrases & sentences * Figurative Expressions & their Explanations * Proverbs *100 Choice"ations for Special Occasions * Small Words for Big Ones * Comparisons & Similes * Abbreviations in Common Use * Prefixes in Common Use * Some Geographical Facts Worth Remembering * Revision Notes in English * General Knowledge * Civics ...

Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition & the brain are studied this thoroughly updated edition of the best-selling textbook provides a comprehensive & student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience. Jamie Ward provides an easy-to-follow introduction to neural structure & function as well as all the key methods & procedures of cognitive neuroscience with a view to helping students understand how they can be used to shed light on the neural basis of cognition. The book presents an up-to-date overview of the latest theories & findings in all the key topics in cognitive neuroscience including vision attention memory speech & language numeracy executive function & social & emotional behavior. This edition also contains two completely new chapters on developmental cognitive neuroscience & hearing. Throughout case studies newspaper reports & everyday examples are used to help students understand the more challenging ideas that underpin the subject. In addition each chapter
Includes:: summaries of key terms & points; example essay questions; recommended further reading; & feature boxes exploring interesting & popular questions & their implications for the subject. Written in an engaging style by a leading researcher in the field & now presented in full-color including numerous illustrative materials this book will be invaluable as a core text for undergraduate modules in cognitive neuroscience. It can also be used as a key text on courses in cognition cognitive neuropsychology or brain & behavior. Those embarking on research will find it an invaluable starting point & reference. The Students Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience 2nd Edition" is accompanied by a set of online resources available free of charge to departments that recommend the textbook. These resources include: a chapter-by-chapter illustrated slideshow lecture course; a bank of multiple-choice questions which allow for confidence-weighted answers; & student resources to aid exam preparation."
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Vectors & tensors are among the most powerful problem-solving tools available with applications ranging from mechanics & electromagnetics to general relativity. Understanding the nature & application of vectors & tensors is critically important to students of physics & engineering. Adopting the same approach used in his highly popular A Students Guide to Maxwells Equations Fleisch explains vectors & tensors in plain language. Written for undergraduate & beginning graduate students the book provides a thorough grounding in vectors & vector calculus before transitioning through contra & covariant components to tensors & their applications. Matrices & their algebra are reviewed on the books supporting website which also features interactive solutions to every problem in the text where students can work through a series of hints or choose to see the entire solution at once. Audio podcasts give students the opportunity to hear important concepts in the book explained by the author. ...

Gauss's law for electric fields Gauss's law for magnetic fields Faraday's law & the Ampere-Maxwell law are four of the most influential equations in science. In this guide for students each equation is the subject of an entire chapter with detailed plain-language explanations of the physical meaning of each symbol in the equation for both the integral & differential forms. The final chapter shows how Maxwell's equations may be combined to produce the wave equation the basis for the electromagnetic theory of light. This book is a wonderful resource for undergraduate & graduate courses in electromagnetism & electromagnetics. A website hosted by the author at www.cambridge.org/9780521701471 contains interactive solutions to every problem in the text as well as audio podcasts to walk students through each chapter. ...

Aimed at students wishing to improve their writing skills this guide deals with the key basics of grammar punctuation & spelling while also showing students how to construct a sentence how to build a paragraph & how to structure an essay. This third edition

Includes:: an expanded ' Spot the Mistake' section.

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