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  • Listening for What Matters

    Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care

    by Saul Weiner, Alan Schwartz ...
    Effective health care requires physicians tailor care to patients' individual life contexts, including their financial situation, social support, competing responsibilities, and cognitive abilities. Physicians, however, are poorly prepared to consider patients' lives when planning their care. The result is measurably harmful to individuals and costly to society. Listening for What Matters: ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • This Is the Route of My Forefathers

    The 1837 Ioway Map

    by William Green, Lance M. Foster, Saul Schwartz ...
    The state of Iowa is named for the Ioways, but most Iowans—and most Americans—know little about them. In This Is the Route of My Forefathers, William Green elevates an understudied history by synthesizing oral traditions, written records, and archaeological data to decode the 1837 map drafted by Ioway leaders. Spanning Indigenous settlements from Missouri to Wisconsin, this map was created to ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Oppressed by Debt

    Government and the Justice System as a Creditor of the Poor

    Edited by Saul Schwartz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    This edited collection brings together essays that explore personal debts to government. Intensive collection efforts by governments in need of revenue often cause hardship, whether it is the poor in the United States going to jail because of unpaid fines, low-income English people being evicted because they paid their council taxes but could then not pay their rent, or poor former students having ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Decision Making for Student Success

    Behavioral Insights to Improve College Access and Persistence

    by Benjamin L. Castleman, Saul Schwartz, Sandy Baum ...
    Each year, many students with affordable college options and the academic skills needed to succeed do not enroll at all, enroll at institutions where they are not well-positioned for success, or drop out of college before earning a credential. Efforts to address these challenges have included changes in financial aid policy, increased availability of information, and enhanced academic support. ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Anna Karenina

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Marian Schwartz ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    Tolstoy produced many drafts of Anna Karenina. Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, he was anything but casual in his use of language. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, was to bend language to his will, as an instrument of his aesthetic and moral convictions.” In her magnificent new translation, Schwartz embraces Tolstoy’s unusual style-she is the first ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Listening for What Matters

    Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care

    by Saul J. Weiner, MD, Alan Schwartz, PhD ...
    The best clinicians take into account the life challenges of their patients when planning their care, a process Drs. Weiner and Schwartz refer to as "contextualizing care." Failures to contextualize care, when they results in care plans that seem appropriate from a narrowly clinical perspective but are nevertheless unlikely to achieve their intended aims represent "contextual errors." Prescribing ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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    A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

    by Donna Tartt ...
    A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Aspiring Adults Adrift

    Tentative Transitions of College Graduates

    by Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa ...
    Few books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses—and newspaper opinion pages—as quickly and thoroughly as Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's 2011 landmark study of undergraduates' learning, socialization, and study habits, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. From the moment it was published, one thing was clear: no university could afford to ignore its well ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Powerful Teacher Education

    Lessons from Exemplary Programs

    by Linda Darling-Hammond ...
    Powerful Teacher Education describes the strategies, goals, content, and processes of seven highly successful and long-standing teacher education programs - Alverno College, Bank Street College, Trinity University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern Maine, University of Virginia, and Wheelock College. All these colleges and universities have succeeded in preparing teachers ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Building Equity

    Policies and Practices to Empower All Learners

    by Dominique Smith, Nancy Frey, Ian Pumpian, Douglas Fisher ...
    Imagine a school with a diverse student body where everyone feels safe and valued, and all—regardless of race, culture, home language, sexual orientation, gender identity, academic history, and individual challenges—have the opportunity to succeed with interesting classes, projects, and activities. In this school, teachers notice and meet individual instructional needs and foster a harmonious and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Nursing Pathways for Patient Safety

    by National Council of State Boards of Nurs ...
    With a wealth of helpful guidelines and assessment tools, Nursing Pathways for Patient Safety makes it easy to identify the causes of practice breakdowns and to reduce health care errors. It provides expert guidance from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), plus an overview of the TERCAP® assessment tool. The book systematically examines the causes of practice breakdowns ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • College Student Retention

    Formula for Student Success

    by Alexander W. Astin, Joseph B. Berger, Erin W. Bibo, Kurt R. Burkum, Alberto F. Cabrera, Gloria Crisp, Ann Gansemer-Topf, Steven M. LaNasa, Susan Lyons, Liliana Mina, Lonnie Morrison0, Thomas G. Mortenson1, Leticia Oseguera2, Geraldo Blanco Ramírez3, Daniel W. Salter4, John H. Schuh5, Loretta Silverman6, Vincent Tinto7, Amaury Nora8, Alan Seidman9 ...
    Series series The ACE Series on Higher Education
    Although access to higher education is virtually universally available, college student retention stills remains a vexing and puzzling problem for educators and legislators.In College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success, second edition, Alan Seidman deals with this problematic issue by examining a number of areas critical to the retention of students, including the history, the theories ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD