A new approach to teaching university-level chemistry that links core concepts of chemistry and physical science to current global challenges. Introductory chemistry and physics are generally taught at the university level as isolated subjects, divorced from any compelling context. Moreover, the "formalism first" teaching approach presents students with disembodied knowledge, abstract and learned by rote. By contrast, this textbook presents a new approach to teaching university-level chemistry that links core concepts of chemistry and physical science to current global challenges. It provides the rigorous development of the principles of chemistry but places these core concepts in a global context to engage developments in technology, energy production and distribution, the irreversible nature of climate change, and national security. Each chapter opens with a "Framework" section that establishes the topic's connection to emerging challenges. Next, the "Core" section addresses concepts including the first and second law of thermodynamics, entropy, Gibbs free energy, equilibria, acid-base reactions, electrochemistry, quantum mechanics, molecular bonding, kinetics, and nuclear. Finally, the "Case Studies" section explicitly links the scientific principles to an array of global issues. These case studies are designed to build quantitative reasoning skills, supply the technology background, and illustrate the critical global need for the infusion of technology into energy generation. The text's rigorous development of both context and scientific principles equips students for advanced classes as well as future involvement in scientific and societal arenas. University Chemistry was written for a widely adopted course created and taught by the author at Harvard.

University Chemistry: Frontiers and Foundations from a Global and Molecular Perspective

Business & Money

Anderson, James G.

Economics

The MIT Press

Innovative 2nd edition, heavily updated and revised from the 1st edition 
Introduction to various survey and evaluation methods involving IT systems in the healthcare setting Critical overview of current research in health and social sciences Emphasizes multi-method approach to system evaluation Includes instruments suitable for research and evaluation Discusses computer programs for data analysis and evaluation resources Essential reference for anyone involved in planning, developing, implementing, utilizing, evaluating, or studying computer-based health care systems

Evaluating the Organizational Impact of Health Care Information Systems (Health Informatics)

Aydin, Carolyn

Computers & Technology

Springer

This series is directed to health care professionals who are leading the tra- formation of health care by using information and knowledge. Launched in 1988 as Computers in Health Care, the series offers a broad range of titles: some addressed to specific professions such as nursing, medicine, and health administration; others to special areas of practice such as trauma and radi- ogy. Still other books in the series focus on interdisciplinary issues, such as the computer-based patient record, electronic health records, and networked health care systems. Renamed Health Informatics in 1998 to reflect the rapid evolution in the discipline now known as health informatics, the series will continue to add titles that contribute to the evolution of the field. In the series, eminent - perts, serving as editors or authors, offer their accounts of innovations in health informatics. Increasingly, these accounts go beyond hardware and so- ware to address the role of information in influencing the transformation of healthcare delivery systems around the world. The series also increasingly focuses on “peopleware” and the organizational, behavioral, and societal changes that accompany the diffusion of information technology in health services environments.

Ethics and Information Technology: A Case-Based Approach to a Health Care System in Transition (Health Informatics)

Goodman, Kenneth

Science & Math

Darkness looms over the ancient world of Ahn Norvys, and the Great Harmony of Ardiel lies rent asunder. Prince Starigan, heir to the throne, has been abducted and power has been usurped by a traitorous cabal In the mountainous highlands of Arvon is the small but ancient community the Stoneholding, which has held out against the gathering forces of the evil Ferabek. Here by tradition, from earliest times, the High Bard has resided as guardian of the Sacred Fire, as well as the golden harp called the Talamadh. But in his search for the lost prince, Ferabek has attacked the Stoneholding with his Black Scorpion Dragoons and razed it to the ground. Wilum, the aged High Bard was forced to flee for his life with a ragged band of survivors, including Kalaquinn Wright, the wheelwrights’s son. Kal, green in years and understanding, was torn from his pastoral life in a remote highland clanholding, and thrust out onto a broader stage in a journey of danger and escape, discovery and enlightenment. Now, as night covers Ahn Norvys, he must save what remains of the hallowed order of things and seek his destiny, a destiny that lies far beyond the Stoneholding. He must somehow find Prince Starigan and rekindle the Sacred Fire.

The Stoneholding (Legacy of the Stone Harp: Book One)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Sebanc, Mark

Fantasy

Baen

As shadows loom over the World of Ahn Norvys, one Song, one Harp, and one Man are all that stand between the dark night of chaos and the dawn of harmony and order.

The Stoneholding: Legacy Of The Stone Harp Book One

Baen Books

Second in a New Trilogy of Epic Fantasy in the Tradition of Tolkien. In the wake of the catastrophic invasion that has levelled the Stoneholding, the last bastion of order in the world of Ahn Norvys, Kalaquinn Wright Pursues the mission entrusted to him. Freshly invested as High Bard, sets forth across lands that lie under a dark cloud of uncertainty and strife, charged with the task of finding the lost Prince Starigan. This is but the first step in rekindling the Sacred Fire and restoring peace to a broken world. The task, however, will not be an easy one, for the Talamadh, the golden harp that binds together heaven and earth in sacred harmony, remains in the clutches of the tyrant Ferabek. After securing safe haven for the remnant folk of his clanholding, Kal and his companions venture into the lowlands of Arvon, a palce of looming danger. Despite the adversities of a world sinking into the world sinking into the twilight of darkness and chaos, the young Holdsman keeps faith and its sustained by the loyalty of friends, the resources he begins to discover in himself, and unwavering hope. In his quest for the lost prince, moreover, Kal learns that royalty is to be founsd in unexpected quarters. By fate's caprice, Kal falls prey to his enemies. In the trail that befalls him, his mettle is tested, and he draws upon an inner strength that he has never known before. He also discovers that the Talamadh, with which Ardiel, once High King of Arvon, inaugurated the Great Harmony, though weak falerting, still retains a vestige of its ancient potency. But will it be enough to stem the tide of chaos that floods over darkling fields of Arvon?

The Darkling Fields Of Arvon (Legacy of the Stone Harp)

Innovative 2nd edition, heavily updated and revised from the 1st edition 
Introduction to various survey and evaluation methods involving IT systems in the healthcare setting Critical overview of current research in health and social sciences Emphasizes multi-method approach to system evaluation Includes instruments suitable for research and evaluation Discusses computer programs for data analysis and evaluation resources Essential reference for anyone involved in planning, developing, implementing, utilizing, evaluating, or studying computer-based health care systems

The second entry in the Legend of the Stone Harp saga, a high fantasy epic with echoes of such classic series as Patricia McKillip’s Riddlemaster tales and Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time chronicle. A young bard must regain the lost World Harp before an evil lord brings on a new age of darkness.The second entry in the Legend of the Stone Harp saga, a high fantasy epic with echoes of such classic series as Patricia McKillip’s Riddlemaster tales and Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time chronicle.Talamadh. The World Harp. Possess it and yours is the power of Heaven and Earth. The player may strum harmony into existence–as did the Bards of the Stoneholding for generations. But now the World Harp belongs to an evil lord bent on world domination and destruction. A broken world’s only hope is a young bard on the run across a war-torn landscape in a desperate quest to find a princely warrior before Talamadh sings out the final chord that plunges his world into eternal darkness.About the Stoneholding series: “[A] world of fantasy that is both as familiar as a folktale, yet still refreshingly new at every turn.”—Best-selling Map of Bones author James Rollins.

Darkling Fields of Arvon (2) (Legacy of the Stoneharp)

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University Chemistry: Frontiers and Foundations from a Global and Molecular Perspective

Evaluating the Organizational Impact of Health Care Information Systems (Health Informatics)

Ethics and Information Technology: A Case-Based Approach to a Health Care System in Transition (Health Informatics)

The Stoneholding (Legacy of the Stone Harp: Book One)

The Stoneholding: Legacy Of The Stone Harp Book One

The Darkling Fields Of Arvon (Legacy of the Stone Harp)

Evaluating the Organizational Impact of Health Care Information Systems (Health Informatics)

Darkling Fields of Arvon (2) (Legacy of the Stoneharp)