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"This Fifth Edition is a comprehensive text that seamlessly integrates ethics across the nursing curriculum. Going beyond the evolving laws and policies affecting nursing practice today, the Fifth Edition focuses on the complex and provocative ethical dilemmas that students and nurses may face throughout the lifespan of a patient while also offering complete coverage of everyday ethical matters. This new edition will also include an appendix focused...
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"A piercing critique of late stage capitalism and a reckoning with its true cost, JONATHAN ABERNATHY YOU ARE KIND is about a man who takes a job as a dream auditor to pay off an insurmountable student loan debt"--
Jonathan Abernathy is behind on his debts; he has no prospects, no friends, no ambitions. When a government loan forgiveness program offers him a literal dream job, he thinks he's found his big break. If he can appear to be competent at...
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"Merchants of Doubt " tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades that link smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole.
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"A magnetic, intensely personal debut memoir of a happily married mother's exploration of sex and relationships--outside of her marriage. Molly Roden Winter was a mom of two young children in Park Slope, Brooklyn with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids' bedtime, again, she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At impromptu drinks with a friend, she met Matt, an unbelievably hot younger man. When...
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"In this riveting feat of reporting, Kashmir Hill illuminates the improbable rise of Clearview AI and how Hoan Ton-That, a computer engineer and Richard Schwartz, a Giuliani associate, launched a terrifying facial recognition app with society-altering potential. They were assisted by a cast of controversial characters, including conservative provocateur Charles Johnson and billionaire Trump backer Peter Thiel. The app can scan a blurry portrait, and,...
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"This important text draws on decades of research, arguing that modern nursing germinated and grew an ethics from its own native soil, that is a rich, fulsome and philosophically informed; grounded in the tradition, and practice of nursing. This systematic and comprehensive book is an essential contribution for students and scholars of nursing ethics"--
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"Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve, If I Betray These Words profiles clinicians across the country who are tough, resourceful, and resilient, but feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system"--
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"With more than 80 percent of the content revised this new edition delivers the foundational principles Maxwell has used in leadership for more than forty years and includes two completely new chapters. No matter your leadership arena -business, nonprofit, education, church, or family- the principles Maxwell shares will positively impact your life and the lives of everyone around you."--Inside dust jacket.
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"What drives us to do good things, and to avoid doing bad? This book offers an integrative examination of the role of motivation in shaping moral cognition, judgement, and behavior"--
"This book offers an integrative examination of the role of motivation in shaping moral cognition, judgment, and behavior. How do we define good and bad? Where do our moral systems originate? These questions have long sparked inquiry across multiple disciplines, and...
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The issues of medical ethics, from moral quandaries of euthanasia and the morality of killing to political dilemmas like fair healthcare distribution, are rarely out of today's media. This area of ethics covers a wide range of issues, from mental health to reproductive medicine, as well as including management issues such as resource allocation, and has proven to hold enduring interest for the general public as well as the medical practitioner. This...