Learn Management Information Systems YOUR Way with MIS! MIS�s easy-reference, textbook presents course content through visually engaging chapters as well as Chapter Review Cards that consolidate the best review material into a ready-made study tool.
An Arab-American college student struggles to live with epilepsy in this starkly colored and deeply-cutting graphic novel. Isaac wants nothing more than to be a functional college student—but managing his epilepsy is an exhausting battle to survive. He attempts to maintain a balancing act between his seizure triggers and his day-to-day schedule, but he finds that nothing—not even his medication—seems to work. The doctors won’t listen, the schoolwork keeps piling up, his family is in denial about his condition, and his social life falls apart as he feels more and more isolated by his illness. Even with an unexpected new friend by his side, so much is up against him that Isaac is starting to think his epilepsy might be unbeatable. Based on the author’s own experiences as an epileptic, Mis(h)adra is a boldly visual depiction of the daily struggles of living with a misunderstood condition in today’s hectic and uninformed world.
When Dorothy was a young girl, she loved books, and she loved people, so she decided that she would become a librarian. Dorothy's dearest wish is to be a librarian in a fine brick library just like the one she visited when she was small. But her new home in North Carolina has valleys and streams but no libraries, so Miss Dorothy and her neighbors decide to start a bookmobile. Instead of people coming to a fine brick library, Miss Dorothy can now bring the books to them—at school, on the farm, even once in the middle of a river! Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile is an inspiring story about the love of books, the power of perseverance, and how a librarian can change people's lives.
Hysteria. Neurasthenia. Shell shock. When the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was first published in 1952, it was meant to do away with such hypothesized, dubious disorders--now we had science on our side! But the mental health diagnoses of ages past should not be forgotten. In (Mis)Diagnosed, social worker Jonathan Foiles, author of the acclaimed This City Is Kiling Me, returns with this look at how they shed light on how we used to view mental suffering, and how our biases defined and continue to define mental health. Consider "drapetomania," for example, a nineteenth-century diagnosis concocted by a Southern doctor who theorized that something must be wrong with slaves who sought to escape to freedom, and came up with this term to name the irresistible compulsion to flee. This diagnosis was laughable to most even then, yet some psychiatric diagnoses (e.g., schizoaffective disorder) maintain an alarming racial bias and raise the question whether or not scientific racism is really that far removed from our present-day reality. Homosexuality, remember, was not removed from the DSM until 1980. The series of failed diagnoses Foiles chronicles here are, he argues, all a way of ignoring our societal responsibility for the conditions we helped create. Our gradually increasing understanding of the brain may help make diagnosis more biological than observational, but still fails to take into account the social context that both creates suffering and labels certain existences and beliefs as pathological. (Mis)Diagnosed ultimately is a call to make diagnosis more interactive with one's environment in a way that is fair to those who are suffering and can help give them hope.
For undergraduate courses in Management Information Systems, this book provides instructors with a brief text that covers the basics of how information systems are used to solve business problems. This text presents core concepts and relevant outside topics of MIS for professors to cover in a one-semester course.
Part of the beloved bilingual board book series by author/illustrator, Rebecca Emberly. The vibrant colors and large text in this enchanting collection of bilingual board books make learning easy and fun. Boldly colored construction paper cutouts on stark white backgrounds introduce the basic concepts of colors, numbers, shapes, and opposites in a way that will engage little ones again and again.