Books from Brooks/Cole-Thomson Learning

  • Concepts of Chemical Dependency
    Concepts of Chemical Dependency
    By Harold E. Doweiko

    This thoroughly revised and updated edition reflects the current explosion of information regarding the understanding, identification, and treatment of addictive disorders. Doweiko offers detailed coverage of the most commonly abused...

  • Practice Evaluation for the 21st Century
    Practice Evaluation for the 21st Century
    By William R. Nugent, Jackie Dale Sieppert, Walter W. Hudson

    Offering an excellent, client-oriented, results-driven means for studying practice evaluation, this book brings together practice, research, structural change in service delivery, and specific skills in an integrated, problem-solving way. With...

  • Elements of Crisis Intervention: Crises and how to Respond to Them
    Elements of Crisis Intervention: Crises and how to Respond to Them
    By James L. Greenstone, Sharon Leviton

    With its practical, hands-on approach, this text is perfect for counselors, human service workers, law enforcement, nurses, psychologists, social workers or other professionals who encounter crisis situations. This book is...

  • Laboratory Experiments for General Chemistry
    Laboratory Experiments for General Chemistry
    By Toby F. Block, George M. McKelvy, Harold R. Hunt

    This established manual focuses on using non-hazardous materials to teach the experimental nature of general chemistry. Experiments are written to address students of various academic backgrounds, and differing interests and...

  • MATLAB Programming for Engineers
    MATLAB Programming for Engineers
    By Stephen J. Chapman

    The first text of its kind, Stephen Chapman's best selling book on MATLAB has now been updated to reflect MATLAB 6.0. The first edition has been highly successful in engineering...

  • Modern Statistics for Engineering and Quality Improvement
    Modern Statistics for Engineering and Quality Improvement
    By John Lawson, John Erjavec

    Through years of teaching experience, John S. Lawson and John Erjavec have learned that it doesn't take much theoretical background before engineers can learn practical methods of data collections, analysis,...

  • Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills
    Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills
    By Dean H. Hepworth, Ronald H. Rooney, Jo Ann Larsen

    This text prepares social work students for effective work in the field through proven learning experiences that are as close to real-life practice as they can get from a textbook....

  • UNIX and Shell Programming: A Textbook
    UNIX and Shell Programming: A Textbook
    By Behrouz A. Forouzan, Richard F. Gilberg

    Designed as one of the first true textbooks on how to use the UNIX operating system and suitable for a wide variety of UNIX-based courses, UNIX and Shell Programming goes...

  • Elementary Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems
    Elementary Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems
    By William F. Trench

    Written in a clear and accurate language that students can understand, Trench's new book minimizes the number of explicitly stated theorems and definitions. Instead, he deals with concepts in a...

  • Marital Therapy: Concepts and Skills for Effective Practice
    Marital Therapy: Concepts and Skills for Effective Practice
    By Carolyn S. Brown, Joseph H. Brown

    This book is designed to help entry-level marital therapists learn the concepts and skills necessary for effective practice. The authors emphasize the concepts and skills necessary for effective practice and...

  • Clinical Social Work: Beyond Generalist Practice with Individuals, Groups, and Families
    Clinical Social Work: Beyond Generalist Practice with Individuals, Groups, and Families
    By Lambert Maguire

    Describes the underlying theory and basic techniques of system-based approaches to social work, as well as psychodynamic, behavioral, and cognitive interventions. Maguire (University of Pittsburgh) illustrates the methods through ample...

  • Physical Geology: Exploring the Earth
    Physical Geology: Exploring the Earth
    By Reed Wicander, James Stewart Monroe

    Monroe and Wicander's new edition of Physical Geology: Exploring the Earth provides a comprehensive overview of the physical aspects of the Earth's processes above, on, and below the surface. In...

  • Introduction to Probability Models: Operations Research. Volume 2
    Introduction to Probability Models: Operations Research. Volume 2
    By Wayne L. Winston

    This text, the second volume of Wayne Winston's successful OPERATIONS RESEARCH: APPLICATIONS AND ALGORITHMS, FOURTH EDITION, covers probability models with recent contributions from financial engineering, computational simulation and manufacturing. The...

  • Applied Calculus for the Managerial, Life, and Social Sciences
    Applied Calculus for the Managerial, Life, and Social Sciences
    By Soo T. Tan

    Check your work and reinforce your understanding with this manual, which contains complete solutions for all odd-numbered exercises in the text. You will also find problem-solving strategies plus additional algebra...

  • Modeling the Supply Chain
    Modeling the Supply Chain
    By Jeremy F. Shapiro

    With an emphasis on modeling techniques, Jeremy Shapiro's MODELING THE SUPPLY CHAIN is the perfect tool for courses in supply-chain management or for professional managers who seek better analytical tools...