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- ISBN10 0205743463
- ISBN13 9780205743469
- Publish Date 20 February 2009 (first published 31 January 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 17th ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Language English