Schmehl, (nursing, Reading Area Community College, Reading, PA) helps nursing students better apply nursing theory to practice, while employing critical thinking. She has organized the discussion into 8 chapters which explore concept mapping, map components and basic formatting, advanced concept map formatting, the data-gathering process, constructing a concept map, methods of map composition, use of concept maps in nursing, and other educational uses for concept maps. A companion website is included. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)