Cyber Security Essentials: Understanding Risk and Controls

Author(s): Scott H. Belshaw, Ben Allen CISM CRISC

Since the 1990's, the internet has transformed business by enabling the collection, analysis, and almost instantaneous transmission of data. It has also transformed crime. The demand for 24-hour online access to databases and information has created unprecedented opportunities for unethical people. ...

The Need for Weed: Marijuana Policy and Public Politics in the Criminal Justice System

Author(s): Kellie A. Wallace, Scott H. Belshaw, Jared R. Dmello

Cannabis is everywhere! Whether you call it weed, pot, or marijuana, cannabis by any other name is still cannabis. From your stereotypical street drug dealer to medical cannabis dispensaries to courtrooms across America, we cannot escape the hot buzz that is weed. While it may be hot, it is nothing ...

Reading the Web: Strategies for Internet Inquiry

Author(s): Elizabeth Dobler

Reading the Web: Strategies for Internet Inquiry outlines web literacy in a user-friendly way that helps educators provide students with practical skills and strategies needed to approach the internet with discernment. One of the ways it accomplishes this is through the QUEST model: questioning, und...

Introduction to Mediated Communication: Social Media and Beyond

Author(s): David Keith Westerman, Nicholas David Bowman, Kenneth A Lachlan

Computers allow us to do things today that were barely dreamed of 60 years ago. Today, computers and networks provide us a personal space in which we can share our innermost thoughts and feelings on a large network with others. Introduction to Mediated Communication explains and discusses mediat...

Public Health Communication: Science & Practice

Author(s): Anthony Roberto

Public Health Communication: Science and Practice provides a comprehensive overview of how to effectively plan, implement, and evaluate public health communication interventions. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book: reviews the social marketing...

Sports Communication: Dimensions, Theory, Applications, and Culture

Author(s): Alan Jay Zaremba

Sports Communication: Dimensions, Theory, Applications, and Culture by Alan Jay Zaremba examines the interdependent relationships between sport and communication that affect culture, economic, politics, team performance, educational systems, and social interaction.The NEW Second Edition of Sports Co...

Casing Conflict Communication

Author(s): Andrea Meluch, Heather Walter

New Publication Now Available!Conflict is a natural part of life. What we often struggle with is how to best approach conflict so that we have productive outcomes and are able to maintain positive relationships. As you pursue a greater understanding of conflict, you will ideally be able to apply the...

Communicating Professionally In Today's Workplace

Author(s): Robert Insley

Business communication instructors and trainers must prepare students and employees to communicate effectively and efficiently in the ever-changing and increasingly global business environment.Communicating in Business fuses a text with continuously-updated website resources that provide a comprehen...

Handbook of Instructional Communication: Principles & Practices of Teaching Rhetorical & Relational Perspectives

Author(s): Marian Houser, Angela M Hosek

Handbook of Instructional Communication: Principles & Practices of Teaching Rhetorical & Relational Perspectives offers a comprehensive collection of theory and research focusing on the role and effects of communication in instructional environments.Now in its Third Edition, the handbook covers an u...

Cornerstones for Community and Technical College Success

Author(s): Robert Sherfield, Patricia Moody

Robert Sherfield and Patricia Moody’s Cornerstones for Community College Success addresses the needs and challenges students in two-year programs will encounter during their studies. Suitable for first year success, introduction to college, and other orientation courses, Cornerstones for Community C...