OpenStax: American Government

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"American Government aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maintaining the conceptual coverage and rigor inherent in the su...

Death & Heaven

Author(s): Isik Abla Ministries

OpenStax Microbiology softcover prints in 2 parts

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"Microbiology covers the scope and sequence requirements for a single-semester microbiology course for non-majors. The book presents the core concepts of microbiology with a focus on applications for careers in allied health. The pedagogical features of the text make the material interesting and acc...

The Bucks Women's Rugby Team Faces Coaching Dilemma: Bucks Face Dilemma

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Abstract In 2014, the College of Ohio’s women’s rugby team was forced to forfeit their spring season due to the inability to field a team large enough to compete in games. Goals for the season were discussed by the players and then emailed to the head coach; causing a major misinterpretation that...

Western Humanities and Christian Thought

Author(s): Joshua Kira, Sandra S. Yang

Western Humanities and Christian Thought is an introduction to the philosophy, visual arts, music, and theatre of Western civilization from Ancient Greece to our own times. This book is unique among surveys of humanities in several ways.First and foremost, it has a level of Christian thought permeat...

Bollywood in the City: Can the Consumption of Bollywood Cinema Serve as a Site for Intercultural Discovery and Dialogue?

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Sample Bollywood’s new “coolness” (Banker 2001) creates the space for what Clifford calls “political struggles to define the local as distinctive community” (Clifford 1994, 308)—a space distinctly evident in the New York metropolitan area. This is made possible particularly by the post-globalized...

3D Modeling for Advanced Design & Application

Author(s): Fardad Azarmi

Intended for use as a textbook in the introductory course in engineering drawing and computer aided modeling for undergraduate engineering students, 3D Modeling for Advanced Design and Application focuses on the principals of engineering graphics for sketching drawings according to the standards in ...

Demanding Leadership of a Collegiate Basketball Team: Courting Goals-Plans-Action (GPA) Theory

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Sample As we were finalizing this case concerning Head Coach Baker’s efforts to influence leadership emergence among the players on his Division I college varsity men’s basketball team, we were in midst of “March Madness” – the popular name for a tournament of games played annually in March that ...

Casing Nonverbal Communication Codes on the Screen: A Leadership Story

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Sample Computer-based technology is integrated into parts of our everyday life. In relation to communication, it is not surprising that understanding nonverbal communication behaviors is an essential part of communicating in this context (Vinciarelli & Mohammadi, 2011). Nonverbal communication un...

Speak, Fear Not: A Guide to Coping with the Fear of Public Speaking

Author(s): Julian Bhebhe

Speak, Fear Not: A Guide to Coping with the Fear of Public Speaking provides a path to managing speaking anxiety. It traces the origin of the fear of public speaking to where the fear interferes with thinking. When the thinking process freezes due to fear, the body responds in strange ways. It becom...